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Timko, 26, returns for her fifth season in Vancouver after last playing with Whitecaps FC during the 2006 W-League season. In total, the Coquitlam, BC, native has started 25 of her 26 appearances, scoring four goals and recording five assists. During her time with the 'Caps, Timko has played on two W-League championship squads, winning the league title in 2004 and 2006. In addition to her time with Whitecaps FC, Timko played for German club SG Essen-Schönebeck in 2010, Swedish club Piteå IF with fellow Whitecaps FC teammate Kaylyn Kyle in 2009, and Australian club Melbourne Victory in the 2008-2009 season.
In college, Timko played NCAA soccer at the University of Nebraska. During her four seasons with the Huskers, she was named Big 12 Player of the Year three times, and was a Third-Team National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-American in 2004 and 2005. Additionally, she is one of less than 50 players with at least 40 goals and 40 assists in NCAA history.
Internationally, Timko is one of only nine women's players to make 100 or more appearances for Canada. In total, she has started 75 of her 111 appearances, scoring four goals and recording seven assists. In January, the former Sport BC Junior Athlete of the Year started one of her three appearances for her country at the 2012 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying tournament at BC Place, while last year she started one of two appearances at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. On the youth level, Timko played in two FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship tournaments, including winning the Golden Boot as the top scorer at the 2004 tournament in Thailand, with seven goals in four matches. During her youth, Timko was a member of the BC Soccer Provincial Teams program and the National Training Centre program.
2010: Timko suited up for German club SG Essen-Schönebeck.
2009: The University of Nebraska product made seven appearances for Swedish side Pitea IF
2008: Timko made nine appearances for Melbourne Victory, scoring two goals for the club.
2006: The Coquitlam, BC, native made 6 appearances for the 'Caps for a total of 436 minutes with one assist. 2005: The midfielder started in all 11 of her appearances for the Blue and White in the 2005 season, contributing one goal and three assists. 2004: Timko made five appearances for the 'Caps in her second W-League season, chipping in three goals. 2003: Her inaugural season with Whitecaps FC in the W-League.
2006: Started all 18 of her appearances, contributing 11 goals and seven assists for the Huskers. As a senior, Timko won her third consecutive Big 12 Player of the Year award and was named to her third consecutive First Team All-Central Region. 2005: The Coquitlam, BC, native started in all 23 of her appearances where she tallied 11 goals and 21 assists for the Husker as a junior. For a second consecutive year she was named First Team All-Big 12, Big 12 Player of the Year, First Team All-Central Region and a Third Team All-American. 2004: As a sophomore, Timko started all 19 of her appearances and scored a career high 15 goals with 13 assists. The season was so successful, Timko was named First Team All-Big 12, Big-12 Player of the Year, First Team All-Central Region and a Third Team All-American. 2003: Timko started eight of her 11 appearances for the Huskers for 713 minutes played while tallying three goals and one assist as a freshman. She was also named to the Big-12 All Tournament Team.
Timko recently participated in the 2012 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Vancouver, starting one of her three appearances to help Canada clinch a berth in the 2012 Olympic Summer Games in London. She also played in two games for Canada during the 2012 Cyprus Cup, while started one of her two appearances at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in South Africa. Timko helped the red and white capture the 2011 Cyprus Cup with her one appearance where she tallied a goal. The forward has 111 caps for the red and white while tallying four goals and seven assists. U-20: The Coquitlam product started all four of Canada's appearances at the 2004 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup where she scored seven goals for the red and white capturing the golden boot of the tournament. Timko started all five of her appearances for Canada at the 2004 CONCACAF U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying where she added two goals for Canada on route to the Championship.


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The relevance of lighting in bathrooms is typically ignored, but the quality of light in your bathroom could affect the means we look as well as exactly how we really feel about ourselves. The restroom is the place that we do essential cleaning tasks such as shaving and placing on make-up and all of these tasks call for appropriate illumination. One of one of the most forgotten is the bathroom ceiling lighting.
In all homes, the dimension of the bathroom, when as compared to all other rooms, will be smaller sized in dimension. While bathing or shaving, you feel that you need some even more space in your bathroom making you don't hesitate. Though you can not increase the flooring area of your restroom, you could at some point have a larger restroom feeling by enhancing the lights center of your washroom. Usually you can go with vanity, ceiling or natural lighting methods. The bathroom ceiling lighting is the essential approach as it not just makes you feel better, however also offers a stunning seek your shower room.
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The theme of your shower room must be taken into consideration before choosing your bathroom ceiling lighting. If your bathroom oftens be a little cold all the time, you can decide on lights that are warmer, which will provide you a warm feeling.
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Strategic Financial Metrics for Quality
Loran Cox, Director, Global Business Solutions, One Tower, discusses the financial metrics involved in successful project planning.
2019 WCQI Recap
2019 ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement Leading Change Check out what happened in... [more]
2019 International Team Excellence Award Ceremony
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TQM: The History and the Now
In this episode, we explore total quality management's (TQM) beginnings and how it's used to build and... [more]
Basic Tools, New Applications
In this episode of ASQTV, experts advise not to overlook the basic tools and fundamental approaches when... [more]
Ascend Webinar Series: Digital Transformation & the...
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In this episode of ASQTV, we explore prevention costs, including specifications and training.
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In this episode of ASQTV, we explore the cost of quality, specifically appraisal costs.
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Quality and the customer experience go hand-in-hand. Hear from electronics giant Siemens Industry on how... [more]
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With about a month to go before the U.S. hits "the X-date"--the date upon which the government will start to delay or default on payments it has already promised to make--reasonable people on both sides of the aisle are beginning to push back against the group of crazy Republicans in the House of Representatives who are threatening to make the nation default.
As Joe Weisenthal observes this morning, former Senator Alan Simpson, a traditional Republican, has joined the fight, pointing out that no true conservative would ever allow the nation to default, because doing so would be fiscally irresponsible:
"If you're a real conservative," Simpson said, "a really honest conservative, without hypocrisy - you'd want to pay your debt."
A former Treasury official in the Bush administration, meanwhile, Tony Fratto, has come out to debunk the idea that the country could simply "prioritize payments"--paying China and other Treasury-bond holders their interest, while stiffing federal workers, Medicare recipients, veterans, food stamp recipients, defense contractors, and other people and companies that have been promised money by the U.S. government.
The cash flow and payments the Treasury has to manage, Fratto points out, are far too "lumpy" to enable the Treasury to simply pay a few bills and ignore others.
(And can you imagine the fight over which bills we should pay?)
And now even Americans For Prosperity (AFP), a conservative group backed by the billionaire industrialist Koch Brothers, is urging the House Republicans not to act so crazy, on the concern that this behavior will turn reasonable Americans against the party and thus reduce its ability to negotiate real spending reforms.
Stephanie Kirchgaessner of the FT reports that AFP is telling Republicans to back off on the debt ceiling and focus on spending:
"We're saying calibrate your message. Focus on overspending instead of long-term debt," said Tim Phillips, president of AFP. "Focusing on [the debt ceiling] makes the messaging more difficult."
There are a lot of reasonable people in this country who support the causes advanced by old-style Republicans and would love to see the U.S. deal with its long-term deficit problem and return to the days of balanced budgets.
But there's a big difference between supporting fiscal prudence and threatening to make the country default. Hopefully, over the next month, that message will begin to take hold in Washington.
SEE ALSO: Here's What Will Happen If We Don't Raise The Debt Ceiling


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This puzzle has Parks (empty cells). The goal is to fill in each cell with numbers from 1 to N-1, where N is the size of the puzzle's side.
Each column and each row have exactly one of each number and N parks.
The numbers along the edge of the puzzle indicate the sum of heights of the visible buildings.This puzzle has a Diagonal Variant. Every diagonal line contains each of the digits only once.


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The Max Kreger Memorial Fund
Max Kreger was a lifelong resident of Sandusky and an active member and supporter of the community. Max was involved in many civic and private organizations including. St. Joseph Catholic Church (past president of church council), Sandusky Board of Education (past president), Sandusky Jaycees (past president).
We miss you Max...
A poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson sums up much of what Max's life was about...
Max Kreger was deeply committed to the Sandusky community. His family and friends honored both Max's memory and his commitment to making Sandusky a
better place to live and work by establishing the Max Kreger Memorial Fund
at the Sandusky District Library.
The fund consists of donations made to the library in Max's name, and will be used by the library to enhance its Summer Reading 2000 program, and to bring additional guest speakers and activities to the library in future months. Max's family and friends realize the central role our library plays in the education, entertainment, and culture of our community.


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WEA Welcomes Dr. David Jang to North American Council
The World Evangelical Alliance strengthened its North American Council last week with the addition of a new member.
The network of 128 national evangelical alliances and 104 associate member organizations on Thursday welcomed Dr. David J. Jang, president of the Olivet Center for World Mission (OCWM) in San Francisco, as the newest member of its North American Council. The North American Council consists of members from the WEA International Council, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) - the largest network of evangelicals in the United States.
"We are delighted by Dr. Jang's appointment to our North American Council," said Geoff Tunnicliffe, International Director for the WEA, in a public announcement. "Dr. Jang has a wealth of experience in Christian higher education and cutting edge mission strategies. He will be a great asset to the global work of the World Evangelical Alliance."
In addition to his position at OCWM, the international mission organization that he founded, Jang is also the founder of Olivet University, a Bible-based institution of higher learning based in San Francisco and the site of WEA's Center of Information Technology. Jang initially served as Olivet University's president until retiring in 2006. He currently serves as the university's chancellor. Since August 2005, Jang has supported the WEA in various capacities.
"I am deeply honored by and grateful for the trust WEA placed in me," commented Jang in a news release. "I will work diligently, together with individuals across the vast network of WEA, to reward this trust."
Jang will be joining North American Council members including Dr. Joel C. Hunter, senior pastor of Northland Church in Longwood, Fla., who joined the council less than a year ago.
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20 nations plan anti-mining exercise in Mideast, US says
In a move to bolster military strength against Iran, 20 nations will stage an anti-mining exercise in Mideast waterways.
Defense Department press Secretary George Little said the large minesweeping exercise Sept. 16-27 is a defensive drill and is "not ... aimed to deliver a message to Iran."
But Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, the route for one-fifth of the world's oil, in retaliation for international sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program.
The upcoming exercise will focus on "a hypothetical threat from an extremist organization to mine the international strategic waterways of the Middle East, including the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Gulf of Oman, and the Persian Gulf, although exercise activities will not extend into the Strait of Hormuz," U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
"This is a defensive exercise aimed at preserving freedom of navigation in the international waterways of the Middle East and aimed at promoting regional stability," Little told Pentagon reporters on Tuesday.
Word of the exercise follows Monday's announcement that a second U.S. aircraft carrier will be sent to the region in September -- several months earlier than planned -- to ensure there will be two carriers in the region through early next year. The Pentagon also recently doubled the number of minesweepers in the region. And it sent the USS Ponce, an amphibious transport dock recently retrofitted to become what is known as an afloat forward staging base.
The buildup comes amid a stalemate in talks over Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran says is for peaceful purposes and other nations fear is to develop a nuclear weapon.
The exercise will practice mine countermeasures in multiple waterways. It will demonstrate "the international community's ability to work together to ensure free and secure trade," said Gen. James Mattis, commander for the region.
"Of the approximately 40 bilateral and multilateral exercises we'll conduct this year, this exercise also represents the extensive cooperation we enjoy with our international partners -- both in and outside the region -- with mutual economic and security interest," Mattis said.
Officials declined to name the other nations participating, saying they should identify themselves.


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The Colby Philosophical Community
Whether you were (or are) a philosophy major, a minor, or a fellow-traveler who enjoyed your philosophy courses, we consider you part of our philosophical community. In an effort to extend that community across the Colby generations, we're endeavoring to provide a place where you can share some of your memories from when you were at Colby and tell us about your post-Colby lives. We intend to use this site as a place where past and current philosophy students can connect and learn from each others' experiences, compare note, maybe even get a laugh. We hope the site will provide vivid answers to the question we all face: What do you do with a degree in philosophy? We know that there are as many answers to that question as there are of you.
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See Britney Spears + Demi Lovato on 'X Factor' Finale Red Carpet
Britney Spears and Demi Lovato showed two very different styles on the red carpet at last night's (Dec. 20) 'X Factor' finale. The result was the same -- both were gorgeous.
Brit Brit was all dolled up in a black Bottega Veneta gown with a bustier bodice, YSL heels and Neil Lane earrings, so she mixed black and bling. The dress dipped low in the back and showed off the superstar's tight tush. You could bounce a quarter off that thing.
Brit's smoldering, smoky eye shadow and deliberately disheveled updo completed the classy yet still-sexy look.
Lovato went more casual on both nights of the finale, even though a bevy of swank designers would have loved to dress her. Last night, she reaffirmed her love for British store Topshop, wearing a turquoise and copper micro-mini that hugged every curve, paired with black platform stilettos, which she also tends to favor. It was a glam look, which she completed with basketball-sized hoop earrings. But we expected a little more razzle dazzle from the stylish star. We wonder if she caught Niall Horan's eye, since his band One Direction performed and his flirtation with Lovato is oft-discussed in the blogosphere.
On Wednesday (Dec. 19), she also went more casual in black leggings, a tunic-length top, blazer and heels. She was a knockout as she played with volume. She wore her chocolate-hued hair in loose waves both days.
PopCrushers, who looked better? Brit Brit or Demi? Or were they both smashing and stylish?
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Two Tanja's start Stare Jablonki upsets
The Swiss duo, ranked 17th started off by defeating 16th seeds Marta Menegatti and Viktoria Orsi Toth of Italy, 2-0 (21-17, 21-18). Later in the day they followed that win up by beating the first seeds Juliana Felisberta and Maria Antonelli of Brazil, 2-1 (19-21, 21-18, 16-14).
Elsewhere in the women's draw two of the three most recent FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour gold medal winning duos set up a winner-takes-all clash in pool D.
Katrin Holtwick and Ilka Semmler won gold at the Gstaad Grand Slam and they will now face Klagenfurt Grand Slam winners Larissa Franca and Talita Antunes on Thursday.
The men's competition began with the men's qualifiers and the two top teams; Jacob Gibb and Casey Patterson of the USA and Brazil's Vitor Felipe and Evandro Goncalves progressed with straight set victories.
Late call signals home delights for Fuchs and Kaczmarek
Sebastian Fuchs and Thomas Kaczmarek shrugged off a late call to play in the Stare Jablonki Grand Slam and defeated Maverick Hatch and Christian Redmann to advance to the main draw on Wednesday.
The German pair only found out from the German Volleyball Federation on Monday that they would be participating in Poland, so quickly jumped in their cars and drove across the border to be ready for the qualification round.
They didn't hang around to reach the main draw with a 2-0 (21-17, 21-18) victory over the Canadian pair.
"It is great to be in the main draw here in Poland. It is a dream come true," Fuchs said. "We only knew that we were playing here on Monday and we are really happy as we played well and now we are looking forward to playing in the main draw with some of the best teams in the world."
Borger and Buthe aiming for more Stare Jablonki memories
Karla Borger and Britta Buthe made a strong start to the Stare Jablonki Grand Slam as they won both their matches on Wednesday.
The pair have fond memories of the Polish venue having made their breakthrough at the 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships where they won silver, their first Beach Volleyball World Tour success.
First off the German duo defeated Canada's Taylor Pischke and Melissa Humana-Paredes 2-0 (21-13, 21-14) and they followed that result with a 2-0 (21-17, 21-17) victory over Russia's Alexandra Moiseeva and Evgenia Ukolova.
"They are both pretty good spikers and I think the first set was really tight and we served pretty well and that stopped them getting into their normal game.
"In the second game we made a lot of service errors and that allowed them to come back. They are a good team and they had a good side out, so they made it a real fight at the end."
The double-gender US$800,000 FIVB Stare Jablonki Grand Slam runs from Tuesday August 19 until Sunday August 24 when the men's medal matches take place. It is the 13th event and the ninth Grand Slam on the 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour calendar that features 10 Grand Slams and nine Open tournaments.
The 2014 World Tour began at the Fuzhou Open in China in April and concludes at the Durban Open in South Africa in December. Next up on the World Tour calendar is the Sao Paolo Grand Slam which runs from September 23-28.


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gostillerz Try this forum. They have links to books you can download for free from the 30's and 40's, plus one from 62. Interesting reads. The one from 62 tells you how to start up a kitchen, and is very long. I think the recipes START at page 340 or something. http://forums.cooking.com/showthread.php?t=10802
CCinNJ I went home for lunch!!! Otherwise I would have prayed that the nuns were still allowed to beat kids with rulers and erasers...in the 70s. Lock me in the closet during lunch...Sr. Helen!! Please!
Foodbme Correction: They beat you with rulers. They THREW Erasers at you! Sister Mary Elizabeth could have pitched for the Yankees! Deadly accurate from her desk to the last row!


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Wishbone and his friends try to find out what is causing the mysterious happenings in the old 1930s clubhouse that Joe wins in a raffle.
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Rise Up Scout Camp Celebrates 100 Years of Scouting
Contributed By By Jason Swensen, Church News staff writer
Article Highlights
- The Rise Up encampment was, unmistakably, a full-fledged Scout camp.
- Boys from the Grand Teton Council spent four days enjoying the outdoor adventure that has defined Scouting for more than a century.
- The highlight of camp was the inaugural offering of the Thomas S. Monson Award.
"This encampment speaks to the values of Scouting for the young men of the Church." —David Smith, encampment chairman
The Rise Up Scout Camp delivered all that it had promised for the more than 10,000 Scouts and leaders who converged upon this agriculturally rich region of southeastern Idaho.
Rise Up was, unmistakably, a full-fledged Scout camp. Boys from all corners of the Grand Teton Council spent four days (June 26–29) enjoying the outdoor adventure that has defined Scouting for more than a century. Days here were spent in one of the camp's three action centers. Under a broiling summer sun, Scouts sprinted from one activity to the next to secure a spot in line to scale the climbing tower, ride the zip line, pulverize a clay pigeon on the shooting range, or wage pugil stick "wars" inside a bouncy, inflatable octagon.
The BMX race course and the geocaching challenges were counted among the most popular activities at camp. From a distance, it was hard to distinguish Scouts from Scoutmasters, as "boys" of all ages joined in the fun.
Meanwhile, a 300-acre section of rural Firth was transformed into a tent city. By midweek, the massive encampment could almost be called homey. Several campers strung up hammocks between tents to catch a few lazy winks between trips to the action center. And the aroma of hamburgers, grilled chicken, and other delicious Scout fare drifted across the open camp.
This was Scout Camp with a capital S and a capital C. But it was much, much more.
The 2013 Rise Up encampment was aptly labeled "An Aaronic Priesthood Encampment Celebrating 100 Years of Scouting in the LDS Church." At first glance, the camp's namesake was a challenge for boys to "rise up" and enjoy Scouting in full. But on a higher, more meaningful level, "rise up" was a sacred call to gospel duty for legions of Aaronic Priesthood holders from 58 stakes across western Wyoming and much of Idaho. Camp organizers hope the priesthood principles taught, emphasized, and celebrated at camp will remain in the hearts and testimonies of boys long after zip lines, shooting ranges, and bicycle races have relegated to digital photo albums.
"This encampment speaks to the values of Scouting for the young men of the Church—the relationship is stronger than ever before," said David Smith, chairman of the historic event.
The highlight of camp was the inaugural offering of the Thomas S. Monson Award. The name of the Church's 16th President is, of course, synonymous with Scouting. He's a recipient of the prestigious Silver Buffalo Award and is in his fifth decade serving on Scouting's National Executive Board. But the camp award that bears his name is primarily a priesthood award. The handsome medallion includes a portrait of President Monson and a nod to the Church's 100-year-old association with Scouting.
The Thomas S. Monson Award is the anchor of the Rise Up Scout Camp, declared Brother David L. Beck, the Church's Young Men general president. The award, he said, offered young men a unique opportunity to learn more about their prophet while making life-altering commitments to serve in the gospel.
Campers were asked to complete two general requirements—along with several elective activities—to earn the award. Included was a requirement that each Scout read or listen to President Monson's defining Scout talk "Run, Boy, Run" (Oct. 1982 general conference). Scouts were then asked to discuss with their troop or leaders the things they learned from President Monson's teachings. The campers were also required to visit one of the several LDS visitors' center tents at camp and discuss what can be learned inside each center with the folks staffing the tents. Counted among the staffers were several elders from the Idaho Pocatello Mission. Award electives included time spent reading and reviewing the Aaronic Priesthood-themed section 13 of the Doctrine and Covenants, getting to know Scouts from other areas of the Grand Teton Council, learning about family history research at the camp family history center, and learning and utilizing President Monson's counsel on preparing for missionary service.
"I've had a great time here with all the activities—but the best part of camp has been earning the Thomas S. Monson Award," said Caleb Rhodes, a 15-year-old Scout from Idaho Falls. "I've come to know more about President Monson, and the award has helped me decide to set a date on when I will serve my mission."
Numerous leaders joined the boys in earning the Thomas S. Monson Award.
Scouters also enjoyed a break from the noise and bustle each day as they gathered at spots throughout the camp for quiet devotionals presided over by stake presidents and other local priesthood leaders. Then each night the entire encampment migrated to a rolling natural amphitheater to enjoy talent shows and listen to counsel from Scout and Church leaders.
On June 27, Brother Beck told his audience of 10,000-plus Scouters that Rise Up was the Church's largest encampment in 2013. He warned the young men of complacency and accepting mediocrity in their lives. Develop divine gifts, he counseled. Follow the dutiful example of President Monson and wear the award engraved with his name as a reminder of the prophet's example of service to others.
Wayne Perry, president of the Boy Scouts of America and a Church member, encouraged the young men to be on the lookout for that one boy who might be missing from troop or quorum activities. Search for and then rescue that Scout and bring him back to full fellowship and activity, he encouraged the youth. Brother Perry also saluted Scouting's century-long partnership with the Church, saying the program offers "extra armor" of protection for boys. "Scouting," he added, "is an inspired program."
For thousands, Camp Rise Up marked a week of fellowship, fun, and recommitment as young men and their leaders focused on the opportunities and principles of the Aaronic Priesthood. For at least one Scout, Rise Up also offered moments of eternal perspective. Just three days before the first day of camp, Boy Scout Jacob Hymas, a 12-year-old deacon from Idaho Falls, was involved in a small airplane crash not far from the campsite. Jacob survived the crash and was not seriously harmed. His father, Brian Hymas, and the plane's third passenger, Mark Shell, 64, were both killed.
Brian Hymas, 43, loved Scouting and being outdoors with family—so to honor his father, Jacob chose to attend camp even as he recovered from his injuries.
Being at camp allowed Jacob to feel close to his father, said his mother, Ann Hymas. "We know [his father] is here with us."
Hanging around Jacob's neck was the Thomas S. Monson Award. On the flip side of that medallion are embossed a prophet's words promising comfort long after the camp's conclusion: "Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue."


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It is our privilege again this morning to examine Matthew 10. I encourage you to take your Bible and turn with us to that very, very important and wonderful chapter. We are having a high and holy privilege every Lord's Day as we commune with God through the truth of the gospel of Matthew. We have found ourselves, after a couple of years, in the tenth chapter, and learning what the Spirit of God has for us here is one of the richest of all the experiences we have yet had.
In Matthew 10, our Lord sends out His disciples for the first time. We who have, 20 centuries later, been sent to reach our world can learn deep and profound truths from what He said to them. Let me read for you the text that we'll be discussing this week and next.
"These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, 'Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter not; but go, rather, to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons; freely ye have received, freely give. Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor copper in your purses, nor a bag for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet a staff; for the workman is worthy of his food. And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and there abide till ye go from there. And when ye come into a house, greet it. And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgment, than for that city."
As you know, if you've been with us in our study of Matthew, Matthew's message is clearly that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah; that is the thesis of his narrative. Jesus of Nazareth is God in human flesh; He is the promised King, Savior, and the Deliverer. He came to fulfill the promises and covenants, and to redeem the world.
In the first nine chapters of his gospel, Matthew amasses evidence verifying this claim about Jesus, so we have nine chapters of credentials. He has shown this by Christ's genealogy, birth, the homage He received from eastern kings, His threat to Herod, and His preaching, teaching, miracles, power, and words - he has shown every way possible that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God.
As we came to the close of chapter nine, we began to pull together the responses to those truths which Matthew has made self-evident. For one, look at Matthew 9:31. "They, when they were departed, spread abroad His fame in all that country." One of the things that happened from all of the tremendous credentials of Christ was that His fame began to spread everywhere.
Another thing happened in verse 31; the Pharisees said, "He casteth out demons through the prince of the demons." The conclusion of the religious leaders was that He was demon-possessed, from Hell, indwelt by Satan. So while His fame spread abroad among the people, the leaders were convinced He was Satanic. Yet verse 35 says, "Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people." He just continued to proliferate the credentials.
The important transition occurs in Matthew 9:36. One day, one time, as Jesus stood on the edge of a hill and surveyed the crowd beneath Him, he was moved with compassion; He was wrenched internally. "But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they were faint." Literally, they were beaten and bruised; they had been ripped limb to limb by their own leaders, who had imposed upon them a false, legalistic system of religion that denied the truth of God. They were scattered abroad, as sheep without a shepherd.
Jesus saw the vastness, the lostness, of the multitude and said to His disciples, "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few." As you know from the study of that text, what He means by the 'harvest' is the judgment, for 'harvest' in Matthew is judgment; when God puts in the sickle and reaps. He could see this mass of lost, disoriented, weary people, moving as if they were criminals toward an inevitable judgment.
He says, "The people to go and warn them are so few." He realized He had to enlist others to assist Him, so He asked the disciples to pray for more workers in verse 38. Then, in Matthew 10, Jesus made them the answer to their own prayers. There is great integrity in that, when you are praying for something and you are willing to be the answer, and the disciples were. So Jesus then called His twelve disciples to Himself and gave them power to minister. Matthew 10:5 says, "These twelve Jesus sent forth."
We've had the wonderful privilege, over the last four or five weeks, of meeting the Twelve. It has been a wonderful time, hasn't it? We have decided that, summing it all up, they amount to the company of the unqualified; they really didn't have what it took to change the world. But it was not what they were, but what God made them. For in the process of their training, Jesus was molding them into what they needed to be to change the world.
Now it is time to send them out. Not finally and fully, as will happen after the day of Pentecost when they are sent forth, but in a first training mission format, for only few short weeks. He sent them out to get a taste of what it would be like, and what they will inevitably experience as a way of life. So this is their first short-term missionary assignment. By the way, I like to think of the Twelve as the original missionaries - they were the first ones Jesus sent forth.
The thrust comes because Jesus perceives the judgment of men. I really believe that the great motive that we see in the book of Matthew, as well as often in the heart of Paul, is the inevitability of judgment. Paul said to the Corinthians in II Corinthians 5, "Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men." Jesus saw the harvest and called for laborers to go and warn men of that inevitable harvest.
As we approach Matthew 10:5, we have met them and now the Lord instructs them as they go. May I just give you a little bit of comprehension of the total picture? The instruction that He gives the disciples is for a short-term mission. But as you flow through the chapter, you find that as it progresses, He releases to them information that will be good for them for the life of their ministry. It also stretches beyond them to every other person the Lord sends out.
Some of it is very defined and confined, and some of it is very broad. It's almost telescopic; it starts with a very limited perspective and then begins to unfold and unfold, until you come to the end of the chapter and sense the Spirit of God driving His point right into your own heart. So here are principles meant for them on their first short-term mission, and yet they can be extrapolated and drawn out to apply to all of us who go in the name of Jesus Christ to reach people.
By the way, the chapter is divided into three parts. The first section begins in verse 5 and ends in verse 15 with the statement, "Verily I say unto you." That section talks about the task of the missionary, the task of the apostle, the task of the one sent. The second section goes to verse 23 and ends, "Verily I say unto you," and it talks about the reaction to the one sent. The third section goes to verse 42 and ends, "Verily I say unto you," and it talks about the cost to the one who is sent. So we'll learn about the task, the reaction, and the cost of being a disciple sent in the name of Jesus Christ.
We'll look at the task as the first section for this morning and for next Lord's Day. In verses 5-15, you have what I believe are effective principles for missionary work. If you're going to go out and do the Lord's work, if you're going as one sent by the Lord, representing Him, it is essential that you understand these principles.
I remember and article in New Times Magazine written by one critic of the church, in which he made this statement. He said, "Personally, I am convinced that Jesus had more class than most of His agents." Unfortunately, that is definitely the case. One of the tragedies of contemporary Christianity is that the people who purport to represent Jesus Christ don't represent Him at all. If we're going to be sent from Christ to touch the world with the reality of Christ, then we must listen carefully to what He told the ones He sent out.
Let's look at the principles for an effective missionary. Number one, a divine commission. Verse 5 begins, "These twelve Jesus sent forth and commanded them." There is the commission. The apostles didn't volunteer (although they were willing to go - Christ did not act over against their wills), they were called; they were commissioned, much like Jeremiah, of whom the Lord said in chapter 1, "Before I formed you, I ordained you." The disciples were sovereignly called by God, they were given a divine commission, they were sent, dispatched, they were under orders.
It is first and foremost needful in the ministry to recognize that God has sent you. You'll remember I told you some months ago about the man who asked the young preacher after seeing so much pride in his life, "Was you sent, or did you just went?" First of all, you want to be sure you're sent before you go.
By the way, Mark 6:7 is a comparative passage that tells us Jesus sent them two by two. I think there is a reason why. For one thing, they would be companions in times of possible loneliness. For another, they would be strength to one another in times of temptation; for another, they would be an encouragement in times of despondency and persecution. For another, they could relieve each other in the matter of preaching and healing, which would be going on all the time. And for another, it was well known to them that the testimony of anyone was to be confirmed by two or three witnesses. So the Lord sent them two by two.
It probably only lasted a few weeks, but the apostles were still the ambassadors of Christ, officially sent. They were in the same category as Paul, who said, "God has given me the ministry as an oikonomia, as a stewardship," as he said in II Corinthians 3, "A trust is given me." That was such a serious matter that Paul said in I Corinthians 9:16, "Woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel," or literally, "Curse me if I don't preach." He had been given a divine commission. He was saying, "I can no more go AWOL on this deal than someone can do that in the service." This is a serious matter.
In their case, their commissioning was direct. The Lord walked up to them and said, "You follow Me." That has been very clear; they didn't put out fleeces and pray for the Lord to show them signs. I mean, He just grabbed them and took them. With us, it's a little more indirect. People, especially young men, going into ministry will often ask me, "How do I know if I am called to the ministry?" Basically, I think there are three criteria by which we can understand that.
Number one is a strong desire. If you delight in the Lord, He will give you the desire of your heart; I believe God has planted in my heart the desire. I Timothy 3:1 says, "If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desires a good thing." I think the implication of Paul's word to Timothy is that men will desire that, and ministry is something that God puts in the heart today.
Secondly is the confirmation of the church. You may say, "I'm called to preach," and others might say, "We've heard you; you're not called to preach." So you have to have the confirmation of the church. That is what Paul was saying when he said to Timothy, "Neglect not the gift of God that is in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders," confirmation of those around you in the church.
Finally, the ministry is made possible by circumstances. In I Corinthians 16:9, Paul says he is in Corinth because, "A great door, and effectual, is opened unto me." So you're looking at desire, confirmation and affirmation, and at opportunity. You know, if you go through all of those things, and your heart is set and fixed on a goal, then that's the call of God.
So they were called in a very immediate, very external, visible, physical way; we are called internally, but nonetheless called and commissioned. You'll notice that it says He not only sent them but also commanded them. That is a very interesting word, paraggello. It demands an awful lot of attention; I wish we had more time to really get into that word. But basically means 'to give orders.' If you study that word and trace it through its usages in the Greek language, you find some very interesting things.
For example, first and foremost, it is a military word. It means a superior giving orders to an inferior; it is a command issued to soldiers. That we see in its secular usage. It is an aggressive, definitive statement of absolute behavior that requires obedience. That is its primary use in a military way. Secondly, it is used in legal terms. There are some papyri that have been discovered in which this paraggello verb was used of summoning a man to court. In other words, he is bound by the law; he is bound by a legal injunction against him to obey and respond.
We also find in some secular sources that the word is used of an ethical concept. It is used, for example, as Aristotle teaches morals or ethics to his students. They become binding on the basis of the integrity of the individual. When you learn what is ethically right, you are bound to that, if you have any character. Then it is what you might call a technique word; it is a word to define certain technique. For example, it is used of the rules of grammar, or rules of oratory, or rules of literary composition. It is a word that defines exactly how something is to be done. Fifthly, it is a medical term. It is used of a doctor prescribing something for someone who is sick, instruction for someone who wants to be well.
Let me sum it up. Here is a word that is a word of military command; you don't have any choice but to respond. Here is a word that is a word of legal obligation; you have no choice but to respond. Here is a word of ethical standard; you have no choice but to comply. Here is a word of technique, which means if you're going to do it right, this is the way to do it; there is no other way to respond. It is also a word of medical prescription; if you want to be well, you do it this way. It is a word, then, that in every dimension binds upon man a response.
As you trace the word in the New Testament, and it is used at least 30 times, you find that it is repeatedly used as the standard Christian term for instruction. In Luke 5:14, Jesus used it to instruct a leper. In Luke 8:29, He used it to command an evil spirit to come out of a demoniac. In Luke 8:56, He used it to instruct Jairus. In Luke 9:21, He used it to command His disciples. In Acts, it is used of the Sanhedrin's command to Peter and John to stop preaching, and in Acts 15 of the Pharisees' command to observe the ceremonial law. Paul used it in his instruction to Timothy, as he talks about what widows ought to do. It is used in the Pastoral Epistles; it is used many places. It is just a word that means we are bound to respond.
So you realize you are commissioned by the Lord Jesus Himself, and that you have no choice but to respond because you are a soldier and He is the commander; because you are in court and He is the judge; because you are the one who is to live the life and He is the one who sets the moral standards; because you can only carry out the task and He is the one who determines how it is to function; because you are the patient and He is the doctor, you are to respond. I say this so many times when I talk to men in the ministry: what God wants in a ministry is not your creativity and innovation; what He wants is your obedience.
I was writing an article Saturday for our coming convention, and was reminding those who will be reading, as I wrote in the article, that the preacher is not a chef; he's a waiter. God doesn't want you to make the meal; He just wants you to deliver it to the table without messing it up. That's all. We are servants under divine commission.
People, that's a binding thing. I say to you that is a binding thing. I am bound to fulfill that commission before God. I think that's what Jesus was doing with these Twelve. I think it's good that the Lord binds us, because there are so many days we'd like to get out, but we're bound. We all say, "Woe is me if I preach not the Gospel." All of us have been commissioned in some sense, some more officially as evangelists and teaching pastors, but we all are bound to obey Christ's call to go and represent Him in this world.
I thank God for these folks that go down to Hollywood Boulevard and walk up and down the street and present Jesus to those people, don't you? You can do it anywhere, and I believe the call of God is binding on our lives in that regard. The effective missionary, the effective apostle, the effective disciple realizes he is under divine orders - he doesn't have any options. He is committed to obedience, to following the principles of the Word of God as commanded. That's why when we go into all the world to make disciples, we baptize and teach them to observe all things whatsoever have been commanded, because that's the whole issue. The Lord wants obedience.
Let me give you a second principle. I believe an effective missionary is not only marked by a divine commission, but I believe he is marked by a central objective. I believe if you're going to be effective in serving God, there has to be a very clear focus, a central focus. Look at verse 5 again. He commanded them saying, "Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter not." Those are possessive genitives, which means, "Don't go into a road belonging to the Gentiles or a city belonging to the Samaritans. Don't go near Gentiles or Samaritans."
You say, "What has Jesus got against them? Is this the Jewish Gospel? Is it limited?" It is here; it reads to me just like it reads to you. In verse 6 He says, "But instead, you go only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." May I add that this is not a permanent command. This is a very dispensational statement, a narrow statement, limited to this time and place and this, the plan of God. I'll talk about that in a moment, but what I want you to see out of it is that it illustrates how God gives people very clear objectives, a very central focus, a very limited mission.
David McKenna has rightly said, "Self-styled Messiahs are always megalomaniacs who want to win the world and win it now." Some people's perception of ministry is so vast that their ministry winds up being like a big birdbath - a mile long and an inch deep. The focus that our Lord gives to us here, I think, is the very narrowness of ministry.
You say, "Does God not care for Gentiles?" Of course He cares for Gentiles! Just in case you might wonder about that, turn back to Matthew 8:5-12. You'll find there that, "When Jesus entered Capernaum, He was approached by a centurion whose servant was sick." That's a Gentile, a Roman soldier who commanded 100 men. Jesus responded to that man. I believe Jesus brought not only healing to that Gentile's servant, but also salvation to that household. Jesus makes a great statement in verse 11. He says, "I say unto you that many shall come from the east and west," and that means east and west of Palestine, "Many Gentiles shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven; but the sons of the kingdom [Jewish people] shall be cast out."
Don't be confused; the Lord has already made it abundantly clear that He will reach Gentiles. In fact, in the Old Testament, all you need to do is read the prophet Isaiah. You will find, in Isaiah 49:6 and 54:1-3 it says, "Jerusalem will carry the message to all the nations." He loves the Gentiles! Later on, in Matthew 28, He says, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature."
We're going to see in chapter 13 how Jesus begins to turn away from Israel and to talk about the church, which Paul calls, "The fullness of the Gentiles." The Lord always had the Gentiles in His plan. You say, "Does He have something against the Samaritans?" No, the Samaritans were OK, but the Jews hated them. The Jews absolutely despised them. It was one thing to be a Gentile - no one could help being born a Gentile. But the Samaritans were corrupted, because they were half-breeds. They reflected the intermarriage of Jew and Gentile, which was a crime unforgivable in the minds of many Jews. Jesus didn't have a problem with that.
You see, the first person recorded in Scripture to whom Jesus announced He was the Messiah was a Samaritan woman living in the city of Sychar. She had many husbands, and at the time was living with a man who wasn't her husband; she was not a nice lady. Yet it was to her that He revealed that He was the Messiah. He had no problem there. When Jesus taught how men should love their neighbors, He used a Samaritan as an illustration.
You say, "If God loves Gentiles and Samaritans, then why does He tell them not to go to them?" I'm glad you asked! By the way, the Samaritans had fomented the hatred, because 20 years before the time of Christ, Samaritans had stolen into the temple in the middle of the night during Passover and thrown dead men's bones all over the temple enclosure, which polluted it. So there was a terrible hatred at that point in time.
There were lots of problems in going into a Samaritan town, and in going to a Gentile town, particularly for this little group of unqualified guys. Let me give you three reasons He told them not to go there. Number one, I call the special place of the Jews. The Jews were God's chosen people and they were the ones to whom were given the covenants, the promises, and the law. So in the line of God's plan, they were to be offered the Kingdom first. That's all.
First, they were approached by John the Baptist, who came to them and said, "Repent; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand, imminent, available." Then Jesus Himself came and said the same, and now Jesus was commanding the disciples to give the people that same message - the Kingdom is at hand. He said, "Offer them the rule of God on earth." Heaven has come to earth; God wants to rule. Yes, it's a spiritual dimension; yes, it's within you; yes, it's in your heart; yes, it's the acceptance of the lordship of Christ, but it also has an earthly aspect.
Had the Jewish nation embraced their Messiah, the internal and the external would have come together at that moment. He said, "You tell them the Kingdom is imminent, available; they can have it if they repent and believe. They are the people through whom the rest of the world is to be blessed. They are the tents of Shem, through whom all the nations are blessed.
John 4:22 says, "Salvation is of the Jews." That doesn't mean salvation was only for them, it means it comes through them; they were to be the emissaries, the witnesses; Jerusalem was to be the launching point for evangelism, the place where the nations came to see the Messiah. They were to be His witness people, so He said, "Go there first," much like Paul on His missionary journeys. Even though he was a missionary to the Gentiles, he always went to the synagogue first because he went to the people of God first of all to gather them together to help him reach the Gentiles. So Jesus says, "You go first to them." I can promise you that if they had gone first to the Gentiles and Samaritans, the Jews wouldn't have listened to them. So the special place of the Jews was the first reason.
The second one, I call the special problem of the Twelve. The disciples hardly were up to the task of reaching their own people, to say nothing of trying to reach the Gentiles and Samaritans, whose culture they did not understand that well, whose biases and prejudices they could not have overcome easily. They were not equipped for that. Do you know that nothing every really cracked open the Gentile world, with the exception of Peter's confrontation of one God-fearing man named Cornelius, nothing ever made a dent in the Gentile world until a man came along by the name of Paul?
He was born of the tribe of Benjamin, an Israelite of Israelites, zealous for the law, and trained under Gamaliel - a true Jew in every way. But educated and instructed in Gentile culture, and from a Gentile area, he was able to bridge the gap and reach the Gentiles. The disciples just weren't up to that; it wasn't time for them yet, they weren't ready. They didn't have the technique or backgrounds, so they couldn't build the bridges. If they had gone to the Gentiles or Samaritans first, they never would have been able to come back to the Jews. The Jews would have written them off as those who brought about a Gentile and Samaritan religion.
Thirdly, and less important than those two, I think another reason they were sent only to the Jews was because of the special point of attack. Any commander knows you can't do everything. You can't be like the man who jumped on his horse and rode of madly in all directions. You have to have specifics. The possibilities were varied, so Jesus gave the disciples a specific target. "Just do this: go to Galilee, and the Jews, who are the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
By the way, the phrase 'the lost sheep of the house of Israel' simply refers to the Jews. If you compare it with Matthew 9:36, you'll see that. He saw the multitude and they were sheep without a shepherd; they are the lost sheep, they have been disconnected from the Shepherd, they are out of the fold, wandering hopeless and helpless. He says, "Go to them, My people, Israel. They are the ones to whom the promises were originally given; they are the ones with whom you can communicate and have an audience and reception, so go to them." Our Lord Himself reflects to them what was His own specific ministry.
You probably have not thought about this, but do you realize that the Lord Himself never went to the Gentiles? His ministry was almost exclusively to the Jews. In Matthew 15:24, He says, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel." They were His focus. The Gentile world would come after that. Jesus had a tremendous economy of effort, tremendous clarity of objective.
I think one of the things frustrates people in ministry is that they don't have a clear objective. You can be so easily diverted. I have gone to mission fields and talked with missionaries who have been on the mission field a long time. I find that many of them are doing a little of everything, and I wonder if they are accomplishing anything. They don't have a clear objective. I think part of an effective ministry is to have a clear objective. Know your gifts, what God has equipped you to do; know the needs, callings, opportunities, and the desires of your heart, and find a track and run in it.
My grandfather taught my dad and my dad taught me that most people never do anything well. So if you do one thing well, you will be way ahead of most people - just one thing. Find the one thing God wants you to do and do it. I think about that a lot. It's easy for me to get pulled off into all kinds of projects. I'm telling you, every day someone wants me to go do something. Help us, go here, go there, do this.
Sometimes, I feel as if I'm being ripped to pieces. I have to go back to the tremendous focus on the objective that I see in Christ. I know what God has called me to do: to preach. I know that, it's what I'm to do. I know where He has called me to preach, and that's right here. I just want to affirm that, in case some of you are thinking otherwise. He has called me to preach here, and I know that. He has called me to preach here, teaching His Word expositionally; I know that because I am compelled to do that in my heart. He has called me not only to preach, and preach here, and preach expositionally, but He has called me to preach the New Testament primarily, because that is the mystery and I have been called to preach the mystery; it says so in Colossians 1. I know what I am called to do, and that's what God wants me to do. There are lots of other things I could do, and sometimes I have to fight it off. But we all need to keep that constant focus.
You say, "What about this? What about that?" and you can get all concerned. The Lord will take care of it; He's got other folks. I don't have to do it all. If I just do one thing right, just one thing He gave me to do, I'll let Him take care of where it goes. I've said this so many times, if I take care of the depth of it, He'll take care of the breadth of it. If He wants to spread it around, that's His business. I just want to hit the target. I'm committed to that.
We need that kind of focus. In a church like ours, I feel that there are so many things going on that some people find themselves lost in the middle, dizzy, saying, "What do we do?" They eventually wind up doing nothing or a little of everything, like the smorgasbord Christian. That isn't the idea; we need to focus. The Lord said, "The works which the Father hath given Me to finish, the same works that I do. My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me. I have come to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." He was going to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, and only the ones who admitted their sin. That was a narrow focus, a narrow perspective, but that's an effective ministry: do one thing and do it well. Precision in ministry.
The third principle is as far as we'll go this morning. I think effective missionary work involves a clear message; not only a central objective, but a clear message. I grieve in my heart at the befuddled condition of Christianity today; our message is anything but clear.
I was on a plane the other day, and a pastor sat next to me. We were going to a pastors' conference in Chicago. He said, "Let me give you a demonstration." He took out a piece of paper, and just kept writing and writing and writing on the same tiny piece of paper. Then he handed me the paper and asked, "What does this say?" It was all scribble, all kinds of scribble on top of scribble in one little area. I said, "I don't know what it says; how could anyone know what it says?" He smiled and said, "What was my original message to you?" I said, "I don't have a clue!"
He said, "Let me tell you what I did. Take a piece of paper and write 'Christ,'" so I did that. "Now, over the top, write 'Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Episcopal, Pentecostal, Charismatic, dispensational, fundamentalist, liberal, Protestant.'" He gave me about twelve other things to write. Then he said, "Give that to an unbeliever and ask him what the original message was." He won't have a clue.
If you pick up the daily news and look at the church section, it's utterly hopeless. Part of the problem is that we don't stick with the central message. What does He say in verse 7? "As you go, preach. As you preach, say, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.'" It can't get much simpler; I love that verse. You say, "That's the whole sermon? Where's the rest of what you're supposed to say?" That's enough. The Kingdom of Heaven is a big enough subject to cover everything that God is interested in. So if you want to open your mouth, make sure you talk about God's projects, not man's.
Preach the Kingdom, the rule and reign of God, that Heaven has come to Earth. The Kingdom of Heaven is seen three ways: in conversion, when men enter the Kingdom; in consecration, when we live out the Kingdom (Romans tells us that the Kingdom is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, joy, and the Holy Spirit); and in consummation, when the Kingdom comes to earth in its millennial form. Until that time, we preach the Kingdom. Jesus taught His disciples nothing but that, the principles of God's rule: that He is Lord, that men are to submit and obey, because God rules. Even after His resurrection, Acts 1 says Jesus taught them things pertaining to the Kingdom for forty days.
It can get confusing for people when they listen to preachers; you say you're a preacher, and they haven't got a clue what your message is until they hear you because all kinds of preachers preach all kinds of stuff! The average unbeliever who turns on the television finds such a disparity that it's virtually impossible for him to know the real message.
I was traveling with a team in Mississippi, preaching Christ in black high schools at the time that Martin Luther King was assassinated. We were going to two or three schools a day, holding assemblies and preaching Christ, and we had a great time. One night after finishing an assembly in which the Lord had blessed in a wonderful way, we visited with a family in a rural area. It was late when we left, and we noticed someone following us.
We were in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road about ten miles from where we were staying. Suddenly blue lights started flashing behind us and the car pulled up beside me, so I stopped the car. A great big man wearing a sheriff's badge got out and said, "You went through a stop light." I said, "What? There are no stop lights around here." It's a dirt road, and it's 11 o'clock at night in a farm area. I said, "You must be mistaken." He said, "I'm not mistaken. You went through a stop light." I said, "I didn't go through a stop light." He then reached for a club in his belt and I said, "You're right; I went through a stop light." I wasn't going to argue about it! He said, "Follow me. We're going to the jail."
We followed him for ten miles to the jail. He took us in and collected our money as collateral, I guess for whatever was going to happen. He asked, "What are you telling kids in your school meetings? Do you tell them about civil rights?" I said, "No." Then he asked if we were telling them about marches, protests, or boycotts. I said no to all those things. Then I said, "We're telling them about Jesus Christ. We would be happy to tell you about Him, too." He said, "I'm already the Sunday School superintendent. I don't have any need to hear about that." It was an interesting night, to put it mildly. There were many so many people like him in that area who called themselves ministers but who were not talking about Christ and the Kingdom of Heaven. It's no wonder some of those people were paranoid.
Satan is not stupid. The best way to render the Gospel of no effect is to make sure no one knows what it is. It is the message that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand; that imminently and available to every person is the rule and reign of God in their lives, here and now, as well as earthly, millennially, and eternally. That is our message.
I won't get pulled into politics, although I have some strong feelings about things. I won't get pulled into other things; I say 'no' to that stuff all the time because my focus cannot change from the Kingdom. I wish that every time Christians opened our mouths, something about the Kingdom came out. Wouldn't that be good? Let's talk about God's rule and His Kingdom.
I just love that He says to them, "Just say that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." Now what were they going to do? Just go around saying that over and over again? Of course not, He was implying to fill it up with all the content that term deserves, and we've been through that term about ten times in the previous ten chapters, so you know what's there.
There is a sense of urgency in that statement. I know and you know that it wasn't long after this when the Lord turned away from Israel because they didn't take the message offered to them. I think there is urgency and immanency in this world as well; I don't know how long we have before the Lord comes, so we need to be proclaiming the Kingdom with urgency. Effective missionaries have a divine commission, central objective, and a clear message.
You want to know something frustrating? The next point is the best point of all. I'd ask you how spiritual you are and take a vote of whether you want me to do it this morning or next week, but I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to pray that if you don't come back next week, the Lord will make you sick because it is the best point of all. Let's have a word of prayer together.
Thank You, Father, for Your good and gracious Word to us. Thank You that You can even use us at all, who are so unqualified. Thank You for the example that You called these Twelve, sent them, and used them to change the world, and we are the fruit, generations later, of their obedience. Should Jesus tarry, may there be generations ahead who will be the fruit of our obedience. Send us, Lord, as You choose. Help us to focus on that ministry You've gifted us to do and to make the message crystal clear. We thank You in Christ's name, Amen.
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Lenoir County Smiles recipient named
This week�s Lenoir County Smiles recipient is Robin Sutton with First Citizens Bank on Queen Street.
Lucy Marston, Lenoir County Tourism director, presented her a gift in recognition of "customer service beyond expectations." The weekly winners are chosen by recommendations from the community and will receive a small gift and be pictured in the Sunday edition of The Free Press, from Memorial Day through Labor Day. This is the eighth year of the program, which began in 2006 to foster "good, friendly service with a Smile." The program is sponsored by Lenoir County Tourism and The Free Press.
To nominate someone, contact Marston at the Kinston-Lenoir County Visitor�s and Information Center, 252-522-0004 or email@example.com.
Bridge club names winners
The Fairfield Duplicate Bridge Club played a regular game June 4.
The winners were: Eva Balknight and Jenny Holt, first place; Joe Goldwasser and Lamar Finch, second; Edith Cahn and Nancy Barwick, third; and Roz Ahrens and Jack Weeden, fourth.
A regular game will be played at 9:50 a.m. Tuesday at Fairfield Center. The club welcomes and encourages all bridge players.
For more club information, call 252-523-6791.
KHS student to attend Naval Academy summer program
Nicolas Frankfort of Kinston will participate in the 2013 U.S. Naval Academy Summer Seminar program, to be held at the Academy in Annapolis, Md.
About 2,550 young men and women from across the nation and abroad are selected to attend the program, a fast-paced leadership experience for rising high school seniors. The program helps educate, motivate and prepare selected students who are considering applying for admission to USNA.
The Summer Seminar students will experience first-hand what the Naval Academy has to offer through its academic, athletic and extracurricular activities and leadership training programs.
Frankfort is a rising senior at Kinston High School. He is the son of Edward and Stacy Frankfort of Kinston.
�Red Building� to be dedicated Tuesday
Produce vendors are bringing lots of summer vegetables to The Lenoir County Farmer�s Market Tuesday, including sweet corn, string beans, blueberries, tat soy, pointed head and napa cabbage, beets, lettuce, broccoli, green and golden zucchini, pattypan and yellow squash, bok choy, the last of the spinach, asparagus, the last of the strawberries, lots of other leafy greens and whatever else is ripe.
A special treat will be the dedication of the �Red Building� during Business After Hours at 5:30 p.m. Join the Farmer�s Market staff and supporters for fun and entertainment, mingle with the vendors and share in the building�s dedication in memory of Rick Holder, made possible by a donation from Felix Harvey and Myrtilla Harvey Brody in honor of their friend and business associate. Plans will be unveiled for the building�s future.


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Israel reacted cautiously Sunday to a U.S.-Russian accord to destroy Syria's chemical weapons by mid- 2014, with some Israeli officials questioning whether the deal could be carried out while analysts said the result was preferable to a limited military strike that would have left Syria's chemical arsenal largely intact.
Secretary of State John Kerry made a short stop here to brief Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the agreement, which was reached Saturday. It calls for the complete destruction of Syria's chemical weapons capabilities by the middle of 2014.
Speaking at a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur war, Netanyahu said that the understandings on Syria's chemical weapons "will be judged by their results: the complete destruction of all the chemical weapons stocks that the Syrian regime has used against its citizens."
In later remarks after meeting with Kerry, Netanyahu asserted that "what the past few days have shown is something that I've been saying for quite some time: that if diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat."
"What is true of Syria is true of Iran," he added, alluding to what Israeli officials say is the message sent to Iran's leaders about their nuclear development program by Western actions.
Kerry said that "diplomacy has always been the preferred path of the president of the United States, and I think any peace loving nation's preferred choice, but make no mistake, we've taken no options off the table."
He added that "President Obama has been absolutely clear about the remainder of the potential of the use of force" if there Syria does not comply with was Saturday's accord.
Amos Yadlin, a former chief of military intelligence who heads the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, said that the case of Syria had demonstrated to Iran that the United States and other Western countries are hesitant to use force. Still, the cooperation of the United States and Russia on eliminating Syria's chemical weapons had underlined international concerns about such arms, Yadlin said.
"The illegitimacy of weapons of mass destruction, chemical and especially nuclear, has become clearer, and an issue to be dealt with by the superpowers," Yadlin told Israel Radio. "Under a credible military threat there is a greater chance of reaching a political solution to the Iranian nuclear program if it is really proven that such an agreement between the U.S. and Russia succeeds in Syria."
Some Israeli politicians said that Syrian president Bashar Assad, who had not previously acknowledged possession of chemical weapons, could not be trusted to provide a complete inventory of those arms and later hand them over to international inspectors for destruction or removal.
Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said that Assad could try to hide weapons by next year's deadline, which Steinitz said was too far off. "We know Assad," he said. "All kinds of things could happen."
Avigor Lieberman, a close ally of Netanyahu and chairman of parliament's foreign affairs and defense committee, said the first test would be the chemical weapons inventory Syria is required to submit in a week. Lieberman told Army Radio that Israel could compare the list to its own intelligence data on such weapons to determine whether Assad's "intentions are serious or it is just a deception."
Emily Landau, director of the arms control program at the Institute for National Security Studies, said that from Israel's perspective the chemical weapons deal was preferable to a limited and targeted punitive military strike that would not come close to doing away with Syria's chemical arsenal.
She also differed with Netanyahu's suggestion that Washington's climb-down from using military force underlined Israel's need to defend itself in future confrontations, including with Iran.
"I don't think Iran has reason to be happy or complacent about this result," Landau said of the chemical weapons agreement. "The real dynamic is that the United States made this an issue that the international community could not ignore. I don't see how this deal would lead one to the conclusion that we can only depend on ourselves."


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pause 2 replot rereadLet's assume we have already given gnuplot the commands to plot something. What this piece of configuration file then does, is wait two seconds, then replot and then reread the loop.plt file. This will cause these three commands to be executed in an infinite loop. Reread is a very useful command. You can read more about it here.
Now, how do we give the first plot command? Well, there are various options. You could for example add the plot command to the 'loop.plt' file (which makes it less portable), but I like to give the instructions through the command line:
gnuplot -persist -e "plot 'data.dat'" loop.pltwhere data.dat is a file that is continuously updated by some process. The nice thing about this is that you can recycle the 'loop.plt' without making any changes to it.
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If you have a lot of settings, a better alternative is to let the loop configuration file load your own configuration file. We make the following adjustments:
load config pause 2 replot rereadand we call gnuplot with:
gnuplot -persist -e "config='config.plt'" loop.pltWhich sets the variable config to your own configuration file. Using this method we have the option to just call gnuplot 'config.plt' to draw the plot once, or use the above command to keep refreshing without having to change any of the files. If you want to have even more control, you could also make the pause time a variable. See you next time!


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Wabash College is one of seven schools selected to participate in a group dedicated to the design and implementation of hybrid learning courses on campus.
The Midwest Hybrid Learning Consortium (MHLC) received a $25,000 planning grant from the Teagle Foundation to explore and develop on-line educational opportunities in a traditional, residential liberal arts setting. Along with Wabash, the MHLC includes Albion College, DePauw University, Grinnell College, Hope College, Lawrence University, Macalester College.
Hybrid learning is a term that describes a course where the traditional in-class lecture has been enhanced by technology and digital media, essentially to meld the best features of the lecture and on-line learning. A hybrid course is designed to integrate face-to-face time with professors and on-line activities to reinforce and complement each other, rather than duplicating classroom practices.
"We will be collaborating with other institutions to develop hybrid learning strategies that will work for each individual institution in their own distinctive way yet be applicable to other campuses," said Dean of the College Dr. Gary A. Phillips and member of the MHLC leadership team. "The challenge here is to deal with the different way of constructing a classroom experience to take advantage of technology by front-loading the learning outside of class and turning the in-class time to problem solving, collaborative work, and conversation."
The goal of the MHLC is to enhance student engagement in learning and continue to deliver the wide ranging and intellectually stimulating courses that liberal arts students have come to expect. The group will spearhead a process where faculty can learn the fundamentals of hybrid learning and gain experience in building and teaching those courses.
In true liberal arts fashion, the MHLC's efforts will take place across a broad spectrum of the academic catalog, including biology, chemistry, communications, computer science, economics, entrepreneurship, languages, mathematics, physics, psychology, religion, and writing.
While hybrid learning is an evolving discipline, such courses often use on-line learning opportunities to bolster face-to-face interaction and feedback, while reducing the amount of time in a traditional lecture setting. The goal is to use the strengths of both to enhance the overall educational experience.
"We can work together to pioneer technologies that would provide a golden opportunity," said Lon Porter, associate professor of chemistry, who will design and teach a hybrid learning course. "We can try things that have had some initial success and really capitalize, which is building relationships with our students, engaging them in the classroom, and showing them that we have a stake in their education. We would like to find technologies that can supplement those goals. By combining efforts, we will have a more well-rounded picture of how technology can be applied to the liberal arts mission."
This grant will take the first steps in addressing how to best engage the student and raise the level of learning. The MHLC believes that hybrid teaching will allow faculty to excel at high-impact interaction with students in an on-campus setting. This project will test and assess student learning throughout the process, staying true to core educational values while exploring all that emerging technologies can offer.
The MHLC hopes to provide guidance in constructing syllabi and creating active and collaborative learning approaches when it comes to course creation. Further, digital design specialists, works-in-progress reports, and the publication and presentation of pedagogical efforts will build a community of practice among members.
"The exploratory part of this is where things go or how the different types of learning activities fit together," said Chad Westphal, associate professor of mathematics and computer science, who will design and teach a hybrid learning course. "We want to save time where we can for real human interaction. Creativity allows us to look at the menu of what's available and ask 'what can I do or what should I do with this course and these students' and be bold enough to try it out. This grant feeds into what we've been doing and want to continue."
The Wabash College Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, a national leader in the assessment of teaching and learning, will be the guiding force in the assessment of this three-year project and the development of these hybrid learning courses.
"It's easy to imagine the liberal arts as something from the past due to our focus on classic education and things like writing," Westphal said. "Those are important, and we hold to those dearly, but not at the expense of remaining on the cutting edge in teaching and engaging students. We want the best tools in the best environments with the best combinations of students and instructors. We want to optimize the time we have together."


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