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I want us to go back to 1 John chapter 1. We have launched out on a study of the epistles of John, 1, 2, and 3 John. Chapter 1, of course, is critically important as we have been learning. And some number of weeks ago we started into a discussion of the subject "confession of sin, a certain proof of salvation." It is the purpose of John in this epistle to offer proofs of salvation, to offer tests by which a true believer can be distinguished from the false. One of those is the confession of sin. "If we say," says verse 8, "that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His Word is not in us."
There is a distinct line drawn between those who are true believers and those who are not. The false deny their sin, the true confess it. In fact, that really is the glory of the gospel, isn't it, at its heart, the glory of the gospel, the value of the gospel is that it provides complete forgiveness of all sin for the sinner who embraces the gospel. And the forgiveness that God provides for us is so comprehensive that it removes from the believer all defilement, all shame, all guilt, all punishment forever and replaces it with righteousness, security and eternal reward. This is the gift of forgiveness. It is inviolable, it is irrevokable, nothing and no one can cause the forgiveness of God granted to the believer to be taken back, to be rescinded. No one can talk God out of it, or change His mind, or successfully bring up an accusation against that believer that would cause God to cancel that forgiveness. The consummate promise that we cling to with regard to that is found in the eighth chapter of Romans, verse 1 starts that chapter by saying, "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus...there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." If you are Christ's, there is no condemnation for you.
At the end of that chapter in verse 28 we read that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. God takes everything and works it to the good of those who belong to Him. There is no condemnation, there is only good on behalf of those who are Christ's, God sees to it, because that's how He planned it, "For whom He foreknew He predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son." Whoever it was that He chose in eternity past He determined would come to the very image of Christ in eternity future. Whoever He chose He will bring to glory. Whoever He chose to be in the image of Christ will realize that reality. And whom He predestined, in verse 30, He called and whom He called He also justified and whom He justified, these He also glorified. There is no condemnation of those who are in Christ, there never can be any condemnation of those who are in Christ because God takes everything that happens in our lives, good-bad and indifferent, and works them to our good. And that is because in the beginning in eternity past He chose us for salvation to be conformed to the image of His Son and He will bring that to realization in eternity future so that all He predestined are called to salvation. They are then justified and they are to be glorified. If all of this is true, and it is, verse 31 asks, "If God is for us, who is against us?"
If God has so determined that our forgiveness is irrevokable, inviolable, cannot be cancelled, never to be removed, if that is true that God is for us in that sense, who successfully can be against us? If God didn't spare His own Son but delivered Him up for us all," in other words, if God gave the gift of His Son to accomplish this eternal forgiveness, "then will He not also with His Son freely give us all things necessary to the preservation of that forgiveness?" That is to say, if He gave the greatest gift, His own Son in death, to secure our forgiveness, will He not give us whatever lesser gift is necessary to sustain that forgiveness. Verse 33 says, "Who will bring a charge against God's elect?" Paul is saying, "Who can successfully bring an accusation that sticks? God is the one that justifies, there is no higher court, there is no superior judge and if we are acquitted by God, if we are declared righteous by God based upon the work of Jesus Christ, there is no higher court, there is no successful accusation that can stand against us. Who can condemn us?, verse 34 asks. "Christ Jesus is He who died, yes rather who was raised and who's at the right hand of God who also intercedes for us." No one can bring a successful accusation against us before God because as the judge of all the earth He's already rendered His unchangeable verdict. No one can come with any successful accusation before that throne of God because we have a lawyer for the defense, Jesus Christ, who is our advocate, who is at the very right hand of God interceding for us. Because of these realities, he asks the question, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril or sword?" And skipping down, "In all these things," in verse 37, "we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. I'm convinced that neither death nor life, or angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created things shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
What all of this is saying is that when God forgives your sin, it is absolutely permanent. Back in Romans chapter 4 verses 7 and 8 taken from Psalm 32 say, "Blessed are those whose sins or lawless deeds have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account." We are blessed because God will never take our sins into account. The Old Testament says, "He's buried them in the depths of the deep blue sea. He's removed them as far as the east is from the west," that's infinity, "And He remembers them no more." Galatians 3 tells us that Christ having borne the curse for us, we are no longer under the curse of sin, freed from that curse because Christ became a curse for us.
If you are a Christian then, all your sins for all time have been forgiven. Ephesians chapter 1 reminds us in verse 7 that we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of His grace. And He has much more grace than we have sin, Romans 6 says, "Where sin abounds grace does much more abound."
There is no way a forgive person can then be reversed, as it were, out of that condition of forgiveness and held before the judgment bar of God to pay ultimately for his own sins. I just want to make it very clear that all our sins are forgiven and yet in spite of this gracious, merciful generosity on God's part toward all of those who repent and embrace Jesus Christ we are still, according to 1 John 1, we are still known as Christians because we continue to confess our sins. And that is what verse 9 is saying, if we are confessing our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And we looked at that in some detail and pointed out that is not a command, that is a statement of fact. True believers are habitual confessors who therefore demonstrate that their sins are continually being forgiven. We are still known as penitent. We are still known as eager to repent, as confessors of sin.
In our previous study we looked into this verse and into the context a little bit and we saw that John is providing one of these several tests to verify a true believer. There were those people with whom John was dealing who claimed to be in the light. They claimed to have fellowship with God. But in actuality they walked in darkness because they refused to confess their sins. They are so described in verses 8 and 10. Very different is the pattern of a true Christian. It is the pattern of our lives to be constant confessors, never denying our sin but always acknowledging our sin and always enjoying the on-going benefits of that confession and that repentance. In fact, we never come to the table of the Lord without the attitude of confession. We never come to the table of the Lord, such as we're doing tonight, without a heart searching to see if there's any sin in our lives that could cause us literally to bring chastening upon us by partaking of this table without due consideration of the confession of our sins. The godly are confessors.
We learn that throughout the Scripture. I quoted to you from Romans chapter 4, "Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven," and I said that comes from Psalm 32. Psalm 32 is prayed by David. David was a believer. David was a justified man. David was a child of God and yet he confessed his sin. He said, "When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long, for day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me, my vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Then I acknowledged my sin to Thee, my iniquity I didn't hide, I said I'll confess my transgression to the Lord and Thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin." David was a believer. David was a child of God and yet when he didn't confess his sin he felt tremendous pressure. It dried up the fluids in his body. It distressed him. He ached all over. What was happening was the guilt that was flooding his mind was having an impact on his body. And then he confessed and he opened his heart. He felt the free flow of God's forgiveness and restoration. Those of us who are believers then, even though all our sins have been forgiven, are nonetheless confessors...confessors. And as I said, this isn't a command to confess, it's a statement of fact. Believers by nature do this. It is the result of the work of God in them. It is the result of the work of the Spirit in them. It is the result of the work of the Word in them, all of which convicts of sin. So even though we have been forgiven, we are very much aware of our sin, very eager to confess it, repent of it and be washed.
This is not a command in 1 John 1. But there are commands in the Bible that tell believers to seek forgiveness. Luke 11:4, what did Jesus teach the disciples? He taught them to pray this way, "Forgive us our sins...forgive us our sins."
Now we have a problem here. You see where I'm going? We have a dilemma. Why would I be saying, "God, forgive my sins," when I know He's already forgiven my sins? How am I going to reconcile this?
Well, some teachers increasingly popular, by the way today, claim that since we are already forgiven we must never ask God to forgive our sins. To do so, they tell us, is an expression of unbelief. It's an expression of doubt. And, in fact, you are calling God's Word into question. Why would you ever ask the Lord to forgive your sins when He has told you all your sins are already forgiven? And so they insist that 1 John 1:9 has nothing to do with Christians but it is an invitation to non-Christians. When I was writing the book on forgiveness, I used some illustration from the best-known contemporary proponents of this view, a man named Bob George who teaches on the radio, a popular author, he says that Christians who pray for forgiveness, quote: "Live in daily insecurity, doubting whether all their sins are forgiven." He and several others who teach similarly claim that the only way to enjoy your liberty in Christ is to forget your sin, forget about it all together and just embrace God's forgiveness as a fully accomplished reality because of the work of Christ and never again pay any attention to your sin.
Well there's enough truth, of course, in saying that all your sins are forgiven to confuse people with that. And, you know, that's a...that would be a great way to live, pay absolutely no attention to your sin as if it didn't exist. That's what historically and theologically is known as antinomianism, disregard for the law of God and your violation of it. Our sins are all forgiven, that's true. But to say therefore we should pay no attention to our sin and if we ever were to ask forgiveness we would be disavowing, doubting or denying the promise of God indicates that you may understand some of the truth but you don't understand all the truth. It is true that all our sins are forgiven but that's not all the truth. From the perspective of God's judgment throne, the sins of believers are forgiven...forgiven, even before they're committed and even if they're never confessed. Did you get that one? Before the judgment throne of God the sins of believers are forgiven even before they are committed and even if they are never confessed because God has said He has forgiven all our sins.
As a righteous judge, He has done that because He thoroughly and completely punished Jesus Christ for our sins. The price is paid in full and therefore God by justice cannot hold us guilty because the price has been paid.
But that's not all the truth in this matter and to say that God therefore pays absolutely no attention to our sin is ridiculous and to say that you are to pay no attention to your sin is also ridiculous and dangerous. To say that we can sin and completely ignore it and bear no guilt and no remorse and offer no confession and ask for no forgiveness will, believe me, bring down on such a person's head the discipline and the displeasure of God. The idea that a Christian should never pray a penitent prayer seeking forgiveness is unbiblical, it's heretical. So-called Christians who think they can sin and never need to seek their Father's forgiveness is seriously deceived, but that is an increasingly popular view.
Another advocate says, I'm quoting, "You've probably heard people pray like this, 'And, Lord, we ask You to forgive us for all our sins,' but why do forgiven Christians ask God's forgiveness? Do they not believe they are forgiven? If they believe they're forgiven then why do they ask for it repeatedly? Their prayers reveal unbelief." Same approach. A few paragraphs later he proposes what he thinks is a better way to pray. This is what he writes, 'How frequently do you hear someone pray and...Lord, I thank You that I stand before You a completely forgiven man, thank You that I am as spotless as the driven snow? How frequently do you hear people pray that?' he asks. Those words are rare but they thrill the heart of God because they demonstrate faith that a man believes God who says we are forgiven in Christ. There is no way you're going to cozy up to God if you feel He is increasingly upset with you. To feel secure you must believe that He does not hold one single sin against you."
Here is a bold statement he writes, "It is impossible for a Christian to ask God's forgiveness for a besetting sin the umpteenth time and then snuggle up to Him. He will feel like God's patience is being stretched to the limit," end quote. I don't even know what cozy up and snuggle up to God means. But what he is saying is, you're never going to enjoy the presence of God until you stop thinking about your sin. And if you really want to get close to God, pay no attention to your sin. How much sense does that make? That's a happy doctrine for an antinomian. That's a wonderful conclusion to come to if you don't want to pay any attention to your sin. Very convenient theology.
But don't be under any illusions. Just because you tolerate your sin doesn't mean God does. In fact, the Bible teaches the opposite. Luke 11:4, Jesus said to the disciples, "Here's how you pray, 'Forgive us our sins.'"
You say, "Well what do people do with that verse?" Well, those who argue against praying for forgiveness say that that verse applies to the Old Covenant under Moses' law. They say that under the Old Covenant, under the law of Moses, under the legal dispensation of the past and maybe some future legal dispensations, some of them refer to, that prayer applied. In other words, when you ask for forgiveness you got it and the next time you asked you got it, and the next time you asked you got it. And that's how it was, they say, under the Old Covenant.
Guess what? That's never how it was under the Old Covenant...never. People were saved under the Old Covenant the same way they're saved under the New Covenant. They cried out to God about their sinful condition and God in mercy forgave all their sins...that's Psalm 32, "Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute sin at all. Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered." Justification in the Old Testament was exactly the same as it is in the New Testament, as it is now...the sinner cries out to God, God forgives based upon the death of Jesus Christ. God applied the sacrifice of Christ to penitent sinners in the Old Testament even before Jesus died. The New Covenant was already in operation, though it wasn't ratified until Calvary. There wasn't any dispensation that operated like that, that if you confessed your sin it's forgiven, if you confess it's forgiven, if it's confessed...nobody would ever believe the Bible teaches a conditional salvation that comes and goes with every sin and be able to defend that biblically. There never was salvation by law. There never was salvation by works. And if they're trying to say that was some legal code that operated in time past and might operate in some time in the future, then they don't understand the role the law played. The way people were saved in the Old Testament was when they realized that they could not save themselves. No amount of penitence, no amount of confession, no amount of law keeping could overcome the fact that they could not...could not get over the just judgment of God against their sin. They needed a substitute. The substitute was pictured in the Old Testament sacrificial system. There would come one day one whose death would be in their place. This is a way they have to get around the issue.
A letter came into our ministry from someone, "The Lord's prayer belongs to the Old Covenant," the writer said, "when law, not grace, was the governing rule." Does he mean that forgiveness under the old economy was the way that was doled out one confession at a time so that's the way you became saved? Of course not...of course not. He went on to say, "Conditional forgiveness does not apply to Christians."
Now I'm kind of belaboring this because I want you to understand a little bit about the dilemma. People who try to say that that command to ask the Lord to forgive your sins is some legal command borrowed out of another dispensation in which salvation was on different terms, don't understand that salvation has always been on the same terms. It also reveals an elemental misunderstanding and that is that forgiveness is always by grace, never by some mechanical means. That is to say salvation is given as a gift to the penitent sinner who knows that he can't make things right with God no matter how many confessions he makes. Salvation was by grace, it's always been by grace, it's never been by anything but grace. The whole argument of Romans 4 is that Abraham was justified by grace and not by works. Penitence of the Old Testament, you can hear the cry of the penitent, Psalm 6, Psalm 32, Psalm 38, Psalm 51, Psalm 102, Psalm 130, Psalm 143 and many other places. You can't get away with turning the disciples prayer into some dispensational relic. Jesus said, "You need to pray, 'Forgive our sins, Father.'"
Well how are we then to understand this apparent contradiction? Simple, really, they're two kinds of forgiveness...two kinds of forgiveness. It is true, as I said, that all our sins are forgiven insofar as the judgment of God is concerned because He meted out that judgment in Christ. It is true. It is also true that we need to continue to ask the Lord to forgive our sins. Both are true, both are taught in Scripture. I'll show you how they harmonize if you'll turn to the thirteenth chapter of John, and this in the words of our Lord Himself. John chapter 13, it is the upper room, the familiar account of Jesus with the disciples. They're sitting at the table, nobody has provided a very important part of any social gathering like this where they're reclining at a table, and that was the washing of feet. There was apparently no servant available to do that, none of the disciples had deferred and taken the humble place to do it on behalf of the others. Jesus manifesting again His own humility as well as seeing in this a very important lesson, verse 4 says, "Rose from supper, laid aside His garments, took a towel, girded Himself around, poured water into the basin, began to wash the disciples' feet and wiped them with a towel which He was girded." The most menial of all tasks. They wore sandals. The roads were either dusty or muddy. You didn't recline at a banquet without properly washing your feet. This was the commonest of courtesies done by the lowest of servants. But no one did it, so Jesus did it. And it provides an opportunity to help us to understand these two kinds of forgiveness.
He came to Simon Peter, said to him, "Lord, do You wash my feet?" I mean, Peter understood that this is ridiculous, what are You doing down there washing my dirty feet? It ought to be the other way around.
Jesus answered and said to him, "What I do you do not realize now, but you shall understand hereafter." It will become clear to you in a while.
Peter said to Him, with his usual brashness, he doesn't even hesitate to command Christ, "Never shall You wash my feet! Never!"
Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me."
Whoa! Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head." I want a part with You. I want a relationship with You. Wash everything, Lord, everything.
But Jesus said to him, and here is the lesson, "He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you're clean." Boy, that's so insightful. Here is the distinction in an unmistakable analogy. Bathing...Peter took an appropriate bath before he came. He was basically clean, he didn't need his head and his hands, he didn't need to be literally doused. He had just accumulated dirt on his feet. Bathing illustrates one kind of washing, one kind of forgiveness. It illustrates the forensic forgiveness of justification. That is to say it indicates those who are justified by God as being declared free from the penalty of sin, free from the penalty of sin forever. You've already been justified, you've already been declared righteous because even though Jesus hadn't died yet, Peter had already been justified before the cross God applying the cross before it even took place. You have already been declared free from the penalty of sin forever by God who has His justice satisfied through the sacrifice of Christ. So bathing illustrates the forensic forgiveness of justification, washing illustrates the fatherly forgiveness of sanctification.
He says you're clean. You appear before God as clean and righteous. You are free from the penalty of sin in your justification. But then there's the matter of your sanctification and you need to be continually washed from the presence of sin and the power of sin. You don't need to be justified again, you just need to be being sanctified. And it is in that fatherly sense, it is in that sanctifying sense that Jesus tells us...Say to the Father...Father, forgive us our sins.
You're not doubting justification. You have been justified before God. You have been set free from the penalty of sin. But be honest and realistic and though you are set free from the penalty of sin, you have not been delivered from the presence and power of sin and while you don't need to be justified again, you need to be continually washed. Sin needs to be confessed and forsaken as a regular pattern of life, not before a judge who will otherwise condemn us to hell, but before a Father who will otherwise chasten us. And that too is clear from 1 John 1:9. We go on confessing, and He goes on forgiving and cleansing.
The on-going confession does not bring justification, the on-going confession is related to sanctification. The forensic decision regarding our freedom from the penalty of sin has been made, it's inviolable, it can't be reversed, we pointed that out. The fatherly concern for our holiness and our sanctification is related to the on-going confession and forgiveness. In Christ we have forever satisfied the judge. He will never be displeased. But God as Father is displeased when we behave sinfully.
Now to point this out is to clarify the issue. There are two kinds of forgiveness...judicial forgiveness, or forensic forgiveness. The forgiveness that was purchased in full by the atonement that Jesus Christ rendered on our behalf. That kind of forgiveness frees us from the threat of eternal punishment, eternal condemnation and that's why those who are in Christ Jesus are not under condemnation, Romans 8:1. It is the forgiveness of justification. But then there's not just the judicial, there's the paternal forgiveness. This is granted by God not as judge, but as father. He is still grieved when His children sin. Yes we are justified, but He also wants us to be sanctified, to be conformed to the image of Christ. He is pleased with that justification. He is displeased with the breach of sanctification. Forgiveness of justification takes care of judicial guilt, but it does not eliminate fatherly displeasure. We have been delivered from the penalty of sin by justification, but we haven't been delivered from the presence and the consequences of sin. That is an on-going process and that's why we are always confessing and always being forgiven and being cleansed. Your justification is a fixed and settled reality. Your sanctification ebbs and flows dependent on how you deal with the sin in your life. You are covered with the righteousness of Christ that pleases God and settles the issue of your eternity. In terms of punishment, there never will be any. But the sin in your life, in your humanness, displeases the loving Father, retards your sanctification which also displeases Him and muddies up the image of Christ which you and I are to manifest.
Are we supposed to believe that because Jesus Christ atoned for our sins God no longer cares about our sins? Of course He cares, why do you think the Bible is full of commands? What do these people do with them? What do they do with all the commands to holiness? One Christian confused about these things sent an e-mail, "Are you saying to me...are you saying God will become angry with His own children? If we're clothed with Christ's righteousness, how could God even see our sin? And if He can't even see our sin...that's a quick conclusion to his point...if He can't even see our sin how could He ever be displeased by it? I thought God was never displeased with any Christian because He accepts us in Christ as if we were as righteous as Christ and He's well pleased with His beloved Son. Besides, if we believe God gets angry with His own children when they sin, can we honestly say we believe He's forgiven us in the first place?"
Boy, people have gotten confused about this. The answer to that last little question that he offers in that e-mail is God does get angry with His children, He gets very angry with them. And to show you that, I want you to turn to Hebrews chapter 12. God has to be angry with sin, I don't care whose sin it is, because it violates His holiness. To say that when God looks at you He sees the righteousness of Jesus Christ is symbolic language, in a sense, it's forensic language. It doesn't mean He's ignorant about your sin. There isn't anything God doesn't know. Listen to Hebrews chapter 12, "You have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, 'My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you're reproved by Him, for those whom the Lord loves He...what?...He disciplines.'"
And some of these guys say, "Well, that's...that's discipline in the sense of instruction and training." Well, you've got to read the next line. "And He scourges every son whom He receives." That doesn't sound like training. That sounds like punishment. "It is...verse 7...for discipline that you endure, God deals with you as with sons for what son is there whom his father does not disciple? But if you are without discipline of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons." You're not even a child of God if you're not under divine discipline because every child of God is going to feel divine discipline, he's going to feel the scourge of God on his back or her back because God is concerned about your holiness. And if you're not being disciplined by God, you don't belong to God, you are illegitimate.
Furthermore, verse 9 says, "We had earthly fathers to discipline us and we respected them. You respected your father because he had a holy standard, if that was the situation. Shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as seen best to them, but He disciplines us for our good that we may share His holiness," that's sanctification. God sees your sin, God is displeased with your sin, God disciplines you because of that sin, scourges you because you are His child and He cares about you progressing in holiness. And if all of this was with some warm and fuzzy training, verse 11 wouldn't make any sense. "All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful but sorrowful." Whatever it is God is doing is sorrowful, it's a tough experience. "Yet to those who have been trained by it, it afterwards yields peaceful fruit of righteousness." That's what God is after, the two key words...holiness and righteousness connect to sanctification.
Now this is not shear punishment with no goal but the administration of holy justice, the death of Christ took care of that. But this is discipline and while it is without ultimate judgment, it is not without elements of punishment necessary to any corrective. In fact sometimes the punishment can be so severe that the person dies. In the Corinthian church there were some people who were weak and some were sick and some were dead because their sins were manifest at the Lord's table, remember that? There's correction in this discipline. There's correction in this chastisement and it is based on God's displeasure over sin. Listen, get this in your mind, God always has the same response to sin, always the same response, never has any other response than the response of displeasure, righteous indignation whether it's a non-believer sinning or a believer sinning. God's reaction is always the same because perfect holiness is always offended by iniquity. But He is particularly offended by it in one of His own children because He longs for that child to be in the image of His holy Son. There is a punitive component in His discipline. There is an element of shame in His discipline, words like scourging, chastening, rebuking all contain the idea of disapproval, punishment in a parental sense, even fatherly indignation and fatherly anger. It is not the wrath of abused justice, it is the wrath of abused grace.
Moses is an illustration. Moses knew God. Moses was justified. And yet in Deuteronomy chapter 1 we read, "The Lord heard the sound of your words and He was angry and took an oath saying, 'Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, he shall see it and to him and to his sons I will give the land on which he has set foot because he has followed the Lord fully.' And then Moses said, 'The Lord was angry with me.'" The Lord was angry with me...the Lord got angry with Moses and Moses was His child. And then the Lord got angry with Aaron in the incident at the foot of Mount Sinai where the Israelites had under Aaron's tolerances built a golden calf. Deuteronomy 9 verse 20, "The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, so I prayed for Aaron at the same time."
God gets angry with those that are His. Sometimes He gets angry enough to destroy them. There is a sin, even among those who are believers, unto death, we'll see that in 1 John chapter 5. Solomon...Solomon was a man who knew God and yet in 1 Kings 11:9 it says, "Now the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned away from the Lord." I think there were times when Jesus demonstrated this, He got angry at the disciples, righteously indignant when they refused to let the children to come to Him in Mark 10. He got righteously indignant with Peter when He said, "Get thee behind Me, Satan." He harshly rebuked James and John in Luke chapter 9. So the idea that God is somehow indifferent to sin because His children are committing it is absolutely ridiculous. And whenever God comes at His children in discipline over sin, there is an element in the discipline of punishment.
Listen to what it says in Psalm 89 verses 29 to 33, "So I will establish his descendants forever and his throne as the days of heaven. If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in my judgments, if they violate My statutes and do not keep My commandments, then I will punish their transgression with the rod, their iniquity with stripes but I will not break off my loving kindness from him nor deal falsely in My faithfulness." When God is talking of one of His own and He makes a promise, He may get angry and He may discipline but He'll never break the promise. In fact, God's discipline is the proof of His love for us. His anger over our sin and corrective punishment is the proof of His desire for our well being.
So the forgiveness...back to 1 John 1...the forgiveness in 1 John 1:9 is parental forgiveness, relational forgiveness, it's restorational. It's like Psalm 32, Psalm 51, "Restore to me the joy of Thy salvation." It's the kind of discipline that deals with our sin and brings us to repentance, confession, forgiveness and restored joy. It is not the washing of regeneration, that's already done. It's not the forgiveness of justification, that's already done. It isn't the bath. We need one bath and many times need our feet washed.
A Puritan commentator, Matthew Henry, wrote, "The Christian religion is the religion of sinners, of such as have sinned in whom sin in some measure still dwells. The Christian life is a life of continued repentance, humiliation for and mortification of sin, of continual faith in thankfulness for and love to the Redeemer and hopeful joyful expectation of a day of glorious redemption in which the believer shall be fully and finally acquitted and sin abolished forever." Beautifully said and that is why Scripture teaches us to be continually confessing our sin, continually asking the Lord to forgive us and cleanse us and He continually will do that. He is faithful and just to forgive us. Faithful because we're His and He made a covenant with us. And just to forgive us. How is He just to forgive us? Because the sins have already been...what?...paid for. He is faithful as a covenant-keeping God to His children to whom He has given the gift of salvation. And He is just when He forgives because the sins have been paid for.
One important thought I need to add. When we confess and our sins are forgiven, does that nullify all the consequences of our sin? Answer: no...no. There's no way to get back the consequences that sin created. That we can't undo. And Scripture is clear about that. When you sin there are consequences. The consequences may never ever be mitigated. David is a classic illustration of that. Sins with Bathsheba, he sins having her husband, in effect, killed. Then he comes to God and he pours out his heart in Psalm 32 and Psalm 51, literally the purest kind of penitence and confession and seeking forgiveness. And he can't get sin off his mind, "My sin is ever before me," Psalm 51:3, "My sin is ever before me, it's ever before me. All I see is my sin, my sin, my sin, my sin, my sin." That was the first consequence. Confessed, forgave but there it stayed in his mind. He's not going to forget that. He's not going to forget that he committed adultery with another man's wife. He's not going to forget that he was so passionate with that situation that he actually had her husband killed. But Proverbs 28:13 is this promise, "He who conceals his transgression will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion."
You can't undo what's been done. But a forgiving God will render compassion. The consequences...David couldn't forget his sin. That's the first consequence. Second consequence, the child born to Bathsheba dies. Next consequence, David's wives defiled in broad daylight by his son Absalom. Horrific. Another consequence...Absalom attacks his father, dies a horrible death riding along getting his head caught in a tree. What could God say to David? Second Samuel 7:14, God promised, "I'll be a Father to him and he'll be a son to Me. And when he commits iniquity, I'll correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men. But My loving kindness shall not depart from him." I can't fix all the consequences, but I will show him My loving kindness...I will show him compassion.
At the heart of God's pledge to His children is forgiveness and compassion. If you sin, He'll discipline you. Why? To bring you to the place of confession so that your joy can be restored and your holiness and your righteousness. And then when you face the consequence of your sin, He will minister to you His loving kindness, His grace and mercy and His compassion.
The aim of confession then is not to erase consequences, it's to restore joy. And then the consequences are what they are. Your sins have consequences. They're rocks thrown in the pond and the ripples go and they touch every shore. But God does promise when you've confessed and repented that He will show you loving kindness and compassion because you are His eternal child.. Your justification is settled forever. Don't cover your sin, confess it. That's what true Christians do. You've been bathed that you need continually to have your feet washed as they get dirty walking in your fallenness. If you don't confess, you'll be chastened. If you do confess, you may never be able to change the consequences but because you're God's child He'll come to you in compassion and loving kindness and minister to you. He disciplines His impenitent children because He loves them and He wants them to be holy and righteous and you can be holy and righteous even though the consequences are still painful. And while you're going through the pain of the consequences, He will flood you even if you're a broken-hearted child, with His mercy and compassion. That's why we are eager to confess our sins. We want that forgiveness, that compassion and that kindness to mitigate against the circumstances we've created.
And that's why coming to the Lord's table we are called to confession. It's a constant reminder of how important this habitual spiritual exercise is. The Lord gives us this as a reminder to look at our hearts and confess, and He also disciplines us when we don't. Take the positive and confess your sins and you won't suffer the discipline.
Our Father, as we come now to this table to partake, we do confess we are sinners. We hold nothing back. We are sinners in every sense. To be totally depraved doesn't mean we're all as bad as possible but it does mean that every part of our faculties is sinful. Nothing in our humanness escapes it. And even though we have been declared righteous before You, and freed from the penalty of sin, we're not sin from the power and presence of sin and it's still there and we still cry with Paul, "O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? " We feel like there's a corpse attached to us and it's possible to shake. So we come admitting our sin, confessing our sin and asking, O God, that You would grant us that parental, fatherly forgiveness that will cause You to stay Your discipline, that You'll give us back the joy of our salvation. And if we have sinned in such a way as to set consequences in motion, would You, O God, give us that compassion and that loving kindness and sympathy that will bear us up in the midst of those circumstances, those consequences? Clean us and wash us now as we come to this table, even as You washed the feet of the disciples as they sat at the table of that first communion service.
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HAVELOCK � The Cherry Point Air Show will not get off the ground next year, according to the air station�s commander.
HAVELOCK � The Cherry Point Air Show will not get off the ground next year, according to the air station�s commander.
Col. Chris Pappas III, commanding officer at Cherry Point, announced late Friday the cancellation of the biennial event, citing reductions in the base budget.
�Our top priority continues to be supporting the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing to train to go anywhere, at any time, to fight and to win,� Pappas said in a statement. �We�re prioritizing spending to ensure this priority is met.�
The event, which has also served an open house at the base for decades, typically features high-flying civilian and military aircraft, static displays of aircraft, and often the Navy Blue Angels jet demonstration team. It had been scheduled for the spring of 2014.
Cherry Point�s last air show in 2012 drew 165,000 people for the free three-day event held at the nation�s largest Marine air base.
Havelock Mayor Jimmy Sanders said he wasn�t surprised to hear the news and blamed Washington legislators for not funding the military.
�My response is that we have a Congress that will not adequately fund the military,� he said. �The military has a job to do, and unfortunately, putting on shows for us civilians is not a priority, and I have to agree with them.
�Until this country can get its priorities in order, these kinds of things will continue to happen. It�s going to have an impact on the economy, but Cherry Point�s priority is not to support the local economy. It�s to maintain a highly trained fighting force to defend the country.�
Sanders said he understood the tough decision Pappas made.
�I know that was a hard decision for Col. Pappas to make, but I support the decision that he has made,� Sanders said. �I am continually amazed at how the Congress and the other folks in Washington can be so dysfunctional.�
Havelock City Manager Frank Bottorff once served as Cherry Point�s commanding officer.
�Clearly we are disappointed that we won�t have an air show at Cherry Point in 2014,� he said. �It�s obviously an important event in the community, but we fully support Col. Pappas� decision. We have a great relationship with the installation, and we understand that because of limited financial resources this decision had to be made. We completely understand and support their making this decision.
�Obviously the air show does have a very positive impact on the economy for a short period of time, so hopefully we will be able to put it back on in the following years.�
The next possible air show for the Cherry Point would be 2016, according to the base statement.
The event, which is typically held in the spring, is a large draw for the city and the base. Stephanie Duncan, executive director of the Havelock Chamber of Commerce, said economic impact reports show the air show is responsible for bringing about 250,000 people to the area during the three-day event.
�We�ll definitely miss out on that potential income on what those visitors will be spending by staying in hotels, but the biggest feeling is that the budget is the most important thing for us,� Duncan said. �The air show is small beans compared to the huge impact of the federal budget problems and the effect that sequestration has on us.�
In 2013, many military-based air shows across the country were canceled because of sequestration and budget cuts, including one scheduled at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro.
Drew C. Wilson is a reporter for the Havelock News.

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Friday, 13 July 2007
Suggestion Box for 2008
We've all been delighted by the positive comments so many of you have left. But rather than seek more praise, we'd like to ask you for your own suggestions for next year's webcam season. Perhaps you've watched from the other side of the world, or have sat below Derby's magnificent cathedral to see the birds for yourself. What worked well for you, and what worked badly? What would you have loved us to have done that we didn't do? Please tell us!
And if you are involved in education, or have watched with young children, what could we do next time to make your experience even richer? Have you used our webcam images in a classroom situation? Were there problems accessing our webcam, homepage, or this blog? Would you have liked full speed video? Could we do more to help you meet your own teaching goals?
Of course, we already have some ideas of our own, but we really want to consider your views too.
Click the "comments" link below this entry to leave a public comment, or email them privately to us at email@example.com If possible please tell us roughly where you are from and how you have used the webcams. (as a solitary viewer; with a family; as a teacher; frequent or irregular visitor etc)
In answer to some recent questions, we will definitely be keeping the webcameras running using the Streamdays service for at least another three months as there's still some irregular activity around the nest platform. After that we may slow down the refresh rate until 2008. We'll see. Of course, this blog will also remain active for some time yet, and certainly won't disappear.
Tony, Nick and Nick
for Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project
46 comments:
I thought the webcams had already stopped working when I go to the site there is no picture.
Anyway for next season I would love to see full streaming and if possible sound. What about a webcam on another building looking over at the nest so we can see the birds coming and going. Perhaps we would be able to look at all camera views on the same page instead of clicking from one camera to another.
- 13 July 2007 at 10:33
i agree with jan, i'd love to be able to see all camera views at the same time and have the option to enlarge on one particular view without losing the other.i'd also like to be able to see the birds from afar as they swoop in to land on the nest and live streaming would be fantastic.
how about an 'evening' peregrine watch on the cathedral green perhaps once or twice a week, just for people like me who are unable to come during the day due to work commitments, this way local after-school clubs like brownies and scouts could be involved too.
- 13 July 2007 at 12:01
A visitor on the tray at noon time. Jennie, HK.
- 13 July 2007 at 12:03
Friday 1.30.p.m. One on camera, don't know which one, but a welcome sight!!!!
- 13 July 2007 at 13:34
p.s. to above...for 2008...I will be happy whatever you do!!
- 13 July 2007 at 13:36
Re: 2008 -- get the kids more involved, have a contest to name the new babies and have the names submitted by both local and www watchers from around the world. A little local advertising and web posting would generate lots of interest.
Great job to all involved with this project.
Ted in Maryland
- 13 July 2007 at 14:23
- helenhoward said...
i agree with jan and lindseys suggestions. It would be great to have sound especially. The sound of the pereguin is truly a spine chilling noise and makes the hair stand up on the back of the neck!! Also live stream would be great especially when we were waiting for the chicks to leave because all we saw was them standing on the edge and then nothing!! We never actually saw the maiden flight!!
It would be brill if we could see the birds from cameras on adjacent buildings so we could actually see them in flight.
Looking forward to next year already. It would be great if neighbouring counties could do the same. The webcams and blog have given me a great deal of pleasure and have given me some much needed "me time" and escapism from a stressful life both personal and proffessional!!
Heres to next year!!b
- 13 July 2007 at 16:29
Full speed video would be great. Also, a camera that showed the cathedral and nest area so we could see the birds after fledging, and the parents landing, etc.
Money clearly means nothing to us :-) I am wondering if you can have a paypal link for donations.
In watching other full speed webcams, some seem to work well and others have problems. The San Jose, CA full speed video web cam, at (link broken in half so it doesn't get truncated)
now turned off, worked well. (Although it is in a small area of the screen, double clicking toggles it between that and full screen.)
Others, like Salt Lake City, don't work well, that was constantly freezing or going offline, so it might be worthwhile asking San Jose what hardware and software they are using.
Your blog is just super. It's frustrating to have a camera with no blog, like Dayton and Salt Lake City, so the birds disappear and you have no idea if they are okay or what.
You guys are doing a wonderful job, and it is so much appreciated.
- 13 July 2007 at 17:22
Pax, B.C. Canada 9.37am
I too would love streaming video, and more cameras, but it all costs money, maybe it would be possible to get a sponser?someone even from tourism?or the wild life people.
I cant begin to tell you how much I have enjoyed being able to watch these birds, and to have a peek into the lives of the people watching the cams, I feel we have become a family all looking out for the falcons and their chicks,
being retired I am able to watch the nest most of the day and into the night.
Thank you for the wonderful job you
do, and your commitment of using your personal time to do it.
- 13 July 2007 at 17:48
One thing that I feel would benefit all would be to add a series of measuring strips around the edge of the box (may be on the inside). This will provide an idea of the size of these birds as they grow and the wing span etc. This shouldn't cost much.
My order of preference for the expensive items would be:
1. Full streaming with sound on the existing cameras.
2. An additional camera allowing an overview so we can see the birds in other location on the cathedral.
3. A Gargoyle located camera with zoom,pan and tilt facility allowing for close-up food shots and remote bird locating such as the ariel mast and flat roofs.
All this said its been a great year and the web cams have helped tremendously taking into account the UK weather.
Well done team.
John S
- 13 July 2007 at 18:27
Birdie on the ledge. Looks like it's raining.
- 14 July 2007 at 03:47
Hi Karen, you stay up to check them out? that's amazing! Jennie, HK
- 14 July 2007 at 03:49
Hello from Dayton!
I'm still seeing your falcons hanging out at the nest ledge, with such pleasure, since our birds truly must be on summer holiday...or so I hope. Of course the streaming would be great but I'm wondering if there's a way to put a hood or something on the actual nest to help out the brooding parents and of course the chicks when they hatch.
I'm with Karen Anne, you should try for a Pay-Pal or something similar to fund streaming at least for hatching time - the kaking and che-ruping noises are like no other bird that I know.
My students at school really enjoyed your beautiful setting at the cathedral and the green area, most of our downtown churches are surrounded by much taller buildings.
I'm sure that what you do will be appreciated again by all of us!
- 14 July 2007 at 05:24
These are really useful suggestions so please keep them coming. We'll make a list and look at their feasibility and cost implications asap, working on some of the more immediately do-able ones as time allows. However, we all have 'proper jobs' to attend to, so we can't give this project 100% of our time all year round!
My own work includes line managing and finding funding for seven of our wildlife trust staff who get children and adults close to wildlife and try to develop and change their attitudes towards the endangered planet they will soon inherit. Nick M runs the museum's natural history unit single handed, so he too has many other calls on his time. Tony G, as head verger at the cathedral, has to do most of his peregrine support work in his own time since it doesn't quite fall into his current job description, much as he'd like it to! So please bear with us.....
Nick B
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
- 14 July 2007 at 07:52
Just coming up to 8am BST and there's a visitor to the nest ledge - shamefully, after all these weeks, I still can't tell the birds apart!
I think everyone's suggestions for 2008 have been great. Having sound would be fantastic, one of the positive aspects of the Springwatch clip was that we were able to see and hear the chicks at the same time. Occasional evening watches on the Green would also be a real bonus for those of us who can't get there during the day.
Liz, Derby
- 14 July 2007 at 08:02
Forgot to say in the last message that the picture of the bird in flight is stunning - which member of the family are we seeing there?
Liz, Derby
- 14 July 2007 at 08:06
I agree with Jan and Lindsey would love to see live without the delays. Have also enjoyed the storks live as someone mentioned earlier. But please do it again have had and still have some lovely sights. thrilled the other day when came into town and saw two of the birds perched on the cathedral, one on the box and the other in the arches above. Thank you everyone S
- 14 July 2007 at 10:32
HI, Jennie, no, it's the time difference, I think Derby is five hours ahead of where I am, although I am occasionally a night owl.
About the hood idea, I have seen chicks in the Utah nest huddle in the sheltered area they have at one end of the nest. But I wonder if there is enough room in the Derby nest box for a partial hood without interfering with practice wing flapping or fledging, landing, etc.
- 14 July 2007 at 11:57
just to let you know liz in derby its the adult female in the picture
- 14 July 2007 at 12:47
I personally think that we should give the birds names its easier than saying mum and dad and also adults and children can relate to the birds a little better.
- 14 July 2007 at 12:51
Live stream is a good idea only when the birds are there, I mean before fledging. I would prefer to watch video clips, the seven clips you put on this site are excellent(the only thing is nothing uploaded after 11May), we can watch them at any of our convenient time . Project members can easily capture the best moments by watching their video, and upload them as clips for our viewing. Jennie, HK.
- 14 July 2007 at 17:44
By the way, i would also love to see how you professionals ring the birds, surely most of us will find this clip educational. Jennie, HK.
- 14 July 2007 at 17:54
Here are some banding photos or videos, links broken so they don't get truncated -
From San Jose, CA
From Dayton
- 14 July 2007 at 21:34
p.s. I think it is some degree of work for project folks to extract videos.
- 14 July 2007 at 21:35
Bird has been on the ledge for awhile.
- 14 July 2007 at 21:49
Pax. B.C Canada 1.56pm, bird is still on the ledge below the nest
- 14 July 2007 at 21:56
- helenhoward said...
2205 gmt and there looks like one of the family is on the ledge below the nest.
- 14 July 2007 at 22:05
- Project Member (Derby Museum) said...
There are some great suggestions being made, both here and direct to us at firstname.lastname@example.com
Thank you. Obviously streaming video/audio is at the top of everyone's wish-list. We would dearly love to bring you this nest year - it does make all the difference. But unless we can find a sponsor willing to host us, it's doubtful we will have the funds to pay the considerable bandwidth charges. But we will pursue it, rest assured.
We did talk to (and review) a few other peregrine projects around the world before we got started, including Santa Cruz and Columbus, Ohio, and ensuring a reliable service we we got started did seem critically important. So when our video server siezed up within 12hr of going online for the first time, we did worry a bit. But that's been our only real hitch, though we do know the power supply within the Cathedral Tower is prone to failure a few times a year. (We seem to have been lucky so far).
To Jennie in HK, can I just say that there have been more than seven videos uploaded to this blog, but I'm afraid I haven't updated the main peregrine homepage with all their links, so thanks for the prompt. I'll try and address that asap.
You can find nearly all our video clips on youtube.com by searching on the keywords: peregrine derby cathedral.
I have been working on putting together a ringing video, filmed last year, but it's not quite finished yet. We are also talking with Derby University about the possibility of putting a 2007 season DVD together, showing the highlights. But it's early days on that, too.
Goodnight all.
- 15 July 2007 at 02:32
Sunday 07.28 Looks like 'mum' looking out 'wistfully' (???) in the nest - with her long well developed feathers.
- 15 July 2007 at 07:28
- helenhoward said...
0823 gmt No signs of anything alive and kicking but there is definetly some thing well and truly dead!! There is a carcass in the exact same spot as last time!! Sunday dinner served up early!!
- 15 July 2007 at 08:26
9.00 Just seen part of a carcass in the nest, but nothing living and breathing, so a bit disappointed as have been away for a week in Austria. I needn't have worried about missing 'the family' as to my delight Innsbruck have a family of at least five peregrines nesting on one of the towers of a beautiful church. Couldn't mistake the familiar peregrine call. Also saw Bird of Prey display with Eagles, etc. - awesome!
Anna, Ripley
- 15 July 2007 at 09:07
- helenhoward said...
Where has the carcass gone? Either it has come back to life or I have missed some activity!!
- 15 July 2007 at 14:19
I think you guys who have organised this project have done such a good job, it's a bit of a hopeless task to try to better it. The main thing I got out of this project was to learn that peregrines aren't the desperately rare birds I thought they were (not that I'm now complacent) - or are they? Indirectly through this project, I learned that a first summer bird is presently in residence a couple of miles up the road from me (although, despite a number of early morning "wild goose chases", I STILL haven't seen the darn thing!!!!) However, during a trip to London's Globe Theatre (of all places?) this afternoon, I SAW A PAIR OF PEREGRINES (flying round the chimney stack of the building now used as Tate Modern) I'd never have known what it was that I saw if I hadn't been learning through this project. So, I think I'm saying that the best bit of the web-cam project is the learning that it stimulates. How could this be used in the context of children? Maybe to set up a competition for groups of children to keep their own diary of what they observe and what they learn. Results could all go on show at the museum and the winner could get - what? Maybe an invitation to write the final diary entry of the year with the fame and fortune that would involve!
I agree with the "wish list" items that it would be good to be able to hear the birds and to get a better idea of their size, Having seen a particularly brilliant picture of a chick being ringed (you know who you are, kind donor) I was astounded at the size of the HUGE feet. I just didn't pick that up from the web-cam.
I've also been fascinated to pick up on the just about world-wide "family" of watchers. I'd love to see the complete list and, being nosey, I wonder how on earth people found out about the project?
Sue Hetherington, Wendover
- 15 July 2007 at 19:48
- helenhoward said...
Hi Sue
I personally found out about this project like most things and that was word of mouth. How did you find out
- 15 July 2007 at 21:07
Pax. B.c. Canada, I found the falcon site via the streamways cam site,they have cams from all over the world, I like the London cams.
because that was where I was born and raised before coming to Canada in 1957 :-)
- 15 July 2007 at 21:27
Oh yes, I should have said how I found out too. Word of mouth - my brother just happened to be passing through Derby, saw the birds, was thrilled and told me as he knew I'd be thrilled too. Speaking as I was of one thing leading to another, I've been trying to find out more about the London birds I saw. From googling "London Peregrines" I've found they too had a webcam and will be setting up a watch point near Tate Modern. It just gets better and better!!! My heart will always belong to my first found love though, never fear - the Derby project. :-) :-) :-)
Sue H
- 15 July 2007 at 22:58
Birdie on the ledge, I think, hard to see.
I don't remember quite how I got here. I have been watching palemale.com, with Lincoln Karim's wonderful telescopic photos of Pale Male, the redtailed hawk who lives in Central Park with his mate, Lola. I got there after the news stories of the horrid building management that took down their nest a few years ago (it was put back, but with a structure under it to "protect" the building, but which has somehow caused the 3(?) subsequent nesting attempts to fail to produce viable eggs after many years of viable eggs.
Somehow I got from there to watching the San Jose, CA peregrine web cam and then to here.
- 15 July 2007 at 23:38
Hello from Dayton again -
I found this story while cruising the internet, and decided to post the link for all of you to read. It's a sweet rescue story:
- 16 July 2007 at 04:12
- helenhoward said...
it will be fantastic if london does start up a webcam. The trouble is i guess most chicks will have fledged by now though we could still see them feeding etc that will be a good idea for next year and that is to compare different nests ie rate of growth, what they are eating etc
- 16 July 2007 at 06:26
i found out about derby peregrines through my husbands school, they had set up a webcam inside an empty birdbox, mounted on the school exterior and, waited to see who visited, it was wonderful when a mating pair of bluetits set up residence and the whole school was fascinated with the growth and development of the eggs/chicks. anyway, the webmaster created a link to many other webcam sites including this one and the rest as they say is history, ive been fixed ever since,
the school 'birdcam' is still set up with a wonderful array of videos and stills in the gallery, (although the nest is very much abandoned now,) but please do take a look and see what youve missed ; stretton handley primary school, alfreton, derbyshire
- 16 July 2007 at 08:43
p.s 08;43 16th july
we have a beautiful visitor to the nest ledge right now
- 16 July 2007 at 08:45
To anyonbe interested re webcams around thr world. If you 'Google'
'viewnestingbirds' you will get a fantastic site that lists everything, plus the links. Another is www.beakspeak.com which is brilliant. Hope this helps!!
No one on the cam at present!!
- 16 July 2007 at 10:25
Oops!! re the above - the latter should read www.beakspeak.com/birdcams
- 16 July 2007 at 10:28
- helenhoward said...
thanks for the advice about the birdie web cams when i dont have my son pestering for the computer i will have to investigate!!
- 16 July 2007 at 15:27
I'm not entirely sure if there was a London webcam this year or not but as has been mentioned, the chicks will have fledged by now. I THINK I have discovered that the RSPB may organise a telescope watch on Tate Modern later on - you'll have to research yourselves! Believe I've also read that there are just 1,500 breeding pairs of peregrines in the UK - bang goes my complacency! It shows how important every single nest site is. It's great to think that all of us watchers make it almost impossible for any man made bad thing happen to "our" birds - I reckon we are collectively guardian angels. I can certainly recommend peregrine watching whilst at the Globe theatre though - it was a fine experience to have one eye on a fabulous production of "Othello" and the other on peregrines. It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up when the birds called. I was extremely lucky with my seat position though so that the chimney was in my field of view.
Sue H , Wendover (back at the "still bust" actually)
- 16 July 2007 at 15:47
Is there any way you can have a streaming video? Sometimes it is frustrating to watch when there is that delay between actual movements. I think it would make the experience much exciting when you could watch the movements without delay. Otherwise, I have enjoyed the site tremendously and think you have done a wonderful job. I live in Columbus, Ohio, USA and while our peregrines did not hatch their eggs, I still enjoy watching them. Thanks to all involved in the project for your dedication.
- 17 July 2007 at 05:54


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The game had such a nice buildup and the climax was good but the endings didn't resolve much and were lacking because it was either vague (sana) or left many things unanswered. Another problem was that the 4 routes were roughly 80% the same.
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And am I right to take that statement of "4 routes being roughly 80% the same" as the necessity to play all routes not needed here ?
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I didn't like the music initially not because it was bad but that i got annoyed by it after hearing the same track over and over because it didn't use that many different ones in majority of the game untill the "action" came.
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Location: Germany
Age: 32
I finished Kaho's route in Unmei Yohou o Oshirase Shimasu. Honestly, that VN is a very mixed bag. The light-hearted moments were very enjoyable and even some of the serious topics were handeld quite well for my taste. But, the makers added still too much heavyness/drama overall.
Why? 1. The structure: 4 girls of where you have 2 choices for the first two: Accept thhe confession or reject*, and for the latter two a simple "I like x or y" decision. Okay, that were all choice-selections in the VN. Given the serious tones of some plot elements of the MC,*the former will leave you with a bitter feeling in EITHER case. The flow of story, as example of Kaho's route, is first confession rejected -> move on the character bonding of girl 2 -> confession rejected -> character bonding of girl 3 and Kaho -> choose Kaho -> her "main route" and more drama. Sure, all girls move eventually on from being rejected, but it gave still a rather strange or tacked feeling of the story flow.
2. The MC had either way rather harsh events in the past, which obviously have been influencing heavily his present self. And while those elements were used well enough within the plot, it gave also the impresson that the writers overdid it, even if only to a degree, in making him flawed/"tainted". That special case ruined, for example, the very good interaction between Mizuki-chan and he, which was developed/shown throughout the VN by the way, when he had decided to reveal his worse past-self. Let's ignore that in the end they could return to being friends, it felt simply too much of a "hey more drama and heavy atmosphere for ya!"
And the scene changes happened, regardless of minor ones or major ones, abruptly, i. e. with the BGM stopping suddenly and the screen shift to the next location. There's no smooth fade out? Don't know how to properly call it
Anyway, based on my personal bias I would have loved a more comedy/lightheared approach or at least the normal amount of dama like in the GIGA VNs that dealth with a similar scenario of an item helping in finding true love.
Personal conclusion, as I doubt the other routes will change much of the current impression: A story with a sweet, but generic synopsis, that has its fair share of serious topics. Ignoring the point that the MC was painted as maybe too "damaged", the VN is a rare case where a social inapt/unskilled MCs was rather well done. In contrast to, eg. CureGirl. The female cast was very likeable, especially the MC's, Soujirou, interaction with Mizuki. Probably my favorite moments in the VN. His self-proclaimed "best friend" was very annoying, again him messing with the MC was way overdone, unless that was the point. The BGM whenever he would show up was kept gloomy? and I mostly skipped his scenes during the latter half of Kaho's route. The for me non-satisfying structure of my afore-mentioned "1." dampened the mood, however.
-> Might be worth to check it out, but remaining careful while doing so is to be recommended from my point of view.
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|2013-05-14, 21:11
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Bishoujo Lover!
Finished the Gaku-Ou series that include both the PC games and the PSP ver. The game itself was quite enjoyable from beginning to end with a light-hearted and fun story paired with equally fun and rather unique characters, between themselves at least.
The common route was the best part of the game for me mainly because how it brought together all the characters as they struggle to clear all the trials the Eleven Masters put them through. Yep, I surely love those friendship, hard work and hot-blooded themes.
Proper routes focused mostly on romance and comedy with a bit of drama to spice things up a bit. The quality of the routes varies quite a bit with Hinayu's being the weakest; it felt disjointed and it never resolved (or explained) a rather important (or so it seemed) part of the it's plot. Uduki's and Annemarie's route were pretty nice overall, but since their focus were their respective heroine so the main plot of the game was completely forgotten which bring us to Akari's route which was easily the best; her route is directly linked to the main plot so it resolves it entirely. It also inherits those themes that made the common route so enjoyable, adding romance and ichaicha to the mix. It may be a bit biased since Akari is no doubt my fav. heroine, she's just too lovely.
The fandisc had short stories for all the girls and extra events you can unlock by changing the date of your clock to the heroines's birthday or christmas eve. As for the PSP ver. besides the route for the protagonist's little sister Sorano, it doesn't add much new material for the four original heroines which was a bit disappointing. Sorano's route was pretty good as it developed on her's and the main character's background as the princess and prince of their home planet.
So, after all that I'll say check it out if you are interested.
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|2013-05-14, 21:35
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Tenshi's Defense Squadron
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Fighting against those who oppress the system
|2013-05-15, 07:07
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likes cute things
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Searching for more imoutos
Age: 38
I'm still going through Lovesick Puppies (quite slow I know), I finished Maruna's route a few days ago and I'm currently about half way finished Sofiya's route.
Maruna's route was a very cute story, the second drama event felt too convenient... I mean, what are the chances of that happening for a character with her background? The final drama felt rushed but I'm glad it was since it tried too hard to be a tear jerker, which to me, was out of character for the tone of the story. I realize that final event was required due to how the characters meet Maruna, but I find the story would've been perfectly fine if how they met Maruna was changed and kept the light hearted tone up until the end.
Sofiya's story seems pretty simple so far, genki all over the place, at least it keeps me entertained.
BTW, I don't really feel the love sickness in this game, the title seems to be exaggerated for the level of love content. Well, maybe that's just me expecting the game will have a bunch of girls desperate to fall in love and be all cute. And when I think of puppies within the title, I think of cute puppy dog eyes.
Should I take those above quotes are implying that Sana is not a brocon? That would be a little let down, but it really depends how her character is played out.
|2013-05-15, 08:36
|Link #4011
reading #hikaributts
Join Date: Feb 2009
Spoiler for Sana:
As for the game itself, I don't think it was that bad. In fact I find it quite good (with some nice surprises) up untill the ending , especially if you like the characters. I thought that the main heroines were all very likable and some side characters were also very good.
But my problems with this were the endings, lots of unlikable side characters and that almost every route is the same. Because it essentially has 1 route with some variations on the endings and some events if you go for a specific heroine
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|2013-05-15, 12:46
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Tenshi's Defense Squadron
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Fighting against those who oppress the system
|2013-05-16, 18:43
|Link #4015
reading #hikaributts
Join Date: Feb 2009
It's not much of a reference but rather a very minor cameo.
Spoiler for spoiler:
I am aware that Honoka has the same last name as a certain glasses wearing character from 11eyes, but that is IMO not a good reference to their past games.
And I haven't played other lass games aside from 11eyes to notice possible other cameos or references though
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|2013-05-17, 08:20
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Master of Coin
Join Date: Mar 2008
|2013-05-22, 16:58
|Link #4018
Bishoujo Lover!
Still going through the backlog. I picked Studio Ryukocha's most recent title: Shukufuku no Kane no Oto wa, Sakura-iro no Kaze to Tomo ni. Already finished three out of the four routes.
There is not much to be said about this game. It's just the standard love-comedy themed eroge and nothing really stands out. Sure, is not a bad game (over average?), but it's just too normal when comparing it their previous game: KoiSora.
A tolerable MC, cute heroines, some comedy, the standard romance, some nice, but short-lived drama and a generic plot. It's a safe game to pick if you have the time, but nothing memorable. Hopefully, the company will put a little more effort in their next title.
|2013-05-23, 23:29
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: 大陸の片隅
Unexpectedly having a hell of a lot of fun time playing Demonion. I'm reminded of my Sudukuri Dragon days, but having this hammy, cheesy, hetare of a Maou and his demon maids who view him with contempt and his heroine captures with jealousy, takes the freaking cake. I can't help but have fun with it (even if the gameplay is a bit rudimentary).
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BATON ROUGE - In a season when Louisiana college football had lots of strong highlight moments, the Louisiana Sports Writers Association members had little trouble picking their top honorees on the 2012 All-Louisiana College Football Team announced late Monday.
Louisiana Tech quarterback Colby Cameron, who led the high-powered Bulldogs to nine wins, was named the Offensive Player of the Year, while one of the anchors of the LSU defense, linebacker Kevin Minter, was the Defensive Player of the Year. Tech running back Kenneth Dixon was the Freshman of the Year, while Louisiana-Lafayette star quarterback Terrance Broadway's move from Houston earned him Newcomer of the year. Finally, ULM's Todd Berry, who will guide his team to its first ever bowl later this week in Shreveport, was named Coach of the Year.
The voting process began after nominations were submitted by the sports information-media relations directors from the football playing schools in the state. Members of the Player of the Week voting committee as well as three media voters were allowed for each team. The nominating SIDs were not allowed under LSWA rules to vote for their own players and each SID had to submit a ballot to have their nominees votes allowed to be counted. All stats are through the end of the regular season and do not include post-season activities.
Cameron, a senior from Newbury Park, Calif., was named the WAC Player of the Year in a year in which he set an NCAA record for most consecutive passes attempted without an interception (428). Cameron led an offense that was ranked NO. 1 in scoring and No. 2 in total offense. He completed 359-of-522 passes for 4,147 yards and 31 touchdowns. He completed 68.8 percent of his passes for an efficiency rating of 153.19 while averaging 345.6 passing yards a game. The Davey O'Brien Award semifinalist was No. 4 in the nation in total offense.
Minter earned All-American honors as he led the Tigers (3rd in the SEC) with 111 tackles. The finalist for the Butkus Award for the nation's top linebacker, Minter earned National Player of the Week honors twice versus Florida and Texas A&M. Against Florida he set an LSU record with 17 solo tackles, while he helped hold A&M's Johnny Manziel to his lowest outing of the season with 27 rushing yards, no touchdowns and three interceptions in the 24-19 LSU win. For the season, Minter had 13.5 tackles for loss and three sacks.
When Cameron was throwing the ball at Tech, it was going to Freshman of the Year choice Dixon, who hails from Strong, Ark. The true freshman led the nation in scoring with 28 total touchdowns (27 rushing) break's Marshall Faulk's NCAA records for most touchdowns scored, most rushing touchdowns scored and most points, all for a freshman. Dixon had 200 rushes for 1,194 yards, just missing averaging 100 yards a game at 99.5. Dixon set the WAC record for most rushing touchdowns at any class level.
Louisiana-Lafayette quarterback Terrance Broadway, transferred from Houston, and made the most of the opportunity leading the Cajuns to a bowl and Newcomer of the Year honors. Broadway took over as the starter early in the year and completed 185-of-283 passes for 2,526 yards and 16 TDs. He was third in the SBC in passing efficiency (15.4) while setting a school record of completion percentage (65.1). Broadway posted 3,187 yards of total offense as he led the Cajuns to seven regular season wins.
Coach Berry took his team to a bowl in his third season at the helm of the Warhawk football program, posting an 8-4 overall record and a 6-2 mark in the Sun Belt (tying for second). ULM made an early splash with an overtime win over then-No. 8 Arkansas and the SBC Coach of the Year started 4-0 in the league to reach Bowl eligibility during the final weekend of October. The eight wins is the highest total for ULM during the FBS-era (1994-present).
Joining Cameron and Dixon on the first team selected by the LSWA members were: offensive linemen Arinze Agada of McNeese, Josh Dworaczyk of LSU, Andre Huval of Louisiana-Lafayette and Oscar Johnson and Stephen Warner, both of Louisiana Tech. The tight end choice was Nick Scelfo of Nicholls with ULM's Brent Leonard and Tech's Quinton Patton at wide receiver. The other running back completing the first team was Ryan Montague of Louisiana College.
With Minter on the first-team defense were linemen IK Enemkpali of Louisiana Tech, Barkevious Mingo and Sam Montgomery of LSU and Emeka Onyenekwu of Louisiana-Lafayette. Lamin Barrow of LSU and Derek Rose of Northwestern State were the other two linebackers while Robert Alford of Southeastern, Craig Loston and Eric Reid of LSU and Jemarlous Moten of Louisiana-Lafayette made up the defensive backfield.
Two national award winners were on the specialists' first team with Lou Groza winner Cairo Santos of Tulane the place kicker and two-time Ray Guy winner Ryan Allen of Louisiana Tech the punter. D. J. Banks, also of Louisiana Tech, was named the return specialist.
Pos, Name, School, Year, Hometown, Notes, Stats
OL - Arinze Agada, McNeese, Jr., Houston, Texas, All-SLC 1st Team, 11 starts
OL - Josh Dworaczyk, LSU, Sr., New Iberia, La., All-SEC HM, Sixth-year senior
OL- Andre Huval, Louisiana-Lafayette, Jr., Scott, La., All-SBC 2nd Team, 25 straight starts center
OL - Oscar Johnson, Louisiana Tech, Sr., Crystal Springs, Miss., All-WAC 1st Team, 8th nation sacks allowed
OL - Stephen Warner, Louisiana Tech, Sr., Ruston, La., All-WAC 1st Team, 8th nation sacks allowed
TE - Nick Scelfo, Nicholls State, So., Baton Rouge, La., All-SLC 2nd Team, 22 recept., 300 yds, 2 TDs
WR - Brent Leonard, ULM, Sr., Keller, Texas, All-SBC, 1st Team, 97 recept., 1,042 yds, 10 TDs
WR - Quinton Patton, Louisiana Tech, Sr., LaVergne, Tenn., All-WAC, 1st Team, 104 recept., 1,392 yds, 13 TD
RB - Kenneth Dixon, Louisiana Tech, Fr., Strong, Ark., WAC FOY, CBS Frosh A-A, 200 rushes, 1,194 yds, 27 TD
RB - Ryan Montague, Louisiana College, So., New Orleans, La., AASWC 1st Team, 224 rushes, 1,110 yds, 13 TD
QB - Colby Cameron, Louisiana Tech, Sr., Newbury Park, Calif., WAC POY, 359-of-522, 4,147 yds, 31 TD
Pos, Name, School, Year, Hometown, Notes, Stats
DL - IK Enemkpali, Louisiana Tech, Jr., Pflugerville, Texas, All-WAC 1st Team, 32 TT, 6.0 Sacks
DL - Barkevious Mingo, LSU, Jr., West Monroe, La., All-SEC 2nd Team, 33 TT, 4.0 Sacks
DL - Sam Montgomery, LSU, Jr., Greenwood, S.C., 2nd Team A-A, All-SEC 1st Team, 32 TT, 7.0 Sacks
DL - Emeka Onyenekwu, Louisiana-Lafayette, Sr., New Orleans, La., All-SBC 1st Team, 37 TT, 6.5 Sacks
LB - Lamin Barrow, LSU, Jr., Marrero, La., 92 TT, 5.5 TFL, 1 FR
LB - Kevin Minter, LSU, Jr., Suwanee, Ga., 2nd Team A-A, All-SEC 1st Team, 111 TT, 3.0 Sacks
LB - Derek Rose, Northwestern State, Sr., New Orleans, La., All-SLC 1st Team, 103 TT, 1 FR, 3 PBU
DB - Robert Alford, Southeastern La., Sr., Hammond, La., 2nd Team A-A, All-SLC 1st Team 39 TT, 4 Int.
DB - Craig Loston, LSU, Jr., Aldine, Texas, All-SEC 2nd Team, 48 TT, 3 Int, 1 TD
DB - Jemarlous Moten, Louisiana-Lafayette, Sr., Leland, Miss., All-SBC 1st Team, 59 TT, 3 Int, 2 FF
DB - Eric Reid, LSU, Jr., Geismar, La., 1st Team A-A, All-SEC 1st Team, 81 TT, 2 Int.
Pos, Name, School, Year, Hometown, Notes, Stats
K - Cairo Santos, Tulane, Jr., St. Augustine, Fla., Lou Groza Winner, 21-21 FG, 14 from 40 +
P - Ryan Allen, Louisiana Tech, Sr., Salem, Ore., 2011, 2012 Ray Guy Winner, 48.0 aver., 20 of 45 inside 20
RS - D.J. Banks, Louisiana Tech, Jr., West Monroe, La., All-WAC 1st Team, 39 KO, 1,044 yds, 1 TD; 20 P, 120 yds
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR - Colby Cameron, QB, Louisiana Tech
Voting - Cameron 21; Kolton Browning, ULM 3; Terrance Broadway, Louisiana-Lafayette, 1
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR - Kevin Minter, LB, LSU
Voting - Minter 21, Derek Rose, Northwestern State 2; Robert Alford, Southeastern 1; Eric Reid, LSU 1 (write-in vote)
FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR - Kenneth Dixon, RB, Louisiana Tech
Voting - Dixon 21; Jeremy Hill, LSU 3; Xavier Robinson, Southeastern, 1
NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR - Terrance Broadway, QB, Louisiana-Lafayette
Voting - Broadway 23; Billy Johnson, Tulane 2
COACH OF THE YEAR - Todd Berry, ULM
Voting - Berry 18; Sonny Dykes, Louisiana Tech 5; Les Miles, LSU 2
Second Team Offense
OL - Leonardo Bates, Louisiana-Lafayette, Sr., New Orleans, La.
OL - La'el Collins, LSU, So., Baton Rouge, La.
OL - P.J. Lonergan, LSU, Sr., New Orleans, La.
OL - Darin Moore, Louisiana College, Sr., Ponchatoula, La.
OL - Jeremy Vujnovich, Louisiana College, Sr., Belle Chasse, La.
TE - Jeremy Meyers, Southeastern Louisiana, So., Baton Rouge, La.
WR - Ryan Grant, Tulane, Jr., Beaumont, Texas
WR - D'Mario Parker, Louisiana College
RB - Jeremy Hill, LSU, Fr., Baton Rouge, La.
RB - Marcus Wiltz, McNeese, Jr., Cecilia, La.
QB - Kolton Browning, ULM, Jr., Mabank, Texas
Second Team Defense
DL - Everett Ellersen, McNeese, So., Madisonville, La.
DL - Peter "Phil" Ford, Louisiana College, Sr., New Orleans, La.
DL - Austen Jacks, Tulane, Sr., Winter Park, Fla.
DL - Bennie Logan, LSU, Jr., Coushatta, La.
LB - Justin Anderson, Louisiana-Lafayette, Jr., Foley, Ala.
LB - Jordan Piper, Nicholls, Sr., New Orleans, La.
LB - Devan Walker, Southeastern, Sr., Baton Rouge, La.
DB - Terence Cahee, McNeese, Jr., Westlake, La.
DB - Isaiah Newsome, ULM, Jr., Petal, Miss.
DB - Tharold Simon, LSU, Jr., Eunice La.
DB - Jamaal White, Northwestern State, Sr., Garland, Texas.
Second Team Specialists
K - Brett Baer, Louisiana-Lafayette - Sr., Brandon, Miss.
P - Brad Wing, LSU, So., Melbourne, Australia
RS - Odell Beckham Jr., LSU, Jr., So., New Orleans, La.
Honorable Mention
Offense - OL - Josh Allen, ULM, Jr; Billy Johnson, Tulane, Gr.
Defense - DL - Christian Ringo, Louisiana-Lafayette, So. LB - Joe Narcisse, McNeese, Sr.


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Irene Blanco, M.D., M.S., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine. Her research seeks to improve the clinician's ability to predict and ultimately improve the outcome of lupus nephritis (LN). Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is an illness that can affect every organ system. A potentially devastating complication of SLE is LN, which can lead to chronic renal failure and end-stage renal disease. The potential for screening and treatment to improve outcomes of LN is demonstrated by increased life expectancy: 5-year survival in LN has increased from 50% in 1955 to 80-85% today. However, biomarkers currently used to follow disease activity do not always correlate with disease activity. Dr. Blanco's research seeks to find new biomarkers for LN that better correlate with disease activity, leading to early diagnosis and treatment. Her mentor is Chaim Putterman, M.D. (Professor, Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology; Chief, Division of Rheumatology).
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb University Bisons have traditionally been known for their strong defense leading the Atlantic Sun in field goal percentage defense two of the last three years.
This year the Bisons defense had been struggling, allowing opponents to shoot 44.3 percent for seventh in the A-Sun.
But Tuesday night against SIU Edwardsville, the Bisons unveiled a new starting lineup and the defense that opponents have come to expect in a 70-47 win.
The Lipscomb defense held the Cougars to 29.3 percent and forced 15 turnovers.
"The biggest thing is urgency defensively," said Lipscomb head coach Scott Sanderson. "We have been on our players extremely hard. We hadn't come close to our standards defensively. We went out there tonight for 38 minutes and guarded them about as well as we could guard them."
Sophomore guard Jimmy Oden received the starting nod for the first time this season and provided a spark for the Bisons.
"Jimmy is a guy that had to give me a leg to stand and give him an opportunity to start," said Sanderson. "He has played better the last two or three games. I told my staff last week that I thought Jimmy would play better starting and Mike Lusk would play better off the bench and that is what happened."
Oden finished with nine points, five rebounds, and four assists.
Senior guard Michael Lusk delivered a solid performance off the bench scoring 14 points and dishing out four assists.
Lipscomb started five sophomores. Center Adnan Hodzic, forwards Brandon Brown and Michael Teller, and guard Josh Slater joined Oden for the tip.
Hodzic posted 14 points while grabbing a career-high 12 rebounds.
Lipscomb held a 25-14 advantage at the half.
SIU Edwardsville opened the second half on an 11-4 run to cut Lipscomb's lead to four.
Lipscomb head coach Scott Sanderson called a timeout at the 15:26 mark to ice the run.
The Bisons responded with a 16-0 run to break the game open and give them a 46-25 advantage with 7:54 remaining.
Lipscomb only shot 31.3 percent in the first half. They bounced back in the second to shot 56.5 percent from the field to finish the game shooting 41.8 percent.
"When we missed all those shots in the first half we got better defensively whereas before it drained us defensively," said Sanderson. "We got lower and in better stances when we missed those shots. I was more proud of that than anything."
Lipscomb is 4-1 on the year when holding opponents to less than 60 points.
Lipscomb improves to 4-4. SIU Edwardsville falls to 2-8.
After a break for exams, the Bisons will close their nonconference schedule with three road games beginning with N.C. State on Saturday, Nov. 20 at 1 p.m.
Jonathan Seamon and Benjamin Seamon will be on the call for the Lipscomb Sports Network. Free online audio streaming is available at www.LipscombSports.com/sportsnetwork/.
Story by Trevor Garrett of the Lipscomb Athletics Media Relations Department