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It's GameDay: LSU Looks to Continue Chick-fil-A Bowl Prowess
Associated Press
ATLANTA -- After nearly a month of practice, including five workouts here in Atlanta, LSU will finally get the opportunity to face 14th-ranked Georgia Tech and its triple-option attack when the teams square off at 7:35 EST at the Georgia Dome.
The game will be televised nationally on ESPN with Bob Griese, Brad Nessler, Paul McGuire and Jack Arute handling the call. The game will also be broadcast on the LSU Sports Radio Network with Jim Hawthorne, Doug Moreau and Greg Bowser calling the action.
LSU brings a 7-5 overall mark into the contest, while the Yellow Jackets are 9-3. It's the first meeting between the former Southeastern Conference foes since a 28-14 LSU victory in the 2000 Peach Bowl.
For LSU, tonight's game presents and opportunity for the Tigers to end their season on a positive note. LSU goes into the contest having lost three of its last four games but a victory over Georgia Tech will give the Tigers eight wins for a school-record nine straight years.
"This game presents a great challenge for us but also provides us with an opportunity to finish our season on a positive note," LSU coach Les Miles said. "We have prepared well and I think our team is ready to go out and play well. We are as healthy as we've been since the start of the season and I look for us to play fast and play LSU football."
If the Tigers are to have success, it will start first with defense as LSU must be able to defend Tech's triple-option attack. The Yellow Jackets come into the game averaging 282.3 yards rushing per contest, a figure that ranks third nationally.
Tech quarterback Josh Nesbitt makes the offense run as he ranks eighth in the ACC in rushing with 631 yards and seven TDs, while adding another 658 passing yards for the Yellow Jackets. Running back Jonathan Dwyer leads the Jackets with 1,328 yards and 12 TDs in 12 games this year.
The third piece of the triple-option attack is that of running back Roddy Jones, who has rushed for 658 yards and four TDs. Jones is averaging 9.1 yards per carry, while Dwyer is averaging 7.0 yards per rush.
Tech seldom throws the ball but when they do, they have had good results as Nesbitt completes 50 percent of his passes with his top target being that of Demaryius Thomas. Thomas has 36 of Tech's 66 catches this year for 595 yards and three touchdowns.
"We have to play very disciplined, assignment football," Miles said. "They are going to run it, run it and run it some more, but we have to also be ready to defend the pass. This offense is unlike anything we have faced all year, but I think we have prepared well and our players understand their assignments."
As a result of Tech's triple-option attack, LSU will likely play its base defense for the majority of the game with the Tigers going with a straight 4-3 front along with four players in the secondary two corners and two safeties.
Offensively, Miles and Gary Crowton have turned the offense over to true freshman Jordan Jefferson, who will be making just his second start of his career. Jefferson has big play potential with both his arm and his legs and he brings an added dimension to the Tiger offense. In just two games of extensive action, Jefferson has thrown for 277 yards and three touchdowns and he's added another 109 yards and one score on the ground.
Redshirt freshman quarterback Jarrett Lee has recovered from an ankle injury that kept him out of the second half against Ole Miss and the entire Arkansas contest. Lee, who started eight games, has thrown for 1,873 yards and 14 TDs for the Tigers in what has been one of the most productive rookie seasons in school history.
One of the keys to success for LSU will be its ability to run the ball and that starts with an offensive line that is finally healthy after being slowed for most of the second half of the season. The beneficiary should be that of junior running back Charles Scott, who has rushed for 1,109 yards and 15 scores for the Tigers. Other backs expected to get touches for the Tigers included Keiland Williams (375 yards, 1 TD), Richard Murphy (175 yards) and Trindon Holliday (95 yards).
When the Tigers turn to the passing game, junior Brandon LaFell, senior Demetrius Byrd, and tight end Richard Dickson have been the top targets for LSU quarterbacks this year. LaFell leads the team and ranks among the leaders in the SEC with 61 catches for 903 yards and eight TDs.
Byrd has 34 receptions for 503 yards and four scores and Dickson has turned into one of the most prolific tight ends in school history with 27 catches this season for 274 yards and four TDs.
Tonight's game will also serve as the final contest for LSU's 19 seniors, a group that has been part of 50 victories as well as capturing the 2007 national title during their stay in Baton Rouge. In addition, 13 of the 19 seniors have graduated from the school.
"This game also gives us a chance to send our senior class out on a winning note," Miles said. "This group of 19 seniors has been part of some great moments in the history of LSU football and it would be nice to send them out with a win."


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Hi, guys! I'm back this week with another fan request: Eye of the Beholder! Produced in 1991 by Westwood Associates for SSI, EOB was an attempt to wed AD&D rules to Dungeon Master-style gameplay. The finished product wasn't the best--apparently the second game is much better--but it's still a fun game well worthy of an episode. If nothing else, you get to watch me flip out about R.A.T.S.!
Download the mp4 here.
P.S. Indie Retro News has a DOS version of EOB with an Automapper and mentions a special Amiga AGA version that also had this feature (who knew?).
So glad you covered this game. It's not a favorite, but it DOES take me back to an era in my life when I was in Japan in the Air Force in the early 90s. I can definitely remember playing this late at night on my Amiga 500 (with the Fat Agnus upgrade, thankyouverymuch), although I gave up when I got into some sort of puzzle where you were teleporting around.
For gamers, I think a game is a reminder of a time of life like a song is.
It also of course also makes me think of Dungeon Master, which I never played but I watched my friends play and it brings back good memories of them. I always thought the "dragon" looked like a T-Rex that spit fireballs.
On an unrelated note, I haven't gotten to this time yet in your Dungeons and Desktops book to see if you make the same observation, but around the time of Eye of the Beholder is when it seems like SSI started going downhill.
By the way, bought Legend of Grimrock a few weeks back when GOG ran a sale. Looking forward to checking it out.
Dungeon master was the first, but to me Black Crypt was the best, with EOB 2 and 1 coming in close 2nd and 3rds.. EOB3 was the kitchen sink design .. It worked quite well up to a point, something I truly hate in games that require graph paper.. layers.. when a dungeon has you on level 3, you go down stairs to level 4, up to level 3 again, then up to level 2, then down again to 3.. they don't use 1 or 2 levels.. but often 3 or 4.. tiny parts to confuse your mapping. Often using teleports to do the same.. it just make mapping exceedingly hard which really doesn't add to the game in any way in my mind. EOB did one thing horribly after DM.. why move the arrow keys to the left? While most of us use hotkeys, in the early MOUSE PC days.. some of us used the MOUSE!.. moving the keys way off and not keeping them close like DM did forces Keyboarding on users who may or may not heave wanted it. I agree keyboard shortcuts are the best (nowdays).. but back then forcing it on us, not a good plan.
I am surprised EOB just doesn't seem to hold the love DM did.. heck even the Lands OF Lore that came after it seems to garner more. I thought EOB followed the AD&D rule set well, with known monsters and a good feel. But again I really think ANYBODY who loves this type of game should play BLACK CRYPT (amiga only) it just did it all right, used Half Bright mode and the monsters are.. how would you put it, vibrant. maybe to colorful for some, but I thought it looked great. They also did some cool things like a mini boss early in the game to spice it up.
There where alot of knock offs far more bad then good.. one that was quite good that you wouldn't think was ELVIRA (yes the big boobed queen of the dark). And quite possibly my favorite RPG of all time Wizardry 7.
and one last note.. matt talking about the boring throw and pickup not being streamlined.. (i thought the same way back then).. but one must remember if it picked stuff back up for you automatically.. or if you never ran out of rocks to throw .. how could you do several of the puzzles? many are based on dropping stuff on pads (auto pickup and you cant) or based on having so many items you can "leave" hence unlimited rocks would have made those puzzles worthless. DANG I wish i had not throw my rocks across a hole at a mob.. i cant get them back (for now) and i need stuff for these pressure plates.. food? weapon? what if i need it later? yes it was kinda boring to pick it up by hand.. but it was part of the puzzle system.
They could have fixed this easily by introducing "quest items." Smarter games identify these as such, keep them separated from the rest of your inventory, and won't let you drop them or use them in such a way that would remove them prematurely from the game. I think it's a nice way to let the player know what the designer is thinking, so they don't end up stuck with no way to solve a puzzle.
I interviewed Joel Billings awhile back--still haven't caught up with my interviews to get to his stuff yet. He talks about this mainly in the context of trying to make the leap to consoles and failing hard. A lot of PC gaming companies were doing the same thing--they just keep seeing the millions of dollars kids were piling into console games and couldn't resist the urge to try to move into that space. Most of them, like Interplay, did a half-ass job and ended up losing out.
In retrospect, they should have just shrank with the PC gaming market and stayed true to it. There are still plenty of PC gamers out there; not as much as 360, PS3, or DS, of course, but still enough to feed and clothe a decent team. SSI (or the team formerly known as that) ended up doing that, and now Joel and a very small team are still making those super complex PC wargames for a small but very loyal following of fans (and they're definitely not starving!).
I'm convinced that if enough beloved companies like Interplay, SSI, Sierra, Origin, etc., had stayed true to their roots and not tried to dumb down or enter the console space--eventually at least SOME of the console kids grow up and want something more mature to play. Imagine if these companies had continued to put high quality PC titles catered to an adult audience. It'd be a very natural move for many kids, I'm sure.
Huge news!
Eye of the Beholder DOS version with Automapper.
Well, I'll be damned. I wish like hell I had seen this earlier! Looks like somebody has answered our prayers.
Huge news!
Eye of the Beholder DOS version with Automapper.
Well, I'll be damned. I wish like hell I had seen this earlier! Looks like somebody has answered our prayers.
that is big news.. I recently grabbed all 3, installed 1 and played about 3 minutes and quit.. automapers have spoiled us.. I WILL be grabbing this tonight and testing it out.
I just wanted to point out that the one version of Eye of the Beholder I actually beat was the one for the GameBoy Advance, which came out in 2002. Interestingly, it had the same first person dungeon exploration, but used the Gold Box-style isometric turn-based combat, which it obviously had to switch to. It also had an automap. Authentic it was not, but it was quite good.
There was also a cool prototype version for the Atari Lynx and was more authentic. Sadly, that was never released...
Page 40 of our book, Vintage Games, mentions "Eye of the Beholder" briefly, but the image for the GBA version was left on the cutting room floor, which I reposted here: http://www.armchairarcade.com/neo/node/2249
It annoys me to no end that the Game Boys are the VERY BEST spot to get RPG's for the last 10 years almost... Thank goodness for emu's or I would have missed some of the best games (RPG'S) ... I never did play EOB on the advanced, but I just might now. Funny, as I scanned your posted page I saw the back cover of EOB and then the Diablo III shot and thought.. WOW Game Boy games have acme a long way! till I read the captions :) and really looked at the Screenshots on the back of the EOB box.
I meant to show the GB version since Bill piqued my interest in it last time. Just clean forgot.
Liked the review. My favorite of the Black Box D&D games was Dungeon Hack, which was basically an Eye of the Beholder roguelike.
A small correction... The Sega CD version of EoB supported the Sega mouse, it was one of the few games to do so. It's been awhile, but I think it may have also had a map. If I recall correctly, you'd find a map of the level, and it would give you an orientation; however, it didn't automap. I may be misremembering though.

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Tennis: OU Men's Team Wins Big 12 Championship
The top two seeds of the tournament met for the second straight year in the final with the Sooners topping the regular-season champion Bears with victories in doubles and Nos. 2, 3 and 6 singles.
"Winning the first (Big 12 Championship) was hard and winning the second one was harder," OU head coach John Roddick said. "It's a challenge every year and to start being in the mix every time to win a championship is great. Our expectation from the players is starting to really show and the confidence from them has really risen. Our attitude got a lot better in the last week and a half and our competitive spirit came out."
The Bears handed the Sooners their only Big 12 loss of the regular season in Waco, Texas, on April 12. After that, OU beat Texas Tech and Oklahoma State to claim the No. 2 seed in the Big 12 tournament.
The Sooners beat rival Texas for the second time this season to clinch a spot in the Big 12 Championship finals. Going into Sunday's match, Roddick said the doubles point would be very important.
OU's No. 2 tandem of Guilermo Alcorta and Axel Alvarez Llamas quickly beat Patrick Pradella and Roberto Maytin, 8-4. Costin Paval and Dane Webb dropped their match on Court 1, 8-6, and the doubles point came down to the battle on Court 3.
The momentum swung OU's way, with Lawrence Formentera and Nick Papac topping Tony Lupieri and Julian Lenz, 9-8 (8-6).
"That was huge, that doubles match," Roddick said. "If we don't have that point, there's still a match out there that could go either way. Getting that point was going to be critical for either team."
Baylor quickly tied it with a win on Court 5 and took the lead with a Court 1 win, but OU came back swinging.
Alcorta responded to the Bear's lead with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Mate Zsiga.
A junior from Bilbao, Spain, Alcorta was named the tournament's most outstanding player.
"It's nice playing well," Alcorta said. "But in the end, the most important thing is that the team wins. I think I collaborated in that and it feels perfect."
Papac, who returned to lineup for the tournament after missing the Texas Tech and Oklahoma State matches due to injury, tied it again for the Sooners with a 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 win on Court 6.
That left the determining matches to Alvarez Llamas on Court 3 and Webb on Court 4. Alvarez Llamas won his first set on a 7-6 (7-5) tiebreaker and was in the second set. Webb split two sets with Lupieri and was in his third.
"I didn't know," Alvarez Llamas said. "I knew we had lost the No. 1 point, but I didn't know what was going on on the other side [of the courts]. I just played my match. I knew it was an important match because everybody was watching me. I just tried to keep focused and play my game."
Alvarez Llamas, a freshman from Asturias, Spain, won his match and the championship for the Sooners after a 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 victory.
The Sooners dogpiled on Court 3 and doused Roddick with water from a Gatorade cooler.
"It's unbelievable," Alvarez Llamas said. "I didn't know it was going to be like this. I saw pictures of the guys winning the Big 12 from last year, but I didn't know it was going to be so fun. I was so nervous. It was unbelievable. I don't have any more words to describe it."
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The subject of giving God glory. This is one of those very, very basic subjects that I feel we have to go back to from time to time so that you understand this very, very cardinal area of the Bible. And for some of us, this is review. For others of us, this may be brand new information. In either case, I trust it is exciting. The more I study the subject of giving God glory, the more rich I find it to be.
Now, just so that we aren't completely out of context with the Book of Acts, let me begin by saying this. When we were studying the 18th chapter of Acts, we came across a man by the name of Apollos. And it was said of Apollos that he was quote, verse 25, "Instructed in the way of the Lord." "Instructed in the way of the Lord." The word that is used there for instructed is katakeo. Now, that is important as a word, because it's used several times in the New Testament. There, it is used in terms of Apollos having been instructed in Old Testament information. It is also used in Romans 2:18 to speak of the same kind of instruction. It says the Jews were instructed in the law.
But it is also a word that is common to Christianity. For in 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verse 19, Paul says his desire is to instruct others, and he uses the very same word. And then in Galatians 6:6, it is again used of instruction in Christianity. Now, the word katakeois an important word; because, from it, we get the word catechism. The word literally means to teach orally by repetition. The pattern of instruction in the Jews was repetitious oral instruction. And they would repeat the question, repeat the answer, repeat the question, repeat the answer, or repeat the truth over and over and over again until they had learned it.
Now, this became a pattern for the church through many, many centuries of the church's history. And instruction was done on the basis of oral repetition, and this was called catechism or catechizing people. Instructing them in terms of repetition. It was the question/answer format. And out of it came...came what we call the catechism, both the long catechism, the shorter catechism, and so forth.
During the years of the Puritans, when they would write theology, they often would write their theology on the basis of the catechism. In other words, they would take a catechism and expand the catechism. And from the questions and answers of the catechism, they would explain theology. Now, the catechism is just a series of questions and answers to teach Bible truth...The beginning of the catechism is this, and here is the first question and the first answer in the old, well, what is the shorter catechism. The question is this: What is the chief end of man? The answer is: Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. Now, that's how it began. The pinnacle of information that any man needs to have is that he is for God's glory, and God is for his enjoyment. And those two go together.
Now, that is not just the statement of somebody's catechism. That can be supported biblically. The catechism was doctrine based on Scripture. You say, "Well, where would you support that?" And I want you to follow as I begin by turning to Psalms 16, and we're going to be looking at the subject of giving God glory and, in turn, enjoying Him forever. Now, this is going to be in two parts, this week and next week.
Now, in Psalm 16 verses 8...and 9, we find this statement of the catechism given a Scriptural context. Notice verse 8 Psalm 16, "I have set the Lord always before me." Now here is the statement...that has to do with giving God glory. When David says, "I have set the Lord always before me," he says this. "In everything I do, my attention is given to God. All that I do. All that I do really is done with my attention and my focus riveted to God. It is for His glory and His honor and His will. That is the thought in my mind." The result is in verse 9. It says this. "Therefore my heart...what?...is glad and my glory rejoiceth."
Now, here we see those two things again. "I have set the Lord always before me." Man's chief end is to what? Glorify God. That's the same. That's setting the Lord before me in everything. And to enjoy Him forever. "Therefore, my heart is glad." There's both sides of the catechetical statement right there in Psalm 16. Just an interesting footnote, that is a Messianic Psalm, at least at that point. And in Acts chapter 2 verses 25 to 28, Peter quotes verses 8 through 11 in reference to Jesus Christ. You know that if you read further. Verse 10, "Thou wilt not leave my soul in Sheol. Neither wilt Thou permit Thine Holy One to see corruption." Right? That's the prophecy of the resurrection, isn't it? And Peter quoted it and said it was fulfilled. "Thou will show me the path of life." In other words, through the grave and out the other side. And then, "Exalt Christ to the right hand of the Father, and thy presence is fullness of joy at thy right hand and pleasures forever more." And this is Messianic. It speaks of Christ and His death, His resurrection, and His ascension...
You know what Christ did. If it's Messianic, then it is saying in verse 8 that Christ set the Lord always before Him. Christ had one purpose, and that was to glorify the Father, right? Remember, at the end of His life, in John 17, He says, "I have glorified You on earth. Now, You glorify Me with the glory that I had with You before the world began." Christ always set God before Him to glorify Him. David, who makes the statement, is saying the same thing for him. It has a double meeting. Prophetic meaning, but it also has meaning to David who says it.
This was Christ's pattern. This was David's pattern, and this is to be the believer's pattern, to always live to the glory of God and, consequently, to enjoy God forever. That is what life is all about. For that brings an individual to the fullness of meaning in his being. The supreme thing, then, in the life of a man, a woman, anybody who's ever been born into this world, is to give God glory.
Listen to an illustration of it from Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 27 that speaks of a man by the name of Moses. "Esteeming the reproach of Christ or the reproach of the Anointed, greater riches than the treasures in Egypt...for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward." In other words, he kept his focus on eternal things. So, by faith in the future promise, by faith in the eternal, he forsook Egypt, the earthly, not fearing the wrath of the king. Now how could he ever do that? How could he turn in all of those things for an unseen reward? He endured as seeing Him who is invisible. What does that say about Moses? That says Moses had his attention on whom? On God. Moses riveting his attention on God. He did what David did. He set the Lord always before him. And in a concentration on God, he was able to establish his priorities. Now that's what living's all about. That's the ultimate design of the Christian life.
For example, in 1 John chapter 2, you have the sequence of maturity. You have babes who say, "Father." They know how to say spiritual Da-das. That's just basic baby talk. Then you have spiritual young men who've overcome the wicked one who's strong in the word. Then you have spiritual fathers, and it says of them, "They know Him who is from the beginning." They have plumbed the depths of the person of God. Spiritual maturity, then, is really all about concentrating and focusing on the person of God until you're lost in His majesty and in His glory.
Let me illustrate it by saying this. The purpose of the Holy Spirit in the world is to point to whom? Jesus Christ. John chapter 16 verses 13 to 15. The...Jesus said, "He shall speak of Me. He shall glorify Me." The Spirit points to Christ. The purpose of Christ in the world is stated many times in the Gospels. The purpose of Christ in the world is to take men and point them to whom? To God. The ultimate design of the Trinity, then, is to bring men into a full relationship and a full knowledge of the living God...That is maturity. And when David said, "I have set the Lord always before me," he was expressing the ultimate in the life of a man. To be totally absorbed in the person of God. To be able, through every single circumstance, to view it as if looking through the eyes of God, or as if taking into account all of God's attributes and attitudes. It is to be God-conscious. It is to make every decision of life and to do every action of life with God in mind...in a positive sense.
Now, that's the reason for existence. That's the reason for living. That's the reason people are on this earth. God had a two-fold purpose in creating men. That they might glorify Him, and that they might enjoy Him. God is not just an ogre. God is not just someone up there demanding that we glorify Him for all for His own benefit, but He promises that, if we glorify Him, therefore, He'll give us joy. And so a man does not fulfill his purpose God-ward until he glorifies God. Nor does he fulfill his purpose in the personal aspect until he glorifies God, for he never knows the fullness of joy.
All right, let's take our little outline there. The two points. Glorify God and enjoy God, and we'll talk about enjoy God sometime later. Today we'll talk about glorifying God. Now, I wanna begin at this point by saying this. When we talk about glorifying God, we...we have to break that down into some practical things. It's never enough for me, I guess that's how my mind works, to just say, "Well, let's glorify God." I wanna say, "Well, what does it mean? Well, what are you saying when you say glorify God?" So we're gonna try to dissect that a little bit and come up with some very practical things.
First of all, let's talk about the what, then we'll talk about the why, then we'll talk about the how. What do we mean by God's glory? Why should we give Him glory? And how do we give Him glory? First of all, what. What do we mean by God's glory?
Well, there are two aspects to it. There are two aspects to the glory of God. Okay? Aspect one, the glory that He has in Himself. The glory that He has in Himself. Now, this is a very important consideration, and it's really the basis for what we're gonna say all the way through. In Isaiah chapter 6 verse 3, we read this, and this is the angel's statement here. "And one cried unto another said...listen, you don't need to look it up, Isaiah 6:3, listen...said, 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord, the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of His glory.'"
Now, here the angels state that God has glory. They don't say, "Give Him glory." They say, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of His glory." Now what I'm saying at the beginning then is, the first concept of the glory of God is the glory that's intrinsic to His nature. We don't give this to Him. It's His by virtue of who He is. If no man was ever created, if no angel was ever created, would God still be a God of glory? Yes. If no one ever gave Him any glory, if no one ever gave Him any honor, if no one ever gave Him any praise, would He still be the glorious God that He is? Yes, because He was before anybody ever did...
So there is intrinsic glory. There is the glory of God's nature. And you say, "Well, what is that?" It's simply, glory is simply the manifestation of all of His attributes. God's glory is the combination and...of all of His attributes. And I can illustrate to you from Exodus chapter 33. You're familiar with the passage if you've studied this concept before. Listen. Moses says to God, "Show me Thy glory." Okay? Simple statement. "You show me Your glory." Listen to what God says, "I'll make all My goodness pass before you."
You say, "Wait a minute, He wanted His glory." God said, "I'll let My goodness pass before you." "I'll proclaim the name of the Lord." What does that mean? When we see the term name, what does that mean? That means all that He is, all that He is. "And I'll be gracious to whom I'll be gracious, and show mercy on whom I'll show mercy." Now, Moses says, "I wanna see Your glory." God says, "I'll show you My goodness. I'll show you all that I am. I'll show you My grace, and I'll show you My mercy." You know why God said that? Because that is His glory. His glory is the composite of his attributes. In John 1:14, it says, "And we beheld His glory full of...what?...grace and truth." And there are attributes, you see, God's glory is the composite of His attributes. Grace, truth, goodness, mercy, and all that He is, all that He is.
So when we're talking about the glory of God, we are talking about His intrinsic glory. We don't give that to Him, it's His. And this is as essential to God as...as light is to the sun, as blue is to the sky, as wet is to water. You don't make water wet. It's wet. That's what it is. You don't make the sky blue, it's blue. You can only cover up the blue. You can't take it away. You can't add to it. The sun is light. That's what the sun is. And so God is glory. We can't give it to Him. We can't diminish it. He is who He is. He is all of His attributes in perfect harmony. In fact, in Acts 7:2, He is called "the God of glory." "The God of glory." There isn't anything that we can do to give Him glory in the sense of His intrinsic nature. We cannot add to the nature of God. No.
You say, "What about Titus 2:10?" Well, I'm glad you asked. Let me show you. Titus 2:10 says this, if we..."N"Not purloining...another word for purloining is pilfering...but showing all good honestly, that they may adorn the doctrine of God." Now, listen, it does not say that you can adorn God. You can't add one thing to God. But you can adorn the doctrine of God. What does that mean? That means that you can enhance the teaching of God in the world by your godly behavior. Okay? You know the difference now? In other words, when we live a holy life, we adorn the doctrine of God, not God. You can live any life you want and it won't affect God. But it may affect the testimony about God in the world. You see the difference? So we adorn the doctrine of God, not God. God has intrinsic glory that we can't do anything about. We can't add to it. We can't take it away.
Now men aren't like that. A man's glory can...is granted to him. You know, we talk about men being, you know, exalted and honored and so forth. When you take a king and take off all his robes and his crown and strip him naked and put him next to a beggar and give 'em both a bath, and you'll never know which is which. Because there's no intrinsic glory. The only glory the king has is when you give him a crown and a robe and sit him on the throne. He has no intrinsic glory. That's the point. The only glory that men have is granted to them. The glory that is God's is His in His essence. You can strip a king naked, you can defrock a priest, you can't de-glory God. That's His nature. You can't touch His glory. It cannot be taken away. It cannot be added to. It's total glory, and it cannot be diminished. It His being.
Now, in that sense, we cannot give God glory. You understand what I'm saying? We can't add to his nature. If He's infinite grace and infinite mercy and infinite power and infinite love and infinite knowledge and all of these things, there's nothing we can do to add to those infinities. All we can do is recognize it. All we can do is say, "Yes, it is true. God is glorious." That's all.
Let me show you what I mean by this. Turn to 1 Chronicles 16, and we'll support our thought here with several passages. And so you can either write 'em down or hurry with us. First Chronicles 16:24. Now I want you to catch the...the importance of the first word here. "Declare His glory." Now wait a minute. What did that say? Give Him glory? What? Declare it. It's not talking about giving it to Him. He's got it. Just state it so. "Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous works among all peoples." Then verse 27, "Glory and honor are in His presence." That's His nature. All of these attributes, they cannot be added to.
All right, if you were to look at 1 Chronicles 29 verse 11 as long as you're there. This is one fantastic verse...Listen to this. I love this. Well, we'll go to verse 10. "Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all the congregation. And David said: 'Blessed be Thou, Lord God of Israel, our Father, for ever and ever." Now listen to this. "Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power and...what?...the glory, and the victory and the majesty; for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is Thine. Thine is the Kingdom, O Lord, and Thou art exalted as head above all."
Now, verse 13 says, "Now, therefore, our God, we thank Thee and praise Thy glorious name." God is glory. "Thine is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty." It's His. Whether we acknowledge it or not, it is His. You say, "Well, John, can His glory be diminished?" No. Isaiah 48:11, "My glory will I not give to another." God does not give away His nature. You say, "Now, wait a minute, John. You said one time that He plants His glory within us." You're right. I did say that. But you know something? He never plants His glory within us or upon us apart from Himself. When we say that He gives His glory to the believer, we mean that He Himself comes to dwell in the believer, right? The glory never becomes mine. It's always His radiating through me. You see the difference? God never gives away any of His glory. He never diminishes His glory. He may plant His glory in me, but it's still His glory, and, therefore, whatever I do, I do to the glory of...of God. He never gives away His nature. He can't. He can't divest Himself of who He is. And the only way you and I'll ever know the glory of God is when the glory of God resides in us in the person of the Holy Spirit, who is God indwelling us.
So you cannot add to His glory. You can't take away from it. Listen to Psalm 24 verse 7 through 10. "Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the king of glory shall come in...That's His name...Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and might, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates; even lift them up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory."
Now, here you have the fact that God is glory. He is who He is. We cannot add to it. We cannot diminish it. In Isaiah 2, three times it calls God, in terms of His glory, a God...it says, "The fear of the Lord and the glory of His majesty." Three times in Isaiah 2 verses 10, 19, and 21. "The glory of His majesty." This is His intrinsic glory.
Now lemme show you a couple of passages that illustrate this. In John 1:14, I quoted that he said that, "Jesus was the glory of God in a body, and it was full of grace and truth." Let me show you another one. John 11:40, just so you have some New Testament Scriptures. John 11:40 says this...well, 39. I love this incident. Lazarus is dead, and Jesus took His time getting there, 'cause He wanted Him dead. You say, "Didn't He love him?" No, He loved him a lot, but He wanted him dead so He could do a miracle and raise him from the dead. You say, "Well, why did He cry if He knew what He was gonna do?" He wasn't weeping over Lazarus' death. He was weeping over the power and consequence of sin. So He comes down in verse 39, and this is really kind of funny. He says to them, "Take away the stone," and Martha just panics. You know, four days dead, and the Jews didn't embalm. I mean she could see it all coming to pass, and she said in that great King James language, "By this time he stinketh, for he's been dead four days." I love the answer of Jesus. "He said unto her, 'Said I not unto thee that if you would believe, you would see the...what?...the glory of God?'"
What was the glory of God? It's His attributes. What attribute was about to be displayed? Power. Almighty power. The power that was used in Creation was about to be put on display. And He says to Martha, "Just hang on, Martha, and you're gonna see the glory of God." This isn't something Martha gave Him. This is something He had. This is His nature in action.
In John 17:24, Jesus prayed, "Father, I will that they also whom Thou hast given Me be with Me where I am...why?...that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me." And in Revelation 21:23 it says that, "Heaven is gonna be lit, not with the moon or anything else, but with...what?...the glory of God." That's something God has. That's who He is. That's His nature, and He will not give His glory to another. And if any man possesses the glory of God, it is because God has not divested Himself of it, but God has come and dwelt in that man and radiates still His own glory through him.
Now, God'll give us a lot of things. He gives us temporal blessing. He gives us wisdom. He gives us riches. He gives us honor. Remember, we studied a few weeks back that it is God who said, "It is...it is I that gives you power to get, to gain, to get riches." He gives us spiritual blessings. He bestows so many things on us. But He gives us all of these things, but He never gives us His glory in the sense that He divests Himself. It's like, I don't know how you could illustrate it other than say like Pharaoh maybe. Pharaoh gave to Joseph a ring from off his finger, and he gave also to Joseph a gold chain. And when he gave him that, he said in Genesis 41:40, "Only in the throne will I be greater than thou. I'll give you a ring, and I'll give you a chain. I'll keep my throne." God does not divest himself of His glory.
Secondly, then, first of all we said that God's glory is that which is His nature, His attributes. But secondly, there is a glory which is given God by His creatures. You say, "Well, what is that? That is when we recognize His glory. And you say...you say, "Well, what does it mean to give God glory?" Here it is. It means to magnify His glory before the world. That's what it means. You're not adding to His nature. You're enhancing the doctrine about him. In other words, you're enhancing His glory in the eyes of men. You're not enhancing His glory in terms of its existence. You see the difference? It's a question of testimony.
For example, Philippians 1:20, Paul said that, "Christ may be magnified in my body." He didn't mean that Christ needs to be improved on. He meant that, in the eyes of the world, Christ needs to be exalted through him. And when we give glory to God, we are not adding to His nature. We are merely revealing who He is. Go back to 1 Chronicles 16, and I want you to see this clearly, and we'll go right back to that same passage that I think would illustrate it, 16:24. "Declare His glory among the nations." All right, it's there. We just declare it. "His marvelous works among all peoples. For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods, for all the gods of the people are idols, but the Lord made the heavens."
Now, God is the God of glory. Now here comes the injunction. "Glory and honor are in His presence. Strength and gladness are in His place. Therefore...the implication is...give unto the Lord ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord...what?...glory." You're not adding to His nature. You're merely publicly giving testimony to his glory. That's what you're doing. That's the point. That's the issue. In fact, in case you didn't get 28, he adds 29. "Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name. Bring an offering. Come before Him. Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." Now that is the second aspect then. We do not add to the nature of God. We merely enhance the doctrine of God in the eyes of the world when we exalt Him, when we praise Him, when we lift Him up, when we glorify Him.
This is what Paul said. "Know you not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have of God. You're not your own. You're bought with a price. Therefore...do what?...glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God's." In other words, give pure testimony to the pure glory of God that men might see His glory. You think about it in terms of, well, 1 Timothy, for example, 1:17. "Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. So let it be." At the end of 1 Timothy, in 6, he says, "Which in His times He shall show who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who only hath immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen nor can see, to whom the honor and power everlasting." And here he says, "Because of who He is, we oughta grant Him that honor that's due His name."
And the same thing is true at the end of the little Book of Jude. He says, "Unto Him who's able to keep you from falling, present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy." Notice, wherever there is the glory of God, there is the resultant joy. "To the only wise God our Savior be glory and majesty and dominion and power now and ever. Amen."
And you come to the Book of Revelation chapter 4, chapter 5, chapter 7, and they're all praising God and...and saying, "Glory, glory, glory." And so it is that we magnify God before the world. We do not add to His nature.
Now, there are many things in our world that magnify God. Creation, right? Do we read Psalm 19:1? "The heavens declare...what?...the glory of God." But what happened? Look at Romans 1. In Romans chapter 1 verse 19, "Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath shown it unto them. The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen." In other words, you can see God through Creation. "Being understood by the things that are made, even as eternal power and Godhead." So without excuse." In other words, God has revealed His glory in the world in the Creation. But watch verse 21. "Because when they knew God, they saw His glory, they glorified Him not as God." Verse 23, "They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image." Creation reveals the glory of God and men pervert it.
Now, we are to give Him glory, not in the sense that we add to His nature, but in the sense that we give testimony to His glory, that we exalt His name. And this is a command, beloved, of every man. Listen to the Psalmist, Psalm 29:1 and 2. "Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty; give unto the Lord glory." I don't care how strong you are, you give the Lord glory. Next verse. "Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness."
Now, there you see the what of giving Him glory. Two things: glory He has that is intrinsic, we don't give Him. By enhancing His name, by exalting His name, by lifting up His name, by praising His name, by honoring His name, we give Him glory in the eyes of the world. And that's what we wanna concentrate on. We can't work on the first one. It's done. But we wanna concentrate on the second one. You say, "Now, John, why should I give Him glory?" Why? That's the second question. We asked what. Here's why. Why should you give Him glory? Here's why.
Number one, because He gives us our being and everything else. We oughta give Him glory because He made us. The hundredth Psalm, "It is He that hath...what?...made us." "It is He that hath made us." Romans 11:36 says this, "For of Him and through Him are all things." Now, listen, here's the result. "Of Him, through Him are all things, therefore to Him be glory forever."
You know why God deserves the glory? Because He made everything. Because He gave us our being, our life, and everything that is. How could...how could we give glory to any other god or any other source? Of Jesus it is said, "All things are made by Him and for Him," and that takes us to the second thing. We oughta give Him glory because He made everything. And, secondly, we oughta give Him glory because He made everything to give Him glory. You say, "Was that the purpose?" Yes. Proverbs 16:4 says this, "The Lord hath made all things for Himself." He made everything to bespeak His glory. Everything to radiate His glory. Everything. Everything is to radiate His attributes, to show His power, to show His love, to show His mercy, to show His wisdom, to show His grace. Everything.
Yes, we are to glorify Him because He made us. And, secondly, because He made us to glorify Him. And, "Well," you say, "well, I'll never glorify God. God people like it. I'm not gonna succumb to that kind of egoism." Well, you may not wanna give God glory, but you will. You say, "Well, what if I don't choose to?" Well, you'll just give Him glory unwillingly. You say, "You mean He gets glory out of people who don't wanna give Him glory?" He gets glory out of everything, sooner or later.
Listen to this. God said in regard to Pharaoh in Exodus 14:17 this shocking statement. He said this, "I will get Me honor from Pharaoh." He'll get it. He'll get it. "I will get Me honor from Pharaoh." And He got it. You read the rest of the story, find out. Everybody gets to the place where He gives God glory, willingly or unwillingly. Wittingly or unwittingly. But especially God gets glory from the righteous. They give Him that willing glory that pleases Him.
Isaiah 43:21, remember what He said? He said about Israel, "This people have I formed for Myself." Say, "Why did God make these people for Himself, for His glory?" "This people have I formed for Myself, and they will show forth My praise." Yes, God especially gets glory out of righteous people. Listen to 1 Peter 2:9, and this is all about you and me in the church. "You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of His own that should show forth the praises of Him who called you." That's right. Righteous people declare His praise.
All right, we oughta give God glory, one, because He made us; two, because He made us to give Him glory, and He'll get it sooner or later. We might as well give it willingly, because when we give it willingly, the result is, "Therefore My heart is...what?...glad." Let me give you another thought. We oughta give God glory because He judges those who don't willfully give Him glory. If a person refuses the willingness to give glory, God gets His glory, but He judges that person. That's serious. Romans 1:21. It says in Romans 1 there that they didn't give God glory. They exchanged God's glory. And the next verse says, "God gave them up." Later it says, "God gave them up." Later it says, "God gave them over to reprobate mind." And in verse 18, it says, "The wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who didn't give Him glory."
Let me give you an Old Testament illustration, really potent. Jeremiah 13 verse 16. And, of course, old dear old Jeremiah's always having trouble with Israel. They never listen to anything, and they're about to be taken into captivity, and his heart was so grieved. Verse 15, we'll start there. He says, "Hear and give ear; be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken." Now this is the introduction to his sermon. Now, listen to 16. "Give glory to the Lord your God." That's the premise. Old Jeremiah says, "Give glory to the Lord your God." You say, "Why? Why should I, Jeremiah?" "Before He cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, He turn it into the shadow of death." You know why you oughta give God glory? Because if you don't, you're gonna stumble and be crushed in darkness, in gross darkness. Verse 17, "But if you will not hear it, if you'll not give Him glory, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears." Jeremiah says, "Give God glory because if you don't, He'll judge you." And then Jeremiah cries.
We oughta give God glory because He made us, because He made us to give Him glory, because He judges those who willfully refuse to give Him glory. Let me show you something in Revelation 14:6 and 7. Revelation 14 is talking about the time of the Tribulation, and the message that comes in 14 is a timeless message. It may be in the Book of Revelation. It may seem a little bit end time eschatological; but, in fact, it's the timeless message of verse 6. "I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting Gospel." Say, "What is the everlasting Gospel?" It's the Gospel of judgment against unbelief or against ungodliness or against failure to give God glory. Here comes the angel, and he preaches the Gospel to "Them that dwell on the earth, the nation and kindred, tongue, and people." Now, this is not the Gospel as we know it simply defined in Christ. It's much broader. It's the Gospel, the News of God that runs throughout time and eternity that God rewards the righteous, and God punishes the wicked. It's that Gospel, that full concept which was defined in Jesus Christ in its final way. But here, he's speaking about the everlasting fact that God punishes evil and rewards good in terms of righteousness.
Verse 7, and this is what the angel said, "Fear God and give glory to Him." That's the everlasting Gospel in any generation. "Fear God and give Him glory." Why? "For the hour of His...what?...Judgment is come." Boy, what a shocking and a powerful statement that is. "Give God glory because judgment is coming." Judgment is coming.
You say, "John, that's what glory is. That's why we oughta give God glory, but how do we do it?" I'm just gonna give you two things. I got ten of 'em, so we'll cover eight more next time. Let me give you two things. Here's how you glorify God. You say, "Now, when it gets right down to the nitty-gritty, how do I glorify God?" Point one, by aiming your life at that purpose. By aiming your life at glorifying Him. That's the beginning of everything. You'll never glorify God in your life until you aim your life to do that. You say, "Well, what does that include?" For example, 1 Corinthians 10:31, "Whatever you do, whether you eat or drink, you do it all to the glory of God." And the point of that verse is not eat to the glory of God and drink to the glory of God. The point is that whatever you do, even as mundane as eating and drinking, oughta be done to His glory. Now, that's what I mean by aiming at His glory. You're saying to yourself all the time, "I wanna do this for His glory. I wanna do this for His glory. I wanna do this for His glory." Aim your life at the purpose of glorifying God, in everything.
Jesus said in John 8:50, listen to this, "I seek not Mine own glory, but the glory of Him that sent Me." In other words, "I live to bring Him glory. I live to radiate His attributes. I live to adorn the doctrine of God. I live to exalt God and honor God in the eyes of the world. This is the purpose of My life." Now what a hypocrite does, a hypocrite comes along and tries to steal the glory from God. "Want a little glory for myself." I can introduce you to such a hypocrite. Look long enough in this, and you may find yourself. I found me here. Matthew 6, "Take heed that you do not do your alms before men." That's your giving, you know, you're giving your money. "Before men to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward of your Father who is in Heaven." You know, if you give just so everybody will know how much you give, God doesn't like that. There's no reward for you. That's sin. "Therefore, when you do your alms, don't sound a trumpet." Can you imagine that? This guy carries along a few trumpeters to play a little fanfare as he arrives at the temple to drop his coins in the little deal. "Here I am, folks, plunk, plunk, see me?" See. I want you to see this. It says, "As the hypocrites do in the synagogue and in the streets, that they may have glory." Did you get that? You try to steal God's glory, and God doesn't like that. Beware of self-glory.
Beloved, first of all, when you aim at God's glory, that means you aim away from your own glory. If you teach a class of people, or you teach a Bible study for your own glory, God's blessing is not on that. It isn't for His glory. Anything you do in this life, whatever it is, eating or drinking, oughta be to His glory. To His glory. Aim always and only and purely at God's glory. If you try to steal a little glory for yourself... you have stolen the blessing away from yourself and lost joy.
Now, I...I mentioned to the Biola students this week when I spoke to them that it's like the kid who went to the...was at a convention where Dr. Moody was, and they had a...they had an all night prayer meeting. And this kid thought it was really neat, you know, and he'd kind of appear a little, you know, spiritual kind of, and there's nothing wrong with all night prayer meetings, but he came to Dr. Moody, and he said, "Dr. Moody, do you know where we've been?" He said, "No." He said, "We've been at an all night prayer meeting. See how our faces shine." Dr. Moody said, "Moses knew not that his face shone."...Straight stuff. That's theatrical glory. God doesn't need that. Don't you take any glory from God. Don't steal it from Him. You're the loser, 'cause you can't get it from Him. You just come out a hypocrite.
The first principle of aiming at the glory of God, then, is the sacrifice of self. Well, lemme take it a step further for you. Aiming at God's glory means this. It means that we prefer Him above all else. We're not thinking about how much it's gonna help us. How much money we're gonna get. How much success. How much fame. How many friends. Family, blah-blah. No. That's not it. Boy, I can think in my own life of times when I've gone to speak somewhere, and in the back of my mind I'm saying to myself, "Boy, I hope they like me. You know, hope they - gee, I bet they really like me." See. That's...that's really disgusting. Really is. If everything I do isn't for the glory of God, I might as well shut my mouth. I try to steal any of His glory, I've stolen from myself the joy and the blessing of God. The glory is His. Now, if it doesn't come out right, the blame is mine. Glory is His.
Give you an illustration of that. You know, to prefer God above all else may mean you have to pay a price. Yes, Exodus 32, some people paid a very dear price. You know, God was up there and His glory was manifest to Moses. Wow, what a time it was, and he was writing the Decalogue. And all those fantastic things that occurred up there. And, meanwhile, down below, these people were worshipping the golden calf. Remember that? And they were stealing God's glory right at the foot of God's mountain, see? God wasn't happy about that. Verse 25, Exodus 32, "When Moses saw that the people were naked...can you imagine Aaron leading 'em into an orgy?...(for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies.) Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, 'Who is on the Lord's side?'" That's the right question. Getting to the point. "Let him come unto me." You know who came? All the sons of Levi. Priests. "And he said to them...watch this...'Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: 'Put every man his sword by his side...get your swords, boys...go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp. Slay every man his brother, his companion, and his neighbor.'"
Say, "Eeeh, you kidding?" The glory of God is at stake here. God wanted to show the world for all time that He shares His glory with no one. God says, "Get your swords. Kill your brother." "My own brother? My own friend, my own neighbor?" Now comes the question of whether they're gonna do what needed to be done for the glory of God or what they would do for their own selves. Verse 28, "And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses, and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men." We don't know how many women, if any, but we know three thousand men. You say, "Why did God have them do that?" Because God's glory was at stake, and God shares His glory with no other. And those people had to pay the price of actually going to kill the people they loved for the sake of the glory of God. That's a high price, isn't it? You, in your life, you aim at God's glory. When you consider it and prefer it above all other things, whether they be mundane or whether they be human. Whether they be coins or people...
Let me take it a step further. We aim at God's glory when we're content to do His will at any cost...at any cost. John 21, remember what Jesus said to Peter? Said, "Peter, when you were young, you girded yourself, walked where you would. When you shall be old, you shall stretch forth your hands. You're gonna get crucified...is what he said...Another shall gird you and carry you where you would not. This spoke He signifying by what death he should...what?...glorify God." God said, "I'm gonna get glory when you die crucifixion, Peter. How about it?" Then Jesus said, "Follow Me," and what did Peter do? Followed Him. Peter paid the price. He died crucified. But, you see, in dying a death of crucifixion, he obeyed the will of God.
Hear the words of Jesus in John 12:27 and 28. listen. "Now is My soul troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save Me from this hour?' But for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify Thy name." In other words, you remember Jesus in the Garden? "Father, let this cup pass from Me. Nevertheless, not My will but...what?...Thine be done." In other words, "God, if You're gonna get glory outta this, I submit to it." What does He say? "'Father, glorify Thy name, whatever it costs Me.' And then there came a voice from Heaven, saying, 'I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.'" Yes, aiming at God's glory means that I'm content to do God's will, whatever it costs.
Give you one more thought on that. Aiming at God's glory means that I suffer when He suffers. I hurt when He hurts. You say, "John, what do you mean?" Well, you know, we all...we talk a lot about the sympathetic high priest, you know. "Jesus feels our pain. Jesus hurts when we hurt." But I...we're happy to feel that. But I wonder if we ever get the other way around. I wonder if we are ever sensitive enough to hurt when God's name suffers. Now, that's a little different...
No, giving God glory means that I hurt when His name is dishonored. Listen to this. Psalm 69:9, powerful statement. It's Messianic, spoken by David. He was speaking it from his own heart. Messiah picked it up...and had that double fulfillment. Just listen. Psalm 69:9, "For the zeal of Thine house has eaten me up." David said and Christ said, "I so love the things of God, that it just consumes me." Then he said this. Oh, I love this. "The reproaches of those who reproach Thee are fallen on me." In other words, "God, the people who...who smashed the blows against You are hitting me." Paul put it this way, "I bear in my body the marks of...whom?...of Christ. I'm hurting in Your place." This is really...I'm happy that God is sympathetic with me, but I need to be more sympathetic with Him. I need to be more zealous for His name. And I need to feel the pain more when His name is defamed. Maybe we could say that spiritual infancy would be me being glad that the Lord feels my hurts. And spiritual maturity is me feeling His hurts.
I close with this second thing. You say, "Giving God glory, then, is aiming at His glory." That's right. Secondly, it's this, and I just close by reading you something. "It is receiving Jesus Christ. Giving God glory begins with receiving Jesus Christ." Listen Philippians 2:9, "Wherefore God hath also highly exalted Him...that is Christ...and given Him a name which is above every name...in other words, a...a...he's greater than any other...that at the name of Jesus every knee should...what?...bow." It doesn't just mean to receive Him as a friend, receive Him as a Savior. But it means to subject yourself to Him as Lord. "Every knee should bow. Things in heaven, in the earth, and under the earth...watch...and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God." God is glorified when you name Jesus as Lord.
Two things to give Him glory: aim at giving Him glory in everything in your life. And the first thing you're gonna have to hit if you aim that way is Jesus Christ. For giving God glory begins when you bow your knee to Christ and confess Him as Lord.
Let's pray. Thank You, Father, for...the truth that we've seen today. Thank You for the glory that is Yours. And, oh, how we desire to so live that men may see our good works and glorify our Father which is in Heaven. We pray in Jesus' blessed name. Amen.


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Approved by the Board: October 18-19, 1999 Board meeting
Amended at the: February 6-8, 2005 Board meeting
February 5-7, 2007 Board meeting
November 3-5, 2007 Board meeting
Service Area: Medical
Subject: Laser and Other Devices
To provide model legislative and regulatory language upon which the state medical board can develop or improve their regulations governing the scope of practice. The goal is to protect patient safety, and ensure that the physicians' manner commensurates with their education and training.
"Adverse incident" means any patient complication or any unforeseen unintended outcome, or perception by the patient of complications.
"Board certified physician" means an ABMS/ABOMS board-certified or board eligible physician licensed by the state to practice medicine.
"Cutaneous medicine" means performing any act or procedure that, by its use, can alter or damage living tissue. This includes, but is not limited to, the use of all lasers, light sources, microwave energy, electrical impulses, chemical applications, particle sanding, the injection or insertion of foreign or natural substances, or soft tissue augmentation.
"Light-based medical device" means any device such as lasers, light sources, intense pulsed light and microwave energy that has the ability to alter or damage living human tissue.
"Non-physician" means any person that may work under the supervision of a licensed physician.
"Patient" means any member of the public who is provided access to a procedure performed by a licensed physician or under the supervision of a licensed physician.
"Training" means acceptable training programs such as those that conform to ABMS/ABOMS or specialty society standards; or training that pertains to cutaneous medicine, and the physics and safety of light-based devices.
Physician Responsibilities
If advertising as board-certified, a physician must specify which ABMS/ABOMS board (s) they are certified by.
The physician must examine each patient prior to any initial treatment or prior to authorizing treatment by a non-physician.
The physician should examine any significant new problems existing with the patient.
The physician must only perform procedures that are within his/her scope of practice based on his/her education and training.
When performing or providing supervision for cutaneous medical procedure, a physician must have adequate training in the procedure and the devices used for performing the procedure.
The physician must only delegate procedures to non-physicians that are working within their scope of practice based on their education and training.
The physician shall develop written office protocols for non-physicians under his/her supervision for non-physicians to follow when using all devices, including light-based medical devices. The written office protocols must be compliant with existing state law. The written protocol should include:
The physician (and back-up physician if applicable) responsible for supervision of the non-physician.
A statement of activities, decision criteria, and plan the supervised non-physician must follow when performing the light-based procedure.
Identification of all devices and settings, including light-based devices, to be used for patients who meet selection criteria.
Methods by which all devices, including light-based devices are to be operated and maintained.
A description of appropriate care and follow-up for common complications, serious injury, or emergencies.
The physician shall provide on-site supervision for all non-physicians under his/her supervision performing cutaneous medical procedures. The physician must be immediately available at all times in the event of complication or emergency.
The physician shall notify the patient if the procedure will be performed by a non-physician, and obtain their consent.
The physician shall maintain profession and legal responsibility for the patient's care and treatment at all times.
Non-physician Responsibilities
Non-physician must only perform procedures under direct supervision that are within their scope of practice, based on their education and training.
Non-physicians must have documentation of their training.
Non-physicians must be properly licensed (if applicable) by the appropriate state board.
Non-physicians must follow written office protocols when performing procedures using all medical devices, including light-based medical devices.
Non-physicians must report all adverse incidents to the supervising physician and document them in the patient's chart.
Non-physician must satisfactorily complete a documented special education and training program on applicable: laser physics, safety, techniques, and pre and post operative care and laser safety, which includes supervised practice and clinical skill competency.
Continuing education for these procedures is ongoing and documented.


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Peter Falk, the gravel-voiced actor who became an enduring television icon portraying Lt. Columbo, the rumpled raincoat-wearing Los Angeles police homicide detective who always had "just one more thing" to ask a suspect, died Thursday. He was 83.
Falk, who reportedly suffered from dementia, died at his home in Beverly Hills, according to a statement from Larry Larson, a friend and an attorney for Falk's wife, Shera.
In a more than 50-year acting career that spanned Broadway, movies and television, Falk appeared in more than 50 feature films, including "A Woman Under the Influence," "Husbands," "Luv," "Mikey and Nicky," "The In-Laws," "Wings of Desire," "The Great Race," "The Cheap Detective," "Cookie" and "The Princess Bride."
PHOTOS: Peter Falk's life and career
"Husbands" (1970) and "A Woman Under the Influence" (1974), both of which were written and directed by Falk's close friend, John Cassavetes, provided Falk with two of his best-known dramatic film credits.
But it was in his role as the blue-collar family man trying to deal with his mentally unstable wife (played by Gena Rowlands) in "A Woman Under the Influence" that he created what former Times film critic Charles Champlin called "one of the most complex and contradictory portraits in his career."
Through a spokesman, Rowlands told The Times on Friday: "Today we lost someone who was very special and dear to my heart. Not only a wonderful actor but a very great friend."
Early in his film career, Falk received two Academy Award nominations for best supporting actor — for playing a vicious mob assassin in "Murder, Inc." (1960) and for his portrayal of a gangster's right-hand man in Frank Capra's comedy-drama "Pocketful of Miracles" (1961).
Falk's on-screen combination of toughness and gentleness prompted Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper to label the native New Yorker "another James Cagney or John Garfield — a man to replace irreplaceables."
In 1962, Falk won his first of five Emmys by playing a truck driver who befriends a lonely, pregnant girl in "The Price of Tomatoes," a segment of "The Dick Powell Show."
A decade later, he received raves on Broadway as the frazzled New York advertising account executive in Neil Simon's hit comedy "The Prisoner of Second Avenue."
But nothing Falk did came close to matching the acclaim and popularity he found playing the title role in "Columbo," the crime-drama for which he won four of his Emmys.
Launched with two TV-movies starring Falk — "Prescription: Murder" in 1968 and "Ransom for a Dead Man" in 1971 — "Columbo" began in the fall of 1971 as one of three 90-minute shows on the "NBC Sunday Mystery Movie," alternating with "McMillan and Wife," starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James, and "McCloud," starring Dennis Weaver.
"Columbo," however, became the stand-out show. "There isn't a detective on television who can touch him, either in style or ratings," one critic wrote of Falk.
The format of the series, created by Richard Levinson and William Link, inverted the classic detective formula: The TV audience already knew whodunit when Columbo arrived on the scene of the crime. The enjoyment for viewers was in seeing how Columbo doggedly pieced the clues together. As he said in one episode, "I have this bug about tying up loose ends."
Columbo, who was never given a first name, became one of the most memorable TV characters in television history — ranked No. 7 in TV Guide's 1999 list of "TV's Fifty Greatest Characters Ever."
With his tousled dark brown hair, a cheap cigar wedged between his fingers and his lived-in tan raincoat, the endearingly likable lieutenant was as unprepossessing as the faded old Peugeot he drove.
Indeed, when Columbo brought up the subject of men's clothing and male vanity in one early episode, guest star Suzanne Pleshette, as the segment title's "Witness to a Murder," pointedly looked at the disheveled detective and remarked: "Some men, Lieutenant, do not want to look like an unmade bed."
The show often made light of Columbo's lack of fashion sense. Taking note of the detective's tatty attire, a suspect once asked him, "Are you undercover?" Replied Columbo, "No, underpaid."
In another episode, a nun at a soup kitchen where Columbo was interviewing a witness took one look at his worn raincoat, mistook him as a vagrant and insisted on finding him a better coat in the shelter's used-clothing collection.
Columbo: "Y'know, I appreciate what you're doin', I really do, but I've had this coat for seven years."
Sister: "Oh, you poor man!"
Admonished by the nun not to feel ashamed of his shabby raincoat, Columbo said: "No, I'm very fond of it."
But beyond his rumpled exterior, disarmingly childlike curiosity and seeming disorganization — he'd frequently lose his pencil and have to borrow a pen to jot down notes — there was no question Columbo was the right man for the job.
Head cocked, slightly hunched and his hand occasionally rubbing his furrowed forehead, he may have appeared to be absorbing nothing, but he missed nothing.
For the prime suspect, that was never more clear than when Columbo headed to the door, stopped and, in his gravelly voice, said, "Oh, there's just one more thing …"
Falk had the best take on Columbo, a character he never tired of portraying.
"I love him," he told TV Guide in 2000. "He's eccentric, oblivious to the impression he makes on people. His obsessiveness is hidden by his graciousness. He has a sly sense of humor, is by nature polite and totally devoid of pretension. But God help anyone who commits murder in Los Angeles."
In 1989, Falk returned in new "Columbo" dramas as part of the "The ABC Mystery Movie," a new series of three rotating two-hour dramas. After that series ended in 1990, he continued to turn up periodically in "Columbo" TV movies until 2003.
In 2000, after more than three decades of playing his famous TV character, Falk acknowledged that only slight changes had been made.
"It's tougher to bum a match; there are a few more ketchup stains on the raincoat," he told TV Guide. "Other than that, we're still dying to know what he's thinking."
Falk was born in New York City on Sept. 16, 1927, and grew up in Ossining, N.Y., where his parents owned a clothing store. (Decades later, Ossining named a street after him — Peter Falk Place — which he unveiled by pulling a Columbo-style raincoat off the street sign.)
At age 3, Falk underwent surgery to remove a malignant tumor that cost him his right eye. He later recalled dreading having anyone ask him what was the matter with his eye. But by the time he was a teenager, his self-consciousness disappeared after he realized he could get a laugh with it.
Once, when he was unfairly called out at third base during a high school baseball game, Falk is said to have taken out his glass eye and offered it to the umpire saying, "You need this more than I do."
In high school, he was a three-letter athlete (baseball, basketball and track), a debating-team member and senior class president.
Falk, who first appeared on stage in a summer-camp musical, also played small parts in high school stage productions.
"But," he told People magazine in 1991, "I could never tell any of the guys I was knockin' around with I wanted to be an actor. It was too strange."
After graduating from high school in 1945, Falk began a year-long post-war stint as a cook in the merchant marines. He attended Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., from 1946 to 1948, then transferred to the New School for Social Research in New York City, where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science in 1951.
Two years later, he earned a master's in public administration from Syracuse University and went to work as an efficiency expert for the Connecticut State Budget Bureau in Hartford.
In his spare time, he joined a community theater group in Hartford, the Mark Twain Maskers, and studied with renowned actress Eva Le Gallienne at the White Barn Theatre in Westport.
Encouraged by Le Gallienne to become a professional actor at 28, Falk quit his job and moved to New York City.
Falk, who continued to study acting in New York, first gained attention playing the bartender in the 1956 Off-Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh," starring Jason Robards.
He made his Broadway debut playing the English solider in "Saint Joan" in 1956 and appeared on television shows such as "Studio One" and "Naked City."
Although Falk made a screen test for Columbia Pictures in the late '50s, studio boss Harry Cohn turned him down, saying, "For the same money I can get an actor with two eyes."
But his glass eye proved to be no handicap.
In the wake of his two Oscar-nominated film performances and Emmy Award in the early '60s, Falk was offered — and turned down — a number of potential TV series.
But he accepted "The Trials of O'Brien," a legal drama in which he played a talented New York attorney with a less-successful personal life. Although a critical success, the show fared poorly in the ratings and was canceled in 1966 after one season.
For Falk, who had played his share of heavies over the years, "Columbo" was a welcome change of pace.
"I'd done too many shows where I'd walk into a hospital room where a man was in bed and I'd go over and turn off the oxygen," he told TV Guide in 1972. "I've shot, knifed and beat people in too many bloody scenes. There's no fun in doing that. I like to do something optimistic, where the people try to live, not die."
During his long run as Columbo, Falk received a lot of fan mail from police officers.
"You get cops saying, 'I use the Columbo technique,'" he told The Times in 1990. "Or you go somewhere and a cop will come up and say, 'We have got a Columbo on the force who we call Columbo, and on his birthday we bought him a raincoat.' They send me pictures of cops dressed as Columbo. So they get a kick out of it."
While it is hard to imagine anyone else playing the character, "Columbo" creators Levinson and Link originally offered the role to 67-year-old Bing Crosby, who turned it down.
As Falk often said: "Thank God he had a golf tournament."
Falk married his first wife, Alyce, in 1960, and adopted two daughters, Catherine and Jackie. A year after the couple divorced in 1976, he married actress Shera Danese.
Catherine Falk had filed for conservatorship of her father in late 2008, contending that she had not been allowed to see him since his hip-replacement surgery earlier that year. She later withdrew a petition to take control of his finances.
In 2009, the court allowed his wife to remain in control of his personal care and affairs but ordered that his daughter be allowed to see her father for 30 minutes every other month, a mandate that remained in place at the time of his death.
Falk's survivors include his wife and his two daughters.
PHOTOS: Peter Falk's life and career
Los Angeles Times staff writer Valerie J. Nelson contributed to this report.
Peter Falk, the gravel-voiced actor who became an enduring television icon portraying Lt. Columbo, the rumpled raincoat-wearing Los Angeles police homicide detective who always had "just one more thing" to ask a suspect, died Thursday. He was 83.


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Professor Geoffrey W. Marcy
Professor Geoffrey W. Marcy received his B.A. in physics and astronomy from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976 and his Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1982. Later that year, he became a Carnegie Fellow at The Carnegie Institute of Washington. Dr. Marcy joined San Fransisco State University in 1984, where he is currently an Adjunct Professor of Physics and Astronomy. In 1999, he was appointed Professor of Astronomy at the University of California at Berkeley.
Dr. Marcy's research has focused on the detection of extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs. His team has discovered 145 extrasolar planets (as of Nov. 2007), allowing study of their masses and orbits. Among the planets discovered are the first multiple-planet system, the first Saturn-mass planet, the first Neptune-mass planet, and the first transiting planet. Ongoing work is designed to study the mass distribution of planets and the eccentricity of their orbits. Dr. Marcy is participating in Berkeley's new "Center for Integrative Planetary Science," designed to study the formation, geophysics, chemistry, and evolution of planets.
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Sounds from Arab Lands celebrates musical fusions
Artists to perform world music concert ThursdayA shared spirit of musical exploration unites the diverse group of musicians behind the upcoming performance of REMIX: New Sounds from Arab Lands.
The artists will come to campus this week for a three-day residency as part of the MusicUnitesUS program, which promotes the understanding and appreciation of other cultures through music. REMIX brings together distinguished performers and composers from Syria, Lebanon and Tunisia who create music inspired by the cultural heritage of the Arab lands.
The public concert, part of the music department's World Music Series, will take place in Slosberg Recital Hall on Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. Residency curator Ted Levin will offer a pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m.
"They will show us that 'tradition' is not something that restrains us, but is the foundation for growth and change," she says.
The New Sounds project was developed in collaboration with the Aga Khan Music Initiative, a program of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. The initiative supports artists and artistic communities in the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia and South Asia that seek to reassemble and further develop diverse expressions of a shared musical heritage in contemporary forms.
The players perform on both Middle Eastern and Western instruments. They are led by genre-crossing clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, and includes Syrian saxophonist, Basel Rajoub; and violinist, Jasser Haj Youssef, from Tunisia. Joining them are percussionist Khaled Yassine , co-founder of Lebanese fusion band Fu Jan Shai and Feras Shahrestane on qanun, a descendent of the harp. Together, they combine jazz, classical music and the microtonal subtleties and melodic modes of Arabic music. Their program will include works composed by each member.
"A sublime mix of spontaneity and control rooted in a thousand-year-old tradition of improvisation, this music is as alive and in the moment as you'll ever hear, but it's also fraught with history," Levin says. "Moreover, it could only have been created by artists whose own musical journeys have zigzagged back and forth between the Middle East and the West in unique and remarkable ways."
Ensemble members say even they were hesitant about the project, imagining it would be difficult to marry their distinct sounds but were ultimately enthralled with the idea of expressing traditional sounds in contemporary ways.
"These musicians represent a new generation of players who aim to achieve a balance of tradition and modernity, in their own terms. What can music teach us about how to achieve the balance of tradition and modernity?" Eissenberg says. "The tool that makes it possible in music is the art of improvisation. Improvisation is not simply making stuff up at the spur of the moment.… It is a process that is informed by carefully considered, complex, deeply rooted aesthetics and musical guidelines – tradition."
Tickets for the World Music Concert are $20 for the general public, $15 for the Brandeis community and $5 for students. Tickets can be purchased online and in person at the Shapiro Campus Center.
For more information on REMIX residency, please see the MusicUnitesUS, or call (781) 736-3331.
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A graduate-level certificate program in Evaluation Research is offered jointly by the Schools of Social Sciences and Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Students who complete this program will have an opportunity to gain competencies in the design and implementation of program evaluations in fields such as education, health care, human services, criminal justice, and economic development. The Certificate in Evaluation Research program may be incorporated into graduate degree programs in the Schools of Social Sciences or Behavioral and Brain Sciences, or may be taken on its own by nondegree seeking students. Students in the Evaluation Research certificate program are normally expected to have completed undergraduate courses in social statistics and research design; students lacking appropriate preparation may be asked to take needed courses prior to admission to the program.
In order to receive the certificate, students must successfully complete
four required courses and one guided elective, complete an evaluation research
project including a final report, and participate in a weekly evaluation
research seminar. The courses in the School of Social Sciences leading to the
Certificate in Evaluation Research are POEC 5313 Descriptive and Inferential
Statistics for the Social Sciences, POEC 6352 Evaluation Research Methods in
the Social Sciences, POEC 6V91 Evaluation Research (six credit hours), and an
additional course to be chosen from a list of guided electives available from
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STERLING – The Newman Comets did manage to find high gear on offense during Friday night's Class 2A Newman Regional championship game against the Riverdale Rams.
Unfortunately, it wasn't until the fourth quarter, when they already trailed by 17 points. The end result was a 50-42 Riverdale victory, sending the Rams to Monday's Class 2A Somonauk Sectional semifinal against Byron.
"Their shots were falling, and we couldn't get ours to go down," Newman senior Jaimie Hurd said. "We finally got things going there in the fourth quarter, but they just had too big a lead and we ran out of time."
Riverdale (24-2) scored the game's first 11 points, but when all-time scoring leader Hannah Nimrick went to the bench with her second foul late in the first quarter, the Comets rallied. Newman (15-12) cut the deficit to four (12-8) by the end of the opening period, and trailed by five with 31 seconds left in the first half.
But Jess Corson hit a shot with 4.2 seconds left in the half, giving the Rams all the momentum heading into the locker room.
"That last shot of the half killed us," Newman coach Jay Howell said. "We were right there in it, then they score right before the buzzer and it deflated us a little bit."
Riverdale built a 39-22 lead with a 12-2 run to end the third quarter and start the fourth, even with the Comets putting the clamps on Nimrick. Corson, Lauren Claus and Elle May all scored during the spurt.
"We worked as a team on both ends," Riverdale junior Sydney Mericle said. "We moved our feet and helped each other out on defense, and we kept working the ball around on offense. We know when they take away one person, we've got other girls who can score."
Newman wasn't finished, though, as Jaimie Hurd hit a 3-pointer before Mary Alice Oswalt hit a 2 and two free throws to get the Comets within 10 (39-29). After Riverdale pushed its lead back to 43-29, Rachel Hageman nailed a 3 and Oswalt hit a runout layup.
But the Rams sank their free throws down the stretch, and Oswalt's 3 with 11.3 seconds remaining still left Newman down by eight. Hannah Erickson's putback at the buzzer followed two Nimrick free throws and provided the final margin.
"I thought we played really good defense, and got a lot of good looks," Newman sophomore Aubree Schmitt said, "but it seemed like they were making shots and they weren't going in for us. We wanted to hold Nimrick to single digits, and we did, but they're a well-rounded team; everyone can hurt you on offense, so it's really hard to shut them down."
Nimrick finished with nine points, 10 rebounds and two blocks, but May (12 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals), Mericle (12 points, 7 rebounds) and the rest of the Rams picked up the slack. Corson added nine points, three steals and two blocks, and Claus chipped in eight points and four steals.
"We had good mental focus tonight, and we were able to play a lot more relaxed because we got the lead right away," May said. "Our goal every game is to get the lead and then maintain it, and our defense was a big part of that tonight."
Oswalt led Newman with 17 points, while Hageman added seven points and seven rebounds. Hurd had six points and five steals, and Schmitt finished with five points, eight rebounds and five assists.
"We played our hearts out for a full four quarters, and there's nothing more we can ask for than that," Hurd said. "We didn't want to have any regrets tonight, especially us seniors, and I thought we gave really good effort to make sure we didn't."
Girls basketball
Class 2A Newman Regional final
Riverdale 50, Newman 42
Star of the game: Elle May, Riverdale, 12 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals
Key performers: Sydney Mericle, Riverdale, 12 points, 7 rebounds; Hannah Nimrick, Riverdale, 9 points, 10 rebounds; Mary Alice Oswalt, Newman, 17 points; Aubree Schmitt, Newman, 5 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists
Up next: Class 2A Somonauk Sectional semifinal, Riverdale vs. Byron, 7:30 p.m. Monday


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