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Biscuits Gravy and Ponzu EggsPrint Recipe
Sour Cream Biscuits
- 1 pound 14 oz a.p. flour
- 2 TBL sugar
- 1 1/2 TBL baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 TBL salt
- 1 pound butter cubed, cold
- 2 1/4 cups sour cream
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise
- As needed breakfast sausage
- As needed flour
- To taste milk
- To taste salt
- To taste black pepper
Ponzu Eggs
- As needed eggs
- As needed pork stock
- To taste mirin
- To taste kombu
- To taste tamari
- For the Sour Cream Biscuits: Add all dry ingredients in a bowl, add butter and combine until small flaky pieces form. Mix mayonnaise with 1½ cup sour cream and fold into bowl. Chill, form into biscuits, add egg wash and salt. Freeze and bake frozen at 340°F with medium fan
- For the Gravy: Brown breakfast sausage and add enough flour to make a roux. Add milk, salt and black pepper to taste and desired thickness
- For the Ponzu Eggs:Boil eggs for five minutes and twenty seconds, chill, peel and reheat in broth of pork stock, mirin, kombu and tamari to taste
Recipe Credit: Team Jennings
To serve: Top sour cream biscuit with egg and smother in gravy


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August 25, 2013 Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity
Divine Divinity
Joshua 24:14-28, Psalm 104, Galatians 3:16-22, St. Luke 10:23-37
A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho . . . Jerusalem perches at 2,500 feet above sea level, Jericho squats at 800 feet below sea level. The route connecting them corkscrews through the wilderness of Judah.
Seventeen miles of bad road. A six-hour trek through country the first-century historian Josephus called "waste and stony." From the Fountain of the Apostles an hour out of Jerusalem to the Well of Elisha near Jericho, not a drop of water to cool the tongue. Rocks and caves afford cover for men of evil designs.
A certain man . . . fell among thieves. Traders plied the route between the capital of Israel and points east -- Jericho and other cities along the Jordan valley as well as the lands across the river. Merchants make plump targets.
When grabbing plunder is as easy as picking figs, local robbers hold no exclusive franchise. East of the river dwelt the descendants of Ishmael, that wild donkey of a man. "His hand shall be against every man," the Angel of the Lord had told his mother Hagar, "and every man's hand against him."
Mounted raiders from the nomadic Bedouin tribes that issued from Ishmael's loins would fall upon pilgrims, sudden and deadly as a desert storm, then to vanish with their loot into their hidey holes in the untamed expanse.
In a time of perilous travel, this road gloried in an infamy all its own. The church father Jerome dubbed it "the bloody way."
A certain man . . . fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
The man was probably a Jew. Certainly, a Jewish audience would have understood him to be one. A priest and a Levite, descending this bloody way, came upon him. In all likelihood, they were returning to Jericho after completing their rotation in the temple service. Jericho amounted to a garrison town for priests and Levites; 12,000 of them lived there.
They did not stop to render aid. Another traveler came upon the fallen pilgrim, this one a Gestapo major. The Nazi had compassion on the desperate Jew.
He took of his own provisions of wine and oil and ministered to him, ripped his uniform shirt into strips and bandaged him, dismounted his donkey and used it to transport him, took money from his purse and purchased safe lodging for him. Then he promised to pay any extra expense for the care of this battered stranger when he returned.
Or was he a Samaritan? No matter. Centuries may separate Samaritan and Nazi but both hate the Jew.
Samaritans did not come to the rescue of Jews. Yet this one did.
The Parable of the Good Samaritan is a lesson in limits – God's and man's. It turns on the question: Who is my neighbor? Seeking an answer, we grapple with another question: What is love?
Our Lord has just proclaimed the coming of the Kingdom of God to His disciples when a lawyer braces Him: What shall I do to inherit eternal life? St. Luke reports that this man is testing Him. The rabbis taught that eternal life – which is blessed existence in the Kingdom of God – hangs on one's performance under the law.
Now, a lawyer will catch out this dissident rabbi from Nazareth. The lawyer wants Jesus to quantify salvation, to provide a list of its requirements according to a legal formula. Jesus' answer is distilled divinity, so pure it almost makes me weep. "What is written in the law?" He asks.
Unlike many a preacher of our day, He will not abolish the law. The answer, He is saying, is indeed found in the law of Israel.
The law is decisive in all matters, including eternal life. The lawyer knows the law. He recites it in a formula that appears to have been common in his day, combining Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18. It is certainly common in ours. We use this summary of the law each time we gather for Holy Communion: Love God unconditionally, love your neighbor as yourself.
(Our version is taken from the gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark, in which the Lord gives it; in this gospel, Jesus elicits it from the lawyer who is testing Him.)
"You have answered rightly," the Lord says. "Do this and you will live."
Life is in the law – but the law is the law of love. Put another way, the grace that pours itself out by faith in acts of love has always been the way of salvation. In Moses' day and in Jesus' day – as in our day -- the law is just and right and true.
Yet then and now, men chafe at God's commandments. They bind our freedom. So we hide our eyes. If we take our hand away, we must see that God's law reveals His purity . . . and our filth. We must have His law as we must have His air.
If He should relax His standard of perfection, we would have what we want: the license to determine each for himself what holiness is. And in that freedom is death. Eternal life in the realm of a perfectly holy God who will tolerate no sin in His presence demands purity of us.
God cannot allow our failure to measure up to His standard to compromise that standard. So doing, He would invite sin into His eternal kingdom, and the wages of sin is death. His kingdom would become the abode of death. We have a name for such a place. We call it hell.
The law says: Don't worship other gods or make idols; don't kill, steal, cheat, lie. Summing up: Love God, love your neighbor – without the limits sin imposes. That's bad? It sounds like heaven to me.
But how to arrive there? The lawyer has gone all-in on the wager that he can do what the law says must be done to enter the kingdom. Regarding the law, Jesus asks, "What is your reading of it?"
And now we see that the problem is not with the law but with the interpreter. The lawyer says, "And who is my neighbor?"
By law, he must love his neighbor. His response is to shrink the definition of "neighbor." Legalists among the Jews had seized on the undeniable truth that theirs was a nation God had set apart for a holy purpose and put that truth in a centrifuge a 21st-century political spin doctor would love to own.
Their well-spun mission was not to live out a witness of the God of glory before the other peoples but to hold themselves aloof from them to preserve a purity they claimed to have earned. Their "neighbors" could be only other Jews. But not even all of them. As we have seen in our gospel lessons this Trinity season, the high and mighty rebranded the lowly in their midst in such a way that they could not be called proper Jews at all.
Who is the lawyer's neighbor? The Lord answers in a parable. The priests conducted the temple service, or worship; the Levites assisted them. Their work involved offering the sacrifices God had ordained to keep before His people their need for a Sacrifice that would restore their loving relationship with Him. The animal sacrifices they offered did not achieve that reconciliation but only pointed the people to it.
Had not God told the Jews repeatedly, "I desire mercy and not sacrifice"? The mandate to sacrifice held the requirement of personal holiness up to the standard of divine holiness. It did not overturn the law of love.
Christ addresses to a lawyer who knows not the true law of God a story about a priest and a Levite who know not the true love of God.
The hated Samaritan is the vessel of love. The Jew spilling his blood into the dirt needs his wounds tended. The Levite might have rendered first aid, but did not. The Samaritan applies wine as a disinfectant and olive oil as a balm. The Jew needs transport to a place of safety and recuperation. The priest, a member of the upper classes and undoubtedly mounted, could have borne him to an inn on his animal. The Samaritan provides his donkey.
The Jew needs time to mend and gain strength. The robbers had left him savagely beaten and penniless. The Samaritan pays for his lodging and other needs. The Jew may need more care. The Samaritan pledges payment for anything and everything that may be required to save the man.
He puts no cap on his generosity for this stranger. He provides from all that he has with no hope of gaining anything in return. He places no limitation of race or social position on the object of his love. Love does not assess its objects; it overtakes them.
Some years ago, I heard a man preach in prison. He knew his audience. He had served 34 years behind bars himself. Now an ordained minister and a seasoned preacher, he knows the cadence that can carry his words into the hearts of the men in Texas prison whites arrayed in ranks before him.
Jesus in me . . . gonna love the Jesus in you . . . and ain't nothin' you can do about it . . . You hearin' what I'm sayin'? . . . Nah, you ain't hearin' what I'm sayin.'
You hear me now, you hear what I'm sayin.' Jesus in me . . . gonna love the Jesus in you . . . and ain't nothin' you can do about it . . . You hearin' what I'm sayin'? . . . Nah, you ain't hearin' what I'm sayin'. . .
I think I'm hearin' what he's sayin.' He's sayin' love does not accept limits dictated by its object. Some will mock the preacher to his face. Some will crack wise behind his back. Some will hate him for his assault on the worldly philosophies and the fleshly desires and the demonic powers they have allowed to lodge within them.
And the preacher will love them. He has given his oath to his Lord to impose no limits the Lord does not impose. He can do no other.
The God of creation sets no limit on His love for His creature. He causes the rain to fall on the righteous and the unrighteous. The God of redemption does not restrict His love for those lost in sin. He desires not the death of a sinner but that he may turn from his wickedness and live.
The Father of all places no restraint on his children's love for one another. He strips away all limits on it. Only man draws a line in the sand and says, "These on this side are my neighbor and those over there are not. I will love these I choose . . . but only as far as my patience and my budget will allow."
Man refuses to see that to curtail life is to dabble in death.
My neighbor is mankind, my parish is the world. When the Lord says, "Do this and you will live," He is speaking to you. God's law is the law of love. God sets no limits on His love, or yours.
Oh, but I believe, Lord. As long as I believe . . .
Earlier this year, I met a woman named Dru. She had worked for many years in various ministries and was teaching in a prison. She said, "I kept thinking there must be more to loving Jesus and the Christian life than this. I professed to believe in God but not much I did required real faith. What if what Jesus says in the gospels He really means? What if His commands are to be taken quite seriously?"
Dru had ordered her life in such a way, she said, that it "would not have looked much different if I had suddenly stopped believing in God. Security was a big idol for me. I came to see that as a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ my life should be markedly, visibly different from those who don't believe."
Having invested her soul, she took the money she had set aside for her kids' college education and her own retirement and bought an old house in the inner city and renovated it. Now she operates it, in addition to doing her day job, as a re-entry facility for men released from prison. She calls it Soli Deo Gloria House – Glory to God Alone.
She says, "It was a chance to trade in my idol of security for a secure place for others. God asked me to trust Him, to walk by faith and not by sight. What a privilege! What a Savior!"
It's personal. God appeared in His creation in the form of a Person to live out in the midst of His people a love that is not a gauzy idea but a throbbing fact.
In the Samaritan, our Lord gives us a picture of one who loves without limits. The robbers might return and assault him, might take his life; yet he tarries. The Samaritan employs wine and oil for healing, as others did, but this was not their only use. In the temple, they were the libations the priests poured out before God as tokens of the people's love.
The priest in this story will not cross the road for fear of coming in contact with a man who may be dead. The priest might incur ritual uncleanness. Upper-class Jews would not rub up against gentiles for fear of contamination, nor would they come within four cubits of a corpse.
The priest will offer bloody sacrifices dawn and dusk but will part with no love for a fellow man. The Samaritan recoils neither from one of another race nor one who may be dead. A love that regards every man as my neighbor is always personal. Concentric circles of holiness radiate from the Samaritan.
On the cross, it will be personal. The law of love will nail Christ to that cross. He will not ask, "Who is My neighbor?" He will offer the perfect sacrifice to which all those animal sacrifices pointed. He will fulfill the law.
He will do what the lawyer cannot do, nor you, nor I, so that all who confess our impotence in fulfilling the law may inherit eternal life. Without God's law, we will never grasp God's grace.
Who is my neighbor? Look up to the cross, look up to the One who became a neighbor to all. You will find the answer nailed there.
And so it must be personal between you and me. I have spoken to you as members of the church universal, the church in the West, the church in America. On this Lord's Day I speak to you, the parishioners of All Saints Anglican Church in Durango, to Russ and Donna; to Jack, Ginny, Kati, Jaron; to Jonathan who sits in jail; to each one present and each one absent.
I am still new here but the time has come, I think, to say: the Jesus in me gonna love the Jesus in you and ain't nothin' you can do about it. You are my flock, given me by God. You have not the power to injure me as grievously I have injured my Lord. As long as He loves me, I will love you.
I will become exasperated with you. I may for a moment rue the day I met you. But that is small beer. As long as the Lord leaves me here among you, I will love you. And that is to say I will place your interest above my own.
In the summary of the law, the commandment to love God comes first, as it must. Love of neighbor has no eternal meaning absent love of the One who opens His kingdom to His people. Those who look for loopholes in the definition of "neighbor" and in the commandment to love him place a limit on both their love for God and their acceptance of His love.
I cannot love you less without loving my heavenly Father less and turning away from the love He offers me. That I will not do to you or to me.
"So which of these three," Jesus asks the lawyer, "do you think was a neighbor to him who fell among thieves?"
Possible answers: a) priest; b) Levite; c) Samaritan.
The lawyer's answer: "The one who showed mercy on him."
A good answer? Jesus responds, "Go and do likewise." But the lawyer has already betrayed his refusal. He says, "the one who showed mercy" and not "the Samaritan."
He cannot bear to pay honor even to a made-up Samaritan in a parable. The Jews hate the Samaritans. They are ancient enemies.
The Old Testament law taught love. The lawyer has all the answers of the law and none of its wisdom. He would justify himself. To do so he must limit God's law so he can limit his responsibility under it. The Psalmist wrote:
"The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes . . ."
According to the law, the one who loves God pours out love on his neighbor. The one who blesses his neighbor out of love for God inherits eternal life. Amen.

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Coming into "Alignment"
LTRP Note: Kevin Reeves is the author of The Other Side of the River, which is an account of his years as an elder in a Latter Rain, "River" church.
By Kevin Reeves
Back in about the early '90s, my former church went through a series of divine healing videos put out by Charles and Francis Hunter, or "The Happy Hunters." At the end of each video, we put the teachings to the test—not the scriptural test for truth, mind you, but the "practical application" of what we had just learned. By laying on of hands, usually administered by Jason (our pastor) but sometimes by others in the group, we often felt things—sometimes a sense like an electric current running through the body, sometimes "drunkenness" (I experienced this one time where I literally could not speak without slurring my words), and sometimes in a very strange manipulation of the limbs. This was particularly powerful. Once (and I was not the only one so affected), according to the command on the video, I stretched out my arms and brought my hands together in order to see if my back was out of alignment. Well, according to the Hunters' criteria it was, and when I asked for God to heal me, right there in that room with about fifteen other people, my back seemed to move of its own accord, my outstretched arms and shoulders slowly rotating as if there was another person inside me doing the motions. There appeared to be a definite power at work unlike any I had ever felt before. I was thrilled. Even elder Smalley was impressed, pointing at me and exclaiming with a huge smile, "Look at Kevin!"
This manipulation went on for about ten minutes, when it gradually subsided and left altogether. We had seen many people on this video manifest in this way, so it was only natural that we should experience the same thing. Incidentally, I never did feel any lasting change in my back.
It wasn't my spine that needed aligning—it was my heart. And that needed to be aligned using the plumb line of God's Word. Although we could not find its precedent in Scripture, the experience was powerful,stimulating, and sometimes seemed to work. Even unbelievers who were occasionally brought to meetings testified of the power that coursed through their bodies and moved their limbs of its own accord. At least one, however, left our meeting hurting with worse pain than when he arrived.
Was it of God? What do you think? Its absence from the ministries of Jesus and the apostles should sound warning bells loud and clear. This was a formula prayer, the same thing Jesus had in fact warned against in Matthew 6:7.
"Do this, and this will happen." How many times I heard that kind of spiritual reasoning in our congregation eludes me. But God simply doesn't act that way. Jesus healed differently for different people, based on heart attitude, not a specific agenda, method, or ritual. One of the main points of the video, which fell right into line with our own doctrine, was that Christians should not be suffering under sickness. Well, if we believe that, then we will have a very hard time explaining away the sickness of sincere believers like Timothy (I Timothy 5:23), Epaphroditus (Philippians 2:25-27), and Trophimus (II Timothy 4:20). In congregations today that follow these doctrines of men, the many who suffer sickness, sometimes chronically, are placed in the position of being healed or being condemned for their lack of faith, either by church leadership, the congregation, or their own feelings. They believe they have failed God. Or worse, that God has failed them.
Other Articles by Kevin Reeves:
Slain in the Spirit: Is it a Biblical Practice? by Kevin Reeves
C is For Catholicism—An Evangelical Primer on Catholic Terminology
D is for Deception—The Language of the "New" Christianity
See also Part 1 Year in Review | See also Part 2 Year in Review | See also Part 3 Year in Review
(Listed in order of date posted)
1/A History of AWANA's Contemplative Track Record and the Implications of Their New CEO
On March 9th of this year, a press release came out announcing the retirement of long-time AWANA president Jack Eggar who was being replaced by an interim president and CEO, Valerie Bell. Bell is a member of Willow Creek (and her husband is a Vice President of Willow Creek Association). The fact alone that AWANA has selected someone from Willow Creek to lead AWANA should be enough to show that AWANA has at least in part absorbed the spirituality of Willow Creek, which is the spirituality of the emerging church (and that is NOT guilt by association). But the selection of Valerie Bell has even deeper roots in the "new" spirituality.
2/Christian Homeschoolers Targeted by "Christ-Centered Energy Healing" Organization
"Are you looking for reliable, Christ-centered information and healing that is safe, affordable and that really does work? Are you sick & tired of being sick & tired? Are you a healer or are you searching for effective healing that is Christ-centered? You have found your tribe."
So says Tammy Anderson Ward, President of Hope Haven Events, who presents the "Christ-Centered Energy Healing Conferences." If Christ-centered energy healing sounds like an oxymoron, that's because it is. And all one needs to do is cruise around on the website to see that the nature of these conferences is blatantly New Age. But we'll get to that in a little bit. The group is reaching out to a broad audience and is being billed as "the world's largest Christ-centered energy healing conference;" but what caught the attention of Lighthouse Trails and author Ray Yungen more than anything is that they are reaching out to homeschool kids and parents, a traditionally conservative segment of the population.
3/DRESS REHEARSAL FOR A FALSE REVIVAL? – Evangelical, Charismatic, Emerging Leaders, & Pope Francis Unite for "Together 2016" in Washington, DC
According to a news release from PRWire titled "Pope Francis To Address Americans At National Mall Event 'Together 2016' With Special Video Message," Pope Francis will be joining (via video) evangelical leaders such as Ravi Zacharias, Luis Palau, Michael W. Smith, and Josh McDowell, emerging-church leaders such as Francis Chan, Ann Voskamp, Jennie Allen (IF), and Mark Batterson (Circle Maker) and charismatic leaders such as Sammy Rodriguez and Hillsong for an event motivated by a goal to bring unity to all those who "love Jesus." The event is called "Together 2016," subtitled Fill the Mall.
4/Evangelical/Ecumenical Leaders Together in "The Gathering" Raises Serious Questions
On June 13, Lighthouse Trails reported on an event called Together 2016 that will take place this summer in Washington DC. We explained that organizer Nick Hall was bringing together evangelical, emerging, charismatic, and Catholic leaders for the ecumenical purpose of uniting together. A special video appearance by Pope Francis will be part of the event. A similar event (but without the Pope) has been announced. The Gathering: A National Solemn Assembly will take place in September in Dallas, Texas, and while there doesn't appear to be any direct promotion of the Roman Catholic religion as there is with Together 2016, there is a definite united-we-stand-regardless-of-our-beliefs scenario in The Gathering.
5/Brian Brodersen and Greg Laurie's "Bigger Picture of Christianity"
As we observe evangelical Christianity being drawn toward "the Mother Church" of Roman Catholicism, it is amazing to see how very few Christian leaders speak up about this. On the contrary, one after the next, Christian leaders are succumbing to this ecumenical, interfaith last-days apostasy of merging evangelicalism into the Catholic fold. Lighthouse Trails has reported on numerous examples of highly influential evangelical leaders heading in this direction: Rick Warren, Beth Moore, James Robison, and Ken Copeland to name a few.
Today, we received two different e-mails that provided information to show the continuance of this evangelical move toward Rome. In the first e-mail sent by Roger Oakland of Understand the Times, Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa senior pastor Brian Brodersen was brought to our attention. Brodersen is beginning an online YouTube series called Things That Matter.
6/Erwin Lutzer Tells Skip Heitzig's Church: Don't Attack False Teachers, But Spiritual Disciplines Are "Absolutely Critical"!
Last week, a colleague sent a note to Lighthouse Trails asking us to review a sermon that Erwin Lutzer recently gave at Skip Heitzig's Calvary Chapel of Albuquerque (New Mexico) Church. Lighthouse Trails has issued challenges and appeals to Erwin Lutzer on a number of occasions over the past ten years because of our concerns that as a major Christian leader (Pastor Emeritus (as of spring 2016) of Moody Church – the same church Dr. Harry Ironside and D.L. Moody pastored many years ago), Lutzer would lead many astray because of his written endorsement of Larry Crabb's book, The Papa Prayer, that openly promotes "centering prayer." An editor from Lighthouse Trails spoke personally on the phone with Lutzer in 2006 but to no avail.
7/Christian Leaders Finally Beginning to Speak Out About Jesus Calling, Saying: "WE LOVE IT!!"
For three years, Lighthouse Trails has been warning believers about Sarah Young's Jesus Calling. It was October 25th 2013 that we announced going to press with Warren B. Smith's book "Another Jesus" Calling. Since then, we have published three booklets by Warren on the topic as well as several articles. We also sent his booklet 10 Scriptural Reasons Jesus Calling is a Dangerous Book to over 100 Christian leaders earlier this year. Interestingly, in these past few years, we've heard virtually no public comments by Christian leaders about Jesus Calling – for or against. We wondered, "Do they like the book and are too afraid to say so?" or "Do they NOT like the book and are too afraid to say so?" Afraid that if they stated their true feelings about the book – whether for or against – they would take heat from either their followers who love the book or from discernment ministries who warn about the book. Well, apparently, all that doesn't matter anymore because leaders are starting to speak up about Jesus Calling – and the ones who are, LOVE IT!
8/InterVarsity Comes Under Heat for Trying to Make a Stand Against Same-Sex Marriage – But Straddling the Fence is Hard to Do
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship has come under public heat because it recently announced they were giving an ultimatum to employees who saw nothing wrong with same-sex (homosexual) marriage. In a Charisma magazine article (we are not endorsing Charisma), the author states:
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is one of the leading campus ministries, and its publishing arm, InterVarsity Press, is one of the top Christian publishers. But this fine ministry is learning the hard way that, when it comes to homosexuality, you cannot straddle the fence.1
The reason the Charisma writer says "straddle the fence" is because InterVarsity Press has been publishing emergent, contemplative, New Age/New Spirituality authors for a long time, and mixing truth with error has finally caught up with them.
9/LifeWay Resources (SBC) Stops Selling Same-Sex Marriage Promoter Jen Hatmaker . . . But LifeWay Still Not Seeing the Big Picture
According to a Christianity Today article, LifeWay Resources (the Southern Baptist Convention resource arm) has stopped selling products by Jen Hatmaker because of her promotion of same-sex marriage. The CT article stated:
Jen Hatmaker posted a 650-word response on her Facebook page Monday, saying she "wrestled with and through Scripture, not around it" before coming to a decision to affirm same-sex relationships, which recently led to LifeWay Christian Resources pulling her books from its stores.
Hatmaker has been the topic of Lighthouse Trails articles and Cedric Fisher's booklet called IF it is of God: Answering the Questions About IF: Gathering as she is part of the group of women who head up the women's movement called IF: Gathering.
10/Pope Francis Proposes New Beatitude – to See God in Every Person
According to an article in the Catholic Herald, Pope Francis has proposed six new beatitudes. The article states:
At the Mass, which took place at the conclusion of his ecumenical trip to the country, Pope Francis highlighted the lives of the Swedish saints Elizabeth Hesselblad and Bridget of Vadstena. . . . New situations require new energy and a new commitment, he said, and then offered a new list of Beatitudes for modern Christians.
Four of the "new beatitudes" had to do with forgiving others, caring about the earth, and helping the poor and needy. One of them was ecumenical in nature: — Blessed are those who pray and work for full communion between Christians [meaning Christians and Catholics], and the second resonated with earlier comments Pope Francis has made to indicate that this pope is not only ecumenical, he is also interspiritual (all paths lead to God) and panentheistic (God is in all).
Question to the Editor: What Do You Know About Ed Silvoso and the Transformation Movement?
"Ed Silvosos' paradigm is no different than many others who have come into the church before basically "rethinking everything into a new strategy." Using the magic word of 'transformation' (a word originally found in theosophy of the New Age movement), it has found itself as one of the many new platforms for 'mission strategies' now being employed by the New Apostolic Reformation." – Mike Oppenheimer
Dear Lighthouse Trails:
Do you know anything about Dr. Ed Silvoso who, from this announcement below, is coming to Tulsa? Someone sent me this announcement and I did some Internet research on him re: his bio, etc. Can you tell if his "transformation" is anything like Rick Warren's?
Our Comment:
While we don't have anything about Ed Silvoso on our site, we are familiar with the transformation movement. It's not exactly like Rick Warren's agenda. It is more along the lines of the NAR movement and the redeeming the cultures movement. Silvoso and other leaders in the transformation movement may have good intentions, but they are kind of like the salesman who promises miracles with his product, and people buy it because of all the hype, but in the end, the product doesn't deliver. Since the 1980s, the transformation movement leaders have promised that entire cities were going to be changed dramatically and violence would be reduced throughout our society if Christians followed their ideas on unity and prayer. But look where we are today in this world. Cities are not being transformed, and society is growing darker and more violent, just as Scripture tells us it will because men's hearts will grow colder and further away from Christ.
Here are a few articles that will provide information on Ed Silvoso and the transformation movement:
The Global Transformation of Redeeming Cultures by Mike Oppenheimer
BOOKLET TRACT: Can Cultures Be Redeemed? (Some Things You Should Know About the Indigenous People's Movement) by Nanci Des Gerlaise
Transformations or Re-transformation? A Paradigm Shift for Evangelism by Mike Oppenheimer
Ed Silvoso & Transformation Africa by Herescope
DRESS REHEARSAL FOR A FALSE REVIVAL? – Evangelical, Charismatic, Emerging Leaders, & Pope Francis Unite for "Together 2016" in Washington, DC
According to a news release from PRWire titled "Pope Francis To Address Americans At National Mall Event 'Together 2016' With Special Video Message," Pope Francis will be joining (via video) evangelical leaders such as Ravi Zacharias, Luis Palau, Michael W. Smith, and Josh McDowell, emerging-church leaders such as Francis Chan, Ann Voskamp, Jennie Allen (IF), and Mark Batterson (Circle Maker) and charismatic leaders such as Sammy Rodriguez and Hillsong for an event motivated by a goal to bring unity to all those who "love Jesus." The event is called "Together 2016," subtitled Fill the Mall.
Nick Hall, the organizer of the event who hopes to draw one million people to the National Mall on July 16th, stated: "Together 2016 is about laying aside what divides us to lift up Jesus who unites us."1 Hall told one news source, "We are coming together in historic unity to pray for a reset for our nation."2
It's been over fifteen years since contemplative pioneer Richard Foster shared his vision of Catholics and evangelicals coming together3 and over two decades since Chuck Colson helped author a document titled "Evangelicals/Catholics Together."4 It's been over a decade since Rick Warren announced his hopes to bring about a second reformation that would include people of different religions.5 In more recent days, evangelical leaders such as Beth Moore,6 Franklin Graham,7 and Kenneth Copeland8 have played their parts in helping to remove the barriers between the evangelical/Protestant church and the Roman Catholic Church (something the Catholic Church calls the New Evangelization program9).
According to the Bible, we know a time is coming when a global one-world religion will serve alongside a global one-world government, both of which will reject Jesus Christ as the Messiah and Lord. Whether they realize it or not, the leaders and musicians participating in Together 2016 are helping to make that global religion a reality as they participate in this ongoing relay race of breaking down the walls that divide different faiths in the name of unity at all costs.
Right now, in America, evangelical and charismatic leaders are calling for a nation-wide revival. But will their revival be a revival from God; or will it be a false revival? And is Together 2016 nothing more than a dress rehearsal for this false revival?
"I Just Had a Vision!" written by Kevin Reeves, is our newest Lighthouse Trails Print Booklet Tract. The booklet is 16 pages long and sells for $1.50 for single copies. Quantity discounts are as much as 50% off retail. This booklet is specifically geared toward passing out to those who are involved in movements such as the River movement, Latter Rain, Word Faith, IHOP, Kansas City Prophets, Toronto Blessing, or Brownsville Revival, etc.). Below is the content of the booklet (the names of people and churches have been changed). To order copies of "I Just Had a Vision!," click here.
by Kevin Reeves
There is perhaps nothing so powerful as a vision. When the heavens open and our eyes look upon fantastic things once hidden, it can alter the course of our lives:
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. (Isaiah 6:1–5)
A glimpse into heaven itself to behold the God of all flesh made Isaiah panic with self-loathing. His innermost heart was revealed in the light of the Lord's glory, and there was no place to hide.
Who wouldn't want to have a vision of this magnitude? And why shouldn't we? On the day of Pentecost, the Christians present experienced the outpouring of the Holy Spirit: "[A]nd your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams" (Acts 2:17).
Never in the history of our planet have so many who call themselves Christian claimed visions from God. Encounters with Christ, angels, demons, even saints long departed have begun to appear in book form, crowding the charismatic section of our local Christian bookstores. The popularity of visions never seems to wane, and the more a person has and the greater the scope, the quicker he is skyrocketed to Christian stardom. People with virtually no genuine theological training are suddenly propelled into the teaching arena, regaling vast audiences with tremendous accounts of their own spiritual derring-do. And while the stories continue to scale the heights of plausibility, an amazed public looks on, vicariously a part of the panoramic excitement and often with hands folded atop a closed Bible in their laps.
Sadly and without exaggeration, Sunday services at New Covenant Fellowship, my former church, were routinely stopped to give opportunity to report a vision that occurred during worship. Many in the congregation would listen with rapt attention as one person after another would share what had transpired "in the spirit." Sometimes demons would make an appearance; sometimes it was the Lord Jesus Himself.
Angels were a particular favorite. I can't tell you how many times angels have made an impromptu appearance at our services.
Jeannette McElroy seemed graced with multiple visitations. On this particular Sunday afternoon, Jeannette had gone up to the front of the sanctuary, in the middle of a worship song, to speak privately with worship leader Beth Clayton, Pastor Phil's wife. Beth held her hand over the microphone, listened momentarily to Jeannette, and then nodded. At the end of the song, Beth in triumph noted the presence of the two angelic beings seen by Jeannette. They were there to worship with us, she exclaimed, and she led the congregation into a brief period of shouting praise to God for sending His angelic emissaries.
No one halted the festivities to suggest examining the claim in the light of God's Word. It was merely taken at face value and used to bolster our self-image as the church on the cutting-edge of God's worldwide movement. By then several months into my own charismatic research, I exchanged a brief, frustrated glance with my wife, Kris.
When I later brought up the angel incident in an eldership meeting, Beth staunchly denied she'd promoted the vision. She maintained she had merely acknowledged Jeannette's word and left it to the congregation to decide its veracity. But my wife and I were both there. The way it is described above is exactly the way it happened. Interestingly, none of the rest of the leadership in the room nixed Beth's version, despite the fact that some were present during the "angelic visitation."
Tunnel Vision
The cries of "I saw!" reverberated throughout New Covenant Fellowship my whole tenure there. Sometimes the visions were two-dimensional, sometimes 3-D, and sometimes the person was actually caught up into them, in the same way the apostle John was translated into the heavenly realms in the book of Revelation. They moved as participants in the vision itself, walking, feeling, etc. As Pastor Tom consistently reminded the congregation of its prophetic calling, dreams and visions grew to paramount importance. They were used to chart our congregation's very course, and any resistance or verbal doubt was severely frowned upon or openly dismissed.
Never having been much involved with either prophecy or visions, I had no foundation of experience from which to judge. I left the decision to the rest of the leadership, to accept or reject whatever came forth with the label of vision. Finally, during my last year as elder, I did my own Bible study on the subject, and what I discovered left me angry, frightened, and delighted. Angry, because I felt we had been duped personally and congregationally.
Frightened, because so many visions were coming forth on a regular basis with no real safeguard as to their origins. Delighted, because I was no longer held captive by supposed visions from God, which I had long suspected were other than from Him.
Many people cannot appreciate the gravity with which visions are accepted in many charismatic circles, and consequently cannot understand the bondage that results. If someone has a vision of "the Lord Jesus" and is given a message to convey to you, for you to treat it lightly is to despise the very words of God. You are bound to carry out the instructions of this visionary or face the consequences. The ensuing fear can be devastating, especially if the message contradicts your own conscience or understanding of the Scriptures.
The new believer is especially vulnerable because he is led to believe that all these visions are from God. Furthermore, any hindrance to, or lack of visions on his own part is due, he is told, to lack of maturity and failure to fully trust the leadership.
Accepting everything that comes down the pike as from God is like driving a car while wearing blinders. You can't see the big picture. Your actual focus becomes so constrained that you miss necessary landmarks to indicate proper direction—not to mention the fact that sooner or later you'll get sideswiped by a vehicle you never saw coming.
On the Wings of Angels
At my best count, there are less than thirty visions or dreams recorded in the entire New Testament, and of these only about fifteen took place in the book of Acts. And this in a period, from the birth of Christ to the last chapter of Acts, encompassing about sixty years.
I have come to the conclusion that visions are not the norm for a believer, but a rare occurrence. Of those saints in the Bible described as having bona fide visions from God, a mere handful had more than one recorded vision in their entire lifetime.
Furthermore, none of these occurrences were initiated by the individual, but were the result of a divine act of God. In explaining mystical experiences, which is the category visions fall into, I like this explanation by research analyst Ray Yungen:
While certain instances in the Bible describe mystical experiences, I see no evidence anywhere of God sanctioning man-initiated mysticism. Legitimate mystical experiences were always initiated by God to certain individuals for certain revelations and were never based on a method for the altering of consciousness. In Acts 11:5, Peter fell into a trance while in prayer. But it was God, not Peter, who initiated the trance and facilitated it.1
Compared with the frequency of modern visions by many charismatic churchgoers, these past biblical heroes seem almost deficient in their relationship to the Lord.
Concerning the visitation of angelic beings themselves, the scriptural record directly conflicts with such experiences. In our own meetings, those with frequent visions of angels had often depicted them as merely standing around, enjoying or participating in a worship service with us. Contrast this with the biblical model of angelic visitation. In both Old and New Testaments, angels are beings sent by God to give verbal messages (often concerning the future), to administer divine judgment, to strengthen and comfort, and to give specific direction, warnings, and deliverance from dangers. Their appearing was an amazing event; fear was the natural human reaction to their presence, or at the very least an awed respect. Visions of angels in the church of today, however, nearly always produce glee or a giddy joyfulness, little awe, no fear, and often the "angels" are just standing enjoying themselves and have no message from God. In heaven this may sometimes happen (we simply don't know), but the scriptural precedent demonstrates their earthly visitation always heralded a direct message from the Lord and their very presence caused an immediate shock to the person witnessing it. In those times when angels hid their identity (Genesis 19) they were viewed as mere men, and when they made their identity known, the reaction was fear, shock, and awe.
Likewise, visions of any kind, in both Old and New Testament, appeared to be very rare occurrences. Acts 2:17 has been used to support the argument of increased occurrence of visions in the end-times, but the context of Scripture shows that we have been in the last days for the past two thousand years. If anyone should have had a preponderance of visions, you'd think it would have been the apostles, who knew the Lord Jesus face-to-face and wrote the New Testament under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
All in the Mind?
I believe that most of what are reported as visions are not such at all, but could be more appropriately termed mental pictures. The two are certainly not synonymous. Mental pictures occur constantly during our waking hours but don't necessarily have anything to do with the spiritual, whereas visions always have their origin in the supernatural realm. As we speak in conversation, we see mental images, memories, etc., to correspond with the dialogue; reading gives us the same experience. Even television viewing offers the same scenario, as the images dancing across the screen click off our own past experiences or connections with our present situations. This can transpose into our times of prayer, giving us mental pictures that may or may not be of God.
This conclusion really upset my wife Kris (the first dozen times I mentioned it!) because she had often relied on mental pictures as a guide when praying for others. Encouraged by the leadership as prophetic, Kris watched the pictures that arose in her mind for clues to the spiritual condition of the person she was praying for, and the subsequent remedy.
After personal Bible study and serious prayer, she came to question this method and eventually discard it as a valid practice in ministry. The practice itself can be dangerous, actually maneuvering an innocent Christian in the wrong direction. In many cults, and, unfortunately in much of the Pentecostal arm of the church, it has already done just that.
That is not to say that all images we see are wrong. Some may be quite correct at times. But "[w]e have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place" (II Peter 1:19). The Word of God is the mirror in which to examine all our practices, thoughts, deeds, and desires. If God had left anything out of His written record, the void would allow all manner of personal interpretations or inventions to prosper. The resultant chaos would cripple any objective discernment.
Quality Testing
According to the Bible, there are three sources of visions—God, the devil, and the flesh. Of these, only one can be trusted as to motive and authenticity. As for the other spiritual experiences originating with the kingdom of darkness or human sensuality, they must be discarded, and immediately. They are not impotent fantasies, but are corrupt from the word go and will quickly lead astray anyone whose attraction they capture:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word. Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken? Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD. (Ezekiel 13:3–8)
I cannot stress this enough—contrary to popular fallacy, there is no such thing as a harmless false vision. Its fraudulent nature alone is enough to condemn it in the eyes of God; those who give ear to it will eventually have their faith in Christ contaminated, perhaps shipwrecked. Attendees of the Peoples Temple were regaled with stories of angelic visitations and "revelation knowledge." The reverend Jim Jones capitalized on his self-proclaimed intimacy with heaven to lead a group of followers into mass suicide in the Guyana bush.2 Don't think that the average believer in Christ is immune to this kind of deception. In the wake of gold teeth and gold dust miracles showing up in various River congregations worldwide, stories of angel feather sightings have set a portion of the charismatic church wild with jubilee. One West Coast church said that "tiny white feathers and gold flakes" appeared during the service.3 Such occurrences were the next logical step in an already deception-heavy system of super-spirituality, rationalization, and the frenzied pursuit of illusion.
While there could be genuine godly visions that do take place today, they are very rare and not apt to guide people into the fantastic or to gather a following. Contrast this with the nearly cult status accorded some presumed seers, who not only relate a plethora of dreams and visions that contradict biblical foundations but who make a rather decent living doing it through books, conferences, special engagements, etc. The overused mantra of "God is doing a new thing and therefore the Scriptures don't specifically address it" should be relegated to the ash heap. Any true heavenly vision may only confirm what is already in the Scriptures:
And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. (I Corinthians 4:6)
Do not go past that which is written. Through Scripture, the Holy Spirit repeatedly makes the same statement in manifold ways:
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. (Acts 17:11)
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. (II Timothy 3:13–17)
A master of camouflage, "Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light" (II Corinthians 11:14). We are admonished to put to trial those things we see or hear claiming to be from the heavenly realms:
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. (I John 4:1–3)
To confess means to agree with. Any spirit, vision, dream, prophet, experience, whatever, that does not agree with the revelation of Jesus Christ as set down in the Scriptures is not of God. Water may look pure, but unless we know the source from which it is drawn we may drink to our own ill health. A close examination with a magnifying glass may betray bits and pieces of debris, or worse yet, organisms roaming its depths that, taken internally, would cause debilitating disease.
Am I suggesting we carry around a magnifier to inspect anything coming our way? Perhaps that is just what is needed. For too long, we've covered our eyes with blinders instead and accepted a testimony to our detriment, simply because the person giving it named Christ and seemed sincere. Paul said even deceivers within the church would attempt to pass themselves off as the real article (II Corinthians 11: 3–4, 13). We can judge without being judgmental.
Peripheral issues we can overlook, knowing full well the sole reservoir of truth does not rest with us.
But in the presentation of Christ, there can be no leeway. A false image of the Savior—His character, words or deeds—will lead us away from the truth, and consequently, away from God. And eventually, that is what every fraudulent vision will do—take away from the person of Christ and demand our attention and adherence to its personalized message. I have seen it happen, as one vision after another proclaimed in my former congregation boosted our elitism and remolded Jesus just a bit more into the user-friendly image we preferred. With virtually no accountability, fear of redefining Christ's biblically revealed character faded bit by bit into obscurity.
This current state of things within the church is just the outgrowth of an inner movement attempting to differentiate between truth and revelation. It is being stated by popular charismatic authors that truth is where God has been, but revelation is where He is at the moment. This dichotomy is a contrived one. The Word of God is truth and revelation both, and the timeless truth of God's Word applies to all saints throughout all ages. Again, the implication of this kind of compartmentalized thinking is that the Scriptures fall embarrassingly short when it comes to equipping the saints for life in today's world.
What should shame us as believers is the wholesale disregard for the only visible, objective, sure, written Word of God. In our mad dash to embrace the new thing, we have run right past the only place of refuge, God's Promise, that can keep us from hurtling down the face of an impossibly steep cliff. I can testify to the broken lives and empty spirituality that remains when the initial high wears off. We had congregation members regularly spending their cash to jet to this or that prophetic conference. They just had to keep up with the latest move of God, and bring it back with them to New Covenant. Running after other gods, ancient Israel attained to this spiritual bankruptcy on a regular basis. But we can take heart, for their failures can be our lessons:
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. (Romans 15:4)
For those former seers willing to swallow a large helping of humble pie, there is most certainly hope. For those willing to repent, the grace of our Lord will lead past every soulish and narcissistic revelation, helping us to walk in humility and the simple freedom of Christ Jesus.
For the rest, the road can only lead further into deception and confusion, compounding itself with every new revelation that adds to, subtracts from, or contradicts Scripture.
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; Which think to cause my people to forget my name. (Jeremiah 23: 25-27)
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1. Ray Yungen, A Time of Departing (Eureka, MT: Lighthouse Trails Publishing, 2nd edition, 2006), p. 34.
2. In 1978, cult leader Jim Jones lead over 900 followers in a mass suicide in northern Guyana.
3. Mary Owen "Oregon Church Says Gold Dust, Feathers Fell During Meetings" (Charisma magazine, September 2000, http://www.charismamag.com/index.php/component/content/article/248-people-events/517-oregon-church-says-gold-dust-feathers-fell-during-meetings).
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Abbreviation: SI.
International System of Units n.
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Description of the accommodation:
Rooms, services Five comfortably furnished rooms are offered by Albergue Rio Vermelho Salvador to guests looking for accommodation in Salvador. The exact equipment and the exact list of available services of Albergue Rio Vermelho Salvador can be read on the information sheet below.
Payment Depending on the selected date, room and price, you may need to provide credit card guarantee or advance bank card payment to finalize your reservation.
Arrival, opening hours The earliest time for arrival and check-in is 12:00, the latest time for departure and check-out is 11:00. The personnel of the hotel can speak with you in Portuguese - Portugal and English languages.
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Sizes: 48-62 cm, in 2-cm increments
Weight: 20.3 pounds (58 cm tested)
Frame: TIG-welded Reynolds 853 main tubes, 753 chrome-moly stays
Fork: Time Club carbon fiber blades with aluminum crown and dropouts
Component highlights: Shimano 105 group, Ultrega rear derailleur, Ritchey Logic Comp handlebar, steam and seatpost; Fizik Pave Pro saddle; Speedplay X-3 clipless pedals; Ritchey Pro wheels with bladed spokes; Michelin Axial Pro 200x23c tires.
Profile: High-performance road racing bike without a high-performance price
Best thing about this bike: You get the exact same frame geometry and tubing as Schwinns legendary Paramount, but without all the fancy lugwork and attendant cost.
Secret legend: The Schwinn Paramount was Americas secret weapon back in the day, with Schwinn providing backdoor sponsorship of many an athlete when amateur status was a liberal term. Its what our champions rode.
For decades, the Paramount name stood for the best American road bikes the Peloton benefits from that mystique, with Paramount-level performance with the legendary name or price tag.
Functional art: Thin, artfully curved rear stays give plenty of lateral stiffness, while providing decent ride compliance thats welcome on long days. Timelessly classy cobalt blue-and-white graphics.
Bike racer flourishes: Deep-drop Ritchey handlebar with anatomically shaped drops so you can spend long hours in a racing tuck. Lightweight wheels with bladed spokes to carve the wind. Steepish, 74-degree head angle for snap turns.


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Kevin's Review: Then She Found Me - Helen Hunt's Happy Start
by Kevin Powers
May 8, 2008
- US Release Date: May 2, 2008 (Limited)
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
- MPAA: Rated R (for language and some sexual content)
- Running Time: 100 minutes
- Directed by: Helen Hunt
- on IMDb
- 7/10
Where has Helen Hunt been? The 44-year-old actress was a hot property during the late nineties and around the millennium, but she's largely laid low since then. She's now starring as the lead in Then She Found Me, which serves as a bit of a return for her to the mainstream, as well as her debut as a director. She did one thing right from the start as a virgin behind the camera: cast Bette Midler. If ever there were a chick-flick tractor beam for adults, it's Midler and her undying cred from Beaches. Wrap this around a sentimental mother-daughter movie about modern day life and love, and you have guaranteed box office gold. Let's hope so. Then She Found Me is a great directorial first for Hunt that manages to touch on an impressive number of grown-up dramas, while keeping the comedy as pure accessory, resulting in a grounded and very likable film.
Hunt's character, April, is a melancholy middle-age woman that is the victim of a confluence of misfortunes. First her husband, a wet-rag of a man Ben (Matthew Broderick), leaves her for no obvious reason. Shortly thereafter, April's adoptive mother dies; then she discovers her parting sex with Ben has resulted in her long-wanted pregnancy; then she is reacquainted with her birth mother, Bernice (Midler), who gave her up at just one year old. These events make Hunt's older appearance and familiar flat tone all the more effective. April is a 39-year-old woman starting over. Who wouldn't be a little run down?
As April begins to understand her new life as someone who is single, pregnant and in possession of a biological mother, she meets Frank (Brit Colin Firth), a single father of two who is even more exhausted than she is. (His unruly, curly hair and frenzied, clipped dialogue make this abundantly clear.) The reticence of their courtship and sharing of their respective dramas is humorously real -- nothing laugh-out-loud, but quietly smirk-worthy and comfortable. Much of the film materializes like this.
Obviously, with such a movie as this there are highs and lows and foreseen turns. None of it feels overly contrived, save for Midler's character who is now a recognized daytime talk show host with gobs of money. Money makes dealing with life's little earthquakes so much easier, no?
As for Hunt, she's commendable as a first-time director. Much of the film has a very seasoned feel to it, though it doesn't reek of formula. There are a few times when the camera sloppily wanders, presumably capturing something innocuous for texture or accessory. And a number of brief, strange cameos from Tim Robbins, Janeane Garofalo and others riddle the film as well; there seems to be no reason for them.
Then She Found Me also dances on the periphery of the pregnancy trend, fueled by the likes of Knocked Up and Juno. But unlike those that have come before it, Hunt's film commits to its adult trajectory and delivers some surprising maturity, humor and emotion to the topic -- just as it does with the other mini-dramas that color her refreshingly sophisticated first.
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O'Shea pivotal to Trapattoni plans as St Ledger ruled out
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI is praying that John O'Shea comes through tomorrow's Champions League final unscathed after Sean St Ledger was ruled out of next weekend's Euro 2012 qualifier in Macedonia.
The Preston man's unavailability through a long-term knee problem he sustained on Irish duty in March means that Trapattoni enters the game short of his two first-choice central defenders, with Richard Dunne suspended for the Skopje encounter.
Darren O'Dea, who deputised for St Ledger in the home win over Macedonia, returned to full training yesterday after recovering from an ankle injury and will get a chance to prove his well-being in Sunday's Carling Nations Cup meeting with Scotland.
Trapattoni plans to move O'Shea into the central defence for Macedonia to partner O'Dea, so he will nervously be watching events from Wembley. The Waterford man is expected to miss out on United's starting XI, but could well be involved at some stage.
"I hope that John O'Shea finishes the game without injury," said Trapattoni. "We have two or three injuries there. At the moment, I plan to play O'Dea in Macedonia because they have big players and he is experienced. If he shows us Friday that he is fit, then he can play against Scotland."
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Micah, chapter 2, Vulgate and King James Version
1 Vae, qui cogitant iniquitatem et operantur malum in cubilibus suis! In luce matutina faciunt illud, quoniam est in potestate manus eorum.
2 Concupiscunt agros, et violenter tollunt, domos, et rapiunt. Et opprimunt virum et domum eius, hominem et hereditatem eius.
3 Idcirco haec dicit Dominus: "Ecce ego cogito super familiam istam malum, unde non auferetis colla vestra; et non ambulabitis erecti, quoniam tempus pessimum est.
4 In die illa sumetur super vos parabola, et assumetur lamentum dicentium: "Depopulatione vastati sumus; pars populi mei commutatur, quam nemo ei restituet; infideli regiones nostrae dividuntur".
5 Propter hoc non erit tibi mittens funiculum sortis in coetu Domini".
6 "Ne vaticinemini!". "Vaticinentur, non vaticinentur de his, non cedet confusio!".
7 Numquid maledicta est domus Iacob? Numquid abbreviatus est spiritus Domini, aut tales sunt actiones eius? Nonne verba eius bona sunt cum eo, qui recte graditur?
8 Vos autem contra populum meum ut adversarium consurgitis. Desuper tunica pallium tollitis ei; qui transibant fiducialiter, fiunt quasi bello capti.
9 Mulieres populi mei eicitis de domo deliciarum suarum; a parvulis earum aufertis decorem meum in perpetuum.
10 "Surgite et ite, quia non habetis hic requiem!". Propter immunditiam peribitis perditione pessima.
11 Si esset vir vento excitatus et mendacium loqueretur: "Vaticinabor tibi de vino et sicera", hic esset vates populi istius.
12 Congregatione congregabo, Iacob, totum te; in unum conducam reliquias Israel, pariter ponam illum quasi gregem in ovili, quasi pecus in medio pascuae; et tumultuabuntur a multitudine hominum.
13 Ascendet enim pandens iter ante eos; erumpent et transibunt portam, egredientur per eam. Et transibit rex eorum coram eis, et Dominus in capite eorum.
King James Version
1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
4 ¶ In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
7 ¶ O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
12 ¶ I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.


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Minster FM News
Tributes Paid to Former York Councillor
3:49pm 18th February 2013
Tributes have been paid to former York councillor Cyril Waite.
Labour Group Leader, Coun. James Alexander, said:
"Cyril was a staunch socialist and trades unionist and spoke in line with his political principles whenever the opportunity arose. Party Members in Heworth ward confirm this was true until as recently as last year when he still attended branch meetings. He maintained a keen interest in the workings of the council and in how politicians were reflecting the will of local residents, and wasn't backward in saying so when he thought this wasn't the case".
Heworth ward councillor Ruth Potter said:
"As one of the Heworth Ward Councillors who took over from Cyril when he retired, I am always amazed by the number of people who remember him and his hard work for local residents. Local people always speak very highly of Cyril. He was renowned locally for his strong principles and speaking up for local residents. He was greatly missed when he retired and I am sure people will be very sad to hear of his deat h. I remember him asking at my selection for Heworth Ward if I believed in nationalization at the height of the economy; a socialist to the end".
Cyril served the city with distinction for 23 years, making him eligible to become an Honorary Alderman when he stood down from the council, which he did in 2003. He also served the city as its first citizen and Lord Mayor in 1986/7. Sadly in his civic year he lost his wife, Marjorie, which was greatly upsetting at what was supposed to be a happy time for the two of them. But he continued in the only way he knew how and the sheltered housing scheme which he was due to open that year was named Marjorie Waite Court after his wife who had also been a councillor and very active in the area of adult social services.
A former spitfire pilot in WWII, Cyril worked in the insurance sector after leaving the RAF. He also spent a year at the London School of Economics and was well read in his areas of interest, recently passing on books to the Labour Party on everything from the industrial history of England to applied economics to books by Marx and Attlee.
Cyril had many interests both on and off the council, one of them being York Castle Museum which he was always very passionate about. Outside his council work he was a keen gardener and spent a lot of time on his allotment close to his home in Heworth.
Cyril was very active in the Labour Party, serving as Vice Chair in the 1980s, and in the Co-op movement for many years, and remains fondly remembered by a number of councillors still on the council today. He was a unique individual and will be sadly missed by all who knew him.
The party says it's thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.


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Unanswered: How to get rid of ONLY ONE publications?
I have got a Publisher with 5 different publications (different tables on each). One of them publicates only one table. I delete that one and then create a new one with the same table and a new table. My final purpose is adding a new table to an existing publication. When I run the merge agent, I got the error "cannot drop one or more tables because they are being used by another publications". I cannont use the sp sp_removedbreplication 'database_name' because I do not want to get rid of all of them, just "remake" one of the. The suscriber is the same for all and all of them are merge.
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by Zachary Palmer
Tonight, December 14
(date set at time of print),
60 Gansevoort St (btw Greenwich St. and Washington St) Doors open at 9pm. 21+ $12 donation required
With rock 'n' roll at one end of the concrete-floored space and art covering the walls, the Ex-y Magazines and Vacancy Records create aparty-as-installation-piece that is an arabesque of the Christian hardcoreband that played the house show the night of your senior prom and a Velvet Underground performance at the Factory. The clientele might seem too Critical-Mass-after-party for some, but Shindig has enough art, fashion, recorded tunes, bands, and booze to take away the disaffected posturing seen on anyone from FIT students to the most jaded fashionista manqué this side of grunge. The Shindig party is a little derivative in concept but never ostentatious and is certainly more engaging than listening to side two of The Velvet Underground and Nico backward while fixating on a real banana.


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Chrissie in Chiangmai
Chiang Mai Travel Blog› entry 3 of 4 › view all entries
Xmas in Chiangmai was a casual, enjoyable, but nonethless lovely day. We decided to take it easy after our action packed day of elephant riding and trekking as well as our visit to the Sunday night walking bazaar (which was huge and had the most delicious treats - thick slices of bread with butter and sugar heaped on top (the bread here is fit for dessert), banana waffles cooked on the spot) where i purchased some little handmade wooden whistles as chrissie pressies for my travel buddies. Stella at the Green Tulip House had prepared a King's feast for us! it was absolutely delicious with roasted chicken and ham, gravy, beans, carrots, stuffing, roasted potatoes and meatballs - the plates were so packed that no one could finish a single plate on their own! Afterwards, we had christmas cake as well - vanilla and chocolate sponge cake which was gorgeously decorated wtih little santas and icing. That night we had dinner at a side street stall (only 50 baht for a green curry but it was steaming, hot and delicious) and headed to an English pub for a couple of drinks. We debated over whether to go to the skimpy girls bar...decided against it and headed back to the guesthouse where we had drinks in Mel and E's room as well as some order in pizza which cost more than two night's accomodation! (it turned out to be 50 baht a pizza...total rip off!)


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Service-Learning Faculty Fellows
The Service-Learning Faculty Fellow program is sponsored by the Office of Leadership and Service-Learning (OLSL). The Service-Learning Faculty Fellow program promotes faculty development and the scholarship of engagement by integrating community outreach with teaching, scholarship, and service. The one year program is designed to increase the quantity and quality of service-learning courses, develop faculty leadership, and promote advocacy for service-learning. Additionally, the faculty fellow will work with OLSL to advance institutional change to increase understanding of and reward for service-learning and community service as meaningful professional work.
Duties & Responsibilities
The Faculty Fellow collaborates with the Assistant Director for Service-Learning and is primarily responsible for developing and expanding service-learning opportunities at UNCG, with particular emphasis on infusing service-learning into the curriculum. The Faculty Fellow engages in:
- Present service-learning research and programs at regional and national professional conferences, including the North Carolina Campus Compact annual conference (at Elon University)
- Assist in designing and hosting the annual OLSL Speaker Series Seminars
- Design and implement a project that promotes the fellow's public scholarship and furthers the OLSL mission.
Faculty Development
- Assist in design and implementation of faculty service-learning workshops and brown bag discussions (one each semester)
- Encourage faculty and student colleagues to offer and engage in service-learning courses
- Provide consultation to faculty, as requested, in the development of service-learning courses and assignments.
Faculty Leadership
- Co-chair the Service-Learning Advisory Committee with the assistant director of service-learning. This committee meets approximately once a month to discuss topics of concern to faculty, staff and community partners, as well as to plan future events that promote service-learning on UNCG's campus.
- Participate in and model collaborative service-learning opportunities across disciplines.
- Participate in public forums on campus to situate the work of service-learning within the larger umbrella of community engaged scholarship.
Course Development
- Serve on the Service-Learning Designation Committee to review course proposals seeking SVL designation.
- Serve on the review committees for grants offered by OLSL (domestic and international course development and community-based research grants)
- Advise OLSL in grant seeking activities
Community Development
- Remain active in community organizations to develop community partner relationships.
- Seek out opportunities within the community for UNCG service-learning involvement
Past Service-Learning Faculty Fellows
Dr. Marianne LeGreco served from 2013-2014 as a Service-Learning Faculty Fellow!
"We have a very unique and important resource in the Office of Leadership and Service Learning at UNCG. As part of my OLSL Fellowship, I hope to inspire current and new faculty to take advantage this Office and get engaged with their communities through service learning. Working with students and community partners has been an important part of my research, teaching, and service. My goal as a faculty fellow is to work with OLSL and the Faculty Learning Community on Service Learning to make better use of the service learning research and resources that are available to us at UNCG.
As a Communication Studies person, I often encourage people to take a moment to look at where they have been and where they are going. More specifically, my work as the OLSL faculty fellow will have me participating in some "needs talk" with current and new faculty about how the Office of Leadership and Service Learning can serve as the best possible resource for engaged faculty. Moreover, I will continue to co-organize the Faculty Learning Community on Service Learning, which is one of the most successful learning communities on campus."
To learn more about Dr. LeGreco's current projects and publications, please visit her homepage at https://cst.uncg.edu/faculty-and-staff/legreco/ or email her at email@example.com.
Patrick Lee Lucas, Ph.D., Interior Architecture, 2010-2011 – Community Engagement
"I think of UNCG's Department of Interior Architecture as a place where design and engagement meet. As the practice of design inherently engenders multi-disciplinary collaboration and innovative energy, this year I plan to trace these qualities in our department's culture, offering ideas and practical advice easily adapted by other academic units on campus. This work is timely. In a society increasingly shaped by design thinking, people freely borrow from the time-honored traditions of design and apply tried-and-true processes, theories, and values to their own disciplinary areas."
Sherrill Hayes, Ph.D., Conflict Resolution and Dispute Resolution, 2009-2010 – Study of Community Engaged Faculty at UNCG
"This fellowship is an important one for building relationships between faculty and staff to improve the quality of instruction at the university. UNCG has shown both bravery and dedication in moving towards embracing community engagement through service learning, engaged scholarship, and co-curricular service and supporting programs like this is a tangible demonstration of that on-going commitment. It would be a disservice for opportunities like this to not continue. From my point of view, faculty development is student and community development."
Stephanie Kurtts, Ph.D., Specialized Education Services, 2008-2009 – Investigation and Draft of a Minor Program in Community Engagement and Leadership (CEL); Integration of Community-Engaged Scholarship in the UNCG 2009-2014 Strategic Plan
Robert Charest, MArch., Interior Architecture, Spring 2007 – Enhanced Understanding of Public/Private Partnerships for Service-Learning
Adrian Wurr, Ph.D., English, 2005-2006 – Survey Development and Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes
Spoma Jovanovich, Ph.D., Communication Studies, 2005-2006 – Documenting and Supporting Service-Learning in Promotion and Tenure


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TRINNEX - OPPORTUNITIES IN THE PACIFIC TRADE, INVESTMENT and TOURISM SUPPLY CHAIN " 29-31 August 2010 The Melanesian Hotel, Port Vila, Vanuatu. Review of the Current Regional Trade and Integration Initiatives, including the PICTA and the EPA. Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat. Background
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TRINNEX - OPPORTUNITIES IN THE PACIFIC TRADE, INVESTMENT and TOURISM SUPPLY CHAIN"
29-31 August 2010
The Melanesian Hotel, Port Vila, Vanuatu
Review of the Current Regional Trade and Integration Initiatives, including the PICTA and the EPA
Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
Background TOURISM SUPPLY CHAIN
The EU has been negotiating EPAs with the ACP States since September 2002.
Negotiations in the PACP region commenced in 2004.
EPA to be negotiated must be "instruments for development" furthering poverty reduction, sustainable development, regional integration and integration into the world economy.
Developments in the PACP-EU EPA Negotiations September 2002.
Negotiations in 2008
Signing of the IEPA by PNG and Fiji September 2002.
PICTA (trade in goods) September 2002.
The TMNP Scheme should facilitate movement of professionals and skilled workers within the FICsPurpose of the TMNP Scheme
1. easy to administer, utilising existing systems and skilled workers within the FICs
2. easy to use; in particular it must offer an easier route into employment in FICs than the current system
3. economical for those who participate in it
Central to the scheme's design must be the 'customer experience' of the prospective temporary worker.
Note: the scheme does not replace the existing work
work permits regime
The FIC TMNP Scheme therefore should be:
Tier 1 and skilled workers within the FICs
Professionals who have aminimum of a bachelors degree from a recognised university with a minimum of 3 years of work experience
Tier 2
Semi-skilled /trades professionals who have a minimum of diploma or certificate with a minimum of resp. 3 and 5 yeaers of work experienceDefining the Tiers
Tier 1
[ie. Passport holders and PRs]
No quota restriction
Tier 2
as Tier 1
Subject to a quota
As a first step to progress implementation of and skilled workers within the FICs
the TMNP Scheme, FICs to:
While -
Annual minimum quota of Tier 2 workers
FIC Workforce Categories and Suggested Minimum Tier 2 Quota and skilled workers within the FICs
Niue, Tuvalu, Nauru (<5,000)……………………………20 (2.58-0.96 %)
Cook Islands, Palau (5,000-10,000)……………………30 (0.31-0.51 %)
RMI, Kiribati, FSM, Tonga, Samoa (10,000-50,000)…40 (0.14-0.39 %)
Solomon Islands, Vanuatu (50,000-100,000)..………50 (0.07-0.09 %)
Fiji (100,000-500,000)……………………………………250 (0.04 %)
Papua New Guinea (>500,000).…………………………500 (0.02 %)
FIC Total TMNP allocation………………………………1020 (0.07 %)Minimum quota calculation
Use of a Card or Certificate
Duration of employment contract; max 3 yrs
Fees confined to administrative costs only
Entry visa (called a PICTA TMNP Visa) upon arrival in host country
The PICTA TMNP Visa also serves as a work permit
Bonds (cost of a return air ticket) to be paid by employers to undertake responsibility for ensuring the employee complies with their immigration status.
Responsibilities of the home country and skilled workers within the FICs
Ensure workers understand their rights and the restrictions placed on them
Maintain an effective and secure system for certifying applicants
Required action- designated authority in each FIC to put in place measures to address this during processing and vetting of applicants.
Responsibilities of the host country
effective regulation of the work environment
decent pay and work conditions relative to local workers
basic human rights are respected
penalising employers as appropriate
Required action- FICs to put in place appropriate laws and regulationsEnforcement
Responsibilities of the employer to and skilled workers within the FICs
applicant is eligible to work
Action required-FIC to put in place measures to ensure employer
compliance. Employers responsible for employees and subjected to
penalties if they breach the responsibilities
Responsibilities of the employee and skilled workers within the FICs
provide accurate and honest the information required
abide by the terms of the scheme, their contract of employment, and the laws of the host country.
Action required-laws and regulations put in place to regulate
TMNP employees and penalise employees that breach the
conditions of TMNP employmentEnforcement
Actions required
Regional oversight is required to: scheme- eg Ministry for Trade
regional focal point for the scheme-ease of reference and information
Management of the scheme
provide a registry for those who participate
inspect, monitor and advise on country processes for the proposed PICTA TMNP Scheme
Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat recommended to provide regional oversight
Action required -FICs to consider the practicalities of utilising existing regional agencies such as PIFS to provide oversight and as a registry for the schemeRegional Oversight
Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat scheme- eg Ministry for Trade
Suggested role:
Lead regional management role for the scheme
Provide central registry
Maintain up to date information on the scheme
Maintain website on the schemeRegional Stakeholders
South Pacific Board of Educational Assessment scheme- eg Ministry for Trade
Suggested role:
benchmarks for occupations
Pacific Immigration Directors Conference scheme- eg Ministry for Trade
Suggested role:
Thank you Scheme