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The de facto standard for rendering 3D graphics today is OpenGL. Implementations of this specification come with Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and XFree86 and often support the hardware acceleration features offered by modern graphics cards. OpenGL itself only deals with rendering on a specified area of the framebuffer through a GL context and does not have any interactions with the toolkit of the environment
Qt offers the widget QGLWidget which encapsulates a window with an associated GL context. Basically, you use it by subclassing it and reimplementing some methods.
In general, QGLWidget behaves just like any other widget, i.e. for example you can process mouse events as usual, resize the widget and combine it with others in a layout.
Qt contains some examples of QGLWidget usage in its demo example. A collection of tutorials can be found here, and more information and a reference of OpenGL is available on the OpenGL homepage.
OpenGL is a relatively low-level interface for drawing 3D graphics. In the same way QCanvas gives the programmer a higher-level interface which details with objects and their properties, there are also high-level interfaces for 3D graphics. One of the most popular is Open Inventor. Originally a technology developed by SGI, there is today also the open source implementation Coin, complemented by a toolkit binding to Qt called SoQt.
The basic concept of Open Inventor is that of a scene. A scene can be loaded from disk and saved in a special format closely related to VRML. A scene consists of a collection of objects called nodes. Inventor already provides a rich collection of reusable nodes, such as cubes, cylinders and meshes, furthermore light sources, materials, cameras etc. Nodes are represented by C++ classes and can be combined and subclassed.
An introduction to Inventor can be found here (in general, you can substitute all mentions of SoXt by SoQt in this article).
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What is particularly irksome about today's record low milk prices is that they are a direct result of a national food policy that emphasizes mass-produced food that is heavily subsidized over locally produced foods. It's irksome because the policy is driving Vermont dairy farmers (and others) to the brink of extinction and because the food system is inherently nonsensical, not to mention unhealthy.
Yet, it will be very difficult to change. As local author and former organic dairy farmer James Maroney says in a Page 1 story today, the politicians in Washington may be able to wrangle another short-term fix, but it is unlikely (at this point) that they are going to do anything that raises the price of food because consumers outnumber farmers 99 to 1.
The political math, Maroney argues, is just too overwhelming for farmers to win this battle. And he's right as long as the argument is solely about price.
The challenge for Vermont's congressional delegation, then, is to shift the argument to a winnable battleground. That won't be easy either, but times are changing and what the nation may be seeing is the beginning of a national movement (prompted by documentaries like Food Inc, King Corn, Supersize Me and many others) to challenge the basic notion that cheap, mass-produced foods are healthy, economical and good for the country. A strong case can be made that mass-produced foods from live animals (hogs, cattle, chickens are three good examples) fail on each of those accounts.
Yes, they are cheap at the grocery store compared to locally raised, slaughtered, butchered and packaged, but here are a few things that are not factored into the cost non-local foods: big federal subsidies for grain crops that fatten up the animals; rail and freight charges that are subsidized by hefty federal taxes; special tax breaks for the nation's largest food businesses — which is now down to a handful of companies that control our nation's food supply and who hire among the nation's most generous lobbyists.
Then consider the effect on local farmers that cheap prices bring. In dairy, as with other farm commodities, mass production puts big strains on smaller local farmers. Dairy farmers, in particular, face an increasing steep roller coaster ride of highs and lows over the past few years, making it nearly impossible to sustain a workable financial plan; or to compete with milk prices that drop several dollars below Vermont's typical cost of production per hundredweight. When local farms go out of business, jobs are lost and scenic land is often lost — thus detracting from the state's tourism economy.
Peel back the onion another layer and consider this mass production system from a health perspective. In the world of dairy, know that cows are grass eaters. Their stomachs are not meant to digest corn, yet that's what millions and millions of our nation's cattle are being fed to fatten them up for slaughter (meat) or dairy production in mega-sized facilities out West. In those factory farms, the e-coli bacteria has been known to breed in the messed up stomachs of cows, which then fertilize the feed lots with the bacteria, eventually tainting the meat supply. If an alert goes nationwide, millions of dollars worth of food is scrapped (likely paid for by government subsidized insurance programs), which is never counted for in the cost of the product. And that's not mentioning the cost to society for treating those who become ill.
But the mass-production system is American capitalism at its finest, you say? Hardly. Take away the federal subsidies and support systems and the prices would skyrocket. Ironically, those higher prices would help erode the whole system of mass produced food, which in turn would drive more production back to local farms and bring this nation's food system back into a reasonable balance where the origin of production was much closer to its end destination. That, of course, would create more jobs on smaller family farms, we'd consume less energy in the production and distribution; and we'd all be a lot healthier.
The problem, then, with today's political efforts to beef-up the base price of milk is that it is a short-term fix, and it encourages more production — which sets the stage for the next roller-coaster cycle of high peaks and low valleys.
Better that our congressional delegation bite the bullet and start educating the consumer on the true price of mass-produced foods — along with the numerous downsides. Until that message is clearly understood, there is little hope of creating a national food policy that doesn't favor mega-farms and mega-industries cashing in on a federally subsidized food system that plays right into their hands and leaves the nation's family farms at risk.


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Two of the most innovative next-generation blockchain projects have increased cooperation with the announcement of TrustNote's strategic investment in BIT.GAME. Both parties will further strengthen cooperation in the areas of blockchain game ecosystem development, marketing, and new blockchain game incubation.
The partnership between TrustNote and BIT.GAME has obvious benefits for both parties. TrustNote will promote the BIT.GAME project in the TTT investor community. TTT token holders can use TTT tokens to invest in BIT.GAME and enjoy favorable discounts provided by the BIT.GAME project.
The increased partnership will also mean greater integration between TrustNote and the two exchanges operated by BIT.GAME. Custom tokens issued on TrustNote will receive priority listing on BIT.GAME Exchange and BIT.GAME AIDEX, while the TrustNote Super Wallet will directly connect to the trading interfaces of both exchanges. This means that custom tokens and digital assets created on TrustNote will be listed automatically on both of BIT.GAME's exchanges.
TrustNote's strategic investment marks the latest stage in cooperation with BIT.GAME. On March 6, 2018, it was reported by China's largest news media group that BIT.GAME and TrustNote had agreed upon strategic cooperation and jointly initiated the "Global Blockchain Game Alliance." On April 3, 2018, TrustNote founder Jeff Zhou gave a entitled "TrustNote Reshapes the Value of Credibility in the Gaming World" at the Global Blockchain Forum. The April 30, 2018, announcement of TrustNote's strategic investment in BIT.GAME further deepens cooperation between the two parties.
Both TrustNote and BIT.GAME are dedicated to providing the tools necessary for developers to unlock the potential of tokenized innovation. TrustNote's simple makes it easy for anyone to create tokens and digital assets without the complex coding required to issue smart contracts on other platforms. BIT.GAME provides original and complete development kits for traditional game publishers looking to develop the next generation of blockchain-based games.
About TrustNote
TrustNote was created with the belief that decentralization is the key to freedom of innovation in the digital age. Many of today's blockchains have compromised on true decentralization, denying innovators and future thinkers the freedom to create the change they want to see. TrustNote is designed to make development easy, fast, and scalable, and bring trust to an untrusting environment for every person on every device at a low cost.
Currently, many public ledgers emphasize hype and marketing before launching their main chain and providing a working product. In contrast, TrustNote waited until the launch of its mainchain on January 18, 2018, before engaging in any marketing efforts.
TrustNote combines the instant and low-cost transaction capabilities of a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) ledger structure with a Proof of Work (PoW) consensus model to build a distributed ledger that is instant, scalable, fully decentralized, and secure. TrustNote adheres to a Satoshi Nakamoto-styled truly decentralized concept of security, insisting on PoW as the most reliable consensus algorithm available. TrustNote's aim is to create a truly fast, scalable, and developer-friendly blockchain.
TrustNote aims to spark innovation and build the new tokenized economy with its TRC20 token protocol and platform, which allow users to create and publish tokens freely and simply without having to code complex smart contracts. TrustNote's provides security and rich application interfaces for tokenized applications, blockchain games, and social applications.
On TrustNote, everyone can participate, all things can be tokenized, and transactions can be conducted on a truly decentralized network. TrustNote allows everyone to have their own digital assets and gain corresponding rewards through value exchange. The platform has been optimized for use by every person on every device, with full support for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. TrustNote allows new ideas to become reality and flourish on the blockchain, empowering its users and democratizing decentralized development.
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Seeing blockchain as the next step in the evolution of gaming, BIT.GAME is aiming to create the world's largest blockchain gaming ecosystem. The BIT.GAME exchange will facilitate the trading of digital assets and gaming tokens, aiming to offer over 100 cryptocurrency trading pairs by the end of 2018. They will also provide complete development kits to games publishers for use across a range of blockchain networks.
BIT.GAME founder Eric Sun has said that BIT.GAME will provide technical support, capital incubation, and asset trading services for innovative and high-potential blockchain game projects. More than 100 projects have already shown interest in utilizing the BIT.GAME platform. BIT.GAME has also reached strategic cooperation with four public blockchain projects, including TrustNote. Through these strategic cooperation agreements, BIT.GAME seeks to explore the application of blockchain in the gaming industry and promote the development of blockchain gaming ecology.
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Bruce Katz is the director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University and the co-author of The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism.
If there is a silver lining from our economic roller coaster, it's that crisis often begets innovation, even in areas like real estate financing.
News reports from Beijing indicate that the China Development Bank is negotiating to finance a massive urban redevelopment project in San Francisco. This deal appears to be the first significant funding of a private U.S. investment by the CDB. We think it's a promising sign of things to come.
The Bayview Hunters Point/Candlestick Point project is innovative on a number of fronts: social policy, technology, urban design, real estate and finance. By turning an old military base into an urban research-and-development campus that anchors an entirely new community, the project promises to create a virtuous cycle of innovation that can form the basis for lasting prosperity.
Yet equally transformative is the proposed funding and finance package for the nearly $3 billion project.
The CDB is interested in contributing $1.7 billion for Hunters Point and the separate-but-related Treasure Island redevelopment. It was only after exhausting its attempts to get funding from domestic sources that the developer, Lennar Corporation and partners, undertook negotiations with the CDB.
For the Chinese, an investment like this is attractive, in part, to diversify their holdings. While there is no precedent for this kind of Chinese investment in the United States, there are plenty of examples in other countries.
Barriers to Chinese investment in American infrastructure, however, are not inconsequential. Mutual concerns generally center on firms, workers, quality, and standards. For example, Chinese workers (not domestic workers) are often employed on their infrastructure projects in Africa and the Middle East, and contractors understandably come with a different culture around labor and production standards. From the Chinese perspective, there are concerns about America's lack of public-sector expertise in partnerships of this nature and trepidation over American national security policies that they consider protectionist.
Yet, the Hunters Point project shows there is significant potential for reciprocated benefit if reservations can be overcome and deals structured in ways that address the genuine needs of both sides.
Organized labor, which supports the project, and important local hiring provisions are addressed through contractual provisions. Plus, an $83 million agreement outlining benefits such as workforce development, community facilities, scholarships, and housing funds remains part of the deal.
If China can find a way to work in San Francisco — where community and labor rights are important priorities — the possibilities for the rest of the country are self-evident. Further integration of the Chinese and U.S. economies could also help alleviate tensions and improve relations. In the past three decades, the U.S. and Japan overcame similar (though not identical) suspicions, with that nation now a trusted foreign direct investor in the U.S. economy.
Also, it is important to note that this is not just a Chinese investment. The project is a true public-private partnership, with funding coming from a combination of private capital and land-secured public financing in the form of tax-exempt tools and bonds supported by special levies. Money from federal neighborhood and transit programs, as well as the necessary environmental remediation of the naval base, shows an extraordinary commitment from all levels of government.
While planning for the Hunters Point/Candlestick redevelopment has been in the works for nearly four decades, this latest package (and this project would not get done without it) brings a new level of excitement.
The long-term impact of this development will change the region and, we expect, will modernize the way redevelopment projects are structured. The new role fulfilled by the CDB also has the potential to change the business relationships and understanding of our different cultures of China and the United States.
But the big lesson here is that, once again, local leaders are out forging pragmatic solutions to issues that are ideologically stuck at national level. The Bay Area has always been a hothouse of new ideas and innovation and, for myriad reasons, the Hunters Point project is the latest example.
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The 30th anniversary edition of the National Low Income Housing Coalition report, "Out of Reach," shows that housing affordability is getting worse, not better.
Despite the area's progressive politics, NIMBY-minded residents in and around Boston are skilled in keeping multi-family housing at bay.
With their invite-only policies and coworking spaces, high-end urban gyms aspire to be fitness studio, social club, and office rolled into one.
Local lawmakers agreed to one of Europe's most radical rental laws, but it sets the stage for a battle with Germany's national government.
With more conservative leadership moving in after elections, the Spanish capital's pollution-fighting regulations on private vehicles may be in danger.


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Rich Cimini of ESPN New York reports that tight end Dustin Keller (ankle) has been downgraded to out for Week Seventeen and did not make the trip to Buffalo for Sunday's season finale. Keller was listed as doubtful on Friday's injury report.
The Jets also downgraded wide receiver Chaz Schilens (knee) and cornerback Ellis Lankster (concussion) to out.
Keller is an impending unrestricted free agent and may be finished with the Jets. He labored through an injury-plagued 2012 campaign, appearing in just eight games en route to career lows in receptions (28) and yards (317).
28-year-old Keller has made it clear that he would not be pleased with the franchise tag. The train-wreck Jets are an organization that should be seeking to avoid conflict rather than embrace more of it, so perhaps they'll make Keller a long-term contract offer after the season, and let him walk if no agreement is reached.
Along with Jared Cook (Titans), Fred Davis (Redskins), and Martellus Bennett (Giants), Keller is among the top tight ends projected to be available on the 2013 free-agent market.


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The Road to Isengard
King Theoden, Gandalf the white rider, Aragorn, Legolas, Erkenbrand, Eomer, Gimli and the men of Rohan all gather beside a stream. When Theoden asks Gandalf about his wizardry over the trees, Gandalf laughs and tells them that it has not been his doing. He asks them to come with him to Isengard if they wish to know more about the trees.
After resting, the men set forth again. They come to Orthanc, the citadel of Saruman at Isengard. They are surprised to find that Treebeard and his ents have destroyed the citadel, and that Saruman and Wormtongue have hidden themselves away, guarded by none other than Merry and Pippin. Theoden, who is anxious to see Treebeard, says good-bye to the Hobbits and accompanies Gandalf to the Northern wall.
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Established in 1989 at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, the Cornea Image Analysis Reading Center (CIARC) – formerly the Specular Microscopy Reading Center (SMRC) – has participated in numerous corporate and federal clinical studies requiring standardized determination of corneal endothelial cell density and morphology from specular and confocal images and more recently qualitative and quantitative assessment of the corneal epithelium and stroma from confocal images.
The CIARC is a shared resource of the hospital and its academic partner, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The Center is led by Medical Director Jonathan Lass, MD., Charles I Thomas Professor and Chairman of the CWRU Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Director of UH Eye Institute, and Technical Director Beth Ann Benetz, CRA, FOPS, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at CWRU School of Medicine. To contact the CIARC, please email email@example.com.
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PORTLAND, Maine — A long envisioned passenger rail service connecting Portland with Auburn took another important step forward Thursday as a national Realtors group announced it has awarded a grant to study, in part, new ways to fund the 29-mile public transit line.
The promise of a Portland-to-Auburn line has been quietly evaluated in recent years, but has been largely overshadowed in the media by the extension of Amtrak's popular Boston-bound Downeaster train from Portland up the coast to Brunswick.
Tony Donovan, founder and president of the Maine Rail Transit Coalition, said the newly announced $15,000 National Association of Realtors grant will build off of a federally funded study of public transportation options north of Portland completed in 2011. It also will be used as seed money to leverage an additional $60,000 to $70,000 to explore the proposed rail line, he said.
Donovan described the $15,000 grant, despite being small in size, as a "game changer," as it provides the push necessary for the Portland-to-Auburn rail plan to build momentum. Previously, he said, it remained a long analyzed, but otherwise stagnant, proposal.
Among the focuses of the newly funded research work will be a look into utilizing so-called "value capture" methods of funding the transit expansion in Maine. The model involves recouping investment into the rail infrastructure by capturing additional tax revenues generated by raising property values along the rail corridor.
The plan essentially would be a transportation-focused tax increment financing program. Municipalities and private developers commonly use TIFs to shelter property tax increases — spurred by new development — from being collected by the state government, instead protecting the extra taxes for local reinvestment of some kind.
Donovan — who is also a board member of the Maine Commercial Association of Realtors, the local administrator of the national association grant — said property values increase along rail corridors as residents have easy access to transportation and businesses get easier access to potential train-riding customers.
Another potential strategy included in the value capture model involves approaching businesses benefitting from the customers or employees being delivered by the rail to help cover the costs of the service, Donovan said.
The state of Maine owns the railroad currently in place connecting Portland with Auburn.
"We're saying maybe there's a way to generate funds for transportation at the local level, and not only could we change the way we fund transportation, but change the way we make decisions about transportation," Donovan told the Bangor Daily News. "We believe that if an alternative [to highway travel] is available, there are a lot of people who will want to use it and who will pay to use it, and who will find that their cost of transportation is less than that of owning a car."
Portland City Councilor David Marshall serves on the Greater Portland Transit District board and is chairman of the city's Transportation, Sustainability and Energy Committee.
"I think it's important for us to look at transportation choices for people, and this particular rail line serves as a connection between the two largest metropolitan areas in the state, being Portland and Lewiston-Auburn," Marshall said. "Our roads get a heavy amount of use. Every passenger car and truck we can take off the roads means less pressure on them, and they'll last longer as a result. But there also are increasing numbers of families living without cars, so the timing is good to look at other commuter options throughout the region and see what the viability is."
Donovan said the initial study will consider potential funding for, as well as the economic and environmental impacts of, a commuter rail service featuring 22 round trips daily between the two cities using smaller diesel rail cars with capacities of approximately 100 passengers each. The Diesel Multiple Units, or DMUs, would travel between 60 and 80 miles per hour through the corridor, Donovan said, although they could have a much higher maximum speed.
Long-term, he said, connecting Portland with Auburn would set the stage for future northwestern expansion to the fledgling Oxford Casino, ski resorts like Mt. Abram and Sunday River, and even perhaps all the way to Montreal, Canada.
The Maine Rail Transit Coalition president acknowledged that project skeptics may be quick to point out the estimated $60 million-$70 million cost of establishing the Portland-Auburn line — a sum that would cover, among other things, the reconstruction of the railroad, acquisition of the DMUs and building of the platforms along the way.
But he said Maine is well-positioned to access as much as $75 million in U.S. Transit Authority funding for the project from the same New Starts/Small Starts grant program that funded the aforementioned study into public transportation options north of Portland.
A federal program like that, Donovan said, could require a 50 percent match from the state or local governments. But he said when the costs of the proposed Auburn-to-Portland line is compared to the costs associated with maintaining roads and bridges, Mainers might be convinced to support the investment.
"Relatively speaking, the cost that we're talking about investing in this type of transportation is less than what we're talking about spending on roads and bridges, and we believe the numbers indicate a better return on investment than spending on roads and bridges," Donovan said. "Even 50-50 is a manageable bond. People say, 'Oh, $60 million,' but you're paying more than $20 million to replace the Martin's Point Bridge [between Portland and Falmouth] and that's only a third of a mile.
"We believe this will be the basis for a transportation system that will attract jobs, attract new wealth and new economic development," he continued.


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Half-Life 2: Lost Coast is a playable technology showcase that introduces High Dynamic Range lighting to the Source engine. It is included with Half-Life 2, purchased on Steam. Originally planned as a section of the Highway 17 chapter of Half-Life 2, Lost Coast follows Half-Life protagonist Gordon Freeman as he travels up a coastal cliff to destroy a Combine artillery launcher in a monastery, which is firing on a nearby town.
I can't believe the Fisherman's face was created from scratch.
I wish there were more scenes with him. There is a whole slew of cut dialogue from him!
And an awesome puzzle section, Lost Coast was going to be much more expansive before they chopped it up into what it is now sadly.
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We are going to talk a little bit tonight about the subject of saving faith. And we have been in a series of looks at doctrine, doctrine meaning teachings that come out of Scripture. We've been looking at those doctrines that have been very foundational, very critical doctrines and saving faith is the one that is drawing out attention currently. It was a couple of weeks ago that we did a first message on the issue of the faith that saves.
Let me have you turn to Ephesians 2:8 and 9 just as a starting point. And the great challenge for me tonight is to sort of edit myself, as I talk about this, because there are...there are so many elements to understanding saving faith that are critical to us. But in Ephesians 2:8 and 9 we have a very substantial statement made, a very essential statement made with regard to salvation. It says in verse 8, "For by grace you have been saved through faith and not that of yourselves. It is the gift of God not as a result of works that no one should boast for we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." This is really the watershed text, the benchmark text when we talk about salvation that comes through faith and faith alone. And as we noted last time, the matter of salvation by faith alone is at the heart of true Christianity. And it is the major reason, though there are many others, it is the major reason why the Roman Catholic Church has to be viewed as heretical and apostate because that system denies that salvation is by faith alone. That sets it apart from true biblical salvation.
In Galatians chapter 1, would you look at that? Verse 6, Paul writes to these believers in the region of Galatia and he says to them in verse 6, "I'm amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ for a different gospel." It wasn't very long even in the first century, in the early church, before people began to abandon the true gospel. For what he calls a "different gospel," which is really not another because there is no other real good news, only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. Of course, the greatest assault that can be made on Christianity, the one with the most devastating results is that which distorts the gospel. That cuts people off from true salvation. So he says in verse 8, "Even though we or, hypothetically, an angel from heaven, and then again not hypothetically, a fallen angel, Satan and the rest of his demons, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed. And as we said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed." And then he says, "For am I now seeking the favor of men or of God?" Does it matter to me what men think, or God? "Am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men I would not be a bondservant of Christ. And in an effort today to please men, there are many who are abandoning the gospel for another gospel which is not at all a gospel. And if anyone preaches another gospel, no matter who they say they are, even if they appear to be religious and appear to be Christian, even if they are an angel from heaven, they are cursed.
In 2 Corinthians, just backing up a couple of pages from the first chapter of Galatians, you come to 2 Corinthians chapter 11, and Paul says, "I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness, indeed you are bearing with me." He realizes that he's asked for a lot out of them for the prior ten chapters in unbearing his soul and if you'll just indulge me a little further, he says, "I'm jealous of you with a godly jealousy, I'm concerned about your soul, I'm jealous for that. I betrothed you to one husband that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin, but I'm afraid lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and the purity of Christ," is what it actually says. This matter of salvation is not complicated, it's not complex, it's simple. It's about Christ. If someone comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different Spirit which you have not received or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully, you seem to just take it so well...another Christ, another Spirit, another gospel and it doesn't seem to disturb you at all.
Go back to Jude and you will remember in our study of Jude this provocative third verse in this little epistle right next to the book of Revelation where Jude says, "Beloved, I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, about our gospel, our singular message, but I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you earnestly contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints." He says...I...I wanted to write about our common salvation, bit the truth is, I couldn't bring myself to write about our common salvation because I fear it might not be common anymore unless we fight for it. All these passages remind us that if there's anything that Satan, the deceiver and the destroyer who disguises himself as an angel of light, seeks to corrupt, it would be the truth that saves. Sometimes it's an attack on the person of God, it's a denial as God as Trinity, or denial of God as eternal, making Him into some sub-god. Sometimes it's a denial of Christ, a denial of His humanity or more often a denial of His deity. Sometimes it's a corruption of the Holy Spirit. But whatever way you go, in the end if you don't have the true God, the true Christ, the true Spirit, you have cut yourself off from saving truth. But then sometimes there are religious systems, namely the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox system, who affirm God as a Trinity, God as holy, God as eternal, who affirm Christ as God and man, who affirm the Holy Spirit as God, who affirm even the authority of Scripture, but in the end also corrupt the gospel not by attacking God, not by attacking Christ, not by attacking the Holy Spirit, at least in overt ways that can be seen, not even by attacking Scripture in an outright fashion, but simply by perverting the means of salvation. This is essentially what the Roman Catholic system has always done and a lot of forms of Protestantism has done it and continue to do it and the cults in and around Christianity do it as well. You can corrupt the gospel by corrupting the gospel of God, or Christ, or the Spirit by assaulting the Scripture and therefore destroying its foundation and people's trust in its absolute truth.
But you can also destroy souls and corrupt the gospel by teaching error with regard to one receives Christ, how one is saved. The difference, frankly, is profound and it carries eternal consequences. The Bible teaches, as we noted, that salvation is by faith alone. But all religions of the world, other than the true gospel, including Roman Catholicism and Protestant liberalism, orthodoxy, Greek Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodoxy and all of its forms, all teach that salvation is a mix of faith and works. As all Roman Catholics know, and many of you come out of that background, you come out of a system that will affirm God, affirm Christ, affirm the Holy Spirit, affirm Scripture, affirm grace, affirm faith, but deny the essential truth that we are saved by grace through faith and not at all by works. That they deny. And that's enough to cut them off from the life of God. Millions of people in these systems are trapped in a damning system where since there's no real spiritual life, superstition takes over and ritual takes over and self-effort takes over. The idea is somehow if you're good enough, you're going to get there. As the priest said in the little discussion the other night on television, he said, "We're all on a long journey toward perfection." That's not what the Bible teaches. Getting to the place where you please God by your works is absolutely impossible and it is precisely the different gospel that Paul condemned. In Paul's day, that was Judaism. Yes you believe in God, yes there's faith, yes God is a gracious God, but it's a combination of those things mixed with your own works. That is a false message. It was a false message then, it's a false message now.
This is so abundantly clear that only those who are blind to the truth and cut off from it could miss this. Listen to Romans 3:28, "We maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works." That can't be more clear. We maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. In Galatians chapter 2 and verse 21, "I do not nullify the grace of God for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly." Any mix of works nullifies grace. Verse 16 of Galatians 2, "A man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law since by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified." At least four times in one verse he says the same thing. You are not justified by works, but through faith and faith alone.
And so as I said, this is not a message that is somehow hidden, somehow is obscure, somehow is only accessible to those people who can dig into the depths of Scripture. This is right there on the surface. In condemning Israel in Romans 9:31 it says, "Israel pursuing a law of righteousness did not arrive at that law," why? "Because they did not pursue it by faith but as though it were by works."
There are only two systems of religion in the world. I've said this so many times. I said it again the other night on television. Only two. There are the religions of human achievement where you please God by what you do, and there is the truth of divine accomplishment where salvation comes to those who put their trust and all their trust in what Christ alone did. You either trust in yourself in some mix of faith and works, or you trust in Christ alone with no mix of works. And to say that a system that advocates works is truly Christian is to show the ignorance that you possess. It grieves me no end to hear evangelical leaders ignore the eternal gravity of this error in saying things like, "The Pope is in heaven and Roman Catholic people are our brothers and sisters in Christ." They are cementing people in that damning error and telling them that the gospel they hear is as true as the message of Protestant evangelicalism. It's nice to be nice, but that's not genuinely being kind. Still evangelical leaders ignore the eternal gravity of this error and they are increasingly content to embrace Roman Catholicism. Roman Catholicism with its now ubiquitous presence all over the planet carried along by its daily sacrifice of Christ, a hundred thousand times every day all over the world Christ is killed again and again and again and again in the Mass, with its meritorious sacraments including infant baptism which washes away original sin in their theology, including its confessional booths which make a mechanical act of confession to a man the basis of divine forgiveness, including its rosary beads and its rituals somehow advocated as ways to exonerate us from sin and judgment, with its invention of Purgatory where you are purged from your sin. And by the way, that may be the single most attractive thing about Catholicism. We think of Purgatory, we think of Purgatory as a ridiculous thing, an unbiblical thing, but it is a huge selling point. In true biblical understanding when a person dies without salvation, they go to hell and there is no second chance. The Catholics have invented a second chance and when someone dies in that system whose been baptized, they go to Purgatory and once you arrive there, surely you understand reality and whatever needs to happen to purge you to get you to heaven will happen. It is the very absence of the finality of an immediate hell that seduces people into that system and holds them there. It gives hope where there is no hope since Purgatory does not exist. Prayers to Mary, Mary has never heard anybody's prayer ever any time, neither has any other saint or any other occupant of heaven except the Lord Himself. Prayers to the saints, a false priesthood, and I'm going to talk about that not next Sunday night, but in two Sunday nights about the Papacy cause I want you to understand it.
The bottom line is it doesn't overstate the case to say that Roman Catholicism and biblical Christianity are two separate religions. I got an e-mail from a prominent leader in the evangelical world, this week saying we need to embrace other Christians in other denominations. Catholicism is not a denomination, it's another religion, it's another gospel. And its prevailing error is at the point of salvation which is the most damning error. They reject salvation by faith alone. In fact, they not only reject it, they have pronounced curses on those of us who affirm it. When the Reformation came along it was a broadside to the Roman system, and when Luther came out of the darkness with "The just shall live by faith," the Reformation was launched. At that time, the Roman Catholic Church was selling people indulgences for exorbitant prices, it is intended all through the history of the church to impoverish people, taking money from the poor on the promise of heaven and building massive, massive cathedrals and becoming wealthy beyond comprehension. The system is the greatest land owner on the planet. And I read this week that at one particular point they owned two thirds of the land in Europe, massive wealth, at the expense of people, and then selling indulgences to people which means if you paid enough money you could sin freely. A couple of years ago we were traveling through Italy in a Jubilee Year and there were certain doors to cathedrals everywhere you went that if you went through you received indulgence, expiation to some degree for your sins, time off in Purgatory. And when the Reformation came along and said, "You don't get any forgiveness by mechanics, you don't get any forgiveness by ritual, you don't get any forgiveness by ceremony, you don't get any forgiveness by your own moral works, this was a real blow to the system and the Roman Catholic Church reacted by calling a council in 1545 for twenty years, from 1545 to 1565, well-known, called the Council of Trent. And in 1547 just a couple of years into this ten-year...er twenty-year period, they wrote canons and decrees on the matter of salvation and they affirmed what Catholicism actually believes. The Council of Trent was the Roman Catholic Church's answer to the Reformation and one of the things that came out of Trent was this, that the Pope is infallible and the Church is infallible. So they wanted to stop anyone saying anything contrary to their doctrine by voting in infallibility. It's an interesting way to get infallibility, to vote it in. And the record indicates that some voted for it, some voted against it and some abstained. So you had a whole lot of fallibility voting in infallibility. But they voted in infallibility. Now this was pretty much in response to 1517 when Luther pins his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg. Wittenberg was an insignificant town, it had a university that was frankly pretty insignificant before that happened. But that burst a boil on a furious populous who was sick of having to buy these indulgences and they were ready for a revolution, ready to be fomented, all you had to do was pop the boil and everything would break loose and it did. He cut at the same time the main artery of Catholicism and the system has been bleeding for three decades by the time you get to 1545, there's been a huge blood loss in the Catholic system and the Council of Trent is suppose to stop the bleeding.
And there are things in the Council of Trent that show the subtleties of Roman Catholicism. For example, the Council of Trent explicitly denied that anybody could be justified apart from grace. That is to say the Council of Trent affirmed the need for grace. In fact, it says in one of their documents, session 6 of canon 1, "If anyone says that the man may be justified before God by his own works without the grace of God through Jesus Christ, let him be accursed, anathema." So they affirm grace. They also affirm this, session 6 chapter 8, "That God justifies sinners by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." Justified not apart from grace, justified through Jesus. Further they said, "We are said to be justified by faith because faith is the beginning of human salvation." Operative word, "the beginning." They also said that, "The meritorious cause of justification is our Lord Jesus Christ who merited justification for us by His most holy passion on the wood of the cross and made satisfaction for us unto God the Father." So they affirm the substitutionary death of Christ, they affirm faith, they affirm grace, they affirm the ground, the meritorious cause of justification is the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Some people get very confused by these things. When they say they believe in the sacrifice of Christ, the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ, the meritorious death of Christ, they believe in salvation by grace, they believe in salvation through faith, there are some people who just leave it at that. Many of those evangelicals were formidable evangelicals who went out and signed the ECT document, Evangelicals and Catholics Together, because they thought they were affirming something that they both shared.
What then were the Reformers fighting about? What was Luther fighting about? What was Calvin fighting about? What were all the Reformers fighting about? What is defining the Protestant church? Why are we Protestants and not Catholics? And the bottom line is that we believe salvation is by faith alone because that's what the Bible teaches. Catholic theology teaches you have to have faith and there has to be grace mixed with works. And according to Trent, justification is a lifelong process, justification is not a declaration by God because of faith in Christ in which the merits of Christ's perfect righteousness are credited to us. That's what we believe the Bible teaches very clearly. But rather according to Trent, "Justification is a lifelong process, perseverance is not guaranteed, but those who by sin have fallen from the received grace of justification may be again justified through the Sacrament of Penance." So you start being justified. How does it work? Grace is infused to you through infant Baptism. Grace is infused to you every time you to to the Mass. Grace is infused to you through all the other Sacraments. You get this little infusing, it's injection of grace, and by this injection of grace, mixed with your own works, you progress on the path toward perfection. As the priest put it, "We're all on a long journey toward perfection."
No one can say, "I am justified, I have been justified," that's what the Bible teaches that you have been justified by faith in Jesus Christ alone. But rather in Catholic doctrine, you are in the process of being justified, you can fall out of that but by Penance, by some mechanical means, some self-immolation, some personal sacrifice, some induced pain, some form of Penance or indulgence, you can get back on the path again. The Council also stated that justification must be preserved and sustained and completed through good works, energized, they said, by this grace infused into a person. The Council of Trent repeatedly repudiated the doctrine of justification by faith alone. In fact, the Council said, "Unless hope and love are added to faith, it never unites a man perfectly with Christ, nor makes him a living member of His body," session 6 chapter 7. You cannot be made right with God by faith alone. And the Catholic scheme, justification means God's grace is poured forth into the sinner's heart through the Sacraments, through various Masses and experiences like that, religious ceremonies, the person then receiving this grace mixes this grace with his own effort and his own works and becomes progressively more righteous. It is then the sinner's responsibility to preserve and increase that grace by various good works. You mix the works with the grace so that justification is not sola fide, by faith alone.
And frankly, you're not going to get there. That's why there's a Purgatory, because it's just too much to sell that. Can you imagine trying to sell that deal to people who believe that when you died you went right to heaven or right to heaven? You couldn't sell it. People wouldn't buy it. I mean, if you came to me and you said, "Look, God demands your whole life, He demands that you get into this process toward justification, and you work to get there the best way you can, He'll give you some grace, you mix it with some works, you do the stuff that the church tells you to do, and we can't promise you're ever going to make it but if you work hard enough and try hard enough you might make it," that's a hard sell. You're asking me to abandon everything and not know what the outcome is going to be, I'm not going to buy that. I'm not going to get on that long road, quote, "toward perfection," with no guarantee that at the end I'm going to heaven. That's more than I can bear. They couldn't sell it. So Purgatory is a convenient invention to catch all those people who aren't going to make it, which is most.
It wasn't just that they overlooked salvation by faith alone, the Council of Trent wrote against it. Let me quote what they said. There are about a hundred anathemas pronounced on the Reformers, on what we believe. Here are a few. "If anyone says that by faith alone the sinner is justified so as to mean that nothing else is required to cooperate in order to obtain the grace of justification, let him be anathema." Here's another one. "If anyone says that men are justified either by the imputation of the righteousness of Christ alone, or by the remission of sins alone, to the exclusion of the grace and love that is poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Spirit and is inherent in them, or even that the grace by which we are justified is solely the favor of God, let him be anathema." Here's another one. "If anyone says that the righteousness received is not preserved and also not increased before God by our good works, that is we increase righteousness that satisfies God by our good works, if anyone says that that is not so, but that those works are merely the fruit and sign of a justification obtained but not a cause of it, let him be anathema." That is to say that if you say that works are the fruit of your salvation, they curse you. Here's another one. "If anyone says that the guilt is remitted to every penitent sinner after the grace of justification has been received and that the debt of eternal punishment is so blotted out that there remains no debt of temporal punishment to be discharged either in this world or in the next in Purgatory before the entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven can be opened, let him be anathema."
Here's another one. "If anyone says that the Catholic doctrine of justification set forth in this decree by this holy synod derogates in any way the glory of God or the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ and not rather...listen...that the truth of our faith and the glory of God and of Jesus Christ are rendered more illustrious, let him be anathema."
If you affirm salvation by faith alone, you're cursed. If you affirm that you are justified by the imputation of the righteousness of Christ alone, you are cursed. If you affirm that the righteousness God gives you is complete and nothing can be added to it, you are cursed. If you question the Catholic doctrine of justification, you are cursed. You are anathematized. This is their theology. And since at that very Council they voted in their own infallibility, nothing can change. All the smokescreen of tolerance and openness notwithstanding, this is their theology.
The Council of Trent also said in session 6 chapter 7 that the instrumental cause of justification, the means by which it is obtained, the ground is the death of Christ, the instrumental cause of justification is the Sacrament of Baptism, infant Baptism is the instrumental cause by which justification is received. The justification that comes to a baby with absolutely no comprehension and no understanding whatsoever. The Council said that no justification is forfeited whenever a person commits a mortal sin, therefore your continuing progressive justification is contingent on your morality. So according to the Council of Trent, and this is the infallible Catholic dogma to which all of the non-relativists, like the last Pope and the new Pope affirm, justification is neither procured or maintained through faith, works are necessary to procure it starting with Baptism and works are necessary to sustain it.
And, of course, since the time of the Reformation, massive amounts of writing have gone on from the Reformers bringing the Bible to bear upon these horrible errors of Catholicism. But what are you going to do? The Council of Trent deemed itself infallible and said that anybody who questions anything that the Catholic Church affirms is damned. To sum it up, the Reformers objections to the Roman Catholic position on justification can be basically reduced to four things. One, justification is gradual, progressive. Two, the progression of that justification depends on your own works and religious ceremonies. Justification does not bring you, thirdly, a righteousness imputed or credited to your account but some infused grace to enable you to do better works. And four, there's no guarantee that you'll ever achieve this justification in this life and so you may not having been made perfect be able to escape a Purgatory where you will be purged of whatever remaining wickedness you have.
And, of course, the Reformers came along and said, "You've got it all wrong. Justification is instantaneous." Luke 18:14 Jesus said, "That tax collector who said God be merciful to me, a sinner, went home justified." It was instantaneous, it always is. The Scripture teaches that justification is not making someone righteous by some long life effort, justification is declaring someone righteous not by their own righteousness, but by the righteousness of God credited to their account. And it is imputed, thirdly, and not infused. And most importantly, the Bible teaches and the Reformers understood that justification is by faith alone, not by faith plus works. They understood that from all the Scriptures that I've given you, you can add to that list Romans 11:6, "If it is by grace it is no longer on the basis of works otherwise grace is no longer grace." As soon as you put works in, grace isn't grace.
That's not what the Council of Trent said. That's not what Catholicism believes. Listen to Council of Trent session 7, canon 8, "If anyone says that by the said Sacraments grace is not conferred through the act performed," that is what they call exopera-operato, by the work itself, "If anybody says that this Sacrament doesn't itself confer grace but says that faith alone in the divine promises is sufficient for the obtaining of grace, let him be anathema." Curse anyone who denies that grace is not conferred through ceremony and Sacrament. If you say it's faith alone in the promise of the Word of God, you're cursed.
You have to understand this, this is a different salvation. This is a different gospel. They affirm God, Christ, the Spirit, Scripture, though they cloud that with their Magisterium and their Tradition. I'll say more about that in weeks to come. But when we talk about salvation by faith, we're talking about salvation by faith alone and we go back to Ephesians 2:8 and 9, "For by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God not as a result of works that no one should boast." You remember in Acts 16 the one corrected answer to the question, What must I do to be saved?, the answer comes, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you shall be saved." Romans 10:9 and 10, "If you confess Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved." And all that takes us back to Romans 4. Let's go there. This is where we were a couple of weeks ago when we started this series. We were back there with Abraham in Romans 4, and for the Jews the question is about Abraham. And in verse 2 of Romans 4 Paul says, "If Abraham was justified by works then he has something to boast about, but not before God." Why? Because the Scripture says, quoting Genesis 15:6, "And Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him as righteousness. Now to the one who works, his wage is not reckoned as a favor, but as what is due."
In other words, he's saying if salvation is something you earn, then you're just getting what is due. But verse 5, "To the one who does not work but believes in Him...listen to this one...who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness." That three words, "justifies the ungodly," is the most defining element of justification. In the Catholic system God justifies those who become righteous. He justifies those who become godly by their works and ceremonies and Sacraments, etc. But in the biblical gospel, God justifies those who pound their breast and say, "God, be merciful to me a sinner." He justifies the ungodly and He does it through faith and faith alone and their faith is reckoned as if it was righteousness. And so we have no real righteousness that could please God, but our faith in the Christ in the gospel and His death and resurrection for us is reckoned as if it were righteous and God therefore credits to our account the very righteousness that belongs only to him and to Christ and the only means...the only means, the only instrumental means of salvation is not some Sacrament, it's not the Sacrament of Baptism, the only means, the only way to receive salvation is by faith and by faith alone. And if you corrupt that, you've corrupted the gospel.
Down in verse 9, end of the verse, again Paul picks up Genesis 6, "Faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness." It was credited to him as if it were righteousness and it's not. We're not righteous. We...we can only have righteousness credited to our account by faith in Christ. Second Corinthians 5:21, that verse that I look at so often, "God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." We become righteous by having the very righteousness of God credited to us through Christ. And this occurs by faith and faith alone. There is no Purgatory but we have no fear that we're somehow not going to make it, that we're going to get in some long journey toward perfection and stumble into mortal sin and find ourselves out of justification then have to find our way back in again and somehow go to Mass when you read, for example, that somebody goes to Mass every single day. That is out of the tortuous, tortuous burden of understanding that you're trying to justify yourself and every time you go to the Mass you get infused with a little more grace, you get another injection of grace that somehow may enable you to generate more works to satisfy God to finally earn your justification and maybe you won't have to spend as much time in Purgatory to get the rest of the stuff purged, but there's no guarantee. But at least when you die, you're not going to go to hell. If you have to spend a few thousand years or a million years in Purgatory till you get to heaven, it's a better deal than just going straight to hell.
So when we talk about saving faith, we're talking about the kind of faith that stands alone apart from any works. There's so much more to say about saving faith. We talked last time. Let's look at Hebrews 11 just for a moment and I'll sort of complete this, I think, next Sunday night, but if you look at Hebrews 11, this is...this is the passage we talked about last time. It defines the character of this faith. Faith in Christ alone, I wanted to clarify that tonight, I hope I've done that for you as bouncing it off the dominant alternative in our western world of Catholicism. But as you look at the essence, verse 1 of Hebrews 11 says, "Faith is the assurance, or the substance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." You remember that when we talked about this saving faith, we said that it has some component parts, it includes knowledge, remember that? Which the Reformers called in the Latin knoticia(?), you have to know the facts that must be believed to know the truth about Christ. Who He is, why He came, what He did, the cross, the resurrection? So it requires knowledge. But there are a lot of people who know those facts, as we've been saying tonight, they know about Christ, He came, they know His nature, they know He lived and He died and He rose again. That's part of it, knotitia. Secondly is assent. You have to assent to those facts as being true. And then thirdly, trust. The second is ascensus(?) in the Latin, the third is thaducia(?). You finally have to totally entrust yourself to Christ. That's where you let go of your works. That's where you pound your breast and say, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner." You have to be assured of something you don't have but you hope for. You have to be convinced of something you can't see but believe. The knowledge of the gospel needs leads to an assent to, or belief that it is true, and there's a lot of people who stop at that point. But thirdly, you cast your entire trust on the truth of that real saving gospel. That is to say it is faith and faith alone, you throw your whole weight into the faith realm. You abandon all hope of achievement, all hope of meritorious works. And that's what Jesus meant in Luke 9:23, "If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself." It's not just dying the sinful part of you, it's denying every part of you, even your ability to contribute to your salvation. That's what pounding your breast, Luke 18, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner," means. It's not just what I've done that is evil, it's what I can't do. We talked about that in the study of total depravity, or what I like to call human inability. When we talk about all of us being depraved, we're not saying that everybody is as bad as they could be, not everybody is as bad as some people are. But when we talk about human depravity or human inability, what we are saying is none of us can contribute anything to our salvation. So faith then is grasping something we don't have and grasping something we don't see in terms of the realities of Christ that we don't see. We...we love One...Peter says...we haven't seen. But it is also coming to the recognition that we have to let go of our sin and let go of all hope that we can make a contribution to our own salvation. And we will be justified by faith and faith alone and at a moment, in an instant, when God declares us righteous and credits to our account the very righteousness that belongs to Him that was manifest in Christ on our behalf. This is what saving faith is. It is total trust in the work of Christ and absolutely no trust in our own efforts.
Now, next time I want to talk about the objective part of faith, and the subjective part. What does it look like? Or maybe another way to say it is how does it act? And we'll look at that next Sunday night. Let's pray.
Father, we thank You, tonight, for the simplicity and the wonder of devotion to Christ. As Paul said, we are so concerned that people get seduced and led astray from simplicity of devotion to Christ. Certainly looking at the recent exposure in the media of Roman Catholicism, its seductive and deceptive complexity, its illusionary transcendence, this idea of almost angelic figures tracing around in fancy robes and sitting on thrones and occupying massive cathedrals give the illusion that this is all about You. And we know it's not about You at all. And in the midst of all of it, simplicity...the simplicity of trust and devotion to Christ is lost and how seductive it all is. How it gives the terrible destructive illusion of divinity when it is another gospel espoused by Your archenemy. Help us, Lord, not to be unkind to these folks who are caught in this system, but like all, to love them and to call them away to the truth. We hear it again and again in the testimonies of those around us, how desperately people who are in this system need to know real forgiveness, to receive a true justification by faith. The system is so much like the Pharisees, it's Pharisaism reinvented and taken to the inth degree, a salvation by works, self-righteousness, people parading around being called "father" and holy father," loving to hear greetings in the streets as the Pharisees did, wanting to sit on thrones and take the high places as they did. We're reminded of the words of Jesus who said to the Pharisees and the people gathered around them, "Call no man father, let alone holy father, a title which He himself used to speak to You, His own Father. Father, we pray that You will rescue people from the delusion. Help us to be faithful to the gospel of grace. Lead Your true church away from this illusion. Don't let your true people be confused about the true condition of people caught up in false religious systems. May we never make a truce with another gospel. May we never make a truth...truce with a damning false religion. May we never be deceived because they talk about You, they talk about Christ, and they talk about grace, and they talk about faith. The fatal error is there and they have affirmed their outright denial of salvation the only way a person can be saved, and they've damned all of us who hold to that biblical truth. The lines are drawn very clearly and may we be faithful to proclaim the true gospel because we know Your own heart, even as it is broken over the unbelief of Israel, is broken again over the fact that many name Your name and say, "Lord, Lord, we did so many things in Your name," only to hear the sad words, "Depart from Me, I never knew you." May we know that salvation comes only by grace, but through faith and faith alone so that we can't boast and all the glory goes to you. May we rejoice that our justification is past and we have received righteousness credited to our account and nothing can ever separate us from Your love and nothing can ever undo that glorious justification. May we always know the distinction between our justification in the past, our ongoing sanctification in the present, as we become more and more confirmed to the image of the very Christ by faith in whom we were justified. We thank You that You've declared us righteous by crediting His perfect life to our account and by crediting our sins to His account who died in our place. And as that Jew in the Old Testament laid his hands on the animal about to be killed in a symbol of transferring his own sins to that sacrifice, may we remember that our sins have been transferred to the final and complete sacrifice, our Lord Jesus Christ and His righteousness transferred to us. In this glorious gospel we rest without fear of any future loss, or of any Purgatory, but know with the Apostle Paul that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. To depart is to be present with Christ. And in this we rejoice because nothing can separate us from Your love which is ours in Christ Jesus. We rejoice in all of this, in the name of our blessed Savior. Amen.


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Biography and Memoir
December 2017
"His fellow nurses considered him a gift from the scheduling gods, a hire almost too good to be true."
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The Good Nurse
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Michael Doyle says he can't judge the radio industry by what people tell him at cocktail parties.
Doyle, who was named regional president of Entercom Communications Corp. this month, has heard it all over the years. When the iPod came out in 2001, Doyle's fellow partygoers proclaimed it the death of the radio industry. When satellite radio and Internet radio began to take off, he heard the same thing.
Still, traditional radio, which is the centerpiece of a company like Entercom, has persevered. And Doyle has played a major part in that.
Doyle, 54, has spent 27 years in the radio industry. Prior to being named regional president, he was the Northeast region's vice president. Prior to that, he was vice president and market manager of Entercom Rochester.
In his new role, Doyle will continue to oversee a Northeast market that has more than 40 stations in markets including Rochester, Buffalo, Indianapolis, Memphis, Gainesville, Fla., Wichita, Kan., and Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He also will help oversee Entercom's corporate initiatives in training, marketing and social media.
Doyle could be just the man for the job. Since joining Entercom in 2000, he has made Entercom's Northeast region into one of the company's best-performing markets.
Much of that growth has been in Rochester, where Doyle says Entercom has some 65 full-time employees. Over the past two years, Rochester has been Entercom's best-performing market in year-over-year revenue growth, he says. Rochester is responsible for more than 40 percent of the Northeast region's overall revenue.
Entercom owns five stations in Rochester, including WPXY-FM 97.9, WBEE-FM 92.5 and WCMF-FM 96.5.
Susan Munn, vice president and general manager for Entercom Rochester, says it is Doyle's leadership that has set the tone for success in the market.
"Michael is a truly inspiring boss and leader," she says. "He is fully engaged in all that he does and has a quick wit that leaves most people smiling while agreeing with his point of view.
"He knows what a well-run organization looks like, and his mission is to get every Entercom market to live up to the standards of his vision."
Career start
For all his success in the industry, Doyle's first try at radio did not pan out.
A native of Saratoga Springs, Doyle says he was drawn to the entertainment industry when he was growing up. He attended the SUNY College at Brockport with the hopes of becoming a radio DJ.
While in college, Doyle worked as a DJ at the campus radio station and did some on-air work for local stations. However, things stalled there.
"It just didn't click for me," recalls Doyle. "I found myself amusing, but I'm not sure any listeners saw me as amusing."
After graduating in 1980, Doyle took a job as a manager in a Kmart shoe department. From there, he went on to work in marketing and advertising at New York City-based Globe Communications LLC.
Doyle spent two and a half years at Globe Communications before deciding he wanted to try radio again.
"I've always loved the ability to reach out and communicate to people," Doyle says. "I love what we do in the radio business. I realized that I could get back into it, this time through sales."
Doyle got his first full-time job in radio doing marketing and sales at WGY-AM 810 in Schenectady. From there he worked in general and sales management for a few other companies, including Heritage Media and New City Communications Inc.
In 1997, Doyle became general manager for Pilot Communications, which owned a cluster of radio stations in Syracuse. In 2000, Las Vegas-based Citadel Broadcasting Corp. acquired Pilot's radio stations and Doyle was presented with two options.
At the time, he had been offered a job as vice president and general manager with Entercom Rochester. Doyle says Citadel also offered him a promotion. He chose Rochester.
Entercom had just moved into the Rochester market in 1998, acquiring WBEE-FM, WQRV-FM, WBBF-FM and WEZO-AM from Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.
While WBEE had a strong market presence, the other three stations were lagging, Still, Doyle saw potential.
"I thought the stations in Rochester were great and that there was room to grow," he says. "I had an opportunity to re-energize the place and show the employees what Entercom as a company was capable of."
The plan for Doyle and Entercom was to build on the success of WBEE. In late 2000, the company launched WBZA-FM 98.9, "The Buzz."
Entercom continued to build in Rochester over the next several years. In August 2006, the company agreed to buy 15 radio stations from CBS Corp., including four in Rochester. The deal included WCMF-FM 96.5, WPXY-FM 97.9, WRMM-FM 101.3 and WZNE-FM 94.1.
Before the deal, Entercom already had a lineup of four stations: WBEE and WBZA, along with WFKL-FM 93.3 and WROC-AM 950. Entercom went on to sell WZNE, WRMM and WFKL to Stephens Media Group to meet FCC requirements for the number of stations it could have.
"It's been quite an evolution," Doyle says. "Over time we've broadened our approach to expand our reach in this market. The goal has been to create great media for people to listen to and a brand to build a culture around."
According to Arbitron Quarterly Reports, Entercom is the only radio company to have two stations-WBEE and WPXY-routinely rank in the top-five overall radio stations in the market during the past two years. The rankings are based on the number of people above age 11 who listen during an average quarter-hour.
Competition grows
However, Doyle says, the days when Entercom had to worry only about other traditional radio competitors such as Clear Channel Radio and Stephens Media are gone.
"This is a much harder business than it was 25 years ago," he says. "Now, in order for us to win, our brands must not be able to be replaced by what a listener can do on their iPod or mobile phone. You also have to figure out what makes them choose you over Pandora and a thousand other radio stations you can stream on the Internet."
Doyle says the increased competition only drives him more. When satellite radio hit the scene in 2002, Doyle was proud that Entercom's revenues continued to grow in Rochester.
"There's always a new shiny object," he says. "The new shiny object back then was satellite radio. Anybody who's smart about what they do recognizes new challenges. The time people spend with radio is down a little bit over the last decade, but it still reaches more than 90 percent of the people in America each week."
In late 2011, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to scale back its local talent at radio stations around the country in favor of syndicated shows and a heavier focus on its Internet radio platform, called iHeartRadio. The move has led to high-profile layoffs at Clear Channel Radio stations in Rochester.
However, while Entercom also has cut costs, the company has held onto most of its on-air talent, especially in Rochester.
"The brands we have in Rochester, which are driven by local personalities, continue to engage local listeners, who then engage our advertisers," Doyle says.
Upon completion of recently announced acquisitions, the publicly traded Entercom will be the fourth-largest radio company in the United States. It will own or operate 96 stations in 17 markets.
Doyle says he is more excited now about the radio industry than he has ever been. That excitement keeps him glued to his work, no matter where he is. He says he travels 30 weeks a year, visiting stations both in and outside the Northeast region, speaking with employees.
"Michael has the unique ability to challenge his people to greatness and at the same time make them feel special achieving it," says Greg Ried, vice president and general manager for Entercom Buffalo. "He leads by example, in the trenches side by side with his employees."
Doyle, who lives in Penfield, says he still makes time for his family. He enjoys downtime with his wife of 30 years, Victoria, his son, Patrick, who lives and works in Rochester, and his daughter, Bridget, a senior in high school.
Doyle's passion for radio comes second only to his family. He says after more than 25 years, he is still driven by the industry's competitive nature.
"I love a competitive environment," he says. "In a world where there are a lot of competitors, I want to prove that we can continue to win and get the best results for our advertisers."
Michael Doyle
Position: Regional president, Entercom Communications Corp.
Age: 54
Education: B.S., communications and media studies, SUNY College at Brockport, 1980
Family: Wife Victoria; son Patrick, 24; daughter Bridget, 17
Residence: Penfield
Activities: Spending time with family, golf
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After spending the weeks before the election sending emails imploring his readers to send him money to run TV ads he described as critical to defeating President Obama, Dick Morris used his most recent column to say that such ads have no impact.
The Fox News political analyst and columnist for The Hill is having a rough month. In the wake of an election in which several conservative pundits -- conspiracy theorists, wishful thinkers, and heavily invested political players alike -- have come out looking foolish for their predictions of a major Romney win, Morris stands alongside Karl Rove as the figure bearing the most ridicule and criticism.
Perhaps in response to this criticism, Morris penned an election postmortem this weekend, wherein he laid out why "The Campaign Made No Difference." According to Morris, the extended, expensive campaign in swing states was basically a wash.
But for weeks before the election, Morris' public pronouncements of an impending Romney victory were tied to a steady barrage of fundraising emails from his political action committee, Super PAC for America. Those pre-election emails explained that the TV ads that Super PAC for America was running had made a difference in swinging the race in Romney's favor.
Now, a week out from the election, Morris explains that political ads are ineffective and people just fast forward through them anyway:
The months and months of campaigning, the hundreds of millions of TV advertising, the incessant travel schedules of the candidates, and the vigorous efforts of both sides to get their vote out made little or no difference in the outcome of the Election of 2012.
1. Television is losing its impact. Particularly in the presidential race, it is astonishing that the almost one billion dollars spent advertising in eight states did very little to move the vote share. Voters are not watching television as much these days and those that are still turning it on are fast forwarding through the ads. And negative campaign ads -- in fact, all ads, -- are losing their impact.
To sum up, Morris now says that nobody watches political ads, they don't move swing voters, and negative ads are losing their impact. Let's compare Morris' discussion of the ineffectiveness of political advertising with some of the fundraising emails sent by Super PAC for America in the weeks leading up the election.
Starting in early October, Super PAC for America started a fundraising campaign to run anti-Obama ads in a series of swing states. In an October 18 email sent to his mailing list, Morris declared his Super PAC had created a "powerful new ad that cuts through the political spin and directly cuts to the bone." In Morris' telling, no other group was "running such clear and powerful ads," which is why they "urgently need[ed] your help to place this ad in key swing state markets across the nation."
Ten days later, Morris declared that the group's "extremely persuasive ads" had made it to the airwaves and that Super PAC's "work is paying off." "Thanks to donations of tens of thousands of Americans like you -- we are now battering Barack Obama in 5 key swing states," Morris wrote.
The supposed effectiveness of his group (which, while they also made an Internet and robo-call push, was largely active through running ads in swing states, according to their email communications), was a common refrain in fundraising pitches.
On October 30, Morris sent an email asking for money to expand Super PAC's ad buy to Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin after flatly declaring that his group's ads "have been working in key swing states such as Ohio, Iowa, and Florida." (Romney lost all six states.)
The next day, in a fundraising email with the subject line "Obama Collapse Nears," Morris crowed that "key states like Virginia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are falling into the Romney column." (Romney lost all three.) Morris again declared that his group had "made a huge difference in key swing states like Florida, Ohio, Iowa, and Virginia" and alleged that his group had been so effective that the Obama campaign was "watching us and reacting to our moves."
In a last-minute pitch the day before the election, Morris again asked for money for the group to run last minute robo-calls and web ads -- which he described as "just as effective as TV ads and perhaps more so" -- and broadcast how the group has "done an incredible job in just a matter of weeks to turn the tide for Mitt."
Less than one day -- not 24 hours -- separates us from Election Day.
The Super PAC for America has done an incredible job in just a matter of weeks to turn the tide for Mitt.
Frankly, we were a crucial help to Mitt Romney who was lagging in most swing states a month ago.
But our job is not over.
Mike Reagan, the head of Super PAC, informs me our TV ads have been airing all over Pennsylvania this weekend and will continue Monday.
But now that the election is over and the flow of Super PAC donations has slowed, Morris believes TV advertising doesn't actually work. It remains to be seen whether he'll still believe advertising doesn't work in 2014, or whether he'll again take the opportunity to shill for Super PAC donations.
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Hi all,
I wanted clarification on how to log on to a db using just '/as sysdba' (am on the db box itself). I have a test db and on that i have set remote_password_auth to EXCLUSIVE and made sure that i am a member of the ORA_DBA group. I can log in as
sys/password as sysdba
but when i try to log just using /as sysdba, i get an insufficient privs error. I just wanted an explanation as to what else i need to do to gain access this way (i know this not the ideal way of logging but am curious on what needs to be set in order to gain access this way)
Any explanations will be greatly appreciated