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Because this morning is our time at the Lord's Table, I have chosen to depart from the Gospel of Luke, which is our ongoing study on Sunday mornings. There's a bit of reluctance in doing that because I'm so blessed, as I know you are, in the magnificent pictures of the Lord Jesus Christ that appear in paragraph after paragraph of Luke's Gospel. Well, we'll be back there next week.
But it's important as well that we focus on His redemption, the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, in a communion service, and we won't get to that part of Luke's Gospel for quite a while, so it is appropriate that we address it from another portion of God's precious Word.
If you would, open your Bible to 1 Peter Chapter 1, Peter, the beloved Apostle, whom we're getting to know better and better as we work our way through Luke's Gospel, is the author of two Epistles, 1 and 2 Peter as they are known. In the first chapter of his first Epistle, he focuses on one of the great realities, one of the great perspectives in the matter of our salvation, and it's on our redemption.
The word "redemption" or redeemed belongs in a litany of words that are attached to the subject of salvation, words like conversion, regeneration, new birth, justification, even sanctification, and the word "redemption" is an important word for us to understand, and Peter makes the focus of a paragraph here in his opening chapter.
Let me begin reading in Verse 14, 1 Peter Chapter 1, "As obedient children do not be conformed to the former lest which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy one who called you, be Holy yourselves also in all your behavior. Because it is written, you shall be Holy, for I am Holy, and if you address as Father, the one who impartially judges according to each man's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay upon earth, knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of the lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ, for He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you, who through Him, are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory so that your faith and hope are in God."
The passage begins with a call to virtue. In fact, backing up one verse, there are a series of commands to gird up your mind to be sober in your spirit, to fix your hope on the future grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ, Verse 14, "to be obedient children;" Verse 15, "to be like the Holy one, who called you, being holy yourselves in all your behavior because it is written, you shall be holy, for I am Holy."
And Verse 17 says, "If you're going to address as Father, the God who judges impartially everyone, then you ought to conduct yourself in fear of that Father during the time of your stay on earth," and He's writing to believers here, and He's saying you need to take seriously how you live your life.
You need to live your life with discipline. That's what "gird up your minds" means. You need to live your life with the right priorities. That's what "keeping sober" means. You need to live your life in the light of the future, not the moment. That's what "fixing your hope" means. You need to be obedient. You need no longer to be conformed to the things to which you were previously conformed.
You need to be like the Holy One, who called you, being yourselves holy in your conduct or your behavior. And if you're going to call God your Father, then you understand that He has Fatherly responsibility and you have to Him the accountability of a child, and you ought to conduct yourself with an appropriate fear over the Father's right to hold you accountable for you behavior and to discipline you for it.
So this is really, in Peter's words, a "call to holiness, a call to virtue, a call to the right priorities, spiritual self-discipline and all of those matters are touched on in the passage, but it is in Verse 18 that he adds the motivation for this, knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold, Verse 19, "but with the precious Blood of Christ."
He says, "This is a foundation for your approach to living when you understand your redemption." When you come to the Lord's Table, anytime you come to the Lord's Table, it becomes a time of confession. It becomes a time of heart examination. The Apostle Paul says in his instruction about the Lord's Table in 1 Corinthians, "Don't come to this Table superficially. Don't come with shallow thoughts. Don't come, holding onto sin. Examine yourselves. If you come in a light way or in a trivial way or a superficial way, you'll eat and drink judgment or chastening to yourself."
In other words, the Lord's Table is a time for real hard examination. It's a time to take inventory of how you're living your life. It's a time to renew the call to obedience. It's a time to renew the call to Holiness, to virtuous conduct, to sober mindedness, to self-discipline. It's the perfect time, really, to sort of re-grip the matters of virtue and holy living to which we were called.
And behind all of this is to remember your redemption. The word down in Verse 18, the word "redeemed," comes from a great verb, lutrao. It basically means to set free by a ransom paid, to set free by a ransom paid. You ought to conduct yourselves in a certain way because you have been ransomed. You owe that to the one who paid the price to set you free. It's consistent with who you are now.
When we think of a ransom, typically, we think of a criminal activity. We, our culture, don't have slavery. We don't have a way to ransom people, as it were, out of prison, to ransom prisoners of war as if in an ancient time, so the word "ransom" in our culture has taken on basically a criminal kind of feature. When we think of ransom, we think somebody has kidnapped a child or kidnapped a spouse, and they write a ransom note, saying for X amount of dollars, I will set this person that you love free. Ransom, for us then, tends to be associated with evil people, with the worst of people, with criminal-type people, who are endeavoring to exhort, extort money out of people by threatening to kill the people they love.
But in ancient times, the ransom had different significance. When the nations ward against one another, the conquering nation would take prisoners, the other army, the opposing army; those prisoners could be bought back. They could be bought freedom from their imprisonment under certain terms met by the conquered people. And there were servants or slaves in the ancient world. That was pretty much how the labor force of the ancient world would be identified, and it was possible for a price that you could buy the freedom of a slave or a servant and make that servant a free man.
That's the term that's used here. The term is lutrao. It means to pay the price to free a prisoner, to pay the price to free a slave. In our case, both were true. We were prisoners of a just God, who had every right to sentence us to eternal hell. We were slaves of righteousness, of unrighteousness, I should say, and as slaves of unrighteousness, had put ourselves in a position of culpability before that just God by the violation of his Holy law.
God then having every right to hold us guilty; had sentenced us to death; however, the Lord Jesus provided the ransom price to liberate us from the power of sin, the slavery of sin and from the prison of divine judgment, the sentence of eternal hell.
So as we talk about this concept just before we take the Lord's Table, a brief look at that; I want you to kind of look at just some of the features of redemption because maybe in reaffirming what we've been redeemed from, we can excite our own hearts toward obedience and holiness and behavior that's consistent with the mighty work of God in our lives. Let's ask the question, first of all, what were we redeemed from? What were we redeemed from? You can't really understand the significance of redemption unless you understand where we were when we were bought our freedom.
The obvious answer is sin, but there's an extended reality in thinking about that, and that is judgment. To be the slave of sin is therefore to be under the judgment of God, The soul that sends it shall die; the wages of sin is death. Anybody who sins is going to perish in eternal hell; anyone who sins and dies in their sins unforgiven is going to experience eternal punishment, eternal judgment at the Hand of God; never-ending torment described in very vivid terms in the Bible.
So we, as slaves of sin and prisoners to the justice of God, who had every right to sentence us to eternal hell for the violation of His Holy law, have been set free. This is the glory in reality of our redemption. Because we broke God's law, Galatians 3 says, "We are cursed by the law. A curse of that law is death and eternal judgment." We're all under the curse. There's none righteous, no, not one that does good. There's none that understand. You know all of those verses that define man's bondage to sin.
We are guilty of lawlessness. To break a law of God one time is to be guilty of all of it, the Scripture says. We need then to be redeemed from sin and its consequence, divine judgment. And the one who holds us accountable for that sin and holds us in contempt and sentences us and has prepared for us that divine judgment is God Himself so that the ransom price must be paid to God. This justice must be satisfied in a manner which He Himself has determined is acceptable to Him.
Now, thinking about the depth of this slavery, the Apostle Peter has given us some insights into the condition of being unredeemed. Let's go back to Verse 14 for a moment and see how he describes it. He says in Verse 14, "You are now obedient children. Do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours," the former lust. The first way to define our enslavement to sin is that it was an enslavement to lust. Lust, that's the familiar New Testament word, epithumia. It means strong desires for what is evil. That's essentially the way it is used here, strong desires for what is evil.
It characterizes all people who are unredeemed. In 1 Thessalonians 4, it tells us very clearly in Verse 5 that "The pagans who do not know God function in lustful passion." They're driven by these internal desires, strong, compelling desires in the heart for what is evil. They are driven by these unrestrained desires, and they are comprehensive and dominant. That's why Paul, in Romans 6, says, "You are slaves of unrighteousness."
Genesis 6:5, I think, says it as well as any verse in Scripture. "God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." The precision of that statement is really very, very important. Every imagination of the thoughts of man's heart was only evil and evil all the time; every, only, always. Everything about his imaginations, his desires, was wrong. Everything about his desires was evil, and it was always that way and never any other way.
In the eighth chapter of Genesis Verse 21, Scripture says, "The imaginations of the heart are evil from man's childhood." As soon as he becomes conscious of his own conduct, conscious of his own behavior, makes willful choices; they are evil, and they stay evil all his life long, every imagination of the thoughts of his heart. That's an amazing phrase, "Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart."
When we think about the heart, we're talking about the mind. The Old Testament says, "A man thinks in his heart, so is he," so the heart was the mind. You might think that which is most basic to man is his mind, but that which is most human as distinguishing us from monkeys or any other animals is our rationality; that the truest essence of being human is to have a mind that thinks rationally. Well, that is essentially human, but that's not the most profound, and that's not the most powerful influence in us because there's something behind the mind.
There are thoughts that rise out of something called the imagination. There is something deeper than the mind. Imagination is more fundamental than thinking. It is what energizes thought. It would be one thing if man was really controlled by his reason. If man was controlled by his reason, he would look at creation and he would conclude there's a God. And if he were controlled by his reason, he would look at the reality of that moral law that's a part of his rational component, and he would say there is a moral law; therefore, there's a moral lawgiver; therefore, I conclude there is a Creator, who is a Judge, who has disclosed to me, not only His power to create, but His moral will.
Why doesn't man do that? Why does man do what Romans 1:18 and following says? Why does man who sees God if he looks through his reason, who sees God if he looks through his conscious in the law written in his heart in Romans 2; why does he suppress the knowledge? "Why does he not like to retain the knowledge of God," as Roman 1 says. Why does he go against the grain of his reason? Why will he cling to an evolutionary lie tenaciously to the grave, though to do that, he has to literally commit rational suicide? Why will be do that? Because there is something more dominantly human than rationality, and it is evil desires in the heart.
They rise through rationality, and they devastatingly affect man's objectivity. Imagination, James says, is where lust conceives, James 1:14. "Down deep in the inner workings of the being of man, there is lust," James says. And it entices and it gives birth of sin, and it brings forth death. It's not rational. It's not rational. Romans 1:32 says, "Even though people know these sins produce death, they not only do them, they give approval to those who do them."
This isn't rational. There's something more profoundly human than rationality; that is lust. Man is dominated by that lust, and it pollutes his reason. That's why Jeremiah said, "The heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." If you want to know the heart of man, it is rational, but above all things, above it's rationality, above its ability to think, which is one of the great realities of humanity; that is, we can think, but above that, that is to say more powerful than that, more pervasive than that, more controlling than that is deception that is built into the fabric of being a fallen human being.
Down below his rationality is this corruption, this fallenness. And it energizes into reality sin, produces distortions so that he can't think reasonably. If he could, he's stop committing immorality. He's stop committing murders, stop the horrific crimes and sins that make up his life, but he can't, can't. Man is so corrupt from the core that it's absolutely mind-boggling.
I know even watching the television, you've been seeing that there are snipers going around shooting people, and I think there are a dozen people that have been shot, and the whole world is on this amazing high alert as if some bizarre anomaly has happened in human conduct. Just to put things clearly, if I might for a moment; in the last century, 170 million people were killed by their own governments. This isn't any anomaly in human conduct. This is just normal because down below, what's reasonable; there is a fire of hatred that broods in the heart of man, and it lashes out in murderous ways.
That's the real humanity. It may not always kill, but Jesus said, "If you've hated in your heart, you've done as much as murder." It might not always commit adultery, but Jesus said if you've done it in your heart, you've done it. This is the truest reality of the heart of men.
So when you were redeemed, you were redeemed out of that slavery of being absolutely controlled by your lust and your evil imaginations. Secondly, if you go back to Verse 14, He says, "Not only will you conform to the former lusts, but that they existed in your ignorance." This is a second way to define the terrible condition of the unredeemed. They're ignorant. They're ignorant.
Even the Apostle Paul, who was basically persecuting Christians in 1 Timothy 1:13, said, "God have mercy on me because I did it in ignorance." He was religiously astute; Hebrews, according to the law, blameless, a Pharisee, zealous; he was among the religious elite, highly educated; trained under Gamaliel, the best available training possible to a Jewish person. He was helenized in the great culture. He was a man of letters. He was a man of the world, but he was ignorant because that's the way it is in the unregenerate heart.
"The natural man understands not the things of God, their foolishness to Him," 1 Corinthians 2:14, "He can't know them." John 17:25, "Jesus confessed to the Father, the world has not known you." As I said in Romans 1, they suppressed a knowledge of God. They don't like to retain God in their knowledge, so their understanding is dark. Ephesians makes it very, very clear that the understanding of all people who are unredeemed is dark; they don't get it.
Ignorance is no excuse. They are without excuse, Romans 1 says, because their ignorance is willful. So when you look at - this is not some stranger we're talking about, folks; this is us before our redemption. We're talking about somebody who is driven by below the rational level lusts for fulfillment, immorality, pride, covetousness, whatever. They drive their way through from the core of our fallenness and infect and pollute and corrupt even our reason; that we conduct ourselves irrationally for the supposed fulfillment of our deeper lusts. And secondly, we're ignorant. We don't know God. We don't know where we're going. We're stumbling around in the dark. When we fall, we don't know what we fell over, and when we get up, we don't know where we are.
And then, thirdly, in defining this condition, then you go down to Verse 18, He says, "You are also redeemed from your futile way of life." From your futile way of lie - there's another characteristic of being under-redeemed. "You live a futile way of life." The word "futile" is matayas. Let me tell you, it's a simple word. It means empty, empty, useless, pointless, powerless, valueless, zero. That's what the unregenerated person is, great big nothing, useless. Their whole lives, from start to finish, utterly useless, of no real value.
Now, we live in a world that's gone absolutely wacky over rewarding people things; try to make people feel like they're important. By the time the average kid is 12 years old, there has to be a funkycabinet built in their room because they've been given so many awards that are also given to everybody else for participation, as if that's somehow going to make their life valuable; that they can achieve something from that low level of reward, all the way to winning literary prizes or Nobel prizes or science prizes or education prizes or earning PhDs or whatever it might be, even being sainted.
If you're unredeemed, your life is useless, absolutely useless. In Ephesians 4 Verse 17, Paul essentially says the same thing Peter said. "I say; therefore, and affirm together with the Lord." He's affirming the same truth, "that you walk no longer like the pagans walk in the futility of their mind." That's the same thing. It's in the uselessness of their mind. Their thoughts are useless; their deeds are useless; their accomplishments are absolutely useless.
There's really no end to the award platforms that are presented to us on television. Everybody gets awards for everything, and bottom line; it doesn't matter. In the scheme of things, it relates to eternity in the Kingdom of God; they're all useless. So they operate, according to Ephesians 4:17 in the futility of their mind, the uselessness of their mind, being darkened in their understanding. It's the same thing that we just read. They're ignorant. They are excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them because of the hardness of their heart, and they, having become callused, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
In other words, they just can't get enough impurity. They just can't get enough. Now, that's the same definition exactly. That's the unredeemed. Their life has no value, absolutely none. It is an ignorant, lust-driven and useless existence. But some of them are religious, and doesn't that matter? No, they have to be saved and delivered out of that as well.
Go down to Verse 18 again. He says that they were not redeemed "from your futile way of life," and then adds this: "Inherited from your forefathers." Tatso Paradotus. That word basically means tradition, tradition. Tradition is a celebrated thing in our society, very celebrated thing. There are organizations that want to go back to tradition. There are people that clutch with a death grip to their tradition, but here, Peter says you need to be redeemed from your tradition. That's hard for people to swallow.
This can and does regard an apostate Judaism. You can go to a Jewish Orthodox, Jewish synagogue; you can go to the land of Israel, and you will be struck with the fact that there is a desperate need for these people, not only to be delivered from lust, not only be delivered from ignorance, not only be delivered from uselessness, but to be delivered from tradition because it's captivated their souls. It's an illusion.
Steven knew it when he preached his sermon to the Jews that day, and they killed him for it. He said, "You are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart." What you've got is tradition and nothing else. Jesus said in Matthew 15:9, "They've substituted the traditions of men for the commandments of God," and Jesus also said, "You've rendered the Word of God ineffective by your tradition."
So you could be talking about degenerate Jewish tradition, passed on from generation to generation to generation, and Jesus dismantled that thing when He said, "You have heard it said, but I say to you," and you have heard it said in Matthew 5; is pointing to their rabbinic tradition. Your rabbis tell you this, but I'm telling you this. Your rabbi's telling you this, but I'm telling you Jesus had to literally rescue them from their tradition.
It's not just Judaism. It could be something else. I just got back from several weeks in Italy, and you can't be a prolonged time in Italy without seeing the power of the Roman Catholic system, which is really the worship of Mary. It's a Mary cult. That becomes very, very clear when you're in Italy. It isn't that the people are personally connected to God or connected to Christ. It isn't that the churches are drawing people in. People aren't really connected to God, and they aren't so much connected to the church, but they are really connected to the tradition, and it runs so deep that it's hard to extract people out of that hold of tradition.
Talked to some missionaries, who were happy and fulfilled and having a great time raising their children there, and one of their daughters was about to marry a young Christian Italian. They were thrilled with that; that that had become their home after 13 years there, and they said, "We've been blessed. We have a large church in Italy." I said, "How many," and they said, "Thirty-five." Thirty-five? Well, you have to understand how hard it is for these people to come to faith in Jesus Christ because it means they have to literally reject their entire tradition.
The Catholic church has so much power over the towns, the communities, the country and the way the people live their lives that the provision holds them in the script; furthermore, the day they confess Jesus Christ and say that they were lost, they then consign all their ancestors to hell because they will have confessed that they didn't know the truth. The tradition is powerful. It's powerful in Judaism. It's powerful whatever tradition it is; might even be a pagan tradition.
1 Peter Chapter 4 Verse 3, it says there that the pagans, the Gentiles, the ethnots, the nations, the peoples; they have their own desire. "In the time past, it might have been," He said, "sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the pagans, the nations, and what is their tradition; sensuality, lust, drunkenness, carousals, drinking parties and abominable idolatries. If you read any of the literature from the ancient world around New Testament time, you know that the Greeks and the Romans had these religions in which there were temple prostitutes, in which there was drunkenness, in which there were orgies, in which there was gluttony, in which there were idols and all of this - this was all religious tradition.
That was the Gentile religious tradition. It could be a lot of different things. It can be a philosophical tradition. It can be the tradition that you were raised in Mormonism or JWZ; I mean, you can fill in the blanks. What has to happen is you are in slavery to lust. So was I; so are all of us in slavery to ignorance, in slavery to emptiness, in slavery to an inherited tradition from which we need to be rescued. That's what we need, to be rescued.
In Peter's thinking, all people are fettered, needing to be set free, and they're not slaves to alcohol or drugs or sexual addiction or any of those other things. That's superficial. They're enslaved to their fallenness, and there's no way out. There isn't any 12-step program to become unfallen. When you look at man and his unredeemed state, he is degraded; he is defiled; he is not a fit companion for God.
He is a fit companion for demons. His flesh is filthy; his body is stained, in desperate need of cleansing; his members and faculties are given over to iniquities. There's no part of him that is fit for union with God. His tongue is deceitful; his lips are poisonous; his throat is an open grave; his eyes are full of adultery; his heart is proud; his ears are deaf to God's voice and truth. His hands do evil; his feet are swift; they shed blood; his mind is depraved and reprobate; his heart is desperately wicked.
His will is hard and impentated; he resists God, refuses life; his conscious is defiled; he's so polluted, he can't help himself and he faces eternal hell. In 1669 Ralph Denning wrote, "It is not any one faculty only that sin has defiled, but like a strong poison, it soaks and eats through them all." Man is left in an utter darkness. A darkened mind leaves him to grope in the blackness, unable to comprehend the light. He walks in all kinds of wickedness, doesn't know where he's going, stumbles; doesn't know where he is; can't control thoughts, words or actions; appears content to be led blindly to destruction by the guide dogs of false religion, and it is from all of that that we have been redeemed.
And from the inevitable sentence on those who live that way, sentence of eternal punishment; that poses the question, "With what were we redeemed?"
God back to 1 Peter 1, "We were not redeemed with perishable things," that's for sure, like silver or gold or any other perishable thing. The price, the ransom price paid to God was not material. There was no amount of earthly wealth symbolized by silver and gold that could deliver the eternal souls of people from the bondage of sin and death and hell. There is no price within the reach of man that could satisfy God.
Psalm 49 Verses 7 and 8, "No man can, by any means, redeem his brother or give to God a ransom for Him, for the redemption of his soul is costly. You don't have the capability to come up with a price to redeem somebody's soul, not yours and not your brother's. There is no earthly commodity that is subject to decay, corruption and perishing that can pay the price that God requires to redeem a soul from sin and its consequence. On the other hand, you were redeemed, Verse 19 says, "with precious blood as a lamb unblemished and spotless, the Blood of Christ."
This is why we come to the Lord's Table because we come to celebrate that precious blood. It isn't the fluid that saved us. I say that often because people misunderstand it. Blood is simply a metaphor for death, a vivid metaphor for death. It's a vivid way to describe death, and Jesus died a bloody death, a death that a sacrifice dies, but His death was precious because He's precious. He is that lamb without blemish and without spot, pictured in all the Old Testament sacrifices by that spotless lamb that was selected to be the symbol of the final lamb, who would take away sin.
He is precious. Why precious? Well, I'll show you why. Precious because predestined, Verse 20, "Precious for He was foreknown before the foundation of the world;" precious because He was having been foreknown that is to be planned by God from before the foundation of the world. "He was the lamb slain from before the foundation of the world," so it says in the Book of Revelation, "The preciousness of Christ is, first of all,' expressed in that exquisite reality of his predestination, his foreordination, precious because perfect from before time ever began, eternally perfect; precious in his predestination before the foundation of the world; precious secondly in his incarnation.
Verse 20, "He has appeared in these last times. He has appeared in these last times." Fawn erao, a cortical event, to make something plain, to make it clear, to make it manifest, to reveal it; shows Him in eternity because of his perfection; revealed in time and manifesting that perfection. This appearing in His last time refers to his virgin birth. It refers to the kenosis, the incarnation, the self-emptying of the second member of the trinity. The last times are the Messianic times. The last times began when He was born, though he is precious. He's precious because He was chosen before the world began. He's precious because He was incarnate perfection.
His preciousness is further described by His resurrection, Verse 21, "God who raised Him from the dead." This is a divine affirmation of the preciousness of Jesus Christ and His death. There's a fourth element in His being precious, and that's His ascension. You go from His predestination to His incarnation to His resurrection to His ascension in Verse 21. This is the capstone. It says, "God not only raised Him from the dead. God gave Him glory." In John 17, Jesus said, "Take Me back. Give Me back the glory I had with you before the world began. I've done My work. Take Me back," and God exalted Him to His own right hand; gave Him a name above every name; that if the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in Heaven and earth and under the earth, every tongue confess Jesus as Lord.
He was highly exalted and seated at the right hand of the Throne of God on High. This is our precious redeemer, predestined, incarnate, risen, ascended; the most precious person ever to live, Holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners and all points tempted like as we are, but yet without sin, the spotless lamb, without blemish. God determined that He would be the ransom price to satisfy God's justice. Sometimes we sing that little song "Precious Lamb of Glory," love's most wondrous story; heart of God's redemption of man. That's it.
Well, we know what we were redeemed from now. We know by whom we were redeemed, but there's one other wonderful thought. For what were we redeemed? It says at the end of Verse 20 that this precious lamb, Christ; this lamb foreknown before the foundation of the world, the One who appeared incarnate, the One who rose from the dead, the One who ascended to glory; this One came - I love this - the end of Verse 20, "for the sake of you. For your sake, who through Him, are believers in God," end of the verse, "so that your faith and hope are in God." What is the reason for redemption? So that we could become believers in God, no Christ, no cross; nobody could be a believer in God, and no one would have faith and hope in God.
We are believers in the true and living God. All our faith is in God. All our hope for the future is in God, and it is only possible because of the redeemer, who paid the price to redeem us. That's why we live holy lives; because of the glory and the wonder of our redemption, through lives.
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text: Loyola again ranked in top 5 by U.S. News September 10, 2013 | By Nick Alexopulos Loyola University Maryland is tied for No. 5 among regional universities in the North in U.S. News & World Report's "Best Colleges 2014." Loyola has ranked among the top five institutions in this category for more than 10 years, and this year ranked in the top 4 percent of more than 130 schools on the North region list. Loyola is also ranked No. 6 (tied) among universities in the North that made the "Up-and-Comers" list, which recognizes institutions that have recently made the most promising and innovative changes in the areas of academics, faculty, student life, campus, or facilities. Loyola is ranked nationally on two lists, "Highest 4-Year Graduation Rate" and "Most Students Studying Abroad." U.S. News gave Loyola a top ranking in other categories as well, including "Best Undergraduate Business Programs," "Best in Undergraduate Engineering," "A-Plus Schools for B Students," and "Programs to Look for: Service Learning." "Value plays a critical role for students and their families when they are choosing a college or university, and rankings help students identify and consider which aspects of their college experience are most important to them. At Loyola we are committed to innovation and excellence in the living learning experience—and this latest U.S. News ranking affirms that," said Rev. Brian F. Linnane, S.J., Loyola's president. "Students choose Loyola because they know we offer that distinctive experience to exceptional students from across the country and all over the world—particularly in our newly-launched Messina program, designed to help first-year students forge a clear path to success academically, personally, and professionally." The "Programs to Look for: Service Learning" list, one of eight program-specific lists in the "A Focus on Student Success" category, highlights schools with outstanding examples of program offerings that enrich the college experience for undergraduate students. Loyola offers students numerous opportunities to engage in community service, service learning, and social justice initiatives through the Center for Community Service and Justice, and Loyola has been named to the President's Community Service Honor Roll for seven straight years. Along with Loyola's "Best Undergraduate Business Programs" ranking, its specialty in finance was ranked No. 21 nationally. Loyola was ranked No. 45 (tied) on the list of best undergraduate engineering programs. Loyola made additional U.S. News rankings lists this year, including: - Freshman Retention Rate: No. 9 (tied) in North region - Highest 6-Year Graduation Rate: No. 5 in North region - Average Amount of Need-Based Aid Awarded: No. 10 in North region; Loyola also was singled out for having the highest average percent of financial need met of any school in North region (98 percent) More information about the U.S. News rankings is available at usnews.com/best-colleges

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If you live Paris and want to get in on some Presidential election-inspired foods, head to the Hotel Concord La Fayette in Paris for Obama and McCain burgers. Chef Laurent Belijar modeled Obama's "O-Burger" after Obama's birth state of Hawaii by making a curried patty topped with pineapple carpaccio and a mix of coriander-flavored shrimp. McCain's "Elephant Burger" is southwest-themed, made of a tomato-flavored patty mixed with grilled lamb and guacamole and served with tomato salsa and nachos.
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I have three sons and a daughter who were raised on Arnold movies. Instead of Disney, as little kids they watched Predator, Terminator, Raw Deal, Commando, Aliens, you get the idea.
I'm afraid that this upbringing made my sons pretty cocky. If they were watching Predator or Alien(s), they would say, "I could beat that monster." If my sons watched a show about crocodiles, they would say the same thing. Bears, sharks, you name it, the could beat it.
So when my third son started learning Brazilian Ju Jitsu a couple of years ago, I expected him to be equally full of bravado. My third son is very strong. If my first two sons and I tried to wrestle my third son at the same time, I'm not sure that we could win. When I have "rolled" with him and he just played with me, I had to tap out so quick it was really sick.
Anyway, my third son is pretty cocky and probably still thinks he can beat just about anything. So one day I asked him, what about BJ Penn or George St. Pierre? All of a sudden my son's attitude changed. "Dad, you have to understand that they are professionals. They are in great shape. They would literally kill me."
No bravado. No hype. None.
No matter how much I might prod him, my third son has nothing but the best things to say about MMA professionals. Even when someone loses in a match, even when the guy is beaten badly, my son is careful to tell me that even that guy would destroy him, that the professionals are so skilled, so conditioned, so awesome.
This is a far cry from beating the Predator or Aliens. When it comes to MMA professionals, my son shows respect.
I met an MMA student who trains with a noted teacher. I asked him about this -- why MMA and Ju Jitsu students are generally respectful like this. He said, "it is because we've all been beaten." They all have gone up against skilled opponents and been beaten. They know what it means to be beaten and they know when someone deserves respect.
One of the old Karate Sensei here in Hawaii told me that in the old days, when you had a dojo you had to be willing to accept challenges. If someone showed up and wanted to challenge you, you had to accept. If you could defeat the challenger, you could keep teaching. If you were beaten, then I guess that might be another thing.
This Sensei told me that the good thing about this system was that people generally did not brag. If a person was good, he knew it and so did everyone else. But today, anyone can teach, and without challenges, anyone can brag and say whatever he wants. There is no challenge process to keep people honest.
I think that this is why MMA people are generally respectful, especially of their seniors and professionals.
I am glad that my third son has learned to respect others. Young men his age tend to be full of themselves. He is too, but knows his limits when it comes to MMA professionals. He has nothing but respect for them.
Now about dojo challenges, I am glad that such things are no longer common. I am a peaceful person and if someone wanted to challenge me, I would have to give up. If pressed, I guess that I would have to call the police. I am not a fighter and do not practice and teach Karate to fight, but for self-defense only. I have nothing to prove... I am a grandfather already.
But then if the Predator or an Alien came to the dojo, I think I could beat them... or at least my sons or daughter could!
Charles C. Goodin
My Tough Son Does Not Brag
I have three sons and a daughter who were raised on Arnold movies. Instead of Disney, as little kids they watched Predator, Terminator, Raw Deal, Commando, Aliens, you get the idea.
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Superman, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
Some of these things are not like the others.
Navigating the crowds of Comic-Con en route to the "Snoopy: A Retrospective" panel Friday afternoon, I pass Wolverines, assorted Doctor Whos, zombies, scantily-clad warrior princesses rubbing shoulders with Disney princesses, and even a President Obama look-a-like replete with secret service detail.
The juxtaposition of the Peanuts Gang among the super-beings celebrated so grandly in San Diego this weekend is at first jarring. Created by Charles M. Schulz in 1950, Peanuts focuses on a group of children who hail from Minnesota and struggle with everyday issues of anxiety, friendship and pitching a perfect game.
Hardly the stuff of superhero legend.
But when you look at the enduring love and success the franchise continues to enjoy, perhaps Charlie Brown and the gang are the ones most deserving of the "super" descriptor.
"I personally don't know of any character property where the characters so fully inhabit their issues. They are so honest about anxiety or insecurity," Paige Braddock, executive vice president and creative director of the Peanuts brand, says. "It's very nice to see the vulnerability of the characters. They are not perfect, know-it-all smart-alecks."
What they are is just like us. And audiences can't seem to get enough of their funny, touching and what sometimes appears old-fashioned antics.
Over 45 million people read a Peanuts comic strip everyday. In 2012, "A Charlie Brown Christmas Special" was the highest ranked special among adults 18-49. That same year Peanuts had more than 475 million social media impressions. One in five Hallmark cards sold is a Peanuts card. Snoopy has almost two million Facebook fans, 140,000 Twitter followers and 75,000 Instagram followers. Even Woodstock has 38,000 Twitter followers without the benefit of being able to converse in speech.
When Schulz passed away in 2000, many fans fretted it would mark the end for Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty, Lucy, Linus and Snoopy. With the aid of Schulz's family and a group of dedicated artists and business people, the franchise has not only survived but continues to go from strength to strength.
At the core of this success? An emotional attachment for audiences that dates back to their childhood and a method of storytelling that has translated seamlessly from newsprint to the technological platforms that inhabit the modern world.
According to Peanuts managing director Leigh Anne Brodsky, it's the simple wit and wisdom of the property that draws you in, and the lucid way it is displayed. "It's bite sized media," she proclaims proudly. "The four panels really tell a story in a quick, concise and pithy way with great art, great dialogue and it works really well on social media."
For Tweeny Kau, 36, of Santa Monica CA., attending the Snoopy panel at Comic-Con was something she was most looking forward to during the four-day event. "I just liked [Snoopy] because he was a dog and he was cute and he was funny," says Kau, whose first recollection of the beagle was at around four years of age. "Now I get the humor more."
The continuity of the franchise also appeals to Kau.
While other stalwarts of the funny pages such as Archie have added modern-day characters and placed their protagonists in 21st century situations, Peanuts maintains an unchanging cast of characters struggling with everyday, timeless issues.
So popular is the franchise right now that Braddock and her team oversee between 2,000 and 4,000 product submissions a month. Some requiring more scrutiny than others to ensure the Peanuts legacy remains true to Schulz's vision.
"We do a lot of trend t-shirt licenses for example, but we also have a new game in development," Braddock explains. "So game development is one submission but is a very intense project that will go on for months. We try to pay really close attention to the projects that have heavier content: games or books or APPs."
How about Thanksgiving Day Balloons and movies?
Beginning in 1968, Snoopy has made more appearances in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade than any other character. To celebrate the 45th anniversary of his debut and the 40th anniversary of the accompanying holiday special "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving," a brand new balloon design will make its debut on November 28.
Braddock's team worked on the concept sketches for the design, which incorporates a flying Snoopy along with his best feathered friend Woodstock.
Add to that the recently announced return to the big screen of the gang in 2015, a year that will mark the 65th anniversary of Peanuts debut and the 50th anniversary of "A Charlie Brown Christmas Special."
Shulz's son Craig is currently writing the screenplay and Steve Martino ("Ice Age: Continental Drift") is directing, though it's still too early to reveal whether or not the iconic Vince Guaraldi piano-jazz score will be incorporated.
"It's a big emotional tie in," Braddock acknowledges of the score. "People have a real emotional connection to that music. And the voices, we've always used children to provide the voices - there are certain things that people really associate with Peanuts."
So recognisable are certain of the franchise's hallmarks, that the music and Charlie Brown's signature sad-sack walk were even featured in the cult comedy series "Arrested Development."
There's also new monthly comic books, anthology publications and even a Vine campaign created by celebrated viral artist Khoa Phan (see below).
"I don't want to say we modernized it, but we're definitely using modern technology to enhance the content that we had and getting it on different platforms where kids could get to it," Braddock explains of the approach to keeping Peanuts fresh.
And as many comic book franchises lean toward the dark and violent, keeping brands such as Peanuts kid- and adult-friendly remains a priority.
"We don't want to lose kids, we don't want to miss a generation of kids with Peanuts because if you read the stories when you are ten, like most of us did, the stories resonate in a different way," Braddock says. "Snoopy is a dog who doesn't know he is a dog. So for kids, he may appear powerless but he can be powerful through his imagination."


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AFA registration to be held Aug. 14
PLAINVIEW – The Academy of Fine arts at Wayland Baptist University is gearing up for its fall term. Registration for classes will be held from 4-7 p.m. on Aug. 14 in the Harral Memorial Auditorium Fine Arts Center.
The Academy of Fine Arts provides individuals from childhood through high school age with private and group lessons in music, theatre and art. Continuing a long tradition, the Academy will offer private lessons in piano and guitar. Students will be responsible for preparing weekly performance assignments and will have the opportunity to perform in semester recitals and other local venues. The fee is $12.50 per lesson, or $150 per semester.
The Academy has added a Melody Chime ensemble for students ages 7-10 and will likely add a hand bell ensemble as these students become more advanced. Students will rehearse one hour per week for 12 weeks. The cost is $30 a month or $90 for the semester.
The AFA has also redesigned its vocal music training offerings. Children from birth to 6 years old may sign up for the Kindermusik International or Music Together programs taught by certified instructors. The Kindermusik program is designed to encourage young children and parents to explore music. The program bases its curricula on proven research in child development, combining music and movement to teach not only the child, but parents as well.
The Kindermusik courses will be taught by Leslie Delgado in the tradition begun by Jennie Lynn Hodges. Delgado has recently completed her international certification and will be offering four courses each with a different theme. Students from birth to 6 years will purchase home instrument packages for each course and should look forward to a dynamic experience with their instruments and song. Fees for Kindermusik classes are $150 for a semester ($75 for the 8-week course for children ages birth-18 months). Instrument fees range from $28 to $70 depending on the courses.
The Music Together curriculum is designed for family participation (one or two parents along with one or more children) in nine separate courses spanning a three-year period. Students from birth to 6 years are integrated into a single class in a unique setting featuring song and movement. Families are required to purchase a songbook and two CDs – one for home and one for the car. Music Together courses cost $30 per month ($90 per semester) with a $35 materials fee per course.
The Children's Chorus of Plainview is designed for students ages 7-11. Led by Debbie Flournoy, the choir meets weekly and prepares music in a diverse array of musical styles. Students are expected to purchase a uniform and attend rehearsals regularly. The class fee is $30 per month for three months along with a $15 fee for the music. The uniform cost will vary.
Students ages 12-18 will be able to enroll in advanced vocal training classes through Vocal Technique Classes or private lessons as approved upon audition. Vocal Technique Classes are designed to introduce students to advanced singing techniques. Private vocal students will be responsible for preparing weekly performance assignments and will have the opportunity to perform in semester recitals and other local venues. The cost for Vocal Technique Classes is $30 per month, or $90 per semester. Private lessons cost $12.50 per lesson or $150 per semester.
Art courses will also be offered through the AFA based on student interest. Contact the coordinator for specific offerings in the art realm.
For more information on any of the Academy of Fine Arts offerings, contact the AFA Coordinator at 291-1070 or Dr. Ann Stutes, co-chair of the Division of Fine Arts at WBU, at 291-1065.


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what a pep talk
This team needs a boost of confidence as well as a boost of energy. It doesn't help matters for us fans to be giving up on them so early in the season. Ok so they played horrible last week at home and the numbers so far are not near what we were hoping they would be and the injuries have been devastating to say the least but there is a bright side! For one they are 2-0 in the div and tied for first. For two Sanchez and the Jets have beaten this team the only two times they played so they know how to beat them. And Three the Jets always seem to rebound after a bad effort on the field and especially on monday night. The Texans are 4-0 and have not played any real top teams yet. They could also quite possibly be looking ahead to their next 2 games home against GreenBay and Baltimore consecutively. So this is our time to get into this game and get behind our team and GET LOUD!!!!!! CMON MAN !!!! They are freaking 9 point favorites in our house. Last I checked the Jets still had 53 guys on their roster so it's time to get some guys into more playing time. The Jets and Jetfans need to give it all monday night!!!
what a pep talk
Yea I didn't mean to do it twice though somehow I messed up oh well im sure it will get merged
RA RA let's go JETS. I'm pumped.
Fire Rex. Fire Tanny. Sell the team. Move it to LA. Burn down Florham Park.
will the stadium be rocking?
Ok, you need to get fired up...go to YouTube and search for Rex Ryans Hard Knocks speech...
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I wonder if he still talks like that to the team with Tebow in the room. Just a thought.
Where is my b2?
Its time for those who still don't get to wake up. Sorry to say it but not only are we real bad across the board...... We might very well be the worst team in the NFL right now. If you take our roster with the current injurys and our loud mouth buffoon of a coach. Our GM who really should only be handling the $$$ portion of his job. I mean really????? Tell me another team with this many holes?? This team has no players. They are very poorley coached. They have no idea or clue how to fix any of this. If changes are not made in the offseason across the board. We will continue to be horrible and a laughing stock. It really is time to back up the truck on this team.
1. 1991, the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Miami Heat, 148-80 (NBA)
2. 1940, the Chicago Bears beat the Washington Redskins, 73-0 (NFL)
3. 1927 Haven High School (KS) beat Slyvia High School 256-0 (High School Football)
4. 2007, Sri Lanka defeated Kenya by 174 runs 201-27in a match in Johannesburg (Cricket)
5. Gallipoli Campaign - 552,000 KIA
7. 2012 Texans vs Jets : Worst beating in modern day football ...
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Steep wooded slopes channel the meadows of the Saale Valley, which runs to the cultured, former ducal town of Rudolstadt, 37km southwest of Jena. That it's largely flat makes this one of the easiest sections of the long-distance Saale Cycle Route (saale-radwanderweg.de), which slaloms along the valley for 200km from Kaatschen-Weichau to Sparnberg on the border of Bavaria. The E3 long-distance hiking route also traverses the area, taking in the Schwarza Valley. Slower but more adventurous is to canoe the lazy meanders of the thickly wooded river valley. Source tourism booklet Wasserwandern auf der Saale for itineraries of the trip – the full route will take around ten days – plus details of boat hire, slipways and campsites en route.
Trains run from Jena to Saalfeld, while as regards information, the valley is covered by the regional tourism board of the Thuringian Forest even though it lies outside the official boundaries.
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Driver killed in head-on collision was 'a good dad, a good friend'
Jose Antonio Sandoval, a self-appointed comedian of his family who loved making people laugh, was killed in a head-on collision.
Paramedics rushed the driver of the other vehicle, John Lougher, 48, to University Hospital, where he died Thursday night, the Bexar County medical examiner's office reported.
Sandoval, 34, was driving a cement truck north Thursday morning on Bulverde Road near Evans Road when a van carrying PVC pipes on its roof crossed the centerline and the two vehicles collided, police spokesman Matthew Porter said.
The pipes flew off the van and pierced the windshield of the cement struck, Porter said in a statement. Sandoval's truck veered off the road and flipped over. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
Sandoval had been an employee of Ingram Ready Mix Inc. for about five years, said his sister-in-law, Sara Sandoval.
"He was a clown, he was goofy," Sandoval said. "He always had good times. He always wanted to make everybody laugh and everybody smile."
A diehard fan of the Lakers and the USC Trojans, Jose Sandoval was a regular customer at Buffalo Wild Wings at Interstate 35 and Pat Booker Road. He also was a doting father to his 15-year-old son, and the favorite uncle of his nieces and nephews.
They can't believe he's gone.
"He was a good dad, a good brother and a good friend," Sara Sandoval said.
Funeral arrangements at Castillo Mission Funeral Home are pending.


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The icons of my version of the 2D and basic theme are around 40% smaller than the original… helpscreens, hotspots are unchanged in size.
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Game Thread: Milwaukee Bucks @ Warriors 11-16-2005
Talk about the upcoming Warriors game here
Moderators: Mr. Crackerz, JREED, Guybrush, 32
wow, is dunleavy ever going to wake up.
How many damn layups will we miss tonight???!!!
prettyhatemachine22 wrote:How many damn layups will we miss tonight???!!!
I dont know how but it is dunleavy's fault.
I think they should practice their offensive boards in practices, just tell Dunleavy to shoot in practice to get more boards.
Stifling D, but can the offense come around?
F*cking Ford! Miracle floater, what a lucky shot. Ugh.
****ing officials there were only 2 secs left
Down 3 with 14 seconds left. I can't take it anymore!!
Down 3 with 6.3 left, Simmons missed both FTs!
Holt ****, he missed them both
Still alive, Simmons inexplicably misses both FT's. Wow.


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While we contemplate riding the 15 Top Motorcycling Roads according to the AMA membership, there's an easier way to find great routes near where you live. For about a year now we've been following the progress on "The Greatest Road" iPhone application, the brainchild of Daniel Pifko, which recently got funding from SocialNav and will be taking on that name in the future.
The idea behind that app is a directory of the greatest motorcycle roads around the world, submitted by the riders themselves, complete with a social sharing element that lets motorcyclists comment on routes, post rides to social sites like Facebook, etc. Taking advantage of the iPhone's built-in GPS locator, you can search for roads based on your location, or browse other locales to plan a trip. Basically it's your Sunday Morning Ride in palm of your hand, and our happy merger of computer geekdom and motorcycling (woot!).


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Hinsdale, a Charlotte resident who told the board earlier this month he plans to move to Ferrisburgh, where his family has roots, has offered the land to the town for $40,000. The parcel also abuts Ferrisburgh Central School and United Methodist Church property.


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"Please pass the giant plate of meat."
"Seriously, my life has been a porno movie."
"Red or white sangria?"
"I tried to do that but it hurt too much so I stopped."
"Did you tweet that?"
"I'm not so into 69. It's like patting your head and rubbing your tummy."
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After their self-titled album landed in the top 25 of the Billboard 200 last week, the Todd La Torre-fronted version of Queensryche have just unleashed the video for the single 'Fallout' (watch above).
The video was filmed in May at the Rock Hard Festival in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. It combines performance footage along with behind the scenes shots. In a recent interview, guitarist Michael Wilton talked about 'Fallout,' which was co-written by bassist Eddie Jackson.
"Eddie has always had great ideas over the years and has a lot of strength and ability in terms of the melodic end of Queensryche's songwriting," Wilton says. "I don't know, maybe he just wasn't given the proper chance in the past but the guy loves songwriting and he loves his instrument. He's very melodically inclined and was very spot on in his writing of those lyrics and hats off to him for that. I said, 'Bring it on Ed, bring some more.' That song really surprised us, Scott and Eddie kind of put that all together and we embelished on the guitar parts but it ended up being a quick 2:45 of goodness."
Queensryche have several U.S. shows planned for this summer. In October they travel overseas to begin a European tour.


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no name wrote:i got a small problem with this statment by Bucci (below), everything else was right on the money.It's all luck, and then we die. Don't be so caught up in greed and money and "winning." This isn't the Industrial Revolution; Donald Fehr isn't Che Guevara.
None of the players will know who Che Guevara is.
i didn't know either but it was a intresting read.
It isn't about Che directly but if you want a good read, check out'Havana Nocturne". Sometimes, actually quite often, historical facts are much more interesting than fiction.


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"Knowledge is Power" Energy Conservation Awareness InitiativeFriday, February 4th, 2011
Facilities Management Department has developed an Energy Conservation Awareness Initiative to help mitigate the unprecedented escalation in energy prices that has occurred globally in recent months.
As we face this challenge, we are calling upon our campus community to support this campus initiative by implementing simple changes in energy utilization behaviors that can positively affect operating costs and the environment while relieving some pressure on institutional resources. We have identified four major awareness components of this program below.
Wintertime Energy Conservation Guidelines
Adjust Office and Building Temperatures to 68 Degrees Fahrenheit
Buildings that have centralized temperature controls will be set at a temperature of 68 degrees. This includes administrative, academic, residence and athletic facilities.
- In buildings and rooms with thermostats that are not centrally controlled, individual occupants should manually set the temperature to 68 degrees
- Building occupants are encouraged to remove all items that block heating registers, radiators and baseboard radiation strips to allow proper heating distribution and air circulation to each space.
- The campus community is encouraged to close all exterior windows and doors in order to minimize heat loss from buildings. Doors should not be propped open. Operations staff members are requested to make sure that roll-up overhead doors remain closed in loading and receiving areas while not in use
Minimize Use of Space Heaters
- It is estimated that there are many space heaters on campus.
- Building occupants are encouraged to minimize the use of electric space heaters
Summertime Energy Conservation Guidelines
Adjust Office and Building Temperatures to 77 Degrees Fahrenheit
- Buildings that have centralized temperature controls will be set at a temperature of 76 degrees this includes administrative, academic, residential and athletic facilities.
- In buildings and rooms with thermostats that are not centrally controlled, individual occupants should manually set the temperature to 76 degrees.
- Building occupants are encouraged to remove all items that block cooling and return registers to allow proper cooling distribution and air circulation to each space.
- The campus community is encouraged to close all exterior windows and doors in order to minimize the loss of cooled air from building. Doors should not be proper open.
Adopt a 10-Minute Lighting Guideline
- Building occupants are requested to adopt a "10-Minute Lighting Guideline" and turn off lights if you are leaving a room for more than 10 minutes.
- Additionally, building occupants are also requested to turn off lights in areas with adequate natural lighting and consider using task lighting instead of overhead lights in areas without natural daylight.
Thank you for your support and continued dedication in helping the College to succeed in this critical effort.
Energy Saving Tips
Students, faculty and staff can help the energy conservation effort by following these tips:
Copiers & Printers
Think before you print! Print and copy as little as possible.
When you must print, do it double-sided.
Edit on screen, not on paper.
Save to disk instead of printing on paper.
Use e-mail to minimize paper use and don't routinely print e-mails.
Send and store documents electronically instead of on paper.
Designate a box for scrap paper and use it for printing all drafts or unofficial documents.
Circulate documents instead of making an individual copy for everyone.
Reuse envelopes by placing a new label over the old address.
Heating and Cooling:
Dress appropriately to the season and keep thermostats set at 68 degrees.
During the heating season, open blinds, drapes and curtains to let sun in. If cloudy, close them to keep the heat in especially at night.
During the cooling season close blinds, drapes and curtains to block direct sun.
Use hot water sparingly.
Turn off unused or unneeded lights.
Use natural lighting instead of electric lighting whenever possible.
Try task lighting and reduce overhead lighting.
If you have a desk lamp, make sure it uses a fluorescent bulb.
Don't use table lamps unless illumination from the lamps is actually needed.
"10 Minute Rule" Please use the 10 min. rule: If you do not plan to be in your room, or office for more then ten mins. Turn off your lights
Windows and Doors:
Keep windows and doors closed in heated and air conditioned areas
Close vestibule doors when propped open.
Keep rollup doors closed in shipping/receiving area closed when not in use.
Report Energy Waste
Please report instances of energy waste to the Office of Facilities Management (610-896-1100).
Guidelines for Electric Space Heaters
The first phase of the HC Energy Conservation Program is to garner support from the campus community by creating greater awareness, and identifying simple ways in which the campus can contribute. Minimizing the use of space heaters was identified as a key component to the energy conservation initiative. Space heathers are a very costly means of heating, therefore, we should optimize their utilization by using them as a temporary solution, pending the repair or adjustment of a building's main heating system.
In addition to the cost of operation, space heathers can also represent potential fire hazards. Therefore, we should also be mindful of the safety guidelines related to space heater use.
Safety Guidelines for Space Heaters:
- No liquid fueled space heaters (e.g., kerosene heaters) are to be used in any College building.
- Heaters must meet the following characteristics:
- Have UL approval
- Have heating elements that are protected from contact
- Be tilt-proof (when tipped over the heater turns off)
- Have adjustable heating controls
- Three feet of clearance is required around all space heaters. NOTHING may be placed on, over, above, or around a space heater.
- Space heaters are only used while under direct supervision.
- When not in use, the space heater shall be unplugged from the wall electric outlet.
- Extension cords are not to be used with space heaters
- Space heaters may not be tipped over or positioned in any way other than intended.
- The user should inspect the space heater daily for cord cracks, hot spots, or signs of wear. Any deficiencies shall be reported to the Office of Facilities Management, ext. 1096.
- For additional information on safe space heater usage, please contact the Office of Safety and Security at extension 1111
What if I already have a space heater?
Electric space heaters should be used in areas where a space temperature of 68 degrees is unattainable:
- Privately owned space heaters should be taken home by the owners.
- All College-owned space heaters that are currently in buildings on campus should be unplugged and placed in storage in each department/work area. If no space exists in the department or work area, please alert Facilities, who will store the device.
- If you believe your space heater does not meet the aforementioned Safety Guidelines for Space Heaters, it should be removed from use completely.
Are You Cold?
In efforts to conserve energy the College is asking that temperatures be maintained at 68 degrees. Please confirm the following before seeking additional assistance:
- Area rugs or carpet are not pushed under baseboard heating strips
- Furniture is at least six inches away from any baseboard heat unit.
- Windows and doors are closed.
- If located within your area, please confirm that the thermostat is set at 68 degrees.
If you are still cold and you believe your office is colder than 68 degrees, please contact your department unit head or director (or their representative). In a residence hall, residents should contact the ORCD Senior Staff member on duty. If required, they will place a call for a heating Work Order to the Office of Facilities Management at ext. 1351. The Office of Facilities Management will respond and follow their procedures for performing a temperature evaluation. If possible, Facilities Management will attempt to adjust the temperature using the building's heating system.
If it is determined that the temperature cannot be maintained using the building heating system, the College may, on a case by case basis, approve temporary use of space heaters.
The use of space heaters in academic, administrative, and athletic building will also require prior approval of the department's unit head or director. The use of space heaters in residential building will also require prior approval by the Senior Staff member on duty. The department unit head or director (or their representative) and residence hall Senior Staff members on duty are responsible for compliance with the space heater guidelines in their respective areas of responsibility.
When no longer required all space heaters in academic, administrative, and athletic buildings shall be returned to the unit head or director (or their representative). When no longer required, all space heaters in residential buildings shall be returned to Senior Staff member on duty.
Are you Too Warm?
Sometimes adjustments are needed to a building's heating system. If you believe your office is too warm, please contact the Office of Facilities Management at extension 1096. In a residence hall, residents should contact the ORCD Senior Staff member on duty. If required, they will place a call for a heating work Order to the Office of Facilities Management at extension 1096.
In efforts to conserve energy, please remember:
- Heating and cooling systems should not be used simultaneously.
Opening windows and doors is a waste of energy. The heating system will continue to operate and try to maintain the thermo


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