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This was the week Mitt Romney should have sealed the Republican presidential nomination. He was expected to win Tuesday's caucuses in Colorado, to win or tie in Minnesota and to do credibly well in Missouri. Instead, the former Massachusetts governor managed to lose all three contests to Rick Santorum, a candidate who has spent most of the campaign stuck near the bottom of the polls.
Romney has done well in states such as New Hampshire and Florida, where moderate voters make up a significant share of the Republican electorate. But conservative states just aren't having him yet, especially those that hold caucuses, which tend to draw only the most committed voters.
At this point, the GOP looks more like a collection of warring tribes than a cohesive political force. Fiscal conservatives don't have much use for social conservatives. Libertarians and moderates don't get along with either camp. "We are factionalized now as a party," lamented Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). "We have to come together."
She's right. Why? Because the long and relentlessly negative campaign is making all the GOP candidates less likable to independent voters, who will probably determine the outcome of this fall's general election.
An ABC News-Washington Post poll released this week measured the phenomenon, asking voters: As you learn more about these candidates, do you like them more, or like them less?
In the case of Romney, 52% of voters said the more they knew about him, the less they liked him. That's not surprising after a month of unflattering revelations about Romney's business career and his investment accounts overseas, but it's not a good sign.
Newt Gingrich fared even worse: 60% of voters said the more they learned about him, they less they liked.
When the survey was conducted, the pollsters didn't think enough of Santorum's chances to include his name in the question. As recently as last month, 20% of Americans said they had never even heard of the former Pennsylvania senator. But among Republicans who recognized Santorum's name, the general impression was positive; unlike Gingrich, he does not draw automatic opposition from a big chunk of the GOP electorate. That can be attributed in part to the fact that up to now the other candidates haven't needed to attack him.
Now, in the wake of his victories, Santorum will be on the receiving end of some serious hazing at the hands of the Romney campaign.
It's already begun. In recent days, the Romney campaign dispatched one of its spokesmen, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, to warn GOP voters that Santorum is a Washington insider who liked the place so much that after he lost his Senate seat, he stayed in the hated capital as a lobbyist.
But Santorum, whose choirboy demeanor doesn't conceal his taste for bare-knuckled combat, struck right back. "Gov. Romney — 'Mr. Outsider' — was for government takeover in healthcare, was for government takeover of the private sector in the Wall Street bailout," Santorum said Wednesday on CNN. "So Mr. Private Sector was Mr. Big Government."
In the coming mud fight, there are reasons to expect that Santorum will make a better showing than Gingrich. But mud fights, whatever the outcome, don't tend to build party unity.
In a Fox News poll last month, GOP voters ranked Santorum first among the candidates as a "true conservative," well ahead of Romney and Gingrich. And in the ABC-Washington Post poll, they ranked him roughly on par with Romney as "honest and trustworthy" — well ahead of Gingrich, whom only 7% considered the most honest. (Even most Gingrich supporters said they didn't consider him the most trustworthy candidate.)
Conservatives who want an alternative to Romney are still looking for the right champion. The month ahead is Santorum's chance to win that role.
Arizona and Michigan hold primary elections on Feb. 28; Romney is expected to win Arizona easily, but Santorum is taking his blue-collar message to Michigan to try to stage another upset.
The most decisive day of this bitter campaign, though, is likely to be March 6, Super Tuesday, with seven primaries and three caucuses. Romney is expected to win Massachusetts and Virginia, and Gingrich hopes to win his native Georgia. But Santorum has a shot in Oklahoma and Tennessee — and all three are campaigning fiercely for the most important swing state on the list, Ohio.
After Super Tuesday, the question will be: Which of the non-Romney candidates should drop out, Santorum or Gingrich?
Republican strategists, weighing the candidates' strengths on the map, in campaign organization and in funding, believe Romney is still likely to outlast his opponents. But it will take him longer, cost him more and do more damage to his standing than a short campaign would have.
Millions of independent voters are tuning in to this campaign and learning about the potential Republican nominees — in some cases, for the first time. And many of them don't like what they see.


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Now we believe that the handbook for life and time and eternity is the word of God and so we want to look at it and see what it is that God has to say to us. The writers of the Bible were inspired by God and what they wrote is the very word of God. And so we study it verse by verse. And we find ourselves in this wonderful letter to the Corinthians written by the apostle Paul. The Corinthian church which he himself had been so very much a part of. He wrote back to them dealing with the man problems that had developed. The Corinthians had fallen into sin. That sin had manifested itself in many, many ways and as a result of that there were problems all throughout the church. And the letter is written to deal with those problems.
Notice would you Chapter 4, verses 6-13. I'm going to read it to you. Follow as I read. "And these things brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written. That no one of you be puffed up for one against another. For who maketh thee to differ from another and what hast thou that thou didst not receive. Now if thou didst receive it why dost thou glory as if thou hast not received it. Now you're full. Now you're rich. You've reigned as kings without us. I wish you did reign that we also might reign with you. For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last as it were appointed to death for we are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honorable, but we are despised. Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place and labor working with our own hands. Being reviled we bless, being persecuted we endure it, being defamed we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world and are the offscouring of all things unto this day."
Now in this most poignant text of Scripture. The apostle Paul is dealing with one theme. And that one theme is humility. It isn't easy at first to look at the passage and understand it, but I trust when we're done, you'll understand it thoroughly. Paul is talking about humility. As a servant of God and as a teacher of the church he recognized that humility was a necessary and vital part of his own life as it was a necessary and vital part of the life of every Christian. And so humility is really the essence of this text. By way of introduction just this thought throughout history, God's redemptive history, God's choicest leaders have always been humble men.
You can go as far back as Abraham, for example, in Genesis Chapter 18, in verse 27 and it says Abraham answered and said, "Now I behold have ventured to speak to the Lord although I am but dust and ashes." A recognition of his own humility in comparison with God. Jacob in Genesis 32:10 says, "I am unworthy of all the loving kindness and of all the faithfulness which thou hast shown to thy servant." A sense of unworthiness. Moses in Exodus 3:11 said, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt." Gideon given the command of the armies of Israel at a strategic time in Judges 6:15, said "Oh Lord, how shall I deliver Israel. Behold my family is the least in Manasseh and I am the youngest in my house."
John the Baptist, in Matthew Chapter 3, in verse 14, was invited by our Lord Jesus Christ to baptize the Lord and John said, "I have need to be baptized of thee and thou comest to me?" In John 1:27, He said, "He it is who comes after me who is preferred before me who is shoe latchet I am not worthy to loose." Tremendous sense of humility. Peter, it says in Luke 5:8, fell at Jesus' knees and said, "depart from me for I am sinful man oh Lord." The apostle Paul said the Ephesian elders in Acts 20, "you know the manner of my ministry among you. Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, many tears and trials."
In 2 Corinthians Chapter 3 in verse 5, Paul says not as though we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God. In Ephesians 3:8, Paul that marvelous servant of God said, "unto me who am the least of all saints is the grace given that I should preach." Always God's choicest people have known humility. Pride and fruitfulness are incompatible. The supreme example of humility in the Scriptures and in all of history is our Lord Jesus Christ. We don't often think of Him in that way, but I remember the words of our Lord in Matthew 11:29 when He said, "for I am meek and lowly in heart."
And I remember the definition of His incarnation given by the apostle Paul in Chapter 2 of Philippians in verse 7 where he says, "He humbled himself." For the very God of the universe to allow himself to come to the level of human life that he did and to be spit upon and mocked and scourged and beaten and rejected and crucified is indeed humiliation. You can see the humility of Jesus Christ in the fact that He took on human nature. In the fact that He was born in a stable. In the fact that He had nothing life. That He was homeless, poor, dependent, partaking in our weaknesses, submitting to the law that He became a servant. That He was associated with sinners and despised people. That He refused honor from men. That He wouldn't be a king when they wanted to make Him one. That He washed feet. That He obeyed the Father. That He submitted to suffering reproach, mockery and even death.
God's choice people have always been humble. Humility is the channel to fruitfulness. Paul said in 2 Corinthians Chapter 12 "When I am weak, then I am," what, "strong." What he meant was when I recognized that in myself I can do nothing it is just then that "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Now the reason I introduced this with the subject of pride is because that is precisely the problems the Corinthians had manifest. They had a pride problem. They were boasters. In fact, throughout 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians, these two letters, their pride is mentioned again and again. They gloried, they were puffed up, they boasted, they were vain. This is a real problem.
Now if you know anything about the Bible and you've studied it for any time at all, you know that really the basis of all sin is pride, isn't it? Because all sin is rebellion against God and rebellion against God amounts to me setting my will against His will, and that's a proud act. The Corinthians were proud. Their pride had manifested itself in first of all their love of human wisdom. Remember the first problem they had was the problem of division. And the reason the church was divided and didn't know unity, didn't know the blessed kind of unity that even we know, the reason was because they were polarized over philosophical issues.
And one group would say well, we're the ones that believe this politically or philosophically. And the other one, we're the ones that believe this politically and philosophically even though they agreed on the tenants of the Christian faith, they so disagreed philosophically that it became a splitting and a factioning element. And it also became a basis for pride because as soon as they would identify with one little group and they would say this is my group and this is what I agree with and we're better than you, and so pride was a factor.
In addition to exalting human wisdom, they had exalted human teachers, remember? They had taken good men, godly men, Paul, Apollos, Peter, and they said we are of Paul. And another group, we are of Apollos. Another group we're of Peter. And they were identifying around these men. And of course, the thing that resulted from that was pride. We're the Paul group and we're better than Apollos and Paul's better than Peter and Peter's group we're better than the Apollos group and so forth. The apostles didn't feel this way, but the people had come to be very proud about the group it had identified with in terms of the teacher.
So pride was manifesting itself terribly in these exaltations of human wisdom and human leadership and it needed sternly to be dealt with. And Paul deals with pride in Chapter 4, verses 6-13. They were exalting human leaders and it became an issue of pride. You know, you can see how that can happen can't you? Maybe you have a class and you say well, you know, the teacher of class is so and so. And boy he's the best teacher. And you go to such and such a class, not in the same league. And pretty soon what happens, you rally around that teacher and you get to the place where your honoring of that teacher goes beyond what it ought to be and pretty soon it becomes a basis for looking down or criticizing another. That can happen in the church. I imagine it can happen here. Somebody could say I go to Grace Community Church.
You go to Grace Community Church? Oh too bad. Guess everybody can't win, got to have some losers. My pastor is John MacArthur. And then, you know, you can become boastful and proud about that and then has ceased to be loyalty and it has started to be sin. There's no place for that. That just fractions the body of Christ. We're not here trying to set ourselves up as the only church. We praise God for every other godly man and every other godly ministry in this country and in this world where Jesus Christ is lifted up and exalted.
We're not to be set one against the other and we're least of all to make that an issue of pride. But you know Satan can take even a good thing and so perverted, isn't that what he does with things, pervert them? And so pervert it that what really would be loyalty to a good thing can turn into a pride issue and conceit and arrogance result. That's what he's dealing with here. And what happens when people begin to get proud is everything starts falling apart, because humility is the basis of God's operation. Now in this passage, I'm going to show you two points.
Paul simply contrasts two things. You have a little outline to follow if you'd like. He contrasts the Corinthians conceit with the apostles humility or abasement. He says you Corinthians are proud and that is wrong. And then he sets up the apostles as examples of humility to show them what really should be their attitude. And he uses some words to kind of help us get through his argument a little bit. And I gave you some numbers you can jot the words down, the key words, as we go.
Let's look first of all at the Corinthians conceit. And here is the issue of pride. The first word that he uses to speak of it is puffed up. Puffed up, verse 6, "And these things brethren," and referring back when he says these things, to everything he said since Chapter 3, verse 5, when he began to discuss himself and Apollos. "These things brethren I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos." In other words, I've been giving you principles. I've been giving you principles of behavior in the church. Principles of not over-exalting your leaders. Principles of realizing that your preacher isn't somebody to be lifted up and exalted and given all kinds of honor to. He's just a slave. He's just a third level under-rower in a galley. Remember how we went into that last time?
Not somebody to be exalted, so keep your perspective. There's no since in exalting one over the other. They're all just servants of God and there's no sense in pitting one against the other, he said in Chapter 3, verse 22. They're all yours anyway. Why not enjoy all of them? All of the godly men, all of the godly teachers. And so he's been dealing with this issue all the way through. I've been giving you principles, but all the way through you'll notice that he has made those principles very concrete because he has used himself and Apollos as examples. Back in Chapter 3, verse 5 he talks about Paul and Apollos. Those were his examples.
He comes to verse 22, Paul, Apollos, and Cephus. He continues to use a human concrete, substantial example so they'll understand the principle. Verse 6 then says this, "All the things that I've been saying to you, I have used an illustration of myself and Apollos to make them clear. Now we all know about teaching that if you're going to teach effectively it helps to have a concrete objective illustration. And so he says I have used myself and Apollos as examples to teach you many principles. And this is what I have done. I have used these illustrations of myself and Apollos for your sakes that you might learn in us not to think above that which is written. "That no one of you be puffed up for one against the other." There's our term puffed up.
Now the Corinthians had a problem with being puffed up. Paul says now all the way long, I've been using myself and Apollos as illustrations of the fact that ministers are simply slaves. Ministers are simply servants. Ministers are simply stewards. They're not anybody to be elevated. They're not anybody to be honored. They're not anybody to be lifted up. They're just servants of God. If they serve totally and completely in absolute obedience that's just doing what they should have done. There's no honor for that, but if they don't serve that way, they will be chastised.
That's why James 3:1 says "stop being so many teachers for theirs is the greater condemnation." And so Paul says, We have used ourselves as illustrations of what a servant is, of what a minister is so you'll quit exalting ministers. So that you notice this phrase in verse 6, so that you will learn from us not to exceed what is written. In other words, don't go further than Scripture allows you to go in esteeming men of God. Now we know that the Bible says that we are to esteem those who teach us and who rule over us greatly for their work sake. And we know the Bible says that a faithful elder who labors in the word and doctrine is to be doubly honored. And we know that we are to love those who have the rule over us and to honor them for their ministry. We know all of these things, but only within the bounds of Scripture. We are to only honor them as faithful slaves, as faithful servants, as trustworthy stewards. Nothing more.
And he says, I don't want you to go beyond what Scripture allows in esteeming these men. You've turned it into a cult where instead of people identifying with Christ and with the body of Christ, everybody is polarized to an individual. Believe me people, Satan would love to do this. One of the great tools that Satan could use to just fraction even the church that's committed to the word of God is to get all the Christians to identify with certain teaching. He needs to take the best of all. That's the way God intended it. So he says don't go beyond what is written.
Scripture has a lot to say about humility. Has a lot to say about pride and it has a lot to say about estimating ministers. Don't go passed what Scripture says. Incidentally people, there's a very, very solid principle to be used in application plenty of times. Here is the rule of faith in life right here. Don't go beyond it. This is it. What the Bible allows and permits that honors God. And especially in the area of pride and esteem. Look at Romans 12, verse 3.
It says there, "For I say," Romans 12:3, "through the grace given to me, to every man that is among you," he's talking to everybody. Now what am I saying? Not to think more highly than you ought to think. In other words, God has set certain limits on esteem. Just leave it there and here he has reference to ourselves. I look at John MacArthur and the Bible says don't think more of you than you ought to think. Well, that really leaves it down there. Because as Paul said, I'm the chief of sinners. Don't think more highly of yourself than you ought to think.
Don't think more highly of somebody else than you ought to think. Remember we're all simply sinners. Paul says "I am what I am by," what, "the grace of God." I deserve nothing. I earn nothing. I have no merit on my own, if I'm anything. Even here he says in 12:3, "What I say, I say through the grace given to me and I need to remember that." No place for pride. No place for lifting up others. But he says, I'm the least of all the apostles. And you may say now wait a minute, the least of all the apostles? Yes, he says who before persecuted the church, was a blasphemer, persecutor, injurious, but I obtained mercy, he said. God was gracious. God put me in the ministry enabling me to preach, but I'm the least of all. I am the chief of sinners, he says.
That's a humble estimate. Contrast that with the attitude of the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians Chapter 4. He says, "Stop going beyond what Scripture allows. No one of you should be being puffed up one against the other." And it's a present tense. Stop being puffed up. The whole idea is to be set aside. The present tense emphasizes that the Corinthians are never at any time to act in this fashion. Stop being puffed up. The word puffed up is very vivid. It's like a frog just before it croaks, you know. It just kind of swells up. Don't be puffed up. The followers of Apollos were exalting themselves over the followers of Paul and the ones of Peter over Paul and Apollos and on and on it was going.
And you know what happens people? This is interesting, what starts out as love for a teacher, and that's going to happen, and loyalty to a teacher and gratitude to a teacher can turn to hostility to other teachers. So that you can't accept anyone else. I met some people on one occasion who started to study with a certain person and they said "Well, he's the only person that we listen to." And I said, "Did you realize that that's wrong?" And of course, they were very critical of everybody else. The results were very disastrous when they got into a certain ministry situation. They destroyed that whole thing. Very, very disastrous when what is love and gratitude and loyalty to somebody who really helped you becomes pride, conceit and you result in knocking other people.
Let me give you an illustration of how this could happen. In the 11thChapter of Numbers in the Old Testament, and this is very vivid. To put it mildly at the time that Israel was being led out of Egypt to the promised land, the great hero of Israel was Moses. And what a great man he was. And, of course, everybody identified with Moses. I mean, you know, Moses was the leader and there wasn't anybody like Moses. Moses was where it was at, beginning, end, and middle. Incidentally, the 11thChapter of Numbers is an interesting chapter. I remember when I was a kid being told that this was one of the Chapters in the Bible where baseball was mentioned. The other one is Genesis 1 in the big inning.
But Numbers 11...Numbers 11 if you'll notice in verse 32 it talks about somebody who had ten homers. But anyway, Numbers 11:26...heard a lot of groaning there. Numbers 11:26 talks about a situation that occurred when the children of Israel were in the wilderness. Two of the people in the camp, one was named Eldad and the other Medad and the spirit rested on them. And they began to prophesy. The end of verse 26 says "they prophesied in the camp." Well, there ran a young man and he told Moses. He runs to Moses and he said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp. And Joshua the son of Nun the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said my Lord Moses forbid them. Stop them from doing that." "Moses said unto them, enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets and that the Lord would put His spirit upon them?"
Do you see the point? Don't be jealous for me. I wish everybody was a prophet. Well, what happened here was a great illustration of loyalty to one man becoming hostility to another one. This happens in the church. It's a tragic thing. The Corinthians had a problem. They were puffed up. They had frog throats, gloating, boasting, arrogant. In fact, he speaks about this in repeated terms in 1 Corinthians. In Chapter 4, verse 18 he says some of you are puffed up. In Chapter 4, verse 19, he says, "I'll come to you shortly if the Lord will and will know not the speech of them who are puffed up, but the power."
In Chapter 5, verse 2, "you are puffed up." Verse 6, "your glorying is not good." Chapter 8, verse 1, "knowledge puffs up," they had a lot of knowledge and knowledge makes conceited where there is no love to temper it. 1 Corinthians 13:4, "love suffers long and is kind, envies not, loves vaunteth not itself is not puffed up." And they were accused in 2 Corinthians 12:20 of being conceited. They had a problem and pride is always destructive. Pride splits, tears a congregation's unity because pride means I'm for me and that is destructive. As long as we love and share and minister to one another there will be blessing.
So Christians may rejoice in their leaders, love them, be loyal to them, be grateful to them, but when it gets to the place where you find that love and that gratitude and that loyalty becoming the reason to criticize other godly men, then it has ceased being loyalty and it has become pride. There's a second word, 1 Corinthians 4 in our list and that is the word glorying. Verse 7, and here Paul directs three questions to them, three with very self-evident answers to try to nail their pride. "For who makes thee to differ from another?" That's the first question.
Literally it means, who made you better than anyone else? The verb deikronoa, to regard someone as superior. So who made you superior? Who made you better than anybody? The obvious answer is nobody. Who makes you superior? What makes you think you're better than anybody else? What right do you have to say well, I'm in this group. I'm better than somebody in that group. That whole thing is strictly conceit and it only involves your own imagination. You invented it. You're not any better than anybody else.
Just because your teacher happens to be so and so doesn't mean you're better than someone else. Just because you happen to have a certain ministry doesn't mean you're better than someone else. Who made you any superior? Second question, "and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?" That's a good question. Think about this, what do you have that you didn't get from somebody else? Nothing, absolutely nothing. You were born. You had nothing to do with that. You were a gift. You didn't even choose to whom you were born. You had nothing to say about it. You say but once I got here man, I had a lot to say about where I am now. I'm a self-made man. Spontaneous, generated robot. You're not a self-made man.
Well, I've made my own success. Well, listen, what happens if you with all your intellect and your abilities were born in the middle of an aboriginal tribe in New Guinea? You'd be making mud pies like everybody else. Who decided you'd be here? Who put you here? And who made sure that your faculties were maintained till you get to the university and become something? Or who gave you the opportunity? Or who lifted you up? The Bible says it is "God that gives thee power to get wealth." The Bible says "every good and perfect gift cometh down from the Father of lights."
Whatever you have friends, you've received it from somewhere else. And spiritually speaking I think is the issue with the Corinthians. What do you have that you didn't get? Salvation? Did you earn that? Can you earn salvation? Can anybody earn salvation? "By the deeds of the law shall," what, "no flesh be justified. You're saved by faith, grace, that not of works. It is not of yourself. It is a what? Gift of God. You didn't get that. You say well, look at my talents and abilities. Where'd you get those? Where'd you get your spiritual gifts Corinthians? "You come behind in no gift," Chapter 1, verse 7 says. You are enriched by Him in all things so that you have all knowledge and all honor. Where'd you get that? It's the Spirit that gives severally to every man as He wills, right? You didn't earn that.
One day the Lord threw me out of a car, skidded me down a highway, I went 110 yards on my southern hemisphere. I came out of that thing, stood up, walked off the highway, and the Lord spoke to my heart and said I want you in the ministry. It was kind of like the Damascus Road. It's kind of like what Paul was saying here. In 1 Corinthians 9, he says, "If I had chosen to be a minister it might be something, but I didn't have a thing to say about it." God gave me the abilities, the gifts to do it.
What do I have that I didn't receive? I don't have anything. So whatever God may use of me is because He gave it to me. And even further, do you know that even the teachers that you have are gifts of God to you? How could you be proud about a gift you didn't earn? Ephesians Chapter 4 and verse 8 he says, "And He gave gifts unto men." And then in verse 11 it says what those gifts were. He gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some teaching pastors. All those were gifted men given to the church. I'm a gift given to you. Jerry's a gift given to you. Fred, Jimmy, we're all just gifts given to you. All the elders, teachers, all the people who teach your children, they're gifts of God given to you. No reason for boasting. You didn't deserve any of us.
And we didn't deserve to be called, that's God's plan. All of us should respond with loyalty not pride. In 1 Peter he tells us, all of us, that God has given us all the things we have and all we need to do is take care of it. "Every man has received the gift, so minister the same one to another as good stewards." You're just a steward of what God has given you. So he says to the Corinthians, what do you have that you didn't get? And the answer is nothing. Well, if you're not any different and you're not superior and you don't have anything that you didn't get, question 3, if you did receive it, if it was a gift, why do you glory as if you didn't receive it?
In other words, why are you boasting as if you earned it. The answer to that is don't know. Guess there isn't a whole lot of reasons. There's only one reason for boasting, that's all. Just one reason, pride. You have no ground to think you're better than anybody else. You have no ground to think that because of what you can do you're superior. No ground to think you earned anything, it's all a gift of God. What is there to boast about? What Paul does is he just...he strips all the excuses bare and he leaves them with a whole problem of facing their pride. There is no other alternative. By the time they're through with verse 7, they've got to admit it. They aren't any better than anyone else so there's no basis for pride there. They don't have anything that they deserve to earn, so there's nothing there. And they're only boasting out of their own mind and that's sin. They're finished.
But by this time, the steam's coming out of his ears and he's starting to get hot. Paul could get hot, you know that. We've seen him many times in his letters when he's really fuming. When we get to verse 8, he gets sarcastic. And you know what sarcasm is. That's saying the opposite of what you mean. That's when your wife comes out in the morning and she looks like she just, you know, like an explosion in a mattress factory with coils and this and she walks out and you take one look at her and you say boy are you beautiful. You see, that's sarcasm. You mean the very opposite of what you said. Or when you're at your office or your work or something and somebody's really messing up and you say oh you're really doing a great job on that. That's saying the opposite of what you mean, that's sarcasm.
So Paul here says the opposite of what he means in verse 8. He is sarcastic. "Now you are full. You are rich. You have reigned as kings. Boy aren't you something." Boy that's really hard. That's really, you know, scathing. And the first word he uses is full. He said, they're puffed up glorying and now to unmask their conceit he starts to use sarcasm. He says, "you're full." The word is used of food. It is a word that means to be satiated. It means to be satisfied. Oh you're satisfied. What do you need? You've got it all. Man, you've knocked it all off. You win. You have no wants, no lacks, just the opposite of Matthew 5:6 where our Lord said, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled."
Here were some people who didn't hunger and thirst after righteousness, they already had it. They thought. You are full, what do you need? And notice the word at the beginning of verse 8, now. Already, you've arrived folks, you're in the millennium already and without us. You went right on in. You got it all. Everything has come to pass. Isn't it wonderful. You've already been glorified and perfected and you went right on by us, how nice. Philippians 3:12, Paul says, "Not as though I have attained, but I still press toward the mark. Or the prize of the high calling of God in Christ."
The second word he uses is rich. You are rich. Plouteoin the Greek. It's an errisen. It means to become rich. And the implication is you become rich on your own. You've become rich on your own. Isn't that wonderful. You're loaded. You've got everything you need. You don't need me. You don't need anybody. You're right there. You've got it all. You're full, everything is great. Well, that's sarcastic. That's like Revelation 3, remember the message to the church at Laodicea when our Lord said this, "you say I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and know not that you're wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked." There's nobody as destitute as the man who thinks he has it all, did you know that?
They were full. They were rich. And then this one is too much, "you have reigned as kings, you're already in the millennium." You're on your thrones. How nice. Sarcastic "and you did it," look at verse 8, "without us." You didn't need us. You went right on into kingdom without us. Here we are struggling around, suffering, being abused, beaten, stoned, shipwrecked, and you've just gone right on in reigning as kinds. Sarcasm. You left your teachers far behind. And then he stops the sarcasm in the middle of verse 8 and you notice it says, "I would to God," in the King James. The word ophelonin the Greek is probably not that strong. It probably should say I wish. I wish you did reign and that we also might reign with you.
I wish you did reign. You know why? Because if you were reigning, we'd be reigning and the kingdom would be here and that'd be great. I wish it was the millennium he says. I wish we all were there. The facts aren't that way. Corinthians' conceit really despicable isn't it? Suffering Paul, bleeding for the cause of Christ, enduring pain and mockery and persecution and here were these conceited Corinthians, they had it all licked. Paul turns then to the apostles humility in verse 9. This is very simple to understand now that you understand the flow of the passage.
The apostles abasement, humility in verses 9-13. Notice what he says. There are four terms that he uses to describe. We'll just pull four out. First of all, the term is spectacle. He says "we're spectacles for I think that God has set forth us the apostles last it were appointed to death for we are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men." He says you people are really something. You're the heroes, we're the criminals. He chosen a very vivid picture. When a Roman General won a victory they had a precession, they called it Triumph, capital T. And what they did was the Roman General would come into the city and he would parade his victorious army through the streets and in would come the army. With all falderal and all the pomp and the whole bit. They would come parading into the city. He would demonstrate his Triumph and his achievement by showing off his troops.
Way at the end of the line of troops there would be a little band of captives. They would probably be the best of the captives. They would be all chained together. They were sentenced to death. And they would die in the arena when they would fight the beasts. Following the great Triumph, the people would move to the arena. In would come the little captives. At the end of everything, they would fight and be consumed by the beasts. History tells us that there was a common phrase, Te Morituri Salutamus, We who are about to die salute you.
And in would come the captives and they would die. And Paul says the word spectacle and that's what it refers to. We are the spectacles. You are the great Generals, you Corinthians, conquering everything parading with all the falderal, showing off your trophies and we're the little group of chained captives who have to go and die. Boy that's sharp language isn't it? You've arrived. You're the heroes, we're the spectacles. You flaunt your pride, your privileges. You reckon your achievements and we just serve and die.
He says "God's set us forth," and that literally means to publicly exhibit us. God has publicly exhibited us the apostles, the last thing, the little band of captives at the end appointed to death. We become a spectacle. We march into the arena of the world and men and angels gather and watch us die. That's our place. Moffett translated this, "God means us apostles to come in at the very end like doomed gladiators in the arena." And that's true the apostles took the last place. In Mark Chapter 9, the disciples were having an argument. They had a lot of arguments. Usually over the same subject. They were arguing about something and the Lord said what have you fellows been talking about?
And it was clam up time. Boing, you know, nobody said a sound because they had been arguing about who would be the greatest in the kingdom. And so the Lord said, I have a principle I'd like to share with you. "Whoever would be first in the kingdom shall be last and the servant of all." And then He took a little child and He brought the little child in the middle of the circle of disciples and He scooped the little child in His arms and He says, "now when you learn to serve a little child like this, you'll know what it is to serve me and to serve me is to my Father."
And He taught the lesson that is so basic that to be exalted in the kingdom is to be humbled in this life. The crown only comes after the cross. That's the principle. And it's true in Matthew 19, the Bible says that ultimately the apostles, the twelve are going to reign in God's kingdom on earth, the millennial kingdom, they're going to reign on twelve thrones aren't they? And so they're last in this world. They're the spectacle. They're the criminals. They died. They were spit on. They were mocked, they were beaten, they were pounded, they were shipwrecked. All the things they went through, but in the kingdom they're going to be on the thrones. That's God's principles.
He says they were appointed to death and they suffered in the face of the world humbly. There's a second word. Look at it, verse 10. "We are fools for Christ sake, but you are wise," sarcasm again. "We are weak, but you are strong. You're honorable, but we are despised." Boy the sarcasm there. We go through the world and what does the world think of us? They think we're fools. And they did in Chapter 17 of Acts in verse 18 the Athenians who were the brilliant people, the Athenians who had all the philosophies, the Athenians who knew everything in terms of solution to man's problem, they heard Paul and they said what does this babbler know?
And Paul said in 1 Corinthians earlier that "the preaching of the cross is to the world," what, "foolishness." They think we're fools. Back in Acts Chapter 5, Peter and John preached and the Sanhedrin said what do these people know. They're hicks from Galilee. They're not even from uptown, Jerusalem. And then the apostles were considered weak. Paul said he had a thorn in the flesh. That his body was constantly infirm. You read 2 Corinthians 11:23 and all the things he endured. The pain, weariness, watchings, hunger, thirst, shipwrecked, being stoned, being beaten with rods, all of the things that he endured he was weak and he was a beaten man physically so many, many times. And then he was despised.
Remember he went into Lystra and Iconium and Derbe and Antioch and Pisidia and in those towns he as thrown out of town. He was stoned and left for dead. He was chased all over Macedonia. That's how the world treated them, but you Corinthians, why you're wise and strong and honored. Sarcasm, sarcasm. Third term that might help us to define the apostles humility is sufferers. They suffered. They not only were considered fools by the world, but they were sufferers. Verse 11, "Even unto this present hour," and that phrase means boy if there's a kingdom we haven't seen it. If it's been coronation day we missed it because right up until now "we hunger, we thirst, we are naked, we are buffeted" and the word buffeted in the Greek means beating with the fists. It's not the word for official scourging. It's a word for just beating somebody up.
"We've been beaten up. We have no home, no dwelling place. We labor working with our own hands." And of course, to a Greek working with your hands was dishonorable. That's why they had slaves. So Paul says we have taken the lowest level of society, adapted it as our way of life. We work with our hands. And to this present hour we hunger, thirst, naked, beaten and have no home. This our lot. But you're rich and full and you're reigning as kings. Sarcasm. Such despicable pride. The apostles had nothing, they were vagabonds without homes. Like Jesus said, "if you're going to follow me, you know this the foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has no where to lay His head," Matthew 8.
They suffered. How did they respond to that suffering? Verse 12, "Being reviled, we bless, being persecuted, we endure it. Being defamed we beseeched." In other words, they met defamation of character with kindness. They met persecution with endurance. They met slander with blessing. Humble men voluntary humility to accept the place that God had given them. Knowing that though they were last in the world, they would be first in God's kingdom. Here were the Corinthians puffed up, glorying, thinking they were full, rich, and reigning. And here were the apostles, spectacles, fools, sufferers, and one more term, filth.
Hard to imagine verse 13 says, "we are made as the filth of the world and the offscouring of all things unto this day." Nothing's changed. If you've gone into the kingdom, something's wrong. We're still doing the same things, feeling the same things. Filth is an interesting word. It actually refers to the dirt that is scraped off of some filthy thing and then left to be deposited somewhere. We are the filth. We are that which is left after the cleaning has taken place. And the offscouring, that's exactly what it sounds like. When you take a scouring pad and clean the crust off burned food off your pan or whatever it is and what's left is the offscouring. What is wiped off when the object has been clean. That's us. We're nothing. We are filth in the eyes of the world. We are the offscouring of society. We take a place in society that is mocked and rejected because we boldly preach Christ. You see?
It's easy to get along in the world if you don't speak the truth. But boy when you start hitting the world with the truth, you're going to get a reaction because the world doesn't want to hear. And since Satan is the god of this world, the prince of the age, he's got the system to the place where it won't tolerate the word of truth. And somebody who boldly proclaims the word of truth is going to be set apart. And they're going to be considered as filth and offscouring. There's no place for exalting ourselves people. We are in this world as pilgrims. Man we are on a journey.
Somebody said to me the other day, some Christian came by in a fantastic car, you know. And somebody said to them nice car for a pilgrim. That was an interesting statement. I'm not saying what kind of car you ought to get, but I'm just saying that we need to keep the perspective of a pilgrim. And it's in this world if we are seeking to be elevated and we are worried about exaltation and we are worried about honors then we have missed the whole concept of apostolic humility and setting ourselves in the world to love men and to serve men and to go as far as we can to be to them what we need to be and to be gentle among men and to do good to all men, but at the same time, never compromising the truth, realizing that in some cases that failure to compromise the truth will result in persecution.
So they were the filth, they were the offscouring. The pride of the Corinthians is absolutely absurd just as pride is in any life. And when you read it like this and you see their boasting seems so good because they were boasting in good teachers. They weren't boasting in themselves so much. They were boasting in this good man Paul. And you'd almost think that's all right, but that's how subtle Satan is when he takes a good thing twists it into a pride issue and then Paul unmasks it as something very vial.
Satan is very deceptive. God wants humble servants. God only uses humble servants. When you're tempted to covet a reputation, when you're tempted to covet influence, when you're tempted to be honored by the world, to be elevated by the church, you've fallen into pride. Now listen to this, the world may honor you for things done. The world may elevate you. The church may honor you. The church may elevate you, if that's in God's will and some men honor you that's fine. If you're seeking God's glory and that comes as a benefit, but if you're seeking that, that's pride.
The Roman language, you know, and the Greek language had no word for humility. Had a word for pride, alazoneia, for one. Had no word for humility. You know why? They had no conception of that. It was nothing even to be thought of that a man would be humble. Christianity and the Old Testament Judaism really invented that word. Because humility comes with a proper perspective of God in Christ. If you don't have God in Christ and all you can do is compare yourself with other people, there's grounds for thinking you're better. Don't be desirous of vain glory.
Peter put it this way. Simply, "be clothed with humility." And beloved where there will be humility there will be unity in the church. Do you know that? Philippians 2, Paul says, "I want you to be of the same mind of one accord, having the same love." How? How can we have a church this big? How can we have a church of, what, 4,000 people to come on Sunday morning in total in all of the...how can we have a church and no unity? We can't all run around saying what do you think about this? I want to match up with you. You know, it'd be like taking 4,000 pianos and trying to tune them to each other. It'd be impossible.
How can we have unity? The only real way we can ever have unity is to all be so tuned to God that in humility we submit to Him and in submitting to one God, we shall equally submit to one another. Humility is the only thing that brings unity. He says be one mind, one accord, all these things. How? The next statement, "let each of you prefer others better than themselves. Let this mind be in you which is also in Christ Jesus who humbled Himself." Humility brings unity. In Corinth there was pride, so there was what? Division. And when the church is divided its testimony is destroyed. May God give us a unified testimony in the world and the community. May He do it because there's humility in every life to His glory. Let's pray.
We acknowledge, Father, this morning Your truth in the word and how thankful we are for the good time we have as we share together in it each Lord's day. Father, may our humility be legitimate not false. May we understand so much who You are and who Christ is that we can only see ourselves as sinners saved by grace, nothing more. Recipients of gifts deserving nothing. Father, we thank You for this word to us from Your word. Somehow take it out of our minds, translate it into our pattern of life that we may, as Micah said, walk humbly before God. We pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
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Archive for April 3rd, 2010
Wordless Wednesday – Kenneth Jones
by Sherry Stocking Kline
03 April 2010
This week has been a busy week, so I'm late posting again! Maybe next week will be more on time, but spring is here, and my green thumb is itching like crazy, so we'll see!
This is a neat photo of one of Mom's favorite cousins, Kenneth Jones. The first time I remember meeting Kenneth, it was at their home on Morris Thomas Road in Duluth, MN when my folks took us all for a visit.
Kenneth was a 'rock hound,' something he and my mom had in common, and we enjoyed looking for agates along Lake Superior and another lake. We also had great fun swatting mosquitoes while picking wild strawberries, riding the neighbors little pony, and picnicking.
We've lost connections with Kenneth's children, and I hope that somehow, someway, we can re-connect, and that if they find this website, they'll take a minute to say "Hello! "
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Kenneth Jones – in front of his high school in Kingman, Kansas.
Kenneth's Mother – May Breneman Jones Willey in front of the Jones' home on Morris Thomas Road in Duluth.
Kenneth's Grandfather – Constantine "Tom" Breneman and his horse and buggy.


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Here Tom Thomson, who is our lead researcher on the Coleoptera section's UKBAP project website, tells us a bit about the project and some of the interesting challenges of documenting Museum specimens! The UK Biodiversity Action Plan was first published in 1994, as part of the UK Government's response to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). It set out to describe the biological resources (including beetles!) of the UK in order to help conserve and aid recovery of species under threat or endangered.
'Good day Friends, Romans and fellow Coleopterists!
An update for you on interesting and sometimes perplexing things encountered while working on many many lovely beetles from our collections as part of the Museum's Biodiversity Action Plan species inventory of specimens and publication project (soon to be available on a scratchpad).
This project came about to address the balance in resources available to researchers working with these species all of which by definition are rare or endangered. Many resources and organisations such as the The National Federation of Biological Recorders (NFBR), and the NBN Gateway and other media often are unable to take account of the historical distribution of invertebrates of conservation importance through archive data. Considering that within the NHM collections we have thousands of specimens going back to the early 19th century and beyond, (complete with specimen labels giving the distribution of species dating to a period before widespread habitat loss and pollution) this data is of incurable worth and highly significant.
Knowing the present and historical distribution of a species is essential for any conservation work. In fact, many species are given conservation status specifically because they have declined, in many cases provable by the data available to ascertain if their present distribution is less than their historical distribution. These former (wider) distributions can throw light on reasons for decline, and historic records may show modern day recorders valuable pointers for possible additional sparse populations of rare taxa, and estimate what their geographical limits might have been under more favourable conditions.
Of course the majority of information on the historical distribution of species is locked up in major museum collections and given the access possible via new online media is a great opportunity to bring ready transcribed label data, comprehensively checked and in a reliable form into open circulation from material that otherwise would often be difficult to interpret without expert curatorial assistance.
This often extremely cryptic data including collectors handwritten notes, habitat data and often multiple observations from generations of collectors and researchers on particularly old material is of international use and value and this projects' main aim is to make this freely available to the whole conservation community for all UKBAP species of Coleoptera, to allow them to paint a more realistic picture of species' distribution and status in the UK.
So onto the images that are an essential research to accompany this data, Well as many of you will probably know (and may well have some
experienced first-hand), getting high quality images of any small specimen is always a challenge, but something as complex and 3D as a preserved beetle (getting all the legs right up to the tarsi in focus particularly) can be more so than many things. Thankfully as technology is advancing fast in this area over recent years the better our computers and electronics in general become. For photographing most organisms we have moved on from manual cameras and spending long hours squinting down a view- finder fine focusing on tiny details; those days of developing negatives only to find that one diagnostic feature is blurred when you were sure it looked lovely and sharp when you took the image are now gone!
So the advent of a digital camera as a readily available tool both as compact pocket types with good inbuilt macro facilities right through to full digital SLR's with dedicated macro lens and the ability to connect directly to a computer is such a gift to us entomologists I am sure you will agree! The ability to operate things shack-free on remote right from the computer screen has really changed things for the better as well as being able to see the results in seconds not hours or days even more so!
In recent times, the biggest change of all is the advent of sophisticated software to combine images of differing focal lengths and merge them into a single smooth crisp image. For some subjects this makes the previously impossible relatively easy. Views of small organisms and their wider background are improved by being both crisp in focus, way outside the normal depth of field of even the best lens and far better quality than single images dodged and burnt on a film negative projector. The power to combine 20, 50 or even 100 images into one polished finished frame is priceless. For imaging work possible with the more traditional methods, it can have its downsides when left on its automatic settings; combining frames as shot as demonstrated by this image below of the ground beetle Carabus intricatus.
These types of error are relativity easy to fix however, and this is the finished image:
Thankfully this is a rather drastic example! For the most part it's a wonderful quick and smooth process with results like this:
Carabus intricatus dorsal view
This image took only 20 minutes with microscope and camera and less than this in the software.
The other end of the spectrum though is this fine specimen of Ampedus rufipennis in frontal view which is composite of 156 images and took around two hours to take with a similar amount to smooth and blend in the software.'


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Edward's out hunting and Bella decides to go to Port Angeles. She runs into something she never thought she would see.
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Today was going to be very boring. Edward was hunting with Emmett but he said he would be back later. At least he isn't going to be gone all weekend. Charlie was fishing with some of his friends from work. I figured that I would make my room perfectly spotless to take up as much time as possible and to keep my mind busy. I know that Edward is a vampire but I can't help think that something might happen to him while he's hunting and I would lose him forever.
After cleaning my room to perfection, I took a shower and dried my hair so that it was stick straight. I looked at the clock and saw that it was only 11 o'clock. Why couldn't time fly when you wanted it to? I decided that since Edward wouldn't be back for a few hours, I would go to the bookstore in Port Angeles. I never really got the chance to since Edward to me to the meadow instead. I got dressed and headed out to my truck after leaving a note for Charlie. I listened to the cd that Edward made me and that seemed to shorten the ride because I was there before I knew it. I parked the truck a little farther back than I normally did because I wanted to take my time. As I was in the bookstore I saw a shiny Volvo that was parked down the street. I started to walk over to it.
"Bella!" Crap. I turned and saw that it was Mike and there was absolutely no way to avoid him.
"Hi Bella. What are you doing here?" It was a bookstore what else would I be doing here?
"Just getting some books for school." It was a complete lie. Just that the books weren't for school. I didn't feel like telling him that Edward was hunting and that I was here by myself. That would get him to think that we were broke up and he could start asking me out again. He just now got to the point where he would only ask once a week.
"Mike, where are you?"
"Sorry Bella. Gotta go. I'm here with my little cousins. See ya later."
"Bye Mike."
Whew! That was close. As I finished paying for my books, I decided that I would walk down to where the Volvo was parked. Just as I passed one of the stores, something inside caught my eye. What I saw was something I thought I would never see. I saw Angela…..with Edward.


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1/2 Amer Picon. (generous 1 oz Zwack)
Shake well and strain cocktail glass. (Garnish with orange wheel.)
As is my wont, I did build this vermouth heavy cocktail over ice, instead of the whole shaking and straining thing.
Again taking Mr. Jonny Raglin's advice and substituting Zwack for Amer Picon, and darn it if I didn't enjoy this cocktail even more than the previous Picon Grenadine Cocktail.
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Two things to remember:
1) Millions of people share their homes with wolves and it's extremely rare for there to be incidents.
2) Wolves in the wild are descended from the wolves who weren't interested in living with humans peacefully...
What-If 0155: "Toaster vs. Freezer"
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Soupspoon wrote:You're not nuking it on the full setting, are you? Even though lesser 'powers' of microwaving are done by PWM (e.g. a few seconds of radiating, several seconds of idling, even while still pirouetting in the light of the internal lamp), it's amazing the actual difference the Defrost setting actually makes in actual defrosting1, compared to just trying to do it on Max to save time.
(Also, all these instructions to microwave things that mention times for 850W microwaves, etc... Mine is an old one maybe 500W, or slightly less (it may say what it is on the back, if I can be bothered to shift it to remind myself). Thus I have to take care to use the right adjustments of time between stirrings for anything I try to cook with it, and test it well.)
1 Probably because it's liquid water that gets the benefit of the zap, rather than the ice.
I find that bread reconstitutes best on the very lowest power setting, 10% on and 90% off. Run for several minutes, not until the bread gets warm, just until it is no longer cold.
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Re: What-If 0155: "Toaster vs. Freezer"
THat just means the scissors beat scissors user as well as toaster.Soupspoon wrote: Scissors snip power, but scissors-user runs a brief but real risk of electrocution.
The thing about recursion problems is that they tend to contain other recursion problems.
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Re: What-If 0155: "Toaster vs. Freezer"
Clearly, the real challenge implicit in all of this:
Build a freezer capable of preventing a toaster from toasting bread.
Assuming a 1000-watt toaster, you just need a freezer which draws over 500 watts at the compressor and uses a forced-air fan to circulate.
Build a freezer capable of preventing a toaster from toasting bread.
Assuming a 1000-watt toaster, you just need a freezer which draws over 500 watts at the compressor and uses a forced-air fan to circulate.
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First or two articles about Fibonacci, written for students.
The first part of an investigation into how to represent numbers
using geometric transformations that ultimately leads us to
discover numbers not on the number line.
Introduces the idea of a twizzle to represent number and asks how
one can use this representation to add and subtract geometrically.


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Trapeze artist Lidia Nicols performs for a packed crowd with Mr Fips' Wonder Circus in Huntingdon, England, April 7, 2014.
Mr Fips' is a small, family run circus, who during their latest season, will travel the east of England until their season draws to a close in November.
They are a company of around 20 performers, all family and friends from the circus community. Their youngest member is 12 and their oldest is 75 years old. The troupe formed three years ago when Jan Erik Brenner and his wife Carolyn decided that they wanted to return the circus to the intimacy and magic of their childhood memories, and now play to audiences of between 100 and 500 adults and children.
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A team of shetland ponies walk into the ring to perform as part of Mr Fips' Wonder Circus, April 7, 2014.
The Brenner family limits the ponies' act to a few minutes of running around the ring due to animal rights legislation on circuses.


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If the intelligent-design side in the evolution debate doesn't receive the support you might expect from people who should be allies, that may be because they haven't grasped why the whole thing matters so urgently. I got an email recently from a journalist whom I'd queried on the subject. "All told, I'm on the ID side of the debate," he wrote, "but it isn't a pressing interest for me."
Don't miss my essay over at First Things on the mission of the Jews to the world. This, I think, the key idea that the Jewish community needs to absorb at this very unusual cultural moment, for the time is so, so right. Non-Jews are waiting for us to fulfill the roll God gave us in the Torah. Please tell me what you think by commenting here, there, or both.
You will often hear Jews say, with pride, that Judaism rejects a missionary or evangelizing stance. This is true in the narrow sense that Jews do not pursue converts to Judaism, but it is deeply misleading in another. The German Orthodox rabbi, polemicist, and scriptural expositor Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888), a towering figure in modern Jewish thought, taught insistently that God brought the "Abrahamitic nation" onto the stage of history for "the salvation of the world through Judaism." As he wrote in his Torah commentary, this was to be accomplished "by example and admonition," with the Jews as "God's messengers on earth" (on Genesis 12:1, 11:8, 18:17-19). In Orthodox Judaism today, Hirsch remains a household name. But the most important aspect of his legacy, which deserves urgent practical consideration by the Jewish community, is insufficiently appreciated. A range of Orthodox communities claim Hirsch's mantle. One often hears the "Hirschean worldview" invoked. Modern Orthodox thinkers cite his philosophy of Torah im Derech Eretz ("Torah with the Way of the World") as giving a Torah imprimatur to secular education. Hirsch's pioneering study of the roots of Hebrew words is also well regarded. But Hirsch's thought extends far beyond his contributions as an educational theorist and etymologist. He illuminated a cultural crisis of which he saw only the beginnings. That crisis, in Hirsch's own term, is that of the Western world "sunk in materialism" (on Exodus 6:3).


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We Now Know What Rihanna Whispered to Drake at the VMAs
The rumour mill is in overdrive after Drake confessed his love for Rihanna live on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards.
There to present Rihanna with the Michael Jackson Vanguard Award, Drake announced, "She's someone I've been in love with since I was 22 years old."
Awkwardly, Rihanna did not respond leading to a cringey Ralph Wiggum moment.
It appears he tried to smooth the awkwardness over by continuing, "She's one of my best friends in the world. All my adult life I've look up to her, even though she's younger than me. She's a living breathing legend in our industry."
Nice save!
But things got worse when Rihanna embraced the star, after his declaration of love, whispering, "that wasn't funny,"
Wow, what does a guy have to do to catch a break!?
Drake was last linked to tennis player, Serena Williams, but according to reports the pair called it quits on their love match earlier this year.
Lets hope all the awkwardness was an act and these are secretly an item!


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Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Researchers tag a moose in Minnesota, part of a $1.2 million effort to track down why moose are disappearing in the state.
Published at 5:22 p.m. ET: Moose are missing — and the state of Minnesota doesn't want hunters to find them.
Minnesota officials banned moose hunting indefinitely on Wednesday because of a dramatic drop in the animal's numbers.
The number of moose in the Gopher State has fallen by 52 percent since 2010, for reasons no one can figure out, although the Department of Natural Resources said hunting had nothing to do with it.
It cited a variety of possible explanations, including a tick-borne disease and Minnesota's recent unusually hot summers, which moose don't handle well.
"The state's moose population has been in decline for years, but never at the precipitous rate documented this winter," said Tom Landwehr, Minnesota's natural resources commissioner.
The 2013 hunting season was canceled, and Landwehr said in a statement that his department wouldn't consider opening any future seasons until the moose population recovers.
"It's now prudent to control every source of mortality we can as we seek to understand causes of population decline," he said.
In an aerial survey in January, state officials calculated that only 2,760 moose were left in Minnesota, down by 35 percent from last year and 52 percent from 2010.
In response, the state last month launched what it's calling the largest and most high-tech moose research effort ever, fitting 92 moose in northeastern parts of the state with satellite tracking and data-collection collars designed to help root out the causes of rising moose mortality.
The idea is to be able to get to a moose within 24 hours of its death, said Ron Moen, a research associate at the University of Minnesota who is working with the program.
"The thing about determining cause of death is that moose bodies are very well insulated with hair, and they are very large," Moen told NBC station KBJR of Duluth. "If you don't get there quick enough, then you have tissue degradation."
The state is putting $1.2 million toward the program, but everyday Minnesotans are getting in on the rescue effort, as well.
In Edina, a baker named Robin Johnson pledged to donate $1 from every cupcake she sold to the state Wildlife Health Program's Gift Account for Moose.
"This beautiful symbol of Minnesota wilderness is being direly threatened," Johnson told NBC station KRII of Chisholm, Minn.
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In some cases, it will be easier for the Self-Help Center / Family Law Facilitator to help you finalize your case if you request a Default Hearing. The court will not mail to other party any information about the date of the default hearing, so only you will be present at the hearing. At the default hearing the judge will make orders regarding all the issues in your case including the status of your marriage, child custody visitation, child and spousal support and division of assets and debts. If you have questions about any of these issues you should contact an attorney or the Self-Help Center / Family Law Facilitator. This instruction sheet will review the procedure and forms necessary to obtain a default hearing and default judgment.
Before following these instructions you must satisfy the following:
- You started a divorce, legal separation or annulment case by properly filing legal papers with the Court;
- The other party was served with a copy of your legal papers and financial disclosure information;
- You completed the Parenting Class if you have minor children of the marriage - (805) 781-5423;
- 30 days have passed from the date of service and the other party has not filed an FL-120 Response;
- The other party is not an active duty military person;
- You are only requesting those items listed on the FL-100 Petition.
Sample Forms
You may view instructions and sample forms. The samples are for general information only; they are not intended to resolve the specific issues in your case. If you have any questions you should consult a family law lawyer.
Default Hearing Sample Forms and Instructions
1. Review FL-115 & FL-100
A Default Judgment may be granted only if the other party was properly given the Divorce and Financial Disclosure documents. Review the filed copy of your FL-115 Proof of Service to make sure that it was completed correctly.
Review your filed copy of the FL-100 Petition; only those requests may appear on a Default Judgment. If you want to obtain orders not mentioned in your FL-100 Petition you will need to go back and file an Amended FL-100 Petition and other papers.
2. Forms Needed
Complete the following forms to request a default hearing. The originals should be two-hole punched at the top. If you want the Self-Help Center to review your forms, visit their office before you make any copies.
You must complete the following forms:
- CVDF10 Request for Default Setting
- FL-141 Declaration Regarding Service of Declaration of Disclosure
- FL-165 Request to Enter Default
- 1 legal-sized envelope addressed to you with postage (for clerk to mail you hearing date)
- 1 legal-sized envelope addressed to the other party with postage
You may also need to complete the following additional forms:
- ⇒ FL-142 Schedule of Assets and Debts (only if there are changes)
- ⇒ FL-150 Income and Expense Declaration (only if there are changes)
- ⇒ FL-160 Community Property Declaration (only if FL-100 lists items)
- ⇒ FL-160 Separate Property Declaration (only if FL-100 lists items)
- ⇒ FLF-2 Declaration and Order Regarding Parenting Class (only if there are minor children and Respondent did not complete the class)
- ⇒ FL-335 Proof of Service by Mail (only if FL142, FL-150, FL-160 or FLF-2 are completed)
Helpful Tip!
- FL-160 Property Declarations (Separate and Community) must be completed and filed with the Court, if you listed assets or debts on your FL-100 Petition. This will be your proposal of how community property items should be divided equally and how separate property should be assigned. All the community property assets and debts should appear on one FL-160 Property Declaration and all the separate property assets and debts should appear on another FL-160 Property Declaration.
3. Mail Papers to Other Party
If you completed the FLF-2, FL-142, FL-150, or FL-160, copies of these documents must also be mailed to the other party by someone other that you who is 18 years or older.The person who mails these documents must complete and sign the FL-335 Proof of Service by Mail.
4. File Papers and Envelopes
File with the Court Clerk all completed original documents listed above in Steps 2 & 3 (except FL-142) including self-addressed stamped envelopes. The Court Clerk will also need additional copies of the following completed documents.
- CVDF10 Request for Default Setting (original plus one copy)
- FL-165 Request to Enter Default (original plus one copy)
The Court Clerk will either give you a date and time for your default hearing or will mail this information to you in the envelope you provide.
5. Attend Your Hearing
Go to court on the day of your hearing. Review the Default Hearing Checklist to prepare for your hearing. At the hearing the judge will make orders regarding all the issues in your case including the status of your marriage, child custody visitation, child and spousal support and division of assets and debts.
6. Get Minute Order
The minute order is the Clerk's notes of what the judge ordered on the day of your hearing. About 10 days after your hearing, the minute order may be ready for you to purchase a copy from the Court Clerk's Office. The minute order is usually 1 or 2 pages and each page will cost .50 cents.
7. Prepare Judgment
To finish your case, you must complete the following forms and 2-hole punch the originals at the top. If you want the Self-Help Center / Family Law Facilitator to review your forms, then don't make copies until the completed originals are reviewed.
- 1 manila envelope addressed to you with postage
- 1 legal-sized envelope addressed to the other party with postage
- FL-190 Notice of Entry of Judgment
FL-180 Judgment & staple the forms below that mirror the orders listed in your Minute Order:
- ⇒ FL-341 Child Custody & Visitation Attachment
- ⇒ FL-341(A) Supervised Visitation Attachment
- ⇒ FL-341(B) Child Abduction Attachment
- ⇒ FL-341(C) Children's Holiday Schedule Attachment
- ⇒ FL-341(E) Joint Legal Custody Attachment
- ⇒ FL-342 Child Support Attachment (w/DissoMaster)
- ⇒ FL-192 Notices Re: Child Support
- ⇒ Copy of Existing DCSS Child Support Order
- ⇒ FL-343 Spousal, Partner or Family Support Order Attachment
- ⇒ FL-345 Property Orders Attachment
- ⇒ FL-348 Pension Benefits
- ⇒ DCSS signature needed if DCSS case is filed (go to 1200 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo before filing judgment with the court)
- ⇒ FL-191 Child Support Case Registry (only if there are minor children)
- ⇒ FL-195 Income Withholding for Support (only if child support was ordered)
- ⇒ FL-435 Earnings Assignment Order for Spousal or Partner Support (if only spousal support and not child support is ordered)
8. File Papers
File with the Court Clerk all documents listed above in Step 7 including originals, copies for Court and self-addressed stamped envelopes.
9. Wait for Judgment in Mail
Within 4 weeks of filing the above documents with the Court Clerk, you should receive your final Judgment documents in the mail. You may contact the Court Clerk's office to obtain the status of your case by calling (805) 781-5706.
10. Mail Papers to Other Party & Their Employer
Once you receive your signed FL-180 Judgment, someone other than you who is 18 years or older should mail a copy to the other party. Also, if child support was ordered and you want the other party's employer to garnish wages to enforce the child support order, you must have someone other than you who is 18 years or older mail to the employer a copy of the FL-195 Income Withholding for Support. The person who mails the copy of the FL-180 and/or FL-195 must complete the FL-335 Proof of Service by Mail and you must file the original with the Court.


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Star Wars R2-D2 USB Car Charger
No need to go to Tosche Station
- R2-D2 USB Car Charger
- Two USB charging ports each of which provide 2.1 Amps (enough to charge 2 tablets simultaneously)
- A ThinkGeek creation and exclusive!
R2 units: is there anything those little guys can't do? While we don't yet have the technology in this quadrant of the galaxy for fully-automated repair droids like the R2 units from Star Wars, we can get a portion of the R2's versatility into something small enough to sit in your vehicle's cupholder.
You see, it makes R2-D2 whistle sadly when he sees a device that's run out of power. Make him bloop and bleep happily again by letting him use your vehicle's power to recharge your devices. With him plugged into your 12V vehicle power adapter (cigarette lighter), you can get 2.1 Amps through each of his USB charging ports, which is enough to charge two tablets or smartphones or, well, pretty much anything that charges via USB. What's that, little guy? He says, "Bloop bloop bleep," which we think means "Yay!"
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- R2-D2 USB Car Charger
- A ThinkGeek creation and exclusive!
- Officially-licensed Star Wars merchandise
- Compatible with anything that charges via USB (iPhones, smartphones, iPads, tablets, GPSes, etc.) as long as you have the cable
- Two (2) USB charging ports
- Each port provides 2.1 Amps (enough to charge 2 tablets simultaneously)
- R2-D2's dome rotates and lights up; he whistles and beeps (when power is connected and when your device begins to charge; force him to animate by pressing his center button which turns power to the ports on; sounds cannot be turned off)
- Flexible arms allow you to customize him to best fit your vehicle's cupholder
- Blue/red LED inside the front radar eye lens indicates USB port power status
- Dimensions: 5 1/2" tall, 3 1/2" wide at widest, 2" diameter at bottom (to fit cupholder), cable 36" long
- Includes: R2 unit with 2 USB ports, 12V vehicle power adapter (cigarette lighter)
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