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NEIGHBORS OF THE AIR (Feb, 1935)
"C Q—C Q—W6HHU calling and standing by———."
This was the call from Albert Hanson, radio amateur, which brought details of the disastrous Long Beach earthquake and started the rush of relief.
With telephone and telegraph lines crippled, radio "hams" restored communication and shattered the veil of si-lence into which the tragedy had plunged the stricken area.
Jamison Vaughter, W6FXS, set up a portable transmitter at Midwick Relief hospital where the injured were pouring in. Barnett Harper of W6DCF joined in. W6DBC and W6EXT hooked up in the web. More than a thousand messages were sent to all parts of the world in the thirty hours following. Albert Mutter went on the air with his W6BCK, and Eddie Miller, W6AZU, dug himself out of the damaged and brick-strewn control room of KFOX. He got the station on the air. Communication was restored—hysteria was silenced—the world moved on.
Volumes could be written of the tense drama of those first few hours, but this is the story of the radio amateur. Out of the north comes a flash from the commercial operator at Nome, Alaska:
"Nome is burning! The city is a mass of flames. People are screaming in the streets —fleeing the flames—" and the message stops! The power lines have burned down.
People leap to the task of succor. The mayor of Seattle offers the aid of his city. The Red Cross gets ready. The Coast Guard orders all available vessels to Nome waters. But the dilemma of silence is with them. The commercials are helpless, and once again the world pauses, hesitant. Up in Nome the faint pulse of the K7 amateurs is going out, the hams in Seattle are listening and the miles are bridged. Once again, in the clinches with disaster, the hams come through.
There are 60,000 radio amateurs in the world, 45,000 in the United States alone, and the other 15,000 scattered in every conceivable spot on the face of the globe. It is virtually impossible to be so isolated an amateur can't find you.
In the endless seas to the south, a tiny sailboat loafed along below the Islands of Pago Pago. The captain was stricken with appendicitis. The speediest boat could not reach him in time. Death hovered over the tiny craft. A distress signal was flown and a tuna boat, equipped with a short-wave transmitter, sent out its feeble signal. A ham heard it and crashed into the air with his powerful wave. Another ham —another relay, and an ambulance seaplane was sent from the Panama Naval base.
Clyde De Vina, a Hollywood cameraman on location near Teller, Alaska, was talking over his set to an old friend in New Zealand. Suddenly De Vina's signals stopped in the midst of a transmission—the ham in New Zealand wondered why and asked another ham in Teller to investigate. De Vina was rescued from his monoxide filled shack before the deadly generator fumes could finish their work. Twenty thousand miles of messages in less than twenty minutes —and another life was saved!
But this fascinating hobby is not all excitement. Tedious study of technical matters is necessary before even a license can be obtained.
The code must be mastered to the speed of ten words per minute or more. The paths of the elusive electron must be followed through wires and tubes before one can put them on the air.
Uncle Sam is fussy about this, and maintains a small army of radio inspectors and monitor stations that check every signal on the air at regular intervals. They must be within the limits assigned, and the hams have little left with which to work since commercials have taken over many of the ham-developed high frequencies.
They are an honorable bunch, these hams, but have learned ways and means also, since the days when a five-watt tube sold for a tidy sum, and the puzzled milkman could never quite understand the acute shortage of pint milk bottles until he wandered uninvited into a ham's shack. He found all the stray milk bottles lined up like a battalion of soldiers, filled with a saturate solution of borax and doing duty as high-voltage rectifiers!
Now, as then, the amateur is confronted with the cost of equipment, and in the high-power sets this is no small matter. A single 1,000-watt, water cooled tube may sell for $350, and hams can expect no outside help in financing their stations. By law, they are not allowed to accept "gratuities for service."
There are endless numbers of amateur radio associations scattered over the world, but in the United States they all consider Amateur Radio Relay League as the parent organization—the supreme power in radio amateur circles. Hiram Percy Maxim started the whole thing with his original Radio Club of Hartford in 1914. This club grew into the League and when war was declared the original twenty-three members had grown to 9,000. The navy department asked for 500 operators. They were furnished promptly, and in July, 1917, the official publication of the hams, QST, asked for 2,000 more. Then they suspended publication and locked up the office. The editor had gone to war. All antennas were lowered by presidential proclamation, and 3,000 hams trooped into the service out of 9,000 licensed amateurs.
Who are they, these ham fellows? The doctor, the preacher, the student, the prize fighter—all banded together in the common zeal to improve radio. They keep a written record of every message sent or received, they are sworn by the federal communication commission never to betray the text or meaning of any message sent, received or intercepted. They are never too busy to speed your message on its way to the far corners of the earth.


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Be interesting to know if there are duties for a "company" importing stuff, cos AS I SAID you don't pay a lot of duties when customs decides to charge you (FedExcrement charges $25 every time for "duties" regardless of what I have to pay customs; actual customs duties are less) and AS I SAID sales tax is 10%. EDIT: I'm wrong, consumption tax (aka VAT, GST, etc) is still at 5% . . . going up to 10% in 2015.noel wrote:I have worked for kite/surf shops for almost 15 years and for Ford Motor Co. for years before that building trucks, i know a little. Did you ask the shop why such a high mark up if you know how much it should cost? I don't know the situation there and unless someone is from there, how would we know? Are there any other vat or duties
No shit, Sherlock. We're talking about RRP not wholesale.noel wrote:As for the car thing. If you think the manufacturing plants build the cars for the same price as they sell it to the dealer, you are naive.
Who's asking for help? I'm just having a moan.noel wrote:Why ask for help on a forum if you are not willing to listen to any opinions or answers?

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I invite you to open your Bible to Matthew chapter 27. We return to a text of Scripture which treats the amazing burial of Jesus Christ, the amazing burial of Jesus Christ. We're looking at Matthew 27 verses 57 through 66, a section we began last Lord's day and we'll complete this morning.
Now before we approach the passage itself, I want to speak of a very important issue that I think will increase our understanding greatly. One of the greatest and one of the most essential attributes of God, one which we must understand as Christians is that God is above all things sovereign. The old theologians used to call about the...call it the supremacy of God. We like to use the term the sovereignty of God. That is to say that God rules over all things, that God controls all things. Now that is an essential understanding. The ramifications of that are beyond our ability to grasp. Some of them we can't understand and perhaps even more of them we will understand when we've completed our lesson this morning. But the Bible teaches unequivocally that God is the supreme ruler in the universe. The one who created is the one who sustains. The one who ordained is the one who brings it to pass. The one who established the plan is the one who sees it to its fulfillment.
For example, listen to some of the testimony of the Scripture to the sovereignty of God. In 1 Chronicles chapter 29 verses 11 through 13 we read this, "Thine, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and 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, both riches and honor come of Thee and Thou reignest over all. In Thine hand is power and might and in Thine hand it is to make great and to give strength unto all. Now therefore, our God, we thank Thee and praise Thy glorious name."
In 2 Chronicles and chapter 20 and verse 6 we read another example of the testimony of Scripture to the sovereignty of God. The writer says, "O Lord God of our fathers, art not Thou God in heaven and rulest not Thou over all the kingdoms of the nations and in Thine hand is there not power and might so that none is able to withstand Thee?"
And in Job chapter 23 verse 13 we read, "But He--speaking of God--is of one mind and who can turn Him? And what His soul desires He also does." In other words, God never vaccilates between opinions. He has one mind and no one can change it and no one can alter it.
In Psalm 115 and verse 3 it says, "But our God is in the heavens, He hath done whatsoever He hath pleased." In Psalm 135:6, "Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that He did in heaven and in the earth in the seas and in all the deep places."
In Proverbs 21:30 the Scripture says, "There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord." And in Isaiah 46:10 God says, "My counsel shall stand and I will do all My good pleasure."
And you might add to that a rather familiar word of Scripture from verse 35 in Daniel chapter 4 in which there it says, "God does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth and none can stay His hand or say unto Him, What are You doing?" No one can alter it and no one really can even question it.
In Ephesians 1:11, "He works all things according to the purpose of His own will."
Now all of these and a myriad more Scriptures tell us that God is sovereign. Now this is a marvelous truth to understand. Somebody is in charge, is what it's saying. The world and the universe and all that is going on with the millions and billions of isolated circumstances are not functioning at random. There is a design and a designer and a purpose and a goal and an objective and an intention in all of it.
Now to understand how God could take the almost infinite number of circumstances, attitudes and events that exist both in the natural and the demonic world and pull them all together to work out His own will is really beyond our comprehension. We cannot conceive of that. It's enough for us to figure out how a computer with identifiable data can come rapidly to a conclusion but to understand how the infinite mind of eternal God can collect, collate and bring to perfect harmony every isolated bit of data that exists in the entire universe and make it all work for His will is really beyond our understanding.
In order to get a small grasp on the reality of this truth, we need to do this. We need to understand that God basically rules in the world through two things. The first one is miracle. In other words, in order to accomplish His purpose there are times when He interrupts the natural stream. There are times when He interrupts the natural course of the flow of history. He interrupts it supernaturally. He acts in violation of natural law. He overrules natural law. He sets it aside. He invades with supernatural power to accomplish His will. There are times when He does that. In order to accomplish His goal He simply sets aside the natural flow and does things that are naturally scientifically inexplicable. There is no scientific explanation for a miracle.
Now Scripture is full of this kind of thing. Creation itself obviously was the first interruption in the status quo when God in a matter of a few days, six days, created all that exists. And then there was the incredible and miraculous event we know as the flood when God drowned the entire world except for the saving of eight souls and two of each kind of animal. And then we read in Scripture about the plagues that came in Egypt and the death of the first born when God miraculously violated the course of nature, overruled the natural flow to get His people out of Egypt and into the promised land. And then we remember the miracle of the parting of the Red Sea for the people of Israel which sea then closed to drown the armies of Egypt. And then we remember that God brought water from a rock, miraculous, overruling the natural.
God provided manna from heaven and birds to eat when the people wanted flesh to eat. God on one occasion caused the sun to retreat and go backwards on a sundial. On another occasion He had the sun stand still, that is the earth stopped revolving and no one fell off. Supernaturally God controlled creation.
And then there was the time when the ground opened and swallowed all of those who rebelled against Him under the rebellion of Korah. The miracle was the ground opening and swallowing only those who had sinned and not the others.
Then there was the time when the walls of Jericho fell flat without any mechanical reason or physical phenomena to make that happen. Then there was the incredible miraculous strength of Samson by which he could kill 20,000 people. Then there was God turning stone and water into fire on Mount Carmel.
Then there was the time God made an axehead float and raised a dead boy and provided food for a widow. And a time when a donkey talked and a time when a chariot of fire caught in a whirlwind took a man to heaven without death, a man by the name of Elijah. And then there was the miracle of the divine handwriting on the wall in Belshazzar's feast and the closing of the mouths of lions and three men in a fiery furnace who did not burn and were not even singed. And then there was the miracle of a man in the belly of a great fish for three days who lived. And it goes on and on to the healings of Jesus and the raising of the dead and the miracles of the Apostles. There have been times when God has to bring about His eternal purposes done miraculous things which interrupt the flow of natural history. That we call miracle. And God does that as a means of maintaining His sovereign control over the events that are taking their place in the world.
So we understand that. Most people understand that if they understand anything about the Scripture. But there is a second factor that many people do not think about that is equally significant. God not only takes the world and the universe to its destiny by the use of miracles, but secondly, by the use of providence...providence. Now the word providence is not in the Bible. It's like the word trinity, trinity isn't in the Bible but the trinity is. Providence as a term isn't in the Bible but the providence of God is. It is a term to describe a very important way in which God controls things that are happening in the universe. Simply, it means this that God rather than overruling or interrupting or violating the natural course simply manipulates and uses all of the events that are happening to come to His own ends. On the one hand He interrupts those events, on the other hand He simply orchestrates them all, pulls them all together to bring His predetermined conclusion to pass.
Now this is incredible. It seems to me that providence, if I can use a conundrum, providence is a greater miracle than a miracle. It seems to me that it would be easier if I were God to just say, "I'm not going to fool with trying to pull all this together, I'm just going to do it." And so the wonder of wonders to me is not just the miracle where God instantly invades and just interrupts and violates the flow of everything, to me the greater wonder is that God can take it all and still make it work for His will. That's astounding to me. The diversity of an innumerable number of events, circumstances and attitudes that occur within the limited freedom of men and demons and God pulls it all together to accomplish exactly what He wants done. Incredible not only to conceive that it can be done but to make it happen. But that is precisely what God does. So that the world with what we assume to be an almost infinite number of random choices is doing nothing more than acting out that which is predetermined by God. That is the sovereignty of God, the infinite mind of God. And that's why the Psalmist says He has power over all. I mean, you read the Bible and you will find that God uses the thunder and the lightning and the rain and the waters and the rivers and the hail and frost and the ice and the snow and the cold and the heat and the sunshine and the animals and the birds and the beasts and the nations, the governments, the kings, the princes, the rulers, the governors, He uses everything and everybody and He pulls it all together to accomplish exactly what He wants done.
And within this, all of these beings are making random choices, all of these things are functioning in a way that seems at least to them to be detached from any sovereign control. He sets the birth and death of every man. He sees all they do. He knows all they think. He hears all they say. He uses their good. He uses their bad. He uses the free choices of men. They are made to fit perfectly into His eternal purposes. Even the choices being made by fallen angels called demons are fitting perfectly into His purposes.
Proverbs 16:1 puts it this way. "The plans of the heart belong to man but the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah." Proverbs 19:21 says, "There are many devices in a man's heart but the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand."
And Jeremiah in chapter 10 verse 23 said, "O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself, it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Isn't that amazing? Men think they're doing what they want to do, the fact is they're fitting into a grander scheme that is being worked out by infinitely wise and holy God. Paul said to the Philippians, "It is God who works in you to will and to do of His own good pleasure." He controls everything, even sin...He allows some, He prevents some and limits all of it to His purpose.
In Proverbs we have so many other things, I was thinking of Proverbs 16 again and verse 9 which is a familiar text. "A man's heart devises his way but the Lord directs his steps." And I think of John 5:17 where Jesus says, "My Father works and I work." In other words, while He's on earth He's saying we're still working. What are You doing? We're controlling everything to bring about the eternal plan. That is the sovereignty of God.
Now listen. To do that God uses on occasion the miracle which invades that natural flow, but most of the time with very isolated exceptions, God does not use miracles. They were existing in the time of the Elijah and Elisha, in the time of Moses before that, in the time of Christ, in the time of the Apostles and in only those four times in biblical redemptive history and the history of the church do we see miracles as any kind of norm. The rest of the time God uses providence...the pulling together of all the diverse elements.
Now let me give you some illustrations of this so you'll know what I'm talking about. And I'll use some biblical illustrations. You remember the story of Joseph? Joseph was one of 12 brothers. The brothers hated Joseph because Joseph was the favorite son. So they decided to get rid of Joseph. There were a group of Medianite traders heading to Egypt through their particular property and the land of Canaan. And so they decided to sell Joseph into slavery. So they sold Joseph to these traders who took him down to Egypt and made him a slave. He became a slave because of the whim of his brothers because of the hatred of his brothers. There was no miracle in that. It was just an act that the brothers did thinking they were responding to their own emotions and their own needs and their own best interests and so forth.
So he goes to Egypt. Where does he end up? He ends up serving a man named Potiphar. Potiphar has a wife who likes the way Joseph looks. And so she decides that she wants to seduce Joseph, Joseph won't have a thing to do with it. He runs. She grabs his coat and accuses him falsely of intending to rape her. He is then thrown into jail. He is in jail because of this woman and because everybody believed her lies. In jail he comes across another prisoner. This other prisoner has a dream. He interprets the dream. The Pharaoh has a dream and the Pharaoh says, "Who can interpret my dream?" And somebody says there's a guy in jail who can interpret your dreams. So he comes to the Pharaoh, interprets the Pharaoh's dream, the Pharaoh makes him Prime Minister of Egypt.
So far no miracles. The decision of the brothers, the decision of Potiphar's wife, the decision of the guy in the jail, the decision of Pharaoh, he has gone from being sold into slavery to being the second man in Egypt under the Pharaoh, he is the Prime Minister of Egypt.
You say, "Is that important?" Yeah it is because he has a plan. The Pharaoh's dream said there would be seven years of plenty and seven years of famine, so during the seven years of plenty Joseph collects 20 percent tax from everybody of all their grain and all that they have and stores it away to feed his nation during the seven years of famine. During the seven years of famine, what happens? The people living up in his homeland don't have any supply, they haven't prepared for this. So they all pack up and come to Egypt to beg for some food from Egypt. Who do you think they're going to have to come to to beg for it? Joseph. So here comes Joseph's family to him to get food.
You say, "Is that important?" Yes it's important. You say, "What happens if Joseph's family die?" Then you lose the 12 tribes of Israel, folks. And so they come to Joseph to beg him for some provision. And what happens is recorded in the forty- fifth chapter of Genesis in verse 4, "Joseph said to his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. They came near and he said, I am Joseph your brother whom you sold into Egypt." That's a long way from where they thought he would be. For these...then in verse 5 he says, "Now therefore be not grieved nor angry with yourselves that you sold me here...listen to this...for God did send me before you to preserve life."
Now listen, God could have just picked up Joseph, taken him in a cloud, dropped him into Egypt and made him Prime Minister instantaneously. Didn't do that. That would have been a what? That would have been a miracle. God didn't use a miracle, He used providence. A whole lot of random choices by a whole lot of people did nothing but work out God's perfect plan. "For these two years has the famine been in the land and yet there are five years in which there shall neither be plowing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance, so now it was not you that sent me here but God." Isn't that great.
And in chapter 50 he says, "You meant it for evil but God meant it for...what?...for good," chapter 50 verse 20. And here is God in a sequence of random events working out His purpose. And what was His purpose? To preserve the twelve sons to preserve the twelve tribes of Israel. And He does it through providence. No miracle.
Another most beautiful picture of providence is Naomi who had a son and his...her son rather violated the law of God, breached the law of God by marrying a pagan Moabitist woman by the name of Ruth. And he took off, married Ruth, went to live in Moabite country, violating God's law he died probably as a divine judgment along with his brother who did the same thing and married Orpah. And when God took their lives, probably as I said, as a divine judgment, Ruth was left with Naomi her mother- in-law who was a Jewess. And Ruth at that point because of the testimony of Naomi said to her in chapter 1 verse 16, "Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God." Through the testimony of Naomi she came to faith in the true God. What happened was there was a sin, God overruled the sin. Out of that sin brought Ruth to meet Naomi. Out of that meeting brought Ruth to know the true God. Naomi took Ruth back to the land. She was gleaning in the field of a man named Boaz who was related to her dead husband. That man under Jewish law took her as his wife. She became the grandmother of David. She was put in the Messianic line. No miracle, just providence. God controlling everybody's choices and all the events.
And perhaps even the most graphic of all providential illustrations in the Old Testament is the story of Esther. I don't know if you've ever thought of this, if you've read the book of Esther and kept this in mind, but the name of God is never mentioned in the entire book of Esther. It is the only book in the Bible that doesn't mention God in any way. And yet the main character in the book of Esther is God. There are no miracles in the book of Esther but God is at work in a way that is even beyond the miraculous, it is an unbelievable series of providential events orchestrated by God to bring about His will. Now His will in the book of Esther is to preserve the nation Israel. But there is a man in the kingdom there who wants them eliminated. He wants all the Jews annihilated because he despises the worship of the true God, his name is Haman. Haman is a high official. He has the ear of the king. And the king is impressed by Haman who flatters him and so forth and so on. And Haman has this plot to get rid of the Jews.
Well the plot hasn't even come to the knowledge of everybody when the book begins. What happens in the beginning of the book is the king's wife Vashti is deposed. And he wants to replace the queen. He wants a new queen. Now we don't know whether this was his only queen or whether it was a queen of concubinage but anyway he wanted a queen and he wanted the most beautiful girl. And so there was a man, a Jew, who kept the gate there. Must have had some responsibility in the palace by the name of Mordecai. He was a foster father to a girl named Esther. And Esther was a beautiful girl. And Mordecai realized or Mordecai, whatever you want to call him, realized that this might be a wonderful opportunity for her to live in that kind of situation and also to have good influence for his people. So he entered her in the queen's beauty contest and she won.
So, he took her...that is the king...as his queen. So now Esther is queen. And once that's established then the plot begins to thicken. Nobody really knows she's Jewish. Haman then plots this annihilation of all the Jewish people which, of course, would create great problems with the plan of God in the Persian Empire there, about 483 B.C. So he persuades the king to stamp an edict to annihilate all the Jews, which the king does. And he himself sought to kill Mordecai who was sort of the representative Jew truly devoted to God.
At that point Esther found out about the plot. So Esther is now in a position to influence the king. So she goes to the king and really lays it on. I mean, she is...if she was ever beautiful, she was beautiful that day. She really put on all the stuff and went in and begged him on behalf of her people. And the king favored Esther and Mordecai, spared all the Jewish people, made Mordecai the Prime Minister and hanged Haman on the gallows he build himself for the Jewish people and preserved the nation Israel. There isn't a miracle in the book and the name of God isn't mentioned and God is in control of every single event. This is how God controls history through providence.
But, I believe you'll never in any account of Scripture see the providence of God anymore graphically then you'll see it in the scene we're in right now, let's go to Matthew chapter 27. That was just the introduction. The greatest illustration without question, the greatest illustration of the sovereignty of God and the providence of God is in the death of Jesus Christ. That's the greatest illustration.
God used all of the human and Satanic forces to kill His Son to accomplish His redemptive purpose, didn't He? There was...the death of Christ was not a miracle. Oh, there were miracles surrounding it...the earthquake, the darkness, the rocks splitting, the tombs opening, people coming alive, there were miracles around it...the tearing of the veil from top to bottom. But the cross itself and the crucifixion of Christ and His death and His burial was non-miraculous. But God controlled everything. God controlled the hated of the Jews. God controlled the hostility of the Romans toward the Jews. God controlled even the defection of the disciples. He controlled every element...the betrayal of Judas, the denial of Peter, every piece of that entire scene was controlled by God, so much so that Jesus even rode into the city on the very day that Daniel prophesied He would do it. Jesus rode into the city the very day everyone else was selecting their Passover lamb, He coming as the true Passover lamb. He died on the very day that the Passover lambs were slaughtered. Every single detail was covered. And all by the free choice of men, they thought, and all by the solicitation of demons moving on the hearts of evil men to accomplish this. And in truth when it's all said and done it's all the work of God. There are no miracles in the trial of Christ, there are no miracles on the cross and there are no miracles in the burial, but there is providence and God is controlling every detail.
Listen to Acts 4:27 and 28, most amazing text. "For of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus whom Thou hast anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the nations and the people of Israel were gathered together." He says Herod was against Him, Pilate was against Him, the Jews were against Him, the Gentiles were against Him. They were all against Thy holy child Jesus whom Thou hast anointed, and they were all against Him to do what what? Verse 28, "To do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel determined before to be done." Isn't it amazing? They just did what God laid out for them to do and they did it with their own independent choices within the framework of their sin and yet worked out the perfect plan of God.
It's a staggering thing to understand the providence of God. He uses the plotting of evil men. He uses the hatred of the leaders, the fickle affection of the crowd, the deception of the disciples, the execution of the Romans, every piece of the puzzle to bring about His own perfect will. It's like Psalm 76:10 says, "Surely the wrath of men shall praise Him."
Now with that theological perception as a background, let me go to the text now and just sort of briefly mention what we saw last time and then go to the newer part that we haven't looked at. In the burial of Christ we have the providence of God at work. We first see it with fulfilled prophecy in verses 57 to 60. And the man God uses to do this is a man named Joseph of Arimathea. Now what you need to know is there were two prophecies about the death...about the burial of Christ. There were two prophecies about the burial of Christ. Let me remind you what they were. The first one was Isaiah 53:9 and in Isaiah 53:9 the Scripture says this, "His grave was assigned to be with wicked men, but He was with a rich man in His death." He was supposed to be thrown with the criminals but He wound up with a rich man in His death. The prophet said He would be with a rich man in His death.
The second prophecy of His death is in Matthew 12:40 and that is that as Jonah was three days in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days in the earth before His resurrection. Two prophecies then...with a rich man in His death and three days buried.
Now notice verse 57, "When the evening...this is the evening of Friday...was come there came a...what? What kind of man?...a rich man." Why did he come? Well, he thought he wanted to come. It was in his heart to come. He had prior been a secret disciple and having seen Jesus die and having love for Jesus and affection for Him, the one who is secret is now willing to take a stand for Christ, not even for a living Christ but for a dead Christ. He's going to sacrifice all his relationships. He's a member of the Sanhedrin, he's going to forfeit that, his social status, his business, he'll be cut off in every way. But his affection for the now dead Christ pulls his heart so much that he wants Him to have a proper place of burial. So a rich man comes, just as Isaiah said.
His name, Joseph. His town, Arimathea. He was also discipled by Jesus. He had been a follower, even though a secret one. He went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus. And Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. Now why would Pilate do that? I mean, I would think Pilate would say, "Leave that body there, I want that to mock the Jews as long as possible and I know it's the Passover and they want it taken down, but the fact that they want it taken down is good reason to leave it up there." He despised those who had intimidated him so much. But he doesn't do that. He says, "No, you can have it. Take it down." Is that important? Yes. The Jews had come earlier and said get those bodies off the cross before the Sabbath, we don't want them hanging up there on the Sabbath which is the Passover, which is a very high Sabbath. We want the bodies down. The Jews begged to have the bodies down. Joseph wanted the body down. Pilate said take it down. The real reason it had to come down was Jesus had to be in the grave on Friday so He could be there Friday, Saturday and Sunday. That's what the prophet said, that's what God wanted. And all these people acting on their own were really working out God's providential plan perfectly.
So, Joseph when he had taken the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, laid it in his own new tomb which he had hewn out of the rock and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher and left. It was done. Was that important? Why is that there? Oh yes it's important. That's not a miracle, that may be a greater miracle than a miracle. God worked out all those details to get Jesus into the grave before the day was over so that He would be there a part of Friday to fulfill the prophecy. And so we see the providence of God working to proclaim the deity of Christ through the fulfillment of prophecy even in His burial.
Now the second way we see the providence of God here is through the two women in verse 61. If Joseph was used to show the deity of Christ through fulfilled prophecy, they're used to show it through first-hand testimony.
And then finally, and we come to verse 62. The third group that God providentially orders in the scene to bring about the amazing burial of Jesus Christ are the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they provide in this testimony to the deity of Christ what I think to be as forceful as any proof of His resurrection anywhere in the Scripture. Let me show you how it unfolds, verse 62. "Now the next day that followed the day of the preparation," that's a long way to say Saturday or Sabbath, this is Passover day now. The day of the preparation is Friday, it's always Friday, you can't make it any other thing in Jewish chronology, it is always Friday. It was the term for Friday because that was the day they prepared for the Sabbath. All their meal planning and everything else had to be done for Sabbath because they couldn't do it on the Sabbath. So the next day, that's the day that follows Friday which is Saturday.
It's Saturday now. It's the Sabbath. It's not just any Sabbath, it's the Passover Sabbath, the holiest day of all the Jewish calendar. "And the chief priests and the Pharisees came together unto Pilate." Now this is amazing...chief priests and Pharisees, by the way, represent the Sanhedrin, the ruling body. That particular combination, chief priests and Pharisees, only appears one other place, that's in Matthew 21:45, it's an uncommon kind of combination. Chief priests were Sadducees and the Pharisees, of course, were their theological enemies and opponents, but they could agree on one thing and that was they wanted to make sure they eliminated the movement around Jesus Christ. It wasn't enough to have Him dead, they weren't done yet. They were afraid of one more thing. And so they get together in a small group and they come to Pilate.
And the question that immediately comes in your mind is if they went unto Pilate, they went into the praetorium. Yes, I don't have any question that they went into the praetorium to see Pilate. The day before on Friday when they brought Jesus to Pilate, they sent Jesus in and wouldn't go in because they didn't want to be defiled for the Sabbath by going into a Gentile dwelling. That was because they were in a Jewish crowd. Apparently they're able to come in a more clandestined way and as long as there is no Jews around to see that they're violating the scruples, they go right in to Pilate. Plus this is of such great concern to them, they're really not concerned with the legalism
In other words, murderers don't have a high priority for ceremony. I mean, if you're going to violate that law, you're not going to worry about what you're doing with the minimal kind of thing. And they hated Jesus so much, they hated Jesus more than they loved their own law. And so they violate that.
And what is their request? Verse 63, "Saying, Sir, or lord...term of dignity and honor...we remember that that deceiver said while He was yet alive after three days I will rise again." Listen, we're afraid of this guy. Not of Him, but what might happen because He said after three days I will rise. Notice what they call Him, "that deceiver." They push Him out at arm's length. They use a pronoun "that" which indicates He's far removed from them. And a word that calls Him a seducer of the people, that deceiver, that one who deceives the people. They have such contempt for Christ. Their hostility, hatred, and brutality extends even beyond His death. They're still identifying Him with these ungracious epithets. And the thing they're concerned about is that He said after three days I will rise again.
And when did He say that? Oh, He said that to them back in chapter 12 earlier. They said we want a sign, remember chapter 12 verse 38 to 41, we want a sign, we want to see you do a magic trick, we want to see a miracle, do something for us. He said you're not going to get any sign but the sign of Jonah, verse 40, "As Jonah was three days, three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the Son of Man be three days, three nights in the heart of the earth." In other words, they understood what He was saying. He says He's going to be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth just like Jonah was. Jonah went in and Jonah what? Came out. They knew what He was saying. He was saying I'm going to go into the ground, be buried and rise. The disciples didn't even understand it. The disciples thought He was talking mystically, spiritually, figuratively. They didn't understand that He was actually talking about a real death and a real resurrection. But the Jews didn't think about the mystical, spiritual, physical thing because they didn't believe He was the Messiah anyway, they thought He was just an impostor who was going to try to pull something off which obviously He couldn't do. But the fact that He said He was going to do it, the disciples must have thought He was supposed to do it and they might even try to pull it off themselves. So their concern was Jesus had said He was only going to be three days in the earth.
And so, in verse 64 they say, "Command, therefore...and they're commanding Pilate to command, they still have him under their control, he's intimidated by them for fear they will report him to Caesar if there's another conflict, so they say...Command, therefore, that the grave be made secure until the third day." And you'll notice that in 12:40 it was three days and three nights. In verse 63 it's after three days. And in verse 64 it's until the third day so that we say all those phrases mean the same thing, not three full 24-hour periods but any part of three days, any part of Friday, any part of Saturday, any part of Sunday, as we pointed out last time.
So, in verse 63 they say you better make that grave secure. And here's why, "Lest His disciples come by night and steal Him away and say to the people, He's risen from the dead." Now they're not afraid He'll rise, they're afraid that the disciples will fabricate a resurrection to keep the movement alive. That's what they're afraid of. The irony of it is the disciples had no such thought. The disciples couldn't get their own heads together. They're afraid. They're off somewhere, we don't know where they are...hiding. They don't even understand the reality of a resurrection, they're thinking of it mystically, figuratively, spiritually. They don't understand the real death and the real resurrection as happening, even though Jesus said to them over and over and over and over. It's just amazing how many times He said it. You read Matthew 16:21, you read Matthew 17:23, you read Matthew chapter 20 I think it's verse 19. You go to Mark and you see the same thing. In fact in Mark it's even more astounding. In the eighth chapter of Mark and verse 31, "He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, be rejected by the elders, by the chief priests, scribes, be killed and after three days rise again." And Peter rebuked Him. What are You talking about? Stop that talk.
Then in Mark 9 verse 9, "He came down the mountain after the transfiguration. He said, Don't tell anybody what you've seen until the Son of Man is risen from the dead." Verse 10, "And they kept that saying to themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean."
Listen, you don't have to be Phi Beta Kappa to know what that means, I understand that. It means He's going to rise from the dead. But, see, they couldn't handle that, the physical thing, because they couldn't handle that He would ever die. So they were...it was mystical to them.
Then down in the same chapter, verse 31, "He taught His disciples and said to them, The Son of Man is delivered to the hands of men, they'll kill Him. And after He's killed He'll rise the third day. But they understood not that saying and were afraid to ask Him." They just didn't understand it. Chapter 10 verse 33, we go to Jerusalem, "The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests, the scribes, they'll condemn Him to death and deliver Him to the Gentiles. They'll mock Him, scourge Him, spit on Him, kill Him, the third day He'll rise again." They still don't get the message. They still do not understand what He's really talking about. They're in the dark about it. In fact in John 20 verse 9 it says, "When they came into the empty tomb, as yet they knew not the Scripture that He must rise again from the dead." Boy, what blockheads. It just never occurred that He was speaking about a real death and a real resurrection. The Jews, of course, thought He was claiming that which He couldn't pull off, but they were afraid the disciples would have thought just like they did, that He really meant that and so to keep their movement alive they would come and steal the body.
So to prevent that, they go to Pilate and they say, "We want a guard and we want that guard put on the grave so that the disciples are unable to come and steal away the body." Or else...the end of verse 64, "The last error shall be worse than the first." Or the last deception...that deceiver who will be allowed another deception and it will be worse than the first one. What was the first deception? On Monday, Palm Sunday as we call it, but it's a Monday, the triumphal entry. He comes riding into the city on the colt, the foal of an ass, the garments and the branches and everything is thrown at His feet. Jesus comes riding into the city, hosanna, hosanna, halleluiah to the Son of David, you know, and blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord. They were giving Him all the Messianic accolades as He came into the city and the Jews saw that as a tremendous deception. The whole crowd, the whole city has gone out to Jesus. They're deceived. They think He's the Messiah.
Listen, what they're saying to Pilate is this, "If you think that caused an uproar and you think that caused a problem, you just watch what happens if the disciples are able to fabricate the fact that He rose from the dead. If they can fabricate a resurrection by stealing His body and teaching everywhere that He rose from the dead, you will have something far worse than you had on Monday. And if you think that was a threat to Jewish authority and Roman rule, you don't know anything as to what it will be like if they can fabricate a resurrection." So they say give us a guard so we can make sure they don't steal His body.
Verse 65, "Pilate said to them, You have a guard." Or it may be imperative...Take a guard. Either way it's the same thing. He gave them a Roman guard. "Go your way and make it as secure as you can." And it's just...he wants to brush it off. He's had enough of the whole thing. He just says here's your guard, get out of here and make that grave as secure as you possibly can.
And then verse 66, "So they went and made the grave, or sepulcher, secure, sealing the stone and setting a guard." Now sealing the stone doesn't mean they sealed it with glue or something. What that means is that they probably put some wax on the stone and some wax on the wall of the cave and ran some string and sealed the wax so that if anybody moved the stone, they would have to break the string and they would know it was violated. And that wax may have been stamped with a Roman imprimatur so that they would know they were violating Roman law. It was a way to make sure there was nothing done to take the body out. And then they set in front of the grave a group of Roman soldiers, very secure.
Now get this. This is all the work of the chief priests and the Pharisees and Pilate and the soldiers. No miracles, no miracles. But you say, "What significance does it have?" Oh, it has all the significance in the world. You see what they're doing? You see what they're doing? There are people today who still want to say, "Oh, if the body of Jesus was gone the disciples stole it." Listen, God made sure that a whole lot of pagans, a whole lot of people who rejected and hated Jesus Christ set it up so that there was no way possible for the disciples to steal His body or anybody else either. And if that in fact is the case, the only way He could have come out of there was by what? Resurrection. So again He uses the wrath of men to praise Him. The Jewish leaders by their hatred of Jesus, Pilate by his scorn and indifference, wanting to slough it all off, make it secure.
Do you know what would have happened if there was no guard and no seal? Nobody was watching the tomb and all of a sudden we were trying to preach a message that Jesus rose from the dead and somebody would say, "Don't give me that, it never happened. They just took His body and somebody took on His identity and somebody who looked like Him made a few appearances and so forth and so forth and so forth." But the unbelieving world itself made sure that there's no other explanation for the absent body of Jesus Christ except a resurrection. If no seal and no guard, the resurrection could have been explained as a grave robbery. But not after this. And the wrath of these Christ haters has led them to secure that grave to the extent that there's no other explanation than a resurrection. And later on, by the way, we'll see in chapter 28 the soldiers were bribed to deny the resurrection....which is another testimony to its reality.
Do you see how God is working in everything? He used Joseph of Arimathea providentially to fulfill prophecy. He used the two Marys providentially to give first-hand testimony to the resurrection. And He used the chief priests and the Pharisees providentially to give forceful proof that Jesus indeed rose from the dead.
Now listen carefully. How does this relate to you and me? Do you know this verse? "For we know that all things work together for...what?...good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose." Does that come to you with new meaning now? Do you understand what that says? All things are controlled by God to work together to fulfill His eternal purpose for His own beloved children which is their good. I mean, that is a marvelous thing. This idea of God's sovereignty and God's providence is not some distant doctrine only for theologians. I mean, this is where the rubber meets the road, folks. It's when you can't explain the trouble you're going through that you need to understand the providential power of a sovereign God who takes every bit of the diverse data of the universe and controls it all for your good and His glory and eternal purpose. Is that comforting? It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter what it is. And He demonstrated His ability to do it in the death and burial of Jesus Christ...glorious thing.
Whatever happens in your life, whatever you can't understand, whatever you struggle with, whatever doesn't make sense, whatever trials you may be going through to make it very personal to me, it all fits. It's unquestioned, it all fits. I ask no questions. This is it. This is part of it. God is doing it. He's at work. It's for His glory. It's for our good. He's in control. He hasn't abandoned His throne. And our hope and our confidence is in the God who providentially and if need by miraculously controls all things to His own intended and eternal purpose. Let's pray.
Our Father, it is our testimony that You are indeed a glorious God...a God who controls all things by the word of His power. We thank You, O God, for the fact that nothing happens outside the framework of Your eternal purpose. You are sovereign in everything, everything. That is why the Apostle Paul says, "In everything, give thanks for this is the will of God concerning you." It all moves together for Your glory and the good of Your beloved children. We praise You for Your infinite mind to make it all happen according to plan. And may we rejoice no matter what it is to know that the plan is unaltered and that we are moving on that path toward that perfect fulfillment. Thank You, Father, for that confidence, for Christ's sake. Amen.
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Sunday, April 10, 2005
"You probably connect with today's culture if your iPod is part of your wardrobe; if your play lists include U2, Black-Eyed Peas, Moby, and Coldplay; if your library shelf contains N.T. Wright, Leonard Sweet, Bill Easum, Jim Collins, John Grisham and John Steinbeck; if your DVD collection goes beyond Disney to Cohen brothers, Oliver Stone, and Mel Gibson; and if you can successfully order at Starbucks without tripping over your tongue or holding up the line. Westwinds Community Church is seeking a subversive teacher/communicator and team player who can connect with the inquirer as well as the seasoned Christ-follower and who accurately and passionately exegetes Scripture and culture. This catalytic leader must guide the ongoing theological and cultural dialogue while exploring different approaches to ministry. Five years experience in an emergent church would be ideal as well as a master's degree and/or seminary training."
to which I responded with an email . . .
i saw your job opening online and am curious about your church. I currently volunteer (preach, teach, brainstorm and perform manual labor) at an emergent church in austin, tx: Mosaic (www.mosaicaustin.org). I was involved at UBC in waco before that (www.ubcwaco.org) also preaching and teaching small group bible study. Having graduated from Truett Seminary last year, I currently work as a permanant sub at a high school here in austin, but am searching for a "real job" where I can use my gifts and pay the bills. any further info you can send me regarding your church and the specifics of the job you're looking to fill would be great.
ann pittman
after which I received the following message . . .
Hi Ann,
Shootin' straight from the hip to you Ann - I wish I could say we had arrived at accepting gals into a lead teaching position, but we aren't there yet! There has been progress, but because of a pretty major transition in losing our founding pastor about 9 months ago, we're taking any huge changes pretty slow right now.
It would have been interesting to see your resume etc., but at this time I'd be looking elsewhere. Sorry about that, but didn't want you to get your hopes up! I wish I could have been more positive!
Blessings on your search!
Norma Racey
Westwinds Community Church
So you can imagine how I feel now. Emergent is the moderate/progressive interdenominational church movement that has swept across the US, Britain, Australia and beyond. It is a response to fundamentalism, and an attempt to reclaim the beautiful traditions and truth of Christianity in an artistic, thoughtful, culturally relevant dialogue. For Westwinds Community Church to call themselves "culturally relevant" is a joke. Anyone or any church who wouldn't hire a woman because she lacks the proper anatomy (i.e. is not a man) is not living in 2005. One of my friends wrote about how sad it is that Jesus could have been so progressive towards women 2000 years ago, but we insist on living minus that mission and truth. Christians should be the most progressive, truth embodying, gift embracing people on earth - why can we not step up to that challenge?
I remember now why I never wanted to be employed by a church.
44 comments:
- Michelle said...
Oh my gosh, ann! That email made me so mad, I had to read it twice because I thought I had either misread it or that it was a joke. Did you email them back telling them that they are a joke? I think you should. I mean, they aren't going to hire you anyways...losers, do they even know how much talent they are tossing away by not hiring you or any other intelligent woman. Grrr, Michelle mad.
- lynnette said...
this is the most revolting thing i've heard in a long time.
please move to nashville. let's do something great here.
- Adam said...
ann, so sorry about this situation.
i feel like this is a place where i think some 'emergent' churches are finding themselves (it still makes me very sad!). some of these emergent churches are coming out of fundamentalist backgrounds, and so in order to maintain unity in the church (filled with people who have tons of connections together and have been 'family' for so long) - they feel the need to move in slow steps toward making people understand there is no anatomical-reason why men and women are any different and that women are in any way not as prepared for the ministry as men.
in some ways - i can understand wanting to maintain unity...but...yah. it's a really hard thing. i want unity in our churches more than anything - but i think there are times when one needs to stand up and say "no! this is just wrong and we may be making a bold and potentially dangerous move to say this, but it is time to proclaim this - to proclaim and confess that we have been wrong and that it IS wrong to not allow women in ministry..."
i hope more and more people take this stand...
- tony said...
Ann: That corny job description has been floating around the Internet for months. I'm glad you outed them as a traditional evangelical misogynistic church using 'emergent' lingo in order to lure a hip, young pastor. You've done us all a great service.
- glenn said...
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- glenn said...
just curious, but what kind of hermeneutic principle guides you in interpreting 1 timothy 3:1-7?
i'd just like to hear your thoughts . . . .
- tony said...
The hermeneutic of common sense.
Glenn: Honestly, your question seems more befitting a personal e-mail than a blog comment as these topics can create heated debate in a place for which debate was not intended. And since I don't believe women should be the only ones bearing the pressure of this question, I'll offer you mine.
- glenn said...
i aplogize if my comment seems contentious or unfitting. i was sincere in my inquiry. i'll just bow out of this one :)
An e-mail campaign directed toward the church seems in order!
Whose up for it?
Norma's email is...
- Dale said...
Lame. But our church isn't lame. Journey in dallas is looking for a pastor. www.journeydallas.com. Only part time though.
- dave paisley said...
Sorry Ann, that's just terrible. I have a hard time identifying with the "traditional" evangelical side of things, being an Episcopalian at a church with a female rector (senior pastor). Not that there aren't issues still, but we've had thirty years of women's ordination.
God bless you as you continue your search, I'm sure there's the perfect situation out there for you somewhere.
- jon myers said...
hey i wanted to add my apologies to you as well. there isn't anything that i can really add to what's already been said, except that church does not represent emergent's hopes and dreams for the people of god and the world we live in. hang in there ann and know you've got a lot of people supporting you, even ones you've never met like me.
Ann - Sharon duChemin (nee Crissman)'s husband here. Thanks for posting this. I love your honesty and while i can not speak to the hurt of trying to find a place in ministry as a woman, I can speak to the same as a divorcee. I find the tendency to preach grace but live by the iron hand of rules to be heartbreaking. Know this though, as frustrating as it is to not be taken seriously on account of your plumbing, it would be more frustrating to work there. You're better off somewhere else while these so-called Emergent folks stumble out of the their troglodite ways; likely a slow process.
God will put you in a great place where all those gifts and talents are used rather than abused and neglected.
Be blessed.
- Sarah Dylan Breuer said...
Truly pathetic.
I think a key question that shapes "emerging" congregations is what they're "emerging" FROM. A congregation in a tradition that's included women in key leadership (including teaching) roles for decades would be unlikely to say something like this whether it's "emerging" or not.
I really, really like being an Episcopalian.
Best of luck in your job search -- you clearly have gifts to offer that the Church needs!
- Pernell said...
That friggin' sucks.
- the holly said...
that seriously sucks, ann. i'm sorry you received that. grrrr...
nice to know a place where you DON'T want to pastor!
be encouraged today!
holly rankin zaher
- Amy said...
Just for some clarification, out of curiosity--are you saying that you don't think there are any differences between women and men beyond anatomy, or just that you don't think those differences are relevant?
- jenA said...
I love love LOVE that strangers are hearing your heart and voice!
I am sorry about the church; they're, in my view, misguided and unfortunately representative of many churches who've put on the shell of emergent christianity but still cling to traditional views of women (which I still fail to understand given the fact that women have been primary influences over their children for thousands of years - as per the men's instructions!)
UCC churches are quite open to women in leadership; you may want to explore that option if you're not yet totally burned by the moment.
- Indie said...
I found your blog from Lynnette's blog. This sort of thing is the reason I left the denomination I grew up in and am searching for something else. It really stinks.
- jay v. said...
Oy Vey!
I will tell you what I tell Lynette -- give up, become a Methodist, for we need all the emerging fols we can get.
- lynnette said...
ummm...so now i did refer people to your blog. do we think that my friend jay meant to say "emerging folks" or "emerging fools"?
I don't know if we can ever know with certainty how to interpret the New Testament passages that keep women from taking roles of leadership. Whether it is a an archaic view of society or God's plan, I do not know. I do know, though, that the following verse is not restricted by cultural issues: "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen... Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you." (Eph. 4:29,31-32). I hope that instead of becoming angry you pray for this church, and be thankful that they are obeying Jesus' last words to preach the gospel, and to teach them to obey God's commands.
- gavin richardson said...
on the positive, atleast they were honest. you didn't have to spend time/money/energy in going through their processes, only to find out in the end that they are not what they claim to be.
i 2nd jay's motion, come to the umc, we need some progressive thinkers. note: i think jay v. meant to say "folks" he's from tennessee yall know.
- robbins said...
screw 'em all ann! just move in with me.
Ann, I wouldn't worry. If all of your sermons are as strong as the "Maundy service"....wow! Someone will find you soon. Great words, great mesage, very inspiring. The right church will find you.
Dear Anonymous @ 9:11 A.M.
Please take a moment to go read a book by Amos, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Nahum, ...in fact, just take your pick of any prophet and read their book.
Crying out against oppression, mourning it, condemning it, calling for change... It all has a very long history in the Scriptures.
Everything has its season...
- Steve said...
And they bill themselves as progressive!?! Right...
- Betsy said...
Some empathy from a random stranger: Good Lord! I'm appalled. 'Subversive' indeed. Oh - and how nice that a woman gets to handle those responses. God bless you, Ann.
- vince said...
I am on staff at Westwinds and there are many of us have no issue with having a women as a lead pastor. What you don't know is Westwinds has been more of a triage center than a church in the past few months. When Westwind's founding pastor left in June of "04, he was an incredible charismatic leader that created a personality driven church. When he abruptly left, there was no infrastructure to fall back on and we were left holding the pieces. Having a woman as our Lead Pastor is just one of the important issues on a long list of problems that need to be addressed.
We are an injured church that is painfully limping along the journey. I wish we were further along in the journey than we are, but don't we all? What bums me out is that you took a private email from one of our staff, and posted it without permission on your blog site for target practice. It bums me out that you would take an honest response from an admitted unhealthy, hurting church and blast us publicly for not being far enough along. Our church is a hurting, screwed up, healing, imperfect group of people in process. I am deeply in love with these misfits because I am one. I too don't grow fast enough, I don't change quick enough, I'm not smart enough and probably not nearly emergent enough.....but thank God that we've come a long way since June. I hope you show more understanding and grace to people you may be entrusted to Shepard, than you did to us.
- andrew jones said...
i dont have the money to buy an iPod. It might be a few years until i buy my first one. . . i guess that excludes me also
- 1 i z said...
Vince, perhaps if the advert your church had placed had been more honest about its situation then this could have been avoided.
I have sympathy for the situation you describe and I guess you guys are doing some hard thinking about what happened and how a single person's decision to leave could knock the whole church community in the way you outline (at least I bloody well hope you're thinking that one through!), but given the wording, the advert portrays the church and the job opening disingenously and I'm not at all surprised by the reaction it's provoked.
It sets yourselves up as being something you ain't (at least not yet), wasting a good woman's time and energy as a result.
Your comments suggest that you as a church community are in a period of consolidation, so I fail to see why on earth you'd be advertising for a 'suversive teacher'. And as others have said to seek someone who 'connects with today's culture' and then exclude people on the basis of genitalia just doesn't stack up.
Time for less seeking to be 'cool' and more being honest upfront maybe?
Or maybe you're after someone who will be attracted by the nice glittering words you use, but like the church have themselves not really emerged from anything in any significant way.
- jenA said...
I think Ann's intent was not to bring lashings to your community (messenger?) but to open up the floor to friends (and strangers by mere passing glance) on a subject personal to her in a journey toward leadership.
You can see that many of us support her in her work and we get upset when something upsets her. That's not to say your church's goals are without merit.
I do believe emergent and traditional thinking can and do co-exist, without being inauthentic or a shell game.
There are many, many issues the modern church is trying to come to grips with and weigh against what it sees as truth in Scripture. Many traditional churches (several here in Waco) reject or merely sample post-modernity in worship and evangelism but wholeheartedly embrace changes in leadership and teaching.
Ann's had the opportunity to experience this, and the thought of being able to finally marry those experiences into one job, only to be told that won't be the case, is seriously gut-wrenching.
please don't take our reactions to heart. I wish your church all the best in its search for solid ground.
- Pernell said...
You said, "I hope you show more understanding and grace to people you may be entrusted to Shepard, than you did to us."
When someone shepherds a group of people who are hurting, that's especially when they need to call it like it is in terms of injustice... unwillingness to allow a woman to be the lead pastor is wrong.
Clear it up. Get over it. Repent and move on. Or your church may well not get over the pain they are experiencing, and they certainly won't emerge.
By the way, "hip" and "cool" rhetoric doesn't = emerging... just so you know.
- :mic said...
WOW! I applied to that same church but now wouldn't take it if it was offered. Methinks they want to be more relevant than they actually are. . .
Someday I want to get some of these potential church "superstars" together and do something extraordinary - all by a bunch of folks that didn't fit in with the mainstream (which I would now classify westwinds). The problem with emergent is that it is only defining style and not theology. . .somebody forgot to add a side order of theology!
Godspeed to you Ann. . .I've been in a rough ministerial-search-situation for quite some time and now it seems to be working out.
- Matt said...
Wow -
I saw that ad too, sometime last year while I was looking for paid pastoral work (just out of seminary myself).
I can't imagine how frustrating it must be for women to find church leadership positions. I pray the church in general can move from this second-class status thing to "all one in Christ Jesus."
My prayers are with you.
- Sue said...
Vince, with all due respect, you've got a lot of nerve judging Ann and making assumptions about her ministry after you treated her so poorly. You misrepresented yourself in the advertisement and then swatted her away like a fly when you find out she didn't have the right body parts for your church.
Speaking of which -- this is the year 2005!!!! Your church is not there yet? My denomination was "there" in 1926 with the ordination of Lydia Gruchy in Saskatchewan. Get with the program man.
Ann, I pray God's blessing on your ministry.
- Chad said...
Dear Ann,
I am so sorry that this has happened to you. I do think that it is sad that churches are still struggling with this issue. I am also saddened by the (well intended) comments that I have read in regards to this post.
I think it is fine for us to be hurt, angry and desire for change to happen. However, when we (emergent friends) begin spewing angry words without context or without seeking to help others see "our" side lovingly, then we are no better than those who write books about us, or publish hate blogs against us...etc...
Again, I am so sad that this has happened to you Ann. I am equally sad what has happened within the Westwinds community.
On a side note, I feel we need to loose the language of "Emerging Churches" - there is no such thing, nor should there be. There are people who are "emerging in their theologies and certainly are re-defining their ecclesiologies...but when we begin to identifying certain characteristics of any kind as norm, we have slipped into the denominationalism that most of us are unwilling to repeat.
Ann! Ann! I love you! May I post a comment? Can I? Can I, can I, can I, can I? Okay, for the record, this is not anonymous, my name is Sarah Jean Cooper and I love Ann Pittman. For the record, Westwinds missed a great shepherd and teacher and friend when they dismised her vagina. I can say "vagina" here because last I checked it's okay to say what you want in a journal, even online, because it's a fucking JOURNAL, not CNN.com. For the record, Ann, FUCKIN' A, Baby, You Da Shit!
- Zach said...
uhhh....correction---"You probably connect with today's culture if your iPod is part of your wardrobe; if your play lists include U2, Black-Eyed Peas, Moby, and Coldplay; if your library shelf contains N.T. Wright, Leonard Sweet, Bill Easum, Jim Collins, John Grisham and John Steinbeck; if your DVD collection goes beyond Disney to Cohen brothers, Oliver Stone, and Mel Gibson; and if you can successfully order at Starbucks without tripping over your tongue or holding up the line. Westwinds Community Church is seeking a subversive teacher/communicator and team player who can connect with the inquirer as well as the seasoned Christ-follower and who accurately and passionately exegetes Scripture and culture. This catalytic leader must guide the ongoing theological and cultural dialogue while exploring different approaches to ministry. Five years experience in an emergent church would be ideal as well as a master's degree and/or seminary training.....AND A PENIS!"
you guys (Ann and friends) are just as catagorical and exlusive as the church you applied to. It seems that to be in the "Emerging" circle you must have all your catagories figured out already. Small congragation? Check. Appreciation for indi rock? Check. Some name for the pastor that isn't "pastor" (like "soul connector")? Check. Woman pastors? Check. Blogs about how the church down the street is the new satan because their sign out front is cheesy? Check.
I'm sorry but this these comments haven't shown deep love for our brothers and sisters in Christ who are going through a tough time. So what that they have a cheesy pastor description, you could let them know that gently. So what that they offend you becuase they aren't at the place to hire a woman pastor. Is there a graceful way to discuss this? Probably. Is there a chance you end up disagreeing? Yes. Does this mean that that church doesn't love Jesus or the people they are working with? No! I was just reading in 1 Peter and verse 22 says "Love one another deeply from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God." The attidutes I'm reading here do not seem to be loving to the brothers and sisters of a hurting church. Please ask them for forgiveness, we are a people who are slow to reconcile, but since we have been given so much we should extend that grace as far as possible.
"...you could let them know that gently."
Interesting that you mention that...
But, I guess the truth of it is that we all like to be passionate about something. We all like to rail against whatever or whoever we feel has been unjust to whomever we identify with most. We feel justified when we do it, and with shocked expression we point a finger when others do it. I know I do. I certainly do it.
I have an idea. Let's all just go ahead and admit that to ourselves quietly, give up our addiction to the excitement of debate and scandal as we sit in our otherwise boring chairs, and let this comment section die. This was never intended. ...Weird...
- ken said...
hey, Ann . . i'm sorry to hear about that. My staff is just the opposite. We are dying to hire a woman teacher here in Raleigh, but i have to warn you . . . we use that word "hire" very loosely. Edentured servanthood may be better. :-)
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Just for fun, here's a link to a new DC Batman Figure that's been in the works for a while. Looks they've finished it up, which is cool. Below are my rough sketches for it... duh.
And some specs based on that by the DC folks.
This is always weird when I see something i drew in a figure. It shows me how not used to thinking through a 3D drawing... esp. when i face what depths a sculpture has to wade through.
There's lots to cheat when you draw on a flat surface, isn't there?
It's based on some of my goofy art, so it's obviously maga-distorted.
Here's the uncolored rough version, where i asked for the ears to go back a little bit.. we even when further back with the ears.. (as you can see on the finish figure in the first pic above).
Typical humongous 'sam kieth' jaw and all.
They done a few of these black and white figures, so i was flattered they even asked.
Also big thanks to Shawn Knapp over at DC for lobbying to get this sucker made - thanks buddy!
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Why men cheat on women is an age-old question. The reasons why men cheat on women can be varied. Nevertheless, we have compiled a list of the top 10 reasons why both married and unmarried men cheat. Sometimes their reasons don't even involve you and it's simply an ego-based decision. Other times, reasons why men cheat can involve you and your relationship, or lack thereof.
So why do some men cheat in relationships' Almost all men know that cheating is wrong, yet many they still do it. Men will blame their reasons for cheating on their genes and their necessity to reproduce. However, aren't we suppose to be further evolved than a chimp' Shouldn't we be able to control our bodies through our minds and conscious decisions' Aparrently not always.
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3. You grow apart. Maybe the two of you didn't have as much in common as you thought. He's met a woman who has more in common with him who loves football or plays golf. He may check out if he is compatible with her under the sheets also.
4. You argue a lot. Men will sometimes cheat to get away from an overly critical or argumentative partner. Who wants to be around someone who is constantly on them about something.
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7. To get revenge. A man will sometimes cheat if he finds out his partner was cheating on him. How else is he supposed to heal those hurt feelings of his but through good old fashioned sex'
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01118637
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Last Update Posted : May 27, 2013
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Trichotillomania (TTM), repetitive pulling out of one's own hair to the extent that noticeable hair loss occurs, is a distressing condition interfering substantially with functioning and quality of life. The longterm objective of this research is to determine whether psychological treatment of TTM could be disseminated more effectively by using a stepped care model in which less intensive interventions are tried first, with more intensive interventions used only if initial treatment proves insufficient. This project is a pilot study of the first two steps in a stepped care model of treatment. After baseline assessment, 50 participants with TTM will be randomly assigned to (a) Immediate condition, in which they are offered 10-week self-help treatment via an interactive website (Step 1) or (b) Wait List/Delayed Start condition, a 10-week wait list prior to being offered Step 1. In each condition, at the end of Step 1, participants will be offered 8 weeks of in-person habit reversal training provided by psychology graduate students (Step 2). TTM symptoms will be measured from baseline through a follow-up 3 months after the end of Step 2, as will depression, anxiety, quality of life, functional impairment , treatment utilization, and treatment satisfaction.
The specific aims of the study are:
- To gather preliminary data on the efficacy of web-based self-help, compared to wait list control;
- To characterize the acceptability of stepped care to patients with TTM by assessing the proportion of enrolled participants who proceed from step 1 to step 2 treatment;
- To evaluate the convergent validity of four decision rules for concluding that a patient with TTM has benefited sufficiently from a treatment step: (a) No longer meeting TTM diagnostic criteria; (b) Showing a 25% or greater reduction in total scores on self-report and clinician-rated TTM symptoms; (c) achieving complete abstinence from hair-pulling; and (d) clinically significant response on both self-report and clinician-rated TTM symptom measures
- To evaluate the concurrent and predictive validity of criteria for sufficient benefit from a treatment step by relating them to treatment satisfaction, treatment utilization, and scores on a measure of functional impairment from TTM.
|Condition or disease
|Behavioral: StopPulling.com
|Phase 2
|Study Type :
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|Actual Enrollment :
|60 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
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|Official Title:
|Stepped Care in the Treatment of Trichotillomania
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|August 2010
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|November 2012
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Experimental: Immediate
Assigned immediately after baseline assessment to receive step 1 treatment (web-based self-help)
Behavioral: StopPulling.com
subsidized access to an interactive self-help website for TTM
No Intervention: Wait list
Assigned to wait list for 10 weeks before receiving step 1 treatment.
- MGH-HS [ Time Frame: 10 weeks ]self-report measure of trichotillomania symptom severity
- PITS [ Time Frame: 10 weeks ]interviewer rating of trichotillomania symptom severity
- Step 2 completion [ Time Frame: 18 weeks ]% of patients completing step 1 (self-help) who go on to complete step 2
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Inclusion Criteria:
- 18 years or older
- regular internet access
- if taking medications for Trichotillomania, on stable dose for at least 4 weeks
- have trichotillomania (DSM IV criteria except that increasing and decreasing tension with pulling not required)
Exclusion Criteria:
- current suicidality
- current major depression
- current psychosis
- current severe anxiety
- current substance abuse
- current psychotherapy focused on trichotillomania
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|American University
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20016-8062
|Responsible Party:
|David A. F. Haaga, Professor of Psychology, American University
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Keywords provided by David A. F. Haaga, American University:
habit reversal
behavior therapy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders
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