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The Scariest Thing That Has Ever Happened to Me Ever
I was trying to think of the scariest thing that had ever happened to me, and it occurred to me that there are two different kinds of scary. Today I will deal with creepy, spooky, super-natural scary and tomorrow I will deal with the real life scary.
Real life scary encompasses brushes with death, disease and accidents. It's usually an experience that makes you face at least the possibility of a death you hadn't quite imagined for yourself. Real life scary experiences are things like getting hit by a drunk driver, having the house get robbed, being attacked, having a stalker, finding a lump, swallowing the largest legal dose of radiation allowed (I did this), and being in a plane that almost or does actually crash (more on this tomorrow).
Then we have the realm of the unexplained, the spooky, creepy, cold spot and ectoplasmy kind of scary. This kind of scary may or may not even exist, but many people still have terrifying things happen to them. Unfortunately I'm not one of these people.
I've always wanted a paranormal experience. Well, I say I have anyway. If one actually happened to me I'd probably pee my pants and collapse in a trembling heap. I'd like to see a UFO or a lake monster or something. I'm less inclined to want to see a ghost and a poltergeist would just piss me off because it would be throwing shit around and making too much mess and commotion. I'm all about seeing a Bigfoot or the last remaining dinosaur or something like that, but I've never seen a damned thing that's supernatural and all of the unusual things I've encountered can be explained by the fact that I live in South Florida. So I guess I've always been a little envious of people who've had brushes with the mysterious and unknown.
Back in high school I had a dear friend who was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen in real life and I had a massive crush on her because she was all goth and artsy and took black and white photographs and wrote poems that talked a lot about pain and blood. At the time she was dating Marilyn Manson, who was not yet famous. He was very nice, by the way. Years after they had broken up I ran into him in the mall and he recognized me and was quite friendly, which I hadn't expected at all. So yeah, Marilyn Manson is a pretty nice guy (though I can not forgive him for divorcing the most beautiful woman on the entire planet in exchange for a teenager).
Anyway, I was very envious of my friend who had a ghost in her house. I wanted a ghost in my house too. I spent the night and nothing ever happened. Soon after that my friend was also abducted by aliens, at which point I had to be like, hold up a second. You can't both have a ghost AND be abducted by aliens. These are things that the odds of which are so unlikely that they happen to like one in seventy million people and the odds of them both happening to one person are astronomical. You can either have a ghost in your house or you can be abducted by aliens, but dammit, you can't have both. So she really lost a lot of credibility on that one, but we're still friends and she has neither a ghost in her current home nor have the aliens returned. She was, however, on 20/20 last year and is on her way to becoming a famous poet who might still write about blood and pain. I'm not sure. She has a blog. If you're really creative you can probably find it.
I'm also extremely jealous of my very own parents, who have seen a UFO. All the cool stuff happens to them and it always happens when I'm not around. Doesn't it just figure? They saw the UFO when I was about 5 years old. I lived with Mommom Jewel. They lived in Florida in a high-rise just a mile away from where they live now.
One night at 4am they were awakened by a deafening buzzing sound and looked out of their tenth floor window to see a massive, vibrating, glowing green ball. All of the electricity on the block was knocked out, street lights and all. The glowing ball hovered outside for some time and changed to red and then to orange. The whole time it spun around really fast and then all of a sudden it darted at a sharp angle straight into the intracoastal canal, where they could see it still glowing underwater until it went too far away for them to see it anymore. As soon as it went into the water the electricity came back on.
They swear they weren't doing drugs that night. I've interviewed them both separately and together and the story never changes. Anyone have any explanation? I don't. Ball lightning? Plasma? Who knows.
Perhaps someone can explain the spookiest thing that has ever happened to me, because I certainly can't.
The summer that I was 14 I stayed with Aunt Kiki (THIS summer). Towards the end of the summer my Dad went to Taiwan and my mom let me come back to our house to keep her company. We lived in New York, fairly out in the country, in a house which was set up high on a steep hill, surrounded by woods and overlooking a lake. It was a peaceful, quiet, leafy sort of place where nothing ever happened and it was a lovely place to grow up. I still miss it.
At night I would open my bedroom window and peer out into the forest, which literally emitted a bright green, flashing glow. The entire forest was phosphorescent because there were thousands of millions of fireflies to light it up every summer night. I've never seen anything like it since. We don't have fireflies here.
One night I felt deeply unsettled about something and I decided to go sleep in bed with my mother. A few hours later she poked me lightly and woke me up and the second my eyes opened I knew something was wrong. I felt it and when she saw that I was awake she gave me a little pinch, which I somehow knew meant DO NOT MOVE OR MAKE A SOUND. I pretended to sleep and so did she and it seemed like a long time went by. I opened my eyes very slightly and looked and then I saw what was wrong.
Three men were standing at the foot of the bed looking at us.
I think they were men. They were three, dark figures. They weren't tall. They didn't exactly resemble thugs of any sort who might have broken in to rob us. The alarms had not gone off, the dogs hadn't barked and the men weren't doing anything but looking at us. Silently. I couldn't see their faces or their clothes very well at all because I was trying to pretend I was asleep. It seemed to me that pretending I was asleep was very important and I really didn't want to see how the men looked in the light or what they might do if I stirred.
My heart beat. I broke out into a sweat. I tried to breathe calmly. I thought that was how I was going to die. I thought the men were there to kill us. Maybe the men were someone my parents had testified against or gotten into a bad deal with. In my life, those kinds of things were very real possibilities.
Still I tried to pretend like I was asleep. A while later (and I don't know how long because when you're scared everything seems like several hours) I heard the men's shoes padding across the carpet. I looked and watched all three men walk without a word into the bathroom in my parents' bedroom. Then they disappeared. Just like that, they were gone.
The bathroom was on the second floor and connected only to the bedroom so unless they flew out the window or went down the drain, there was no way out.
I didn't sleep for the rest of the night because knowing that there was no way out, I thought the men were staying in the bathroom. When the sun rose no one was there.
The house had not been broken into. There were no signs of entry, forced or otherwise, but the carpet at the foot of the bed was pressed down and there was a flattened path to the bathroom, which was very obvious because my mother had vacuumed the day before and had made patterns in the rug.
We didn't talk about it for a few hours because we were both terrified. We checked the whole house and found nothing and then we compared stories. We had seen the same thing. The men stood and stared at us and went out through the second floor master bathroom.
We slept together until my father came back and to this day we have never been able to explain what on earth happened and luckily it never happened again.
What do you think it was?
21 comments:
- Unknown said...
Clearly ninja assassins with the wrong address.
This sort of thing doesn't happen anymore because of Google maps.
- Kevin said...
I am a ninja assassin and I can testify that the fine people at Google have put together a stellar navigational product.
- Sauntering Soul said...
I don't know what it was but holy crap your story scared me.
Something of the same sort happened to me when I was younger, and I did the same thing - stayed still, heart pounding, squinting to see who the guy was. I couldn't prove that the guy was really there later, so I thought I dreamed it up. Looking back, now I'm not so sure.
Might be worth scanning the police logs for around that time in that area for something similar in nature. Maybe the ninja assassins did have the wrong house, but got the right one later.....
Terrifying, that's what. Shee.
- Barb McMahon and Alan Mailloux said...
I'd find out where Mommom Jewel and Aunt Janey were that night...
- staticwarp said...
what happened to your layout? its all jacked up now...
- Wide Lawns said...
Oh no. Looks the same to me. I made the font a little bigger is all.
Holy crap that scared me. I just started reading your blog recently because of a mention on violent acres' blog. Your tales are amazing.
- Leonesse said...
I got nothing.
- jennifer said...
um, its the next day...where is your story? just kidding.. Maybe you could try to do stories on all the things that have scared you because that one was really good. But I guess you have to write about something else once in a while. Please keep the scary stories going!
- Laurie said...
Holy SH*T!
Awesome story.
- Moi said...
Holy moly! I read that whilst sitting at work and very nearly crapped my pants. Eek!
- MP said...
yeah...you can be a Stephanie King.. write more of those stories and I'll have to buy a laptop and read it w/ a flashlight under my quilt...
Who knows what it was..I wouldn't ask you might piss them off.
- gulfsidebo said...
my grandparents saw a UFO off the Jersey coast like 40 years ago (God rest their souls) and described it exactly as your folks have to you except they said it was red, not green. Everything else was the same! There was an article written in the paper about it at the time, but it was hush hush and only in the local coastal paper.
I have had communication with a recently deceased family member that I cannot explain. It was very real and unexpected. I was responsible for some of this person's last breaths (CPR) so maybe there is a connection? I have also been visited by my grandfather shortly after he died and by a cat I buried. Both of these last two were in dreams, but I was awakened from these dreams. Why? The dog was going ape for no reason at 3:30 in the morning. She never did this at any other time...only these two times. Coincidence? I think not. Maybe I have some kind of power I don't know of.
My brother has a knack for predicting things a few days before they happen. Unfortunately, it's always something tragic and awful. It's never anything like lottery numbers.
- gulfsidebo said...
btw, remember going to see Marilyn Manson when they were called Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids? They had a light bright on stage at the Purple Grotto that said "ACID". I also remember very distinctively telling you, "These guys suck. They'll never get anywhere." Actually, they DID suck, but definitely improved. Much more a studio band than live at that time. One of the guys in the band went to high school with us.
- gulfsidebo said...
Is it possible that what you and your mom saw were not of this world or this time? Could be extra terrestrials studying your sleeping habits or ghosts? It seems rather odd that they would do nothing or not converse with each other audibly. If they were E.T.'s, maybe they could communicate telepathically.
Something very similar happened to me and my husband before we were married. We were in a hotel room in the hills of Ohio. We were both awakened by a sound which we rationalized to be the ice shifting in the ice bucket. Suddenly the room turned cold, a vacuum swoosh of wind sucked out of the front door and it slammed shut. Only, the door hadn't been opened and it was still locked and had that funny little hook closed just like we had left it. We both had the same description of the event so we know it happened. Sometimes I think creative people just have mysterious things happen to them, like spirits or something seek us out for one reason or another.
- Molly Mac n' Cheeze said...
well, it's very interesting to me the way in which you described the events. if the situation had been altered even a little bit i would not have taken the time to respond and it seems like you have not had any useful comments as of yet, so here is what i wanted to tell you. hopefully this helps you:
I have done an extensive amount of research in the field of paranormal activities and extraterrestrial encounters. What i have found is that there is an increasing pattern of individuals who have claimed to be visited by beings or have been in a similar situation as yourself and have described their experiences much like you have. They experience a sudden feeling of urgency to awaken from their sleep but an inability to move, as if being held down, which is different in your case because you knew that you should not move. 1.) do you remember being able to move if you had wanted to, aside from facial expressions?
next, once they awake they see dark figures at the foot of their beds that do not make any audible noice or conversations, but simply stare at the individuals for what seems like an extended period of time.
this is where stories start to vary... so bear with me.
in some cases people who claim they are abducted are levitated from their beds, still unable to move and are transported via levitation directly through the walls of their bedrooms to a ship of some sort outside.
the individuals that claim to be abducted are still in paralysis when they board the ship and are unable to speak or move but still have control of all other senses (sight, sound, touch, and smell). then they are proceeded to be examined and tested upon via extreemly painful methods and sometimes in inappropriate ways. etc
but since your account does not involve that i do not wish to scare you further with the details,
others who have not reported any abductions have simply experienced similar occurances as what you have described. After a period of time passes where they are started at/evaluated by these figures that always present themselves in groups af at least 2, mostly three, proceed to exit via a closed door, unopened window, or even directly though a wall with not physical effects done to the property. Their actions do not appear hostile, yet the victims are always terribly afraid of them. These individuals are never identified, but are presumed to be aliens, Extraterrestrial lifeforms. Additionally, the spacecraft your parents witnessed is also believed to be a UFO. the reason the power shut off was because of these crafts emmit radio frequencies which debunk electiricity, or more likely steal power from other sources. the crafts are fueled by water with a rotating sphere-shaped dense ball in the center of the craft, so when your parents saw the aircraft dart to a water source, they were were witnessing the craft refueling.
obviously, i cannot prove any of this information to you. this is only the patterns that my research into these topics has uncovered. and the information on the craft has come from the statements of Willaim Cooper. If you research him and watch his public speaches on youtube you will be able to find a plethora of information with MANY MANY facts and dates and names and concurrances on this topic. good luck.
again, im not a crazy nut or anything, im just a college student. im studying pre-med and biochemistry so you know im not insane or buy into anything that's nto scientific or factual, or get my information from unreliable sources either. but i got really interested in this area when i saw something very strange happen in the sky once. maybe ill write about it on my blog one day. most people just think i was on drugs. haha but i seriously wasn't.
i suggest your do your own research into these types of things. just warning ya, there is a lot of totally unreliable sources out there for information on this topic, so whenever you visit a site or speak with someone, take everything with a grain of salt, check references and backgrounds, and ALWAYS QUESTION WHAT YOU SEE, READ, HEAR IN THIS WORLD. people like to put things out there to get attention or create a stir. again, good luck with your endeavor if you decide to look into it further. =) happy hunting! lol
Google "Shadow People" and read the wikipedia definition.
I believe I know who was at the tip of your bed, Shadow People I have had many encounters with Shadow People in my life and they have chased, helped, and just stood there with me, one of them dropped money, which was very weird.
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I am reading a paper by Guica et al. on Kerr/CFT correspondence (arXiv:0809.4266) and I'm not sure if I got this. They choose the boundary conditions, like a deviation of the full metric from the background Near-Horizon Extremal Kerr (NHEK) metric. Let's say that we can write that deviation like
$$\delta_\xi g_{\mu \nu}=\mathcal{L}_\xi g_{\mu\nu}=\nabla_\mu\xi_\nu+\nabla_\nu\xi_\mu$$
And the most general diffeomorphism which preserve the boundary conditions given in the text is:
What my mentor told me, while briefly explaining this, is that we basically need to find the most general $\xi$ such that $\mathcal{L}_\xi g_{\mu\nu}$ is within the class of the boundary conditions.
But how do I find these $\xi$?
How can you find these boundary conditions and diffeomorphisms? Or better jet, how do I find diffeomorphism using those boundary conditions? :\

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This is the story of a teapot — a very special little teapot –a strangely configured teapot and, as it happens, a coffeepot to match.
It all started with a DVD Paul and I were watching one night a little while ago. We have a boxed set of DVDs of some plays by Terence Rattigan, a British playwrite, that turned out to be very good viewing. Each play is so different. One was only a short little one, and then we watched his play called "French Without Tears."
Various versions of this play have been made and filmed, but this version stars Anthony Andrews and Michael Gambon, two of my all-time favourite actors. The play takes place in France at the home of a French professor where several students (adults) are gathered to learn French for various reasons. Anthony Andrews was learning it to become a diplomat. Anyway, the point of this story is the teapot.
Most of the play was centered around a big farmhouse table where all the characters would gather each day to eat and have conversation. There was always a brown teapot in the middle of the big table, and one or another of the characters would be pouring out tea or coffee for the others from it.
Paul didn't notice it at first, but I did, right away. The teapot, which was similar to what they call a "Brown Betty" in England, was quite different in that the handle was on the side and not at the usual back of the pot. It was situated at 90 degrees from the spout, not at 180 degrees from the spout, if you can picture that. Well, you don't have to picture it, just see the teapot itself on this page above and below, which is now my new teapot!
I was fascinated by this design. The following day I went online and started scouring the web for a teapot like this. They are very rare and not easy to locate. I did find one on EBay but I think it had been sold. I found a picture of one on a personal blog, and the owner was just showing it off as a strange looking teapot but she didn't really know anything about it.
Then I found a picture of a small one at a website called Oh So Vintage. Ruth, the owner, is located in Hampshire, England, and she had this cute little brown teapot for sale at her shop! It came with a coffeepot, also with the handle on the side just like the teapot, and they were marked for sale at the incredibly low (in my opinion) price of 12 pounds sterling for the pair of them.
However, there was one little glitch. It said on her web site that this item was "not appropriate for shipping out of the UK." Oh No!
Where there's a will, there's usually a way (in my book), so I wrote Ruth an email right away and put it to her – I loved that little teapot (and coffeepot, as well) and if I offered her more money, would it be possible to ship it across the pond to me, if she would just wrap it up really well so it wouldn't break on the journey?
The next day I heard from Ruth. What a champ! She said that, as it happened, her husband was going to be flying across the pond in a few days' time as he had business in the U.S., and that if I wanted, I could buy it now and she would see if she could wrap it up and fit it in his luggage. He would then post it to me by mail once he was here in the U.S.
I said "Yes, please!" and pretty soon she had wrapped it up and wrote me back saying it would, indeed, fit in his luggage. He was going to Philadelphia and he could take it with him and mail it up to me when he got here.
Oh, I was over the moon happy. I went ahead and bought it on her site and by the next day all the arrangements were made, her husband took off for the U.S., and true to his word, and Ruth's word about wrapping it up really well, the teapot and coffeepot arrived here within a few days' time without any problems.
I just love it. With the little 90 degree handles. You can see I have another brown teapot that sits with these vintage ones. It's one I bought from a British website and it's not technically a Brown Betty, but it's pretty close. The style is a bit different, but I like it just the same.
So that's the story of my little vintage teapot from England. Ruth also mentioned that this set actually belonged to her mother who collected vintage pots like this. So I assured her that I would love them and care for them and that I'd send her a photo of where they were finally living now, here in my dining room. I hope she is happy with everything about them now. I am still in awe that they were not that expensive, were made in England (Royal Worcester) and that the whole transaction went so smoothly.
Again, thanks Ruth, if you ever pop in here and read this entry, for everything. I love your vintage items on the web site and wish I could afford to buy some of that linen you have there, but as it happens, I am making a New Year's resolution in a couple of days' time which is to be FRUGAL for a change. That means no more buying things I don't NEED. It will be hard for me, but I really need to stop spending money and start saving it again. I have all I could want here now so away we go…into the year of frugality – 2013! I hope that by announcing this resolution here, it will be easier for me to resist my natural inclination to purchase things which, thanks to this internet thing we have now, is all too easy!
Back to basics for me, and my needlepoint project that I'm working on. That keeps me out of trouble for long periods of time lately!


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Spain's European Heritage
Yuste Monastery (Cáceres)
The European Heritage Label is awarded to those places, monuments or cultural properties that have played a key role in Europe's common history. Spain's inclusion on the list was a foregone conclusion. This trip will take you to see the Spanish sites that have this label and will give you an idea of their importance for the European citizens of both the past and the present.
The European Heritage Label is a European Union initiative whose aim is to publicise and preserve the continent's cultural wealth. It includes places that have been particularly important and relevant in the development of a general European identity over the course of centuries, from a historic, artistic or ideological standpoint. As might be expected, several of these sites are in Spain. A tour of these places will reveal not only monuments, buildings and landscapes that are well worth seeing, but also Spain's significant contributions to the common European legacy.
Royal Monastery of Yuste
This 15th-century monastery is an exceptional work of Renaissance architecture. It is located in the interior of Spain, in the province of Cáceres, and the fact that it was awarded a European Heritage label is particularly symbolic: the Emperor Charles I, who is considered one of the first promoters of the idea of a unified Europe, chose it as his residence after abdicating. A visit to this place, with its cloisters, its Gothic and Renaissance elements, its Flemish-style gardens, its furnishings and paintings, is sure to please.
Archives of the Kingdom of Aragon
These archives await you in the city of Barcelona, in the traditional Gothic Quarter. One of the claims to fame of this institution, created in 1318, is that these are the oldest living archives in Europe. At its two locations, documentation that is essential to the study of the history of Spain and the Mediterranean countries is preserved. Among its treasures is the eye-catching collection of maps and plans, and the famous medieval codices of the monasteries of Ripoll and San Cugat del Vallés, important centres for the dissemination of culture in the Middle Ages. You are sure to enjoy the permanent exhibition at the Viceroys' Palace, an elegant 16th-century building that forms part of the Archives.
Cape Finisterre
This natural feature of northern Spain is a legendary place in European history. In ancient times, it was believed to be the end of the known world, and as it was the westernmost point of the Roman Empire, its name reflected this: finis terrae (in Latin, "the end of the earth"). The symbolic nature of this location in Galicia made it the last stage on the Camino de Santiago route for many pilgrims coming from Europe. Its impressive scenery and breathtaking views of the sea and the coast may well leave you speechless.
The Hall of Residence
Located in Madrid, the Hall of Residence was one of the liveliest and open cultural centres in Europe in the inter-war period. It was home to such famous Spaniards as Federico García Lorca, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí and Severo Ochoa. Today, it is still an internationally recognised forum for intellectual interchange and dissemination, in which artists and scientists from all over the world take part. Its full schedule of activities means that you will be able to attend conferences, roundtables, concerts, exhibits and poetry recitals, to name a few.
The European Heritage Label is a tribute to the cultural diversity of the "old continent", and the list is increasing year by year. You can already start enjoying it in Spain.
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Sunday School – 10:00 am
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"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast."--Eph. 2:8,9
The question posed, is faith necessary, might seem to some to be a strange and ridiculous one. The average Sovereign Grace Baptist would speedily answer in the affirmative. However, there has arisen a movement which denies the necessity of faith in the elect of God. Many of our dearest brethren don't see this basic, beautiful truth. Hardshellism has replaced gospel preaching as well as the commission. Hopefully, this short article shall put an end to the debate so far as the Word of God is concerned.
Our text verse is a rather familiar one amongst our brethren. We do not deny that God has a chosen people. In fact, we affirm that He has a chosen people who must, and will be saved. They are referred to as "the elect of God"(Col. 3:12), the "chosen of God"(I Pet. 2:4), "the sheep"(Mat. 25:33), and other various names. Salvation is received totally because of the grace of Almighty God. We can do absolutely nothing to obtain or merit eternal life. However, according to our text verse, an elect is saved by grace through faith. This is where hardshellism parts with the historical teaching of Baptists and with the Word of God. Faith is necessary. It is the gift of God, but, nevertheless, necessary, as we shall see. God's people are a people of faith.
In Jhn. 3:16, we read that "whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life." I realize this verse is quoted by the religious world and used in the depths of Arminianism to try and prove that God loves every individual without exception. I emphatically deny that teaching, but, do not deny the inspiration of this verse and thus, the practical application. Therefore, we can obviously see from this passage that the promise of everlasting life is here made to whomsoever "believeth in him." Again, in Jhn. 3:18, we read, "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." Again, the promise of eternal life apart from condemnation is here made to him "that believeth." On the other hand "he that believeth not is condemned." This tells us that it is not according to God's way of working to save people into unbelief. Our duty here is to read the Scripture and rely on it for guidance. This portion of Scripture teaches that believers in Christ are saved. How does this portion of Scripture line up with the Bible as a whole? We shall see, for Scripture must interpret Scripture.
In Jhn. 5:24, John is inspired to write these words: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." Once again, the Holy Spirit affirms that blessed promise of everlasting life unto Him "that heareth my word, and believeth." Here, death is, in one sense, the natural state into which man is born. Man is brought into this world "dead in trespasses and sins"(Eph. 2:1). In this state, man is lost and deserving of the death of the eternal lake of fire. In this condition, man has not been "born again"(Jhn. 3:3). On the other hand, the believer is said to be passed from the state of "death unto life." Life is representative of man's condition after he has been brought to faith. This man has been "quickened"(Eph. 2:1) and "born again"(Jhn. 3:3). God didn't, however, quicken this man into unbelief. This would contradict the fact that only the believer is promised eternal life. If the believer has "passed from death unto life," the unbeliever then has not.
Reveals of the Gentiles, that God "put no difference between us(the Jewish believers) and them, purifying their hearts by faith." Here, the Lord is the One who purified the heart. This is in the Lord's hand. How does He do it would be our question? He purifies the heart by faith. The "love of God is shed abroad in our hearts"(Rom. 5:5) WHEN He quickens us. Before men's hearts have been purified, they are without faith. Men have faith because it has been freely given to them by God. Faith is a gift of God(Eph. 2:8). The faith, however, is necessary. This is God's ordained way to work. God was not limited in His knowledge or ability to work another way. Notwithstanding, this is the way God has chosen to carry out His ordained and perfect will. If God has ever worked another way(which I do not believe He has), it is not recorded within the pages of Holy Writ.
"Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay; but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law."--Rom. 3:24-28. Here we have another passage which supports the fact that faith is God's ordained gift that He gives to His children for whom Christ died. In this passage, we are said to be justified by faith. In the scope of eternity, we are justified because Christ paid our sin debt on the cross at Calvary some two thousand years ago. However, in time, we are justified by faith. The Lord is said to be a "justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." There is no room to deny what Paul was inspired to write. We are not justified by works of the law, for we cannot keep the law. But, Christ, who fulfilled it is our "propitiation through faith in his blood." Is it not wrong then to tell the world to believe in Christ? Is this not what Paul told the Phillipian jailor(Acts 16:30,31)? Paul realized it wasn't in his power to save. He also realized that Christ had given His churches a commission to evangelize the world with gospel preaching.
The believer in Christ is an overcomer. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God--I Jhn. 5:5. How can we deny this? We are promised that we have and will overcome this world if we believe on Christ. Here is not stated that the elect overcome the world. That would be a true statement if it did. But, more to our inept understanding, the Lord simply says, "he that believeth Jesus is the Son of God is he that overcometh the world."
Hardshellism says that a man can desire Christ as much as he wants to, but, he can't come if he's a non-elect. This type of thinking mixes truth with heresy. Surely a non-elect can't come to Christ. However, he will never yearn for the saving power of the blood of Christ. He will not see himself as a sinner in need of a Savior. Those who do see this are the elect of God and will come. Hardshellism and the priesthood of the church heresy generally declare(if not by doctrine, by practice) that those outside of believers in the doctrines of grace are lost. There is absolutely no scriptural warrant for any such belief. There are many babes in Christ who know him, but, lack a knowledge of true doctrine. Anyhow, we do not know who the elect are. We do not have the power to distinguish.
In seeing that faith is essential to salvation, we then should pose the question, "How does the Lord impart faith to His elect?" We will affirm, as have our Baptist forefathers, that He does it through the gospel message. "Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God"(Rom. 10:17). This is not to give ability to anyone apart from the working of the Holy Spirit to believe the gospel message. It is asserted, however, that the Holy Spirit works through the gospel to impart faith to His elect people. There is no salvation apart from believing in Christ. This point has been sufficiently stated. However, faith must have an object. Nobody has faith in "nothing." Faith has the object of Christ and His salvation. Therefore, when the gospel message is preached(read, taught, heard, witnessed, etc.), the Holy Spirit distinguishes between the elect and non-elect and grants faith to His sheep.
In II Ths. 2:13,14, we read, "But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ." Paul here states, through inspiration, that these were "from the beginning chosen," as are all of God's saints. He also shows the necessity of the "sanctification of the Spirit", or quickening, or regeneration. However, he uses the conjunction "and" to show that the "belief of the truth" is equally as vital. Then, in the following verse states, "Whereunto He called you by our gospel." This is God's overall plan summed up in this passage. He has a chosen people whom He will call to belief in Christ through the preaching of the gospel. There is no gap of any time frame between regeneration and believing in Christ. This would conclude that man could be a regenerated unbeliever, and this is a contradiction of terms. When the Lord calls, or regenerates, one of His own, He supplies him with the faith necessary to be saved, through the gospel message that he has heard.
"Knowing brethren beloved, your election of God. For our gospel came not unto you in word only(as it does generally to all who hear it), but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost and in much assurance:"--I Ths. 1:4,5a. "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth"--Jam. 1:18a. "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise"--Eph. 1:13. "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith."--Rom. 1:16,17. These verses should suffice our need to prove that God saves His elect by drawing them by His Spirit through the gospel message.
Now, some would say, "But, you are limiting God. You are taking away from His glory." To this, we turn to I Cor. 1:21, which says, "For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe."
In this verse, we have explained the reason God saves His people by bestowing faith to them through the gospel. The reason is because it pleased Him to do so. I am not limiting the Lord in saying He works this way. God could have saved His elect any way He desired to do it. That was by the foolishness of preaching. Does God work in ways that aren't pleasing to Him? Does He change? To both questions, we answer in the negative. God always carries out His well pleasing will.
In conclusion, to answer our original question, "Is Faith Necessary?", we conclude that it is. "Without faith it is impossible to please" God(Heb. 11:6). Therefore, God grants faith to the recipients of His Sovereign Grace through the gospel message as it pleases Him to do so.
12200 Quotations from the Writings of Charles H. Spurgeon(Grand Rapids, MI, Baker Books, 1988)p. 64.


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Craig Nevius said he formed his opinion when he began working with the University of Texas at Austin as it sought to take the artwork from the actor.
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Henceforth, let there by a rule that nothing can be compared to Maryland's failed investment at Rocky Gap, located just outside Cumberland in Western Maryland, except for Rocky Gap and perhaps any other $55 million white elephant loss that comes along. We know Rocky Gap. Rocky Gap is an acquaintance of ours. Sorry, Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay resort in Cambridge, but you're no Rocky Gap.
Incidentally, let us insert a reminder here. Even the infamous Rocky Gap hotel and conference center isn't Rocky Gap anymore. The place was turned over to private investors last year and is now the Rocky Gap Casino Resort. With slot machines and table games (along with the lakeside hotel and Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course they picked up for a bargain price), they are unlikely to lose money. The state even lowered its share of slot machine revenue just to be certain.
The Rocky Gap legacy — its star-crossed history and cost to taxpayers — lives on, however, and naturally it came up with news that the state-owned Hyatt, another project financed by the Maryland Economic Development Corp., is having trouble paying the bills. The state recently withdrew $2 million from a reserve fund to meet debt service.
Admittedly, the situation isn't good — not for the 400-bedroom hotel, not for investors and not for Cambridge and Dorchester County. The resort hotel business in general has been on the rocks since the economic downturn and is only now showing signs of life across the country. The Hyatt is meeting its operating costs but operating in the red because of its bond payments. The reserve fund could be depleted later this year, and bond holders are likely taking a hit (but probably won't seek foreclosure).
That's nothing to celebrate. But it's also not something to call a disaster on the scale of Rocky Gap. And it's certainly not time to talk about underwriting the business with slot machines, table games, poker or any other form of expanded gambling. (Seriously, does every economic hardship now require that a casino be authorized in response?)
The fact is, the Hyatt was a success and arguably continues to be one despite the drop in revenue that's been eating away at reserves since 2010. Ask anyone who has been there. It's a first-class facility with a spa, golf course and marina on a gorgeous location convenient to both the Washington-Baltimore area and the Maryland-Delaware beach resorts. But more importantly, its presence has helped transform Dorchester County, not only by creating travel and tourism-related jobs but in changing how visitors perceive a part of the Eastern Shore that was once known as much for racial unrest as anything produced by its native farmers or watermen.
Cambridge in the summer of 1967 was where H. Rap Brown — a militant activist who would surely be seen as a terrorist today (were he not currently in jail serving a life sentence for an unrelated murder) — told his fellow African-Americans to riot and burn the place down. What ensued was four years of racial violence followed by decades of economic hardship and poverty. The county still has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state — even slightly higher than Baltimore's.
But the situation has unquestionably improved since the 2002 opening of the Hyatt, made possible by MEDCO's $120 million in tax-exempt revenue bonds. The Dorchester County of today may still be suffering, but it has potential. Indeed, in the pre-recession years after the hotel opened, county residents' big concern was the fast pace of construction and the volume of new arrivals to their communities. It was not until 2008 that the bottom fell out and bookings dropped by 30 percent. It might even have recovered by now except that sequestration has taken a huge bite out of hotel spending by the federal government and its contractors.
That was never the case in Cumberland, where the isolated Rocky Gap seemed a pie-in-the-sky concept even before it opened in 1998. The Hyatt, now the county's second-largest employer with as many as 700 jobs in the summer peak season, has survived most of its 11 years without teetering on default. That alone sets it apart from its politically motivated Western Maryland counterpart. It's hard to believe there's anything wrong with the Hyatt that can't be cured by an uptick in tourism, in its conference trade and in traffic on U.S. 50. The nonrated bonds aren't even the responsibility of state taxpayers.
Certainly, a case could be made that MEDCO might want to look at resort projects more skeptically in the future. But it would also be a mistake to evaluate the Hyatt in Cambridge solely on the recession-related red ink on its ledger and not on the benefits it has provided to the surrounding community for the past decade.


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