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Strategies! Strategies! Strategies! Strengthen Your WRITING INSTRUCTION to Significantly Increase Students' Writing Skills (Grades 6-12)
Presented by Mary Ledbetter
Specifically Designed for English/Language Arts Educators Serving Grades 6-12
- Fitting it all in – how to teach your numerous ELA requirements, achieve high-quality writing results from all your students and greatly reduce your take-home paper load
- Practical strategies for integrating literature, grammar/mechanics and vocabulary into your writing lessons
- Strategies to teach argumentative, expository, narrative, literary analysis, and comparison of two texts, along with exemplary student samples of each to use for teaching and modeling
- Motivating engagement assignments that can be used as quick class-starters or whole lessons
Practical Ideas and Strategies
Do you sometimes feel that you are spending more time reading and grading your students' writing than they did before they turned it in? Do you spend hours planning to find creative ways to fit in all the skills that are now required, only to spend even more hours reading papers that are missing critical elements? If so, this seminar will turn that around! In this idea-packed seminar, you will discover how to strategically take your students to the next level of writing with daily, easy-to-use instructional techniques that will work in your ELA classroom.
Mary Ellen Ledbetter, outstanding national writing expert, will demonstrate what she has found to be successful with students in grades 6-12. She will share step-by-step student routines and lessons that seamlessly integrate writing, literature, literary concepts, grammar/mechanics, vocabulary, and interactive student rubrics. You will learn how to implement peer feedback, discussion techniques and student conferences in your class time that will give students the immediate feedback they need to revise and improve their writing on the spot. Your paper load will decrease and students' writing skills will increase!
Join Mary Ellen for a day filled with dozens of practical and doable strategies to strengthen your writing instruction and see powerful results!
Ten Key Benefits of Attending
- Highly Effective Strategies to Significantly Increase Your Students' Writing Skills
Systematic and proven approaches for strengthening your students' writing … Practical strategies to get powerful results while creating a productive learning environment with achievable goals for all students in your ELA classes
- Successfully Integrate Your ELA Objectives to Teach the Writing Skills Students are Expected to Master
With all you have to teach, it's hard to fit it all in – learn how you can, with a strategic plan for introducing, individualizing, practicing, and mastering writing expectations using your ELA materials and literature
- Reduce Your Take-Home Paper Load and Increase Student Responsibility
How you can structure your ELA classes to give students feedback on their writing during class, grade their progress and see better results … All activities are designed to give your students the responsibility to find the missing elements in their writing and make needed revisions
- Argumentative, Expository, Literary Analysis, and Narrative Modes of Writing
Exemplary student writing samples and how to use them to teach key skills … Models of writing that address prompts and provide effective development of argumentative, expository, literary analysis, and narrative writing
- Numerous Interactive Mini-Lessons for Grammar/Mechanics
Specific strategies to teach students the mechanics of writing sentences and paragraphs that are clear and precise … In-class mini-lessons that are interactive and highly productive
- Respond to Reading Through Writing
Literature skills sheets to teach students to apply literary concepts in their own writing … Help students better identify and apply the literary concepts you want them to use in their writing
- Increase Students' Vocabulary
Discover easy and doable ways to help students find, understand and use more sophisticated vocabulary in their reading and writing
- How to Effectively Use Student-Interactive Rubrics that are Much More than Mere Checklists
Engage students in real revision using interactive rubrics that require them to prove that all elements of high-quality writing are included before they turn in their papers
- Strategies You Can Use or Adapt to Fit Your ELA Program
Student-proven lesson plans that include step-by-step outlines of how to make all the pieces of your ELA fit together in a workable, doable and successful program … Includes suggestions for mini-lessons and assessment
- Focused Peer Feedback that Works
ELA standards call for active class discussion that teaches students how to learn from each other … Learn a peer feedback process that really gets students involved in listening to each other, reading peer writing and giving specific feedback for improvement
Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately
- Discover timesaving strategies that will greatly increase students' writing skills and enable you to fit in all the ELA standards you are required to teach
- Practical, systematic and proven approaches for strengthening your writing instruction and actively engaging all your students in the writing process
- Teach students to read and revise their writing using interactive rubrics that are much more than checklists
- Short, easy-to-implement strategies to introduce or review literary concepts before asking students to apply their knowledge to lengthy, even more rigorous texts
- How to use exemplary student models and analysis for all modes of writing including argumentative, expository, narrative, literary analysis, and comparison of two texts
- Lesson plans you can use or adapt to successfully integrate all the writing skills students need
- Strategies that will allow you more time to teach the required writing expectations
- Conferencing strategies to give students the immediate feedback needed to improve writing
- How you can organize your class time to fit in your ELA standards
- Literary analysis strategies to strengthen students' writing
- Quick and easy mini-lessons for the literary, grammatical and vocabulary-based concepts you teach
- Student-proven peer feedback strategies that help students revise and rewrite as they work through the writing process
- Simple engagement assignments that can be used as quick class starters or whole lessons
- Sample lesson plans integrating all skills complete with mini-lessons and suggestions for various ways to use the strategies in your classroom
A Message From Your Seminar Leader
Dear Colleague:
English teachers across the country are faced with an overwhelming amount of content and skills to teach connected to writing, reading, grammar, vocabulary, and on top of all that, mountains of student papers to read and grade. In my work with teachers, I hear over and over, "How do I fit everything in?" I have come to believe that – quite simply – we, as teachers, are assuming too much of the responsibility. We are meant to be facilitators assisting students not only in discovering the many facets of any concept, but in synthesizing and applying that knowledge to their work. Therefore, I have developed this new seminar to help you discover how you can organize your instruction to fit more into class time, increase student responsibility, reduce your paper load, and most importantly, significantly improve student writing.
During this strategy-packed day, I will give you what I have found really works to increase students' motivation to write and the quality of their writing. We will look at viable options for time management that will allow you to teach each aspect of ELA in a manner that will flow seamlessly from writing to literature to grammar to assessment. I will share how you can actively engage students in revising their own writing, give meaningful feedback to peers and how to grade students for inclusion of critical elements in their work, all during class time for immediate student feedback and revision.
I am excited to share with you what I have found works to greatly increase students' writing skills in grades 6-12. Please join me and discover effective and practical strategies to help all your students improve their writing.
Mary Ledbetter
P.S. I promise you will leave with practical strategies you can use immediately in your grades 6-12 ELA classes.
Who Should Attend
Grades 6-12 English/Language Arts Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Content-Area Teachers, Literacy Coaches, and Administrators.
Special Benefits of Attending
Extensive Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:
- Dozens of student writing samples – argumentative, expository, literary analysis, narrative, and comparison of two texts – to use immediately as models in your classrooms
- Motivational engagement strategies that can be used to focus your class at the beginning of periods or as entire lessons
- New, student-friendly techniques to approach each aspect of grammar/mechanics
- Numerous literature assignments that will enhance any short story or novel unit
- Sample lesson plans that will help you "fit it all in"
Meet and Share
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in enhancing their writing instruction to increase their grades 6-12 students ' writing skills.
Consultation Available
Mary Ellen Ledbetter will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your writing program.
Semester Credit Option
Up to four Graduate level professional development credit are available with an additional fee and completion of follow up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with Brandman University, part of the Chapman University system, will be available at this BER program.
Meet Inservice Requirements
At the end of the program, each attendee will receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify hours of participation in meeting continuing education requirements.
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Practical Strategies for Achieving Success with Struggling Readers and Writers (Grades 6-12)


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Some of our 9,000 volunteers are from a naval or military background, but many aren't. And there are many different roles you can choose from, and gain excellent, nationally recognised training and qualifications for.
We need people with energy, happy to roll up their sleeves, get involved, and make a positive difference to teenagers who are often struggling in today's world.
Share your love of being out on the water with the next generation, through the opportunity to teach watersports such as kayaking, sailing, powerboating, canoeing, rowing and windsurfing. Don't worry if you don't have prior experience, with us you can gain national qualifications with the RYA and BCU to teach, all you need is lots of enthusiasm!
If you aren't able to commit to a regular volunteering role, there's still plenty of ways you can get involved and make an impact – no commitment is too small and a role on a unit's Management Team could be a perfect fit. You could volunteer in roles such as Chairperson, Treasurer, Secretary or Fundraising. These roles are perfect if you're not able to be at your local Sea Cadets unit every week, or if you have a specialist skill you'd like to share.
Whether you opt to be a uniformed leader, or wear your own clothes, you can be hands on, teaching cadets at your local unit. You'll run lessons, activities, games, projects and events that help cadets progress through The Sea Cadets Experience, gaining qualifications and confidence as they go. A role at a unit is ideal if you can support local young people on a regular basis, are happy to throw yourself into teaching activities and seek a rewarding role where you'll be the key to helping young people flourish into confident, capable young adults.
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Stephanie Renda
Expert in Young Digital Economy
Stephanie Renda is a serial entrepreneur in the digital economy and one of the most well-known digital experts in Germany. Having founded, led and developed several innovative businesses herself over the last 9 years she has gained a lot of experience especially in Mobile and IoT. The products and services of the match2blue group range from hardware to software, from location-based services to wearables and ambient-assisted living.
Stephanie is also an expert in creating digital business cases for the old economy regarding B2B and B2B2C to enhance their bread and butter business or to start with value added services to bring their business to the next level. On board of the Advisory Board of Young Digital Economy to the Federal Minister of Economics and Energy, Stephanie gives her expertise to the German government in order to improve the conditions for start-ups and growing businesses in the Digital Economy.
Her membership of the Board of German Startups Association shoots into the same direction with a national and European perspective. Stephanie inspires the C-Suite, politicians and with regard to a personal motivation young women in getting their own digital business off the ground. In November 2014 Stephanie initiated and leads a German-wide network for female founders and investors under the roof of the German Startup Association.
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- Digital Transformation of the Economy - No way around start-ups
- Female Entrepreneurs - Investors put money in because of a higher ROI
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Management is important, but 'not sexy, not attractive,' former chief of staff says.
Former Obama White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley on Sunday became the latest official to bemoan the fact that the challenges of improving federal management strike many -- let's face it -- as a bit dull.
Appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation," the businessman and son and brother of famous Chicago mayors, characterized the just-announced fixes to the healthcare.gov website as "an enormous step" that gives great relief to staff at the White House. "But, to use a sports analogy," Daley said, "this is a game of singles and doubles, there are no triples and home runs, and this is a very solid double" that still leaves the Obama team in the long game digging out of a "deep hole."
Overall, "the federal government is way behind the private sector and even the states" when it comes to information technology procurement changes, said Daley, who co-authored an op-ed on the frustrations of federal management in Sunday's Washington Post. " But anyone who thinks the president is equivalent to a CEO who can just make changes really doesn't understand how the government works" under both Republicans and Democrats, Daley added. Program management "is not sexy, not attractive, and Congress doesn't pay a lot of attention to it except to score political points. At some point, the president and Congress need to take management more seriously."
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Praeger, Kansas groups urge health compact veto
Republican Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger and several health care organizations are urging Gov. Sam Brownback to veto legislation that would allow Kansas to join a multistate health care compact.
Praeger, who is not seeking re-election, says Tuesday that there are too many unknowns about the compact and what impact it may have on federal health programs in Kansas, including Medicare for senior citizens.
The compact measure would allow member states to set their own health care policies while retaining federal health care dollars but only if Congress approves. The compact would allow participating states to exempt themselves from other federal rules in addition to the health overhaul's regulations.
Brownback received the bill from legislative staff on Monday and has until April 24 to act on the measure.


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Deservedly or not, government is the scapegoat for the poor economy.
Is the Obama administration's performance agenda still relevant now that voters have elected so many candidates who think government is too big and too intrusive? Should federal executives still focus on achieving incremental gains in efficiency and outcomes of their programs, or should they prepare to scale them back?
The voters' verdict on Nov. 2 came 24 hours after some 500 federal managers and contractors spent a day at Government Executive's Excellence in Government conference discussing what we called "The Performance Imperative." From these discussions emerge the beginnings of an answer to the questions above.
The election certainly showed voters are dissatisfied. They're worried about the economy: Many have direct experience with unemployment in their families, and many fear losing their jobs and their houses. Deservedly or not, government is the scapegoat for the poor economy. And, too, many voters believe government has become too big with its massive new spending and regulatory initiatives. Voters don't like the idea that we are hocking our future to the Chinese with our deficit spending.
So next year Congress will have many more Republicans than Democrats, and they will be working to curb government's size. Substantive cuts in projected deficits will have to come from changes in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, but for the next two years the powerful Republican bloc in Congress will be focusing not on these and other entitlement programs but on appropriations for discretionary programs. They are talking 20 percent cuts, perhaps more, in domestic discretionary accounts, and some are advocating a reduction in both the head count and the pay of the federal workforce.
So, should the ongoing drive for better performance, now led by Jeffrey Zients, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, remain high up on federal agencies' to-do lists?
At EIG, I led a dialogue with Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth Harris about the strategic plan his team had recently unveiled. Reading the plan, I was struck by what might be termed its humility. Fully 13 pages of the document were devoted to the array of external factors that get in the way of achieving departmental goals. The recession, strapped state budgets, disturbing insurance market trends, rising income inequality and collapse of retirement income security are among factors cited as impeding Secretary Hilda Solis' overarching goal of "good jobs for everyone." Performance goals for individual programs were humble too: Job Corps graduates in 2009 earned an average of $9.22, and the strategic plan envisioned raising that initial salary to only $9.50.
Stretch goals aren't often embraced by agencies on their own.
Zients, who also carries the title of federal chief performance officer, brought his management team to EIG and reported on progress on the Accountable Government Initiative he oversees. He spent just a few moments discussing progress on agencies' high-priority goals while devoting more time to parts of his agenda that appear more susceptible to direction by OMB. On hiring and information technology adoption and contracting practices, OMB directives can achieve reasonably quick results -- and Zients' team members conveyed that idea.
Quick results can't be achieved in the sprawling array of federal programs. OMB exhortations could help motivate, but it's up to federal agencies to set goals, measure progress and achieve better results. The Labor Department's yearlong effort to develop a common "good jobs" rallying cry for its very disparate programs may or may not mean much to the troops, but the plan's relentless focus on outcomes, on the impact of its programs on society, instead of on outputs (hours worked or inspections completed, for example) is very much on the right track. At the same time, the plan is forthright about such obstacles to better jobs as stasis in educational attainment, as young men and women now graduate from college at the same rate as their parents' generation.
Measuring the impact of federal programs in our complex governmental and economic systems remains difficult. But many agencies might take a page from the record of the Food and Drug Administration, whose principal deputy commissioner, Joshua Sharfstein, also spoke at EIG. The FDA-Track effort, modeled in part after performance management systems Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley developed, closely follows the agency's progress or lack thereof across many of its responsibilities. Transparency is key, Sharfstein said: "Yes, we may miss targets, or have projects delayed, but if we are frank about our problems as well as our progress, people will cut us some slack-and over time, we will improve our performance."
So, measuring progress, communicating progress and problems, being open about the obstacles to advancement, these are important to good government no matter which way the political and fiscal winds blow.
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"Gravity" cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki won the 28th American Society of Cinematographers Award for feature film Saturday evening at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.
Lubezki previously won the top award two years ago for "The Tree of Life" and seven years ago for "Children of Men."
Jeremy Benning earned the ASC honor in the television movie/miniseries category for the National Geographic Channel's "Killing Lincoln," while Jonathan Freeman won the top prize for one-hour episodic television for the "Valar Dohaeris" installment of HBO's "Game of Thrones." Rounding out the competitive winners Saturday night was Blake McClure, who won for half-hour episodic comedy for the "Detroit" episode of Comedy Central's "Drunk History."
Dean Cundey received the ASC Lifetime Achievement Award, while Eduardo Serra was presented with the ASC International Award. Richard Rawlings Jr. was the recipient of the Career Achievement in Television Award, and Beverly Wood, EVP of technical services and client relations for Efilm, a Deluxe Digital Studios company, received the ASC Bud Stone Award of Distinction.
"Her," "Captain Phillips" win Writers Guild awards
"Frozen" wins the Annie Award for feature flim
Academy president about Oscar song: "It's not about punishment"
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Williamsburg is the site of some great opera and symphony performances in the coming weeks and into next season. Here's a look at what you can expect:
Opera in Williamsburg
The company continues its exploration of the popular repertoire with a production of Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte." Two performances are scheduled for April 15 and 17, both at 8 p.m., in the Kimball Theatre on Merchants Square.
In this sly comedy, two sisters and their boyfriends discover that the eternal love they profess is tested by human frailties. The company press release describes it as a "brilliant sitcom, 1790s style."
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Given Apple's commitment to secrecy, it's hard to get a good sense of what is going on inside the company.
But in the opinion of one respected industry observer, Paul Kedrosky, some of Apple's recent missteps can tell us a lot about that.
In an interview with Bloomberg West yesterday, Kedrosky said Apple's inability to meet demand for its new iMacs--a problem that contributed to disappointing Mac sales in Q4--as well as its cancellation of many iPhone component orders, mean that one of Apple's key competitive advantages may be disappearing.
Kedrosky believes that Apple's iMac problems reveal an important change in the power balance within the company.
Specifically, Kedrosky thinks that, in the power-vacuum following Steve Jobs' death, the design team, led by Jony Ive, have been given too much latitude--such that Apple is now designing products that it is not capable of manufacturing as smoothly and quickly as it needs to to meet demand.
When Jobs was alive, Kedrosky implies, this "tension" between the design teams and manufacturing teams was in almost perfect balance. Jobs's brilliance as both a product designer and business executive kept the company from "over-designing" its products, or, just as bad, focusing so much on the numbers that its design standards sagged. And this balance, Kedrosky suggests, allowed Apple to continually out-design and out-produce the competition.
But now that Jobs is gone, Kedrosky suggests, Jony Ive's design team has been given too much power--without a critical check and balance on whether Ive's products can actually be produced in the quantity and timeframe that Apple needs to produce them to meet demand.
If Kedrosky is right, the irony is that the expertise of the man Jobs selected to succeed him--Tim Cook--is actually on the manufacturing side, not the design side. So, for Kedrosky to be right, Apple's CEO would have to be deferring too much to Ive, perhaps over his own best judgement.
In any case, something has clearly gone wrong at Apple. And this is an interesting theory about what that is.
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Yesterday I saw Ender's Game. My husband had never read the book, so it was an experiment of sorts.
His rating... The BEST sci fi movie he had ever seen.
My assessment .. WOW! The battle room is EXACTLY as I had imagined it. The special effects were amazing.
But most of all, the story lead the way. Very like the book (though the book is, of course, much longer and more
detailed). It had depth. It had the battle of morals as much as the battle against aliens. You've got to see
this movie. It also had an ending that promises more movies to come.
Well done, Mr. Card. Congratulations on another masterpiece. I absolutely loved it.
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I can't wait to see it! Love the book.
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The book is awesome. I think they should did it as a tv show instead of a movie. I was kinda disappointed in the movie.
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Blue Book Oregon
This history of Oregon was written by Stephen Dow Beckham, the Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. Professor of History at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. Professor Beckham traces Oregon's history to the present, and he has prepared an extensive bibliography and also a chronology, both included here.
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On October 29, 1929, a calamity rocked the United States. Within hours the stock market, buoyed by speculation and unreasonable expectations, plunged into the abyss of "Black Tuesday." The onset of the Great Depression meant little to tens of thousands of Oregonians. They were already living in depressed circumstances, trying to make a go of arid homesteads, stump farms, or underpaid jobs in sawmills. Those who had savings, however, felt the debacle acutely. Banks went bankrupt. In spite of handsome buildings and facades of stability, white marble counters, brass grills at the teller cages, and hulking vaults, their resources were vulnerable and they fell by the droves, wiping out the accumulated resources of depositors. Bank failures led to foreclosures on homes, farms, and businesses and contributed to the general malaise that had seized the country.
In spite of his reputation as a humanitarian, President Herbert Hoover, a sometime Oregonian who had grown up in Newberg, wrestled unsuccessfully with checking the economic free-fall. Hoover was trapped both by his political philosophy and by problems so complex that no one really had a viable solution for them.
So in 1933 the nation turned to a pragmatist--Franklin Delano Roosevelt--who also did not have solutions but who had promised to try to remedy the Great Depression through bold actions. Roosevelt began deliberately in March. He declared a national "bank holiday," closing all financial institutions across the country so that federal inspectors could examine their books. If a bank reopened, it would do so because the government found it sound. It could be trusted. If a bank's affairs were beyond redemption, it remained closed. Roosevelt also spoke to all Americans--including hundreds of thousands of Oregonians who, since 1921, had purchased radios. In a series of "fireside chats" broadcast from the White House, he waged a campaign to build confidence. He promoted the reform, relief, and recovery agendas of the New Deal.
While few believe the Democrat programs of the 1930s effectively turned around the Great Depression, they were of immense consequence to Oregon. Through deficit spending and passing on payment obligations to succeeding generations, Congress authorized programs that helped change the face of Oregon. The Beer Act of March 1933 set the stage for repeal of Prohibition and permitted hop-raisers and brewers like Blitz-Weinhard to resume production. Far more significant, however, was creation that same month of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Intended to provide unemployment relief for several million young American males, the CCC developed projects in public land states like Oregon. The CCC established base camps and spike camps in most of the national forests and began a remarkable program of construction. The young men cut trail; built roads; constructed bridges; built campgrounds with handsome log facilities for cooking, eating, and public meetings; laid telephone wires; constructed drift fences to manage cattle; built log corrals; enclosed springs; dammed creeks to create small reservoirs; constructed guard stations and ranger stations; and carried the materials board-by-board to lofty peaks for fire lookouts. From Hells Canyon to the Chetco River and from the Oriana Corral on the Fremont National Forest to the campground at Eagle Creek in the Columbia Gorge, the CCC made enduring, handsome improvements on federal lands.
Similarly the Works Projects Administration drew unemployed architects, stone masons, painters, weavers, metal workers, plumbers, and artisans into special Oregon projects. The WPA built Timberline Lodge, a dramatic recreation hotel, on the southern slopes of Mount Hood. WPA artisans created towering murals, iron gates, and furniture for the new library on the campus of the University of Oregon. WPA laborers erected post offices, customs buildings, and federal buildings from Burns to Tillamook. Not since Andrew Carnegie's matching-funds projects for public libraries in the 1910s had Oregon seen such a profusion of public structures.
The Public Works Administration and the Public Buildings Administration worked with the WPA in other ways to transform Oregon. Projects included a city hall in Canby, a dramatic capitol and state library in Salem, an armory in Klamath Falls, a high school in Corvallis, a dormitory at the State School for the Blind, a sewage disposal plant in Medford, and five stunning bridges spanning major estuaries on the Oregon coast. The bridges, completed in 1936, cost $5.4 million. In the midst of the Great Depression Oregon embarked on grading and paving Highway 101 to forge another important transportation link.
The WPA also employed teachers, lawyers, and architects. It mounted the Oregon Folklore Project, the Oregon Writers' Program, and the Inventory of the County Archives of Oregon. These workers published Oregon: End of the Trail (1940), Mount Hood: A Guide (1940), the annual Oregon Almanac: A Handbook of Fact and Fancy, Oregon Oddities--a magazine used in public schools--and 14 of a projected 35 descriptive guides to records in county courthouses. Each of the guides included an overview of county history based upon a review of the archives. In many instances these were the first historical assessments of Oregon counties. Working almost in tandem with the WPA were drafters, historians, and photographers engaged in the Historic American Buildings Survey. They compiled information, including measured drawings, on nearly a hundred significant structures in Oregon.
The New Deal had a grassroots impact in Oregon. This was most dramatically confirmed when, in 1935, Congress funded construction of a project that Roosevelt had promised during his 1932 campaign swing through the state. Bonneville Dam, one of the great engineering marvels of the early 20th century, was to span the Columbia River at the western end of the Gorge. Its massive reservoir would back up waters to The Dalles. Its locks would lift ships and barges for easy transit to the grain elevators of the western plateau. Its turbines would generate massive amounts of electricity to power industry and diversify the region's economy. Above all, construction of the dam would provide employment for 4,000 laborers and the multiplier effect would generate thousands more jobs to feed, house, and provide services to these workers and their families. Because navigation was a critical element with the building of the locks, the Army Corps of Engineers secured project supervision. Initial estimates for the dam, lock, powerhouse, and federal townsites for management personnel ran to $81 million.
As the dam neared completion, the Bonneville Power Administration in 1937 took over responsibility for construction of transmission lines and marketing of power to utility companies, public utility districts, and industrial users such as aluminum plants in Troutdale and The Dalles. In 1941 the BPA hired Woody Guthrie to compose and sing songs celebrating power development on the Columbia River. Guthrie's 17 songs included the popular "Roll On, Columbia." Its lyrics touted the New Deal achievements:
At Bonneville now there are ships in the locks, The waters have risen and cleared all the rocks, Shiploads of plenty will steam past the docks, So roll on, Columbia, roll on.
The New Deal touched the lives of Oregonians in other ways. The Taylor Grazing Act in 1934 changed the free-for-all of livestock using the public domain. Henry Gerber and local ranchers in the Langell Valley of Klamath County were acutely aware of the need to allocate grazing rights. The Bonanza Grazing Unit, headed by Gerber, was the first organized in the United States under the Taylor Act. In time the law brought 152 million acres under the U.S. Grazing Service and called for local boards of landowners to allocate the animal units per month allowed in national forests or on lands administered by the General Land Office. In 1946 Congress merged the land office and the grazing service to create the Bureau of Land Management.
The Soil Conservation Service, created in 1936, provided counsel and assistance to farmers faced with erosion by wind and water on the Columbia Plateau. The Production Credit Association worked with farmers to scale down mortgage payments by extending the length of their loans. The Federal Housing Administration, set up in 1934, provided low-interest loans to try to encourage home construction. The Bankhead-Jones Act of 1937 provided federal dollars to buy out impoverished homesteaders and transform the lands into federal holdings. The National Grasslands between Madras and Prineville was a product of the Bankhead-Jones Act. The Rural Electrification Administration worked with private utilities and public utility districts to extend lines to remote areas. By the late 1930s, thousands of rural Oregonians for the first time had electrical service and would be able to use a radio, refrigerator, vacuum cleaner, electric stove, washing machine and lights.
The Great Depression took a toll on Oregon but created a setting for massive improvement of infrastructure. Roads, bridges, buildings, dams, locks, powerhouses, electrical transmission lines, recreation facilities, and range management were an impressive tally of accomplishments. While many Oregonians were driven into a subsistence lifestyle of "making do" with homemade clothing, a garden, and austerity, the federal projects had infused confidence, generated payrolls, and laid the foundations for new industries and much wider use of public lands in the state.


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Have you noticed how easy it is to be proud when you're right? Notice that? How hard it is to be humble when you're right? Well, we're right. Our theology's right. Our understanding of the word of God is right. We get it. Our view of Scripture as the inherent revelation of the holy God is right. Our understanding of the gospel is right. It's biblical. It's correct. We have the right message to preach to the world. And in all honestly, it is hard to be humble when you're right.
I'm not saying we're infallible. I know I have errors in my understanding of Scripture. I just don't know where they are. Could somebody please point them out to me? I'll be more than happy to change. But we're right. We were right about what's most important in the whole world. I don't know if I'm particularly right about political issues or economic issues or social issues. And a lot of things I don't wanna say I'm right about, but I do understand the word of God. And so do you. And sometimes, because we're right, and because we know the truth, and because we love the truth, because we understand the truth, we can become intolerant and heavy-handed. And we need to learn humility.
We have to speak the truth in love. We have to be patient and gentle and humble. And it's hard when you're right. And I'll tell you something else, we live in a world that exalts self-love, self-satisfaction, self-promotion. It just exalts self. And it's really considered virtuous to exalt yourself. And so here we are, forced to live in a counterculture way. To be models of selfless humility in a world that sees that as a weakness.
But the Bible sees pride as a very ugly sin. It is the Devil's sin. It's what got him and all the other angels who joined his rebellion thrown out of heaven. It's basically what got Adam and Eve thrown out of the Garden. It is that damning sin that produces rebellion against God and his law and his commandments. It is pride that seeks to dethrone God, and seeks to strike at his absolute perfect sovereignty and his majesty, and seeks to replace him with self. And pride grips every human heart.
That's why it's so hard to come to Christ. That's why the gate is narrow, and that's why the way is hard, and that's why you press into the Kingdom, because it's hard to bring yourself to hate yourself, and deny yourself. Self-hate, as Jesus said, "is essential. You cannot come into my kingdom if you don't hate your family and even hate yourself," he said. It's hard to deny yourself. To refuse to associate any longer with the person you are. To set aside your own desires, ambitions, dreams and goals, and come naked and empty-handed inpenenton, broken and contrite. Hard to be humble.
It wasn't too many years ago when a young, wide-eyed seminary student in his first year said to me one day, "Father MacArthur, how did you finally overcome pride?" I said, "Oh, it was three or four years ago when I knocked that one off." What a question. Nobody will ever overcome pride until we're out of this flesh. Pride remains in our fallen flesh. It will stay there until glorification. Pride has to be broken for people to be saved, and it has to be continually broken for people to be sanctified. It's not a once broken in a contrite heart. It's a permanently broken and contrite heart. But humility comes hard, especially if you're right. And I guess I have a fear that, we've been spending a week at this conference nailing down the things we're right about, and doing everything we can to supercharge you and motivate you and energize you to go out and fight the battle for the truth. And I just don't wanna have you arrive at your place of ministry with a big club, ready to pound on people who can't get the picture quite clear that you're right and they're wrong. And the more you know, and the more mature you are, the more impact your ministry has had, and the more blessing upon your life, and the more you feed your pride. In fact, in the second letter to the Corinthians, apostle Paul said, "The Lord sent along a messenger of Satan," actually an angalas of Satan. That's a satanic angel. That's a demon. He sent along a demon I believe in the group of false teachers who have come to Corinth and ripped and shredded that church. And it was so devastating; it was like literally running a spear through Paul. The agony of watching a church in which he had invested so much of his life be so shredded by false teaching. It pierced his heart, and he prayed three times for the Lord to remove this thing. But he recognized that the Lord had sent along a thorn or a spear to ram through his otherwise proud flesh, he says, 2 Corinthians 12, "to keep me from exalting myself," because I've had so many revelations. Been to heaven and back, seen things unspeakable, caught up to the third heaven, had personal private appearances of the Lord, Jesus Christ, post-resurrection. Plenty to be proud of. Views so mightily in the gentile world, given all the Epistles. Lot to be proud about. And if the Lord needs you to humble his otherwise proud, blessed servant, he will even send a demon, inspired group of false teachers, in the purposes of his providence, into a church to humble its pastor.
It is essential that we understand how important humility is. Out of that, Paul said, "I prayed three times that the Lord would stop this, and three times he said, 'No. My grace is sufficient. Your power will be perfected in your'", what? In your weakness. It's when you come to the end of your self that you're really powerful.
This was the problem with Jesus and his disciples. Open your Bibles to Luke 9. Do you realize that for three years total, it's at least two plus years, by the time you get into chapter 9 of Luke, the disciples have been with Jesus. This is a 24/7 deal. You talk about an education? 24 hours a day, seven days a week, they're in the presence of Jesus, and everywhere is a classroom, and everything is a lesson. It is relentless teaching. And everything Jesus ever taught them was absolutely right. Everything was absolutely true. Everything was a true interpretation of a divine mind. They were taught perfectly. They were right. In addition to being right about everything, they were given authority to represent Jesus Christ, and to proclaim the gospel of the Kingdom from town to town and village to village, and they were given so much authority that if they went into that place and somebody did not receive their message, they were to pronounce a judgment on those people, shake the dust off their feet, and get out. That's a head-trip for a bunch of nobodies. They were given the power to cast out demons. They were given the power to heal diseases. They were common, ordinary guys given this immense amount of truth, authority, divine power, to wield in the name of Jesus Christ. And I'm telling you, for the most part, their flesh was having a very difficult time not being proud. And so, it was necessary for our Lord to teach them on many occasions what it was to be humble.
One of those is in the ninth chapter of Luke. And it really is three incidents. And we're just gonna take the three, and we're gonna go to school with Jesus in the school, not of theology, but of humility. Verse 46. Now you have to know one thing before we read verse 46. They have just received their power at the beginning of chapter nine, power and authority over demons, healing diseases, proclaiming the kingdom, pronouncing judgment on cities, shaking the dust off their feet. There they went, in verse 6, "preaching the gospel, healing everywhere." To add to that, three of them, Peter, John and James, according to verse 28, had an incredible experience. They were taken up to a mountain with Jesus, and there he pulled aside his flesh, and he was transfigured, and they saw the shining glory of God. And they also met Moses and Elijah on the mount. Now, you talk about an amazing, astonishing, unique, unequaled experience. Here they are, with all this power, all this authority, this great kingdom message, the representatives of Messiah, having seen the greatest Old Testament figure, the law giver, Moses, the greatest Old Testament prophet in many minds, Elijah, personally, post-resurrection, on the mountain, and the transfigured Christ. Really hard to be humble.
So they come down from the mountain, and they're having their regular argument. Verse 46, "An argument started among them as to which of them might be the greatest." You can understand it. You can hear it. One of them says, well, you never know. It could be me. And James says, well if it was gonna be you, you'd been on the mountain with us. So the group is narrowed to three. We were taken up on the mountain, you weren't. And it might have gone like this. In the last village we were in, how many did you heal? Well, I had some minor healings. Huh, I had five major healings. You can hear the argument. Who sits next to Jesus most often at dinner?
Now remember this, there are 12 apostles. There are four lists in the Bible of them, Matthew, Mark, Luke and Acts each has a list of the 12. In every list, there are three groups of four, and they're always in the same group. The names mixed in the group, but you're never out of your group. And the groups have descending intimacy with Christ. They were not all intimately involved with Jesus. Now, every time those lists are given, everybody stays in his group. The names mingle, but the first name in each group never changes. So there were leaders in the groups. The little group of three had a recognized leader in each case, and the first name in all the lists is always Peter. Peter was the leader over the leaders of the groups. So, put it simply, there was a pecking order. It was a matter of the nature of people, an actual giftedness. And they just sort of fell into those little groups, and maybe it had something to do with their personality. Group one, very bold. We don't have to question Peter's boldness, do we? I mean, if he wasn't in group one at the beginning, he would be in group one pretty quick. James and John are with him there, called sons of thunder, so they thundered their way into group one, whether they were invited or not. So you can see that there's a pecking order going there. And this debate goes on all the time. They lived in a world of hierarchical understanding. They lived in a world of ranking, which is still true in the world. They were forever going along arguing over who is the greatest, and comparing all of their spiritual experiences, all their opportunities to display power, etc, their intimate times with Jesus, and even this incredible experience on the mountain.
So here we are, faced with the issue of pride. They are right. Their message is right. They're authorities from God. They are his chosen representatives, and they are unable to deal with this lofty calling. It's hard to be humble when you're right. But it's necessary. And in this text, we're going to see Jesus teach humility. Verse 46 sets itself in Capernium, sort of the central location for the Galilean ministry, which had been going on over a year now. And maybe it's in a home, maybe it's in Peter's home. They had just returned from traveling. They're back together again, and on the road, there was this debate. And it was a heated one. It got so heated, that James and John asked their mother to go to Jesus and plead their case to sit on his right and his left hand. And why did they do that? Because their mother was related to Jesus' mother. So they thought they had the inside family track. Blood is thicker than water. They finally arrive at this place in Capernium, and this is what's going on. And now we hear from Jesus, lessons on humility.
But let's look at this section of Scripture from the viewpoint of seeing the pride and what it does. First point, pride ruins unity. Pride ruins unity. By the way, there are a number of other places where the Lord confronts this competitiveness. This one is very instructive. Pride ruins unity, verse 46, "An argument arose among them." It's not good. Dealigismasof the date, the battle, arguing back and forth, dialoguing back and forth, fracturing their unity. They were a team. They were a unit. They were one. They weren't supposed to be competing with each other. But they were called, commissioned, commanded, empowered as an apostolate. They were the first generation of gospel preachers who would give their lives for Christ, and needed to yield their hearts to one another, and not destroy the unity of that crucial mission. Pride destroys unity. It ruins unity. Jesus, even when he was at the end of life, right near the cross, speaking to them about his own personal suffering, couldn't move their attention to that, because they were too busy alienating each other their desires for personal glory. They debated about this right up to the very end. Pride destroys relationships. It did it in Corinth, didn't it? ______ I am of Christ, elevating people, lining up behind these people and creating chaos out of that kind of carnality. In 2 Corinthians chapter 12, that same chapter I commented on earlier, as Paul writes this letter to them, he says, "I'm afraid to come." I'm afraid to come and see you. Earlier, he said, I don't know if I can come because I can't stand the pain. I don't know if I can come because I don't think - I don't have any more tears to cry over you. I can't come again to you and suffer. I'm afraid if I come again, I'm gonna find that my labor was in vain, is what he says. I don't know if I can take it. I don't know if I can face you. And here in 2 Corinthians 12:20, he says, "I'm afraid that when I come, I'm gonna find strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disturbances. And I'm afraid that God will humiliate me, and I'm gonna mourn over you." I just don't know if I can handle your factions. All a result of pride. That's why in Philippians 1:27, he says, "Strive together. Strive together for the sake of the gospel." Strive together, not competing with each other. He says, "we have the same mind," chapter 2, "maintain the same love, love each the same, united in spirit, intent on one purpose, do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind that each of you regards others more important than yourself, and Christ is your model for that. You thought it not something to be grasped to hold on to, this place with God, but gave it up and became a servant, humble himself to death, even death on a cross." Pride destroys unity. You talk about unity in a church until you're blue in the face, but as long as pride exists, it destroys relationships.
When we can fall to the level where we are more concerned about others than ourselves, when we are more eager to honor others than we are ourselves, then there's some home for unity. "Put on a heart of compassion," he writes to the Colossians, "kindness, humility." Put on love, which is the bond, the glue, of unity. Pride will ruin a unified testimony for the gospel.
Secondly, pride not only ruins unity, it raises relativity. Go back to verse 46. It raises relativity. It makes relativity the issue. And that's exactly what happened. The argument, indicating that this unity was about which of them might be the made zone. The comparatively greater one, is the Greek. The argument about which would be the greater was a legitimate expression of the pride of their hearts. That is just ugly.
Pride desires superiority over others. Pride seeks to elevate itself. Pride compares itself with everybody else, like Paul said in 2 Corinthians about the false teachers, "they compare themselves to themselves." This is what the _____ did. Just sickingly proud. Sickingly self-elevating. They loved, he says, to be noticed by men. They loved the place of honor at banquets. Chief seats in the synagogues. Respectful greetings in the marketplace. They love to be called Rabbi. They love to be called Father. They love to be called leader. But the greatest among you should be your servant, and whoever exalts himself should be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted. Earlier, in Matthew 20, he said the same thing. You wanna be chief? Be a servant. Same argument.
Now this is part of the secular world, where everybody fights for the top. Inevitably, pride raises relativity. A proud heart is incessantly comparing himself with others. A third thing to keep in mind here about pride, and here's the real exposure. Pride not only ruins unity and raises relativity, pride reveals sin or depravity. Pride reveals depravity, verse 47, "But Jesus, knowing what they were thinking in their heart." Whoo. You remember in chapter five, where the Feracesionsscribes were thinking about Jesus? They were musing over thoughts. And Jesus said to them, "why are you reasoning that stuff in your minds?" Whoa. No man needed to tell him what was in the heart of a man. He knew what was in the heart of a man, John 2 says.
This is good. How would you like to spend three years, 24/7, with God reading your thoughts? You'd say I might have to forfeit my ministry. I might have to forfeit my calling. That may be the greatest evidence of God's grace in using us. He does know your thoughts. He knew what they were thinking. In fact, what they were thinking again is Dealigismas,the debate to the dialogue. He knew the debate. He knew the sin that was in their hearts. Pride is sinful. You're exposed. That's sad. You could look at - I don't wanna be proud because I don't wanna create discord and disunity and destroy relationships, which pride does. I don't wanna be proud and live in a relatively comparative kind of environment where you have to find some sort of spiritual pecking order, and everybody considers honors and achievements and all that kind of stuff. I don't wanna get caught up in that. Well then, my friend, don't be thinking that way in your heart, because sooner or later, if that's how you think in your heart, that's how you're gonna be. Given enough time, your heart comes out. Time and truth go hand in hand. Given enough time, the truth about you will show up. A proud man may keep it under wraps for a while. I think that's one reason why some pastors have a very short ministry. Soon as the congregation finds out that they're driven by a proud heart, they lose their credibility.
The Lord then is reacting, not just to pride because of the damage it does, not because of the relativity of it, but because of the sin of it. And so, knowing what they were thinking in their heart, "it took a child and stood him by His side," and it was the heart attitude that caused him to give them the lesson on humility. "A child small enough to hold," according to Mark 9:36, "and yet grown enough to stand up before Jesus picked the child up." A little child. And this is in Matthew 18. You can't even enter the kingdom unless you come as a child. What's the image we're trying to say? No achievement. No achievement. No accomplishment. You come really void of anything on your own that can earn you any place with God. I don't care how many degrees you have, how widely you've read, how clever you are in communication, how strong a leader you are, you don't with anything. You come as a child. No greatness belongs to a child. Children aren't great. Child then becomes the best illustration of a believer in Matthew 18, that's the whole chapter is about a believer. A believer is a child. Children were considered the weakest and the most ignored and vulnerable of all people. They had little value, since most of them didn't survive to become adults. And Jesus takes this little child as an illustration. Look, you got the wrong perspective. You're viewing yourself as if you're kings, as if you're great men. You've got to get this thing reversed here. Your children. The sin of pride fails to recognize your dependence, and lack of achievement and accomplishment. What does Paul say? What is his testimony? "I am what I am by," what? "By the grace of God." Pride ruins unity, it raises relativity, and reveals depravity.
Number four. Pride rejects deity. Look at verse 48. This is potent. He said to them, with that little child right there as a living object lesson, "Whoever receives this child in My name receives Me. Whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me." Wow. Jesus is saying, I think in a unique way, that children do belong to him. But more than this, this physical child, he is talking about those who are his own. In Matthew 18, he made that clear. He said, "Unless you become as a child, you can't enter my kingdom." And then all of us are children in the kingdom, without any merit, without any achievement, without any accomplishment. And Matthew 18 says, "you have to receive one another as children, because the way you receive one another is the way you receive me. And every believer that comes to me, Christ comes to me. And every believer Christ is in, the father is in." That's what he says. You receive the child, you receive me. You receive me, you receive the one who sent me, the father. Pride rejects the presence of God in other believers.
When I view a believer, there's only one way to view that believer, and that is as Christ to me. As Christ to me. How can you then say as a pastor, well, I don't have time for those kind of people. I can't be bothered with that guy. Get me out of here. I've had enough. Wait, who's coming to you in this person? This is Christ, and this is the father. Jesus took it all the way down to the point where he actually did embrace the little children because in a special way they belong to God, and the disciples said, what in the world are you doing wasting time with them? Get rid of them. It took the rabbinic view. And Jesus said, whoa. Permit the little ones to come to me, and forbid them not, for such is the kingdom of heaven, not only are they in reality a special care of the father, but they're illustrative of the fact that believers who are children in the spiritual sense are, in a special way, the fathers. That's why in Matthew 18, you have the first instruction to the church. The church is mentioned in chapter 16, "I'll build my church," chapter 18, second time the church is mentioned, where it talks about if somebody since and doesn't repent, tell it to the church. Matthew 18, first instructions to the church, first warnings to the church, first warning. "If you cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, you'll be better off drowned." Pretty serious. That's the first instruction from the Lord of the church to the church. You better be careful how you treat other believers. If you lead them to stumble into sin, and there are a lot of ways to do that, you'd be better off dead. Do not despise one of these little ones who believes in me. And when you receive them, you receive me. That's all in Matthew 18. That's why he says apparently if your hand or your foot is causing you to do this, you better cut it off. If your eye is causing you to do this, you better pluck it out. And very dramatic and hyperbolic language, he says take drastic action so as not to offend other Christians who belong to me. Why? Because you're offending Christ who dwells in them. In a very real sense, pride rejects deity. Am I better than another believer in whom Christ dwells? Such a thought is ludicrous.
There's a fifth principle that comes out of this lesson. Pride reverses reality. Back to verse 48, "He who is least among all of you, this is the one who is great." Does that upset the world? Does that overturn conventional wisdom, turn it on its head? Whoever is most is great. Whoever is biggest. Whoever's got their faith on the screen most often. Whoever is the most popular, the most widely known, the most influential, the most powerful, is the greatest. And Jesus flipped it on its head, and said whoever's least is greatest. Just absolutely turned it upside down. Pride reverses reality. The reality is that the lowliest is the greatest. And that's the answer to the question. Who's the greatest? Alright, guys, have a battle for humility, because the lowliest is the greatest. It's the opposite of how fallen minds think. You go back to 1 Corinthians 1, where the apostle Paul says that when the Lord established his church, there were not many noble, not many mighty. But he took the lowly, the base, the weak, the nothings, the nobodies, and it keeps getting lower and lower. And he made up his church of those people in order that the glory might be his, in order that there would be no other explanation for the church other than the purposes of God. We are the lowly. We are the least. And among us who are the least to start with, and who are all children, it should be a battle to see who can serve the most. "Whoever would be chief among you, let him be your servant", Matthew 20. God gives grace to the humble. James says, "not the proud". Pride, you see, reverses reality. You see so much of that even in the Christian world. People who are honored and who are popular and who have accomplished all kinds of things and are associated with bigness who become relentlessly self-promoting. It's just so ugly. It's a battle we all have to fight, especially if we've been blessed. But the battle we ought to be fighting is to see if we can be lowly like Jesus was.
Pride ruins unity, it raises relativity, it reveals depravity, it rejects deity, it reverses reality. Number six, pride reacts with exclusivity. Proud people just think the world revolves around them. And for this, we come to a second incident. Verse 49, and I'm just giving you the overview. Verse 49, "John answered and said, 'Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to hinder him because he does not follow along with us.'" Pride reacts with exclusivity. John had just come down from the mountain of transfiguration. John was a dynamic, driven, compelling son of thunder, not the meek person that we often think of him. John has just had the most incredible experience of any person ever, along with Peter and James. He's feeling his oats on the intimate circle, and he comes across along with some of the others, somebody casting out demons in the name of Jesus Christ. And he says, we tried to hinder him because he doesn't follow along with us. And I think there's some integrity in his question. He says, master. It's very respectful, epistates, means ruler. He's submitting to the Lordship of Christ. He says that - it's almost as if he says that, was that the right thing to do? We said to him, hey, buddy, you're not in our group. You're not in our denomination. You don't wear our label. Well, he was casting out demons in your name. It doesn't say he tried. It said he was. Apparently, he had some power. Maybe he was one of the 70 was kind of was out on his own. But he was doing it consistent with your name, and your will. That's what in your name means, consistent with who you are, and he was apparently a believer, though not an apostle. Trying to do something for the glory of Christ. And he says, we tried to hinder him. And the Greek construction here is apparently in an ongoing way, which may have meant the guy kept doing what he was doing, and they were trailing along trying to stop him in a prolonged effort. Why? Because he doesn't follow along with us. He's not in our group. But pride is always tactarian. It's always narrow. It's always pinched down. To us for no more, shut the door. This is not an unbeliever like Simon Magus, trying to buy the Holy Spirit's powers operating in my name. This is that ugly sectarianism in the church. And people say that, they may ask me questions like that. Well, I saw you associate with so and so, and I saw so and so associate with you, and I don't know about that. Look, if I want to be associated with people who are a part of my group, it would be a lonely world. Pride wants to do that. Pride wants to say, I know more than you. I don't know if I can work with you. You need correction. You need help. You're not quite there. You get there, and I'll work with you. That's what pride says. Humility says if you're in the name of Christ doing the best to serve Christ, I'll come alongside. Pride is always sectarian. You look at sectarianism, and narrowness, and you're gonna find Pride. There's a latitude. There's a generosity. There's a bigness of heart among the humble. And here came the lesson. Jesus said to him, "Stop that. Stop hindering him. Stop, for he who is not against you is", what? "for you." By the way, no middle ground, huh? Well, I don't know. He's sort of for us. No. No middle ground. If he's in Christ, doing his best to serve Christ, and he's for Christ, stop trying to hinder him. Maybe he's not where he ought to be. But then again, neither are you. Wonderful place for diversity. If you don't think the Lord wants diversity in the church, guess again. The true church, I'm talking about the true and faithful church, is very diverse, isn't it? Very diverse. I've been all over the face of the Earth, and I'm telling you, I've been in every imaginable kind of environment of Christian people who truly love the Lord, Jesus Christ, with every kind of expression of worship in ministry. All I wanna know is, are they for him? Or against him? If they're for him, then I wanna be a part of helping. I don't wanna hinder.
Again, I say it's hard to be humble when you're right. But humble yourself and realize that we're all still in process. For some, the process is a little bit behind you. And do your best to teach them what they need to know to come more in line with Scripture. Humility is equal to greatness. That's the point. Humility is in the hearts of those who purse unity by seeking to exalt others. Humility is in the heart of those who refuse relative comparisons. Humility is in the heart of those who purify the inner person of all selfishness. Humility belongs to those who exalt God alone as the object of worship, when he comes in another believer, they well honor and love that believer, because that believer is Christ to them. Humility belongs to those who understand that the way down is the way up. Humility is characteristic of those who embrace the diversity of true believers.
One more point. One more thing pride does. Pride restrains mercy. Here we come to the third incident. School's still on. The scene changes in verse 51, Galilean ministry ends, "the days are approaching for His ascension," could be his ascension to Jerusalem. Could be his ascension up the cross. Could be his ascension into heaven. I would probably lean towards the latter, that it looks all the way to his ascension to the father, the culmination of everything, and in light of that, he resolutely set his "faith to go to Jerusalem". This then embarks upon the last year of the Lord's ministry, as he moves towards the cross. So the scene changes. The lesson goes on. He resolutely sets his faith to go to Jerusalem. "He sent messengers on ahead of Him," and that's kind of how they did it when they went into ministry in a new area, now in Judea from the end of the Galilean ministry, which closes in verse 50, the ministry begins in Judea in verse 51, and runs all the way through to the end, with a few short stops in Galilea along the way. But the remainder of the months of his life were spent in Judea. And here we find an illustration of how pride restrains mercy. Mercy is such a lovely word. It's generous. It's kind. It's selfless. It's a sweet word. And it's opposite, merciless, is reserved for the rankest kind of people with the worst vengeance and vitriol, and viciousness.
So the school of humility is still open, as the scene changes, and the lesson is still really important. They're headed now towards Jerusalem. Verse 52 says, "He sent messengers on ahead of him, and they went and entered a village of the Samaritans to make arrangements for Him." He had gone north into Galilea through Samaria. Now he's coming back into Judea, apparently through a village of Samaritans. Again, they were a mixed race of Semite Pagans left over from the Northern Kingdom, left there after the Syrian Invasion, intermarried with Pagans, became loyal to the Assyrian King. They were hated by the Jews as half-breeds who had rejected their race and their faith. The Jews didn't like them at all, and they hated the Jews as well. But of course, the Lord began his ministry and the revelation of his messiahship with a Samaritan woman by a well in John 4, because the gospel was always intended for the world light of the gentiles. And consequently, he goes back to a village of Samaritans. He's headed there to preach the kingdom. He's headed there to do the works to support the message, and as they approach that place, he sends messengers on ahead to make preparations, place to stay, food to eat. And they went. Verse 53, sad. "They didn't receive Him." Don't come to our town. We don't want you. I'm quite sure the apostles gave full disclosure, because they understood who he was back in chapter 9, verse 20, earlier in the same chapter. He said to them, "Who do you say that I am?" Peter answered on behalf of them all and said to Christ of God, they know who he was. The Christ of God is coming to your town. Messiah's coming to your town. The savior of the world is coming to your town. The miracle worker, the great teacher is coming to your town. Real healings could happen. Demons can be cast out. The gospel of the kingdom will be preached. You'll hear the message of salvation, the good news of heaven.
They don't want him. Why? Because he was journeying with his face towards Jerusalem. They hated the Jews. Anybody headed to Jerusalem, they despised. They weren't allowed to worship in Jerusalem. They were half-breed Samaritans. They weren't allowed to go in there. They had to build their own place at Garazim, which is kind of a mixture of Paganism and Judaism in their own kind of worship. And, to make matters worse, in 128 B.C. John _____ had destroyed their temple at Garazim, which just made them hate the Jews more. They were very intolerant. They said, we don't want him. Verse 54, "When His disciples James and John saw this," now they're the sons of thunder, remember, "they said, 'Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?'" When did you ever have the ability to do that, guys? Where are you gonna get that power? We'd like to incinerate them. Well, that's a great reaction to unbelief. That's wonderful. That is a real missionary heart. You think they weren't feeling their transfiguration oats? Where did they get that idea? That's just out of nowhere. Lord, do you want us to command fire from heaven? What made them think like that? Well, they had just been with Elijah. And they remembered the story, incredible story, or Elijah. They were feeling Elijah-like. Go back to 2 Kings 1, just briefly. This is just amazing. 2 Kings 1, "Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab." So Israel and Northern Kingdom's got a battle on their hands with the Moabites. "Ahaziah," who is the king of Israel. Not to be confused with Ahaziah, king of Judah, another man. Ahaziah did a dumb thing, he "fell through the lattice in his upper chamber." You know, if you're walking around on the lattice, you better be careful. He feel through "in Samaria," so they're in a Samaritan village, right? So Samaria, they make the connection, ah, we remember what happened in Samaria long ago. When the king falls through the lattice, the capital of the Northern Kingdom in Israel is Samaria. So he becomes ill. He sends his messengers and he says, "Go," get this, this is the King of Israel, "Go inquire of Baal-zebub," who's that? "The god of Ekron," the Philistine God, "whether I shall recover from this sickness." This is a king of Israel telling his messengers to go ask an idol that belongs to the Philistines whether he's gonna recover. Verse 3, "The angel of the Lord said to Elijah the prophet, 'Arise, go meet the messengers.'" Go stop those messengers, "of the king of Samaria and say to them, `Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the king of Ekron?'" What are you doing? Is there no God in Israel? And tell them this, King isn't gonna get off his bed. He's gonna die there. Elijah told them. And he left. And the messengers went back, in verse 5, and they were asked by the king, "Why did you return?" And they explained what happened, that they ran into Elijah, and they explained what he said. The king was mad, really mad. Verse 9, he sent 50 men with a captain of 50 to take Elijah prisoner. They found him, the captain of 50 said, "O man of God, the king says, `Come down,'" which is old Hebrew for you're under arrest. Elijah answered, and said to the captain of 50, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your 50." Fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his 50. Whoosh. Burnt to a crisp on the spot. The king is stupid. Verse 11, he sends another 50 guys. This is a great way to deplete your force. He sends another 50, with another captain. Verse 11, he says, "O man of God, the king said, `Come down quickly.'" Elijah answered and said to them, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty." Fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. Now there's 100 fried corpses on the spot. Verse 13, he sends a third 50 with a captain. This guy's at least rational. The third captain comes up, he bows on his knees before Elijah. He begs him. He says, "O man of God, please let my life and the lives of these 50 servants of yours be precious in your sight." Not a real soldier mentality there, huh? This guy's sniveling in fear. "Behold fire came down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of 50 with their fifties. Please let my life be precious in your sight." And the angel of the Lord said to Elijah, "Go down with him, don't be afraid." So he went down with him to the king. And he told the king, you asked Baal-zebub rather than the God of Israel? You're never gonna get out of bed. You're gonna die. Verse 17, he died according to the word of the Lord. Elijah, Samaria, fire from heaven.
Back to Luke 9. We're in a Samaritan village. We just saw Elijah, fire from heaven. That's how they were thinking. We're gonna pull it down. Verse 55, "He turned and said to them," first, a rebuke. It is a rebuke. "You do not know what kind of spirit you're of." You guys have lost it. You can't even control yourself. "The Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to," what? This is a mission of mercy, folks. Listen. Those who hate Christ are not our enemies, they are our mission field. If this crazy politicized evangelicalism doesn't stop hitting the mission field, we're gonna continue to undermine our testimony. You can't turn the opponents of the gospel into the enemy. We attack everything, everyone, who disagrees with us. Homosexuals, feminists, liberal left, labeling them, assaulting them, calling them names, trying to vote them out of power. They're lost. How do you expect them to act? You would act the same way if you were in the same condition. They're not the enemy. They're the mission field. When will we stop ______ these people for temporal ends, and forfeiting the opportunity for eternal ends? There will be fire, but the fire will be coming later. For now, we're on a mission of mercy.
That little village was saved from fire. It's in Acts 8 that Philip, a deacon in the early church, was preaching in Samaria. Who knows? Maybe some were saved. Many were under his preaching, who escaped the desire of these guys that day in that Samaritan village. Look, even Jesus said, "I didn't come to judge. I came to save." And we're out there on a mission of mercy, folks. We're out there on a mission of mercy. We cannot alienate the very people we are called to reach. But pride will do that every time. Pride restrains mercy. What do you do when you face that? I love it, the end of verse 56, "They went on to another village." Just keep moving. Go to the next place.
We do know the truth. We have the truth. But we must preach the truth with love and humility. Jesus said this, "Be merciful as your father in heaven is merciful. And be humble, as Christ who humbled himself."
Let's pray. Your word is precious. Your word is rich, o God. It is powerful. We thank you for taking us to school with Jesus. May we learn well the lessons of humility. Jesus could have brought the fire down, but he just went to another place. Help us, Lord, to manifest all the characteristics of humility and none of these characteristics of ugly pride. May you be honored in our life and ministry, we pray for your glory. Father, these have been wonderful and rich days, and this morning has been a blessed time of worship. We commend ourselves again to your grace and to your word, which is able to build us up and give an inheritance to us, with the saints in eternal glory, to which we wait with joy. In Christ's name, Amen.
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Recall Summary
Name of Product: Children's one-piece footed pajamas
Hazard: The footed pajamas fail to meet the federal flammability standard for children's sleepwear, posing a burn hazard to children. The garments are being recalled because they do not meet the tight-fitting sizing requirements.
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Units: About 38,000
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Incidents/Injuries: None reported
Sold exclusively at: The Children's Place stores nationwide and online at www.childrensplace.com from January 2012 through May 2013 for about $15.
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Yes yes i try it again and upgraded from kubuntu 12.10 mesa9.0 to oibaf mesa9.1-devel and the result is: its slower.
Yes maybe the mesa9.0 is only faster because 9.1 calculates more openGL effects but in the end its complete useless on my hardware.
is there any improvement planet for this kind of hardware generation? hd4000?
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|2012-05-07, 06:54
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Actually, I seriously imagine that alot of what goes down in Kazumi Magica would horrify even Homura Akemi, had she ever learned of it.
The only happy ending in the Old system is that we see whether the Peldias Saints become one of Japan's most well led and co-ordinated Demon Hunting team uner the new system...
|2012-05-07, 08:51
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But I'm afraid either Kazumi or some of the pleadies are not going to just "talk about it" in order to solve this and we're gonna see a fight between them (and I can see Kaoru teaming with Kazumi and maybe even dying in the process, and this sacrifice will press kazumi's berserk button and she'll end up killing everyone )
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|2012-05-27, 00:28
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in the first pic appears mirai killing fake kazumi, the second pic kaoru and umika seeing the fake nico clon , and in the last image appears kazumi angry xD
Why nicco why!
|2012-06-01, 10:45
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We know that the freezer is the way to reject the system, but nico is behind that too? The girls inside the capsule are inactives.
... but why nico put that fake seed inside saki's head. What is her purpose?
Maybe Nico is accelerating the process of collecting energy, like incubator.
But making clones to save everyone
Short chapter again u.u
What about cleaning soul gem?? Jubey can do that rite?? but why they turn into witches anyway?? or was a fake purification to seems clear*
|2012-06-01, 12:42
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I think that would be a good point, but if they did change jyubei's memories, someone had to "alter them" again. And that probably was either Kyubei or Nico. Then again, I think Nico is just "possesed" by Kyubei, she was a good girl back in the flashbacks.
|2012-06-01, 23:23
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Kyuubey being able to 'possess' people? That sounds like an awfully funny theory. Feels like Nico's working with Jubey the whole time.
Her wish was related to reconstruction, so she can probably recreate/modify anything from one thing to another.
Then again, cleaning the Soul Gem is a different story. Since Kyuubey 'eats' the tainted Grief Seed, it's pretty much possible that he just simply consumes the grief, so sucking it in is probably a different way to 'absorb' it.
These Evil Nuts.. Knowing that it caused Kazumi go to nuts, making her more like a Witch (again), she'd probably want more flesh to recreate Kazumi again due to the fact that it'd probably accelerate her exhaustion of magic and turn into a witch (that actually has flesh?) so she can cut her into pieces and...yeah.. (I'm sure it required Witch stuffing as a part of the ingredient to 'revive' her again, right?)
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Having her photo taken with Santa is a treasured childhood memory for Sue West.
But for her five-year-old son Charlie, who has autism, lining up in a noisy, crowded shopping centre to have his photo taken with a strange man had previously led to tears and meltdowns.
While she would have loved a picture of Charlie and his three-year-old brother Nate with Santa, Ms West did not want to cause her son distress.
And she didn't allow herself to become too excited when she heard about a ''Sensitive Santa'' program at Highpoint Shopping Centre, which offered families a chance to book in a 20-minute appointment with a well-briefed Santa in a quiet environment before the shops opened.
''I think I was protecting myself a little bit, I just thought, we'll try it and it will be great if it works,'' she said.
Highpoint general manager Scott Crellin, whose son Cooper has autism, decided to trial a Sensitive Santa for the first time this year after reading about similar programs in the US.
He worked with the autism support group Amaze to develop the program, which included a questionnaire for parents to fill out so Santa understood children's interests and any potential triggers for them to become distressed. A series of pictures emailed to parents ahead of time helped them brief children on what to expect, and gave children the best chance of a successful meeting.
For Ms West and her partner Scott Jackman, the result was a beautiful Santa picture with their boys that will be shared with many relatives and friends over the next few days.
Charlie asked Santa to bring him an Octopod toy - which Octonauts use to travel under the sea - and even had a few questions, including why Santa wears gloves. (Turns out it's cold in the North Pole and hot in Australia, so Santa needs the gloves to keep an even temperature.)
Ms West said it was a very happy and emotional moment to see Charlie bond with Santa, and secure a much-loved photo.
''In the bigger picture, I was incredibly moved by the thought and care put into this initiative. There was sensitivity and respect and a commitment to putting one of those childhood rites of passage within reach of families who love someone on the spectrum.''
A total of 28 families met Sensitive Santa this year, and Mr Crellin said the feedback had been overwhelmingly positive. He wants to offer the experience to more families next year, and hopes other shopping centres will take up the challenge.
Santa's representative Blair Short, who was carefully chosen for his calming presence, said it had not been too difficult to put his young charges at ease.
''Children with autism have a very specific world and if you want to be their friend you have to be part of that world, otherwise you're scary. You need to let them come to you and incorporate you into what they see as real.''