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As I walked into the lobby of Hoover Leppen Theatre at the Center on Halsted, I was dumbfounded. Everywhere around me were ecstatic teenage (and some college) girls covered with Starkid memorabilia including tattoos, sunglasses, tshirts, sweatshirts, and wristbands. What had I gotten myself into? I wondered. I felt like I was back at an N'Sync concert from the 1990s. I had heard about the incredibly dedicated fan base for Team Starkid ever since their internet sensation A Very Potter Musical went viral and Me and My Dick made it to the Billboard charts, but I was not anticipating this kind of raging fanfare. Despite my reservations about the uncontrolled teen angst around me, I was more than a bit surprised at Team Starkid's creative, colorful, and upbeat musical, Starship. Directed by Matt Lang with music and Lyrics by Glee's Darren Criss, this comedy musical was, despite its 3+ hour length, a remarkably well-put together, ensemble production about a future world inhabited by alien bugs that gets intercepted by the human race.
In addition to very well done acting and singing, two aspects of this production particularly stood out to me. Firstly, this production team is made up almost exclusively of young adults in their mid 20's (most of whom are graduates of the University of Michigan's drama program). Their ability to write and direct, compose, act and sing, and turn their love for theater into an actual business is remarkable. Their theatrical creativity mixed with their entrepreneurship is just astonishing for their age and something I don't think I have ever experienced in the professional theater world. Secondly, the ensemble nature of this production is really unique---almost every actor that is part of this 13-person team takes on some sort of supporting role. Impressively, each actor quickly and smoothly transforms from one character to the next, dramatically altering the physical appearance and emotional behavior of their previous character.
Because of the less serious, more farcical content of the show and because of the entirely young cost and crew, I would recommend this production for younger audiences. While very well done with creative original writing by several members of the cast, the alient-bug-spaceship foundation of the play is probably not suited to an older crowd.
Joey Richter, who plays the lead role of Bug does a wonderful job taking us through the world of alien insects and of sharing the story of his life and aspirations to be a Starship Ranger. An innocent and awkward young bug with a raspy voice to match, Bug is naïve about love and longs for something more than the world in which he is destined. Richter commits himself to his character and remains consistent throughout.
Lauren Lopez, who plays the two very opposite characters of Taz and Bugette is a major standout---every time I watched her I was in sheer awe of how amazing she was. She goes from playing the very young, starry-eyed, introverted role of Bugette to playing the aggressive, take charge, warlike role of Taz. Her entire demeanor changes between these two characters. As Bugette, she has a nasley, pre-pubescent voice, her body is hunched over and almost cocoon-like, and when she laughs and cries, you think she is throwing up. As human Taz, she is upright and tall, aggressive and sergeant-esque always ready to attack someone, with a thick Spanish military accent to boot. When she transformed from one character to the next, sometimes within no more than a 60 second timeframe, I could not believe she was the same person. She is clearly a committed character actor to to look out for.
Dylan Saunders (Tootsie Noodles, Pincer) was another one of the stand-out talented and transformational actors. His nerdy, god-fearing, mama's boy portrayal of Tootsie Noodles, one of the Starship Rangers, was a delight to watch, as was his very fearful, ominous portrayal of the evil gang leader of the bugs, Pincer. His blues-like song Kick it Up a Notch demonstrated his very talented singing capabilities as well. Other memorable characters were ditzy blonde February ( Denise Donovan), sweet and dedicated bug, Roach ( Brant Cox), and basically, the rest of the cast!
Every character in Starship was big and bold (there was little to no subtlety to any of the parts), which gave the production an added flare of color and excitement. One of the very impressive elements of this production was the incorporation of puppets. Each alien insect was not a played by a standard actor playing the part, but rather by a puppet being maneuvered by the actor. The puppets themselves were aesthetically noteworthy, some bigger than life, some quite small, each with moveable arms, legs, and a neck. I was most impressed by the ability of the actors to maneuver these puppets as they simultaneously acted, sang, and danced around in character. Many characters even had to learn how to maneuver 2-3 puppets as the actors took on many supporting parts as well. Moreover, knowing that rehearsals for the show only began just over a month before opening night, I was ever the more impressed.
Additionally, while much of the play was farcical and outlandish (this is the world of alien bugs and spaceship odysseys, after all!), there were still some truthful elements and themes that could be taken away. The commander , Up, played by Joseph Walker, is outwardly a bully who inspires fear in his team of Starship Rangers, when really inwardly he lacks the most elemental levels of confidence. He admits that to boost his levels of confidence, every day he stares in the mirror and proclaims to himself, "you're not a failure." In order to gain respect from his colleagues and be seen as a dignified leader, he exhibits a sharp, biting exterior when really deep inside, he is gushy and in desperate need of affirmation. He portrays precisely what many people in our world are like who lack self esteem and/or a group of cohorts from which to gain support. Bug ( Joey Richter), also displays another important theme of the show-that of fitting in with the rest of society or discovering one's own unique self identity. Bug is fated to be the Overqueen's Egg Planter when really all he wants is to be a Starship Ranger. All of the other bugs from the land that he comes from willingly and happily accept their role serving the Overqueen, but Bug wants something more out of life---something that the society in which he is from is not giving him. Through a mix of fate and freewill, he is able to realize his dreams and become a Starship Ranger. Though, as an added caveat, once he becomes a Starship Ranger, and thus a human, he realizes how much he misses his home—where he came from. Ultimately he decides not to forsake the world from which he came and rather decides to combine the elements of his dream with the elements of his heart and home.
My one main criticism of the show: way too long! Over 3 hours in length, this show could easily have been (and should have been) cut in half. While the actors are a delight to watch throughout, the length of the show ultimately served to undermine their efforts and made me as an audience members inclined to look down at my watch more than a few times.
Ultimately, I would best describe this show as "High School Musical" meets "Avenue Q" meets "Star Wars" meets "Glee" (wow, what a wordful!). This group of young artists really makes you realize how much talent and energy there is in the up and coming generation, and I look forward to seeing what Starkid Productions comes up with next.
Their captivating original storyline, actor-actor collaboration, big and bold characters, and creative use of puppetry really helped this comedic musical succeed.
Oh, and one more thing--- just as I began entering the lobby of the Hoover Leppen Theatre, as I inconspicuously exited, I again found myself swarmed by those overly delighted teenage girls who literally worship Team StarKid. This time, after a successful production, they massed around each of the actors and got dozens of autographs and photos. No surprise there!
Hoover Leppen Theatre , 3656 N. Halsted St Chicago 60613, 773-472-6469. www.centeronhalsted.org
Show dates: February 11-23
Twitter: @teamstarkid
Photos by Chris Dzombak


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Re: H4d with 55-110. That 55-110 looks huge.. I was watching a show, where ex-singer turned photographer was shooting with H-Phase and this lens. I was impressed how at one point she handed off the whole setup to her assistant with the arm fully out stretched while waiting for him to take it for about 1 or 2 seconds. She didn't look particularly muscular, so I thought it was surprising how effortless that looked.
Hello,Im pleased that you in my opinion have the best MF camera system ever made. I have said this before but I would recommend a mono pod if you want to hand hold. It still gives you mobility but it just takes all that weight of your hands and arms.CheersSimon
Hi Gotspeed,My reasoning for my comment about the Mamiya RZ system goes back to 1988. My first medium camera system was second hand Kowa 66 which was called the poor man Hasselblad. But as a young photographer it was cheap and a very good camera but was getting old. So I looked at the Hasselblad V system, the new Rollie 6006 system at the time and the Mamiya RZ. What I like straight of the bat was the 6x7 format no mentally cropping the 6x6 format in my head. The RZs modular system and the bellows focus lenses and it ability to rotate the film back. And of coure it was much cheaper than the Hasselblad and Rollie as I was still getting established.Now 24 years and 4 bodies latter I still just love this camera.Hope this answerers your question.Give it time getting to know the beautiful camera and it will become part of you. Wow that was deep.CheersSimon


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Notes on the MyFaces Core 1.1.4 Release
The release manager is: Wendy Smoak (Release Diary)
- 2006-06-21 - Branches created
- 2006-07-10 - Snapshots deployed to maven-snapshot-repository and announced on dev@myfaces
2006-07-12 - Snapshots of the distribution assemblies published and announced on dev@myfaces
2006-07-15 - Snapshots have passed the TCK, users are invited to test.
2006-08-02 - MYFACES-1376 resolved, new snapshots published.
2006-08-03 - MYFACES-1377 under discussion
2006-08-03 - MYFACES-1376 partially reverted, and new snapshots published
2006-08-05 - r428968 merged r422749 and r428204 to branch and new snapshots published.
- (The filename includes r428254 because that is the last changed revision on the core branch.)
These snapshots have passed the TCK.
- 2006-09-10
MyFaces Core 1.1.4 built and deployed to http://people.apache.org/builds/myfaces/core-1.1.4
- 2006-09-10 - Tags created
2006-09-11 - The 1.1.4 build has passed the TCK.
2006-09-11 - Release vote thread: http://www.nabble.com/-VOTE--Release-MyFaces-Core-1.1.4-t2253192.html
2006-09-14 - Some discussion of whether it is or is not compatible with Tomahawk 1.1.3.
2006-09-16 - Distributions copied to /www/www.apache.org/dist/myfaces/binaries & .../source
- 2006-09-17 - Updated the 'current' symlinks in /www/www.apache.org/dist/myfaces
2006-09-18 - Maven artifacts copied to m2-ibiblio-rsync-repository and sync requested on dev@maven.
2006-09-18 - JIRA bulk change of 1.1.4-SNAPSHOT -> 1.1.4 (see below)
- 2006-09-18 - Website index and download pages updated for Core 1.1.4
2006-09-20 - Requested sync (to the central Maven repo) again on dev@maven.
2006-09-20 - Jars are available in the central Maven repo. Release announced on user, dev and announce@myfaces lists.
Here's how you can help us test the distribution prior to a vote.
Download a the distribution assemblies:
Configure a <repository> for Maven 2:
<repository> <id>myfaces-114-staging</id> <name>Apache MyFaces Core 1.1.4 Staging Repository</name> <url>http://people.apache.org/builds/myfaces/core-1.1.4/m2-staging-repository</url> </repository>
And declare dependencies on the 1.1.4 artifacts:
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.myfaces.core</groupId> <artifactId>myfaces-api</artifactId> <version>1.1.4</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.myfaces.core</groupId> <artifactId>myfaces-impl</artifactId> <version>1.1.4</version> </dependency>
Note: Maven 2.0.4 will not download a new version if one is already present in your local repository. You will need to delete $M2_REPO/org/apache/myfaces/core to force Maven to download the new version. (Usually, $M2_REPO is <your home directory>/.m2/repository .)
Then, let us know the results (good or bad!) on dev -at- myfaces.apache.org. (You must be subscribed to post. See: http://myfaces.apache.org/mail-lists.html.)
- Add a new version to the core project 1.1.4
- Do a bulk change for all resolved issues with version fixed as 1.1.4-SNAPSHOT and change to 1.1.4
- Do a bulk change for all resolved (but not closed) in 1.1.4 and close them
- Archive the 1.1.4-SNAPSHOT version
To deploy the api and impl jars, including -sources and -javadocs, to http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository:
cd /path/to/SHARED_2_0_3 mvn install cd /path/to/CORE_1_1_4 mvn deploy -Pgenerate-assembly
To build and publish the -src and -bin assemblies to people.apache.org:
cd /path/to/SHARED_2_0_3 mvn install cd /path/to/CORE_1_1_4 mvn install -Pgenerate-assembly cd assembly mvn assembly:assembly scp target/assembly/out/* people.apache.org:/www/people.apache.org/builds/myfaces/core-1.1.x
Proposed Release Announcement
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] MyFaces Core v1.1.4 Release
The Apache MyFaces team is pleased to announce the release of MyFaces Core 1.1.4.
MyFaces Core is a JavaServer(tm) Faces 1.1 implementation as specified by JSR-127. MyFaces Core has passed Sun's JSR-127 TCK and is 100% compliant with the JSR-127 specification.
MyFaces Core 1.1.4 is available in both binary and source distributions.
MyFaces Core is also available in the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.myfaces.core".
Release Notes - MyFaces Core - Version 1.1.4
[MYFACES-1070] - NullPointerException in MyFacesGenericPortlet.facesRender method
- [MYFACES-1194] - mvn install cannot be invoked multiple times
- [MYFACES-1196] - h:panelGrid columnClasses: classes are not used repetitively
[MYFACES-1296] - NullpointerException in JspStateManager
[MYFACES-1301] - Check for stale components is effectively broken as implemented in myfaces-impl >1.1.2
[MYFACES-1308] - org.apache.myfaces.shared.util._ComponentUtils.findNestingForm() needs to support af:form
[MYFACES-1317] - ClassCastException when setting timeZone attribute in <f:convertDataTime> using EL
[MYFACES-1332] - Documented value of type attribute for <f:converNumber> does not match the implementation
[MYFACES-1340] - wildcard navrule bug in NavigationHandlerImpl
- [MYFACES-1376] - getScrolling is not defined in simple tree2 example
- [MYFACES-1377] - h:dataTable with t:dataScroller generates "Row is not available. Rowindex =#" errors on non-full pages.
- [MYFACES-1404] - TRINIDAD_FORM_COMPONENT_FAMILY has invalid value
[MYFACES-1302] - Display class and value of unconvertable object in IllegalArgumentException
- [MYFACES-1307] - Please add a source distribution to the build and the download page
- [MYFACES-1319] - Client side compression should be optional
- [MYFACES-1325] - Restrict Continuum notification to failures only.


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At ConcertTickets.com, we've gone through the effort of collecting a bit of information about the most notable concert venues in whichever state you may call home.
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Gareth Emery Shuts Down The Shrine with 6-hour Set
We had been anticipating the night for months: Gareth Emery and a 6-hour long set at the Shine Auditorium.
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Halloween at HARD's Day of the Dead
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One-man development army Eskil Steenberg announced a March 25 release date for Love, his procedural online adventure game and perhaps the most ambitious video game ever made by a single person.
We've been following Love for quite some time with great interest. It's concept art graphics quickly catch the eye, but it's the technology behind the online adventure game that's the most impressive. Steenberg, working under company name Quel Solaar, built Love from the ground up, creating a new engine and several new technologies in order to make his vision come to life. Those technologies will be on display at the 2010 Game Developers Conference later this month.
Now the beta testing is coming to an end, and the game launches on March 25 for the PC, with OSX and LINUX versions planned. There will be a subscription fee to play, but it will likely be far less than Steenberg deserves for this amazing accomplishment.
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Military, Public Service
By Ernie Stephens | November 1, 2008
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With the obvious exception of Boeing's AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, many military rotorcraft designs find their way into civilian service. The most common are the OH-58 Kiowa and the OH-6 Cayuse, which often make their way into the hangars of police departments operating start-up aviation units or existing helicopter operations working with tight budgets.
In the 1996, the Anne Arundel County Mayland Police Dept (AAPD) wanted to start a helicopter unit, but officials were not comfortable with the start-up costs of buying a new, $1-million helicopter and another $500,000 worth of law enforcement mission equipment, such as forward-looking infrared gear, searchlights and a suite of special radios. Their answer was to take advantage of a surplus aircraft purchase program offered by the federal government, which allowed them to buy six former Army OH-58s for $500.
Once the helicopters arrived, the AAPD picked the best two out of the six to load with the necessary equipment to meet the FAA regulations that the Army is not obligated to observe. Next, they installed basic police radios and a searchlight, painted them, and placed them in service above the county's 512-sq-mi jurisdiction, which includes the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, the headquarters of the National Security Agency, and 243,000 residents. The remaining four aircraft were kept behind the hangar and cannibalized for parts as needed.
Around that same time, Howard County, Md. also wanted air support services. But like Anne Arundel County, its neighbor to the east, there was no money for a new helicopter. There also weren't any surplus aircraft available for purchase at that time. So, the Howard County Police Dept entered into a joint operations agreement the AAPD that included sharing some of the costs for keeping the aging aircraft going, in exchange for several hours of patrol time over its 251,000-sq-mi jurisdiction; a partnership that was acknowledged by the placement of their police emblem next to AAPD's.
By 2002, Anne Arundel County's administrators were pleased with the results an airborne law enforcement platform provided, and had allocated money to add a brand new, fully-equipped, 2004 Bell 407 to the fleet. Howard County continued to operate the OH-58s until it took delivery of its own factory-fresh Bell 407 with top-of-the-line gear in 2008.
Approximately 1,000 mi south of Maryland, the Florida Dept of Forestry (FDOF) is flying a more uncommon war veteran. It operates a Bell Fire Snake, a civilian conversion of a retired AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter.
The FDOF's Fire Snake traded its nose-mounted cannon, rocket racks and olive drab paint for a removable water delivery system and an attractive paint scheme. It now serves as a fast, forward scout that allows forestry managers to perform reconnaissance missions and, when carrying a belly tank, press a speedy attack against a fire.
But there's also a bad side to using surplus helicopwters: their unpredictable nature, the same unpredictability that applies to a used automobile, a previously owned house or a secondhand lawn mower. There's just no telling what will go wrong with a helicopter that has already seen a significant amount of service. Plus, parts for older aircraft can be difficult to find, and repairs can become very expensive. Too much of either can eventually make the penny-wise purchase of a retired military helicopter pound-foolish. After all, the military retired them for a reason.


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Property tax goes up by 1.7 mills after long debate
Increase will raise $5 million in additional debt reduction
The Valdez City Council voted 4-2 last Thursday to raise the property taxes to 20 mills.
The move came during a special meeting held Thursday, June 6.
Last year, council lowered the rate to 18.3 mills for 2012.
Council members Donna Schantz and Karen Ables had argued for a property tax reduction to 13 mills and voted against the 20 mill rate. Council member Chris Moulton, an often fiscally conservative in his council votes, was absent.
Schantz argued the reduction would stimulate new business in Valdez; Ables, a businesswoman, lamented the high cost of doing business in Valdez.
Schantz noted the city's permanent fund exceeds $100 million and expressed fears oil tax litigation uncertainties.
Property tax mills are calculated by multiplying the assessed value of property by the mill rate and then divide by 1,000. At 20 mills, property with an assessed value of $50,000 will have a property tax bill of $1,000 per year.
"I think we should go back up to 20" mills, council member Mike Wells said after stating that the city has a unique opportunity to buy down bond debt for new infrastructure - such as the new $39 million middle school - if the increase was passed. He also cited the city's maintenance estimates that were deferred in years past that now total tens of millions of dollars. He also talked about infrastructure improvements such as a new harbor and expanding the current hospital facility that will require the city acquire debt.
He said after doing the math, his own property tax will rise by about $300 a year and he feels that he gets more back from city services than he pays yearly in property tax.
"I think it's the right thing to do," Wells said.
Council member Jeremy Miner said he would support the increase to 20 mills if the city's energy rebate program could be increased. Hozey said the $550 per year allocated to qualified residents is set at that amount due to IRS reporting requirements; he also stated that new options could be reviewed by council to return benefits to Valdez tax payers. He said he was torn on raising it, but felt the real reason Valdez business interests often struggle is the high cost of utilities. He also lamented the fact that the increase could have very real impacts on families that struggle to put food on the table.
"I don't think the amount of money saved would be spent locally," council member Dorothy Moore said, alluding to the fact large numbers of people from Valdez spend much of their consumer dollars in Anchorage.
In the agenda statement Hozey gave to council member, he argued that municipal finances in Valdez are unique.
The statement said the Valdez assessor, Appraisal Company of Alaska, certified the city's tax roll at $2,936,374,893 worth of taxable property. Less than $300 million is from non-oil related properties.
At 20 mills, tax revenues in 2013 can be expected to exceed $58 million.
City manager John Hozey argued that increasing the mill rate to 20 will add an additional $5 million to the city's account dedicated to buying down debt. Valdez has exceeded the amount of property tax it is allowed to spend based on its population and can only use the excess to pay down municipal debt.
"If we stay where we're at we'll get five million less," Hozey said.
The city can expect $18.4 million in debt reduction allocation from the 20 mill tax.


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We are returning to our study of 1 John and we're having a wonderful time in this book. I confess that I'm not moving at any particularly high rate of speed, and that is by design. I want to draw out of this book all that is here for us and I want you to understand the wonderful and glorious that are herein contained.
We are looking at a section that does belong together even though there's a chapter interruption in it. It really does go together. It's chapter 2 verse 28, running down through verse 3 of chapter 3. That is one paragraph and this would be our third message in this particular paragraph or section. Let me start reading at verse 28 with what is clearly a point of demarcation. The words "and now" which means he's turning to another matter, "And now, little children, abide in Him so that when He appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming. If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who also who practices righteousness is born of Him. See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called children of God and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that when He appears we shall be like Him because we shall see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself just as He is pure."
We've entitled this little study here, "The Purifying Hope." This hope refers to everything that's been said about the appearing of Jesus. You will notice that "when He appears" is stated in verse 28, "when He appears" is repeated again in verse 2. Twice we are told that Jesus will appear. And this is our hope. We live in the hope that Jesus will appear. Now the question is, to what does that refer? What is this appearing? Well it is further described for us in verse 28 with the phrase "at His coming." His appearing is His coming.
It is further described for us in verse 2, it is when He appears at His coming and when we see Him, end of verse 2, just as He is and further described, "When we shall be like Him." It's very clear then what our hope is. Our hope is that Jesus will come and at His coming He will appear and when He appears we will see Him. And when we see Him, we will be like Him. The appearing comes from the Greek wordphaneroo. Phaneroo , the appearing, the arrival is used of the incarnation, the birth of Christ. It's used of the resurrection as well in the New Testament. But here it clearly refers to the return of Jesus Christ in the future when He comes to reveal Himself to His people who then will see Him as He is and become like Him. This is clearly a reference to the return of Jesus Christ. We then live in the light of Christ's return. This is, of course, a great theme in Scripture. Colossians 3:4, "When Christ who is our life is revealed," same word, "is manifest, when He does appear, then you also will appear with Him in glory." He is coming, at His coming He will appear, we will see Him, we will become like Him, we will be with Him in glory. In 1 Timothy 6 and verse 14, Paul says, "Keep the commandment...referring to all that is in Scripture...without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ." And there Paul is looking forward again to the Second Coming, the appearing of Jesus when He comes back for His people. In 2 Timothy 4:8 Paul says, "There is laid up for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day and not only to me but also to all who have loved His appearing."
Those three texts, Colossians 3:4, 1 Timothy 6:14, 2 Timothy 4:8, all refer to the same appearing, the future coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a future event which will culminate all of human history, the return of the Lord Jesus Christ, manifestly, visibly to reveal Himself to His people, make His people like Him and to bring His people into eternity glory.
Now there are four elements to His appearing and I just want to kind of spread those out before you for a little bit so you'll understand them. First of all, He will come for His saints, He will come for His saints. This is what is called in Scripture "the catching away," or the Rapture of the church. Jesus initially made the promise of this coming for His saints, for His people in the upper room that night which He was betrayed, when He said this in John 14:1, "Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house there are many rooms, if it were not so I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself that where I am there you may be also." Jesus says I'm going to come for you, I'm going to come to take you away with Me. Then again in the fifteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians there is a similar promise. Verse 51, "I tell you a mystery, we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet, for the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable and we shall be changed." That is to say the dead are raised into an imperishable body, already described in the chapter, and those that are alive are instantly transformed and the perishable puts on imperishability and the mortal puts on immortality. That is the same event. When the Lord comes for His saints.
Perhaps the most definitive description of this event is 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 where in verse 14 we read, "If we believe that Jesus died and rose again...and we do...even so, God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus." Here's how it's going to happen. "We who alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not proceed those who have fallen asleep for the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of the archangel, with the trumpet of God the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and thus we will always be with the Lord." That's the same event. I'm coming for you, I'm coming to reveal Myself to you, I'm going to catch you away. The dead in Christ rise first, the alive are transformed into imperishability and immortality and we are taken up to heaven to the place that He's been preparing for us. He will appear then for His saints.
The second phase of it is He will appear with His saints. We believe that the Bible tells us that after He has come for His saints and taken us out of the world, all who are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ will leave in that wonderful event. On the earth after we're gone, there will be a time of Tribulation, a time of Great Tribulation. That is described very, very carefully and clearly in Matthew chapter 24 and in Revelation chapter 6 all the way through chapter 19. It is also the time of Jacob's trouble from the Old Testament. It is the final week of Daniel's 70 weeks when a covenant is made with the Antichrist and you know those kinds of details. But the end of that period called Tribulation, the Lord will return this time with His saints. The saints that He already came for, He comes back with. Matthew 24 describes that feature of His appearing, Matthew 24:21, "There will be Great Tribulation, such as not occurred since the beginning of the world until now. Unless those days should have been cut short, no life would have been saved. For the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short. If anyone says to you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' or, 'There He is,' do not believe him, for false christs and false prophets will arise, will show great signs and wonders so as to mislead if possible even the elect." So you have a time of Tribulation, proliferating false christs and false prophets. Don't believe any of them. Verse 25, "Behold, I've told you in advance, if therefore they say to you, 'Behold, he's in the wilderness,' don't go forth. 'Behold, he's in the inner rooms,' do not believe them for as the lightning comes from the east and it flashes even to the west, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be. Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather," indicating that when He comes with His saints He comes in judgment. Vultures there to consume the flesh, a picture described, by the way, in the nineteenth chapter of Revelation.
When it happens, verse 29, it will happen immediately after the Tribulation. Immediately after the Tribulation is over, this event takes place. "The sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light. The stars will fall from the sky. The powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. And when He comes then He will send forth His angels with a great triumph and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other." He comes with His saints.
This is reiterated in the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew, verses 31 and 32. "When the Son of Man comes in His glory and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne, all the nations will be gathered before Him and He will separate them from one another as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats." So the Lord Jesus is coming for His saints, then there's a Tribulation, after the Tribulation He comes with His saints both holy angels and glorified saints, gathers the rest of the saints, that is those who have been saved during the time of Tribulation and draws them into His Kingdom. The very description of that coming is in the nineteenth chapter of Revelation. I draw your attention to it. Just by way really of background to what we're going to say. But in Revelation chapter 19 we have a very specific description of this event. Revelation chapter 19 and we can pick it up in verse 11. "I saw heaven open and behold, a white horse and He who sat upon it called Faithful and True," that's our Lord Jesus, "and in righteousness He judges and wages war and His eyes are as a flame of fire and on His head are many diadems, or crowns. He has a name written upon Him which no one knows except Himself. He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood. His name is called the Word of God. And the armies which are in heaven clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses." I believe this refers to the redeemed.
So here He is coming with His saints. "Out of His mouth comes a sharp sword so that with it He may smite the nations. He'll rule them with a rod of iron, treads the winepress with a fierce wrath of God the Almighty on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And He wreaks havoc on the earth in judgment." And after that, verse 20, He binds Satan and then establishes the thousand-year Kingdom in verse 3. Verse 4 says He establishes thrones. So that's the third phase. He comes for His saints. He comes with His saints. He comes to reign through His saints. He's establishing thrones. They sat upon them, judgement was given to them. "I saw the souls of those who were beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, because of the Word of God, those who would not worship the beast or his image, did not receive the mark on their forehead and upon their hand, they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years." We know that He promised that the apostles would reign over the twelve tribes of Israel. We are told by the apostle Paul that we should never sue others, that the church would sit in judgment on those things since some day in the future we're going to have the position of ruling and reigning even over the angels. We who are faithful to Christ will rule with Christ. So first He comes for us. After the Tribulation He comes with us. And then He establishes His Kingdom on earth and reigns through us dispensing, as it were, His glorious reign across the earth through the saints that have been saved out of the Tribulation because they believed, and the glorified saints who have come back with Jesus Christ in their glorified form. Through both the glorified and the living believers, Jesus Christ will reign. It is at that point that the curse is reversed, as Romans 8 says, that the creation in verse 21 is set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. It is then that there is the glorious manifestation of God's children, a revealing of the children of God. For the first time the world will see who believers really are. They'll see them in millennial power. They'll see them in heavenly glory as they come back to reign with Christ.
And the fourth element is...He comes for His saints, He comes with His saints, He comes to reign through His saints and then establishes the new heaven and the new earth and forever dwells among His saints. You come to chapter 21 and you only need to look at the opening three verses. "I saw a new heaven and a new earth," that's the eternal state at the end of the thousand-year millennium. He recreates the whole universe. The first heaven, the first earth passed away, that's the one we're living in now. No longer any sea. The holy city, the New Jerusalem, the capital city of God's heaven comes down out of heaven, takes its place in the center of the new heaven and the new earth. "And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, 'Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men and He shall dwell among them, they shall be His people and God Himself shall be among them.'" Three times it says He will be among us.
So He comes for His saints, with His saints, to reign through His saints. And then forever spends eternity among His saints. Now all of that is the coming or the revealing of Jesus Christ and there are four elements to it, four features, four aspects. The Rapture of the church, the return in judgment, the establishment of the millennial kingdom and the creation of the eternal state, the new heaven and the new earth. We live in the light of this. This is the next event on God's calendar. This is the next event in prophecy. There is no prophecy that needs to come to pass before the Lord comes for His saints. That's why we say His coming is imminent. It could happen at any time. It's the next event. There are no signs leading up to the Rapture of the church. It is a sign-less event. It happens when we don't expect it. We live in the light of it.
And then it initiates and inaugurates all of those features of His glorious revealing. First He's revealed to the saints. Then at the end of the Tribulation He's revealed to the whole world as He comes back riding on that white horse, as it were, with no place to hide and He destroys all the ungodly. Then sets up His Kingdom. And then finally the eternal state. This is how history ends and it matters, folks. It always bothers me that you can talk to people who are very precise about their understanding of the Bible, very precise about their understanding of theology. When you ask them a question about eschatology, that's fromeschatos which means the end, or the last, when you ask them about the last things and how the story ends, they don't have a clue. They say, "Well I don't know if I'm a-mill, post-mill, pre-mill, pan-mill, whatever mill. I don't...but I don't think it's really important." That's like saying, you know, that a book is written, the most important book that's ever been written in the history of the world, the only book that truly reflects God's purpose for humanity and you don't care how it ends. Of course you care how it ends. And I believe that God has given us the ending with the same precision that He gave us the beginning. We live in the light of this reality. Jesus is going to appear. This world has not seen the last of Jesus.
This is our hope. First Timothy 1:1 calls it "our hope." Titus 2:13 calls it "our blessed hope." Second Thessalonians 2:16 calls it "our good hope." Romans 15:4 calls it "our comforting hope." Romans 5:2 and Romans 12:12 calls it "our joyous hope." Galatians 5:5 calls it "a righteous hope." Hebrews 7:19, "our better hope." First Peter 1:3, "our living hope." Hebrews 6:19, "our sure and steadfast hope." Romans 5:5 presents it as a non-disappointing hope. First Peter 1:13 says it is "our gracious hope." Titus 3:7, "our eternal hope." Colossians 1:27, "our glorious hope." Hebrews 6:11, "our assured hope." First Peter 3:15, "our defensible hope." This is pretty important. The story is not over until the story's over. And there's no reason to be ambiguous and there's no reason to be confused and vague. Oh, it's hard to understand the specific persons and the specific times but we do understand that. Peter says the prophets of old look to see what person and what time these things were to come to pass. We have a hard time identifying the exact personality of the Antichrist or the beast or the false prophet as they are described in the book of Revelation. We have a hard time with precise timing in these things, certainly. But we basically understand how the story will end if we interpret prophetic literature with the same literal historical grammatical principles with which we interpret everything else. The story is not over until Jesus comes for His people, then returns with His people, then reigns through His people. And then establishes the eternal dwelling place where He lives forever among His people. That's how the story ends.
It's seriously disturbing to me that so many don't care about how the story ends. Why do you think the whole book of Revelation was written? So that you could know how the story ends and so that you can join in the praise that is going on in heaven in Revelation 4 and 5. I'm glad I know how God ends the story and I can praise Him for what is coming.
You know, just to follow up on this a little bit. More and more people who want to call themselves Christians are distancing themselves from any expectation of the Second Coming. People don't talk about it. You don't preach about it. People...they're interested in it as fiction. They're not interested in it as biblical theology. They're interested in the coming of Jesus Christ like they're interested in Harry Potter. And more and more people who call themselves Christians are really disavowing any expectation of the Second Coming. Liberal theologians long ago denied the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and they simply spiritualize all of the prophetic Scriptures and the ones they can't spiritualize they just deny are true. The only Second Coming liberals believe is that the Second Coming of Jesus into somebody's heart. They treat the apostles' hope of future coming as a myth, some false expectation.
But lately there have been some traditionally conservative professedly Bible-believing Christians that have attacked the doctrine of Christ's return, the appearing. This view is gaining tremendous momentum. It is called Pretorism(?) or Hyper-Pretorism(?), or realized eschatology. And I'm amazed to see some of the names of people who are lining up with this. This hyper-pretorism, this realized eschatology bases itself on one verse in the Bible, Matthew 24:34. In Matthew 24;34 Jesus said, "Assuredly I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place." Now Jesus had been talking about future things, He had been talking about prophetic things. And then He said, "This generation will not pass away until all these things take place." They therefore interpret that verse to mean that every last detail of biblical prophecy had to have been completed before the death of the people to whom Jesus spoke. And so they converge all the end time prophetic promises on one event that happened in 70 A.D. and that was the sacking and destruction of Jerusalem. Everything was fulfilled during the turmoil and political upheaval that ensued when Jerusalem was sacked by the Romans and most of its inhabitants were massacred. So that according to this view, this hyper-pretorist view, Christ's Second Coming, the appearing that we've been reading about, the resurrection of the dead and the Great White Throne judgment all happened around 70 A.D. So that absolutely no prophecy of Scripture remains unfulfilled. There's no future hope for Christ's return, they say. They even claim that we are now living after 70 A.D. in the new heavens and the new earth.
This is a hard sell if you read Revelation 21 and 22, the description doesn't match. This means that the earth we live on now is permanent. It's permanent. And sin and evil will never be eradicated. And Satan has already experienced as much defeat as he will ever experience. There's no tangible reality or physical existence beyond the grave. At death the believer simply becomes a disembodied spirit because there is no future resurrection. You see, the problem is if you're going to fulfill some end time prophecies in 70 A.D., you can't be selective. So if you're going to say the Second Coming of Jesus Christ was fulfilled in 70 A.D., you know that it's around the events of the Second Coming that the resurrection of the dead takes place and the Great White Throne takes place, that's got to have happened there as well. Has got nothing left. So when somebody dies they just become a disembodied spirit, passing into the presence of God on a purely spiritual plane with no hope of any future bodily resurrection and the souls of the wicked are simply cast out of God's presence in some disembodied form.
What do they do with statements in the Bible that the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout? I don't know that anybody saw the Lord coming down or shouting or blowing a trumpet in 70 A.D. And did the dead in Christ rise first in 70 A. D.? Did corruptible people become incorruptible and did mortal people become immortal? And was death swallowed up? And 2 Peter 3:10 says when that event happens the heavens will melt with a great noise and the elements will melt with fervent heat. That's the dissolution of the universe, that didn't happen in 70 A.D., what do they do with all that? Well they just allegorize it away, spiritualize it away, make it mean whatever they want it to mean.
Which is remarkable to me. They demand this wooden, literal interpretation of Matthew 24 and in order to fit everything into that hard and fast and absolute sort of wooden literalism of Matthew 24 that"This generation will not pass away till all these things be fulfilled," they have to allegorize everything else. So we have no hope in the future for the return of Christ. We have no hope in the future for a resurrection. We have no hope in the future for an earthly kingdom. We have no hope in the future for Jesus to come and create a new heaven and a new earth. That's just not true. This is a very increasingly popular view. They renounce the plain meaning of Scripture. They renounce every creed, every doctrinal standard ever affirmed by any significant church council, denomination, theologian in the entire history of the church when they deny that Christ will come back to earth. This position is so bizarre you wonder if it should even be considered. But it has to be considered because this is how people think.
When you come to the return, the appearing of Jesus Christ, the Bible is not ambiguous, absolutely crystal clear. There's one verse that I want you to look at just to kind of nail this down for you. Acts 1...in Acts 1, you can pick it up in verse 9, after Jesus said what He said about receiving the Holy Spirit. It says in verse 9, "After He said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, a cloud received Him out of their sight." That's pretty clear.
He was there. He was talking with them. He was real, could be touched. He had the scars of His crucifixion. He was recognizable. He was the God-Man. And all of a sudden He was just lifted up and He just kept ascending, this is His Ascension, until He disappeared in a cloud. And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was departing, behold two men in white clothing stood beside them, two angels appeared and they said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky?" You know, that seems to me at first read a silly question. People say, "Well, what would you be looking at if somebody just took off?" But that's not what they meant. It's why...the verb in the Greek...it's why are you gazing longingly as if He's lost to you? "This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven..." How did He go up, by the way? Physically? Bodily? In full view. "This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come in just the same way as you've watched Him go into heaven."
How do you get around that? The way He left is the way He's coming back...clouds and He's visible and He's real and He appears. He ascended in a physical, bodily form, He'll return from heaven in just the same way as you watched Him go into heaven. How do they get around that? They deny that He actually ascended into heaven in bodily form. How can they deny that when the Bible says that? Well they say it doesn't mean that. We'll tell you what it means.
This is just one of many attacks on the Second Coming. I don't need to beg the issue. The Second Coming is a cardinal doctrine, cardinal doctrine. We believe it. Now we also know Jesus said, "Of the day and the hour, no man knows," right? So we live in the imminent aspect of it. Mark 13, you don't know what time it's going to happen. You don't know. There's mysteriousness to it. I don't know when it's going to happen. People say that to me, "Do you think we're living near the return of Christ?" Nearer than yesterday, nearer than this morning. "Well, when do you think it will happen?" "No man knows the day or the hour." You do not know when the time is...Mark 13:33...I don't know when it is. That's like people ask me, Jesus came and He had a name written that no man knew and they ask me, "What is that name?" How am I going to know that name? You're not going to find that name in the footnotes of the MacArthur Study Bible. I don't know that name.
Hal Lindsey wrote a book, The Late Great Planet Earth and said Jesus would come in 40 years, after 1947 when Israel was a state. Forty years later Jesus would come. A man named Weisenant(?) wrote a book in 1988, Eighty-eight Reasons Why Jesus Will Come in 1988. Remember that? Little red book. Eighty-eight reasons why Jesus will come in 1988, He didn't come. The next year he wrote another book. Eighty-Nine Reasons Why Jesus Will Come in '89. That's true. And then he bailed on it, the project didn't work. He couldn't sell the '89 book because people knew by then. Then Harold Kamping(?) of Family Radio came out with an absolute prediction that Jesus was going to come in a specific year. The Bible is pretty clear, we don't know. Much mystery clouds are full understanding of the timing of these things, we have no idea. The Son of Man is coming in an hour you don't expect, Luke 12:40, so just be ready all the time. You don't know when He's coming. It's impactful to live in the light of the coming of Christ.
I always think of the story when I was a kid, crazy story but I did crazy things as a kid. When the teacher left the room when I was a kid, I often felt it was my opportunity to take over the class for no good reason. And I remember one time I happened to be jumping from desk to desk and failed to hear the orthopaedic wedges coming back toward the door, you know. All of a sudden the door is thrown open and she comes in and I'm in mid-flight. Anticipation of the coming of someone who has authority has a marked influence on how we conduct ourselves. Don't you know? Like the way you drive when there isn't a policeman around, and the way you drive when you think there might be one around the next corner. The Lord understands the powerful motivation of living in the light of the imminent revealing and appearing of Jesus Christ. All of that to take us to the text.
Let's go back to 1 John. Now anyone who has this hope, verse 3 says, anyone who has this hope fixed on Him will find that it has immense implications, practical implications. These people who live as if Jesus already came in the past, they literally are cut off from this marvelous motivation. John is going to show us here the powerful influence of living in the light of Christ's coming. Living in the light of Christ's coming has powerful influence. You know, the Thessalonian church understood that, one of the reasons they were such a wonderful church was that in verse 10 of chapter 1 of 1 Thessalonians, they lived waiting for His Son from heaven. Do you live like that? That's a tremendous impact, how you live and how you plan for the future.
John gives us in this text five features to a life lived in this hope...five elements of it. And sometimes John's not too easy to track. Let me see if I can just kind of cut this passage up and we'll move a little more into it. The first feature related to living in the light of this hope is that the hope in the return of Christ is secured by abiding. Not everybody can have this hope. This hope is limited to people who are abiding. Verse 28, "Now, little children, abide in Him so that when He appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming." The term"abiding" means to remain, meno, to stay, remain faithful to the gospel. We went into this in detail last time. Remain faithful to Christ, don't do what they did back in verse 19, "They went out from us, they were not really of us, if they had been of us they would have remained with us. They went out in order that it might be shown they were not all of us."
You remain. If you want to be sustained in the benefits and blessings of this hope, if you want to enjoy the motivation and the influence of this hope, then abide in Him, remain faithful. This is a call to persevere and not defect, to continue in His Word. This is the very call that you have in the third chapter of Hebrews verse 6, Christ was faithful as a Son over His house whose house we are, whose house we are if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end. The people who have this hope and for whom this hope has power in their lives are the people who hold fast their confidence in Christ, continue to cling to that hope firm to the very end.
Down in verse 12 of Hebrews 3, it says, "Take care, brethren, lest there should be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart in falling away from the living God." And verse 14, "You will become partakers of Christ, we have and it will continue if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance, firm unto the end." Just another way to describe abiding, be faithful. Over in chapter 4 verse 11, comes at it on the negative side, "Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest lest anyone fall through following the same example of disobedience."
We said this last time, Scripture very clearly commands us to abide. John uses the term all through this epistle. We are commanded to abide. We are commanded to be overcomers. Revelation 2 and 3, "Blessed are those who overcome...who sustain." The overcoming is described in 1 John 5:4 as our faith.
So our hope is secured by remaining faithful. That is the means by which God secures us, by means of our preservation. It is by faith as the means that He saves us. It is by faith and obedience as the means that He sanctifies us. It is by perseverance and endurance as the means by which He secures us. And being secure and abiding, we will have confidence and not shrink from Him in shame at His coming. Those who abide have a kind of fearless trust. Verse 17 of chapter 4 speaks of the same thing. "By this love is perfected with us that we may have confidence in the day of judgment." When you see in your life the wonderful love of God poured out, shed abroad, when you love God, love Christ and love the people of God, when that love is perfected in you by the work of God, this gives you confidence in the day of judgment. It allows you to fearlessly look forward to the return of Christ. Look at it another way, if you have denied the name of Christ, if you once confessed Christ and you have fallen away, if you have once endeavored to walk obediently, you no longer care, you're in sin, you will have no right nor will you have any heart to hold to a hope that some day Jesus will appear because when He does you're going to be there in shame and there will be no confidence in His appearing. That belongs to those who abide. Our hope then is secured by abiding.
Secondly, it is manifest by righteousness...it is manifest by righteousness and this is in verse 29. "If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him." Now our future hope begins to take on some behavioral impact. The people who really have this hope, the people who abide will not only be blameless at the time of His appearing and stand before Him confidently and not shrink away from Him in shame, but they are here manifesting righteousness because those who have this hope have this hope because they've been born of God. Wonderful, wonderful reality of new birth, regeneration. This, of course, unmasks the phonies again, doesn't it? John does this so well. People who claim to be, "Oh yes, I'm waiting for Jesus to come...Oh yes." And you look at their life and there's no righteousness there, there's no love of righteousness, hatred of sin. So this unmasks the phonies who claim to have Christian hope and have absolutely no right to it. It is a hope that belongs to those who manifest righteousness.
Look at the verse again. "If you know that He is righteous, " if you know, oida, if you know absolutely that He is righteous, not by experience so much, but you know it because it's an absolute truth. If you know that, and you do, that He is righteous, you know, different word,ginosko, you know consequently or experientially or reasonably that everyone also practices righteousness is born of Him. If you know absolutely that He is righteous, then you can perceive that the one doing righteousness is reflecting His life. Logical. The son will be like his father. A believer will be like His Father. If you know He's righteous, you know that everyone practices, present-indicative pattern, the pattern of their life, not perfection, but direction...pattern of life. If you know that He is righteous, that is He is without sin, without error, He is just, He is free from evil. Psalm 11, "The Lord is righteous. He loves righteous deeds." Great verse. If you know that He is righteous, you know that anyone who has been born of Him, past completed action with present continuing results, anyone who has been born of Him is going to manifest righteousness. And you're back to this same thing again that a believer is known not by what they claim but by how they live.
So, our hope in Christ is guaranteed by abiding. It is realized, or manifest in righteousness. If your life is characterized by a practice and pattern of sin, you have no right to this hope. And again John is saying what you did in the past, some prayer you prayed, as we heard again in baptism, some baptism that you had some time in your life isn't how you determine your spiritual condition before God, you look at your life right now and you ask...what is the pattern? What do I long for? What do I love? What do I desire?
I was saying to the young people this week in a conference that what sets a Christian apart, really, is a longing to...to honor Christ. It's a longing to honor Christ. You don't always fulfill it, but that's your longing. And I told them, I said, "You know, I study the Bible a lot but I don't ever study the Bible with the end in mind of understanding doctrine. I don't ever study the Bible with the end in mind of solving an exegetical problem. My understanding of the Bible, my ability to solve a problem in a text, my effort to interpret a passage, my grasp of theology is never an end in itself. The end of all of that is to make Christ and to make God more wondrous in my mind, in my heart. It's always to understand more about God, more about Christ, to make God more glorious and Christ more wondrous so that the compelling cry of my heart is to honor Him."
I think the driving force in living a Christian life is not somebody banging you with rules. It's being lost in wonder, love and praise. And you study the Scripture to understand what it says about God. You study the Scripture to understand what it says about God manifest in the flesh in Jesus Christ so that you're so caught up and swept away by the wonder of God and the glory of Christ that the desire of your heart to please Him and to honor Him increases and increases and increases. And that's how you move away from sin because the things you know that dishonor Him are so repulsive to you. So when you're saying a righteous life, you're talking about the direction, you're not talking about perfection. People who are born of God who possess the life of God pursue righteousness and are interrupted in the pursuit by sin.
Well, we could say more. I can't believe the time has gone so fast. I don't even have time for the next point, but I'll tell you what it is. You can write it down cause it's an important one and it's going to set the foundation for things later in the epistle. We said then that our hope is secured or guaranteed by abiding. It is manifest or realized in righteousness. And here is a wondrous thing. Our hope is established in love...it is established in love.
Chapter 3 verse 1, "See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called children of God and such we are, for this reason the world doesn't know us because it did not know Him." This is the astounding fact that we have been given this hope, we have been enabled to abide, we have empowered to manifest righteousness because of God's immense love. The reason we're His children is because of His love. And the language here, "See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us," John is overwhelmed with astonishment as he contemplates the amazing love which conferred on sinners the right to be sons of God and therefore to have this great hope.
Just the first word of chapter 3 "See, look, behold, wonder, adoring astonishment how great a love." I just have to tell you about that word"great," can I? Potapan(?), classical Greek. It poses this question, where did that come from? You would use it when you wanted to express the idea that this was foreign, this was alien. It would be used to describe something that was so abnormal and unnatural that you would say, "What country did that come from? What planet did that drop in from?" Something completely foreign, something that has an origin completely outside of our world. See what a foreign alien unearthly other-worldly love the Father has bestowed upon us that He would give us the privilege of being His sons and then having this great hope.
Well that's a little teaser for next Sunday night. And we will wrap up this section then.
Lord, again we are so blessed to have Your Word. We are so encouraged because the more we know it the more we know You, the more we know You the more there is to love You for. To love You with all our heart, soul, mind and strength requires that we have this ever-increasing understanding of Your glory, what makes You so worthy of all our affection. Help us to always learn the Word of God with a view to better knowing the God we love and the Christ who lives within us so that we would love You more, long to be like Him, pursue those things that honor You. Increase our knowledge of Yourself and of Your Son and of Your Spirit that we might pursue out of surpassing and increasing love that which we know would please the one for whom our love grows and grows. And thank you for loving us in the beginning. We desire to live in the hope of Jesus' appearing. It could be any time. Make us ready. Strengthen us to abide. Power us to manifest righteousness. Fill us with wonder and astonishment at such love that has privileged us to possess this hope as Your children so that we may make the glory of the gospel attractive to those around us. These things we ask in Your Son's name. Amen.
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Press Event: Sustainable Energy Roadmap for Jamaica
Friday, October 11, 2013
Westin Hotel
J.E. Irausquin Blvd 77
Palm Beach, Aruba
Featuring commentary by:
The Honorable Phillip Paulwell, Energy Minister of Jamaica
Alexander Ochs, Director of Climate and Energy, Worldwatch Institute
Mark Konold, Caribbean Program Manager, Climate and Energy, Worldwatch Institute
Evan Musolino, Research Associate, Climate and Energy, Worldwatch Institute
Oranjestad, Aruba—The Worldwatch Institute, along with the Jamaican Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, will host a press event presenting the Institute's Sustainable Energy Roadmap for Jamaica here at the 5th Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF).
The event will be held from 9:30 to 10:00 a.m. on Friday, October 11, 2013, at the Westin Aruba Hotel, J.E. Irausquin Blvd 77, Palm Beach, in the Bridal Salon located on the lower level across from the Gallery. It is open to the press and the public.
Energy Minister of Jamaica The Honorable Phillip Paulwell, Worldwatch Director of Climate and Energy Alexander Ochs, and Worldwatch Caribbean Program Manager Mark Konold will discuss the way forward for Jamaica's electricity sector based on key findings and recommendations from the report. The panelists will then take questions from the floor.
Completed with support from the International Climate Initiative of the German Ministry of the Environment, the Jamaican Sustainable Energy Roadmap will be published later this month. It examines Jamaica's electricity sector today and assesses the full costs of the country's unsustainable reliance on imported fossil fuel. The Roadmap then analyzes the potential for energy efficiency and renewable energy supply and discusses the socioeconomic impacts of alternative energy development pathways, concluding that a scenario of high renewable energy penetration can bring enormous cost savings to the country.
Based on further analysis of the given investment environment for clean energy technologies, the Roadmap suggests regulatory and institutional changes that will be necessary to support the quick adoption of clean energy solutions.
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Visit the Worldwatch website for more information about our Climate and Energy Program.
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Predicting Response to Standardized Pediatric Colitis Therapy (PROTECT)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01536535
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : February 22, 2012
Last Update Posted : October 4, 2018
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This is a multi-center, open-label study to determine the safety and effectiveness (how well it works) of two standardized treatments called "mesalamine" (Pentasa®) and "prednisone" in children with newly diagnosed UC. Standardized treatments are types of treatments agreed upon and used by many qualified doctors. The medications being used in this study are considered "standard of care". Currently the ways in which these medicines are used (doses, frequency of dosing) may vary from site to site. This study will determine response to a standardized way of giving these medicines.
This study will also identify biomarkers for ulcerative colitis. Biomarkers are things that doctors can find in blood, stool, or bowel tissue that indicate how much inflammation there is in the bowel, how the inflammation is produced, and whether the inflammation is responding to treatment. Collecting response and remission (free of symptoms) information on these standardized treatments and the "biomarkers" can possibly help doctors create a model, or plan to know which children with UC may respond quickly, or which children may develop complications.
|Condition or disease
|Ulcerative Colitis
|Drug: Mesalamine Drug: Corticosteroid Drug: Corticosteroids then mesalamine
|Phase 4
Ulcerative Colitis (UC) denotes a phenotype of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), where inflammation is localized to the colonic mucosa, and extends from the rectum proximally in varying extents. The disorder is thought to result from an inappropriate activation of the mucosal immune system by antigens derived from both the host epithelium and the enteric flora, in genetically susceptible individuals. UC is strikingly heterogeneous with respect to age of onset, anatomical extent and disease course, with some experiencing chronically active severe disease, while others have intermittent periods of clinical remission and disease exacerbation. Patients' therapeutic responses vary. The reasons underlying such variability are not well understood. Although it has been widely hypothesized that several genes may influence the development of UC, and modify its phenotypic expression and severity, to date there are few confirmed examples of such relationships.
It has been postulated that the 5-aminosalicylate drugs exert their anti-inflammatory effect locally at the intestinal mucosa. Mechanisms likely include inhibition of 5-lipoxygenase resulting in decreased production of leukotriene B4, scavenging of reactive oxygen metabolites, prevention of up-regulation of leukocyte adhesion molecules, and inhibition of IL-1 synthesis. Though multiple studies have shown the efficacy of aminosalicylates in inducing and maintaining remission in adults with UC, there are few data in children.
Corticosteroids have been the mainstay of treatment of severe UC since efficacy was first demonstrated in the 1955 randomized controlled trial by Truelove and Witts. Recent practice guidelines developed in adults support their use because of rapid onset of action and significant efficacy though CS dependency is noted. Though no controlled data on their use have been reported in children they are frequently used in this population. A recent report from investigators leading the prospective Pediatric IBD Collaborative Research Group Registry described 97 subjects with a diagnosis of UC and a minimum of 1 year follow-up; 79% received CS. At diagnosis 81% of CS treated patients had moderate/severe disease, and 81% had pancolitis. Clinically inactive disease, determined by physician global assessment, was noted in 60% at 3 months following CS therapy, but by one year 45% were considered CS dependent despite the frequent use of IM. Among those children with initially moderate to severe disease in clinical remission at 3 months, about two-thirds had stopped the CS by one year.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|467 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Multicenter Open-label Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Standardized Initial Therapy Using Either Mesalamine or Corticosteroids Then Mesalamine to Treat Children and Adolescents With Newly Diagnosed Ulcerative Colitis.
|Actual Study Start Date :
|May 1, 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|April 30, 2018
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|April 30, 2018
Experimental: Mesalamine Only
mesalamine (Pentasa®) comes in 500mg capsules, and doses will need to be rounded to the nearest 500mg increment, with a maximum dose of 76 mg/kg/day. The average dose for the pediatric population will be approximately 70 mg/kg/day. Patients will be allowed to escalate to the final dose over 4 days to minimize sideeffects such as headache.
If a patient does not respond to mesalamine then a corticosteroid will be added to the treatment.
Drug: Mesalamine
Mesalamine (Pentasa) comes in 500mg capsules, and doses will need to be rounded to the nearest 500mg increment, with a maximum dose of 76 mg/kg/day. The average dose for the pediatric population will be approximately 70 mg/kg/day. Patients will be allowed to escalate to the final dose over 4 days to minimize side-effects such as headache.
Other Name: Pentasa
Experimental: Corticosteroids then mesalamine
Patients will begin with Corticosteroids, which will be weaned as tolerated and mesalamine (Pentasa®) added.
Drug: Corticosteroids then mesalamine
Initiate treatment with prednisone, 1-1.5 mg/kg/day, (maximum 40-60 mg in a single morning dose, either as tablet or liquid equivalent), rounded up to the nearest 5 mg value. This dose will be continued for 2 weeks to assess response. If response mesalamine will be added 500 mg capsules 70-75 mg/kg per day
Other Name: Prednisone
Active Comparator: Corticosteriod
Hospitalized patients with severe UC (PUCAI≥65) will begin IV Corticosteroids followed by a corticosteroid taper.
Drug: Corticosteroid
Initiate treatment with IV Corticosteroid followed by corticosteroid taper for patients hospitalized with severe CS.
Other Name: Prednisone
- Corticosteroid free remission (SFR) [ Time Frame: 52 weeks ]Relative to other patients, those who have a PUCAI<10 at 4 weeks from start of therapy will be more likely to be in corticosteroid free remission (PUCAI<10) at 52 weeks while receiving the aminosalicylate mesalamine only as maintenance therapy without the need for rescue therapy with IM, CI, anti-TNFα, or surgery.
- Corticosteroid free remission [ Time Frame: 52 weeks ]
The secondary endpoints are defined relative to start of therapy:
- PUCAI <10 at 4 weeks
- SFR at 12 weeks without the need for rescue therapy
- SFR at 26 weeks without the need for rescue therapy
- SFR at 104 weeks without the need for rescue therapy
- Endoscopic response (Mayo score reduced by ≥1) and being 0,1 at week 52
- Endoscopic remission (Mayo score 0) at week 52
- IMPACT - III at 52 and 104 weeks
- Colectomy free status during the follow-up period
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|4 Years to 17 Years (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≥ 4years and ≤17 years at initiation of therapy (achieved 4th birthday, not yet 18th)
- Weight ≥15 kg
- New diagnosis of ulcerative colitis established by standard clinical, endoscopic, and histologic features at the PROTECT study site
- Colitis extending beyond the rectosigmoid (Paris classification E2, E3, or E4)[144]. If a patient is seriously ill and the clinician does not advance the colonoscope beyond the sigmoid colon but the clinical condition of the patient highly suggests more extensive disease then that patient is eligible for study.
- Disease activity by PUCAI of ≥10 at diagnosis
- No therapy previously initiated to treat the newly diagnosed ulcerative colitis
- Stool culture negative for routine enteric pathogens (Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, E. coli 0157:H7) and Clostridium difficile toxin. Recent successful treatment for Clostridium difficile does not exclude a patient if toxin now absent. However, the patient must be a minimum of 5 weeks from the time treatment was started at the time toxin is absent.
- Stool study negative for enteric parasites (ova and parasites)
- Parent/guardian consent and patient assent
- Ability to remain in follow-up for a minimum of one year from diagnosis
- Female patients of child bearing age must have a negative urine pregnancy test and practice acceptable contraception (e.g., abstinence, intramuscular or hormonal contraception, two barrier methods (e.g., condom, diaphragm, or spermicide), intrauterine device, verbal report of the partner with history of vasectomy, or be surgically sterile). All female patients of childbearing potential (post-menarche) will undergo urine pregnancy testing at screening and must not be lactating.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Clinical, endoscopic, radiologic, or histologic evidence suggesting CD consistent with Paris and NASPGHAN criteria[144, 145]
- A previous diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease for which treatment was given
- Evidence of any active enteric infection at the time of study entryUse of any oral CS for non-gastrointestinal indication within the past 4 weeks (e.g., asthma). Use of inhaled CS does not exclude a patient.
- History of use of IM or anti-TNFα agent for other medical conditions (e.g., juvenile rheumatoid arthritis) within the past 6 months
- Use of Accutane within the past 4 weeks
- Use of any investigational drug within the past four weeks
- Use of any 5-aminosalicylate within the past 4 weeks
- Pregnancy
- Subjects with poorly controlled medical conditions (e.g. diabetes, congestive heart failure)
- Proctitis or proctosigmoiditis only (Paris classification E1) on colonoscopic evaluation
- Chronic renal disease (BUN and serum creatinine >1.5 times the upper normal limit)
- Hepatic disease (AST or ALP greater than 3 times the upper normal limit in the absence of concomitant liver disease associated with IBD following full evaluation)
- History of allergy or hypersensitivity to salicylates, aminosalicylates, or any component of the Pentasa capsule.
- History of coexisting chronic illness or evidence of significant organic or psychiatric disease on medical history or physical examination, which, in the Investigator's opinion, would prevent participation in the study
- History or presence of any condition causing malabsorption or an effect on gastrointestinal (GI) motility, or history of extensive small bowel resection (greater than half the length of the small intestine).
- The finding of Helicobacter pylori at the time of evaluation does not exclude the patient from the study. Whether to treat this patient for Helicobacter pylori and when will be left to the discretion of the site.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01536535
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|Principal Investigator:
|Jeffrey Hyams, MD
|Connecticut Children's Medical Center
|Principal Investigator:
|Lee Denson, MD
|Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
|Principal Investigator:
|Sonia Davis, DrPH
|Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center - UNC-CH
Additional Information:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Connecticut Children's Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01536535 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
U01DK095745-01 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
1U34DK090804 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|February 22, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|October 4, 2018
|Last Verified:
|August 2018
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
|Plan to Share IPD:
|Plan Description:
|Data will be shared 6 months after the primary publication of the manuscript appears on line.
|Supporting Materials:
Study Protocol
Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP)
Clinical Study Report (CSR)
Analytic Code
|Time Frame:
|Data will be shared 6 months after the primary publication of the manuscript appears on line.
|Access Criteria:
|NIH repository list serve to be determined
Keywords provided by Connecticut Children's Medical Center:
Ulcerative Colitis
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Colitis, Ulcerative
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Colonic Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
Pathologic Processes
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
Antineoplastic Agents
Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
Analgesics, Non-Narcotic
Sensory System Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Antirheumatic Agents


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Local elected officials are endorsing an amendment that passed the U.S. House in June that would double the yearly revenue cap on offshore oil and gas revenue Louisiana receives for coastal projects.
Local elected officials are endorsing an amendment that passed the U.S. House in June that would double the yearly revenue cap on offshore oil and gas revenue Louisiana receives for coastal projects.
The amendment, attached to the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act of 2013, would increase the cap from $500 million to $1 billion.
The provision would dedicate 100 percent of that money to coastal restoration and hurricane protection, said its author, U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge.
"Lifting the arbitrary dollar cap on offshore revenue and directing the Department of Interior to produce the federal guidelines on revenue sharing, which the Obama administration has been delaying, is critical for laying the groundwork that will enable the state of Louisiana to bring forward the value of this revenue stream to fund essential projects in the near term," said Cassidy, whose district includes northern Terrebonne and Lafourche.
The revenue cap was set under the 2006 Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act. That law calls for the federal government to share 37.5 percent of energy production royalties with Gulf Coast states. The revenue-sharing portion of the act takes effect in 2017, and the money the states receive is capped at $500 million a year combined.
Cassidy's amendment would increase the cap to $1 billion starting in 2023. It would also require the federal government to start giving Louisiana and other Gulf states the 37.5 percent share starting this year.
The overall energy bill, however, is considered unlikely to pass in the Senate, and the Obama administration has threatened to veto it, according to multiple media reports. Many Democrats have said they are concerned about the bill's expansion of oil drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
Meanwhile, backers of the amendment at the local and state levels say they hope Cassidy's measure wins final approval.
Garret Graves, chairman of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, said the amendment is a substantial improvement to the offshore energy sharing program.
"Once enacted, this change will allow for significant improvements in protecting communities from hurricanes and restoring our coast," he said. "We strongly urge the Senate to take advantage of this momentum."
Sen. Norby Chabert, R-Houma, explained that the amendment is important to rebuilding Louisiana's coast, which provides access points for energy and shipping commerce.
"An eroding coast and continually deteriorating barrier islands are the front lines to protecting those access routes," he said. "It's critical that we have the resources to rebuild our coast, protect our low-lying communities from storms and continue to help grow America's economy."
State Rep. Gordon Dove, R-Houma, said marsh creation and bank stabilization to improve barrier island creation is imperative for the state and for the nation.
Cassidy's office released statements from several other local lawmakers and coastal advocates supporting his amendment, including state Reps. Lenar Whitney, R-Houma, and Dee Richard, a Thibodaux independent, and Simone Theriot Maloz, executive director of Restore or Retreat.
Cassidy is a candidate in the 2014 Senate race against Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. Landrieu, who sponsored the 2006 law creating the offshore revenue stream for energy-producing states, has introduced Senate legislation to allow Gulf states to immediately share in the increased revenue rate.


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September 14, 2012
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The Center for the Study of New Orleans at Loyola University New Orleans will celebrate the Crescent City's rich musical heritage with the second annual NolaLoyola, "Beats of the Streets: The Brass Brand Tradition in New Orleans," on Friday, Sept. 28. The full day of events is free and open to the public.
The day will kick off with a screening of Jerry Brock's 1987 film, "In that Number: The New Orleans Brass Band Revival," hosted by local brass band legends Gregory Davis of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Gregg Stafford of the Young Tuxedo Brass Band, who both appear in the film. Following the film, the Baby Boyz Brass Band will offer a free concert and various food trucks will be on hand to provide affordable lunch options.
In the afternoon, Ben Jaffe, creative director of Preservation Hall and son of hall founders Allan and Sandra Jaffe, will present the lecture, "New Orleans Jazz on Film," which will feature rare archival footage of noted New Orleans Jazz legends.
"Beats of the Streets" will conclude with a keynote event featuring performances by the Loyola Faculty Jazz Band, the Young Tuxedo Brass Band and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
This event is co-sponsored by the College of Music and Fine Arts and the College of Social Sciences. The full schedule of the event is listed below.
10 a.m. – Noon, Monroe Library, Multimedia Room 2
Film Screening – "In That Number: The New Orleans Brass Band Revival," presented by Gregory Davis and Gregg Stafford
Noon – 2 p.m., Residential Quad
Lunch and Concert – Music by Baby Boyz Brass Band and lunch provided by local food trucks
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Lecture – "New Orleans Jazz on Film," presented by Ben Jaffe
7 p.m., Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall, Communications/Music Complex
Keynote Performances – Featuring the Loyola Faculty Jazz Band, the Young Tuxedo Brass Band and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
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And I'll find strength in pain
And I will change my ways
I'll know my name as it's called again
Cause I have other things to fill my time
You take what is yours and I'll take mine
Now let me at the truth
Which will refresh my broken mind
The day (bedroom remodel) got away from me. I decided to put another coat of plaster on the drywall and then I finished trimming the new window. Then I primed the entire room. NOW it's on to the floor... maybe.
I realized after my podcast with ultrarunnerpodcast.com that I totally misspoke at one point. The discussion was on beer and somehow a question as to what triathletes drink, or something like that, came up. I said triathletes are more 'snooty' and they prefer mixed drinks. The word I was trying to think of was 'refined'. Not sure why I said snooty. Just a preemptive clarification... people who know me know I'm really a triathlete that doesn't swim.
I have $900 in my checking account ready for Leadman registration. I saved a couple hundred more expecting the entry fee to go up. That's what it does right? I remember my first Ironman in Kona I think I paid $250... now it's $650. 5k's used to $10.00. I even remember buying a pack of smokes for $1.50. Errr, never mind.