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from sailing in Thailand to the highest peak on the US east coast is a big leap....in many ways! Here I am after trekking to the summit...well at least from the car park anyway...of Mt Mitchell in North Carolina.
luxuriating on a day bed with latte after an awesome seafood buffet and exploring a waterfall on some tropical island.....
Sammy lounging in paradise......
Sammy looking fabulous working on her suntan.....
Not only does she look good but she can tie a bowline too!
What more can you ask for?
trying desperately to send a work email with attachment.....you can tell how slow the internet is by how many beers it takes to send one email .....
lounging on the foredeck in my rainbow warrior hammock
captain hooks resort
breakfst in bangbao
pretending to work
sammmy on a grey day at Noosa
or CR as Sammy and I like to call it for now.....
with help from Mr Fixit , Tom (pictured) , we installed Kipona's new watermaker which required a little modular re-working of the plumbing....
Xmas in FLL
17/12/2008, boat ramp
the name of this guys boat was "bail out"....appropriate don't you think?
in Australia we call these dugong....here is a male and female playing around my hull
Fort Lauderdale is the megayacht capital of the world and they all go up river for their refits. As they pass my berth the shadow they cast blocks the light from my cabin and I casually peer outside to see the latest in money-is-no-object yachting. They have names like, dividend or vitaminsea or recyclingmakescents or outback (as in outback steakhouse)....
Mickey dressed up for Xmas and pretending to look fearsome in his own Black Pearl.
They just wouldn't leave...so we started up and put the sails up....they just went to the top of the mast....but a couple of flicks with the spinnaker halyard had them leaping into the water and back to shore...
I thought the dinghy was histroy as they searched for food....they even started chewing on the inflatable tubes...nasty!...but they soon lost interst after they found the taste of rubber was not to their liking!
these guys swam 100 metres out to the boat and then climbed the mast to sit on the spreaders...our new lookouts...
Thailand is a ld of surprises....you never know what you might see hanging out on your balconey...
a hard earned fire fight deserves a hard earned ale or several...putting out our own fires...
half of our training crew were girls....so none of the guys missed a class!
Ginger posing with the firey's....she's a live wire this one...:)
damn....it was hot...I must of lost 4 lbs that day....
how it's done...
21/06/2008, Resolve Fire Training centre
geared up and redy to fight fires....my fire partner Ginger and me ready to do some damage !
20/06/2008, IYT Training Facility, Fort Lauderdale, florida
How many people can u fit in a life raft..?....actually quite a lot...but first u hv to get it the right way up!
Pool training in Life raft survival techniques.
03/06/2008, Gulf Stream crossing
Duty calls and it's back to Fort Louderdale for reliable (cheaper) phone and internet access so I can return to my day job....Here's Kipona wing-and-wing with main and genniker set, crossing the Gulf Stream on a calm day.
no sailing adventure is complete without a sunset shot. This one looking over Bahama Bank towards Florida, about 250 mile and a million worlds away.
these outer islands seem lost in time. Narrow lanes where everyone get around in golf carts, cape cod style cottages, and the sound of conch getting beaten linger in the air is all typcial of these laidback cays
conch and fish are good for the diet and waste line, but give me a T-Bone anyday!
even after 6 months, I can't tell them apart....Patrick and Thomas in clear Bahamian water
how's this....your own private Bahamian island complete with natural ocean side swimming lagoon and sheltered sandy bay with dock for your cruiser. Someone's got the right idea....fortunatly they weren't in residence so we camped out for a couple of hours like we owned the place.....
After fixing a deck leak back in FL, the Russell's finally catch up to me at the Wrecking Tree Bar. So-named becuase in the old days the "wreckers" would bring their salvage from stricken vessels into this spot before sending to the auctions at Nassau.
here's one for the Wharram fans out there....
while all the good anchorages are exposed on the SW sode of the cays, the atlantic NE side has some beautiful beaches. Here's a classic postcard Bahamas shot....
after getting his fill of conch and 'cudda, Sam jumped ship at Spanish Cay to fly back to Florida 10 days after leaving. Meanwhile I headed to calm water, sick of bobbing around in exposed anchorages. I tied up here for the final week while the Russells caught up.
the final result.....conch cerviche with cudda and chardy.....
of course, then you have to get the little buggers out and they don't make it easy. Hammer and cold chisel are tools of choice but there's plenty of meat to be had......Sam showing us how it's done.
you just snorkel along in 6-10 feet of water and pick 'em up right off the bottom. This cay is at the remote NE end of the Bahamas, so these one's are bigger than you find in more populated areas.
Sam is the classic hunter and gattherer type. Even is Thailand he's paddling around off his yacht fishing or diving for clams. Here's one of our Bahama 'cudda catches.
pretending to be an autopilot, here's Sam steering us to our waypoint for the reef pass while I try to figure out which way is N down below...
with clearance to leave the US, we head out of FL to the Atlantic. Just one of the 100 or so bridges that span the intra-coastal waterway down the east coast. Following behind a newly polished >100 foot schooner....
like all good swabs, ya havta start at the bottom and work your way up. Here's crew member Hartford finding new ways to cool off in Florida before we head to the Bahamas.
Here's a somewhat sober Captain Tim... crusty IYT instructor and TOG GC Team A race strategist, with the team contemplating what might have been....winners are grinners and we came second but we had a blast all the same. I'll be back for next year. Nice view of OM from the pool deck eh?
not to be outdone by Phil A, I grabbed his wife Dang and hostess (also named Dang) for a quickie (photo that is!)
now here's a nice photo of Gulf Charter's owner, Phil and his lovely wife Dang, boogying away the night at OM yacht club party
The TOG Regatta sure knows how to put on a party. Live band, free flowing food and booze and some luvley hostesses thank you very much!
well you may ask why we're going the opposite direction to the rest of the fleet? That's what happens when you round the mark (in this case the rock) the wrong way! This was a dropped race for us but we still ended up near the top of the leader board. We even made the news.....
Top of the Gulf Regatta - day 3
"...Things have settled down somewhat after yesterday's agonizingly long evening in the protest room. The International Jury led by ISAF rules expert and last years America's Cup Jury Chairman Brian Willis ruled that the Race Committee were not at fault and boats that went to the wrong mark in the Platu and Cruising Classes must either retire or be disqualified if they have not done so already. This puts a different spin on the overall results, and as promised today's report takes into account the race four and five results and how they have affected the overall standings.
As all yachts are either carrying either a DNF or RET, the present results are based on their on the water performance which is a fair and equitable way to determine the points before the drop race is introduced. The Gulf Charters Team on Contenza had a good day making up for yesterday's retirement to score first place and put themselves back into overall contention. Weera Leksomboon's Fun Wes is one of the smallest boats in the fleet but managed to take second place in front of the bigger opposition. Third place for Alvin Ong's SMU Team from Singapore on Amanda added to their first place for sailing the correct course yesterday sees them hold a slim one point lead at the top of the podium. They have a job on their hands if they are to retain the lead and will have to call on all their new-found management skills to hold onto this one. ..."
09/05/2008, Jomtien, Thailand
taking a break from the US for a couple of weeks to compete in this regatta and hone my racing and foredeck skills. Here's the Gulf Charter's cruising class team A on Constanza rounding the Committee boat at the start line with Team B on SshweeeLine in the rear (as they were for the whole race!)
you can vaguely see the ketch up against the bridge. The owner had left to boat but divine intervention didn't help today....note TowBoatUs hovering around like vultures. But another sailor at the anchorage and I dinghied over to drive it off but not before $5k of damage to the rigging after slamming on the bridge for an hour.
that's the Russell family... great sailing buddies....
Not known to be native of the Island but we understand they came here to plunder and walk amongst the live oak trails....
wierd little animals these...long tail with a full metal jacket and snouty anteater nose...found amongst the bushes on Cumberland Island, a stopover on the way to St Augustine.
the result of my encounter with the dock in Brunswick - a twisted mess of stainless pipe formerly my wind vane. Tried in vane (sic) to get it fixed locally in St Augustine, but (of course) the pipe size is proprietary to the manufacturer. After sending it across the States, $2000 later I got it back all new....whatever... just another couple of boat bucks eh?
23/03/2008, St Augustine, Florida
St Augustine is our first stop in Florida with reasonable boat facilities and a good chance to get some stuff done. It's been a hectic couple of weeks but it's nice to finally be somwhere warmer and the two-legged scenery is certainly getting better! Here's a look at my log so far.
11/03/2008, Brunswick, Georgia
After midnight things started to get less pleasant with the wind right on the nose and building - crap, the front was coming through early! After a bit of discussion over the VHF, Pierre and I agreed to head for Brunswick, about 20 miles short of our destination. Motor sailing close-hauled in a building sea and wind, trying to hold a rhumb line to the sea buoy marking the entrance to the channel made for an uncomfortable ride. I fell off about 20 degrees to cut the corner a couple of leading lights up the channel. We were coming in at high tide and the first part of the channel was showing plenty of depth on the chart so it should be no drama.
Pierre was ahead of me by about 2.5 miles and half way up the Brunswick channel when I got slammed by the first of many squalls to come through. Rather than risk a channel entry with no visibility, I hove to to wait it out. The wind was now gale force at over 25 knots, but after the squall passed I had to get in before the next one came through.
I was safely into the Brunswick River when I got slammed by another squall, this one was a white out with lots of rain. Rather than risk the shoals in the river I hove-to again. I called ahead to the marina for directions. After passing under the span bridge I turned up the narrow East river to the marina and stopped briefly to hang fenders and dock lines. It was still pouring rain with gale force wind but luckily the marina had given me the end of a T-pier to pull up to.
I went back to the cockpit to continue but I had no movement from forward gear....tried reverse but still nothing. F!@# this was serious! I raced below to manually engage the gear lever at the transmission. Still nothing.....F!@# me....what do I do!!!! I looked around to see me drifting in the wind toward the squid boat docks about 50 metres away.....I leapt below to grab the windlass remote and fed out the big 60lb CQR and 20 metres of chain, hoping it would hold. I held my breath as I waited for the pick to bite, all the time watching the docks getting closer.....Then finally with about 20 metres until I was going to hit the docks the bow turned around as the anchor set and looked like it was holding.
Just then a fresh squall hit and I started dragging and picking up speed in the wind gust. I'll never forget the crunching sound as the stern hit the steel plates of the little shrimp boat. The wind then swung Kipona broadside into the dock and I thought 22ton of boat was going to take it out!
Funny how things like this make you think whether you had paid the insurance premium or not! I jumped onto the dock with a spring line before the boat could inflict anymore carnage.
Check out the dayafter photo with anchor chain still laid out and the angle of the danbouy flag in the wind.....
After two nights in Charleston we headed out on a classic spring day into the Atlantic. The forecast was for light easterlies then southeast 10-15 after midnight with the chance of rain. The next afternoon another cold front was coming through so we had 24 hours to get to Cumberland Island on the border with Florida.
The morning was beautiful and I was sitting on the bow reading a book with shirt off, jeans rolled up getting a suntan! After an early dinner, I was up the bow again but this time to fix the port nav light which was playing up. Out of nowhere came a pod of spotted dolphins cruising effortlessly and playing with the bow wave. Cool!
09/03/2008, Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston, like many of the old towns lining the east coast, is full of history and "Charlestonians, while known for their hospitality, are also protective of their ancestry. We decided to walk the town as its pretty much all flat here in the "low-country" and along the way visited a couple of museums where I got a history lesson in the American Civil War. We found a great fudge shop and shopped in a really old brick market in aptly named Market Street. Pierre nearly had me convinced it was an old slave trading market until I saw the plaque on the entrance that it was actually built as a meat, fish and vegetable market. But who knows, the east coast does have a shadowy past, not to mention infamous pirates like Blackbeard who terrorised these waters in the 1800's.
When fronts come through here, they really come through. As the wind built to 40 knots with gusts to 50, we sought shelter at the Mustard Seed for dinner with Walter and Erin, friends of Kim and Pierre whom they met at the yard in Annapolis. Back at the marina it was time for double dock lines as the night turned nasty. Lucky we decided to tie up after the 1st night at anchor in Charleston harbour.
No stop in town is complete without a mandatory visit to West Marine so, after they successfully relieved me of more "boat bucks", we re-provisioned to leave in the morning for the next overnight leg to Cumberland Island, Georgia. Florida, here we come!
My first "outside" into the Atlantic turned out to be a bit of a non-event....I guess that's something I should be thankful for! We sailed pretty much dead downwind for the whole trip from Cape Fear to Charleston. We had planned to get a little further, perhaps to Hilton Head, but the wind died and we had an ugly front coming through the next day so Charleston made a good stopover.
On the way up the Ashley river to the Charleston City Marina a freeloader decided to hitch a ride. Scared the crap out of me when he landed on the boat, but he seemed right at home as if he owned the place. At least he didn't take a dump on the deck!
The IntraCoastal Waterway officially starts at Mile 0 at Norfolk and extends all the way down the east coast to Florida. Feburary is not the best time to head offshore here due to the frequent passage of c-c-cold fronts marching through, so "The Ditch" as it 's affectionately known, is a safe alternative option.
The journey so far has been a series of land cuts through swampland and then wide expanses of shallow water over the Albamarle and Pamlico sounds. The ICW is well marked but the land cuts and inlets shoal up in places making navigation a challenge. One eye on the channel markers and another on the depth sounder is highly recommended! Still, we managed to get sailing on a couple of days.
Currently we're holed up for a day's rest at Surf City in North Carolina waiting for a weather window (NW) tomorrow before heading offshore. The plan is to leave from Cape Fear for an overnighter down to Charleston and I must say I'm looking forward to my first venture out into the Atlantic.
From there we wait for another cold front to come through before heading out again further south. Standby for an offshore report!
27/02/2008, Surf City in North Carolina
It's hard to drag yourself away after 3 months of Thai hospitality, but more adventures await in the Bahamas and Carribean! Before that I have to get to Florida.
So after 20 plane hours, 4 stops, navigating a rental car 2 hours through the backroads of Virginia (thanks GoogleMaps!) I got back to Kipona at 2:00am and crashed.
The next day I had to catch up to cruising friends Kim and Pierre who, after enduring winter refitting their boat in Annapolis, are finally on their way. They're already at Great Bridge, 12 miles into the ICW and I've got a full day ahead of me to get off the Chesapeake and through Norfolk.
In the morning I held my breath as I kicked over the trusty Westerbeke on Kipona....nothing! Crap, maybe she didn't like sitting 3 months idle in the cold and was now paying me back for leaving her behind.
After several attempts it was time to consult Nigel (Calder, that is). Seems the fuel and lines may be too cold to get ignition (I can sympathise with that!). Out comes the heat lamp to warm up the engine. An hour later I kicked her over again and with a crank or two she started. Thanks Nigel!
After a visit to WalMart for provisions, I dumped the rental, settled up at the marina and headed off.
Norfolk is the location for a famous sea battle with the English and also houses one of the largest Navy bases in the world. Throw in lots of commercial shipping and there's a lot of stuff to watch out for. Just to make it even more interesting, I arrived at nightfall so had to navigate through the maze of lights to find the first of many swing bridges and locks to traverse on the ICW.
18/12/2007, Somewhere near the Cambodian border...
How to stay warm when its winter...? Change to the tropics of course!
After a short stop in OZ to check on business and family, I'm back in Thailand for Xmas and New Year to escape the cold in the US. I feel a bit guilty about leaving Kipona tied up, but I'll be back soon enough to continue south.
Always up for an adventure, I joined Phil from Gulf Charters and Captain Lek to take delivery of their new work/rescue boat. With a 30Kva genset, this little boat could power a whole village in Thailand! The genset is used to run the squid lights on booms from the cabin top but could also run a mean stereo system and ice maker....perfect as a mother ship for those flotilla weekends.....Check out that winch!
The Chesapeake truly is a great cruising ground....plenty of wind, wide expanses of water to give you a good reach for a couple of hours, local history and heaps of crabs (and crab pots)!
I was surprised by Kiponas speed and she's in her element when the wind picks up. She feels strong and safe in 30kts and the cutter rig allows you to de-power quickly and keep the boat balanced. Everything I expected from a Valiant.
When the sun went down and the crabbers and fishing charters had gone home, I had much of the Bay to myself except for the tugs and commercial traffic. I'm kinda used to that from my sailing back home in Thailand....especially dodging the squid boats and fishing traps!
Hi to my buddies at Gulf Charters in Thailand. If you're looking for a charter in a new cruising ground I can recommend a week around the Kho Chang island group in the South West monsoon season. Check em out at www.GulfChartersThailand.com
While I'm happy to be in the water finally and on my way, I'm leaving behind my new-found cruising friends , Pierre and Kim, while they finish the refit on their Lord Nelson 41.
With their two boys who are the same age as my son Jared, they're also beginning an adventure to sail the Pacific to Australia.
Until they can get out of Annapolis they have to endure a little hardship..... should make arriving in the Bahamas that much sweeter...!
The difference between a fantasy and a dream is that dreams are something you can make happen....
And so with a sigh of relief and great anticipation of the adventure ahead, I cast off from Annapolis on a grey day in Fall, head out of Back Creek and turn south down the Chesapeake for Norfolk.
Over the last 6 weeks I've been over every inch of the boat and the rig from top to bottom and stem to stern. I've removed, polished, replaced and re-installed every nut, bolt, block, screw, shackle, tang and tunbuckle. With all new wire rigging, sta-lok terminals and chainplates, I don't have to worry about the rig if things get hairy out there.
Thanks goes to the Brian Duff and team at Southbound rigging who made sure I didn't cut corners and in the end made the right decisions. Hi also to Frannie, the best looking rigger on the East Coast!
"Not all who wander are lost." JRR Tolkien
I couldn't have found a boat to buy any further away from home than here! It was kind of fun when it was warm, but living on the hard miles from home while you work on your boat is no fun, especially in the cold and rain as fall turns into winter. Had to chip ice off the deck today! Break out the foulies...Brrrrrr
Perhaps if I was better organised I could have been gone already, but the upside is I'll have all new rigging (sta-locks - cool!), batt-cars and storm trysail. And it took forever to get the boat documentation cleared from the USCG. But I've also met some real nice cruisers while I've been here.
I can't wait to get somewhere warm. The new rig has arrived and we'll step the mast on the 12th. New antifoul (3 coats) over the weekend and we'll launch on the 14th. I'll leave Kipona (her new name - much easier to pronounce than Aquilegia - try saying that 3 times over the VHF) and go home for Thanksgiving (read pay bills and show my face in the office!) and then kick off again in the New Year. Later ...
so will our latest addition to the family inherit the sailing instincts of her mother and grandmother.....only time will tell! You can be sure that she'll be a water baby .....


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The University of St. Thomas men's basketball team finished the regular season on a six-game win streak, closing out Wiley College, 76-64, on Feb. 25. The win improved UST to 24-6 overall and 17-5 in the Red River Athletic Conference, and allowed UST to be the No. 3 seed for the RRAC Tournament.
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|Local farm recognized
|Written by Chris Lee
A local farm and family recently were recognized at the Colorado State Fair for keeping their farm in the family for over 100 years.
The Miles farm, owned by Lucille Miles, was one of 21 farms honored at the 2009 State Fair on Friday, Aug. 28 in Pueblo. It is the 366th farm in Colorado history to be awarded the honor, according to Lucille's son Ron Miles.
"It's thanks to my sons (Ron and Rick)," Lucille said. "They both decided to stay on the farm."
The Colorado Centennial Farms program was created in 1986 by Gov. Richard D. Lamm, the Colorado Historical Society and the Colorado Dept. of Agriculture to recognize the important role agriculture has played in Colorado's history and economic development. It was the first such program of its kind in the nation to give a Historic Structures Award to families who have successfully preserved historic buildings on their farms and ranches.
In March of 1909, Lucille's father-in-law, Fred Miles purchased the 320 acre farm southeast of Holyoke and it has stayed in the family ever since.
Ron Miles filled out the application this past spring knowing it was the 100-year anniversary for the farm to be in the family. He said the application was rather simple to fill out. He went back and traced each owner and provided the appropriate documentation of how the farm had been passed down.
Lucille has been the owner since 1987 when her husband, L.B. died. She moved to the farm in 1947 and has many memories.
She remembers raising hogs, chickens and cattle in the early days on the farm.
In 1969 irrigation became available to the Miles family. Ron said they began seeing irrigation installed in the area early in the 1960s. Lucille said Fred still owned the farm and didn't want to have irrigation, so they waited.
She moved to town in 1983. Today, her sons Ron and Richard continue to farm corn and wheat on the farm. Lucille said the farm began as a ranching operation with breeder cattle but has transitioned into what it is today with the row crops. "We lived a pretty normal life on the farm," Lucille said.
"They had a really nice program," Ron said when talking about the 100-year award recognition. The family was given a certificate by Governor Bill Ritter and pictures were taken.
State Fair general manager Chris Wiseman spoke, along with Commissioner of Agriculture, John Stulp. Ed Nichols, president of the Colorado Historical Society, and Lyle Miller, Centennial Farms Coordinator, also made comments.
"It's a really nice thing the state historical society does to recognize people who have been in the state and farmed for 100 years," Ron said. "I hope they continue to do that."
Ron and Lucille said they didn't know what to expect when they arrived but were very pleased with the presentation. Lucille, who is 89, said this was her first ever visit to the State Fair.
They visited the exhibit buildings, cattle barns, horses and some hogs some local people took to the fair.
"It made us feel honored," Ron said.
Other farms honored
There were four other area farms recognized at the Centennial Farms Program. They included Carmel Farm, Everett and Nannie Davis Family Farm, Larson/Carlson Family Farm and the Scott Farm—all in the Haxtun area. There were a total of 21 farms recognized throughout the state.


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It's a slow moving trend but one that is in our area. They're called club drugs. The most common ones are GHB and Roofies. The problem is that these drugs are many times tasteless, odorless, and water-soluble
With an onset anywhere from ten minutes to an hour, one dose can impair motor skills by as much as six drinks of alcohol. But there is a test that checks out your drink for drugs. Within the month, a new product is hitting convenience store shelves. It's called Drink Safe Coaster. Aside from a heavy volume of on-line sales about forty college universities are buying in bulk and handing them out on campus. 23 News hit the local bar scenes over the weekend to find out if and how much people worry about the dangers in their drink.
It just takes a second for you to look away and someone could spike your drink with g-h-b or another type of club drug. That's where Drink Safe Coaster may help. It takes about five minutes; all you have to do is place a drop of your beverage on both spots and wait for them to dry. If you see a deep blue change in either spot, there's the possibility of a date rape drug.
Drink Safe Technologies says the cards are 95 percent effective. But there are some limitations; the test doesn't work for milk products, liquors, and some acidic beverages. The coasters only detect two date rape drugs, GHB and ketamine.
State line area narcotics task force frequently is out undercover tracking drugs in our area says they are starting to see spin-offs of GHB. Some are in forms of cleaners, nail polishes, and even being sold legally in health food stores as a growth catalyst. But so far, SLANT says they have had very few reports of date rape drugs. But with GHB comes amnesia and a person may not remember.
Now its not just random strangers handing out the date rape drugs, 60 percent of those caught giving date rape drugs are bartenders.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The number of flu deaths in Indiana has risen to 15 as the state experiences what a health official calls a "moderately severe" outbreak.
Respiratory epidemiologist Shawn Richards of the Indiana State Department of Health tells WIBC that five new deaths were reported overnight. The deaths include two patients in separate long-term care facilities.
Richards says the state doesn't identify facilities with flu deaths unless there are five fatal cases of the illness.
Flu season has hit earlier this year and could put Indiana on pace to exceed its average for deaths. Richards says the state typically sees seven to 30 flu deaths a year.
Health officials say it's not too late to get flu shots.
WTHR reports Indiana is one of 41 states seeing intense flu outbreaks right now.


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Look in the lobby at Half Moon Bay Library and you'll find a display of the staff's favorite holiday songs and CD's.
Here They Are!
- John Waters, A John Waters Christmas
- The Ramones, "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)", on The Big 80's: Christmas
- King Diamond, "No Presents for Christmas," on Fatal Portrait
- "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," on Mannheim Steamroller's Christmas Symphony
- Cheech & Chong, "Santa Claus and His Old Lady," on Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Christmas Novelty CD of All Time
- Flory Jagoda, "Ocho Kandelikas," on Celebrate Hanukkah
- "Carol of the Bells," on Carole King's A Holiday Carole
- "Chanukah Songs pt. II," on Adam Sandler, Stan & Judy's Kid
- "Christmas in Prison," on John Prine, Souvenirs
- James Brown, Santa's Got a Brand New Bag
- Rosemary Clooney, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Thanks to MaryBeth Wilmes and Adam Lipman for their work on the Staff favorites.
Author Bio:
Vaughn Harrison works at the Half Moon Bay Library and on the Bookmobile.
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By Jan RahnManaging Editor Coach Paula Wurst was very proud of her Perkins County harriers at the home conference meet held last Thursday at the Pheasant Run Golf Course north of Grant. The Plainsmen girls placed second behind SPVA champs St. Pat's. Again setting some season PRs, the girls had medalists among the team, including Emily Kemling, Mariah Curtis, Courtney Lyon and Kendra Hoffert. The boys placed fourth overall, nearly all of them running PRs as well. "It's nice to see the team peaking at the right time," said Wurst. Girls Results Of the six SPVA teams competing, only three had team scores. Athletes from St. Pat's, Perkins County, Chase County, Maxwell, Sutherland and Hershey ran the course's 4,000 foot distance. Medaling in third place was Emily Kemling with a season PR and time of 16:57. Mariah Curtis and Courtney medaled in sixth and seventh place respectively, with Kendra Hoffert coming in at the 14th slot. Winning the meet was Anna O'Malley of St. Pat's with a time of 16:33.Plainsmen Girls3. E. Kemling 16:576. M. Curtis 18:007. C. Lyon 18:0114. K. Hoffert 19:0021. J. Hoffert 20:27Team Scores1. NP St. Pat's 152. Perkins Co. 273. Chase Co. 444. Maxwell NS5. Sutherland NS6. Hershey NS
Boys ResultsComing in at first place on the 5,000 foot course for the boys was Joe O'Malley of North Platte St. Pat's with a time of 18:27.Medaling for Perkins County were Mark Hanson and Brendon Barry, placing ninth and 10th respectively and both running career PRs.Also achieving a season personal record was Jake Sexson, who did a "really nice job sticking with Robert [Engel] who also ran within seconds of his PR," said Coach Wurst. She commended the running effort of Brady Mailand, and also of Coy Aerni and Dylan Barry who both ran PRs. Plainsmen Boys9. M. Hanson 19:5410. B. Barry 20:0115. R. Engel 21:1516. J. Sexson 21:1619. B. Mailand 22:2224. C. Aerni 23:1925. D. Barry 23:20Team Scores1. Chase Co. 182. NP St. Pat's 303. Sutherland 494. Perkins Co 505. Maxwell NSNext MeetPerkins County will host Districts (today) Thursday with the top three teams and top 15 individuals earning a berth to the state meet in Kearney on Oct. 19.


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- BORN: March 18, 1980
- HOMETOWN: Gladstone, Oregon
- COLLEGE: Washington State University (B.A., 2002; M.A. 2007)
- WSU APPOINTMENT: 2003 - Assistant track and field coach
Ellannee Richardson's calm and quiet demeanor contradicts her fierce competitive spirit. She has achieved prominence as a Cougar coach just as she did as a student-athlete and is instilling that same competitive fire in her sprint and relay runners.
Richardson joined the WSU Track & Field coaching staff as a fulltime assistant in 2003 after an illustrious athletic and academic career as a student-athlete. She coaches sprints and works with assistant coach Mark Macdonald in the relays.
Shawna Fermin concluded her WSU career last summer with a 400m dash PR time of 52.62 run at the Kuortane Games in Finland, the second-fastest time in Cougar women's history. At the 2013 NCAA Championships Fermin took 13th and was a second team All-American. She was the runner-up in the 400m dash at the 2012 Pac-12 Championships with a then-PR time of 52.66 in the final. Fermin finished sixth in the 400m at the 2012 North American, Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) U-23 Track & Field Championships, and competed at the 2010 Trinidad and Tobago NAAA National Championships.
Richardson-directed relay teams have consistently run into the WSU top ten all-time standings in the past nine years. Three women's and four men's 4x100m relay teams as well as three women's and four men's 4x400m relay teams have run top ten times since Richardson began coaching. The 2013 women's 1600m relay team of Dominique Keel, Christiana Ekelem, Bree Winfrey and Shawna Fermin ran a time of 3:38.54, ninth-best in school all-time records.
In 2012 two women's 400m relay squads raced into the standings. Chanel James, Cindy Robinson, Candace McFarland and Fermin's time of 44.92 at the NCAA West Preliminary was third-best all-time and earlier in the year Shaquana Logan, Robinson, McFarland and Fermin ran a time of 45.14, seventh-best in WSU records. The 2006 squad of Nicole Hatcher, La Shawnda Porter-Red, Diana Pickler and Julie Pickler raced to a 45.30 time, 10th-best. In the women's 1600m relay, Richardson was either a member of or coached all 10 squads in WSU's all-time top 10 records.
The Cougar men's 400m relay team in 2011 of Brett Blanshan, Greg Hornsby, Nate Washington and Marlon Murray won the 2011 Pac-10 title with a time of 39.48 which is the second-fastest in WSU men's history. The squad went on to finish 15th at the NCAA Championships semi-finals and earned All-America status. The men's 1600m relay team of Hornsby, Brandon Dawson, Jacob Sealby and Jeshua Anderson ran in the 2011 NCAA Indoor Championships finals and finished 10th, earning All-America honors. At the Pac-10 Championships that same year, the 1600m relay team of Dawson, Washington, Sealby and Anderson took second place with a time of 3:06.40, third-best in WSU history.
The 2009 men's 4x400m relay team of Barry Leavitt, Reny Follett, Justin Woods and Anderson ran a school indoor record time of 3:06.74 and took eighth place at the NCAA Indoor Championships. This same foursome ran an outdoor time of 3:07.47 in 2008, sixth-best in WSU all-time records at that time, eighth-best now, and earned a trip to the NCAA Championships.
Richardson was named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) West Region men's sprints/hurdles 2006 Coach of the Year. That year James McSwain, Jaycee Robertson, Justin Woods and Martin Boston advanced to the NCAA Championships in the sprints and 4x100m relay.
In addition to her coaching duties, Richardson finished fifth in the 400m dash at the 2004 USA Indoor Track & Field Championships and competed on the USA National Indoor Track and Field 4x400m relay at the IAAF World Indoor Championships at Budapest, Hungary. At the 2004 US Olympic Trials, she missed the 400m hurdles final after running a PR time of 55.61 in the prelims and 56.27 in the semifinals, just 24/100s of a second from qualifying for the final.
Richardson was a five-time All-American heptathlete and sprinter at WSU. She is a four-time All-America heptathlete taking second place at the 2003 and 2002 NCAA Championships and earned an All-America certificate at the 2003 NCAA Indoor Meet anchoring the women's 4x400m relay to seventh place with a school-record time of 3:35.49. She also anchored the 1600m relay to a school record outdoor time of 3:33.65 for second place at the NCAA West Regional and a trip to the national meet with teammates Tiffany Giles, Monique Jessie and Tamara Gulley.
Richardson currently holds school records in the 400m relay (44.50), 1600m relay for indoor and outdoor races, but during her career also reached school records in the heptathlon, 100m hurdles and the indoor 400m dash. In WSU all-time records, Richardson's performances are in the top five in eight different events and eighth in the long jump. A three-time Pac-10 heptathlon champion, Richardson was ranked as the third-best heptathlete (top collegiate) in the United States in 2003 by Track & Field News.
She garnered these awards in 2003: WSU's Pac-10 Medal Winner, Cougar Pride Academic Salute Trophy, Senior Excellence in Academics, Pac-10 Postgraduate Scholarship, Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar First Team, NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, nominee for NCAA Woman of the Year, and Verizon/CoSIDA National Academic All-American second team.
Richardson graduated from WSU with a B.A. degree in sociology in 2002, and completed her master's degree in criminal justice in 2007.


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Father, we thank You this morning for the Word of God. We rejoice because we are not left without a chart and a compass to map the pattern of our life, but that You've given us Your precious divine truth. O Father, as we come this morning to this blessed fifteenth chapter of John, we ask that You would give us wisdom. We ask that You would give us concentration, that You would blot out of our minds the things that would distract us. Father, these are great concepts, great truths and practical. And, Lord God, we just need Satan to be rebuked and put aside so that we can concentrate on what You have to say to us this morning.
Father, we do not want a human voice, but we want a divine voice to ring in our hearts and minds and to nail down these truths that they may be life changing to the glory of Jesus Christ in whose name we pray. Amen.
Turn in your Bibles to the fifteenth chapter of John and we're going to just look this morning very briefly at the first part of one message. We won't get anywhere near through this particular message but we'll go as far as the Spirit of God permits. John chapter 15, last Sunday we considered verses 1, 2 and 3 and this morning we will begin a message that will run from verse 4 through 11 and we'll only probably consider verse 4...or maybe even the first three words of verse 4.
The question that comes to my mind as we approach this particular important passage is the question that has perhaps plagued more Christians than any other question and that is the question: what is really involved in a living vital relationship with Jesus Christ? And I'm sure it has not only been a question that Christians have asked in moments of sinfulness or in those times when you become discouraged and aren't too sure what really is your connection to Christ. But it is also a very common question on the lips of the unbeliever, what is all this about a relationship to Jesus Christ? What is that relationship all about? How can we describe the union that a believer experiences between himself and Christ?
We talk about knowing Christ. We talk about being in Christ. We talk about walking with Christ, about loving Him and He loving us. We talk about this union all the time, how best can we explain it? What does it really involve? What is it really? We could say it's like two people in love, experiencing each other. Or we could say it's like a father and a son relationship where there's give and take and love and respect. Or we could say it's like two friends with a deep, deep friendship. Or we could say perhaps it's like two brothers who share things and who defend each other. We could say many, many more things by way of analogy. But I believe Jesus has chosen for us what has to be the most graphic analogy showing us our relationship to Jesus Christ and His to us and the analogy that He uses which is undoubtedly the best is that of a vine and branches. There are so many truths in the analogy of a vine and a branch that can be brought into the context of the Christian life that it has to stand as the greatest analogy.
We talk about the fact that we grow together with Christ, which is perfectly illustrated by a vine and a branch. We talk about the fact that we are nothing in ourselves but gather all of our strength from Him, which is again perfectly illustrated in the vine and the branch. We talk about the fact that as believers our lives are filled with His energy, His power, His resources and again perfectly illustrated by a vine and a branch. A branch has no energy of its own, only that which is sent into it by the energy in the vine. We talk about the fact that we of ourselves can't produce fruit, but it must come from His power through us. Exactly illustrated again in a vine and a branch.
And so, Jesus here in portraying to us the relationship of a believer to himself uses the analogy of a vine and a branch. He also reflects on that one who is apparently a branch who is apparently in Christ but who in fact is not legitimate and thus is cut off, thrown away and burned in the fire. And last week, you'll remember, we saw that there were two types of branches. We met the vine, verse 1, Jesus Christ. We met the vine dresser, the one who cares for the vine and the branches, the Father God. Then we met the two kinds of branches in verse 2, those that do not bear fruit which the Father takes away. And remember, we told you those are non‑believers. Those are people who are apparently in Christ. Those are Judas branches. They hang around a while, they gave all of the basic outward signs of belonging but the fact is they aren't for real. And sooner or later that is determined. It's obvious because they don't bear fruit that they can't be Christians.
Now some people have said, as I told you last week, just review for a moment, that these are Christians who lose their salvation. They aren't Christians. They never have been Christians. And the reason is because they never bear fruit. Jesus said every good branch, every good tree bringeth forth good...what?...fruit. Jesus said by their fruit you shall know them. If somebody doesn't have fruit, then somebody's not a good tree or a branch. There is no such thing as a believer who doesn't have fruit. Now we went into all of that last week.
So, we have then‑‑first of all‑‑the would‑be superficial Judas branch, superficially attached to Jesus, finally cut off and cast into the fire. Then we have the other branch in verse 2, the branch that bears fruit and the Father simply purges that. That is He brings things into our lives to clip off sin, clip off the succor roots that drain away the energy of our Christian experience. He tends us as a vine dresser tends the branches.
Now in our study for today, Jesus continues this analogy. And He does so by making a heart‑stirring plea in verse 3. Notice the first three words...pardon me, verse 4. Verse 3 we saw last week, was the tool of cleansing, the Word. Verse 4, first three words, "Abide in Me." Now this is the plea of Jesus. He is looking at branches and in His mind He sees these superficially attached branches, that is people who attach themselves to Jesus Christ. Maybe they go to church, maybe they even claim to be devout in more than just going to church, they may show up at Bible study once in a while. They talk about their relationship to Jesus but they aren't for real. And Jesus is basically saying to them, "Abide in Me." In other words, be a for real branch. He is basically speaking to that fruitless branch, that branch that really isn't for real and saying, "By all means, abide in Me." In other words, be for real. And I told you last week that the first way you can tell a true branch is a true branch bears fruit.
I'll tell you a second way you can tell a true branch in this verse, a true branch abides in Christ. What do I mean? The word "abide" means to remain or to stay. A true branch stays in Christ. And we're going to talk about that as we examine carefully this verse. Jesus then, and I'm giving a kind of a little summary at the beginning because it's going to be difficult to understand some of the things I'm going to say, I hope you'll get it but it may be difficult...Jesus then is pleading with those superficial branches to be for real branches. He is saying, "Branches, don't be just apparently in Me, but abide, show the legitimacy and the absoluteness of your faith by remaining in Me." Not that you have to remain to stay saved, but that if you are, you will. And He's saying be for real so that you remain. Abide in Me.
He gave a solemn warning, you remember, in verse 6 to the branch that doesn't. He says in verse 6, if a man abide not in Me. In other words, if there is an apparent attachment and all of a sudden that man ceases to be attached, he is removed, cast forth as a branch. And you'll notice that the man removes himself. There are some people who apparently are attached to Christ. Then all of a sudden they are gone and we ask ourselves the question: what happened? The answer is simple. They never were real to begin with. If they had of been real they never would have left. The false branch does not abide, it is taken and cast forth. Men gather them into the fire and they are burned. So, Jesus is giving a basic plea to that superficial branch.
Now I want us to see three basic features in verses 4 through 11 and we'll only really consider the first one this morning. I want us to see the basic meaning of "abiding." And this is going to be deep stuff, so get on your thinking cap and get ready. The basic meaning of abiding...then next week we'll see the blessings of abiding branches and the burning of non abiding branches. The basic meaning of what it is to abide, then what happens to the abiding branches and what happens to the non abiding branches.
First of all, then, the basic meaning of abiding. And we'll see this in verses 4, 8, 9 and 10. We're going to have to skip around a little bit because in this analogy we need to do that to get it together. All right, the basic meaning of abiding. Now here we see the call of Jesus in verse 4 and He is saying to men like Judas, "Don't be like that, be for real, abide in Me, show that your faith is real." It's just another way of saying be saved, you superficial branches, be saved genuinely, honestly, real in Christ.
And it's absolutely tragic, as you must know by now, when men superficially line up with Jesus Christ but are never true Christians. There are some wives who bring their husbands to church and their husbands outwardly appear to be Christians and perhaps we don't really know but maybe in their heart they're not. Maybe the reverse is true. Maybe there are some young people who come to church because they want to be involved in a youth program and in their hearts they know they don't know Jesus Christ and they're superficially attached to Jesus but it isn't real.
And so, Jesus calls to all who have made a statement or an apparent identification and says be for real. Notice it in verse 4 and I'll read the whole verse. "Abide in Me and I in you; as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in Me."
Now the word "abide" simply means to remain, stick around, Jesus says, be for real and give evidence that you're for real by remaining. Now it's not that remaining in Christ saves you, that would be ridiculous. That would put your whole salvation on your ability to hang in there. It's not that remaining in Christ saves you, it's that remaining in Christ is...now watch this...the evidence that you are saved. You see that? People say so many times, "Well, you know, I know Mr. So‑and‑so, and, you know, he used to come to church all the time. Boy, he was here and in Sunday School class and he ran over there and did this and why we just thought he was something. And then all of a sudden boom, he was long gone. I mean, it was over with. And he's never been back and years have gone by and what happened to him?" I'll tell you what happened to him, he proved that he never was real because he didn't abide, do you see? He never was real to begin with. If a man really knows Jesus Christ, it is the character of that salvation experience for that man to abide in Christ. And the false will always leave sooner or later. Jesus said when the seed falls sometimes the thorns will choke what apparently looks like a legitimate conversion and that's the end of it. And it never was real to begin with.
First John chapter 2 and verse 19, listen to it. "They went out from us," do you know they had the same problem back then? John's saying they left, they...they were a part of us, apparently they belonged. "They went out from us...now watch the next statement...but they were not of us." How do you know that, John? I mean, that's pretty easy for you to say, the guy was never saved. Listen to what John says, "For if they had been of us, they would have continued with us, but they went out that they might be manifest that they were not of us."
If they had been real they would have stayed. And when they went, John said, "Aha, they never were real or they wouldn't have done that." The true believer stays.
Now in the same chapter, 1 John 2, in verse 24, listen to this, "Let that therefore abide in you which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son and in the Father and this is the promise that He hath promised us even eternal life."
In other words, in contrast to that, John says, you that are for real will remain and continue and inherit eternal life. The abiding believer is the only legitimate believer. When somebody leaves, they give evidence that they never were real to begin with. So Jesus calls to every apparent disciple to show the truth and the reality of his discipleship by remaining in Christ, not to be a Judas disciple.
And I want you to hang on to this because I'm going to expand it in a minute. You may think, "Boy, it's awful black and white, it's awful...you're either in or you're out. You haven't talked about exceptions." No, and I won't for...oh, I don't know, a long time. But I'll get there. But I want to show you the black and white distinction that Christ is making. A true believer abides. A nonbeliever sooner or later departs and that's how you can tell whether somebody's for real or not.
Now Paul gave similar warnings not to be a Judas branch. This is not just this passage, let me show you Colossians 1:21, it's the same thing right there. You can tell a true believer because he abides. Listen to it. "And you...Colossians 1:21...that were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled in the body of his flesh through death to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in His sight." Paul says you Colossians used to be sinners apart from God, Christ by His death reconciled you to God. All right, now watch this, verse 23, "He brought you to God to present you holy, unblameable, unreprovable in His sight," now watch the next word in verse 23, "if ye continue in the faith."
Now, is he saying you can stay saved if you hang on? No. He is saying the legitimacy of your salvation will be determined by your continuance in it. If you continue in the faith, grounded, settled and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye have heard. In other words, the evidence of salvation will be that you abide in Christ.
Let me show you another passage. The writer of Hebrews, chapter 3, listen to this one, verse 6, "But Christ as a Son over His own house...watch it...whose house are we." We are Christ's house. "If we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end." He's not saying hang on to your salvation and don't lose it, he's saying the evidence that you're really His house will be your continuance in Christ.
Listen to this in verse 14, same chapter. "For we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end." True believers start and end their life in a relationship that is living and vital to Jesus Christ. And the same thing is in Hebrews 10:38 and 39, you can write it down and look it up yourself.
Let me give you one more verse. Chapter 4 verse 14, "Seeing then that we have a great high priest that has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God...listen to this, here it comes, you ready?...let us hold fast our profession." In other words, let's hang on from the standpoint of the profession that we make. If you're making a profession, be sure that you continue. In other words, be sure that you are legitimate. Hold fast your profession. That's the evidence of salvation.
So when somebody comes along and all of a sudden they leave, I have a name on the top of my ordination certificate of a pastor of a church. He was at my ordination council, he questioned me and some of the council. Shook hands with me, greeted me, so forth and so on. His name is right at the top. He is now one of the most perverted individuals I have ever met. He is now an instructor in the most godless situation imaginable. He has forsaken totally any relationship that he ever claimed to have with Christ or with God. He has been involved sexually in so many unbelievable things that it's hard to even fathom it. And people have said to me, "What about it? What about it?" And all I can say is it's obvious that if he were for real ever he would still be for real for that is the character of salvation. It is eternal. And he went out from us because he never belonged in the beginning.
And then look at John 15, it says, "Abide in Me," and here comes a marvelous promise to the abiding branch. It says this, "And I in you." And I might add in there, "I‑‑parenthesis‑‑(will remain) in you." Abide in Me and I'll abide in you. In other words, if you're for real, I'm for real in you. Everybody in the world can claim that promise? No. The only person that could claim the promise of the constant abiding presence of Jesus Christ is the one who is constantly abiding in Christ. Abide in Me and I'll abide in you. And the Bible talks about us in the New Testament being in Christ and Christ being in us. "Christ in you the hope of glory," Colossians 1:27.
And so, we have a relationship with Jesus Christ, the true branch. He abides and Christ abides in him. When by real faith we are truly saved we will always abide and Christ will always abide in us. That's not a threat to Christians. That's not saying, "Oh, Christian, watch it, watch it. If you don't hang in there Christ won't hang in there either." And you live your whole Christian life in apoplexy. That's a warning to the professing Christian that if he isn't for real, then Christ isn't there either.
Boy, you know, so many people come to church and they sit in their sanctified pew and they think that because they're here the Lord is with them. No way. Being here doesn't make the Lord with you. He doesn't even live here. He lives in the Spirit of God within the bodies of true disciples. And you may be sitting right next to a true disciples, you may be squashed in by a whole gob of them and you're not nearer to Jesus Christ than the native in a loin cloth down in the middle of New Guinea because an abiding relationship of Jesus Christ in your life comes only from real salvation, genuine faith in Christ. And that's a permanent, eternal relationship. And so the true believer abides and so does Jesus.
Now notice verse 8 because I want you to see that He repeats the same concept in different words. Here's the same idea again. Verse 8, "In this is My Father glorified that ye bear much fruit." Now why is He saying that? He's saying bear much fruit in the sense that again He is saying be a for real disciple...be a for real disciple.
How do you know He's saying that? Look at the end of verse 8, "So shall ye be...what?...My disciple." In other words, My disciples bear fruit. He's looking at that fruitless branch that superficially is attached to the vine and saying, "Why don't you be a for‑real one and bear fruit?" It's just another way of saying abide, it's another way of saying remain. It's another way of saying be a true believer. It's another way of saying be a real disciple because only the real disciple bears fruit. It's the only one that bears fruit is the real disciple. The unbeliever bears no fruit. The one superficially connected to Jesus bears no fruit.
He says it another way in verse 9. Listen to this, "As the Father hath loved Me, so have I loved you." Now watch this, "Continue ye in My love." Be a for‑real disciple. A for‑real disciple doesn't come into the love of Christ and then leave it again. He continues. Be for real. Be for real. Abide. Remain.
So, you see, whether He says abide, bear fruit, or continue in My love, it's all the same thing. He's saying be for real.
Now watch the key in verse 10 and I'm going to expand this in a minute. "If you keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love even as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love." Now watch it. In verse 10, you know what He's saying? Abide...the word is simple. If you keep My commandments ye shall...what?...abide. So He says to them abide, bear fruit, continue in My love, obey My commandments. Those are all saying basically the same thing. A true disciple obeys the commandments of Jesus Christ. Did you know that? That's right. A true disciple continues in His love. A true disciple bears fruit. A true disciple abides in Christ, remains there all his life from the moment of salvation till his death. A true disciple is what Jesus wants. And His heart has been broken and shattered by Judas. And in effect He is saying no more Judas branches, be for real.
And I love it, the end of verse 10, Christ portrays Himself as the perfect example of abiding. He says, "Even as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love..." You know what Jesus wants? He wants the kind of relationship with us that He has with God. In John 17, remember in His great high priestly prayer, how He prays that He may be one with us as He is one with the Father? He abides in the Father. Tremendous thought. You think He's ever going to depart from that? No. And He wants us to abide in Him in the same way.
So, basically and generally then, Christ in this passage is saying the same thing. He is still on the contrast between the true and the false disciple, the real one, the apparent one and the artificial one. He is contrasting the one who really is abiding and the one who is temporarily connected but is going to remove himself and thus show that he never was real to begin with. And so he is pleading with that branch, that superficial branch, he's pleading with you who attach yourself to Jesus only on the superficial end and He's saying abide, bear fruit, continue in My love, keep My commandments...this will show you're real, be for real, is what He is saying.
And that's a perfect portrait of a true Christian, you know that? The true Christian remains in Jesus Christ, never leaves. A true Christian bears fruit, did you know that? A true Christian stays in His love. A true Christian, not only that, a true Christian obeys His commandments. Remember how we talked about that? A couple of weeks ago or maybe a month ago, whenever it was, I don't know, we talked about the fact that true believers obey. John 8, what did Jesus say? "If you continue in My Word, then are you My disciples alethos for real." A true disciple obeys. A true disciple continues in His love. A true disciple bears fruit. A true disciple abides.
And so, Jesus is calling to those branches who are superficial and saying be for real.
Just to show you this, look back at John 14, it comes to my mind, verse 15. John 14:15, "If you love Me...and the tense of the verb indicates it should be this way....If you love Me you will...what?..keep My commandments." Watch verse 21, "He that hath My commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me." Verse 23, "If a man love Me, he will keep My words."
You see, every true disciple loves and obeys. Those are the two keys to the Christian life...love and obedience. That's it. People say, "Oh, the Christian life is so complicated...do this, do that, sit down, stand up....wave." No. Two things...love and obey, that's all. And obedience is the thing that springs out of what? Out of love.
All right, so He's talking about the true and the false disciple. The same contrast is here again. He has been speaking in general terms, believers abide...watch it...unbelievers don't abide, that's clear cut, that's it. Now you must understand this. Jesus is saying all Christians abide. All Christians bear fruit. All Christians continue in His love. All Christians obey. If someone stops doing that, forsakes Christ, he never was saved to begin with. That's 1 John 2:19, that's exactly what we saw.
Now John couldn't draw the line any more clearly than that. But that's John's way. He does that all through his gospel. I tried to find someplace in John's gospel where he contrasts one type of believer from another and there isn't any. He just says believer/unbeliever...boom...that's it...black/white, that's it. Clear cut. John is a kind of idealist and he picked up on everything that just drew that line right down the middle. Believers do this, unbelievers do that. Believers have eternal life, they drink the eternal water, they never thirst. Unbelievers always thirst. Now sometimes, you're a believer, you get a little thirsty, right? Sure, but John doesn't deal with that. Believers don't thirst...unbelievers thirst.
Then he talked about the bread of life in chapter 6. Believers never hunger, unbelievers always hunger. You're a believer, do you ever get a little bit hungry for the Word, for spiritual truth? Sure you do. But John isn't messing with exceptions. That's it, just clear cut. John always presents the ideal pattern designed by God, never messes with the exception.
Now I want to illustrate that to you by picking up another book that John wrote, 1 John, and I'll show you how he does this over there. And a lot of people have been baffled by this verse, or this series of verses because they can't figure out how anything could be that clear cut.
Listen to what John says. And if you understand the mind of John, you get it. If you don't, it's confusing. First John 1:8, "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His Word is not in us." Now there he says one thing: believers confess, unbelievers deny their sin...contrast. And we've talked about that passage before. But it's clear cut. Believers always confess, unbelievers always deny. Now there are occasions when believers also don't confess as they should...sure, but John doesn't fool with those. Just, boom, that's it. Always the ideal.
Chapter 2 verse 3, "And by this we do know that we know Him if we keep His commandments." Now watch..."He that saith, I know Him‑‑that is you claim salvation‑‑and keepeth not His commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him. But whosoever keepeth His Word, in him verily is the love of God perfected. By this know we that we are in Him." John says...watch it...unbelievers disobey, believers obey...period. Now do believer ever disobey? Sure, but John doesn't worry about the exception. He again is drawing the line clear cut.
All right chapter 2 verse 9, look at this, "He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light and there is no occasion of stumbling in him." Hmmm...you mean a believer never has an occasion of stumbling? John says don't fool around with the exceptions, I'm just drawing the lines.
Verse 11, "But he that hateth his brother is in darkness," is there anybody in this world that you don't love and you're a Christian? Again you have an exception. "And walketh in darkness and knoweth not where he goeth because darkness hath blinded his eyes." See, here John says believers always love their brother, unbelievers never do. And you say, "Wait a minute, John, I know some believers who don't love their brother." Don't fool with the exceptions, I'm just drawing the line clear.
You have the same thing in chapter 3 verse 14 and 15. All through here you have it. "We know that we have passed from death unto life," verse 14, "because we love the brethren." Now watch this, "He that loveth not his brother‑‑singularly‑‑abides in death." Do you ever know a believer who didn't love some other believer? Well, I know a lot of them. He says they abide in death. You say, "Well, wait a minute now..." I'm not talking about the exceptions. I'm talking about the pattern.
Now watch verse 15, "Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer and you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him." Oh ho, John, that is too clear...you can't say that. You can't say that if you just hate some guy you're going to go to hell if you're a Christian. Well John doesn't want to be pushed into that. He is only drawing the black and white distinctions, the perfections.
Now you have the same thing in chapter 2 verse 15 where he says, "Love not the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him," right? Tell me, Christian, real honest, some things you like a lot, don't you? In the world? Good, right? Kind of like to get your hands on them? Some of the system is um‑um‑um, see. Now is John saying you are going to go to hell because you love that car over there? You want that new car, you drive by it, see it ever time. Now wait a minute, John doesn't want to be pushed into the exceptions. He is drawing the general lines.
Now let me lay this heavy one on you, 3:6, here's one, see if you can swallow this. "Whosoever abideth in Him, sinneth not." Did you get that? You say, "Oh boy, John, I mean there you have really gone to the extremes. There's no way that I can buy that." Well, listen to this. "Whosoever sinneth hath not seen Him, neither known Him." Verse 8, "He that committeth sin is of the devil." Boy! Verse 9, "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin."
Now don't you get the idea that John really draws the line clear cut? John doesn't fool with the exceptions. You say, "Well, didn't he know that some of us Christians might not like some other believer? Didn't he know we might blow it and disobey? Didn't he know we might sin?"
Sure he did, but I like him because he puts the ideals where they belong, you see. He's concerned with the positional truths and the general patterns of life. It is the general pattern of a believer that he does not disobey, he loves his brother and he avoids sin. That's the general pattern and John doesn't sweat the exceptions.
You say, "Well, he must have known about them." Oh yeah. Chapter 2 verse 1 and 2 kind of gives you a little sneak into the soft side of John. "My little children, these things I write unto you that ye sin not." Now, that's John. There he is again point blank. But then he says, "But if any man sin we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." You know, almost out of the side of his mouth, kind of, see. I mean, he doesn't even like to allow for exceptions. But he concedes a little bit there so that we don't lose completely on the idea that God knows we'll fail.
Now do you see what I'm trying to say to you? There are general patterns in the Word of God that distinguish a believer from an unbeliever. John draws them absolutely clear cut, but there are exceptions, aren't there? Are there times when a believer does sin? Sure. Times when a believer hates his brother? Sure. Times when a believer doesn't obey as he ought? Sure. Times when a believer doesn't confess his sin before God as he should? Sure there are.
Now let me ask you this. Here's my point. Could there be times when a Christian also doesn't abide in the fullest sense? Sure. Of course. But what is the general pattern of his life? To abide. But, you see, John never fools with the exceptions. Now go back to John 15 and let's look at the concept of "abide in me" as we're looking at a believer who for a day, an hour, a week or whatever may have a lapse in his relationship with Christ and he may cease to abide in the fullest sense so that the passage is not totally restricted to the unbeliever but that it could talk about a believer also. And I believe it can.
Why do you know how many times in the New Testament do you read commands from the Apostle Paul from Peter, from James, from all the writers to love your brother? Well, you just said in 1 John it says if you're a believer you always love your brother. And then what's Paul doing saying love your brother? Well, he's...Paul was the minister to the exception, see. All of his epistles are full of exception. You see, he gives the first part about the position, remember. And then you read Ephesians, here's what you are, all your position then...boom, boom, boom, right down the line on what you ought to do, what you ought to be, how you ought to shape up, how you ought to live. And let's face it, friends, if there weren't any believers who blew it, the Father could put away His knife, right? Because there wouldn't be any pruning to do...no purging.
All right, so it is true that unbelievers are primarily in view. But there are exceptions in the life of a Christian when he fails to abide in the fullest sense. And the heart cry of Jesus then to the believer is to abide in all that that signifies. And I think that this is perhaps the key message the Spirit of God has for us as believers this morning.
You say, "Well, how can a Christian fail to abide?" Well, I can give you one illustration. There's hundreds of them, let me give you one. Galatians 1:6, Paul's writing to Christians, listen to what he says, "I marvel that ye are so soon...what's the next word?...removed." Oh, "Removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ, removed to another gospel."
The Galatians started believing a whole lot of lies. Paul says you're not abiding...you're not abiding. You know what their problem was? Chapter 3 verse 3, "Are you so foolish having begun in the Spirit are you now made perfect by the flesh?" You know what they were doing? They were saved in the energy of the Holy Spirit, they were living in the energy of the flesh. They were, you know, legalism, see. Must do this, must do that, boom, boom, see. Down the line, right through the rules. And Paul's saying, "Wow, how did you get removed? You stopped abiding and you've started like an independent branch going to sprout your own fruit." And it can't be done. That's one way that you can stop abiding by legalism, probably the best example of all because legalism is the opposite of abiding, as you'll see in a minute.
Oh, we have lapses. We have times when we fail to abide in the fullest sense of the word. May I say this? That doesn't mean you lose your salvation. You are sheep, John 10, right? "My sheep hear My voice and I know them." You may be a wayward sheep, but you don't turn into a goat. When you stop abiding it doesn't mean you're out of God's favor and God's love and God's Kingdom, that's positionally secure forever. But when you wander a little bit and cease to abide in the fullest sense of it, you just move away from the pure intimacy of that full relationship with Christ.
You want to know what it means to abide as a believer? Here, simple, I can't say it anymore simply. Stay close to Jesus. Did you get that? Stay close. You know, a branch is really a lot better off if it's connected to the vine. Right? You've got to be (snap) that close. You could say, "Well, this branch is doing pretty good, it's only a half an inch away." Oh, sorry, branch, you can't do a thing a half an inch away. To abide is to be totally connected to Jesus Christ in the fullest sense and as the vine sends its energy through that branch to bear fruit, so Christ can send His energy through you. You see it? To abide isn't complicated, it's so simple. It just means remain lovingly and obediently close to Jesus Christ and all of His energy will surge through you and fruit will be produced.
You say, "Well, I'd like to get close and I'd like to remain in that totally abiding concept. How do I do it?" I'll tell you, it's in verse 7, first part, "If you abide in Me...watch this...and My...what?...words abide in you."
Now what is the key to an abiding relationship to Jesus Christ? What is it? It's the Word. It's the Word. A believer who is in the Word is an abiding believer, one who feeds on the Word of God, who nourishes his soul with the truths of God, stays in a close warm living energized relationship with Jesus Christ. And so, He says abide in Me and I in you.
Now watch this in verse 4, "As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in Me." To an unbeliever that would say you'll never be for real, you'll never have fruit. To a believer that says don't try to operate independently of Me.
And, you know, some Christians are doing that. They're...they've at points in their life time, and we've all been through this, I have experienced it, we cease to really abide. And I'll get more into that. But we cease to abide and we get kind of detached. And we feel a little bit independent. And we sort of lay around and grunt and groan to produce our own fruit. And there we are...you say, "Well, I'm a very strong branch, I can do it. I'm a very clever branch, I know how to bear fruit. I'm clever." Somebody else says, "I was once tremendously...I had fruit all over me. I produced great fruit. And certainly, my, O I can produce fruit, I know the whole thing."
Listen, how much can a detached branch do toward producing fruit? Can't do anything. Even great big strong branches can't do anything. The strongest is as helpless as the weakest. The most beautiful is as helpless as the ugliest. And the best branch is as worthless as the worst branch if its disconnected from the vine. That's the point. Watch it there in verse 4, what does it say? Right toward the end it says, "No more can ye except ye abide in Me." You can't do anything. It's not a question of whether you're strong or weak. It's not a question of whether you're good or bad, brave or cowardly, clever or foolish, experienced or inexperienced. Whatever your gifts, whatever your accomplishments, whatever your virtues, whatever your experiences may be or may have been, they are worthless in helping you produce fruit detached from Jesus Christ. I mean, what it amounts to is a whole lot of branches lying around trying to tie on artificial fruit. Can't do it.
What does the Bible say? "In my flesh dwells...what?...no good thing." And hundreds of Christians never learn that. They run around grunting and groaning trying to bear fruit. You don't bear fruit by trying, you bear it by abiding. Do you see?
You say, "Well, how do you abide?" Well, just believe that you're a branch, take the word that tells you you're a branch and believe it. Just take your position in the vine. Get as close to Jesus Christ as you can which means stripping out all of the things of the world, putting aside all sin that distracts and saps your energy, putting aside all self‑effort, all those things that rob you of a deep personal loving relationship with Jesus, get into the Word and you'll be an abiding branch, absolutely forget about fruit, don't even worry about fruit, you've got nothing to do with fruit, you abide, He'll produce the fruit through you.
People say, "Well, I've got to get at it...I haven't...boy, I haven't witnessed in, you know, a couple of days...hmph..." And, you know, they run around trying to...just like branches trying to tie on artificial fruit. Just abide, get close to Jesus Christ and you will bear fruit by His energy in you. You're a branch. Just get close to Jesus, apart from sin, in the Word. Don't ever worry about the fruit, He'll bear that in you as you abide in Him.
Paul had it, Galatians 2:20, "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I but Christ...what?...liveth in me." And oh I love Philippians 2:13, that God wills to do of His good pleasure in you. Oh, that's good, isn't it? Don't ever worry about the fruit. That's not even your concern. The vine will merely use you to hang the fruit on if you abide. And so the plan is not that the Holy Spirit's going to help you bear fruit. Don't say, "Holy Spirit, help me to bear fruit." No, the Holy Spirit won't help you to bear fruit. You say, "Oh, I know, I have to help the Holy Spirit bear fruit." No, you don't have to help the Holy Spirit bear fruit either. The Holy Spirit really could do it all alone.
You say, "What do I do?" Nothing. You just abide. Isn't that good? What did Paul say to the Galatians? "Having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect in the flesh?" You know what they did? They started out abiding and then they got...Whew...got to get fruit, see...and it was in the flesh. You and I are to produce fruit. Not by trying but by abiding. Just make sure you live close to Jesus Christ and that will take care of the fruit bearing.
Have you ever tried to read the Bible? Pray? Witness? And when you get all done you say, "Boy, I don't know...I want to read my Bible, you know, I know I should do it, I'm going to do it!" And you read it and...oh, you know, it's just...it's boring, dull, insipid. And you say, "I'm going to witness." And you go down there and it's like ashes in your mouth and you pray and it's kind of like..."Bless the missionaries, now lay me down to sleep," and that's it. And you just...everything...you do it, you know, you go through the patterns but it means...and you can't understand why, you know...some guy comes in and says, "You know, I read the Word today and..whew! I'm so thrilled." And you say, "Ah, yeah, I read the Word today and...blah...you know, it didn't do a thing." I've had so many people say that to me. You know why? Because..because of this, you are exercising self‑ effort. If you're really close to Jesus, work on that relationship. Don't work on the deeds, work on the life in Christ. And the deeds will all be the result of that relationship. And then the joy will be there. You be concerned with abiding.
You know who wants fruit a lot more than you do? God does. And you can't do one thing to get it. He knows it's all in His energy. Just be a branch. Just be close to Jesus. Get as close as you can by being in the Word, by loving Him, by obeying Him, get His life, His strength, His energy surging through you and there will be fruit everywhere and you won't have done anything but abide. And you want to know what the result will be? Preview of next week's sermon...verse 11, "These things have I spoken unto you that My...what?...joy might remain in you and that your joy...what?...might be full." Would you like to have full joy? Would you like to live in the midst of full joy? What do I have to do, win 84 souls to Christ a month? No, one thing, abide.
What is Jesus saying to us today? These words were spoken by our blessed Lord almost 2,000 years ago, but He says them to us today, doesn't He? May I encourage you to realize this, friends? This was Jesus Christ talking to us this morning. Oh I realize it's the human element enters into it, but the basic context here, these words in the precious Word of God are the words of Jesus. What did He say? He said this, if you're a superficial branch, don't be a Judas branch be a for real, be saved, really receive Christ, genuinely open your heart and ask Christ in. And then He says to the believer, "Believer, your general pattern is to abide. But don't let those lapses come. Abide in the fullest sense of all that it means and don't worry about the fruit. Just stay close to Me and I'll produce it in you."
And next time we're going to see the blessings of the abiding branches and the burning of the non‑abiding branches. Let's bow in prayer.
This morning, Lord, we have indeed been blessed, enriched by Your Word. But, O Father, our hearts are concerned because, first of all, as Christians so many times we don't abide in all that it means. We try that self‑effort route, we get all concerned about the fruit and forget that all we have to do is just stay close to You and the fruit will all come. God, help us not to be vainly attempting things in our own energy, having begun in the Spirit we know we can't be perfected in our own flesh. So, Lord Jesus, teach us to abide, just resting in You.
And then, Father, there are some dear people here who desperately need real salvation, who have been playing games who don't really know Jesus Christ. God, give them no peace, give them no rest. Warn them, Father, that when they have been close to Jesus, heard His truth and fall away with all the revelation available it is impossible to renew them to repentance. Warn them that Your Spirit doesn't always strive with man.
And, Father, as we close this hour this morning, may we not consider the meaning of this message to the person next to us, or to somebody we know but may this be for us from You.
While your heads are bowed for just a moment as we close in a few minutes, we do want to give an invitation here. If you've never met Jesus Christ in a real way, you know today that you're not a true branch, truly abiding, as we sing a brief hymn in a moment, if you want to meet Christ, if you want to abide and be for real, as we sing come forward right up to the front and off to your left is a little door and there's a prayer room there. And we have some counselors who want to introduce you to Christ this morning. We don't want you to be embarrassed to come. We don't want you to feel like we're trying to put pressure on you, but we want you to have the opportunity to meet Christ. And we're available. We don't know how else to talk with you, to meet you, just have you come. Do that as we sing.
And, Christian, if God's really spoken to you about totally abiding and not exercising your self‑effort but just resting in a close loving intimate obedient relationship to Christ, maybe you want to pray about it, maybe you want to talk to the Lord...you come also as the Spirit of God directs.
Father, as we close, bring those who need you and those believers, Father, who need to abide. All of us need this. Father, if there needs to be some real commitments this morning, we pray that we'll make them to You in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Hewlett-Woddmere budget to increase by $3.7M
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Susette Prezios, the mother of three Hewlett-Woodmere students, attended the district's public budget forum on March 21 and said that the decision to eliminate adult education programs in 2013-14 would have a negative impact on the community in which she grew up.
"Our community is dwindling," Prezios said. "While I'm happy to hear that we're keeping the children's programs, not having adult education will pull apart our community."
The district's tentative 2013-14 budget is $109.53 million, $3.7 million more than its current spending plan. The Board of Education is scheduled to adopt the budget on April 17, and the public vote is set for May 21.
Dr. Peter Weber, assistant superintendent for business, said that the district's main focus is to support children's education, and that eliminating adult education would save the district nearly $398,000. "This will impact everyone — people win, people lose, and we recognize that," Weber said. "The only way to cover [adult education] is to take from the reserves we need for the future. We could take funds out of the reserves quickly or slowly, but there will be no place left to turn once the money is gone."
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Clinical Trials at Sanford Health
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Sanford Health provides the most advanced care and treatment that today's medical research offers and has over 150 open clinical trials and over 350 ongoing clinical studies. Participating in a clinical trial may provide you with access to innovative treatments, while at the same time helping to improve care and find cures for future generations.
What is a clinical research study?
A research study, or clinical trial, is a scientific research study in which patients help doctors find ways to improve standard treatments and a patients' quality of life. Carefully conducted research studies are the fastest and safest way to find new treatments and improve the health of all patients. Simply stated: Today's gold standard of care was yesterday's research study. The types of studies conducted at Sanford Health include:
- Treatment studies to improve the standard of care.
- Prevention studies to look for better ways to prevent disease.
- Diagnostic and screening studies designed to find better ways to detect diseases.
- Quality of life studies, which explore ways to improve comfort and quality of life for patients.
GEMMA Cancer Trial
Enrolling patients whose cancer has progressed after the first line of treatment or who have rare cancers without standard treatment options.
Immunotherapy Cancer Trials
Enrolling patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck cancers and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).


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