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Hello clubwrx!
I just got a 2014 wrx in wrb, and so far it is a blast.
This is my first manual car I have driven, and so far so well.
The only problem I am having is with hills, even with the hill lock feature, I still get nervous and roll.
Does anyone have any advice they could give me on starting on hills that might help me out, because
I am loving the manual, and I really don't want to give up on learning how to drive stick!
Thanks, any comments will help!

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1883: U.S. and Canadian railways adopt five standardized time zones to replace the multiplicity of local times in communities across the continent. Everyone would soon be operating on "railroad time." Noon on a well-made, properly paced sundial is whenever the sun is highest right there. The advent of mechanical timekeeping in the Middle Ages didn't […]
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Quotes of the day
posted at 10:41 pm on May 24, 2012 by Allahpundit
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday denounced as "unjust and unwarranted" the treatment of a Pakistani doctor who was jailed for 33 years for helping in the hunt for Osama bin Laden…
The chief US diplomat said Afridi's role "was instrumental in taking down one of the world's most wanted murderers. That was clearly in Pakistan's interest, as well as ours and the rest of the world's."…
Her remarks were stronger than those given Wednesday by State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland who said Pakistan had "no basis for Dr. Afridi to be held."
Two Senate committees today took the first legislative steps to cut aid to Pakistan after that country's conviction of Dr. Shakil Afridi, who aided American intelligence in its mission to kill Osama bin Laden…
The Senate Appropriations Committee cut Pakistan's assistance by the symbolic amount of $33 million – $1 million for each year Afridi's sentence…
The committee approved the amendment, offered by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., by a unanimous 30-0 vote. The funds would continue to be withheld until Afridi gets released from prison and cleared of all charges relating to his assistance in locating bin Laden.
"He was not and is not a spy for our country. This was not a crime against Pakistan. It was an effort and locate and help bring to justice the world's No. 1 terrorist," [Feinstein] said. "This conviction says to be that al Qaeda is viewed by the court to be Pakistan … I don't know which side of the war Pakistan is on."…
"It is Alice in Wonderland, at best, but it is outrageous in itself. If this is cooperation, I would hate like heck to see opposition," Leahy said…
"Pakistan is a schizophrenic at best ally," Graham said as he introduced the amendment to cut funding over the Afridi situation. "They are helping the Haqqani network … which is basically a mob trying to take over parts of Afghanistan. And the ISI constantly provides assistance in Quetta on the Pakistani side of the border."
"The situation with the doctor is a classic example of not understanding the world the way it is," Graham said. "We need Pakistan, but we don't need a Pakistan that cannot see the justice in bringing bin Laden to an end."
Former U.S. intelligence officers accused the Obama administration of dropping the ball on the case of the Pakistani doctor sentenced to 33 years in prison for helping find Usama bin Laden — with one openly challenging the State Department's claim that it pressed his case "regularly" with Islamabad…
Peter Brookes, a former analyst and adviser with several intelligence agencies who is now a senior fellow with the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News on Thursday that the U.S. should have had a plan to get him out of Pakistan immediately following the raid…
"From what I'm hearing, we did pretty much nothing," [former military intelligence officer Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer] said. "We did nothing diplomatically at all, didn't raise a finger. … From what my sources tell me, we did nothing to try and help this guy."
He and Brookes expressed concern that Afridi's plight could make it more difficult to convince foreign sources to work with U.S. intelligence on counterterror missions in the future.
Pakistan's clear message to the U.S.: don't violate our sovereignty. Its message to its own citizens: don't even think about cooperating with the CIA. To ensure that Afridi would be found guilty and sentenced harshly, Islamabad arranged to have him tried in a government court presided over by a tribal political agent in consultation with a council of elders under the 19th-century Frontier Crimes Regulations that were drawn up by the British colonial power at the time. Under the FCR, the court is not subject to the Pakistani constitution, and its sentences are usually harsher than those handed down by the mainstream Pakistani court system. Nor can the sentences of tribal courts be appealed in normal Pakistani courts. Once sentenced, Afridi was transferred immediately out of the Khyber tribal agency and thrown into the Central Prison in Peshawar.
The government insists it will ensure his safety. But many Pakistanis are not so sure. In the court of public opinion, he is seen as a traitor. Not surprisingly, the Pakistani Taliban praised the sentence. "In my heart I wanted to kiss feet of the political agent for punishing Shakil with a lifelong prison term," Janfida Wazir, a Pakistani Taliban commander from the South Waziristan tribal agency, tells The Daily Beast. "Our mujahideen, Sheik Osama's family, and I are very happy with the great judgment of the political agent."
Wazir also says militants are determined to kidnap or kill Afridi if they get the chance. "Shakil is a dead man already," he says. "The government can't build a separate jail for him." Afghans and Pakistanis who are cooperating with the U.S. eventually will meet Afridi's fate and be abandoned by the U.S., adds Wazir. "What happened to Afridi is a good lesson for those puppets of the U.S. in Afghanistan and Pakistan," he says. "They will be thrown away like rubbish after the U.S. has achieved its goals."
Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA collect data that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden, was convicted of high treason today and sentenced to 33 years in prison. Given the severity of the sentence, it's worth considering a few of the people who the Pakistani justice system has not seen fit to put behind bars:
Hafiz Saeed
The head of a banned charity widely believed to be a front for the international terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba is wanted by both India and the United States for his alleged role in orchestrated the 2008 Mumbai attacks. The Lahore High Court dropped all charges against Saeed in 2009. Last month, the U.S. offered a $10 million reward for information leading to Saeed's arrest, which raised some eyebrows since he's not in hiding. Saeed held a press conference inviting U.S. authorities to come and get him.
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Despite having admitted to selling nuclear secrets to North Korea, Iran, and Libya, A.Q. Khan was freed from house arrest in 2009. The father of Pakistan's nuclear program has been officially pardoned and is now immune from further prosecution.
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Got mine today! this piece is OUTSTANDING! even better than the pics make it out to be! Again guys, thanks for doing these i will NEVER need to upgrade this piece! top notch work Mojo!
Got mine today! this piece is OUTSTANDING! even better than the pics make it out to be! Again guys, thanks for doing these i will NEVER need to upgrade this piece! top notch work Mojo!
PP (shipping) & PM sent oh-boy oh-boy
I'm on the back-up list for one....can I buy a blaster since 42--46 have not purchased?
got mine!! thanks!! INCREDIBLE
Been out of town and came home to a nice new blaster!! Thanks guys, this is really GREAT! Going to see if the wife and kids will let me spend a little time building it up today, since it's Father's day and all
Painted mine up using the same primer Superjedi posted, polished up the main body with metal polish, and gave the painted parts a slight weathering. Not sure whether to drybrush some metallic to simulate paint erosion or not.
Here she is, the little beauty!
Its Arrived!!! Now to find the time to work on it.
Gav, PM sent.
Got in my original Technisub Pulce today (thanks to a board member here at TDh who I will allow to annouce himself if he wishes to be known) and did a comparison to my Mojo-Fett replica just to see how our good friend did.
For those frustrated by the rarity of the original Pulce spearguns, you can breathe a sigh of relief, because Gav's replica is as close as you will EVER get without owning an original. I can even interchange parts between the two! I will have photos up in the next week (stupid lighting is in Vegas, not here) comparing the two, but Gav really outdid himself on this replica!
Here is a quick and dirty pic of the original.
And a quick and dirty compare to Gav's replica.
Got mine yesterday, Finally!
Anyway, great looking piece, can't wait to get it built. So with that said, how is everyone opening the diameter at the back end of the resin handle in order to screw in the aluminum retainer section? Drill, X-acto, File?
THX Again Gav for doing these, Great Work!
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Last-minute need for doctors at Remote Area Medical clinic
BRISTOL, Tenn. - Remote Area Medical Clinic provides free care to thousands of uninsured people across the country, but organizers say they're facing a big problem.
Not enough doctors and health care professionals have signed up to volunteer during the weekend long clinic at Bristol Motor Speedway taking place in just two weeks.
It's not the kind of race you expect to see on the infield at Bristol Motor Speedway; it's a race for free medical care thanks to Remote Area Medical Clinic.
Dr. Barry Hopper is a dentist and says he volunteered for the first time last year. he worked one-on-one with thousands of patients, pointing them in the right direction when it comes to dental care. "I saw people who needed extractions, people who needed fillings, and I saw people who needed to have their teeth cleaned," he said.
But in order to provide free medical care to thousands of people, hundreds of volunteer dentists are needed and organizers are running into a last-minute problem this year. "As of right now we have 24 dentists who have signed up to volunteer and we have the capacity for 75 dentists," said Helen Scott, Tri-Cities RAM Coordinator.
The formula is simple: the more dental professionals that volunteer, the fewer patients will be turned away. "Eight out of ten people that come to the RAM clinic for help asked for dental [care]," added Scott.
We also learned the need for eye doctors is also critical.
It's this army of volunteers that provides health care, improving the lives of thousands. "It was an awe-inspiring opportunity to appreciate what these people needed," added Hopper.
This year's RAM clinic will be held the weekend of May 3-5.
To volunteer you can click here for more information. Or call Scott at (423) 360-5192.


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Some racist follows an unarmed 17-year-old African American boy. The boy buys candy and iced tea at a convenience store and continues walking home. The neighborhood watch scumbag stalks the boy, murders him with a gun, and then claims he was acting under Florida's stand your ground law, which states that a person can defend himself from an attacker rather without fearing legal prosecution.
The law was intended so that victims of violent crimes like rape, robbery, and attempted murder could fight back without risking prosecution. It was not intended to give a person the right to pro-actively engage someone in battle, and if you win -- which isn't hard when your armed with a gun and the other person is a minor with no weapons -- then you get away with murder. However, the police didn't arrest the murderer. After all, the victim did look suspicious. He had suspicious skin tone.
And that is why I hate social conservatism. A boy with his entire life ahead of him, snuffed out because of some stupid reptilian xenophobia.


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Arsenal can today confirm Armand Traore has signed a new long term contract with the Club.
Since joining the Gunners as a scholar in Summer 2006, Traore (18) who is predominantly a left-back but can also play in midfield, has already made a total of 18 first team appearances, including three Premier League and two Uefa Champions League appearances.
In his first season with the Club, Armand missed just one League Cup game during Arsenal's run to the Final in Cardiff, and has also regularly been on the bench for Uefa Champions League matches.
Armand is also a regular for France Under-19s, and took part in all three of their 2008 Uefa Under-19 Championships Elite Qualifiers.
Everyone at Arsenal is delighted that Armand has extended his contract with the Club.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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UTSA Spurs rally
Go, Spurs, go! UTSA roots for the hometown team at Downtown Campus rally
(June 20, 2005)--Members of the UTSA Downtown Campus community rallied for the San Antonio Spurs last Thursday morning.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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Rebounding from a loss to the Detroit Pistons Thursday, the Spurs came through with a dramatic one-point win Sunday, June 19.
Holding a three-wins-to-two advantage over the Pistons, the Spurs return home Tuesday night needing just one win to bring a third NBA Championship title to the Alamo City.


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Chapter 1 Summary
John Lanchester begins I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by admitting that as a child he was scared of ATM machines. Looking back, he now realizes, he may have been on to something. He explains that the frictionless way money moves around the world can be frightening. Few people can really conceptualize the numbers involved in the global economy. What is the difference between a million seconds and a billion seconds? It is the difference between roughly twelve days and thirty-two years. By the end of 2008, Icelanders went to their ATMs and discovered that the frictionless withdrawal of money was no longer frictionless. Their banks, which had twelve times as many assets as their national economy, had failed. Lanchester seeks to explain how the "Reykjavíkization of the world economy" came about.
Lanchester tracks the process back to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Until that point, Western liberal democracies had an ideological counterpoint, and though Lanchester maintains that the Western liberal democracies are the most admirable societies humanity has ever seen, they are admirable in part because they sought to show that they provided citizens with a better standard of living than their Communist adversaries. Therefore, the "jet engine" of capitalism remained hitched to the "oxcart" of equality and fairness. With the defeat of the Soviets, the capitalists were under less pressure to provide equality and fairness. Consequently, previous bans on torture were lifted, the income for the middle class remained stagnant, and the income gap between the super rich and everyone else grew. A mystical faith in capitalism became normal, and the financial sector's wealth skyrocketed. Unfortunately, notes Lanchester, the victory party following the fall of the Berlin Wall was neither fair nor sustainable.
Oddly, few people are able to explain how the financial sector works, even though banks are essential to the system everyone lives in. Banks are machines for making money. They take in money, lend some of it at interest, and when they collect their money, they have more money, which means that they can lend more. Lanchester explains that a bank's balance sheet differs from other balance sheets because a bank increases its assets by lending credit to others. During the 1990s and 2000s, bankers began to lend credit to anyone, increasing the banks assets and the bankers' bonuses. Additionally, many banks began to over-leverage their assets. When it turned out that many of those assets would not be recovered (known as toxic assets), the banks suddenly became insolvent and were bailed out by taxpayers.
Lanchester explains that now no one knows which banks are actually solvent. They do not lend credit because they are waiting for their toxic assets to regain value. However, a bank that cannot lend credit is useless. It becomes a "zombie bank." An economy with zombie banks will grind to a halt because there is no machine for making money.
Chapter 2 Summary
Banking should be simple: banks take in money, which they lend out at interest. The bank must reduce risk by lending only to reputable customers. However, during the 20th century, banking became modern, which means that it became self-referential, abstract, and separated from common sense. The arrival of modernism in finance was the management of chance and risk. Lanchester illustrates by explaining the financial instruments called derivatives.
Say a farmer agrees to sell his or her crop ahead of harvest for an agreed upon price. That contract can then be bought and sold; it is a derivative because its value derives from the crop. The simplest derivatives are options and futures. An option is the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell something in the future for a specified price. A future carries the obligation and is therefore riskier. Lanchester explains that someone might spend $500 on an option to buy a sports car for $50,000 in a year's time. If the price goes up, the option has gained value and is a good investment. If the market value of that car drops, then the option was not a good investment and the buyer can decide not to buy the car. He or she loses the $500 option, or "premium."
The derivative market opened when when Fischer Black and Myron Scholes worked out how to price derivatives. Lanchester explains that the value of the total market in derivatives is thought to exceed the world's economic output by about $66 trillion, or by roughly tenfold. Lanchester explains that in an ideal world, derivatives would be used to reduce risk. An investor can choose to buy wheat but can also buy options that allow him or her to sell it at a fixed price. This is "hedging." However, confident financial experts often buy options—or better yet, futures, since although these carry greater risk they also carry greater reward—that align with their primary investments. This magnifies risk.
Credit default...
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Chapter 3 Summary
Lanchester turns his attention to the housing market. He begins by discussing interest rates and mortgages. Because America and the U.K. promote policies that will allow people to buy houses, the laws allow banks to give credit with few restrictions. In Germany, a person can only borrow up to 60% of a property's value, and in France people can only borrow up to a third of their monthly pay. This means that in America and the United Kingdom, people are often in debt well beyond their income. America and the U.K. may share the prioritization of the citizen owning property, but there are differences. In the U.K., a mortgage's interest rate shifts, and it is the mortgager that takes on the risk that interest rates will go up. In America, banks tend to offer fixed interest mortgages, which means that the bank takes on the risk that interest rates will go up. In America, the banks that were designed to carry these risks were Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The costs of these risks swamped both banks.
The push for everyone to own property led to policies that encouraged banks to lend money to people that could not pay back their loans. The Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act, for example, allowed banks to charge higher rates and fees to some borrowers—in other words, it legalized subprime loans. The Alternative Mortgage Transaction Parity Act of 1982 legalized variable interest rates, and it allowed for "balloon payments" to catch up the unpaid balance at the end of a loan. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 allowed for a tax deduction of interest on mortgage loans, which increased their attractiveness as a form of debt. The goals of these policies were continued under Presidents Clinton and Bush, and by 2005, home ownership was nearly 70%. The gap between ethnic minorities and the white population had also narrowed.
Normally, a bubble bursts of its own accord due to inflation and interest rates. To explain this,...
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Chapter 4 Summary
Mortgages were attractive to investors at the start of the twenty-first century. Stocks and bonds were unattractive, but property prices were rising quickly. Homeowners pay higher interest rates than governments and companies, which means that mortgages would offer more money. Further, many people were waiting to buy property. Given that J.P. Morgan had already worked out a way to engineer risk out of their balance sheets through collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) with respect to bonds, the lenders felt that they were taking on no risk when they lent money.
At first, mortgage-backed CDOs were only used with "conforming" mortgages. These were mortgages that conformed to the rules of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae: Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae lend to financial institutions that own the mortgages rather than to the general public. "Nonconforming" mortgages had been carefully extended to what the Clinton Administration had called the "underserved" communities—lower income and higher risk groups—and the policy had appeared successful. The number of these "nonconforming" mortgages quickly grew. They were also known as "subprime mortgages." These subprime mortgages may have been riskier, but this higher risk meant they were potentially more lucrative. Still, as yet, no one had worked out a way to design CDOs based on subprime mortgages.
Most mortgages that are made with reliable borrowers are easy to model. However, because the market for subprime mortgages was new, there was no data from which lenders could model and predict risk. David X. Li came up with a way to use a Gaussian copula function to create subprime mortgage CDOs. CDO and CDS (credit default swap) markets skyrocketed. The lender now had no need to bother about whether the borrower could pay. The banks went on to create pools of structured debt that were tranched for investors. The banks then created structured investment vehicles, part-independent subsidiaries of the banks that kept assets off of the banks' balance sheets. This allowed the banks to avoid the Basel restrictions on capital reserves. Although J.P. Morgan had created the CDS industry, they did not buy join invest in the mortgage-backed CDOs. Unfortunately, many other banks did.
Lanchester explains that the "circuit breaker of risk assessment" was no longer in place at this point. Anyone could take out a mortgage, regardless of their credit history. Their debt would be bundled and sold. It led to an epidemic of "predatory lending," overwhelmingly in the United States. The lending system became chronically prone to abuse, though many of these abuses were perfectly legal. Atrocious scams became commonplace. These banks had no stake in whether or not the borrowers could repay their loans, and so they adopted a "buyer beware" stance while many borrowers lied about their credit and income.
Chapter 5 Summary
Lanchester argues that the central mistake was how bankers calculated risk. In general, people are not good with risk. People do not tend to act rationally. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, two economists who studied heuristics, or the patterns of thinking that people use to interpret data, concluded that people's heuristics are often wrong. Economists are unduly preoccupied with developing "pseudomathematical formulae" that predict behavior and decision-making. Traditionally, people tried to avoid risk through diversification, but today the industry relies on mathematical models like VAR, or "value at risk."
VAR is a statistical technique that arose in response to Black Monday, the 1987 stock crash. Dennis...
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Chapter 6 Summary
Lanchester explains that there were four factors that led to the financial crisis. There was a failure, a mistake, a problem, and a climate. Though many people failed to act responsibly, the regulators in particular failed to react to the financial crisis. The bankers, meanwhile, made a mistake when they began to rely exclusively on mathematical models of assessing risk. The problem was the subprime mortgages. However, none of it would have been possible if not for the financial climate.
Lanchester considers the failure of the regulators to act. There were many "funny smells" leading up to the crash, but the regulators did nothing to avert the crisis. The subprime loans, for example, were given the highest rating by...
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Chapter 7 Summary
Regardless of what caused the financial crisis, the taxpayer is responsible for a gigantic bill. Lanchester turns his attention to what the future holds, and it is grim. He suggests that the public has not even started to look at the bill yet. At the moment, the focus is on restarting growth. Once that starts, governments will need to raise taxes and increase interest rates to cover public debt. This will turn the private and public sector against each other since public and private layoffs will likely follow. How big is the bill? Lanchester relies on Barry Ritholtz's analysis of the crisis when he explains that it is worth more than the combined cost of the Marshall Plan, the Louisiana Purchase, the Apollo moon landings, the...
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Saving a Fort Carson soldier's life
Straight talk to talk down a man threatening suicide
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo - Seconds count when you get a call that someone you know is threatening suicide. Captain John Rigsbee got the call at the end of January at his home. A fellow soldier was holed up at his residence, "The service member had barred himself in the bathroom with a weapon threatening to kill himself."
Captain Rigsbee and others got to the Fort Carson soldier's home to make sure he didn't end his life, "It was two hours of trying to talk him down and taking the gun from his head." Captain Rigsbee and another man stayed the first night with the soldier to make sure he was in a good safe place and wouldn't try to harm himself. Captain Rigsbee told me, "I think it's something people should do, not only as a part of a job but as part of being a decent human being that's what we should do."
Staff Sgt Victor Descartes is also with the Second BCT and was in the room watching Captain Rigsbee defuse this tense situation, "Watching him deal with the situation, he seemed calm and poised. He's someone I look up to as a real good role model."
Captain Rigsbee brushes off the label of hero that's been put on him because of what he did, "I'm just happy to know that another soldier was still there the next day. Just glad he was safe and no one got hurt."
That soldier who threatened suicide received counseling and is now back on the job. Pressures of deployment were part of the mix that almost ended his life.
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Ocho won't come here now! He's got T.O............could life be any better for him now in Cincy? lol

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Dice (commonly known as craps), is a game often played for money where the player (referred to as the shooter) rolls 2 dice hoping to roll a winning combination. The number 8 can be obtained 3 ways. The "easy way" by rolling a 6 and 2 or a 3 and 5, or the "hard way" by rolling a 4 and 4. "Hard" numbers are any 2 pair combinations: 2 and 2, 3 and 3, 4 and 4, 5 and 5, and 6 and 6. Betting on the "hard" number combination results in a larger return when it is thrown.
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Wireless data from every light bulb
What if every light bulb in the world could also transmit data? At TEDGlobal, Harald Haas demonstrates, for the first time, a device that could do exactly that. By flickering the light from a single LED, a change too quick for the human eye to detect, he can transmit far more data than a cellular tower — and do it in a way that's more efficient, secure and widespread.
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Q&A with Ayden Callaghan
Ayden Callaghan is well known to the country's soap fans as Joe Roscoe in popular teen drama Hollyoaks. What is less well known is that he is also a big Wolves fan who had a particularly enjoyable first ever match! Wolves matchday magazine caught up with the 32-year-old actor to find out more and here below is the article that appeared in Saturday's edition.
*Born in Aylesbury - how then a Wolves fan?
*My Uncle is a Burnley fan and they were playing Wolves in THAT trophy final (in 1988). I'd never been to a professional game 'live' before and Dad said he'd take me. We arrived at Wembley and we found ourselves in a sea of gold shirts and I said 'I'll support Wolves today'. The rest - as they say - is history!
*So a Wembley final win and a crowd of over 80,000 – not a bad first match then?
*To be honest my memory is hazy! I remember Gold and Black everywhere, the sunshine and the overwhelming noise. The stadium seemed like this magical place from Myths and fairytales of World Cup heroes and FA Cup Finals. I played at Wembley for the NSPCC charity, but the new Wembley. I would have loved to have played at the old Wembley.
*You've been very busy acting-wise in recent years with Hollyoaks and Emmerdale prior to that. How do you keep up with Wolves' fortunes?
* I follow very keenly through the Wolves website, the Express and Star online and of course through Twitter. And I watch any games on tele that I can. My job makes it difficult to get to games and I haven't been to many in recent years. The last game I attended was Burnley last season at home with Jody Craddock. The less said about that game and the aftermath the better I think!
*Any particular highlights from your Wolves supporting days?
* A game that stands out was the last home game in our first season in the Prem against Middlesbrough. We were already down but the atmosphere was carnival- like and Henri Camara tore them to pieces. Another favourite memory was our Play off final win. I watched it in a pub in Guildford where I was at drama school, we blew Sheffield United away in the first half so the nerves disappeared quickly and I was as relaxed in the second half as I can ever remember watching Wolves.
*And players?
* Steve Bull obviously! Every kid in the playground wanted to be Ryan Giggs, Lee Sharpe, Gary Lineker, Ian Rush etc. Well I shaved my head and pretended to be Bully. I remember playing a youth game where I dribbled round the entire opposition team before firing home and the ref came over and said: 'You been watching Ryan Giggs lad?" "No," I replied. "Steve Bull!" Ha ha! Dean Richards, Lee Naylor and Joleon Lescott were my favourite defenders. Kightly, Jarvis and Fletcher have been favourites in recent years. I loved Alex Rae and Dean Sturridge too. There have been so many players over the years to have donned the great shirt I have enjoyed watching as well as a few who never deserved to!
*Thoughts on the disappointments of the last few years?
*What is there to say? After our first year back up I was positive but things seemed to go backwards in that second season and we stayed up on goal difference on the last day, I felt then would have been the time to make the change and Sam Allardyce was a manager on the market I think would have been great for us. That third season was simply excruciating and last season in the Championship highlighted our frailties and mistakes unforgivingly. I however feel that perhaps we need to go back before we could go forward. It has also been compounded by the progress and success our great rivals West Brom have been making, but we shouldn't worry about what they are doing and would do well to learn one or two lessons. Our pride as a club has been hurt but we are - and always have been - big enough to take it. We have done, and we move on.
*How hopeful are you of success now under Kenny Jackett?
* I am the most positive about a season I have been for some time. Our fantastic Academy has produced some terrific players that the team can be built around and, more than that, they have the club in the DNA and the fans know that and will back them even more. We are the biggest club in this division and the one above - our fantastic gates will bear that out this season and although every team coming to 'The Mol' will treat it as a cup final, hopefully we can make it an intimidating fortress. I like what I have seen of Kenny Jackett, I think he is a man that can rebuild us and move us forward in the way we all want. I am hoping to make a good number of games this season and there are a good few away games near where I film so hopefully I can make them too.
*Work-wise, how did you get into acting?
I kind of fell into acting, I was never sure what I wanted to do and I would have loved to have been a footballer but I was far too lazy to train really. I did nearly go to America to do a Soccer scholarship but instead chose to go to Drama School and the rest is history.
*What is it like being in such well-watched shows such as Emmerdale and Hollyoaks? I loved working on Emmerdale it was a very pleasant place to work and as an actor its always lovely to be busy working every single day. I am loving my time at Hollyoaks, it's a really fun, vibrant and creative environment. It's one of my favourite jobs in my career so far. It's hard and intense work and long hours, not to mention the hours spent at home learning lines, it is no way an easy gig. We do have a great deal of fun and there is always plenty of banter flying around because we are really happy and grateful to be doing what we are doing. It's a bit like footballers I guess, with similar pressures and camaraderie.
*Do you pass on your love of Wolves to fellow cast members?
They all know I'm a Wolves fan, and to be fair it's usually me mocking the Liverpool, Man City and Man Utd fans. I know as Wolves fans we have high expectations but these guys are on a different level. Also, as Wolves fans we've learnt to take the tough times so there isn't much anyone can say that we haven't heard or said ourselves before.
*You've been heavily involved with charity work – how important is that to you?
I love working with charities and try and do any requests that come my way, and if any involvement I have helps in even a small way I'm really pleased to be of use. There are a few charities that are very close to my heart and I try to be involved as much as they want me to be. Also some of the events and football matches are really great fun to be a part of on a personal level.
*And through that you've met Jody Craddock – what do you make of the great man?!
*Jody is one of the best guys you could hope to meet, and I've spent a few evenings at his place watching rubbish telly (he loves a bit of The Voice and X Factor - unbelievable!) and talking nonsense. As for my skills you'd have to ask Jody. I will say this - I banged a goal into the top corner against a West Brom All Stars team with my first touch. And when I captained the side in his absence, I definitely stretched that armband around my biceps. He'll need a new one when he's back.
*Finally, your girlfriend is fellow actress and TV presenter Sarah-Jane Honeywell. And she is a Bristol City fan?
*Yes we have discussed prospects for this season! Obviously I feel Wolves should be looking to win the title and certainly be aiming for automatic promotion. Bristol City have different aspirations. They are a smaller club with less finances but I'm sure they will be hoping to be around the play offs, although a decent high mid table finish wouldn't be terrible for them. There is talk of a new ground being built which might allow bigger gates and therefore help them progress. I think both clubs are in for an interesting season and it's a lovely six points in the bag for us I told her.......
*Many thanks Ayden! Those wishing to follow Ayden on Twitter can do so @aydencallaghan
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The same poster uploaded a super quality All Of Me too:
I hope this person recorded (or will record) other programs as well.
The same poster uploaded a super quality All Of Me too:
I hope this person recorded (or will record) other programs as well.
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Stephane "La donna e mobile", simply the best!!!
I can watch him skate all day long, even without any jumps. What a gorgeous skater he still is!
Oh, how I miss Stephane! And for the same matter, I miss Jeff, too...
Actually, Mens competition is not the same for me after both retired...It reminds me once again how I miss those days when Staphane, Jeff, Brian, Evan, Johnny, Brain and Daisuke all competed going head to head, who were so versatile each other, with different styles, different and unique strengths and weaknesses, and whom I admired and respected all in their own ways,. Those days were probably the best Mens competitions for me to this date.
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For Yuna's spins slowing down a bit, it's understandable to me because she does wear a hat in 'All of Me' number. She just needs to slow it down so that spinning deos not blow her hat off, right? Besides, the best spinners in the world, say, Stephane in this Verdi number or Allisa in the Gala numbers, also slow down his/her spins when the music requires to do so, regardless of their super ability to spin like crazy.
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Broadcast version "Someone Like You": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUtan...layer_embedded
Annoying commentary and poor audio, but some of the angles are great. Also her cleanest performance of this program.
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I like this one Maxim waving to fans
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Chan -- Mannish Boy (Day 3 fan cam)
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These korean fans are really starting to grate on my neverves. Can they please stop screaming out for nothing?
Everyone has skated to Adele this year. I am a fan of Adele, but sometimes a record gets saturated. I am glad people recognize her talent and that she can get a record contract without looking like most skinny female pop stars with gimmicks. I love that Adele can just stand there and sing.But that does not mean I want half the female skaters or icedancers to choose Adele tunes. That is what I mean by saying I wish David Wilson found more and different songs for yuna since she does 1 show a year? Her all of me is a nice Michael Buble middle of the road song. I can't help but think it is Billie Holiday's song, thogh I don't know who wrote it. I am disappointed in these choices for Yuna. All of me was sloppy and much worrying about the hat staying on and her back up men were not in synch. They never have enough time to rehearse really good group numbers, I guess.
I liked Yuna skating to Adele, and she seemed to connect to it well, but hey, it is a valid criticism from Yuna fans (not uber) I said fans, to miss seeing what made her a champion. Her spins, spirals, footwork were never level 4 to me but when she was clean, and did the jumps, everything got better scores. Yuna is skating three hours a day, and We do not see someone close to who she was. I know it does not matter as her shows will sell out when she is 70 if she just gets pulled onto the ice.
I know her Korean ubers get very touchy of any criticism, but I have yet to see a great performance from Yuna after she got off the ice in Vancouver. Her gala skate, which was ok for me in Vancouver now looks better.
She has the best choreographer, and she has the ability. Look at the performances of the 2006 ladies OGM. Shizuka is sublimely beautiful and she seems to keep a high work ethic. I know kporea doesn't care- they are watching their Queen/rockstar/guru etc. But me as a fan and witness to two very good Olympic programs and others before it in her 4 years at the top of intl scene, I'm disappointed. I don't think she is giving a great effort. Maybe that is why she does not skate outside Korea at other shows she must get invited to. In a way, I wish she would come back so we could see a better Yuna. It is fun to see her fly into her triple-triples...She should hilight jumps as that is her claim to fame. I miss seeing them, and I do re-watch her Vancouver skates to remember how good Yuna used to be.
The skaters were there only for 4-5 days. What do you expect? A 30-city tour quality group numbers? They did a great job given the constraints.
I see an evolving skater, with better skating and performance skills than ever. She's TREMENDOUS. Enjoy her while you can. Another talent like hers won't come easy.
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Yuna Kim -- All Of Me (Day 3 fan cam 2)
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The Supremacy of God in Missions
Christian & Missionary Alliance General Council | Charlotte, North Carolina
The following is an unedited transcription of the audio.
Sometimes when I talk about the supremacy of God and I emphasize that with all my heart, people ask me, "What are the roots of that in your life? Where did that come from? Did you get that at seminary?" And the answers yes.
But when I have a chance to spell it out a little further I go back to the beginning. And I pay tribute to my parents. I brought this book in with me tonight, "Desire God." Not because I want to sell it. It does all right on its own, but because I dedicated it to my father, whose here tonight.
"To William [Solomon Hoddle] Piper, my father: In whom I have seen the holiness and the happiness of God." This is moving for me because I don't think Daddy's heard me preach for 20 years. And there's a whole slug of relatives with him and a few friends and I want to know where they are.
So would you stand up please? All of you? Where are you? Oh there you are. Thank you. Good.
And what I say when I'm paying tribute is that when I was growing up, I don't remember theology but I remember prayer and faith. And I remember when the evangelistic meetings were not lined up the way they needed to be for this traveling evangelist, the family got together and we prayed.
And Daddy was never discouraged. At least not out-loud, and he always quoted Romans 8:28, "God works all things together for good, for those who love him and are called according to his purpose." And therefore I absorbed faith in a sovereign God. And I just want to express out loud the profound gratitude I feel to God for causing me to born into the family of Bill and Ruth Piper.
You do not choose where you are born. If there ever was an act of grace, it is to be born into a Christian home and so publicly, thank you Lord and thank you Daddy. Mothers with the lord.
Well let's get down to business here this is very important tonight. Let me, for those of you that haven't been here try to, in two minutes pull pieces together and focus it now on missions. The supremacy in God in preaching and the supremacy of God in praying came together for us like this. That God has a tremendous passion to be gloried in creating and redeeming a world, and every human I know has a passion to be satisfied in their deep heart. And if these things were at odds there would be no Gospel in the world.
But these things are not at odds. The Gospel is that in prayer and in worship they come together as one, because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
Now it's incredibly important to realize that that satisfaction comes to its consummation when it flows over to other people, and they are drawn into the experience of it. If you try to bottle up the satisfaction that God gives you in himself, it will rot. And therefore missions flows necessarily out of a passion for the supremacy of God. Which is why I said that our church mission statement is, "We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things," and then don't forget this phrase, "And for the joy of all peoples." With an "S" on the end to highlight that missionary focus. All the unreached peoples in the world are to be brought in to the joy that we have in the supremacy of God.
Now I have an outline for tonight as I talk about the supremacy of God in missions. It's very simple and goes like this, "The promise is sure. The price is suffering. And the prize is satisfying." Those three points I want to make.
The Promise is Sure
So let me state the promise that I have in mind, and then we'll dig into these three points. The promise is this: This Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Spurgeon used to talk about how he loved to preach on the shalls and the wills of the Bible and I do too. I wrote a whole book called, "Future Grace," and all I mean is when the Bible says it shall be because when the Bible says it, I know it's going be then. And when the Bible says, "This Gospel will be preached throughout the whole world as testimony to all the peoples or nations." I know it's going to happen. And so the promise is sure. That's point number one.
Now under that point I want to develop maybe four reasons why you might be confident tonight that this is sure. So that you can say to your young people and say to your retiring people, who ought to be entering missions instead of going to golf courses in Nevada or wherever they park their RV's, they ought to be buying senior discount tickets to Mongolia. You can say to them, "One of the most exciting reasons for being a part of this is because it cannot fail. It can't fail." Why be a part of something that is vulnerable and fragile and liable to fail?
And here's reason number one why the promise is sure. Number one God never lies. "Heaven and Earth may pass away but my word, say the Lord, "Will never pass away." God never lies.
Reason number two. The ransom has been paid. The ransom has been paid, and when a ransom by God has been paid what he bought is coming home. He does not purchase in vain. Here's the text. "Worthy are thou to open the seals, for thou was slain and by thy blood did ransom men for God from every nation, and has made them a kingdom and preached our God and they shall reign on Earth."
When the ransom has been paid for people from every nation they are coming home. Whatever it takes the ransom will not be paid in vain.
Do you remember The Moravians? The story? The Moravians were a great missionary people just like the CMA, and those young people got on the boats there in northern Europe. Do you remember, and as the boats were pulling out into the harbor ready to sail themselves into slavery in the West Indies never to come home again that they lifted their arms and shouted over the waters to their relatives, that they'd never see again, "May the Lamb receive the reward for his suffering."
And you know what they were quoting? It was the will of the Lord to bruise him. He has put him to grief when he makes himself an offering to sin. He will see his offspring he will prolong his days. He will see the fruit of the travail of his soul and be satisfied.
He won't lose one of them. The fruit of the travail of the soul of The Son of God will come home, through missions and in no other way. Therefore the success of missions is certain. Oh there's so many more texts we can refer to.
I was in Amsterdam last year with the Frontiers Folks. You know that mission? To Muslims? Oh what a radical group of martyrs. They are ready to give themselves all over the world to win Muslim peoples to Christ.
And they introduced to him a man who has been in jail 40 days last summer, and couldn't come to the annual meeting in prison in a Muslim country. We got up and gave the testimony and he said the text that sustained him was Acts 18:10, where the spirit comes to Paul in the middle of night and says, "Do not fear. Keep on preaching. I am with you. What can man do to you? I have many people in this city. I redeemed them. I bought them and I will see to it that they are found and I will use it to that end."
And so my second reason for why you can know this promise is coming true is because, the ransom has been paid. Here's reason number three. The Glory of the Lord is at stake. I made much of that last night I won't belabor it tonight except to say this text from Romans 15: "Christ was made a servant to the circumcised in order to show the truthfulness of God. In order that he might confirm the promises to the patriarchs and in order that the nations might glorify God for his mercy."
Why did he become a Jew incarnate in Palestine, and suffer and die? So that eh nations might glorify God for His mercy. There are many people who argue about what's the ultimate purpose of God in creation, and some argue that it is a manifestation of his love. That's almost exactly right.
It's just not quite the ultimate thing, because there in that verse what you see is, he became a servant to the circumcised in order that the nations might glorify God for His mercy. Mercy is pan ultimate. The glory of God is ultimate but the glory of God is at stake in mercy reaching the nations and wining them to himself, and therefore since the glory of God is at stake, it is the ultimate purpose of God in creation and therefore it cannot fail, because God did not create the universe to fail. He will not create in vain.
Reason number four, that you can count on the promise coming true and be a part of this without any fear of failure is that God is sovereign. Well A.W. Tozer almost got it right tonight. We should follow our Presbyterian brothers and our reformed forbearers. I will not go with them all the way. I will.
Now I don't want to divide the house here, but let me tell you what I mean by that. Charles Long here said to me beforehand, "I don't know what this theology is. I hear some "Amen's" come in here, but I don't want to read anything into them. I do, but won't," he said to me because of his phenomenal experience in giving up his cherished people there in Vietnam to God and watching God do phenomenal things. He believes in more than ever in the sovereignty of God.
Come now you who say today or tomorrow we will go up to such and such a town and spend a year there and get gain. What do you know about tomorrow? Your life is but a vapor here today and gone tomorrow. Rather you ought to say, "If the Lord wills we will live and do this or that."
That's a quote from the Bible. James chapter 4 versus 12-15: "If The Lord wills, I will not drop dead before I finish this message. If the Lord wills my plane will not crash tomorrow. If the Lord wills my son Barnabas will not be killed in an uprising in Uganda, and if The Lord wills my son will die." That's what I mean by going all the way.
Now it's one thing for John Piper to in his comfort in this air conditioned room with hardly any problems in my life compared to what most people live with to say that, it's another thing for people who right now in this room have cancer or had a child die last year. So let me let others bear testimony. Nathan comes to David having committed adultery and having killed Uriah in effect and says, "You are the man." And David repents and confesses about Uriah. I mean after Nathan says, "Why did you despise the word of the Lord? Because you have done this, the child which was born to you will die." And the next verse, verse 15 of second Samuel 12 says, "and the lord struck the child."
Exodus 4:11: "Who makes men seeing or blind? Who makes him dumb or deaf? Is it not I, The Lord?" I had a man call me on the phone a few weeks ago. Desperate. He said I got to come talk to you. I said, "Where are you calling from?" He gave me a city 15 hours away. I said, "Why in the world do you want to come talk to me?" He said, "Because I'm in the darkest time of my life.
And I said, "Well surely there's somebody there who can help you. You don't need to drive to Minneapolis" And he said, "I have consulted with so many people here and the first thing out of their mouth is to say, "God didn't have anything to do with this." And I know God has to do with this. I know God is sovereign over my life and I read your book, "The Pleasures of God," and I can't find anyone that will start at a Biblical starting point. And I think maybe you can help me."
Has evil befallen the city unless The Lord has done it? Amos chapter 3 verse 6. I wonder how many of you saw in Christianity today this amazing article a few months ago. Now those of you who are old enough to remember, the martyrdom of the five missionaries in Ecuador? Nate Saint, Peter Fleming, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot. Who was the fifth one? Youderian. Roger Youderian. They were all speared to death with nine foot long spears on January 8th 1956. It was the 50th anniversary, 40th anniversary last year. That's why this article came out, written by Steve Saint, the son of Nate Saint.
So you have a son writing about a father who was speared to death by the Auca Indians. He has interviewed extensively the tribal people who did the killing. He's talked to the very murderers and he discovered intrigue in the tribe regarding marriage things and some other thing that were all part of why this all came about.
It was not a happenstance killing. There were things happening behind the scenes that accounted for this. He came to one point in this article, I carry this around with me because I was stunned by this sentence. I read it over and over again to see if I was reading it correctly.
Here's his conclusion after interviewing and studying the situation as to why his father was murdered. "As they described their recollections it occurred to me how incredibly unlikely it was that the Palm Beach killing took place at all." Palm Beach was the little island where all the blood was shed. "How unlikely it was that the Palm Beach killings took place at all. It is an anomaly that I cannot explain outside of Divine intervention."
Did you hear that? That is exactly the opposite of what almost everybody says about the work of God in missions in order to get him off the hook when people suffer. And it isn't the way, Saint, Steve Saint chose to do it.
Let me read it again because you got to get this. This is not me talking now. This is a testimony of a son who lost a father. "It occurred to me how incredibly unlikely it was that the Palm Beach killings took place at all. It is an anomaly that I cannot explain outside of Divine intervention."
May I paraphrase that? God killed my father. Praise his name. Or to use the words of Job, "The Lord has given, and The Lord has taken away." Blessed be the name of The Lord. I go all the way because I believe the Bible goes all the way, and because God is that sovereign, He cannot lose. Nothing is in vain. Nothing. Not one drop of blood has ever been shed meaninglessly or in vain.
The Price is Suffering
Were already into it aren't we? I'm going to read you the verses leading up to Matthew 24:14 that I quoted as the promise. Namely Matthew 24:9 following, "They will deliver you up to tribulation. Put you to death. You will be hated by all nations for my namesake and then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. Many false prophets will arise and lead many astray, because wickedness is multiplied men's love will grow cold. But he who endures to the end will be saved."
And then comes the promise, he who endures to the end will be saved. He who endures to the end will be saved. And this gospel will be reached throughout the world as testimony to all the nations but it's going to take suffering.
Let me give you two passages of scripture that fill me with a sense of fear and confidence as the end draws near. Revelations 6:11 pictures the martyrs under the throne, "How long? How long, Oh God until you vindicate our blood? And he clothes them with robes and said, "Be at peace for the number of your brothers who are to lose their lives is not yet complete."
Gods got a number of martyrs, and they're not done yet. When they're done we'll be done, and some are in this room right now. I believe that with all my heart. It cannot be otherwise, in a room this size in this kind of organization. It's always been true of the CMA.
I was told by one Pastor earlier, when the number of the martyrs is complete I'll vindicate you and will stand forth with great power and authority.
The other text is Colossians 1:24 where Paul says, "I rejoin in my sufferings of for you all, and in my sufferings I complete what is lacking in the inflictions of Christ." Now that's almost heresy. As if anything could be lacking in the redeeming work of the suffering of Christ. And nothing can be lacking in the atoning merit of Jesus.
What's lacking and I could take a long time to defend this eugenically by parallel passage in Philippians 2:30, but I won't I'll just give you my conclusion. What's lacking in the sufferings of Christ today is a personal presentation on behalf of Christ to those for whom he died. A personal presentation of suffering to those of to whom he died and Paul says, "That's my job." In my sufferings I complete what is lacking in Christ's inflictions by making a personal presentation of suffering to those for whom he died. And you're called to do that.
I heard Oswald Sanders great missionary statements before he died a couple years ago say a great thing. I snook into a Chapel at Trinity Seminary to hear him preach, because I admired him so much, and he was 89 years old at the time and he quit. He had written a book a year since he was 70 and I said, "all right yeah 70 what a great time to start a ministry! Go for it retired folks! Start a ministry at 70!"
I mean that. America has sold older people one rotten bill of goods The AARP sends me a piece of mail every week. I'm 51, and they want me to buy this glossy magazine and you know fight for the rights of old people to rot, while they play! What an asinine way to get ready to meet the King.
Well Oswald Sanders at 89 was telling stories about missionaries, and he told the story about an Indian missionary, a poor Evangelist who walked all day. Up to a high village unreached and his feet were bloodied. He was exhausted. He wanted to just rest before he went in the village to try to preach, but he just felt a sense of God given urgency and so he walks into the village and he declares of Christ that he loved in a simple way and they scorned him and ran him out of town.
And discouraged and weary he lays down under a tree and fell asleep, and just at dust he awoke suddenly an all the people were huddled over him and he thought I'm a goner here, they're going to hurt me or kill me. And the headman of the village leaned over him and said, "We came out to see you and when we saw your bloodied feet we knew you were a Holy man and wanted very much for us to hear this message and we would like you to come in and say it again. And many believe it."
And the point was of course, how beautiful are the feet of those who bring good tidings, but really the point is Colossians 1:24, "in my sufferings I complete what is lacking in the inflictions of Christ." In that my sufferings are a personal presentation to the world of what Christ offers them. In my sufferings they are to see Christ's sufferings. In my martyrdom they are to see Christ's martyrdom. The price will be suffering.
The Prize is Satisfying
Finally the prize is satisfying.
David Livingston I quote in the book here on page 204. I want you to hear this amazing testimony for my own part. David Livingston said to the University of Cambridge in 1857, "for my own part I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. As missionary people talk of the sacrifice I have made of spending much of my life in Africa. Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blessed reward? In helpful activity, the consciousnesses of doing good, peace of mind, a birth hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word and such a view and with such a thought it is asthmatically no sacrifice? Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, danger, knowing then with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life and they make us pause and cause our spirit to waver and the soul to sink but let this only be for a moment. All these things are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us and for us. I never made a sacrifice. Amen."
Oh that we would remember the word of Jim Elliot, "he is no fool that gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." You can't out sacrifice God. The problem with Peter, you remember Peter after the rich young ruler? You remember that story the rich young ruler walks away because he has great riches.
Oh the decadence of America and its prosperity. He walks away because he has great riches and Jesus how hard it is for a rich man to get into the Kingdom. It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into Heaven and the Disciples are reeling at that and say, "Then who can be saved?"
And Jesus says, "With men it is impossible but with God all things are possible." And Peter pipes up and says, "We've left everything and followed you. What about us?" And Jesus says to him, "Peter nobody has left houses or lands or mother or father or brother or sister for my sake and the Gospel who will not receive back in this age, houses and land and mother and sister and brother and in the age to come eternal life. You cannot out sacrifice my goodness."
It is emphatically Jesus says, "no sacrifice to die for me." The text that was read earlier was to live is Christ and to die is gain. Say the word, gain. Say it again. Gain. Now if you believe that it will put such an end to murmuring in our lives. One of the effects of going overseas, and not having air conditioning, and not having indoor plumbing, and not having 911, and not having roads, and having many bugs and many diseases is that when you comes home you don't murmur as much.
And if you believed that to live is Christ and to die is gain, now I think our hospital visitations would look different. We might pray a little different, and our weeping would not be as those who have no hope.
Let me close with this question. How do you become that kind of person? How do you become the kind of person who's ready to lay down your life joyfully? And I'm just going to from all the many texts that I could look at with you if you'd like to look at one as we close its Hebrew chapter 10 verse 32 following. I love this paragraph almost as much as any paragraph in the Bible because I want so much in America to be this counter cultural.
Hebrews chapter 10 verses 32-34, let me give the setting for you. In the early days of the Church there have been suffering and persecution and some of the Christians had been put in jail. The others were faced with the question, do we go visit them in jail and risk losing our property and maybe our lives or do we go underground and hide and be safe?
And they made the decision, perhaps they had a little prayer meeting and sang Martin Luther's hymn even though it was a 1000 years 1500 years too early, "let goods and kindred go this mortal life, although the body they may kill, Gods truth abide us, still His kingdom is forever, let's go home, let's go." And they went.
Now let's read and see what happened. Verse 32 Hebrews 10, "Recall the former days when you were enlightened. You endured a hard struggle with sufferings. Sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions. Sometimes being partners with those so treated. So they went and they partnered with them. For you had compassion on the prisoners," here it comes, "and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property."
Now to stop there, I want to be that way. Don't you? You choose your neighborhoods to be safe. You go to the suburbs to be safe. Is your first thought in a call to ministry, will my kids be safe? I got so tired of hearing that question when we were looking for associates at my church. Is your neighborhood safe? No! Who cares? There's people there!
Good grief, what does that question have to do with obedience to Jesus? What happened to these people that they should mark the word joyfully except the plundering of their property? I call this book, "Meditations of a Christian Hedonist," and got myself into big trouble and I love it and I wouldn't change this title for anything, because people who are willing to risk this book know that what I mean by hedonist is somebody who forsakes the two bit short-term inadequate pleasures of American security for this kind of security. That joyfully accepts the plundering of their property. That's Christian Hedonism.
But here's the question, "how did they become that kind of person?" And the next phrase gives the answer, verse 34, "you joyfully accepted the plundering or your property since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one."
Pick those two words. Oh CMA, oh Christian, we have a better possession and an abiding one. God. And Heaven. Forever. Psalm 16:11 captures those two word better and abiding. You know that verse? You love it like I love it? "Thou has showed me the path of life, in thy presence."
We're not talking streets of gold. We're not talking even reunion with my dear mother. We're talking God's presence. "Thou has showed me the path of life in thy presence is fullness of joy of thy right hand our pleasures how long. Forever more." It's better, it's full, and it's abiding forever. That's what this author was talking about.
A better possession and an abiding one. A full joy and an everlasting joy. And you can't get it anywhere else and every advertisement between the Bulls and Jazz game this very moment is telling you the opposite and I'm glad you're here.
The more TV you watch the more you will be numbed out in your spiritual capacity to believe that dying is gain and the plundering of your property in the cause of love to bring Christ to world is gain, and therefore I plead with you turn it off and look to Jesus.
It's not the only strategy but we haven't had a TV in our home for 28 years and I raised five kids, and the four who are old enough to care never missed it and all of them have pursued missions in one form or another and they are now walking with Jesus and they know the street because I live on the street. I don't need the television to show me sin. We live in the middle of sin.
The promise is sure. The price is suffering. And the prize is satisfying. Get to know the prize. Let's bow for prayer and I would like to do this tonight because I was exhorted this morning that God might be at work in this way and so just very briefly here's what I like to do. I want to pray for those of you in a concerted way by having you come to the front and letting me pray for you, three kinds of people.
Let me tell you very clearly who they are because I don't want everybody to come and stay where you are is not the least indictment. Here's the three kinds of people I want to come stand here and let me pray for them. Number one, has God touched you in these days concerning some habit or some pattern of life that you are shamed of and that you're struggling with and you want to decisively renounce and forsake tonight? That's the first person I want to come.
The second person I want to come, I met a few of you, is the person who says all the joy has gone out of my ministry and I'm on the point of quitting, and if I don't get that renewal and refreshment soon I'm probably going to leave the ministry . I desperately need a touch from God. That's the second kind of person I want to come.
And the third person I want to come is the person who one way or another has felt a very unique and powerful tug from God to be a vocational missionary.
Now were going sing, so I'm going to invite Steve to sing and while were singing we'll just sing a couple of versus, comes stand to the front when you come I'll pray for you and we'll close. Lord while were gathered here now real serious businesses being done with some ministries hanging in the balance. Futures are hanging in the balance here. Maybe some marriages are hanging in the balance, and maybe faith itself is hanging in the balance. And I just ask you to come Holy Spirit and minister to these people. Just bless them. Bless them. Let tonight be a night of awakening.
Oh God restore unto the joy of our salvation. Satisfy us in the evening with thy steadfast love that we may rejoice and be glad in you of all the days of our lives. Lord I pray that you would slay the dragon of sin in some lives. Some lust dragons, some bitterness and anger dragons. God just slay them right now.
Sever the root of sin where the battle is great right now and Lord for those who felt a calling, seal it. Seal it, oh God, may they never be able to go behind this moment but follow it on right into the mouth of the lion if necessary.
Oh god so work in these brothers and sisters right now that they might be able to say from the bottom of their hearts, "whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides thee." My flesh and my heart may fail but you are the strength of my heart and my portion forever and for me to live is Christ and to die is gained.
Lord we want to lift our hearts now and glorify you and I just invite those of you who are here at the front to linger as long as you want. Don't feel like when were done you need to go anywhere and any of you who sees a friend up here you might just want to come and put your hand on their shoulder and say, "Can I just bless you? Can I bless you?"
I don't know what it is you're doing or dealing with, but I want to bless you. So let's just close with song and then we can linger with the Lord as long as we need to.


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