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Last month when Mike and I went to Vail for our first weekend away as parents, we indulged in just about everything - massages, elaborate dinners, nice bottles of wine, sleeping in and very special (read : expensive) hot chocolate.
The Four Seasons in Vail is known for their Hot Chocolate - in fact, they call it "Haut Chocolate." We ordered ours at the outside pool-front fireplace. They brought it out on a silver platter, and poured it from a copper kettle (which is apparently, a traditional French Hot Chocolate pot) through chocolate lace that sits on top of the cup. Then they topped it with house-made chocolate marshmallow, fresh whipped cream and Swiss chocolate shavings.
It was soooo special and so indulgent. What I really loved about it, besides the presentation, was that it was not too sweet, but very smooth and rich and had a deep chocolate flavor.
This Hot Chocolate Recipe is my attempt to recreate that rich, not too sweet, Haut Chocolate. I was planning to share it yesterday, but the 60 degree weather we had here didn't make it feel appropriate. Now, that our temps are back to a comfortable 34 degrees (humph...), it is Hot Chocolate time again.
Homemade Hot Chocolate
rich and creamy
I find that grating the chocolate with a microplane makes the chocolate easier to melt and as it melts more quickly, it makes the chocolate creamier.
4 cups whole milk
2 tablespoons sugar
2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, grated
4 ounces milk chocolate, grated
1 cup of heavy whipping cream
1 tablespoon of sugar
In a saucepan, heat the milk and sugar on medium just until it begins to simmer. Meanwhile, grate the chocolate. Also, begin whipping the cream and sugar until soft peaks are achieved. Remove from heat and stir in chocolate. Continue stirring until the chocolate melts. Serve in mugs topped with the sweetened whipping cream.


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Seattle Public Schools administers the PSAT (Preliminary SAT) to sophomores and the PSAT/NMSQT to junior students on October 10, 2018. This is offered to all sophomores and juniors free of charge, no pre-registration required. Questions about specific administration details should be directed to the testing coordinator at the student's school.
SAT: March
Seattle Public Schools administers the SAT to juniors on a regular school day in March. The test date for this school year is March 6, 2019. The SAT is offered to all juniors free of charge, no pre-registration required. Questions about specific administration details should be directed to the testing coordinator at the student's school.
Student should bring the following items on the day of the test:
Provides valuable feedback on strengths and the skills necessary for college study. Students can then focus their preparation on areas that could most benefit from additional study or practice. The PSAT measures critical reading skills, math problem-solving skills and writing skills.
Gives insight on how a performance on an admissions test compares to others applying to college.
Helps students prepare for the SAT. Students will become familiar with the kinds of questions and the exact directions they will see on the SAT.
Could help juniors qualify for scholarships. The Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) for juniors is a program co-sponsored by the College Board and National Merit Scholarship Corp. (NMSC).
The SAT is the most widely used college admission test in the country. SAT scores demonstrate students are prepared for college with necessary skills and knowledge.
The school-day administration offers these benefits:
All of our juniors will be automatically registered for the exam. No action is required of families in advance.
Snacks will be provided for the nearly four-hour test.
No cost. Families and students will not be charged for the test, which normally carries a minimum cost of $57.00. The school-day test is free.
Students may also send up to four score reports for free. The school-day test permits students to send score reports to as many as four colleges or scholarship programs.
The test can be used as a substitute graduation requirement if the student didn't meet passing scores on other assessments in ELA or math.
Accommodations may be available for the PSAT/SAT for students with documented disabilities in a 504 Plan or IEP. Parents must initiate the request for accommodations by completing the consent form and submitting it to the school's SSD coordinator with the necessary documentation. From that point, the SSD coordinator will make the formal request to the College Board for approval. Accommodations may include extra time, separate setting, or large print booklets.
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There�s a crucial part of marine research projects that has nothing to do with science.
BEAUFORT � There�s a crucial part of marine research projects that has nothing to do with science.
For researchers studying the migration of marine animals or behaviors of fish species to ocean conditions, the lab where their best work in done is aboard the research vessels that carry them to the ocean and coastal waters where their subjects live.
�The research fleet is an important element in science: to have that ability to go and do in a manner that is economically feasible,� Capt. Dale Murphy said.
The R/V Cape Hatteras has done just that for 31 years, and a 10-day cruise that got under way Monday marks the last scientific operation before its retirement this month. A smaller educational cruise is the last scheduled operation, and the vessel is officially for sale as of Feb. 1.
The 135-foot vessel based at Duke University Marine Lab in Beaufort is owned by the National Science Foundation and has been operated by the Duke/University of North Carolina Oceanographic Consortium and managed by Duke University.
Science at Sea
The final days at sea will be busy ones, with 14 scientists on board representing six different universities or agencies working collaboratively, as well as individually.
Dr. Wilson Laney of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, co-principal investigator with East Carolina University professor Roger Rulifson, said the collaborative tagging cruise is funded through a three-year N.C. Coastal Recreational Fishing License grant and involves the tagging, release and monitoring of striped bass.
Laney said the species is an important fishery recreationally and commercially, and the CRFL grant will allow them to compare the survival and mortality of striped bass caught by hook and line and those by trawl. They will catch by trawl on the 10-day cruise aboard R/V Cape Hatteras and by hook and line during 10 one-day trips by charter later.
�We�re going where the striped bass are and we�re hearing right now that they are mostly in Virginia. They haven�t made it into North Carolina waters yet,� Laney said.
One aspect of the trip will be the use of acoustic tags in addition to the traditional ones. The acoustic tags are placed in the body cavity of the fish and send out acoustic pings that allow researchers to �listen� to the movement of free-roaming fish in the ocean.
In addition to tracking the location of fish species, tagging can provide information on the relationship between their location and ocean conditions.
Rulifson is investigating how mobile receivers can aid in the team�s capacity to monitor where fish are in the rough winter conditions off the Carolina coast.
That made the launch of a mobile robot called a Wave Glider for a test off the North Carolina coast an exciting addition to the latest tagging cruise. The day after the R/V Cape Hatteras left port, the Glider was launched from the Duke ship R/V Susan Hudson outside Beaufort Inlet.
Dr. Barbara Block and scientists from Stanford University and ECU are working together during this first test to listen for tagged bluefin tuna, striped bass and spiny dogfish sharks that overwinter in North Carolina waters.
�We hope that the Glider can pick up some of the new animals we release in the next few weeks and help monitor the presence of a variety of fish and sharks we�ve been tagging in the region over the past few years,� Rulifson said in a news release.
In addition to ECU and the Fish and Wildlife Service, other agencies involved in the tagging cruise aboard the Cape Hatteras include N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, Virginia Commonwealth University and Delaware State University.
Each entity, including five graduate students, is doing its own individual research work in addition to the collaborative project.
Laney said that Cape Hatteras has been a valuable asset and the loss of such research vessels can make it challenging for researchers. He said they will have to find another research vessel to use for the remaining two years of the striped bass grant or hire a charter, though commercial trawls aren�t always large enough for what they need to do.
What�s Ahead
The 31-year career of the Cape Hatteras has been an illustrious one, benefiting the local economy, enhancing educational activities and advancing research and efforts along the East Coast.
�The Cape Hatteras has had a huge financial impact on this area of North Carolina, and it has been an extremely successful oceanographic ship� said Dr. Dick Barber, interim director of DUNCOC.
It�s a loss that is bittersweet.
It�s tough to see the vessel go, but Barber said there is also opportunity that comes with the situation.
The oceangoing Cape Hatteras has been more of a blue water research platform and as part of a federal research fleet, it has been more of a U.S. facility.
Barber said there is a need for smaller, faster coastal research vessels to focus on North Carolina waters
�Now, with (Cape Hatteras) being retired, we have an opportunity to refocus on inshore and continental shelf waters,� he said.
While the Cape Hatteras is a notable loss, a December report to the UNC System General Administration and the UNC-GA Coastal and Marine Sciences Assessment Team noted that state-owned, medium-sized research vessels are aging.
Duke�s 50-foot Susan Hudson, the 70-foot R/V Cape Fear at UNC-Wilmington and the 48-foot R/V Capricorn at UNC�s Institute of Marine Sciences will likely need to be refurbished or replaced in the coming years.
Barber said now is an opportunity to refocus and invest in its research platforms, especially as issues such as oil and gas exploration and wind energy impact coastal uses.
Contact Daily News reporter Jannette Pippin at 910-382-2557 or email@example.com.


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Christie Reminds That There Is Still A Lot Of Recovery For The Shore
While Governor Christie is happy to see the shore's recover, he reminds folks that for many homeowners life is still very far from normal.
Speaking in Seaside Heights on Monday morning during the opening of a Home Depot satellite store, the governor said a recent helicopter tour of the coast has shown that while many boardwalk are being rebuilt in time for Memorial Day, there is still many homes that remain completely or severely destroyed.
"In places like Ortley Beach, Mantoloking, and Bay Head you still see the shore line littered with destroyed homes. "
The satellite store, located inside the White Pearl Hotel, was opening as a resource for contractors and homeowners; many of whom will be doing the bulk of their renovation during the upcoming warm weather. Christie reminds, "There's still a heck of a lot of work to do and still suffering and loss that are out there."
Seaside Mayor Bill Akers, who spoke at the store's opening, noted the borough will be better after the storm and it will never look the same. The governor agreed with that statement, and said while it could still take time for the shore to get there, a lot can be done in the short term.
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The bottom line is healthcare providers have posted enormous profits of late despite the �looming government takeover of healthcare� that was used to scare everyone to death.
Can they honestly believe we are that stupid? Or paying little to no attention?
Has anyone else noticed all of the propaganda healthcare providers have pushed out onto the airwaves lately? Currently, healthcare providers are spending millions to tell us why healthcare costs are rising.
I find it mildly amusing when the ads speak of �the rising costs of healthcare,� and they blame us (bad habits, lousy health), hospitals (unnecessary waste) and, of course, the go-to political move, Obamacare. However, nowhere in the ads do you hear that the providers are the cause of rising costs.
Was it not just a few years ago healthcare providers were telling us the main reason for rising costs were the uninsured and/or underinsured? Now, according to healthcare providers, the reasons are �we are covering too many people?�
What gives?
From where I am sitting, this is the customary finger-pointing normally reserved for lobbyists and political action committees. This type of double talk is the reason many do not trust the healthcare system any longer.
The bottom line is healthcare providers have posted enormous profits of late despite the �looming government takeover of healthcare� that was used to scare everyone to death. UnitedHealth Group, the top revenue generating healthcare provider, posted revenues of more than $100 billion while turning a handsome profit of $5 billion or so.
They were not alone in a nice turnaround of a buck. Humana, Aetna, Coventry Healthcare and Centene all generated large sums of profits in the billions.
To add fuel to the fire, each of those healthcare providers accomplished the single most important task in business these days: They increased their earnings per share and return for their investors. Let�s be realistic � above anything else, including good healthcare, this was, is and will always be the most important factor under our current healthcare situation.
The point is while they make billions (and in no way am I faulting them for making money), they also are spending millions to convince us they must raise prices even further to compete in the marketplace. This is absurd.
Healthcare in this country used to be about something other than a drive for the almighty dollar. There was a time when hospitals felt we had a moral obligation to treat all Americans regardless of their socioeconomic class � or maybe I�m just being nostalgic.
Rising costs and insurance companies� reluctance to pay these costs have made access to quality healthcare for the poor, seniors or people with serious health problems next to impossible. The rise of commercial healthcare has only made getting good healthcare that much more difficult unless you have a substantial bank account or work for a good company. Study after study has shown that for-profit healthcare actually reduces the chances of getting decent healthcare for �unprofitable� patients.
The main purpose for healthcare is to look after the needs of patients when they are at their most vulnerable. Period.
However, when profits, stockholders and earnings reports are entered into the equation, the patient�s best interests will undoubtedly be pushed to the back of the line. Doctor�s decisions will not be based on patient health but instead will become subject to a manager�s whim � whose only goal is profit. Medicines, procedures and treatments with high profit returns will no doubt be pushed in place of what is best for the patient.
We have seen the rise of healthcare providers throughout the last 30 years. Many of us remember a time when a decent premium provided us with the opportunity to go to any doctor or hospital in which we needed to go. Nowadays, you have co-pays for this, networks for that and hidden costs passed on to the patient.
Let�s stop pointing the finger at the wrong place. Putting profits ahead of patients is the problem, plain and simple. Aiding the sick should be a calling, like being a police officer or a teacher. Instead, it�s turned out to be more like being a used car salesman or stockbroker.
Making money for your board and investors is not the problem. The problem is when we begin to deny Americans quality healthcare at a reasonable cost to make sure the board and investors get that profit.
Has greed finally won? Has money finally trumped human lives? I hope not � but the twisted nature of our current system seriously makes me question this idea.
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It's still early days in the federal cloud revolution, and a key challenge in adopting the technology involves federal contracting procedures.
"The most consistent lessons learned from the early cloud adopters show that the federal government needs to buy, view, and think about IT differently," the federal CIO Council says in a guide to cloud contracting released Feb. 24. The guide was produced jointly with the federal Chief Acquisitions Officers Council (CAO).
"Cloud computing presents a paradigm shift that is larger than IT, and while there are technology changes with cloud services, the more substantive issues that need to be addressed lie in the business and contracting models applicable to cloud services," the guide says. "Federal agencies should begin to design and select solutions that allow for purchasing based on consumption in the shared model that cloud-based architectures provide."
Federal agencies normally invest in IT equipment and facilities and own, operate, and manage those facilities themselves, often at in-house locations. However, withh cloud configurations, agencies purchase IT services "on demand" from an outside entity -- a cloud service provider (CSP) -- whose facilities are usually physically remote from the agency. The emergence of the CSP changes everything and requires astute use of a different contracting vehicle.
The CIO guide focuses on several aspects of cloud contracting, including the following:
Terms and Disclosure: CSPs involve common acceptable-use standards to effectively maintain how customers use such providers. Usually this includes a Terms of Service Agreement (ToS). Agencies can also require CSPs to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) to enforce acceptable provider personnel behavior for dealing with government data.
"These agreements are new to many IT contracts because of the nature of the interaction of end-users with CSP environments -- both due to federal agency access to cloud services through CSP interfaces, and CSP personnel access and control of federal data," the guide says.
Performance: Service Level Agreements (SLAs) within the overall CSP contract require the provider to perform at acceptable levels in measurable terms. According to the guide, common terms and general standards are consistent, but other definitions and performance metrics can vary widely among vendors.
For example, "uptime" or "availability" may not account for planned service outages. As a best practice, SLAs should clearly define how performance is guaranteed (such as response time, problem mitigation time, and availability) and require vendors to monitor service levels, provide timely notification of a failure, and evidence that problems have been resolved.
"Federal agencies need to fully understand any ambiguities in the definitions of cloud computing terms in order to know what levels of service they can expect from a CSP," the guide says.
In addition, most cloud SLAs do not include penalties if a standard is not met -- and the consequences can be "catastrophic," the CIO council notes. Absent penalty provisions, providers may not have sufficient incentives to meet the agreed-upon service levels. To motivate providers to meet the contract terms, there should be a credible consequence -- such as a financial or service credit -- so that a performance failure results in a significant cost to the cloud vendor.
The guidance document will be utilized as a basis for contracting actions.
OMB will work with all key stakeholders to better understand what tools and information agencies still desire. It will include the federal CIO, the General Services Administration (GSA), and agency officials in a variety of ways, such as outreach, education and training, to ensure agency personnel understand the recommended actions.
The guidance includes consideration of commercial practices, and reflects OMB's regular outreach with industry during the last two years as the administration's strategy on cloud computing has evolved on a multitude of cloud topics, including acquisition. In addition, it reviewed government contracts with various commercial providers to understand how federal agencies contracted with them for use of the CSP offerings.
For vendors of cloud services and related offerings, the CIO guide provides notice of potential changes in contracting.
"The issue of SLAs is familiar to cloud providers, so that should not be a big issue in terms of the concept," Joe Brown, president of Accelera Solutions, told CRM Buyer. "But federal agency personnel might need some training and assistance to help understand what the SLAs mean."
Performance Work Agreements (PWAs) are similar to SLAs, and agencies have been using them routinely, Brown mentioned.
Such agreements often include either financial penalties or incentives, "but applying that idea to SLAs could take a little work for the agencies," he said.
Some aspects of SLA implementation are easier to accomplish than others, noted Brown.
"There are some standard benchmarks for things like availability and some technologies that can be employed to adopt them. But judging 'performance' is a little more subjective." he continued. "The agencies will have to put in place some measurements for individual contracts and ask the contractor to meet them."
On the other hand, vendors can help themselves by offering some type of "self servicing mechanism" that monitors such factors as availability and reliability. "The goal should be transparency of the operation, and providers should strive to feed operational information back to the agency," Brown noted.
To promote cloud deployment, the GSA has put in place a "shared services" contract mechanism for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) under a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) whereby several providers are "preselected" by GSA to provide cloud services throughout the government. The idea is to save agencies the time and trouble to develop their own contracting mechanism.
While such contracting vehicles can be useful, especially in helping agencies pursue enterprise-wide IT programs, there's a flaw in that process, Brown said, in that the preselected vendor roster limits the competitive opportunities for a broad range of vendors.
"I would like to see that contract mechanism opened up every year for new opportunities for more vendors or just expand the regular Schedule 70 qualification process," he said. Schedule 70 refers to the broad GSA approved contractor list for IT services.
"Information technology is changing so fast that innovations and the addition of more vendors with improved products and services occurs continuously," Brown pointed out. "It's just naive to think that a single group of providers can cover the whole range of cloud and related applications."
The CIO guide also covers other contracting elements, such as use of the newly released Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP); selection of private, public or hybrid clouds; privacy issues; and Freedom of Information compliance.
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I went to two funerals recently. I will write about one soon. But here are some thoughts.
When I go to funerals for Karate Sensei or their spouses, the other instructors and I always seem to shake our heads and say, "We shouldn't have to get together like this." This is true and sad. Karate instructors and students should be able to get together at other times than funerals. But aside from dojo events, association meetings or tournaments, there do not seem to be many opportunities for Karate people from other dojo, associations, and styles to get together... except for funerals.
The other thing is that people say such nice things about the person who died. Often, those outside of the family know so little about the person. We might have seen them from time or knew that they were married or related to someone we know, but that might be all we know. Then at the funeral we get to see photo boards covering their lives, from childhood until the time of their death.
People we only knew as "old", were once happy children, handsome or beautiful young adults, proud parents of newborns, business owners, grandparents.... Their lives were so full. Then we hear the eulogy and statements by family and friends. These great people had talents, these great people overcame hardships, these great people were examples for all of us.
But in their old age, we might have only known that they were elderly, or sick, or both.
By the time some of us get to begin to appreciate the person, it is too late. We cannot tell them that we admire them. We cannot tell them "thank you." We cannot ask them questions. We cannot look over their family photos with them, and ask them who all the children in the photo were with the model "T" truck. It is too late.
When they are gone, we can only think fondly of them and say a prayer for them. But it is too late for us to do anything for them, to ask them if they need any help, to take them to lunch or just take them out. It is too late.
What can we do for our elderly Sensei? Whatever we can do, we have to do it now. If we wait, it might be too late.
Do not miss the opportunity to tell your Sensei, "thank you." Do not miss the opportunity to ask your Sensei questions. Do not miss the opportunity to ask for your Sensei's advice. Do not miss the opportunity to offer to help your Sensei. When it is too late, you might find yourself at a funeral with other students and instructors, saying that it is too bad that you have to get together at funerals. It would be too bad.
Perhaps you can arrange to take your Sensei to lunch. If he cannot drive, offer to pick him up and return him home. If he cannot leave home because he has to take care of his elderly wife, perhaps you can offer to bring food for the two of them. You can do something if you give it some thought. I have learned a great deal about this from my friend and senior Sensei Pat Nakata. He is a true example of how we students can and should show respect to our elders.
Karate begins and ends with courtesy, which is the way of showing respect. There is nothing more important than the respect we show to our elders. Particularly in Karate, where would we be without our elders, our seniors and Sensei?
And, of course, we should be just as respectful and concerned about our own parents and grandparents, our family elders. As we do in Karate, so too do we do in daily life.
Do not wait until it is too late. Do it now.
And don't forget -- we will be elderly one day too. How we show respect to our elders may be the way that our juniors treat us. Hopefully that will be a good thing.
Charles C. Goodin
Don't Wait -- Do It Now
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Hope College presented awards honoring teaching, service and scholarship during the college's annual faculty recognition luncheon on Monday, Jan. 11.
Hope College presented awards honoring teaching, service and scholarship during the college's annual faculty recognition luncheon on Monday, Jan. 11.
° Named a "Towsley Research Scholar" was Dr. Jeff Johnson, assistant professor of chemistry.
° The "Janet L. Andersen Excellence in Teaching Awards" were presented to Dr. Brian Coyle, professor of music and chairperson of the department, and Mary DeYoung, associate professor of mathematics.
° The "Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement Awards" were presented to Dr. Joanne Stewart, professor of chemistry, and Dr. Scott Vander Stoep, professor of psychology and chairperson of the department.
° The "Technology Innovation Award" was presented to Dr. Thomas Ludwig, who is the John Dirk Werkman Professor of Psychology.
° The "Provost's Awards for Service to the Academic Program" were presented to Dr. Herbert Dershem, professor of computer science and director of institutional research; Dr. Ryan McFall, associate professor of computer science; and Lannette Zylman-TenHave, administrative assistant to the provost.
The Towsley Research Scholars Program is funded through an endowment made possible through a grant from the Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation of Midland. Through the program, newer Hope faculty members receive support for a project for four years. The foundation's awards to the college have also included grants for the construction of the Van Wylen Library and the Schaap Science Center, faculty development in the pre-medical sciences and support for an endowed chair in communication.
° Jeff Johnson's award will support his research project "Carbon-Carbon Bond Activation: Mechanistic Elucidation and New Methods for Carbon Dioxide Fixation." He is working collaboratively with Hope students on the development of non-traditional organic reactivity catalyzed by transition metals. This new chemistry promises previously unknown methods for the incorporation of carbon dioxide, an inexpensive and inherently renewable resource, into intermediates suitable for the production of complex organic molecules such as pharmaceuticals. Ultimately, he hopes to develop methodology capable of utilizing carbon dioxide for the synthesis of basic organic starting materials currently derived from petroleum.
Johnson joined the Hope chemistry faculty in 2007 after serving as a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at Colorado State University for two years. External support received by Johnson since joining the faculty total over $0.5 million and include a five-year Camille and Henry Dreyfus Faculty Start-Up Award, a Research Corporation Cottrell College Science Award and National Science Foundation - Major Research Instrumentation award for a remotely accessible 400 MHz NMR spectrometer.
The Janet L. Andersen Excellence in Teaching Awards are presented to faculty members who have been teaching at Hope for at least seven years and who have demonstrated recognizable excellence in specific activities or aspects of teaching. The award is named in memory of Dr. Janet Andersen, a professor of mathematics at Hope who died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005.
° Brian Coyle was recognized for developing the college's program in jazz studies, with a particular emphasis on his skill in mentoring student performers at a range of levels while building Hope's jazz groups. He is a performer, composer, arranger, adjudicator and clinician who frequently appears at festivals, colleges, high schools and clubs both nationally and internationally. Professionally he has performed with internationally known artists including Roberta Flack, Al Jarreau and Jermaine Jackson, and with the National Touring Companies of "The Will Rodgers Follies" and "Guys and Dolls," among others.
° Mary DeYoung was recognized for her work and perseverance in preparing pre-service elementary teachers for careers in education, including through her teaching as well as by serving as the official academic advisor for many mathematics elementary-education majors and as an informal advisor for other elementary students. She has spoken at a variety of national professional meetings concerning the teaching of mathematics and the preparation of mathematics teachers, and her numerous publications include the cover article in the October 2009 edition of "Teaching Mathematics in Middle School."
The Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement Awards recognize members of the Hope faculty who are superior teachers and have also contributed significantly in some other area of professional life. The award was established in memory of Dr. Ruth Yzenbaard Reed, a 1965 Hope graduate who was associate dean of Macomb Community College. Reed died in August 1999 at age 55.
° Joanne Stewart was recognized for her work on campus and nationally in identifying and developing effective approaches to teaching. Her activities at Hope include directing the college's Howard Hughes Medical Institute-funded program that emphasizes interdisciplinary science education through research and a research-oriented curriculum. Among other activities nationally, she is part of a select group of chemists leading "IONiC," for "Interactive Online Network of Inorganic Chemists," a program supported by the National Science Foundation to develop an online resource to help professors of inorganic chemistry work together to improve their teaching. Through the years she has made numerous presentations on cooperative learning at off-campus workshops as well as at Hope.
° Scott Vander Stoep was recognized for extensive professional involvement both at Hope and beyond. He has led the college's campus-wide assessment program since 2001, and was director of the college's Carl Frost Center for Social Science Research from 1999 to 2004. He recently concluded a term as national president of Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology, in which he has also been active at the regional level. Among other activities in the community, he currently serves as vice president of the West Ottawa Board of Education.
The Technology Innovation Award is presented by the college's Academic Computing Advisory Team to a faculty or staff member who exemplifies innovation and ingenuity in the application of technology to the academic program. The innovation may have been used in the classroom or out, in teaching or in research, or in any form of academic support or performance.
° Thomas Ludwig has been nationally recognized for adapting the computer and Internet for use in psychology education, and in 2005 he received the Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award from the American Psychological Foundation for his significant career contribution to the teaching of psychology. The Hope award honors him for his decades-long support of campus computing in teaching and learning, and for assisting faculty in his own department as well as other departments. Among other contributions, he helped design and implement a computer-mediated learning package for introductory accounting classes at the college and is a founding member of the campus Moodle advisory board that gives direction to Hope's course-management system.
The Provost's Award for Service to the Academic Program is presented to individuals who have provided special contributions to the academic program through student academic support, general education, assessment work, implementation of programs that support/enhance the curriculum, and any activity outside of formal teaching that contributes to the overall excellence of the academic program.
° Herb Dershem has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1969, and played a leadership role in developing the college's department of computer science, including as chairperson of the department from 1975 through 2003. He has been director of institutional research at the college since 2007. His activities also include directing a three-year, National Science Foundation-funded scholarship program that supports students who transfer to Hope to major in biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, the geological and environmental sciences, mathematics or physics after completing work at a community college.
° Ryan McFall has developed survey software used at Hope in roles ranging from the assessment of teaching to the online student voting for Student Congress and the Homecoming king and queen. An advocate for the use of technology in the classroom, he has assisted colleagues in multiple departments in adopting classroom-management software. His research interests focus on the development and evaluation of electronic textbooks that increase the usefulness of textbooks for both students and instructors.
° Lanette Zylman-TenHave has been on the staff in the provost's office since 2001. She manages all the details of the office, ranging from the provost's calendar, to faculty contracts and salary information, to budges, committee assignments, the office's Web site, faculty development opportunities, and organizing baccalaureate and commencement and many other events. She works with the entire faculty and all of the academic secretarial staff in providing processes that are consistent, automated and save time for all involved.


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Missouri added more than 12,000 jobs in June
Missouri's unemployment rate edged up slightly even though businesses added thousands of jobs in June.
The Missouri Department of Economic Development said Tuesday that employer payrolls grew by 12,800 jobs in June, compared with the previous month.
Despite that growth, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate also inched up by one-tenth of a percentage point to 6.9 percent in June.
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I want you to turn in your Bible this morning to 2 Corinthians chapter 3. We have already completed a study of this chapter but I want to echo our study a little bit and add a footnote this morning and then again tonight. I'm going to give you one message today in two parts, this morning and tonight. I won't be able to get finished and so we'll continue it tonight. I don't want to go into the next chapter because I know that we'll have a long break before we can continue. I'd rather wait till I return from my trip. But I want to add a footnote to chapter 3 if I can that I think will be practical and helpful, instructive for us.
Look at that eighteenth verse that ends that great chapter on the superiority of the new covenant and let me remind you what it says by reading it. Second Corinthians 3:18, "But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit."
Now we saw that the culminating reality of the new covenant is that it is a transforming covenant. That in the new covenant we look at the glory of the Lord revealed in the face of Jesus Christ unobstructed. We see Christ in all His wonder, in all His beauty and all His glory, as described down in chapter 4 verse 6, "Light shines out of darkness, the One who has shone in our hearts gives us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ." So as we look at the face of Christ we see the glory of God revealed. Nothing obscures us. We don't have a veil over our face like Moses did. There's nothing oblique or obscure, there's nothing hidden or dark or shadowy. The new covenant, the gospel, the message of Jesus Christ is clear. The light has been turned on and we can look with an unobstructed view right at the glory of God revealed in the face of Jesus Christ. And as we look at the glory of God and focus on the glory of God revealed in Christ, we are moved from one level of glory to the next by the Holy Spirit who is moving us into the image of the very glory we behold.
This is what progressive sanctification is all about. This is Christian growth. This is the process of becoming like Christ...moving from one level of glory to the next as we gaze at the glory of the Lord.
Many years ago when I first came to Grace Community Church, the Lord impressed upon my heart the importance of the theme of the "glory of God" in the Bible, both in the Old and New Testament. Early on in my ministry here I preached a sermon on the "Glory of God," and through the years we have moved in and out of that theme many, many times and I want to do that again this morning.
We as believers who have come to participate by faith and by grace in the new covenant have been put into a relationship with God by which we can see His glory radiated through Jesus Christ as we look at Him unobstructed on the pages of Scripture. And in so looking can literally be transformed into His image from one level of glory to the next. All of that simply to say, we are to live to the glory of God. We are to live to move from one level of glory to the next level to the next level to the next level ever more and more like Jesus Christ, increasingly devoted to the glory of God, increasingly manifesting the glory of God.
Now that poses, at least for me and I trust for you, a very practical question. If we say we are going to glorify God, we are going to aim at the glory of God, we are going to focus on the glory of God, we are going to gaze on the glory of God, we are going to glorify God with our lives...how do we do that? How do we really move from one level of glory to the next? What is specifically and practically involved in that?
Well, I want to give you some very clear things that the Bible teaches about glorifying the Lord...how to move from glory, to glory, to glory, to glory in your life. And this morning I'm just going to give you two of them with a few sub points and then a few more tonight.
But let's begin at a very obvious point. Nobody hit a target without aiming at it. You're not going to get there if you're not moving in that direction. So point number one is if you want to glorify God, you have to aim your life at that purpose. You have to aim your life at that purpose. In other words, the very goal of your life is the glory of God, that's the focal point, that's what you are about, that's what you direct your life toward.
Jesus certainly did that. According to John 8:50 He said, "I came not for My own glory but the Father's." He didn't live for His own glory. He didn't live to fulfill His own agenda, but rather that which honored and exalted and pleased and lifted up God, even if lifting up God meant humbling Himself, even if exalting God meant basing Himself, even if setting God in the place of worship meant putting Himself in the place of cursing. He was willing to do that because He was always focused on the glory of God. God being glorified was His purpose. And so it is in our lives that we must live to glorify God.
Stating that in very simple terms we read 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 31 and you perhaps know this verse, but let me put it to you and maybe give it some richer context. In 1 Corinthians 10:31 we read this, "Whether then you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." That's a very simple verse, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God. I commented on this verse in the early service and someone came to me and say afterwards, "You know, that was an interesting statement when you read that verse, the person next to me poked the person next to him and said, `You've been glorifying God too much in your eating.'" Well that is not the intention...that is not the intent nor is that any kind of a balanced interpretation of this verse. Let me help you with it. This is not saying the more you eat the more you glorify God, we want to understand that clearly.
What it is saying is that whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God. In other words, it's a life focus. It isn't so much talking about eating and drinking. It's talking about all of life going down even to that which is as mundane as eating and drinking. I mean, that's about the commonest thing we do. You would think that might get left out, I mean glorify God when you speak, glorify God when you act and behave, glorify God when you do ministry, glorify God when you worship, glorify God when you meet people's needs, glorify God in spiritual and religious ways and ways of behavior...but eating and drinking? That's pretty mundane stuff. And that's the whole point. At the very basest point of human existence, eating and drinking, when you're just meeting biological need, do it to the glory of God. That becomes the focal point of everything you do in your life. That's the focus. You ask yourself, as I have for many, many years, does it glory God? Will it glorify God? Will it bring honor to His name? Will it exalt Him? Whatever it is, no matter how apparently or superficially mundane, it has inherent in it a capacity for you to honor God...even the simplest behavior like eating and drinking.
Now, you have to aim your life at that. That has to be the all-consuming purpose of your life, the all-consuming direction of your life that you're never going to do anything willfully and knowingly that does not bring honor, that does not bring glory to God. You want to honor Him with every single thing you do. You want to exalt Him, praise Him, lift Him up, worship Him, glorify Him.
But let me take that a little deeper because that's pretty general. How does that sort of flesh out? Well let me give you some things you can look at. Okay? Do a little inventory in your life and you can ask yourself a few questions that will help you know whether you're aimed at that purpose. If you want to find out where you're aimed, these questions will answer that for you.
Number one, do I prefer the glory of God above everything else? Do I prefer the glory of God above everything else? That's a very simple question and yet it has profound implications. Is the very purpose of my life to bring glory to God so much that His glory transcends any of my own personal desires? Relationships? Goals? Dreams? Ambitions?
It can be very costly to aim your whole life at glorifying God. Let me give you some illustrations. Go back to Exodus chapter 32, this is a pricey commitment. And if you go back to Exodus 32 you get a little bit of an idea of just how pricey it is. When you make the commitment to glorify God as a way of life, there may be some serious ramifications.
Moses in Exodus 32 had come down to find the people of Israel worshiping a golden calf. He had been up getting the law of God. He came down and found that they were worshiping a golden calf. Not only were they worshiping a golden calf but they were engaged in horrific iniquities...sins, gross sins. And he had to confront this. I guess the saddest point of all was that his own brother, Aaron, who was supposed to be in charge of spiritual leadership was leading the people in this lascivious, lewd, immoral idolatry. In fact, what was going on was a violation of the first half of the Decalogue that was being given on the mountain. It was very defiant, happening at the very time God was giving His law, His law was being violated.
Verse 25 of Exodus 32 brings us into a most fascinating incident. When Moses saw that the people were out of control, or literally cut loose, for Aaron had cut them loose, or let them get out of control to be a derision among their enemies. You see, it was a terrible dishonor to the God they claimed was their God for them to behave in such a terrible way. What glory did it bring to God for them to be acting like that? None. It detracted from His glory for here they were worshiping Him in an illegitimate way as if He could take the form of a golden calf and conducting themselves in immoral way which was blasphemy against His holiness. And so they were causing themselves and God to be derided or mocked among their enemies. And Aaron had led them into this out-of-control behavior.
So Moses stood in the gate of the camp, verse 26, and he said, "Whoever is for the Lord, come to me." Now the issue here is the honor of God. The issue here is the glory of God. The issue here is to exalt the character of God as over against this debauchery. So who is on the Lord's side, would be another way to say this. Who wants to glorify God? And all the sons of Levi gathered together to him, the priestly tribe came. Those who were responsible for the spiritual side of things, the worship, they came over and said...We're with you. We're willing to glorify God. We're going to take our stand...an unpopular stand cause all the rest of the people were happy to be doing what they were doing. Believe me, sin has its pleasure. But the people from Levi came and said, "We'll stand with the Lord."
Then verse 27, a most incredible thing is asked of them. "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, says Moses to them, Everyone of you put his sword upon his thigh, go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp and kill every man his brother, every man his friend, and every man his neighbor." You say you want to glorify God? Good, put your sword on and go kill everybody. Go kill your brother. Go kill your friend. Go kill your neighbor. He's not asking him to go kill some enemy. He's not asking him to go kill strangers. He's saying go ram a sword through the heart of your friend, go slit the jugular of your friend or your neighbor, or your brother.
Are you really devoted to the glory of God so much so that you will take this kind of action against those who are closely related to you? God's glory is at stake here. His name is being dishonored. This is a very pivotal moment in redemptive history. A lot is at stake. You've been led out of captivity, you're now in the wilderness. God is giving you His law, He is reconstituting you as His people. He is for the first time ever in history giving you the Decalogue, giving you the Mosaic Law. You're coming in to a new relationship with God based upon that. This is a new day and God wants to make something very clear--disobedience is intolerable. This is a pivotal moment and God wants to lay down the message that He doesn't tolerate disobedience, just like He laid it down with Ananias and Sapphira in the early days of the church. And so God wants these people killed, a representative number of them slaughtered. God is gracious and He doesn't always do this, and even in this case He didn't kill everybody. In the midst of His wrath there is always mercy. But He wanted a very clear lesson given to people that there is a blessing and a cursing tied with this law and if you disobey it, there's going to be a high price, if you obey it you'll be blessed.
So, this is really putting it on the line, folks. You want to glorify God, do you? Put on your sword and go kill your family, friends and acquaintances. And verse 28 amazingly shows you the level of devotion of these Levites, "The sons of Levi did as Moses instructed and about three thousand men of the people fell that day."
Now you know those guys didn't just roll over and let their head get chopped off. You know they didn't just lie there while somebody ran a sword through them. You can't even imagine the chaos and the debacle, you can't imagine what was going on in the camp as these people were trying to escape from the murderous Levites who were trying to carry out the will of God by slaughtering them. By the time 3,000 were dead, killed in hand-to-hand combat, God said that's enough, I've made My point. Sin is a very serious thing.
Then verse 29 Moses said, "Dedicate yourselves today to the Lord for every man has been against his son and against his brother in order that He may bestow a blessing upon you today." Dedicate yourself to the Lord now so that He can bless you. With obedience comes...what?...blessing.
This is a graphic early on demonstration of blessing and cursing coming with obedience or disobedience. "And it came about the next day that Moses said to the people, `You yourselves have committed a great sin.'" These people had worshiped an idol and the price for that is high. For some of them, death.
But the issue here that I want you to focus on is the people who were willing to glorify God even if it meant a severing in their family, a severing in their friendships, a severing among their neighbors. That's...that's how it is. Oh, I don't think God is asking us to do this, but I do believe that if you say I am going to live my life to the glory of God there may be a price to pay in your family, there may be a price to pay among your friends and there may be a price to pay among your neighbors. You may generate a great hostility. And I'm not just talking about non-Christians here, let me tell you something, there's enough carnality and enough compromise in the Christian church that if people decide they're going to live solely and only to the glory of God, they might find themselves loosing Christian friends who are willing to live at a compromising level. They might find themselves being severed from acquaintances that have been long-time acquaintances who aren't willing to live at that level of spiritual devotion. They might even find that they become the oddity in their own Christian family because they are so totally devoted to the glory of God. I mean, if you in your family of sort of lethargic compromising or apathetic Christians and you decide to live to the highest level of spiritual devotion, you're going to become a rebuke to that whole environment...even though it's nominally Christian or even though it's really Christian.
But if you aim your life at the glory of God and you're going to live that way, then you will prefer Him above everything and everyone no matter what. Even if it costs you a family. Jesus said it, didn't He, "I came to bring a sword to divide families." Even if it costs you a friendship, even if it costs you alienation from your neighbors, it can do that, it will do that. It's sort of like taking a Nazarite vow, you just stick out, you're just kind of odd.
Look at John 21, let's see how it might even go further than that. In John 21 Jesus meets the disciples in Galilee in a post-resurrection appearance. He has told them to stay in the mountain and wait for Him, but they didn't. Peter disobeyed and went fishing and took everybody with Him. So the Lord comes and confronts Peter's disobedience and asks him three times if he loves Him. It's a fair question because Jesus had taught Peter, "If you love Me you'll keep My commandments," and here Peter had disobeyed and therefore his love could rightly be questioned. And Peter replied three times, "You know I love you." And then at the end of this little dialogue about love we come to verse 18 and Jesus responding to the affirmation of Peter's love says, "Truly, truly I say to you, when you were younger you used to gird yourself and walk wherever you wished." In other words, you controlled your own life, you called your own shots, you did what you wanted to do. Put on your own clothes, pulled on your own sash and determined the day's agenda. I mean, you were in charge. "But when you grow old you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird you and bring you where you do not wish to go." You've been in control of your life and you've called the shots and you've had a great amount of independence. The day is coming in your old age, Peter, when somebody is going to tie you up and haul you off where you don't want to go.
What's He talking about? Verse 19, "He said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God." He's saying to him, "Peter, you're going to glorify Me in death. You're going to die because you're so focused on glorifying Me, you're going to honor Me to the point of death." Now that must have been good news to Peter because every other time he faced death he chickened out. Every other time life was at stake, he vacillated, right?, when confronted even by a little girl and asked if he knew the person from Galilee named Jesus, he denied it. Peter had been a classic coward. And I think the Lord told him that the day would come when he'd be a hero just to sustain him through life with the confidence that in the end he wouldn't fail.
The day would come when somebody would say to Peter, "Look, Peter, either you deny Jesus Christ or we're going to kill you." And Peter would say, "Kill me, I will glorify Him at any cost." That's new for Peter. He hasn't been like that in the past. It must have been wonderful to know he'd be like that in the future. Tradition tells us they crucified him and that he didn't want to be crucified like Jesus, he didn't think he was worthy so he asked to be crucified upside down which they did. But that's how he glorified God. It cost him his life.
It could cost you your life. It could cost you your neighbors. It could cost you your friends. It could cost you your family. I mean, just to aim your life at that purpose is definitely going to isolate you from the crowd. But if you are a person who is completely committed to the glory of God, there's a price to pay. It was Peter who by the wonderful grace and power of God was willing to pay that price who wrote this in 1 Peter 4, "If anyone suffers as a Christian...verse 16...let him not feel ashamed but in that name let him glorify God." If you have to suffer to glorify God, suffer. The Spirit of grace and glory rests on you...what a great promise.
So what does it mean to aim your life at that purpose? It means to be consumed with the glory of God so that you prefer it above all else. It really doesn't matter what the consequences are at all. You know, it's a lot like those people in Hebrews 11 who...verse 37 and following says...were...well, verse 36, experience mocking, scourgings, chains, imprisonment, were stoned, sawn in half, tempted, put to death with the sword, went about in sheepskins, goatskins, destitute, afflicted, ill treated, wandering in deserts, and mountains and caves and holes in the ground. Why did they do it? Cause they cared more about the glory of God than anything else. What makes the Apostle Paul...here people say to him, "You go to Jerusalem and you know what's going to happen you, you're going to be put in prison. You could die." And he says, "None of these things move me because I don't count my life dear to myself, I just want to finish the ministry Christ has given me." That's the compelling issue.
When you live your life to the glory of God you really are willing to sacrifice family, friends, neighbors, your own life...your own life. Well you're not liable to die, you're not liable to get martyred in this culture, but you are liable to have to give up your ambitions. You may be asked by God to give up your goals, your dreams, your plans, your possessions. Therein lies a grave measure of self-sacrifice.
There's a second component to this first point. Aiming your life at this purpose means that you prefer the glory of God above everything else, but let me give you a second thing that it means. It means you suffer when He suffers. It means you feel pain when He is dishonored. Ask yourself the question...do I feel pain when God is dishonored? If the answer is yes, then you're living to His glory.
You say, "What do you mean by that?" I'm talking about empathy. I'll tell you one thing for sure, whoever you love the most has the tightest grip on your heart and if they feel pain, you'll feel it, right? You look at that precious little child that God has given you and anything coming into that life that brings pain to that little life wrenches your heart. Look at that life partner God has given to you, whatever comes in to his or her life to tear up that life that you love so much, tears your own heart out. Do you feel the same about God? Do you understand empathy toward God, sympathy toward God? Do you have a heart of compassion in terms of feeling the pain that God feels when His name is reproached or dishonored?
Psalm 69:9 is a great illustration of this. You don't need to look at it, I'll just quote it for you. Psalm 69:9, David says, "Zeal for Your house has consumed me," or "zeal for Your house has eaten me up." What does he mean by that? Well, what he means is that I am so passionately consumed with the honor and the glory of God that it consumes me.
Zeal is a marvelous word. Zeal is a tremendously rich concept. Zeal is a mixture, it is a mixture of passionate affection and righteous indignation. Zeal means that there is something I love so much I hate anything that taints it, stains it, injures it, detracts from it, threatens it. It's that mingling of holy affection and righteous wrath. That's what David felt. David said, "I look at the temple, I look at Your house and it...I just have such passion, such holy affection for what it stands for and such righteous indignation for anything that threatens its purity." In fact, it goes so far, said David in the same verse, "That the reproaches that fall on You are fallen on me."
What do you mean by that? I mean that when You're dishonored, I feel the pain. That when Your name is shamed, I feel the agony, that I hurt when You hurt. Boy, we live in a culture where God's name is dishonored all the time, where God is mocked and scorned and laughed at and things are advocated and espoused and pumped out in every imaginable form of entertainment that are a stench to the nostrils of God and a blasphemy to His name and a shame. And we can just kind of take them or leave them. When someone takes God's name in vain which is an act of blasphemy, does your blood curdle, do you feel empathy, do you feel the shame, the pain, the reproach falling on you that falls on Him? When our society strikes its blows against God in the myriad of ways that it does, do you feel the pain? Do you feel the shame? Or are you so insulated that you don't feel anything?
If you were really consumed with the glory of God you're going to feel the pain that God feels when His name is dishonored. And certainly from a personal standpoint if that's your feeling, you're not going to want to dishonor Him because you're not going to want to add to His pain. I look at my wife, i look at my children, I look at the people around me that I love, I can't imagine I would ever do anything to inflict unnecessary pain on them, that I would ever do anything to shame them or to bring reproach on them or to injure or to wound them. Why? Because I love them so much, they're so close, so much a part of my life. And yet, I am the temple of the living God who dwells in me by His Spirit, the Spirit of Christ. And how much of My life is spent either wittingly or unwittingly bringing shame upon one whom I affirm to love and who is so intimately related to me?
If I aim my life at the glory of God, then I'm going to feel the pain that He feels when He's dishonored. And if I feel it deeply enough I'm not going to want to dishonor Him. This was very much the attitude of Jesus in John 2. When Jesus began His ministry He went to the temple. He came as the prophet said He would come to His temple. And in John chapter 2 He went into the temple and He found things He didn't like. And He found money changers and He found ox and sheep and doves and they were all being sold there to be used as sacrifices at exorbitant rates. They were cheating people on the exchange of currency that had to take place because people came from all over the ancient world. It was a wretched marketplace run by a bunch of hypocrites and sinners. And so He made a whip out of cords which wove together and He drove them all out of the temple. Now that will tell you something about the formidable character of His humanity. He was some kind of man. He went into the temple, a massive place filled with thousands upon thousands of people and single handedly tore the place up and sent everybody out. Incredible.
He drove them all out of the temple, all the sheep, all the oxen. Poured out the coins of the moneychangers, overturned their tables. To those who were selling the doves, He said, "Take these things away and stop making My Father's house a house of merchandise." And His disciples immediately remembered, verse 17, that it was written in Psalm 69, "Zeal for Your house has eaten me up." Jesus literally put into practice what David felt in Psalm 69. It had that Messianic implication. It was the passion for the purity of the worship of God that caused Jesus to do what He did. That's righteous indignation, that's a holy wrath. He felt the pain when God was dishonored. That's the mark of one who lives to the glory of God.
There's a third little sub point that I want to mention to you. If you really live to the glory of God, if you really aim your life at that, not only will you prefer Him and His Kingdom above everything else and suffer when He suffers, but thirdly, listen to this one, you will be content to be outdone by others as long as He is glorified. You will be content to be outdone by others as long as He is glorified.
In other words, your pride will be gone. There's a lot of pride, even among Christians. It can show up in the church, the wranglings and hassles in the church and people who want credit for this and want credit for that. Years ago somebody told me that it was their view based on their church experience that when Satan fell he landed in the choir loft because he saw so many jealousies and so many fightings and petty deals about who gets the solos and so forth and so on. And we thank God that we don't have that kind of situation at Grace Church, but that's true in a lot of places. In fact, even Dr. Criswell said years ago that he was having so much trouble with the choir, everybody arguing about who got to sing what that he just decided to have a testimony Sunday and he said it was one Sunday night once a year, anybody could come parade by the platform and sing one verse of anything they wanted and he said that way we got rid of all them on one Sunday night. I mean, we all know about competition. I remember two pastors were competing in a Sunday school contest to see who could get the most people. And the one that lost got sick. I'll never forget reading that. He was so emotionally tied up with winning. Ego can be a big factor. We want credit for this, or credit for that. We want to be the most noble or the most respected preacher or teacher. But if you're aiming only at the glory of God, then it doesn't matter what happens to you. You can humble yourself like Jesus did and take on the form of a servant. You can mocked and spit on and imprisoned like Paul was and it really doesn't matter because all you care about is that God be exalted, the Lord be glorified.
I think the best and simplest illustration of this is found in Philippians chapter 1. I would draw you to that. Philippians chapter 1, it's such a wonderful passage. In this passage, of course, as Paul writes to the Philippians he's in his first imprisonment, not the one in which he died, that's a later imprisonment, this was an earlier one. And, of course, once he was put into prison his envious, jealous detractors, the next breed of preachers coming along who had an exalted view of themselves wanted to use that as a way to put themselves up. And so they were going around saying, "Well he's in prison because there's secret sin in his life, you don't about it but God knows about it and He had to put him on a shelf." Or, "He's in prison because he somehow convoluted the doctrines, he's messed up the truth and God had to take him and put him on the shelf." And they were discrediting Paul and speaking evil against his character.
He comments on that in chapter 1 verse 15. He says, "Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ even from envy and strife and some from good will." I mean, Paul was either the spiritual father, grandfather or uncle of every convert in the Gentile world. I mean, he was the one God used, he was the most beloved. His shadow was far and wide. It was cast over everything in the church at that time. And there were some guys coming along who were very jealous. They just couldn't deal with that. Their egos were big and they wanted their moment in the sun and at the expense of Paul they would take it. And now that he was in prison they would use that as a way to say God had put him on the shelf and it was their day and people should listen to them, not him. And they were preaching from envy and strife, and others from good will. Others had a right perspective on Paul, they knew him for the man that he was and their attitudes were right.
Verse 16 he says, "The latter...those good-will preachers...do it out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel." They know the reason I'm in jail is not either do to sin or a failure to teach the truth but because God put me here for the gospel's sake. "The former...however, verse 17, envy and strife category...proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition rather than from pure motives and they're trying to cause me distress in my imprisonment," or add pain to my chains, another way to translate that.
So, he says some preach Christ with good will toward me, some are lambasting me, lying about me. Look at verse 18, here's the real key, "So what?" That's what "what then?" means. So what? "Only that in every way whether in pretense or in truth Christ is proclaimed or preached, and in this I rejoice, yes and I will rejoice." I don't care what they say about me as long as Christ is preached. This is a man consumed with the glory of God. This is a man consumed with Christ. It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me whether they accuse me. It doesn't matter whether my reputation survives. It doesn't matter what people think of me. What matters is that Christ is preached? Let my candle go out if the Son of righteousness can but rise with healing in His beams. I'm not the issue.
Now there is a life aimed at the glory of God. Preferring the glory of God above everything else, feeling the pain when God is dishonored and being content to be outdone by others who do what you do...if God is glorified. Now you're not going to be thrown in prison, perhaps, but are you...can you rejoice with your whole heart when somebody else does what you do better than you do it? You can if you're consumed with the glory of God. You paint and you want it to be the honor of Christ. Somebody else paints better to the honor of Christ, can you rejoice in that? You sing, somebody sings better. You teach, somebody teachers better. You preach, somebody preaches better. You write, somebody writes better. You've had an impact on people's lives, somebody has had a better impact, or a greater or more far-reaching. Is that all right? It is if you're consumed with the glory of God.
So the first thing then in glorifying God, moving from one level of glory to the next, is to aim your life at that purpose. Now let me give you the second and just briefly. We...we glorify God by confessing sin. We glorify God by confessing sin. The thief on the cross is a good illustration of this. He really did glorify God in his death because he had failed to glorify God all his life. But in his death he glorified God because he said this, Luke 23:41, looking at the other thief, "We indeed suffer justly."
What was he saying? We're getting exactly what we deserve. What is that? That is tantamount to a confession of sin. We're here and being crucified and it's exactly what we deserve. And you see, what that does is glorify God. How? Because it frees God from any accusation of impunity for being unkind or ungracious or unjust. They're not shaking their hands...their fists in the face of God like those in Revelation 16 and saying, "What kind of God are You? Why would You let this happen to us?" No, the thief said, "Hey, we're getting exactly what we deserve. We sinned. This is what we deserve thus freeing God to do whatever God would justly do without any accusation against him." You see, one of the reasons you confess sin is just to restore the fellowship with God but a second reason you confess sin is to free God up to do whatever He wants to do to you. If you confess your sin to God and God chastens you, then you've acknowledged that He has every right to do it, right? It's a holy reaction against your sin. On the other hand, if you confess your sin and God doesn't chasten you, then you have glorified God also because now you're going to understand the greatness and the magnanimity of His grace. Right? But if you don't even acknowledge your sin and don't even confess your sin and if God chastens you, you're liable to shake your fist at Him and say, "Why is this happening in my life? I don't understand this." Or if God is gracious to you, you're not even going to understand it at all. You're going to not even acknowledge it at all. You're going to think you deserve it because you're such a good person. But when you come to grips with your sin you free God up to chasten you and you'll know that He has a right to do it or to gracious to you and you'll know that you don't deserve it. Either case you're going to glorify Him for His justice or His mercy. But, you see, if you won't accept the responsibility for your sin, then He gets no glory either way.
Now we live in a culture where people don't want to take responsibility for their sin. Is that not true? They're not responsible for their sin. They're not responsible for anything in their lives. And consequently they do not glorify God. It doesn't not glorify God when you blame somebody else for sin that is only your problem. Nobody is responsible for your sin but you...not your mother, not your father, not your aunt, your uncle, not your orphanage, not anything. Nobody but you is responsible for your sin. And the sooner you acknowledge that responsibility then the Lord in chastening you can be glorified because it's a just chastening. And in not chastening you, you can praise Him and thank Him for the grace that He gives you because you know what you really deserve.
But men are good at denying sin, right? Adam started it. The first sinner launched the first dispossession of responsibility and he says in Genesis 3:12 to God, "The woman You gave me." It's not my fault. I went to bed single. I'll tell you something else, I didn't ask for a wife, I didn't even know what a wife was. There wasn't such a thing. So this is not an answer to prayer. Furthermore, You could have picked anyone You wanted, why did You pick her? You didn't give me a choice. It wasn't like it was a beauty contest and I could pick whatever one I wanted. You're certainly not blaming me for this sin, are You? The woman You gave me.
Who did he blame? God. He could have said, "What do I know about a woman? Certainly can't hold me responsible." God said, "I do hold you responsible. I hold everybody responsible for his or her own sin."
Let me give you an illustration of this. Go to Joshua chapter 7 and we'll kind of wrap our thoughts up around that. Joshua chapter 7, a most fascinating account, you remember when the children of Israel were delivered from Egypt through the power of God and the ten plagues and crossed the Red Sea and it drowned Pharaoh's army, they then were in the wilderness, of course, and they wandered there for 40 years. And eventually got into the promised land. And the first point of entry in the promised land was Jericho. They came into Jericho and they won a great battle. You remember, they marched around the walls for seven days and seven times the seventh day and the walls fell down and they took the city. God had said to them, "Now when you take the city of Jericho don't take any spoil." Remember that? Don't take anything. But there was one guy who just couldn't resist. In fact, I've always said he was just "achin" to take something. That's how I remember his name easily. And he did. And he wasn't alone. There was complicity on the part of his whole family. I mean, after all, he buried the whole pile of treasure in the middle of his tent and you couldn't be digging a hole in the tent your whole family was living in without somebody knowing what was going on. So they were all a part of it. There was complicity in the whole family.
Instead of obeying God, he went in there and just stole everything. And here again is a very crucial point in God's redemptive history. After the Egyptian experience of several hundred years, they now wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. Finally a whole generation died off. Now they go into the promised land, it's a brand new day, it's a dawning of a new era again and God wants to get across another message. The message is this...obedience brings blessing, disobedience brings cursing. And at very key points in redemptive history, God punctuated that reality. And here is one of them. He told them, "Don't take anything...don't take anything." And Achan and his family did. And it has to be confronted.
So we come to chapter 7 verse 19. Joshua said to Achan, "My son, I'm implore you, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel." Now how is he going to do that? How is he going to give glory to the God of Israel? I'll tell you how. "Give praise to Him and tell me now what you have done and do not hide it from me." What's he saying? Confess your sin. In fact, some of the translations even say that. Confess your sin, don't hide it. So he said, "Look, confess your sin and give glory to God." Now how does that give glory to God? Well, if you'll accept responsibility for your sin then nobody is going to accuse God of being unholy when he judges you. That was the point. So he says confess your sin.
Verse 20, "Achan answered Joshua and said, `Truly I have sinned against the Lord the God of Israel, and this is what I did. When I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight," that's a fortune, "then I coveted them, took them, behold they are concealed in the earth inside my tent with the silver underneath." That's what he did. I like the specificity of his confession, don't you? He didn't say, "I demonstrated a moral weakness." He didn't say, "I had a moral failure." He said, "I sinned and this is exactly what I did," and even told him what order the stuff was stacked in.
"So Joshua sent messengers and they ran to the tent and behold it was concealed in his tent with the silver underneath it." He was accurate, just the way he said. "And they took them from inside the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the sons of Israel and they poured them out before the Lord." Must have had them in some containers and just dumped it out. "Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan, the son of Zerah, the silver, the mantle, bar of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent and all that belonged to him and brought him down to the Valley of Achor, or the Valley of Trouble. And Joshua said, `Why have you troubled us? The Lord will trouble you this day.' And all Israel stoned them with stones and they burned them fire after they had stoned them with stones." Whoa, this is a big fire. There's a lot of things burning here, folks, lots of people, lots of animals, lots of stuff. "And they raised over him a great heap of stones that stands to this day and the Lord turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Achor to this day."
Now if I had been in that little deal that day, I would have walked away saying, "You know, obedience is better." It's a better choice. Obedience is wiser. And that was the whole message. Every time a person disobeys God doesn't kill them, but periodically to make His point, He's done that at crucial junctures in Israel's redemptive history and even in the beginning of the church, as I mentioned, with Ananias and Sapphira, to remind us that it's all about blessing and cursing, those who obey are blessed, those who disobey are cursed. And, you see, if Achan hadn't confessed that sin and God had just wiped out that whole family, somebody might say, "Well what kind of a God are You? Well why would You do that?" And then the pagan neighbors might say, "Boy, you've got a terrifying, fearful God. He just wipes out people and families and animals." But when he confessed that he had sinned against God, then what everybody would have to say was, "This is a God who is so holy He will not tolerate sin," and that is the reputation that glorifies God. Right?
And that, of course, sets up the whole significance of the atoning work of Jesus Christ. You can see that what Jesus Christ did on the cross was appease the wrath of God by satisfying His justice for us.
You want to glorify God? Then aim your life at that purpose and confess your sin and confess it specifically so that when God chastens you He will not be impugned for being unjust. And when He shows you grace, He will not be forgotten for His mercy.
Nehemiah vindicated God's righteousness in Nehemiah 9:33 and said, "Thou art just in all that is brought upon us." Genesis 41:9, "Then spoke the chief butler to Pharaoh, `I do remember my sins this day.'" Genesis 44:16, "So Judas said, `What can we say my Lord? What can we speak? And how can we justify ourselves? God has found out our sins.'" First Samuel 15:24, Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned, I have truly transgressed the command of the Lord." Daniel said, "I was speaking and praying and confessing my sin." Simon Peter saw Jesus, fell down at Jesus' feet, Luke 5:8, and said, "Depart from me, I am a sinful man, O Lord." The Publican beating on his breast said, "Lord, be merciful to me a sinner," Luke 18:13. Paul said, 1 Timothy 1, "I am the chief of sinners."
You see, when we admit our sin that glorifies God because it puts on display His holy wrath against sin and it puts on display His sweet merciful grace for the sinner. You want to move from level of glory to level of glory and become more and more like Christ? You want to become all that God wants you to be? Then aim your life at glorifying God and confess your sin. Now that's two, I'll give you some more tonight. Let's bow in prayer.
Father, again this is so practical and so basic and helpful for our lives. We pray that You'll apply it to us. Lord, we pray that You will grant us grace to be the kind of people You want us to be, to live to Your glory, to ask that ubiquitous question, that constant ever-present query...will this bring you glory? May it be the controlling question in our hearts. We know, Lord, one other thing, too, that no one gives You glory who doesn't confess Jesus as Lord to the glory of God. Confessing You as Lord to the glory of God is where it all starts. If we don't confess Jesus as Lord, then there can be nothing else we can do to glorify You. You've said, "This is My beloved Son, listen to Him," if we don't do that we dishonor You from the start. I pray, Lord, for those here who have not glorified You by confessing Jesus as Lord, who have not accepted Your testimony concerning Christ, who have not accepted His sacrifice on their behalf, who have rejected Your Son and thus spurned Your grace and spurned Your love and mercy. I pray that this may be the day that they would confess Jesus as Lord and thus bring You honor and bring You glory for the gift of Christ on their behalf.
And then, Lord, for those who are Christians, may we aim our lives at this purpose, may we confess our sin honestly and openly to You that we might willingly accept Your just chastening and Your merciful goodness and forgiveness. We thank You that the glory shines to us through the face of Christ and can shine in us and from us as we glorify You and move from one level of glory to the next. We commit this truth to You in our lives as well and may we be what You want us to be as we apply it. We ask that Your Spirit would do that on our behalf in Christ's name. Amen.
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Argentina's youth national team ready to meet challenge of Senior League
Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 15, 2014 - Argentina's Youth Boys' team is undergoing demanding preparation as they take part in the ACLAV A2 Seniors' Men Upgrading League, organised by the Argentine Volleyball Teams League Association and the Argentine Volleyball Federation.
As they enter their second weekend of matches on Friday and Saturday, they prepare to play against the River Club and Club de Amigos.
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On the other side of the net, the national team rivals had a perfect start to the tournament with River losing only one set to Atletico Echague in its second match while Club de Amigos defeated the same rival and Parana Rowing, 3-0.
Both teams currently have six points and top pool 1. They will be on hand to help the players of the Argentine youth team to ensure that they keep growing and improving over 2014.
There will be 13 teams taking part in the second weekend of competition, which will start on Friday, January 17 and end on Sunday with matches in Buenos Aires city, Parana, Tucuman and Villa Carlos Paz.


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In the riveting suspense drama, CHAPPAQUIDDICK, the scandal and mysterious events surrounding the tragic drowning of a young woman, as Ted Kennedy drove his car off the infamous bridge, are revealed in the new movie starring Jason Clarke as Ted Kennedy and Kate Mara as Mary Jo Kopechne. Not only did this event take the life of an aspiring political strategist and Kennedy insider, but it ultimately changed the course of presidential history forever. Through true accounts, documented in the inquest from the investigation in 1969, director John Curran and writers Andrew Logan and Taylor Allen, intimately expose the broad reach of political power, the influence of America's most celebrated family; and the vulnerability of Ted Kennedy, the youngest son, in the shadow of his family legacy.
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Madoff jailhouse interview used to bolster NY suit
NEW YORK (AP) — A new lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co. relies on a jailhouse interview with Bernard Madoff to bolster claims that top bank executives for many years questioned Madoff about concerns but always backed off.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Manhattan federal court. In the lawsuit, lawyers for two pension funds quoted Madoff from an in-person interview conducted last fall North Carolina where Madoff is serving a 150-year prison sentence.
The lawsuit said top JPMorgan executives confronted Madoff in the 1990s and through the next decade, too. But the lawsuit said they usually raised their concerns "as an after-thought" at the end of meetings.
A Chase spokeswoman did not immediately return a message for comment. JPMorgan agreed to pay $1.7 billion to settle criminal charges stemming from Madoff's fraud.