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BRADLEY COUNTY, TN (WRCB) The giant task of removing debris in Bradley County will begin on Friday May 13th.
Storm related debris removal will be taking place Monday through Saturday, for a period of several weeks.
They estimate more than 160 tons of brush in the city and county.
True North will begin collecting it all soon. Disaster debris removal will begin in several areas simultaneously. There will be at least 2 passes made in order to give residents adequate time to place debris on right-of-way for removal.
Bradley County landfill hours have been extended to local residents (for personal use) during the removal period. Hours of operation will be Monday through Saturday 7 a.m. To 6:30 p.m., beginning Monday.
And if you have room on your property, you're asked to burn the tree brush to help move along the process.
Officials ask that the guidelines below are followed to ensure FEMA regulations for disaster debris removal are met and your debris meets standards for free removal:
• Move all debris to the regularly maintained right-of-way of your property. Contractors cannot enter private property to remove debris for any reason.
• If you do not have insurance and need assistance moving debris to right-of-way contact the Bradley Baptist Association @ 423-476-5493 to request volunteer services.
• All debris should be sorted according to the following specifications:
• Do not place debris in drainage ditches, around utility guide wires or fire hydrants.
a. Vegetative (whole trees, tree stumps, branches, trunks and other leafy material).
b. Construction & Demolition Debris (damaged components of buildings and structures such as lumber, wood, drywall, metal, roofing material, metal, tile, carpeting, floor covering, windows, pipe, furniture & fixtures).
c. White Goods (household appliances such as refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, heat pumps, ovens, ranges, washing machines, clothes dryers and water heaters). Discarded propane tanks will be accepted but must be placed in a separate, distinguishable area.
d. Household Hazardous Waste (unused containers of cleaners, corrosives, flammable products, paint, etc.).
e. Small Debris & Storm-Related Garbage (bagged for pick up).
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How To Never Lose Your Luggage Again
While fewer bags are being lost by the airlines these days, people are still stealing them! Which is why Air France and KLM have spent the last year developing two gadgets that help prevent luggage from being lifted.
Study: People Are Checking Email & Surfing Internet While Driving
A dangerous trend behind the wheel picks up speed–and this time, it isn't texting.
Want To Report Bullying? There's An App For That
A smartphone app gives Howard County students and parents a way to report bullies.
Plugged In! Howard County Pilot Program Allows Electronic Devices In Class
Smartphones and tablets are welcome in classrooms. It's part of a pilot program in Howard County.
New Smartphone App Gives Users Crime Tools
Keeping tabs on inmates at the Carroll County Detention Center. Sending police anonymous tips. Searching for the county's most wanted. There's an app for that.
Metro Reporting Spike In Stolen Electronic Devices
Metro Transit Police are reporting a spike in the number of thefts of smart phones and other portable electronic devices.
The Very Best Of Everything In 2012
As the end of year nears it is time to take a moment to look back to see what made the top of the best of lists for 2012. Other than the presidential election there have been many other battles this year to score a number one spot in the United States. Companies, writers, public relation experts and cities have all been vying for the golden top spot.
Best Ways To Save During The Holiday Sales Rush
The race is on to be first in line for this year's best deals on holiday gifts: Black Friday is almost here. Every year, the stores open earlier in the wee hours of the morning, some even open at midnight after Thanksgiving Day, while other stores start the Black Friday sales on Turkey Day itself. If you're going to get up that early (on a day off, no less), it is important to be prepared.
New App Helps Md. Students Reach School Police
Violence, bullying, suicides. Anne Arundel County police are trying to stay ahead of the serious problems that affect schools.
President's Documents Now Accessible On Smartphone
The government is launching a new mobile app to provide access to the president's public documents and activities.
Are Smartphone Health Apps Safe?
With health apps for smartphones increasing, new concerns arise over how they are being regulated.
CNET's iPhone 5 Review: Finally The iPhone We've Always Wanted
Apple's iPhone 5 launched to massive fanfare on Sept. 12, and now the verdict is in from CNET's Scott Stein. He found that the new iPhone offers key features that were desired by users when its predecessor, the iPhone 4S, shipped.

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New Paper Says Sexual and Reproductive Health of "Very Young Adolescents" Is Crucial
Careful, science. We wouldn't want to empower anyone too much.
A new study available online ahead of publication in the peer-reviewed journal of Global Public Health says that it's vital for sexual health services to begin focusing on adolescents between the ages of 10-14.Read More


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Ukraine: EPP calls for immediate stop to violence or sanctions will be on the table
Brussels, 23 January 2014
Commenting on the latest developments in the Ukraine, the President of the EPP Party and Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Joseph Daul, said:
"First of all, we express our sincere condolences to the families of the victims of the violence in the Ukraine.
The use of violence currently going on in the Ukraine is unacceptable. We call for the murderous snipers, the Berkut and the armed forces of the Ministry of the Interior to be removed from the streets. The army should refuse to take any part in the oppression.
We call for the urgent convening of the UN Security Council on the situation in the Ukraine.
The draconic laws passed on 16 January 2014 should not be implemented, but rather withdrawn and declared null and void. These laws are problematic not only due to the procedure in which they were passed and therefore a new procedure would not help, but because the content of the laws is undemocratic.
It is clear that it is President Yanukovych, his administration and those who voted for these laws in the Parliament that carry the responsibility for the deaths and casualties in the Ukraine.
We call on the EU Institutions and the relevant national governments of the EU Member States to identify and apply all appropriate measures and instruments, including the introduction of personalised targeted measures and sanctions on travelling and freezing assets and property of those Ukrainian officials, legislators and their business sponsors (oligarchs) who are responsible for a large-scale massive violation of human rights and of the rule of law, repression against peaceful citizens, deaths of citizens, as well as the introduction of draconian laws violating the international obligations of the Ukrainian State.
Russia carries responsibility for the course of developments in the Ukraine. We thus call on Russia to refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of the Ukraine, applying political and economic coercion in breach of the Helsinki Final Act and the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Ukraine's security assurances. Failing to use its influence will certainly have an impact on the Sochi Olympic Games."
Note to editors:
The EPP is the largest and most influential European-level political party of the centre-right, which currently includes 74 member-parties from 39 countries, the Presidents of the European Commission and the European Council, 12 EU and 4 non-EU heads of state and government, 13 members of the European Commission and the largest Group in the European Parliament.
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Reno- Grady County Volunteer Fire Department Chief Wayne Hadden says the blaze was started by a four-year-old boy playing with matches. He lit a comforter while his Mother and five-month-old sibling were sleeping.
The mother tried unsuccessfully to put out the fire before asking for help. Fortunately, everyone escaped unhurt. But Hadden says several critical lessons should be learned from this fire. "One is children and matches don't match. And don't waste time calling the fire department. Critical time was lost getting us to respond."
Hadden says his firefighters responded to the call in about two-minutes. But the house was completely destroyed.
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Should I go to small claims
Dear Dr. Don,
Several years ago I gave a personal loan ($6,000)
to a friend to start her small business. Nothing was put in writing,
but the loan was mentioned in a letter that I received from her. I
have the canceled check along with copies of most of her payment checks.
The problem now is that it has been almost a year since I received
any payments from her and she still owes me $1,000. Can I take her
to small claims court and recoup the remaining monies owed to me?
Jeff Jurisprudence
Dear Jeff,
You've got enough documentation to take her to small claims court,
but have you tried talking to her first? The judge is going to want
to know what steps you took prior to taking this to court to settle
this claim. Negotiation and mediation are both alternatives to filing
a claim in small claims court.
The Web site of the Clerk of Courts for Palm Beach
County, Fla., provides the following suggestions:
When considering whether you should file a
lawsuit, you should ask yourself the following questions:
can help you find the small claims court that will hear your case
while the U.S. General Services Administration provides this
overview to filing a small claims case.
Depending on where you live, the statute
of limitations on an oral agreement may have run out. In some
states, it's as short as two years while in others it runs for 10
years. Talk to her first and try to arrange a schedule for her to
pay this remaining debt.
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The saying goes, "What happens in Talladega, stays in Talladega."
But thanks to Jeremiah Weed and Charlotte winner Matt Kenseth, fans will be able to bring home a permanent memory of their trip to Talladega Superspeedway – a tattoo.
In a move to raise funds for The Air Force Enlisted Village, Jeremiah Weed will donate $100 for every fan that gets inked this weekend with Kenseth's signature, a number 17, Jeremiah Weed logos or a Jeremiah Weed Lemonade can.
"We have some of the best fans in all of sports," Kenseth said. "They wear our numbers, fly our flags and sometimes even get tattoos to show their dedication. It's incredible that Jeremiah Weed is doing all this for our fans and to support such a worthy cause as The Air Force Enlisted Village. I look forward to personally checking out the tattoos throughout the race weekend."
Fans will be able to receive free transportation to a local tattoo parlor – state approved, of course – to receive their free tattoo as a way to raise money for a worthy cause.
The Air Force Enlisted Village is an organization committed to "providing safe, secure and dignified homes for indigent surviving spouses of retired Air Force personnel."
Participants will have to meet all of the Alabama state regulations and need to refrain from drinking alcohol prior to the tattoo (which could be a challenge at Talladega, obviously).
Those fans not willing to permanently engrave a Jeremiah Weed can or logo on their body can receive an airbrushed tattoo instead, free of charge.


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The statistic can't get repeated enough. Drowning remains the second leading cause of accidental death among kids under 14. As we get closer to Memorial Day, parents are scrambling to make sure their kids are water safe. Fox 26's Sally MacDonald met a local family who is making it their mission to lessen the drowning risk.
Hollen is just two years old, practicing a skill that doesn't come natural to toddlers.
"If they fall into the pool they don't understand to reach up and grab the side. They're going to push themselves back away typically," said her father and instructor, Liam Goudeket.
In recent years swim lessons have evolved. More and more private businesses are jumping in and developing a curriculum for babies on up.
"A child can drown in as little time as it takes to answer the telephone," said Bill Goudeket, founder of FINS or Fun In Swimming.
He started FINS out of a passion. Along with his wife and three kids, he's built pools in three area locations.
"Swimming changed my life. I actually failed beginning swimming four times. God allowed it to become my best sport, which is very ironic," said Goudeket.
Liam shows us what a typical two-year-old can do after months of lessons. Hollen holds her breath for five to seven seconds and floats on her back independently for ten seconds.
"I'm confident if she were to fall in the pool it would give me time to react because as a parent I know it's ultimately my responsibility to be vigilant over my child," said Goudeket.
Four-year-olds can learn a swim, float, swim sequence and overall water safety. The philosophy of FINS, like other programs, isn't to build the fastest swimmer but the safest.
"One is safe surroundings. Fence your pools. Two, parents need to be first responders and learn CPR and First Aid. And three, and we think most important, get your child swim lessons," said Bill Goudeket.
Not every child will progress as quickly. FINS instructors say practice year round, especially for kids five and younger, is key.
"Can you put a price on your child's life? That's I think the biggest argument. You're teaching them a life skill, and can you really put a value on your child's safety? This is more safety related than anything," said Liam Goudeket.


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Over a thousand "Ellen" fans showed up at Boston University's Marsh Plaza Tuesday afternoon to try and win Boston Red Sox World Series tickets.
Ellen had issued a challenge to her 22 million Twitter fans: "Okay, Boston, here's the challenge. Dress up like a green monster with red socks, and get down to Marsh Plaza at BU to be on my show!"
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God's current massive creative work
Dear friends,
I've been silent for a while, but I wanted to pass these two pieces from openheaven on to you.
God is doing something massive in these last days. The spiritual warfare has been intense, but the tide is turning, and through it the Lord is raising up a people who will be fit to share His very throne with Him, to partake in the Divine nature itself, and to rule and reign with His delegated authority.[1]
Everything that can be shaken will be shaken, we have been warned, and we are seeing this before our very eyes, virtually on a daily basis. Day by day the greatest country the world has ever seen is being brought lower and lower by the weight of its own corruption. Natural disasters worldwide are on the dramatic increase. There currently is a ray of hope in the Arab nations, but this can, and probably will, turn toward the dark side in an instant, setting up a true end-times scenario with respect to Jerusalem. The nations, it is abundantly clear by now, have absolutely no answers. They can only offer photo-ops and smooth oratory. But satan does not care how white their teeth are, and he does not bow before polished oratory.
Jesus told us that when we see the signs of last-days anguish, we are not to despair, but rather to look up to our soon-coming redemption. Even though we are going through a crucifixion now, the eye of faith not only can see the victory coming, it can see the Bride being prepared by the very fiery trial besetting us.
And so I'm going to pass on these two articles from openheaven.com, which I think speak powerfully of the creative work the Lord is doing in the church at this very moment. Openheaven has an email list that sends out roughly weekly, containing such articles and also a useful summary of Christian-related news.
Be blessed,
[1] For more on the incredibly powerful theme of our being outfitted for glory, and the power inherent in our prayers, see my review here of Billheimer's book, Destined For the Throne.
1. Kingdom Impact
By Ron McGatlin
Trading Our Limitations for His Supernatural Life
Becoming One Spirit with Christ Jesus is no small matter. It is beyond our imagination – far greater than we could ask or think. It has not entered into the hearts or minds of natural man's understanding. However, in this new season of emerging kingdom, God is revealing it to us by His Spirit.
In a moment of time we can be transformed by the Holy Spirit – changed in the twinkling of an eye by the powerful impact of the in breaking kingdom of God in the Holy Spirit. This is new, and we have not come this way before. Christ, by His Spirit, indwelling our spirit-being is transforming our weak spirit into His powerful Spirit that is HOLY HOLY HOLY.
No more mixture and no more falling back. What we could not do, Christ in us will do as we truly become one with Him. We no longer live but He lives His pure, holy life of love, power and wisdom where we once lived.
Yes, there may have been many years of "here a little and there a little" – years of three steps forward and two steps back – years of tearing down our foolish self-focused pride filled lives – years of our erecting our own castles in our own kingdoms – deceiving ourselves with religious platitudes from a god of our own making. We built precept upon precept and line upon line to be snared in our own works only to fall backward and be broken.
Isa 28:13: But the word of the LORD was to them, "Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little," That they might go and fall backward, and be broken And snared and caught.
In the passing church emphasis age we, for the most part, did not experience the kingdom impacting us, changing us in the twinkling of an eye. In this new kingdom emphasis age things are not as they were.
Judgment is coming swiftly to chasten and turn believers toward the now visible kingdom and away from our self-sufficient, do-it-ourselves lifestyle. Judgment of God is always for cleansing. Falling upon our faces in true repentance and crying out to God are often brought about through the severe disappointments of the devastating failure of a crumbling life under cleansing judgment of God. If everything kept on working well for us in our less-than-holy living, we would not be searching for change. Read more…
Out of the comfort zone, and on to victory
Out of weakness were made strong – Heb 11.34
Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle –Ps144.1
The story of Gideon gives us a vivid biblical illustration of how the Lord can raise up a fearful, powerless person to be an overcomer. Gideon, you may know, was treading his wheat secretly in a secluded winepress when God spoke to him. The Israelites were outnumbered and out-armed by the Midianites, and had been "brought low" and were being badly abused. (Judges 6)
Gideon was hiding away, quite understandably full of fear, yet God chose him to defeat the Midianites, a task far bigger than he alone was capable of. The story of how God raised up Gideon to complete this task tells us a lot about how God works in His chosen vessels even today.
God's first message to Gideon was that He was with him. And note that God addressed this fearful person as a "mighty man of valor". In the midst of repression and reproach, God was speaking his affirming vision over Gideon. And Gideon's first response was the classic, "if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us?" Isn't that always our biggest hurdle? To believe the good promises of God in the face of the daunting circumstances life can throw at us?
To overcome Gideon's lack of faith, God began to give Gideon encouraging signs. First He miraculously consumed a sacrifice with fire. This terrifying event made fearful Gideon even more afraid – but it served to focus the fear where it belonged – on God. When we fear God we no longer have to fear man. Sometimes God needs to give us a jolt in order to awaken us to a new work.
Gideon now was encouraged enough to face the first challenge Lord asked of him. He was to pull down the town's idols and replace them with an altar to the Lord. Gideon needed every bit of his newfound courage to do this (and indeed he did it under cover of darkness), because pulling down the town's idols of choice was not a terribly effective way to make friends and increase one's life expectancy. Predictably, the neighbors were up in arms afterward and aiming to kill him for offending their religious sentiments (remember, this was Israel, so you can see how far the people had fallen spiritually). It was only Gideon's father's intervention that saved him. His father essentially told the townspeople that they would have to go through him to get to Gideon, and then he had the wisdom to challenge them to let their gods punish Gideon if those gods really were so powerful (v. 31).
Gideon's father's courage and wisdom saved the day, at a point when Gideon was just starting out in his walk of faith and he was very vulnerable. If we see our brothers striking out against the idols of today and in a vulnerable position, we ought to do the same for them.
Gideon was strengthened by his success, and now the Lord was ready to call him to fight the Midianites. For this new task Gideon would need an extra dose of encouragement. He prayerfully put out a fleece one night, and the next day it was drenched with dew while everything else was dry. But to be absolutely sure that he wasn't imagining the whole God thing, he repeated the experiment. This time the fleece was dry but everything else was wet. At the mouth of two or three witnesses every thing shall be established.
The Lord was raising Gideon up, and He was doing it by mixing affirmations with challenges. First He would show Gideon His mighty power, and then He would challenge Gideon to do some risky faith-stretching exploit. If God had given Gideon support with no challenges, Gideon would have grown complacent and would never would have grown up spiritually. And if He had given challenges with no support, Gideon would have been spiritually paralyzed and also would not have grown up spiritually.
Father knows how to balance our spiritual "nutrition and exercise" in just the right way in order to work what is best for us. While we are going through the discipline, at times it doesn't seem balanced to us at all. It seems hard. But that's inherent in the definition of testing faith. By nature we crave the familiar status quo, and God sometimes has to make us uncomfortable in order to get us to move forward.
It behooves us to get into agreement with God early. The more in harmony with God we are, the less disruptive and painful our spiritual growth will be.
Now the battle with the Midianites loomed. This was big. Gideon must have felt relieved when some thirty-two thousand men showed up, forming a significant army. But God had a problem with that – the job had to be done with fewer men, so that the glory clearly would be His. So He had Gideon thin the ranks. Those who were afraid were allowed to leave, and twenty-two thousand did so.
That left an army of ten thousand brave men, but that was still too many. At the Lord's direction, Gideon separated out three hundred more men. That wasn't such a lot of soldiers to lose, Gideon may have thought. But if he was thinking that way, he was much mistaken – it wasn't the three hundred that were to be sent home, it was the 9700! God was going to send Gideon into battle with a mere 300 men! Clearly, God was VERY intent on receiving the glory Himself!
This was a challenge, indeed. Do you see the dynamic here? When God chooses one to be a vessel of His glory, He begins a process of stripping him of his natural strength. This forces him to rely on God alone – not man, not his own abilities, but God alone.
At this point, Gideon understandably began to question and fear again. And so the Lord shifted back to Affirmation Mode. He sent Gideon sneaking into the enemy camp, where he "just happened" to overhear two soldiers discussing an unlikely dream whose interpretation confirmed that an impending victory awaited Gideon.
This would be the last bit of encouragement that Gideon would need. His assurance was complete, and he went on to execute his bold battle plan magnificently. The fearful man initially alone and hiding from his enemies had been transformed into a military leader whose breathtaking boldness shocked, confused and terrified the enemy into self-destruction.
Very often when God raises up a person out of strongholds such as fear, depression and despair, He will use a process similar to the one He used with Gideon. He will demonstrate His protection and power, but at the same time He will lead His wavering warrior into challenges previously undreamed of, where new levels of overcoming faith are required.
To walk with God requires courage, but to seed that courage He goes out of His way to reassure us of His faithful providence. As with Gideon, often our fear is not completely taken away initially. There may be a period in which both fear and courage are present together, working against each other, and godly character develops as courage dynamically overcomes the fear.
It's a growing process, and as our faith grows our heart becomes more healthy. God knows exactly what we need. If we give Him our willingness, He will work in us to bring about godly change, even dramatic change. And it's a win-win all the way around. God builds His character into us and sets us free from our strongholds, and at the same time we become useful to Him in setting others free and in building up His Kingdom.
The story of Gideon is a fascinating, vivid study in how God can work in even the most fearful person to overcome extremely daunting odds. The good news is that the story is not about Gideon alone, because what is written of him was written for our instruction, as an example to us. Whatever obstacles you face, what God did for Gideon he will do for you, if you will believe the promises and rise to the challenges He allows in your life.
Jesus Insists On Full Salvation
There's a well known story in the Bible, about a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years. She came to Jesus from behind, secretly touched the hem of His garment, and was healed. It seems like a simple story, but there's much going on beneath the surface that you might not be aware of. When we examine the story, we find that both Jesus' and the woman's behaviors seem strange, until we understand the religious and cultural context of Israel back then. And in finding that key, we will come to see what is really the most important part of the story. First let's take a look at what actually happened.
And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him.
And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.
She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, "If I touch even his garments, I will be made well."
And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.
And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, "Who touched my garments?"
And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, 'Who touched me?'"
And he looked around to see who had done it.
But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.
And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease." – Mark 5:24-34
The scene is one of near chaos, as crowds throng around the Savior. Just previous to our excerpt, a Jewish synagogue leader named Jairus had come up to Jesus and fallen at His feat, pleading with Him to come and heal his young daughter who was dying. The girl was fading fast, and Jairus was uptight and in a hurry, so Jesus tells him "fear is useless; only believe", and they start off to the girl. But then this woman with a chronic bleeding problem comes up from behind, touches Jesus' cloak and is healed. Jesus senses that power has gone out of himself, and, despite Jairus' desperation, stops and makes an issue of it. The disciples are incredulous – with all the people thronging around, many of them must have been touching Jesus. So what's the big deal? But Jesus is intent on finding the person who was healed. Finally, the woman comes in great fear and falls to the ground trembling before Jesus, telling all. Jesus blesses her and continues on His way with Jairus.
There are some interesting questions here. Why did the woman come up to Jesus from behind? If she wanted a healing, why did she even from the outset intend on only touching Jesus' garments rather than His person? Why did Jesus make an issue of this healing, when almost certainly many people in this vast crowd must have similarly been coming up, touching Him and being healed? And lastly, why did the woman finally come forward in fear and trembling, rather than with joy and exaltation at being healed of her long-standing disease? Indeed, the Gospel of Luke expands on why the woman even come forward at all:
And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed. -Luke 8:47
According to Luke, the woman was not merely lost in the crowd, she was actually hiding in that crowd! What then was this woman so afraid of?
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God's motivation was love (video added)
I always tended to be an intellectual type. And though my parents sacrificially provided everything we kids needed – it wasn't always easy, I know, and I will bless them forever for that – there really wasn't much sense of affection, belongingness or guidance as I grew up. As humans, we tend to project our earthly experiences onto God, especially family of origin issues, and because of that, I've often had a hard time trying to relate to God's love. I saw that love written in the Bible, I heard it preached, and I've certainly even had wonderful times of communion in prayer and worship, but generally I've not understood or even had a functional belief in God's love for me.
Instead, the motivation I could relate to for God saving us was the one I had seen in my parents – a commitment to high principles and ideals, to doing what was right. God was going to see through what He had started. It was His duty, as the one whose idea Creation was, to put an end to the evil and chaos that had spoiled it. And after all, He had His reputation to restore. He had been slandered in the Garden, when the devil charged Him with withholding good from humans and ruling over them for His own selfish pleasure. That had to be set right.
So the most I could relate to was that God saved us in order to do the right thing, but in my heart's thinking, love and intimate interrelatedness had no place in it. He remained aloof from us.
But I hadn't followed through the ramifications of one foundational point far enough. God knew everything that was going to happen before it occurred. He so easily could have avoided placing Himself in the position of having to do the right thing, and having to preserve His reputation, all at such a high cost, merely by not creating in the first place.
But create He did. Now God, the Self-Existent One, is perfect is every way and has no needs, so why did He do so? It boggles my mind, but He whose joy is already perfect takes joy in being a "cheerful giver", in giving us life and happiness. He did not have to do it. But in order to give us a life of unending bliss, He committed to a path that would lead to Jesus dying a horrible death on the Cross. He esteemed it all to be worth it, so that He could share his glorious nature and have communion with us
Not duty, not vindication, but Love – love is why He made us, and love is why He paid the price to redeem us.
The distinction between love, as against principle, being God's motivation toward us is beyond enormous. It is the difference between a personal and impersonal God. It is the difference between having an arrangement and having a relationship. It is the difference between being alone in a crowd, and really belonging. In short, it is the difference between just existing and being gloriously alive.
Over in 2 Corinthians, Paul gives us a compelling graphic image:
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. - 2Cor 3:18
The right person could probably write a book on this one verse, but basically it tells us that as we gaze upon Christ's glory, that glory fills us and transforms us into the very image of Christ that we are beholding. And it tells us that there is no end to it. As we keep beholding the glory, we keep being filled with more glory.
We can do that because we are "with unveiled face". Anyone who has entered into covenant relationship with God through Christ the Lord has given Him the right to apply Christ's holy blood as payment of our sin-debt. Just as the veil of the Jewish temple was torn in two when Jesus accomplished His vicarious, sacrificial death, when we trust Jesus for salvation the veil that separated us personally from God is torn away. We now have the right to behold our glorious God and Father in all His holiness, not through the keeping of law, not through external religion, not through any works of our own, but through the merits of His Son, our mediator.
Jesus the "only-begotten" Son of God has through His resurrection become the "first-born of many brothers". We are adopted into the family of God, not as servants, being mere cogs on the wheel, but as brothers and friends. It is not a cold business arrangement we are called to, it's a loving family unit. Mere principle is not the glue that holds it all together, and neither is vindication of God's name. Rather, God's unfathomable perfect love, lavishly poured out on us, is the very substance of our shared union.
Oh, how glorious heaven is going to be! That is why Paul could speak of all the woes and sorrows of this fallen world as a relative "momentary, light affliction"! It's hard to see that sometimes, when troubles and sorrows come roaring in, but we need to keep reminding ourselves of it, because the beatific vision of God is where His "zoe" life is found.
Scripture warns us that God's people perish for lack of prophetic vision. I've found that when I lack vision and can't find my way through a situation, I need to repair back to the one central vision that drives the whole life in God. And that is the vision of who He is, what He has done and is going to do, and what ultimately drives His wonderful plan for us.
And the reason for that plan, and for the great and precious promises He has given us, and for the amazing introduction to grace that we already enjoy, is that He loves us eternally, with a limitless love beyond our ability to understand.
Praise be His glorious Name, forever.
There is great gain in contentment!
Drivers on the road this morning – a damp, cold Monday – were rough, jagged, unpredictable, selfish, dangerous. I immediately adopted an attitude of meekness rather than fighting back. I decided I was not going to participate in the craziness. I took it easy and made my way sure.
What occurred on the road was symbolic of a reality operating in the spirit. The word that came to me was to be content. Paul has this to say about contentment:
1Cor 11:16 If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.
2Cor 12:10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Phil 4:11 Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.
1Tim 6:6 Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment,
1Tim 6:8 But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.
Heb 13:5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
Being content in this world of discontent is a protection for our souls. It keeps us from making desperate choices that lead to disaster. And choosing contentment brings sweetness to a soul in turmoil.
Notice, contentment is a choice. We can make up our mind not to let discontent with our present circumstances upset our poise, not to let fear of the future or lust for gain distort our priorities, not to give anyone in a rage the power to control our emotional landscape. "You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is staid on You, because he trusts in You." (-Is 26.3)
The ironic thing is that, often, being content also brings physical blessings on us – the very kind for which the world discontentedly strives. People who are content tend to draw friends easily, think clearly and have good priorities, do well at their jobs, handle responsibility well, avoid traps, and get promoted.
Nothing – nothing – is worth losing the peace Christ has brought to us. When the world loses its composure before your very eyes, don't sign on to it. Regard it as an opportunity: keep your peace, and you will come out on the other side with spiritual promotion.
Conditions are right! -by Jeremy Caris
This comes by way of the Elijah List. I think it's a timely and very-well-stated encouragement to deal with our situation as it NOW is rather than waiting for the breakthrough. Not that the breakthrough isn't coming, but in one parable after another, the Lord taught us to be faithful during the dark seasons as we await the Light.
Conditions are right!Jeremy Caris
One of the key things that I see God doing right now is re-positioning many Believers who will cooperate with Him, making adjustments that will allow for advancement. If you are in Christ, your conditions are already right. You simply need to allow Him to position you in a way that will enable you to take advantage of the existing opportunities that surround you. I see the grace of Jesus being released to re-position many right now. The details of your particular circumstances may be daunting facts, but God will turn the current circumstances of your life to your advantage. Better than that, He is ready to use your circumstances to His advantage.
It's tempting to think that perhaps one day in the future the conditions will finally be perfect and then you will be able to settle into God's ways and His design, but I hear God saying that today is the day. Now is the time to trust God with your future and thereby enter the rest of God. "So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from His" (Hebrews 4:9-10, ESV).
How to Let Outside Forces and Circumstances Become Your Staircase to Ascend into God's Purposes
Smith Wigglesworth ministered from a broken heart
Paul Keith Davis recently related this anecdote about the great Smith Wigglesworth, apostle of faith.
In 1922 Wigglesworth journeyed to New Zealand for a series of healing campaigns. At the time, he was unknown to New Zealand's leadership, but with great confidence various pastors rented the Wellington Town Hall to host the meetings. To everyone's delight, the Lord was wonderfully present in power, bringing healing and salvation to scores. The services were so successful that additional meetings were arranged and each was filled to capacity with God healing the most difficult cases of sickness and disease.
At the conclusion of the campaign one of the host pastors, while walking along the seashore with Wigglesworth, asked what his secret was to walking in demonstrations of God's power. Wigglesworth responded, "I am sorry you asked me that question, but I will answer it. I am a brokenhearted man. My wife who meant everything to me, died 11 years ago. After the funeral I went back and lay on her grave. I wanted to die there. But God spoke to me and told me to rise up and come away. I told Him if He would give me a double portion of the Spirit—my wife's and my own—I would go and preach the Gospel. God was gracious to me and answered my request. But I sail the high seas alone. I am a lonely man, and many a time all I can do is to weep and weep."
A broken and contrite heart was the secret to Wigglesworth's success with God. It is written in Psalm 51:17, "the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise."
As the two men continued walking along New Zealand's seashore, Wigglesworth emphasized what he carried in God was not to be envied, but instead he envied what the last generation will see. Wigglesworth explained that he had experienced three open visions with the Lord. Two of them were already fulfilled at the time of these meetings in 1922. However, he expressed the third would take place after his death. Wigglesworth explained, "Oh it was amazing! Amazing! I cannot tell God's secrets, but you will remember what I say—this revival we have had is nothing to what God is yet going to do."
I find it interesting that such a powerful man in the Spirit would be, at his core, so broken. Smith was extremely direct and plainspoken, and brooked no nonsense. He would send people off the prayer line when he knew they had already received prayer for their healing. Once he actually punched a man several times in order to shake off a tumor. The onlookers were aghast and ready to revolt, but on the third punch the tumor literally dropped to the floor, with the man healed.
Another time Smith was attending a Christmas recital of Handel's Messiah in a large hall in London. When the choir was done extolling the Hallelujah Chorus, Smith himself exclaimed HALLELUJAH! in a voice that so filled the hall that it made mention in a newspaper music review the next day. This former house plumber was an imposing man in every way.
And yet inside, he was broken. Hosea implores us, ""Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up. (Hos 6:1) Sometimes the Lord must allow a great shaking to get our attention. In our brokenness He can minister sanctification of our souls, consecration to Him, and compassion for others, to a depth that can be achieved no other way.
I don't know the full story of Smith Wigglesworth's inner life, but his overcoming a broken heart and going on to be so powerful in the Lord gives me encouragement. If he can do it, I can do it, and you can do it too. We have the same Lord, the same Spirit, and a like faith, and the Lord has promised not to give us more than we can bear. Even a broken heart is no match for the imperishable seed that God has implanted in our spirit.
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God's perspective on mistakes, failures and missed opportunities -video link added
I was talking with a friend recently who told me of a chance she missed to avoid a whole lot of woe that has since befallen her. She felt that if she had only been stronger or wiser back then, her life would have taken a different and better course. There was a grim sense of having missed God, that now she was on her own, left to her own meager devices to solve her escalating problems and make something of her life.
I'm no stranger to feeling that way myself. Somewhere deep in the bowels of this blog I have shared how my first church rapidly went from being "on fire for God" to being just plain "on fire", due to leadership failure. The devastation to the church was immense, but even worse was my own personal loss. I lost faith in man, in church, in myself, and ultimately even in God. I did transfer to another church, and was a very active contributor there, but my heart was no longer fully sold out for God. When serious difficulties arose in the new church, I stopped attending there as well. I had become a spiritual dropout. 1
Satan uses our mistakes, failures and missed opportunities as weapons against us, in an attempt to destroy our faith and effectiveness. For this reason, it is essential that we understand God's perspective on these things, because His perspective is much better than ours.
We need to understand that nothing takes God by surprise. God exists outside of space and time. He is all-powerful and He knows everything – even the end before the beginning. Our trials, our failures, our falls, do not cause Him any worry. He knew they would happen, and He knows how they will end. And he also knows how to use them for our good, if we will let Him.
David Wilkerson points out that when the disciples encountered a brutal storm on the Sea of Galilee one night, it actually was Jesus who had caused their plight. Jesus had sent the disciples ahead in the boat, and then He had gone up to a mountain to pray in solitude. Surely in prayer the Son of God knew exactly what was going on on the sea below, and was in complete control of the situation even from his mountain overlook. But he let them go into the storm, and then at the right moment He showed up and calmed the sea.
As I get better perspective on my own life, I'm beginning to see that God does indeed work all things for good for those who love Him – and that He allows things to befall us in order to accomplish deep things that would not occur were we to live our lives on a smooth "business-as-usual" basis. our failings are not inherently good things, but God can and will use them for His purposes if we will turn to Him in faith.
In my case, because of the call to leadership on me, and my monumental ill-preparedness for it, I needed to experience the failing of the church. I needed to learn not to trust pastors, religious fads, man's approval, or my own abilities. I needed a major lesson in trusting the Lord when things go wrong.
Jeremiah explains why: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord." Make no mistake, trials would not be trials if they simply were little intellectual exercises. They are designed to hit us where we live, and to cause us to give ourselves to the Lord in a very real way. That church trial nearly killed me, but I found it to be true in the Lord that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
That storm brought up a treasure trove of self-righteousness, unforgiveness and bitterness issues that were beneath the surface when the waters were calmer. But when the water got choppy, the issues became visible indeed. Thus the Lord used deep offense and betrayal to lead me to the crucifixion of my flesh, the only way the negative attitudes that were killing me could be removed. As the skilled master craftsman that He is, He creatively used evil to work good.
Oh, how painful it was to go through this process, and how long it took! But if I have one regret, it is not that the evil befell me, or that I had to go through the pain to be purged – the freedom and power that resulted is too precious for me ever to give them up. No, my one regret is that it took me so long to place TOTAL, UNCONDITIONAL TRUST in the Lord in the darkest hours of the trial, when nothing made sense. The Divine fellowship and spiritual growth that I missed! It is in the dark hours that our greatest opportunity for advancement is presented, and they are to be cherished.
The Lord has dealt with me exactly as was needed, including exercising infinite patience while I found my way back to Him, in order to bless me with His maximum blessing. He has used my weaknesses, my flaws, my lack, to guide me into situations where turning to Him was the only possible way out. And that is exactly what had to happen, for at the time I was not capable of doing better. Despite ourselves, He is going to perfect that which concerns us, and He uses our weaknesses to do it.
If you are racked by regret or remorse regarding past decisions, now is the time to put them to rest for good. Paul told the men of Athens: "The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent" (Acts 17:30). He explained to Timothy, regarding his own violent past: "Formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief" ( 1Tim 1:13). And peppered throughout the New Testament (and even the Old) there is plenty of support for Paul's assertion that ignorance mitigates culpability:
Sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. -Rom 5:13
These verses and others teach that God is categorically unconcerned with the failings of our past, except as He can use them to help build us and others up now. It is absolutely crucial that we stand on the Word in this matter, because satan wants to devour us.
We do not confess our sins in the manner of pagans who scourge their backs – as if they could even begin to pay for their own sins or prove their worthiness of God's forgiveness. It took the holy Blood of the Son of God to redeem Creation. We could never earn our own salvation. We confess in simple childlike faith that He will forgive and cleanse, just as according to 1Jn 1.9.
The time is short, and opportunities are precious. God wants each one of us free and empowered to fully represent His Kingdom of grace, truth and love. Let's get all our issues behind us, and in faith let's press forward into the glorious destiny the Lord still has for us – for all of us.
1. John Bevere deals with this "cruise-a-matic" phenomenon, which he calls "spiritual vagabonds", in his book The Bait of satan. While that book is a powerful warning about letting offense keep you from God's purposes, it is seriously flawed in placing responsibility on the person offended to reconcile with an unrepentant authority figure).
Update, 7/8/10: I'm adding a link to a powerful video about a modern-day Mary Magdalene from The Stranger series. Here is Part One; you can cycle to the other two parts from there.
To realize your destiny, get rid of negative influences and wrong thinking
It's critical to Christian growth that we weed out whatever we can that is negative toward God's will for our lives. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. We must allow nothing to defile that temple or obstruct God's workings within us.
When God tells us we are forgiven, set free, and uniquely commissioned to do our part in performing His glorious will on earth, our task is to believe and to abide in His purifying and empowering grace, through obedience allowing ourselves to be conformed to the Word. If we allow distractions, if we allow others to come and talk down our calling, these are like weeds choking the seed of the Word, making it of no effect. We soon will lose confidence that we heard God correctly in the first place, or if we still believe, that we can fulfill that to which we are called. We will be diverted and we will make no progress. Valuable time and opportunity will be lost.
When God cut His covenant with Abraham, birds of prey attempted to take away the sacrifice before it could be consumed by God's holy fire. Abraham rose up and drove the birds away. Abraham was powerless to consummate the covenant himself – God would walk alone through the sacrifice to do that, signifying that He was taking to Himself sole responsibility for bringing about the covenantal promises – but Abraham did have a responsibility to present the sacrifice properly and to protect it from being stolen away.
So too with us. While God alone can bring about the wonderful promises He has given in Christ -promises of peace, eternal life, fruitfulness, and fullness of joy – it is our responsibility to present ourselves with the correct attitude, as a living sacrifice, and to prevent that attitude from being stolen away. If we jealously guard the anointing within us, God will be free to perfect that which concerns us, cause us to triumph, and bring us to higher pastures.
Lately, I've been spending time landscaping where I'm living. And I'm doing it the old-fashioned way – with shovel, steel rake, johnson bar and wheelbarrow. There I am, with post-grad credits, having owned and managed a corporation for many years, and I'm grading, trenching, digging out rocks, and clearing brush. And you know what? I am absolutely loving it, every moment (except for the torturous mayflies).
And the reason is God's sweet presence, and the absence of negativity. The only negativity is that which I allow, and I'm working on that. I'm definitely learning to stand my ground against the devil.
You can have all the power, position, fame and fortune that this world offers. I would rather work a steel rake – if that's what God has for me to do – than have all of it, if it meant losing God.
As Rees Howells would often say, guard your position of abiding. Nothing is more important to seeing success in God. Do not allow any negative influences to spoil that precious attitude where faith works through love. Where we abandon dead works and instead adopt a willingness that allows God's power to flow into us.
Sometimes it's expensive to divest ourselves of negative influences. Relationships may have to be altered or even broken, and codependent relationships are often protected by barriers of fear – fear of confronting and fear of losing the comfort of the relationship.
But it's worth it. Put God first, and He'll see to it that all things are added to you. And they'll be added the right way. They'll be permanent, and they'll give peace and joy.
Difficult times are coming. There is no time to lose. Each one of us must be fully reconciled to God if we are walk in joy and be effective. We need to parse our lives carefully, and weed out anything we can that conflicts with God's design for us.
A Prophetic Passover Message of Love from Messiah -Catherine Brown
An excellent message received via the ElijahList, dealing with different ways we can be hurt, and how to find the power to overcome and turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
In Betrayal – "I Love You"
While He was still speaking a crowd came up, and the man who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss Him, but Jesus asked him, "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?"—Luke 22:47-48
"Beloved one, I am Love that will not let you go. To those of you who have walked in the pain of betrayal from dear ones you have trusted and loved, I release the grace to overcome such pain and crushing disappointment. My Love is more than you will ever need to forgive betrayal. Reach deep inside of Me and find a place of forgiveness from which to draw upon. Rest your souls in Me. Let Me cover the scars of betrayal with the healing power of My love. Be not battle weary, but allow Me to kiss away the effects of the lies, the greed and the fear from others that led to your betrayal.
"You have shared in My cup of suffering, so that you might also share in My cup of Joy. My heart overflows with love for you. My love is freedom, My love is unchanging and all-powerful in the pulling down of strongholds that would keep you from flowing fully in My grace. My love is your storehouse in times of great need. Child of My heart, I love you; betrayal is overcome by the Cross."
In Denial – "I Love You"
Challenges and victories: Growing in grace and knowledge
It is good for the heart to be established by grace –Heb 13.9
It's been a while since I posted, so I thought I'd try to catch up. This has been the most amazing growth season for me since I was first Saved back in 1980.
In a nutshell, what's going on is brokenness turning over fallow ground, necessity sowing seeds of change, and tears supplying the rain. With the passage of time, "someone warming them from below", and my reintroduction to the Gospel of Grace, which I once knew but had somehow lost sight of, those seeds have been bearing a rich crop.
I'm finding that issues that have dogged me for many years are gently dissolving away. Challenges arise, then I watch them get knocked down in real time. And like the dead soldiers floating in the Red Sea after Moses and the Israelites crossed over safely, I don't think I'll be seeing them again.
I'm learning so much that I don't know where to start, so I'll only give a brief synopsis. One thing I'm learning is not to defend myself. In the past, when the voice of the accuser came on me, I'd have my familiar script to read back to him. It was all very logical and sound. The problem is that it originated in the soulical realm, the mind. Consider the wonderful verse in Isaiah:
No weapon forged to be used against you will succeed; you will refute everyone who tries to accuse you. This is what the LORD will do for his servants – I will vindicate them," says the LORD. – Isa 54:17
Notice that last part: "I" will vindicate them. I realized that I was doing an elaborate and unending kabuki with the accuser. I can't tell you how many times I've read the script to him, but he always comes back. The Holy Spirit has been increasingly showing me lately that I need to silence myself and let Him handle the defenses.
So I've stood down. I'm resting in the Lord, holding my peace. Remember that old, great song, "If I hold my peace, and let the Lord fight my battles – victory, victory shall be mine". That's what's happening here. I want the resolution to come from deep within my being, from the workings of the Spirit, so that when this is done, it will be done permanently. I want the past to be passed, once and for all. This is it.
Grace is so beautiful. To think that my sins are not imputed to me! It's been so long since I felt the reality of that, and a great weight is off me. When I mess up, I don't have to deny or avoid the facts. Do you know how great that is for mental and emotional health? It's the very basis of it. I can relax. I feel genuine gratitude for Jesus setting me free, and gratitude is wonderful for the soul. I'm more conscious of His love, and my love reflecting back has increased. Simply put, I'm being set free and empowered.
I spent much of today doing yard work. There are some water issues here – pooling on the lawn, washing out the gravel drive – so out came the shovels and the steel rake, and I went about grading and trenching. The Spirit was so sweet I would have been happy if I could do this the rest of my life. I don't need advancement, I don't need popularity, I don't need much more in the material realm than food and covering. As long as I have the Spirit of God, I felt today that I had virtually no other needs.
As I worked I had a vision of the Lord sitting on His throne, His glory radiating from His face. The light of His glory hit me and went through me. I saw that this was the heavenly hope we all must have, to strengthen us for the ardors of the journey. And I saw that by granting me the vision, the Lord was gracing me with that strength. Realizing that, just being able to love Him turned that yard into heaven for me.
Because of my sin, that glory also carried a purging heat with it. It wasn't exactly comfortable. This is my concept of purgatory, if you will – as scripture says, we are translated in the twinkling of an eye, but to the degree that we have built on wood, hay and stubble, we are saved as through fire. It's not punishment, it's purification, and it takes place in the heavenly context of God's love and glory. We don't have to pay for our sins – for 30 days, or 15000 years, or whatever period of time that struck the religious hierarchy's fancy that day. We can't pay for our sins, and to say we can is contrary to scripture (see parable of unforgiving servant, Mt. 18), bondage to us, and frankly, an offense to the Blood of the Son of God. If we could pay for our sins then why did Christ die?
The Lord also showed me today that the next mountain I will possess is Peace. He has shown me three areas in my life that need clarity and resolution. And I have not the slightest doubt that His leading me to see the need and to pray about it is a sure harbinger that He fully intends on setting me to it, bringing me through it, and giving me the victory.
The three areas have a commonality centered around what I consider perhaps the most important concept in Kingdom living today – human authority and its limits. We need to know how to deal lovingly, forgivingly, and rightfully, with parents, church and secular authority, not only for the sake of resolving past issues, but because new trials are coming.
All this is essential, because resolution of issues leads to righteousness, which is the foundation of peace. And peace in turns leads to joy, which leads to power (see Rom 14.17 and Neh 8.10). And power is what we need in order to live victoriously.
I've been thinking about Caleb lately. Someone pointed out that when the Israelites finally made it into the Promised Land, after their forty year detour for unbelief, Caleb, now eighty-five years of age, requested the area with the very mountains in which those giants that had intimidated Israel resided. He said, ~God may be kind to me and give me victory.~ Caleb was unpresumptuous, but behind it was a faith of forged iron and the courage of a lion. What an extraordinary spirit. Caleb went on to defeat those giants and possess the land for himself and his descendants.
So I'm excited about what's been shaking, though the challenges are great. I want to emulate Caleb. As the Lord opens doors, I want to say with humility, the Lord may help me, but I know beyond doubt that if I am willing He will glory Himself in me. He is looking for people just like that, to prove Himself strong on their behalf (2Chr 16.9). I want to be one of those people.
I hope you are being blessed. May His glory fill His church to overflowing.


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But behind the scenes this season, the Trail Blazers have been trying to reinvent the small forward by turning Webster's focus more toward defense than offense.
"We are kind of changing Martell's attitude," coach Nate McMillan said.
That attitude, McMillan hopes, will become a mindset of stopping the opponent's top perimeter scorer, and shooting three-pointers when they are presented.
Reinventing Webster is an example of how the Blazers' focus has shifted from acquiring and developing potential to filling specific needs to win a championship.
The Blazers are confident that in the coming years Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge can carry the offense, and that Greg Oden and Joel Przybilla will provide interior defense. But they are unsure whether they have a perimeter defender who can contain the likes of Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady and Carmelo Anthony.
"We gotta get that guy," McMillan said. "And if we don't develop it from within, then we have to go out and get it. But I think we might have it here in Martell. He is a scorer, but what we want him to do, and for him to help this team, is for him to become a stopper."In fact, Webster has made more three pointers (279) in his first three seasons than any other Blazer to start his career.


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Jo Shuter, who resigned from her post under a cloud, rumoured to be in line to take over at Barkingside school
Updated 10:56am Friday 14th June 2013 in News
A controversial 'superhead' is likely to take over at King Solomon High School, according to reports.
Jo Shuter was named the country's best headteacher in 2007 for her work at the Quintin Kynaston Academy in St John's Wood, but was suspended for eight months while an inquiry took place into her use of expenses.
The 52-year-old resigned earlier this month, days after being disciplined by school governors.
Now the Camden New Journal claims a source close to the school said "governors know, some of the parents know and several of the staff know" that Ms Shuter will take over at King Soloman in Forest Road, Barkingside, in January.
The newspaper also reports that some parents have written to governors expressing concern at the appointment.
However, Ms Shuter is quoted by the Camden New Journal denying the appointment.
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By Jim Wallace - bio | email ALBANY, GA (WALB) –Some Dougherty County School Board members are disappointed that Superintendent Dr. Joshua Murfree reduced the suspension of a School Police Officer.
In April School Police Chief Troy Conley recommended that Officer Keith Frazier be fired for not telling the Chief about two possibly gang related incidents at Merry Acres Middle School.
The School Board did not approve the firing, and then Superintendent Dr. Sally Whatley suspended Frazier 35 days. When he took control, Dr. Murfree reduced that suspension to 15 days.
School Board Member Emily Jean McAfee said the board should have backed Chief Conley's decision.
"Protocol and procedures. If their team members and those officers we have protecting our children aren't following them, I'm not sure that person needs to continue to work for the school system," said McAfee.
Frazier returned to work August 3rd. Chief Conley declined to comment.
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Only 6-0 team in the National Football League (as of Sunday night)? Check!
2.5 game lead over Chicago? Check!
2.5 game lead over Green Bay (with a tiebreaker in hand)? Check!
Yep. . .just like every other day, it's a damn good day to be a Vikings fan.
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Whether familiar or otherwise, all of this week is just about undeniable.
Released Albums
Unreleased Albums
Top 10 Songs of the Week (7/18)
Grouper celebrates 20 years of Kranky at Chicago's Constellation Gallery (12/13)
It all happened one snowy night in Chicago.
Top 50 Albums of 2013
We took many, many trips to the record store this year.
Top MP3s of the Week (9/13)
One of the most danceable countdowns yet is led by a group from Montreal.
Grouper's Liz Harris forms new "pop" band Helen, releases single
Pleasantly fuzzy new material.
Angel Olsen announces fall tour dates
A busy summer for the folk singer-songwriter.
Album Review: Grouper – The Man Who Died In His Boat
A haunted search for meaning in the reverberating mist.
Top Ten Mp3s of the Week
Is anyone listening?
Album Review: Grouper – Cover the Windows and the Walls
Cover the Windows and the Walls may not actually be a new release (this is a CD re-release of a vinyl slab released nearly two years ago, just before Dragging a Dead Dear), but it's a breath of fresh air, to say the least.
List 'Em Carefully: The Top 10 Subaquatic Tunes
It's summer. It's hot (sort of). Everyone's looking to keep cool. While you're icing down, here are some tunes to help.
Street Scene adds Beastie Boys; ATP New York adds… everyone else
Queue mind explosion…
Check Out: Grouper/City Center 7″
Liz Harris' work as Grouper has grown more and more majestic over the years, sometimes closer to traditional folk, sometimes relishing the layers and layers of blissful, reverb-drenched drones.
2005's Way Their Crept was full of beautiful, sky-scraping moments, Harris' …


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Since MaryAnn was a little girl, she always wanted to be in the middle of it all.
On December 31, 1999, excitement mounted as people everywhere prepared to ring in the new millennium.
Too young to do the same, MaryAnn tuned in to watch Peter Jennings' marathon broadcast of the world welcoming 2000.
Over those hours, MaryAnn fell in love with television news, (and Peter Jennings) realizing the power T.V. has to take you to the most remote corners of the globe, events that define history and introduce you to people in power.
Before joining FOX5, MaryAnn worked in Tucson, Arizona as a general assignment reporter at KGUN, the ABC affiliate.
She led the station's coverage of immigration and border issues and also became known as a reporter who held public officials accountable, posing tough questions to Senator John McCain and Tucson city officials who were accused of mishandling taxpayer dollars.
Fluent in Spanish, MaryAnn's extensive knowledge of border issues started while working in El Paso, Texas at the CBS affiliate. MaryAnn spearheaded the station's breaking news coverage.
In April 2007, MaryAnn was invited to Mexico City by the Mexican Department of State where she took part in a forum for journalists on immigration. The visit gave her the opportunity to meet with the Mexican President's press secretary and other top government officials.
A proud Texan, MaryAnn was born and raised in El Paso. While attending Baylor University in Waco, MaryAnn wrote for the student newspaper, The Baylor Lariat.
When she's not at work, MaryAnn follows national and international news, as a self-proclaimed news junkie. Her other interests include traveling, learning about other cultures and trying new foods.
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Iowa�s economic development chief made a pitch Tuesday for more state money to fund targeted apprenticeships, internships and other efforts to address a shortage of skilled workers that is dampening expansion by existing Iowa businesses.
�It�s a race for talent right now,� said Debi Durham, director of the state Economic Development Authority, who asked a legislative budget panel to triple funding for apprenticeships to $3 million in fiscal 2015 and earmark $2 million for internships in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) areas. The efforts would be separate from the $55 million in workforce training initiatives approved last session.
However, Sen. Bill Dotzler, D-Waterloo, a co-leader of the Legislature�s joint Economic Development budget subcommittee, said the competition for high-skilled workers is more than a race, it�s a �real serious war� for talent and he believed the state should be investing more in job training, retraining and workforce development than what is being proposed with at least 7,000 jobs �sitting out there unfilled.�
Durham told the budget panel that her agency�s �high-level intel� with Iowa companies interviewed since 2007 indicated that 673 firms have expansion plans representing $9.3 billion worth of economic impact and 7,000 jobs for Iowa communities over the next two to three years. However, she said the �but for� impeding their growth is 311 firms indicate they have no room to expand and 384 say they are experiencing employee recruitment problems.
Durham said her agency has partnered with a private company on a certified site program for firms that don�t feel they have adequate space to expand with an expectation of starting the first round of certifications next month with state opening a new application round this month. The program has $400,000 budgeted for the program this fiscal year and $500,000 in fiscal 2015.
The EDA director also told the committee that Iowa continues to fare well in landing major projects using nearly $17 million in state incentives. Business capital investments under the Branstad administration have topped $7.5 billion and resulted in 26,814 direct and indirect jobs expected for the Iowa economy.
Durham said she expects another �$1 billion-plus� project to be announced for Iowa �as early as this quarter.� She would not comment further, other than to say it would not be another fertilizer project.�I don�t see any end in sight,� Durham later told the Senate�s Economic Growth Committee in discussing the state�s job-creation successes. �Our pipeline is full.�


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February 27, 2012
Tuesday, last week, saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) touch the 13,000 level for the first time since the 2008 market crash.
Crashing through psychological milestones usually makes for a good headline but rarely means anything to the professional traders on Wall Street. The DJIA 13,000, though, could be different.
When the blue-chip index pushed through 10,000 or even 12,000, most traders yawned and went about their business. The market moved higher, but there was little sentiment that getting through big, round numbers had anything to do with it.
Now, though, with 13,000 reached for the first time since May 2008, some are wondering whether the news finally might push retail investors off the sidelines.
Sideline Monies
One reason that the DJIA thousand-point barriers generally don't move the market is that Wall Street traders really don't pay much attention to the index. The public uses the Dow as a guideline both to market and economic health, but traders focus far more on the Standard & Poor's 500 (SPX), which has a much broader reach than the Dow and its 30 components.
The S&P broke through the 1350 barrier Thursday and held it in lackluster trading Friday. Bensignor says the index's next target is last year's closing high of 1363.
Retail investors, in the meantime, are slowly shuffling back into the game.
Traders normally "don't put too much faith into" such events, but might reconsider now -- in this particular case, we still know a lot of retail investors missed a good majority of the rally -- a big benchmark such as 13,000 could be a nice sign to maybe some investors that they may want to start putting some of their money into the market.
Zero-yielding money market funds — often referred to as "money on the sidelines" — lost another $5 billion in retail money last week to hit their lowest level since July 20, 2011, according to the Investment Company Institute. Equity funds caught $3.62 billion of that money — an incremental gain, but a gain nonetheless.
With the headlines that Dow 13K will generate, it might be enough to pull in some more money.
The Psyche of Round Numbers
Humans tend to think in round numbers, so these even levels are very important. You will often see stocks struggle when reaching a round number, as investors and traders mark that level specifically as "expensive" or "cheap."
For example, you would not be likely to hear a trader say, "12,766 seems overextended for the Dow, and that's when it's time to limit exposure." No, he'll say, "13,000 looks expensive." However, these psychological levels do not always act as barriers. For example, they can also be magnets. Once the DJIA gets past the 13,000 level, the next number investors could be eyeing is 14,000, and the market will move quickly and effortlessly up to that level!
Below is the Dow since 2006, with the 13,000 level marked. You can see it first overtook this level in 2007, when it chopped around for a while between 13,000 and 14,000. When it fell back below 13,000 in 2008, it retested this level one more time, but was knocked down -- and, of course, the crash ensued. In more recent times, the Dow flirted with 13,000 in the middle of 2011, but never touched it (it came within about 1% of 13,000). So, here we are again at this important round number. Hopefully, the analysis below can help us determine what to expect.
Quantifying the Data
It is interesting throughout the market history to see if these psychological levels have, indeed, been impediments to the market. Specifically, by looking at how the DJIA fared after touching an even increment of 1,000 -- if the Dow struggled at that area, it might go back and forth across the level. In that case, the first signal is only taken into consideration for this theory. The Dow first crossed the 1,000 barrier in 1966. Since then, there were 39 times when it went running into one of these psychological barriers.
The results are in the table below. The second table shows typical data for the DJIA since 1960, for comparison. It does appear that, in the short run, the market does underperform after running across these even levels. In the two weeks after touching a millennium marker, the DJIA averages a loss of 0.42%, and is positive less than half the time. Typically, the market gains an average of 0.28%, and is positive 57% of the time. In the longer run, though, these levels have had little effect.
A few facts about market performance since the Dow last closed above 13,000 on May 19, 2008:-
• The DJIA closed above 13,000 a total of 19 times while heading north towards the all-time high of 14,164.53.
• The biggest gainers since the first 13K close have been McDonald's (MCD) - +64.2 percent, Home Depot (HD) - +59.1 percent, and IBM (IBM) - +52.6 percent.
• The biggest losers have been Bank of America (BAC) --77.6 percent, Alcoa (AA) - -76.9 percent and General Electric (GE) --41.3 percent.
• The DJIA last closed above 14,000 on Oct. 17, 2007 and is still down 7.6 percent since.
• The DJIA closed above 13,000 a total of 19 times while heading north towards the all-time high of 14,164.53.
• The biggest gainers since the first 13K close have been McDonald's (MCD) - +64.2 percent, Home Depot (HD) - +59.1 percent, and IBM (IBM) - +52.6 percent.
• The biggest losers have been Bank of America (BAC) --77.6 percent, Alcoa (AA) - -76.9 percent and General Electric (GE) --41.3 percent.
• The DJIA last closed above 14,000 on Oct. 17, 2007 and is still down 7.6 percent since.
A few other things have happened since then that you may have read about: The near-collapse of the financial system, the 2010 Flash Crash in which the DJIA lost nearly a thousand points in a few minutes — not to mention the historic downgrading of U.S. debt and a sovereign debt crisis imploding in Europe.
And to be sure, the market faces numerous headwinds both fundamentally and technically.
The U.S. economic recovery remains tenuous, particularly because of rising energy prices, and the European debt crisis is not going away.
Investors are at a truly important level, and they should know based on what the first part of the week ahead presents, as to whether the bulls will be able to muster strength to push higher -- if they do, there could be a run another 3 to 5 percent higher before starting to hit resistance again.
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Mentions: ECG and blood chemistry (including blood sugar), complete blood count (CBC) and liver profile were normal. Lumber puncture was carried out to rule out tuberculous meningitis. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was clear with an opening pressure of 40 mm H2O, and analysis of CSF revealed the following values: WBC count of 5 cells/mm3(100% lymphocytes); glucose level 3.8 mmol/L; and protein level 0.78 g/L. Gram and Zeihl-Neelsen stains were negative. Echocardiography and holter monitoring also were normal, whereas urgent brain computed tomography (CT) showed multiple infarctions without abnormal dural enhancement [Figures 1 and 2]. Screening for thrombophilia and vasculitis was carried out. Anti-thrombin III, activated protein C resistance, factor V Leiden, protein C, protein S, clotting time, prothrombin time, activated partial thromboplastin time, fibrinogen, anticardiolipin antibody, lupus anticoagulant screen, homocystine, antinuclear antibody (ANA), C3, C4, C-reactive protein (CRP) and anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs), all these tests were within normal limits. The electroencephalogram (EEG) showed epileptic discharges. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed infarction at the head of the left caudate nucleus, the antero-lateral aspect of putamen and intervening internal capsule [Figure 3], whereas magnetic resonance (MR) angiography showed a picture consistent with moyamoya. Brain CT angiography was performed and it showed the same pictures [Figure 4].
Moyamoya syndrome in a known case of pulmonary tuberculosis
Bottom Line: Brain CT angiography was performed and it showed the same pictures.On the following days, she was discharged on antituberculous medications, antiepileptic and oral hypoglycemic treatment.After 1 year, the patient was seen in the clinic, she was well and seizure-free.
Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Hamad General Hospital, PO Box 3050, Doha, Qatar.
We report an unusual association of pulmonary tuberculosis with moyamoya syndrome in a 30-year-old Filipino female who was admitted to our hospital with a 1-week history of fever and cough. Chest X-ray showed widespread bilateral consolidation with cavity, whereas sputum was positive for acid fast bacilli (AFB). Two weeks after starting antituberculous treatment, the patient developed two episodes of loss of consciousness, which were unwitnessed. Urgent brain computed tomography (CT) showed multiple infarctions, suggesting vasculitis. The electroencephalogram showed epileptic discharges. Magnetic resonance angiography showed a picture consistent with moyamoya disease. Brain CT angiography was performed and it showed the same pictures. The patient was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis-associated moyamoya syndrome. On the following days, she was discharged on antituberculous medications, antiepileptic and oral hypoglycemic treatment. After 1 year, the patient was seen in the clinic, she was well and seizure-free.
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Thanks to the developent of Google Earth, I have found several places in the ocean where it looks like buildings and even roads. Some of them are so organized it looks like a computer chip.
I have also found places where it is obvious this deep water was once above water because you can see the rivers that were created running from the mountains.
The world has changed many times. And will always continue to change. The"End of the World" happens all the time. It's just localized to major disasters where no one gets out alive.
Funny phrase. On this planet we all play the same game. "NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE."
- Peppi Turco
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Very cool, I just want to know what the heck the Russians were thinking trying to net something almost 3 meters in height. In water we are not at home and when you mess with something that big it could have dragged them to the depths of the ocean. I believe that there is life out in the ocean that we have yet to discover, but I do not think that this is very humanoid. Its creepy though that's for dang sure. If you're looking at this creature it looks as though it only can see down or in the area of where the eyes are. Was this picture taken from underneath it? I want to believe, but Russians are crazy.
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Very interesting...could it be plausible that peoples or even a unknown civilization exist in the depths of our oceans? That would be incredible. Their are stilll alot of "unknowns" about our planets oceans that need to be further examined.
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Creepy photo.
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Cari's favorite linebacker gets a Black Shoe Diaries showcase on draft day!
Hey guys, how ya doin'? Feeling good after Blue-White weekend? Well, the good Penn State news keeps on coming for you, as your favorite NFL team just drafted Gerald Hodges! That's right, your team...
The Notre Dame linebacker is definitely dropping in mock drafts and could be there for the Chiefs in the second round.
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Firebird backend Beta 1 for Django 1.6 is released
Posted by mariuz on 13 Nov 2013 9:01 am. Filed under Tools & Products releases.
Maximiliano Robaina announced django-firebird 1.6 beta
A few days of the Django 1.6 was released, django-firebird is now in beta 1 stage. Feel free to fork from master branch or download and try it.
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Magic Peanut Butter Cookies
Are these golden, fragrant, chewy cookies magic because they have no flour or butter in them? Or magic because of the way they disappear? You decide.
Total time: 30 minutes
Yield: 3 dozen
1 cup peanut butter (creamy or chunky -- not natural-style)
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt (or half as much table salt -- more salt if your peanut butter is unsalted)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 large egg
1 teaspoon baking soda
- Heat the oven to 350, and grease 2 baking sheets or cover them in parchment paper.
- With an electric mixer, beat together the peanut butter, sugars, and salt until combined well.
- In a small bowl lightly beat the egg and vanilla, then beat it into the peanut butter mixture with the baking soda until combined well.
- Roll teaspoons of dough into balls and arrange them about 1 inch apart on baking sheets; the mixture may seem oily and strange, and this is okay. Flatten the balls with the tines of a fork, making a crosshatch pattern.
- Bake the cookies one sheet at a time in the middle of the oven until they're puffed and golden, about 7 minutes.
- Cool the cookies on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer them to racks to cool completely.
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A new show apartment has opened its doors at Bristol's leading waterside property development.Read more
The hotly anticipated YMCA Nursery will be opening its doors for the very first time on Monday 1 September 2014 at Crest Nicholson's Centenary Quay riverside development in Woolston, Southampton. To celebrate the launch, the YMCA will be hosting two open days on Wednesday 27 (1:30-7:30pm) and Thursday 28 (9:30-11:30am) August for families to preview the excellent facilities on offer for their children.Read more
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5 Reasons Why You Should Buy...: Alpha Industries: "Alpha Designs Are Universal & Timeless... We Have Over 50 Years Of Experience In The Business!"
Wednesday, Jun 27, 2012 12:00PM
[After manufacturing military clothing for branches such as the U.S. Department of Defense, Alpha Industries merged their "official" attire with a customized, modern look for commercial clothing--a look everyone can wear. Now, the military apparel distributor is thriving with their everyday style. Read Lee K. Aaron's--Alpha Industries President--top five reasons to buy AI's Spring/Summer collection.]
1. No. 1 In Military Apparel
We're the preeminent manufacturer of military-inspired fashion outerwear and apparel. We're always sure to incorporate Alpha's military heritage into our jackets--whether it's in an accent or taking into account an entire design and updating it.
2. A Fashion Legacy
We have over 50 years of experience in the business! We're a storied brand with a rich history. What sets our line apart from others is not only our roots--manufacturing outerwear for the U.S. Department of Defense, etc--but that we've stayed true to our heritage all these years, and have managed to create modern pieces that are still timeless.
3. Military To Commercial...Clothing For All
[Our] product is made today to the same quality standard as we have always made for the US Military. Alpha's segue way into the commercial market unofficially began in the 1970s. Previously, Alpha would sell surplus stock of military garments to Army-Navy stores. Word of mouth caught on about Alpha's jackets, which were made with the same quality and materials as the clothing for the military, so people began wearing the jackets for everyday purposes. By the '80s, [we] accrued significant commercial business, and continued to invest in it and grow it internationally.
4. Affordable Price Points
Prices are right on point - there's something for everyone in any price range. Alpha fans--old and new--really love it. It's something fresh and different. Our Bunker Jacket is also new for Spring/Summer - again, it's great for warmer weather, especially with an under-$100 price. It's a fun, bright piece, available in yellow, blue and black.
5. Universal Style
Alpha designs are universal and timeless. The variety of our product this season is really something special. We have some great updates to classic silhouettes like the M-65 Field Jacket and MA-1 Flight Jacket. Our MA-1 Lite is a twist on the iconic flight jacket. Our Spring/Summer '12 version features a lightweight nylon outerwear and soft jersey lining - it's perfect for the warmer weather and cooler summer days.
You Decide. Will you purchase the former military clothing distrubtor's commercial line?
To purchase Alpha Industries classic material, just click here.
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