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Ephesians chapter 3--How to be filled with the Fullness of God. How to be filled with the Fullness of God. That is the theme of chapter 3 verses 14 through 21. Now we've been speaking of the lofty and glorious position of the body of Christ, the church. The church as Peter says is called to perfection and glory that possesses all things that pertain to life and godliness. The church that is given exceedingly great and precious promises. The church that has become partaker of the divine nature. And we've been learning that we who are the church of Jesus Christ are this very special glorious group of people. In fact I've always said that outside of the Trinity the church is the hottest commodity in the universe. We are even elevated above the angels so that the angels look at us to see the things they cannot comprehend. We have been purchased for God through the blood of Jesus, forgiven, accepted in the beloved. We've become slaves and sons of God. Forever His possession. Sealed with the Spirit. Protected by divine love, sustained by divine providence, energized by divine power. We are priests, we are kings, we have been taught and led and ruled and loved and made alive and built up and blessed by the Lord Jesus Christ. We are thus as we have seen, the possessors of the unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ as it reminds us in chapter 3 verse 8. We are rich because we are one with Jesus Christ.
The great almighty God of the universe has set His redeeming love upon us. Has drawn us into His family and proceeds to pour upon us the gracious gift of His love both now and forever as chapter 2 verses 6 and 7 reminded us. So we are rich as members of the church, the body of Christ, the real church the church of people united to Jesus Christ, we are the rich. Our resources are unlimited. We are more than conquerors, Paul says. That is we don't just conquer we claim all the spoil in addition to it. Life both in time and eternity has a fantastic thrilling meaning and an ultimate fulfillment that is beyond our wildest imagination. It's a tremendous thing to realize, people, that because you are a Christian you are a part of God's eternal plan. You are in the midst of an eternal purpose. You have a potential that is unlimited and will be fulfilled throughout eternity.
As I was thinking about that and all those great truths we've already seen in the first three chapters of Ephesians, I was reminded of the contrast between us and the rest of the world. Here we are so rich. Here we are having so much. With such resources. Such power and such potential to be loved by God, to be empowered by Him, to be indwelt by Him, to possess what we possess, what a contrast to the destitution, the spiritual poverty, the emptiness, the meaninglessness, the purposelessness of the life of people in the world. It's like Mrs. Maylay said one time - life must go on, I just can't remember why. Or, Arthur Miller in AFTER THE FALL where one of the principals says to her husband -life is deteriorated to how many miles we get on our Volkswagen. We face a world of people who are destitute of divine resources and thus they are destitute of purpose and meaning.
And I guess, maybe, it focuses in clearly on Sunday. Here we all are. We have come apart from the destitute people. We who love the Lord Jesus Christ, we who are the rich, we who are the ones with resource, we who are part of the divine plan. We who fit the whole marvelous miracle of the church. Here we are separated out from the destitution of our age and our world. As they run around today making meaning out of meaninglessness.
Victor Frankel, the originator of Logo Therapy, and a writer with some interesting insights who endured some terrible trials in concentration camps has written a book called THE DOCTOR AND THE SOUL. He's not a Christian but he has some interesting things to say and this is from that book. Quote - "In any city Sunday is the saddest day of the week. It is on Sunday that the temple of the working week is suspended and the poverty of meaning of everyday life is exposed. The emphasis on a fast tempo in the personal life is reminiscent of the clinical picture of 'unproductive mania.' The yield of all the to-do is zero. We get the impression that these people who know no goal in life are running the course of life at the highest possible speed so that they will not notice the aimlessness of it. They are at the same time trying to run away from themselves but in vain. On Sunday when the frantic pace pauses for 24 hours, all the aimlessness, meaninglessness and the emptiness of their existence rises up before them once more." end quote
How interesting that Victor Frankel would observe the focus of meaninglessness that becomes apparent on Sunday. A world of no meanings becomes manifest when the world of meaning withdraws itself for that one day a week.
What a privilege is ours, people, to be a part of the world with meaning. To be a part of the people that count, the people that matter, the people who have a place in the world. The people who have a part in the plan. What a privilege. I look at my own life. I'm so amazed that God chose me. Do you ever think like that? What an amazing thing. I mean, how did He ever see us as useful? Reminds me of the story of the old lady who was hired to sweep out the shavings in a studio where a sculptor had been commissioned by the government to sculpt a large bust of Abraham Lincoln. And it was done and the lady was hired to come in and sweep up all the shavings. And the man was just finishing as she arrived with her broom and her bucket and dustpan. And she looked in amazement and she said - Oh, sir, she said, how did you know Mr. Lincoln's head was in that rock?
What a God is our God who saw in the rock of our meaninglessness a potential for His own glory. Right? How did you know a servant of God was in that rock? What a wonder it is that God has been so gracious to choose us. That when we were without form and void, the Spirit of God moved upon us and out of the void, the emptiness and nothingness sprang something significant, something meaningful, a creation of God no less than the world itself. A miracle of creation to be used for His glory. How could God have seen in us something to be chiseled into the image of Jesus Christ? To be to His glory and then to shower upon us, as if it were, eternal riches. As if He were taking the statue and gilding it with gold, the gold of His glorious kingdom.
One of the great tasks of the apostle Paul in the first three chapters of Ephesians is to present this great truth that God has chiseled us out of the rock of meaninglessness. That God has made us into the image of Christ. And then He has poured upon us the pure gold gilt of His blessing. That's who we are, marvelous reality.
Now in chapter 4 to 6 he's going to tell us how to live. But, before we get into how we live we've got to get turned on. Right? And that's where we are in 3:14 to 21. We see the resources in the beginning of the book. We see the behavior in the end and in the middle how to hook them up. How to get the engine going. We've used a car as an illustration. Your engine described in the first, three chapters, the road map in 4 to 6 and the ignition in 3:14 to 21.
Now Paul's great desire is that every Christian really be ... really be functioning on full power. He wants the Christian to really be moving out. Doesn't want any limping, flat tire, one cylinder, gagging, coughing, choking, smoking Christians. He wants them to be functioning smoothly, powerfully, fluidly in all of the energy that God could possibly grant. And that's why the climax in verse 20. "Now unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all we can ask or think according to the power that works in us." And that's what Paul wants. He wants to see the power of God accomplishing exceeding abundantly above all we can ask or think. He wants us really functioning. And so because that is his desire he prays that that will happen and his prayer is recorded in 14 to 21. It is a prayer.
Verse 14 begins, "For I ... For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named that He would grant you according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that ye might be filled with all the Fullness of God now unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, generations without end." Let it be. Amen.
Now here is Paul's prayer. And it's grandiose, people, it's incomparable, it's magnificent. It embodies such expression, such potential. And as I told you last time, it is a series of hina, that's a little word in the Greek h-i-n-a that means a purpose or result. It's a series of sequences that you can't ... you can't break in the middle. It's like a...it's like a ...a
stepping stone. You can't go to step two without step one, you can't go to four without three, and you can't go to five without one, two, three and four. There is a progression here that must be accepted and moved through in order to gain the ultimate end. And hina is a Greek device in the Greek language to show us this consequent kind of progression.
Now there are five elements to the progression. Five things to get you turned on; inner strength, indwelling Christ, incomprehensible love, infinite fullness and finally, internal power--and you're really going.
Now you remember last time we talked about the first one, didn't we? The first one we suggested was inner strength, verse 16. Look at it. He prays that we, at the end of the verse, we would be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man. Inner strength. And we suggested to you that Paul's prayer really is this the recognition that every believer possesses the Holy Spirit. Right? "What know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which you have of God you're not your own you're bought with a price," I Cor. 6:19. "Therefore glorify God in your body and your Spirit which are God." So, to begin with every Christian possesses the Spirit. Romans 8:9; "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of His." He's in there. Jesus said in Acts 1:8, "When the Spirit has come upon you, you shall receive," what? "Power" So every believer has the resource. Every believer has the Spirit. Now he says--"Father, I pray that they would be strengthened with might by that indwelling Spirit in their inner man."
You remember last week we talked about the fact that we spent a lot of time concentrating on which man? The outer man when we need to concentrate on the inner man. That the inner man would be strengthened. That the inner man would be strong so that we would be able to agree with Paul--"Be anxious for nothing," Phil. 4, "But in every thing by prayer and supplication let your request be made known unto God and the God of peace." In other words, you'll experience the God of peace. And then he talks about the peace of God which comes from the God of peace which will guard your hearts and minds. If you want to have a non-worrying mind, if you want to have an unanxious spirit you've got to have a strong inner man. And we said that this simply means a Spirit-controlled life. As you yield to the Holy Spirit which you're able to do by being filled with the Word of God, you fill your mind and heart with the Word of God, the Holy Spirit brings the Word of God to the conscious thought when you get into a temptation and uses that to direct you into an act of obedience. So a strong inner man empowered by the Spirit of God is the beginning.
And don't sort of chafe at that and say - Well, I don't know if I can do that. Yes you can. The Spirit is there. The power is there. Acts 1:8. It's all there. It's a matter of you yielding to it and it's simply a matter of decision. Every time you have a decision turn it over to the Spirit of God. From the first one in the morning to the last one at night. And the only way you can do that is when your thoughts are about Him and the only way your thought s will be about Him is as you study what? The Word of God.
Now let's go to the second one. Where there is a strong inner man there is a result. And it says to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man with the result that, or in order that. And you have a purpose or a result. In this case both are true. In order that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. Or with the result that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. Or with the purpose that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. The indwelling Christ then is the second point. From inner strength to the indwelling Christ.
You say - Well, I don't understand that, John, because if I'm a Christian Christ is already there. How could you possibly have Chri ... the Holy Spirit in you and not have Christ in you. It seems like it's backwards. Well that's what I thought too. Wait a minute, it should say - First of all Christ dwells in your heart and then you would be strengthened by the Spirit in the inner man. Right? That would seem logical but that's only because the English is deficient here and we must go back to the Greek. Now we don't need.. we don't want, I should say, to believe that first of all we start with the Holy Spirit and later we receive Christ. Right? That doesn't make any sense. You can't have the Holy Spirit until you have Christ or Christ is the one who gives the Spirit. So, Christ is already in us, that's clear from chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3. We are one with Christ. He is in us. We are in Christ. We've heard that over and over and over and over in this book. So this is not referring to getting saved. He's not saying - Now that you're strengthened with might by His Spirit the result is going to be that Christ will come into your life. No, no, no That's backwards. You say - Well, what is he saying? Watch this. See the word dwell there? That Christ may dwell? The Greek word is katoikeesi. Now that wouldn't be important just to say the word except that it has tremendous significance. Katoikeesi, this form, comes from a verb katoikeo, that comes from two words kata and oikeo. Oikeo means to be at home, to dwell at home, to be at home. Kata means down. Now I've told you this many times, you may have forgotten. Whenever you have a verb in the Greek and they add a preposition to the front of it what does it do to it? It intensifies it. So kata added to oikeo means to really be at home. To settle down and be at home. And that's the meaning of the word.
Now he's saying, then, that when you have inner strength and you're really walking in the Spirit and Spirit-controlled and Spirit-energized the thing that's going to happen is Christ is really going to be at home in your heart. And I dare say, beloved, there are a lot of Christians where He dwells but is not that comfortable. Would you agree to that? Why I think all of us would agree there have been times in our lives when we have discomforted Christ greatly. You remember back in I Corinthians where he says - You Christians, you're going out and committing adultery, don't you realize that you are joining Jesus Christ to a harlot? Now wouldn't you think that would make him decidedly uncomfortable? Yes Any sin is a discomfiture to Christ. Anything that quenches the Spirit that grieves the Spirit. Anything that saddens the heart of Jesus. Any sin in your life makes Him uncomfortable
Now Christ is in my life but the question is this. Until the Spirit of God controls my life He is not comfortable there. He's not at home there. He can't settle down. He's always up cleaning up the place. Some of you...some of you people know about that. Sometimes you come home and you ladies particularly, my wife does that, she walks in the door and she goes - Oh, look at the place. And, you know, I'll say - Well, that's all right, honey, I'll help you. I'll exhort you while you clean. So I follow her around the house quoting Bible verses just to encourage her. But anyway, and then you clean and you clean and you get it all done and then it's just ... isn't it great. And you just sit down and you can talk and listen to music whatever, have a wonderful time. You can be at home. That's very little different than the experience of Christ who enters into the life of a believer and finds that the work is not always all done. He can't just settle down to commune with the believer He's got to be up cleaning the place. Because all is not right. The question then, beloved, is this. The question is not is Jesus there it's is He comfortable there? Is He really comfortable there? That's the issue. And in many lives He's not comfortable. He's distressed. In fact in some lives His process of cleaning even hurts a little bit, get a little chastening.
Let me give you an illustration. Back in, don't need to turn to it, Genesis 18 and 19 God was going to bless Abraham with a son . You remember that? Abraham and Sarah So the Lord was going to do this thing and it was a monumental thing, I mean, this child was going to be Isaac and this was going to be the first seed of the Abrahamic covenant, ultimately to resolve in Christ. This was going to be the first real Hebrew, if you want it in terms of what really happened. This was the first Jew in effect, first of the seed to be known as the nation Israel. Isaac. And it was a monumental time for this thing, it was a big deal. It was so important. The Messianic line was born And so God was going to make a special visit to the earth. Oh yes, the incarnation of Jesus Christ was not the first time God showed up here. In fact in Genesis 18 He arrived at Abraham's house with two angels, remember that? Just came walking down the path with two angels. You say - In what form was God? I don't know. Apparently, some kind of a visible form, not unlike a human form. But in fact He came there and Abraham said to Sarah - Sarah, we have got company like you won't believe, Sarah. You've heard of important company? God is here. And two angels. And then, of course, later in Hebrews 13 it says - You better be careful too, you might entertain angels unawares, and it's referring to that. So what happened, of course, is Sarah really went in there and whipped up a wonderful thing and God actually came into Abraham's house and had fellowship. And you know what that tells me about Abraham? And Sarah? That tells me they must hav e been righteous people or God wouldn't have been comfortable there. You know that? God wouldn't have been comfortable there if they were not righteous people. Even though they were in the plan. And the reason I believe that is because in the very next chapter you have a most interesting situation. In the very next chapter in the 19th chapter, Lot was living in the city of Sodom. And the Lord planned to destroy those cities. But the Lord wanted to warn Lot to get out of there. But have you ever noticed that the Lord sent the two angels and never went Himself? He was comfortable in Abraham's tent but for some reason or another He wasn't comfortable in Lot's house. Even though He had a relationship with Lot, and Abraham.
And the same thing is true of Christians. We have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ but that does not necessarily mean that at all times Jesus is comfortable in our lives. Would you agree to that? That's really an important thing. But when you are strengthened by His Spirit in the inner man then He's comfortable. When your life is resolved into the control of the Spirit of God, when you have yielded a moment by moment living pattern to the Holy Spirit Christ can settle down because as the Spirit controls your life He keeps it clean. He keeps it clean.
Some of you have read the little booklet called "My Heart Christ's Home." If you haven't you ought to get it and read it. That's a good little booklet. I read it many, many years ago when I was just a kid. And it's ... it makes a person's heart, does a kind of allegory to where a person's heart and life is like a house. And Jesus comes to the house and starts it out. The fact that Jesus is there indicates the person is a Christian. And Robert Munger who wrote the book describes it this way. First Jesus went into the library which is the control room of the house. Right? What you read. Which is like the brain. Where all the information is stored. And Jesus goes into the room that is the mind, the brain, and he finds on the shelves all kinds of trash and garbage and junk and evil and bad thinking and bad human philosophy and useless stuff, stuff that is not going to help you. A lot of neutral things and He just takes it all off the shelves, throws it away and puts the Word up there. See. The control room. Then He goes to the dining room. And the dining room is the room of the appetite. Right? And the room of the desires. What do you really feast on? What do you really hunger for? What do you really want? And he finds a worldly menu. A menu of riches, a menu that includes prestige, a menu that includes things, materialism, lust of the flesh and He takes it all out, everything out of there, and puts a new menu in and it is the food that really satisfies the will of the Father. Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. So the library is cleaned up and the Word is there. And the dining room is cleaned up and the only thing on the menu is the will of God. And you can get it in any different shape and form you want it but it's all the will of God. And so the will of God becomes that for which you hunger, not your own fleshly desires.
Then Jesus goes to the living room because the living room is where you share and you fellowship and He goes in there and He finds that that's where He's neglected. There's a lot of activity going on but nobody pays any attention to Him. He's just there. And all the fellowship and all the action that is going on, He's just there. I mean, you imagine that. Just think of it this way. Imagine the best friend you have, spend an entire day with you from dawn till midnight. The whole day. At your side the whole time. And all the while loving you, and all the while wanting to say to you you know, here's a good thing to do...oh, I don't think you should do that ... I'd like to encourage you to do this. Well, all day long you never bother to even acknowledge the presence of your friend. You never even said hello. You just went about your business, some times giving an elbow, stepping on a toe. Just complete ... how long do you think that person would be your friend? About one day. Probably be pretty disillusioned. Jesus is the same kind of a friend only in a greater way. And it's very likely as near as one day last week He spent an entire day with you through which you never one time bothered to acknowledge His presence. Never one time. And yet He's your friend forever. It's a good think it's based on Him and not you. Right?
And so the living room is a place of fellowship. But you've got to have the right fellowship. And so this is where you need to spend time with Christ. And you can clear out a lot of those worldly acquaintances. And a lot of that wasted activity, and a lot of that stuff that doesn't have any redeeming virtue at all and spend your time with Christ and... listen to this, spend your time with people who have Christ living in them. See. "Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together as a manner of some is and much the more as you see the day approaching because this is necessary to provoke yourselves to love and good works." Spend time with Jesus and spend time with people that Jesus lives in. Very important.
Well, then He goes to the workshop. And He goes to the workshop and He finds fantastic tools, beautiful work bench. And the guy is in there making toys. Just toys. And Jesus says you've-got all this ability and you can't produce anything more than a toy? Jesus wants to take all your abilities, all your capacities, all your capabilities and cause them to produce things for the Kingdom. Cause them to lay up treasure in heaven, cause them to make things that have eternal value. So He changes the whole format in the workshop. He gets all done. I mean, the library's all fixed; it's got the right kind of stuff up there to control everything. The dining room is great, we've got the appetites all set on the will of God. The living room is settled, we're in there fellowshipping with Christ and people Christ lives in. And the workshop is ready; we're down there using our tools and our abilities to make things for the kingdom. But there's a strange odor coming from someplace. Nice and clean but something stinks. You know, like when the meat leaked under the ice box, or whatever. And the Lord isn't too happy. There's something dead in here, He says. And the guy says - Look, You come into my house. You clean up everything. I mean, leave me one closet, will You? That's all I ask. You can have the dining room and all this stuff, just ... that's my closet. The Lord says No, I want that closet. That's the closet full of personal sins, the hidden things, the dead things. And the man became very angry because Jesus had every other room but Jesus gave him a command - Open it! And he opened it and it was full of evil things. Those little secret things that nobody knows about, those things that go on in your mind. Those things that you do when nobody sees you do them. And Jesus cleaned that out. And when He got all that done-then He was at home. See?
Now that's what it means in verse 17. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. And that's the key to it, people; we can't see that He's at home we have to believe that He is when we know our lives are pure. By faith we accept that Christ is at home. If somebody says to you - Well how do you know Jesus is at home in your life?! You say - Well I ... I believe it by faith. I believe by faith that He came into my life, I believe by faith that I confess my sins and He cleanses them and purifies me and I believe by faith that if I'm being pure and confessing my sin and dealing with my sin and repenting of it and turning from it and endeavoring to keep my life as pure as possible in His power, I believe by His promise that He is at home in me. And I'll tell you something, the Lord's got enough grief in the world without John MacArthur giving Him more. Right? I'd just soon have Him at home in me. Wouldn't you have Him at home in you?
Somebody told me the other day that they were praying for a certain person because he wanted to accept Christ just to stay out of hell but he wanted to go ahead and live just as worldly as he 1 wanted to, he didn't want Christ messing with that stuff. Well I don't know if he's a Christian, maybe he is. God is gracious enough to accept somebody's faith and then have His heart broken by their disobedience. That's happened a lot. But I'll tell you one thing. I love the Lord Jesus Christ too much to do that to Him. To say to Him - I'll take everything You can give but don't expect anything out of me. You give me all You've got forever and I'm not giving You anything I've got for time. That's a bad, bad attitude. If I really love the Lord Jesus Christ then my desire is not to grieve the Lord and my desire is not to make Him uncomfortable in my life, my desire is to make Him at home. Right?
And so the Lordship of Christ is to extend to every room in your life, He wants it all. Now after you are yielding to the Holy Spirit, and you are strengthened with power in the inner man and the Spirit controls your life, the result is you become Christ centered. And you become clean. And Christ settles down into every dimension of your life and He is at home in you. Listen people, that is an incredible condescension, do you understand that? That the God of the universe should settle down and be at home in me. What a magnificent thought. This was Jesus' great prayer in John chapter 14 and verse 23. This is what He said; "If a man love Me he will keep My words," and look, "And My Father will love him and We will come unto Him and make Our home with him." See, God the Father, God the Son they want to come and be at home in my life. They don't want me dragging Them into a wrong behavior, they don't want me dragging Them into an evil place. They don't want me exposing Them to an evil deed. I have to realize that everywhere I go and everything I do involves the Lord. That's a basic Christian truth. I have to practice His presence by faith. That's what he means by faith. I have to know that He's there to believe that He's there, to believe that He's only at home in my life as I'm dealing with sin. I want the Father to be at home. I want the Son to be at home. I want the prayer of Jesus to be answered. I want to be one who loves Him and He says - "And if a man love Me and keep My words, We'll be at home in him. You can't do that unless you're strong in the inner man. You'll never be able to obey the Word of God. You'll never be able to avoid sin. You'll never be able to deal with sin. You'll never be able to confess sin, repent from sin, turn from sin, keep the rooms clean in your house, you'll never be able to do that until the Spirit of God has granted you inner strength and that will never happen until you give Him control of your life. Never happen. So all the while you don't have that inner strength, Christ will never settle down and be at home in your life. You'll be a constant source of anxiety to Him and chastening to yourself.
Now there's a third thing and we'll probably stop with this one. Verse 17; first thing is inner strength, the result of that is Christ dwells in your hearts by faith now here's another purpose and result clause -- "In order that" or with the purpose that, or with the result that, "Ye being rooted and grounded in love." Now stop right there for a minute. This is fabulous. Everybody wants love. Everybody wants to know love and experience love and give love and receive love and enjoy love. And here's the key--a strong inner man leads to Christ being at home which leads to being rooted and grounded in love. Now you'll never know love in your life until you follow the first two steps, the third one is incomprehensible love. Inner strength leads to the indwelling Christ which leads to incomprehensible love. Another one of the purpose clauses in the Greek here. The result of Christ, now watch this one, the result of Christ's unrestricted access to the Christian's heart is love. You see, when Christ settles down in your life He will begin to exude His personality. You see, if He controls the library, the thinking, if He controls the dining room, the appetite, if He controls the living room, the fellowship, the discussions, the sharing, the conversation, the entertainment, if He controls the workshop, what is being done, the use of abilities and gifts and functions. If He's got the closet clean then His nature dominates and His nature is what? Love, love. The result of Christ's unrestricted access to the believer's heart is love. That's when you become rooted and grounded in love. That's when you really experience it. That's when you're able, verse 18 says, to comprehend with all saints the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge.
You'll never know that love until you have inner strength and the indwelling Christ, until you have come to the place where you've yielded to the Holy Spirit, Christ settles down home in your life, and He begins to exude His love. Then it dominates you, it roots you, it grounds you. And this is his prayer for you that you know His love. Jesus said, "The new commandment I give unto you that you love one another as I have loved you that ye also love one another." In I Peter 1:21 and following he talks about this, verse 22 says; "Seeing that you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another with a pure heart fervently." This is God's desire. Chapter 4 verse 8 he talks about love covering a multitude of sins. You know as well as I do that love is a vital part of the Christian's experience. We are to manifest the fruit of the Spirit, the first one is the... the fruit of the Spirit is love and then somebody says joy, peace, gentleness, faith, goodness, meekness and self-control are simply subcategories of love. Love is an attitudes of selflessness. Love is an attitude of...unselfish sacrifice, love is service. I don't think we should keep defining love as an emotion, we've gone through that in I Cor. 13, love is not an emotion in the Bible, never. Love is an act of selflessness. God so loved the world that He felt emotional about it. No. God so loved the world that He did what? He gave the best that He had. If any man loves Me he will keep My words. If you don't meet your brothers need, I John 3:16, how dwells the love of God in you. You see, love is not an emotion, people, it is selflessness. It is sacrifice. It is meeting someone's need. It is serving somebody. It is dying for somebody. "Greater love has no man than this that a man feel really emotional about his friends." No. "Greater love hath no man than this that a man," what? "Lay down his life for his friend." It's always sacrifice, it's always selflessness, it's always giving something, it's always serving something.
And if we're ever going to know what it is to serve and to sacrifice and to give with unlimited generosity, it will only be when we know the incomprehensible love of Christ. And we'll never know that until He is the indwelling Christ who is at home in us and that will never happen until we've experienced the inner strengthening of the Spirit of God. And this is the turn on, people; this is what is going to make the difference.
Once the Spirit of God takes over, Christ settles down and is at home, and we become rooted and grounded in the love that is His nature that permeates us. You know, I find that that is exactly what happens in my own love. That when I realize my own sinfulness, when I deal with my own weakness and when I really walk in the Spirit, Christ is at home in my life and things are right in my life, I just feel love, I just have a desire to serve, I just have a desire to meet needs. I find myself doing things that I normally wouldn't even do.
Rooted and grounded in love. And then it says not only will we experience it, we'll be rooted and grounded in it, but verse 18, we'll even comprehend it. Now a lot of people don't comprehend love. Love ... you know, that's a common deal isn't it? You see it in the paper now and then, somebody will ask a bunch of famous people for their definition of love ... people do not ... they don't know love. You know why? You can't know it unless you experience it.
One time somebody asked Louis Armstrong to explain jazz. Louis Armstrong is a great jazz trumpeter. They said, - Mr. Armstrong could you explain jazz? And Louis Armstrong says - Man, if I've got to explain it, you ain't got it. And he's right. And if you're asking about love, if I've got to explain it, then you ain't got it. But if you got it, you're not looking for the explanation, you comprehend it.
Verse 18, "Then you will be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge." You can know it. You can comprehend it. Only when you experience it.
Now I have a lot of things I want to say about that love but I'm going to have to wait until next time to say them. But let's review quickly. First of all, Paul prays - 0 Father, that they would have inner strength, strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man and the result of that will be indwelling Christ, Christ will settle down and be at home and the result of that will be love will permeate their lives, and oh boy, when that happens then the prayer of Jesus is answered - Father, that they may love one another as I love You. That's my prayer.
And then not only will we experience it, we'll comprehend it, we'll see it, we'll be able to define it. We'll know its operative. And that's exciting to think about. We're go on from there next time.
I hope this morning you'll make that second commitment. We'll finish the third one next time, but let me just say this quickly. Last week I asked you to pray. Did you do that? Did you remember to pray every day for somebody that they would be strengthened with might by the Spirit in the inner man? Or did you fail to do that? Did you pray for yourself that you would experience that inner strength that comes from yielding to the Spirit? Let me take you ... I hope you didn't. I'm not foolish enough to think that all of you did. Let me take you to that second one. What about the indwelling Christ? Is He at home in your life? Or do your attitudes toward your children, toward your husband or wife, toward your boss, toward your employees, to the guy driving down the freeway next to you, toward the guy at the gas station, the next door neighbor that bugs you, that waters your patio instead of your yard. Your attitude reflect sin? Does your thought processes reflect sin? Do you do things in your business or your work that aren't right? Do you go places? Do you entertain yourself and indulge yourself with things that are not honoring to God? If you are then I would just encourage you to realize that Jesus Christ is not at home in you. He's there by His grace, He's not at home. He can't settle down. He's up cleaning up all the time. Why don't you love Him enough to let Him be comfortable? Let's pray together.
Our Father, we thank You this morning for the fact that Christ is in us. That's a wonderful mystery. We know we don't deserve that. We thank You that's it's true. That He lives in us. Father, we desire that He be at home. Father, there may be some with us this morning and they've never invited Jesus Christ to come into their life at all, He isn't even there. May this be the day when they open their heart to Him. 0 to that end we pray, Father. But for those of us whom Christ already lives we want Him to really settle down and be at home. At home because it's clean in there. And it's clean in there because we yield to the Spirit of God to do only those things that please Him. That our brains are filled only with the things of God. That our appetites are only for the will of God. That our fellowships are only surrounding the things of Christ. That the workshop is filled with endeavors and efforts to build for the Kingdom and that there's no closet there filled with evil. Father, help ... help us to grapple with the fact that Christ wants to really be at home in us. And we know that that will lead to a life literally filled with love. What a way to live. In Jesus name. Amen
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Whether the project is new construction or a retrofit job, there is usually some level of telecommunications or other low-voltage system that requires design and installation. These systems typically include: faceplates; connectors; copper or fiber-optic cabling; rack-, frame-, or cabinet-mounted terminations; and pathways to route the cables from one point to another. Although there are certainly instances where building owners, along with their own IT department (or preferred IT vendor), may insist on managing and installing these low-voltage systems independently of the construction project, most of the time they ultimately fall under the scope of the general or electrical contractor. As a result, it's important to be aware of any advanced telecommunications system warranty that may be required by the project or owner.
The warranty. On a typical commercial construction project, per standard American Institute of Architects (AIA) contracts, the general contractor must guarantee the building for one year after substantial completion. For the telecommunications components, as well as other materials and equipment installed throughout the building, most manufacturers offer a basic product warranty for a short length of time. This type of warranty typically lasts for one, two, or three years but only covers physical defects.
Beyond these basic project and product warranties, most telecommunications manufacturers offer a system warranty, guaranteeing their products for a term of 15 yr to 25 yr — with some offering up to a lifetime warranty, which includes both material defects over time as well as product performance. Performance of a given system is governed by standards from the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). In terms of copper telecommunications cabling, TIA defines different performance parameters in different category cables.
The predominant category cables are Cat. 3, Cat. 5e, Cat. 6, and Cat. 6A, each of which performs to minimum bandwidth requirements. As the bandwidth increases, more information can be transmitted per second over each cable. The current highest ratified standard is for Augmented Cat. 6 (Cat. 6A), which has a bandwidth up to 500 MHz and can transmit up to 10 Gigabits per second (i.e., 10 Gig or 10GBASE-T).
As building owners and end-users start to increase the amount of information they transmit electronically, a higher bandwidth system that does not slow down or degrade over time becomes even more valuable. Manufacturers have responded to this need by not only offering higher bandwidth systems, but also guaranteeing these speeds and any applications that become ratified by the standards organizations for the specific cable type for extended periods of time with a system warranty.
As a rule, most manufacturers rely on industry standards and guidelines to dictate how the cabling systems are designed and installed. However, some augment these with their own requirements, which can be more restrictive. One example might be where, by industry standard, different category cables may share a common pathway. In certain situations, a manufacturer may limit or simply not allow the use of these common pathways. If you are responsible for the installation of these pathways, this is an important component to be aware of.
You may be wondering if these advanced telecommunications warranties really mean anything. Although this discussion is outside the scope of this article, the authors can say with a high degree of certainty, based on years of experience, that they do matter — for at least two reasons. First, building owners feel they are important and like to dictate which manufacturer's product is used on a project. When the warranty drives which product is to be installed, it becomes even more critical that the warranty can be achieved. Second, when a warranty cannot be offered due to some installation issue, the cost to correct the issue can be costly and time consuming.
Who offers a warranty? Given the way that the telecommunications industry has evolved, there are three types of manufacturers offering these advanced system warranties:
Connectivity manufacturers that make the termination and support hardware, such as patch panels, faceplates, and modules.
Cabling manufacturers that make the category or fiber cable.
Manufacturers that make both the cable and connectivity components.
Connectivity manufacturers that produce their own cabling usually only offer a system warranty if their cable is used. For independent cabling manufacturers, some are willing to provide the system warranty themselves. However, most have partnered with connectivity companies. Therefore, it's usually the connectivity manufacturer that offers and holds the warranty. These connectivity manufacturers partner with a few cable vendors and usually offer the same system warranty across them all. Others have "preferred" cable partners and offer a longer system warranty than with other cable vendors with whom they partner. The average system warranty is 20 yr, but some are starting to offer 25-yr or even lifetime warranties.
How is a warranty obtained? A telecommunications system warranty is obtained through the installation of the system by a certified contractor. This contractor is certified by the manufacturer as having the training and expertise to install the system correctly in order for it to perform for the length of the warranty. It's important to note that the manufacturer holds and honors this warranty, not the certified contractor.
Different manufacturers have different requirements for becoming a certified contractor, and most offer those contractors specific training before becoming one. In lieu of training through a manufacturer, training and certification through the telecommunications organization BICSI may be sufficient to become a certified contractor. Most manufacturers, but not all, also require the contractor to have at least one registered communications distribution designer (RCDD) on staff.
When determining which contractors to certify, manufacturers also take into account other factors. Some require an exclusivity agreement — if you are going to become a certified contractor with Manufacturer X, then you cannot be a certified contractor with Manufacturer Y. Another requirement may be that the contractor is a certain size, such as "at least $1 million in revenue each year." Presumably, both of these requirements would be in place to help guarantee the manufacturer a satisfactory amount of sales each year. This makes sense as the vetting process and subsequent training to make a contractor certified can be a significant investment to the manufacturer.
Another requirement includes limiting certified contractors to a particular geographic radius. There are two ways to look at this. The first is limiting the number of certified contractors in a given city. The other is to limit warranty-requiring work in a given city to certified contractors in that city (or up to a certain distance away). This helps guarantee certified contractors a certain amount of work each year.
As far as the process for securing a system warranty for an individual project, manufacturers have varying requirements. The most obvious requirement is the completion of a warranty application. This may need to be filled out prior to construction commencing, and ultimately the warranty certificate is to be delivered to the owner. The other universal requirement is the necessity to include test results for each installed cable, indicating certain physical and electrical characteristics have been met.
Each manufacturer will most likely include a different assortment of testing parameters. For example, one manufacturer might require only a length and wire map test. (A Cat. 5e, Cat. 6, or Cat. 6A cable should not exceed 295 ft. A wire map test ensures that the cable pairs have been terminated correctly.) Other common tests could include impedance, propagation delay, insertion loss, return loss, and attenuation to crosstalk ratio, among others, which all have pre-defined limits according to the corresponding category cable standard.
The manufacturer might also require record drawings (either with or without the stamp of the RCDD of record), a bill of materials, and a walk-through of the site by a manufacturer's representative. Certain manufacturers also mandate that all moves, adds, and changes (MACs) to the system be registered with them.
Construction issues that may void the warranty. One of the most overlooked issues for obtaining a telecommunications system warranty is if the desired manufacturer has a solution for a wet location. As defined in Art. 100 of the NEC, any installation in concrete slabs in direct contact with the earth is deemed a wet location. A typical floor box in concrete, which is slab-on-grade, qualifies as a wet location. As such, it requires a cable rated for wet locations.
Not all cable manufacturers have a wet-rated outside plant (OSP) category cable. Furthermore, those that do have OSP cables may not have one for the category cable required for the project. As of this publication, no manufacturer was known to have a wet-rated Cat. 6A cable. If 10 Gig speed is required by the owner even in wet locations, the standard for enhanced Cat. 6 cable allows for 10 Gig performance up to 37 m, as there are manufacturers with a wet-rated enhanced Cat. 6 cable.
As RCDDs, the authors have approached several manufacturers about this need for 10 Gig performance in wet locations for distances over 37 m, and they have expressed interest in offering a warranty guaranteeing that performance and the required length that is above and beyond what the standard dictates as a minimum. This is typically handled on a per-project basis and is coordinated during the design of the system.
Another common construction issue that may void the warranty is paint or over-spray of the cable. For the purpose of this article, painting of the cable shall be defined as covered in paint for a length greater than 10 ft. This most likely violates the requirements of NEC Sec. 800.179, as the communications cable is to be marked with the type (i.e., plenum, riser, general purpose, etc.). The painting of a 10 ft or greater length of cable would cover this required marking.
An over-spray of the cable (less than 10 ft) may not be a Code issue, but the water content of the paint may affect the performance of the cable. When asked for an official stance on over-spray paint on a cable, most cable manufacturers said it was not allowed. One connectivity manufacturer deflected the allowance of over-spray to the cable manufacturer, while another allowed it for latex-based paint only. Only one manufacturer (of the eight contacted for this article) allowed over-spray, provided that it passed the initial certification test.
Another cause of concern is the use of lubricant on an inside plant (ISP) cable when pulling through conduit. Again, the concern here is that the water content or other component of the lubricant may affect the performance of the cable both initially and over time. Of the eight connectivity manufacturers contacted, there were seven different positions, including: not allowing it, allowing it, not recommending it, using OSP cables only, allowing it if it passes test results, putting the burden of proof on the lubrication manufacturer, and one had no official position.
The manufacturers, for their part, have identified the added value of these advanced telecommunications system warranties and made them available through their certified contractors to the building owners. Lasting 20 yr or longer, they constitute a significant portion of the building's life cycle. Owners can do a great service by requiring a system warranty, as appropriate, for all of their projects.
Peterworth works in the Information Technology Services - Networking & Telecommunications department at The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, and Hancock is a senior technology specialist with Henderson Engineers, Inc. in Overland Park, Kan. They can be reached at [email protected] and [email protected].


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OAKLAND, Calif. — Just when Oakland's seemingly safe lead appeared to be slipping away, Terrelle Pryor turned a broken play into a big one that helped seal the victory.
Pryor threw two touchdown passes in the first quarter and then set up a late field goal by turning a potential sack into a third-and-long conversion that gave the Raiders a 27-17 victory over the San Diego Chargers on Sunday night.
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"That's what the kid brings to us," coach Dennis Allen said. "Terrelle brings that ability when things aren't right, when things break down, he brings that ability to make plays."
Charles Woodson tied an NFL record with his 13th defensive touchdown and then sealed the win with a late interception as the two most popular Raiders turned this rare late-night start into a celebration.
Pryor got the Raiders (2-3) off to a fast start in the latest West Coast game in NFL history with a 44-yard touchdown pass to Rod Streater on Oakland's first play from scrimmage. The young quarterback completed his first 10 passes and led TD drives on the first two possessions, also connecting with Denarius Moore.
The Raiders then used five turnovers, a goal-line stand, Woodson's 25-yard return of Danny Woodhead's fumble and two long field goals by Sebastian Janikowski to beat the Chargers (2-3).
"That definitely builds confidence, but you have to keep striking," Pryor said. "I'm excited we started fast and got the win."
Philip Rivers had his third 400-yard passing game of the season, throwing for 411 yards and two touchdowns. But he also had three interceptions as the Chargers played without injured starting offensive linemen King Dunlap and Chad Rinehart.
They also lost running back Ryan Mathews to a concussion in the first half.
"We came out and we were outplayed in all three phases," coach Mike McCoy said. "It's tough to go on the road and turn the ball over the way we did and win a football game on the road against a good football team. Too many big plays."
The Raiders were without starting offensive linemen Stefen Wisniewski and Tony Pashos, as well as running back Darren McFadden. But Pryor and Woodson helped make sure that didn't matter.
The game was shifted to a late-night start to allow time to convert the Coliseum to its football configuration after the Oakland Athletics played a baseball playoff game here Saturday night. The process took about 18 hours and was completed around 3:30 p.m., more than five hours before kickoff at 8:35 p.m.
The wait was more than worth it for Oakland fans who had plenty to cheer about right from the start as Pryor and the Raiders broke out to a 17-0 halftime lead.
"Digging a 17-0 hole, it's hard to come back and win," Rivers said. "We fought — you can't question the effort — but we obviously didn't do enough to get it done."
The Chargers' first score didn't come easily as Nick Novak had a 37-yard field goal attempt blocked by Tracy Porter. But Ladarius Green picked up the ball behind the line of scrimmage and ran for a first down. Rivers appeared to throw a touchdown pass to Keenan Allen two plays later but the call was reversed after replay showed Allen got only one foot down inbounds.
That led to a second field goal attempt for Novak and he connected this time from 35 yards to cut Oakland's lead to 17-3.
The Raiders appeared to break the game open when Woodson scooped up Woodhead's fumble and ran it in to make it 24-3. That tied him with Darren Sharper and Rod Woodson for the most defensive touchdowns in NFL history.
"He's made a habit out of doing that his whole career: a defensive score, an interception to seal the game," Allen said. "That's what we expect out of him. He's been a playmaker for us and he'll continue to be a playmaker for us."
But Rivers and the Chargers didn't quit, scoring touchdowns on their next two drives on passes to Woodhead and Allen in the opening 5 minutes of the fourth quarter to cut the deficit to 24-17.
Pryor came up with one more big play, scrambling before hitting Brice Butler on a 20-yard pass on third-and-14. That set up Janikowski's 50-yard field goal that made it 27-17.
"That's one of the better things I do, create time," said Pryor, who went 18 for 23 for 223 yards. "I'm always trying to get better in the pocket."
Oakland rookie D.J. Hayden and Woodson added late interceptions to seal it.
Game notes
Oakland's 17-0 halftime lead was its biggest at home since 2002. … The Raiders had no interceptions coming into the game. … Rivers had three career 400-yard passing games before doing it three times in the past four weeks. … Raiders RB Rashad Jennings left in the first half with a hamstring injury.
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text: Joan Holmes passed away last week (7 Jul 1936 – 29 Jan 2014). We spent some great time with the Holmes family in 1999. I visited them again in 2003 and 2008 at their home in Runcorn, England. I thought I would bid my own farewell to Joan with this picture. Rest in peace Joan until we meet again. You were sure a lot of fun. Ray, all the best in this difficult time.


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I think I'll just have time to get these done while I'm waiting for the extra Austrian Landwehr figures.
MrsG has chosen the regiment so it's a goer.
I've cleaned them off and levelled the bases so the next operation is impalement
Edit; Also a hole in the trumpet to keep the cat man happy


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Dwarves are notoriously difficult to dress, being petite in stature but large in girth. We imagine that fantasy cities must have clothing stores catering to the various body shapes of the races that live there. Tall n' Slender for the elves. Short n' Short Pants for the halflings. Big n' Stout for the dwarves. Where else are you going to find a 52" waist paired with a 20" inseam?
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Timely tip assists in Coast Guard rescue
A 33-year-old man was rescued by a Coast Guard aircrew when his boat ran aground Friday, Dec. 14, approximately 7 miles southeast of Port Arthur.
The daughter of an employee from Dustin Gulf Seafood reported the missing man to Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders, saying that the man had not arrived at his usual time.
"The guy usually parks in the area," said Petty Officer 1st Class Aaron Fojtik, a watchstander at Sector Houston-Galveston. "When he didn't show up, they were concerned and called us."
"In this case, the family did not know the man was in trouble," said Lt. Spencer Roach, the duty officer at the sector. "The folks at Dustin Seafood went out of their way to call the Coast Guard when he failed to show up at the dock at his normal time. If not for their report, this may not have had a happy ending."
A 24-foot response boat and crew were launched from Coast Guard Station Sabine Pass and a rescue helicopter and crew from Coast Guard Air Station Houston. After locating the boat in a remote area near Blue Buck Point, the aircrew observed the man standing on land and waving his arms to signal them. The aircrew hoisted him aboard and transported him to Beaumont Municipal Airport where EMS was standing by.
"It's always important to have a float plan," said Fojtik. "If something does happen on the water, it helps us narrow down where to search, better focusing our efforts."
Search for an overdue boat has a much greater chance of being successful if family or friends know where you are going and when you plan to return. For your own safety and before boating, file a float plan with a reliable person who will notify authorities if necessary, the Coast Guard said in a press release.
For more information on float plans, visit uscgboating.org or call Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston at (713) 678-9011.
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Charges Pending in Sioux Falls Vandalism Spree That Hit Over 100 Victims
The number of victims in a BB-gun vandalism spree in Sioux Falls is up to 110, but police say charges are pending.
Lieutenant Loren McManus says three suspects have been identified, but he says the paperwork is still going through the system, so names are not being released yet.
He says an officer had spotted a vehicle where someone might have been pointing a gun out the window.
The officer stopped the vehicle and questioned the three occupants, and he says those three are likely to face some type of charge.
McManus says mostly car windows were broken in the spree that is believed to have occurred between 1am and 5am Sunday, in all parts of the city.
Most of the vehicles were parked in the street, but some were in driveways, and McManus says the damage totals will easily surpass $10,000.


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|2012-06-24, 18:47
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Yea I now get the feeling things aren't going too well for Kurogane and we might see it end sooner rather than later but honestly I can say I wouldn't mind seeing it continue on for abit cause we got to the point where something of interest has finally cropped up and that is the "romance".
While it's only just kinda started and I even doubt it would be a big part of the series, I still kinda enjoy the Kuro X Tsubame interactions
Not sure what to make of new guy but I think it might intereting. Just have to wait and see.
|2012-07-03, 12:24
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It's one way of garnering interest
Would never have guessed Tsubame had a older sister either! Kuu-chan~!
So the bromance begins, I know people are against such things like BL and it is something I don't quite enjoy either but weirdly I find myself thinking if Nao had something for Kamiya, I could role with that....as long as they keep it with comedy.
|2012-07-03, 14:15
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|2012-07-03, 16:12
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Right now, I think the mangaka is going on a bit of a character introduction overload. I'm hoping this new guy is the last one introduced for a while so he can focus on actually developing the current characters, instead of weighing down the cast.
|2012-07-04, 09:33
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Nope, this one is doomed and it's days are numbered. Goes to show you what happens when you have a hot ass ghost like Sayuri, but you turn it into a freaking bromance instead. Maybe this would've fared better in WSM...
Bamboo Blade B is far more interesting than this one though...
|2012-09-06, 00:09
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There is also talk about the author attitude but i will omit that part here. And the biggest problem with this manga is the real kendoka attitude towards it. In japan, most kendoka( kendo practioners) don't like this manga because... well, in ichikai (a jap kendo forum) they said that this manga make some people have a defensive kendo and ruin their own kendo spirit and the worst is some people who only started kendo in about a year or months will tried to attempt Gyaku- Kasumi( kurogane pierce stance) and O - Kasumi( just the reverse, in real kendo, Kurogane stance is the reversed one) and this stance is pretty much limited to sensei with 6 dan or higher( equilvalent to 15 - 20 years of trainning or even higher) due to to its nature as kenjutsu and too hard to control( there do exist exception but there is no one who attempt it with just a few months worth of experience like kurogane) so while i agree with you guys that this manga is quite enjoyable, the popularity in Japan is really down and it have a huge chance of being cancelled.
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Dec. 3, 2007
When your team plays a bad game and you still win then as a coach you count your blessings and work your players to death the next day in practice.
After watching his team hang on to beat Arkansas Tech, an NCAA Division II program, 66-58 Monday night in Allen Arena Sanderson was thankful for the win. But with a visit to Vanderbilt looming ahead at 8 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Gym, Sanderson plans to give his players a wake up call in Tuesday's practice.
"If you can play bad and win it is a good thing, but we have to get some momentum and get our heads up," said Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson. "We played half of a good game against McNeese State. We played a decent game against Samford.
"I told them to bring their helmets and chin straps to practice. We are going to take Wednesday off and prepare for Vanderbilt on Thursday and Friday."
It was the third straight win for the Bisons on their home court. They won't be back home against until Jan. 12 when they Belmont in the "Battle of the Boulevard".
"We played this game like we have practiced the last few days," Sanderson said. "We have played hard. The effort and energy are there. We just have not been very efficient in transition and executing offensively.
"Arkansas Tech has five Division I transfers. They play teams like Wichita State and Louisiana Tech. They have some players who have played in a lot of Division I arenas. They are not a typical Division II team."
The Bisons jumped out to a 10-0 lead against Arkansas Tech. But Arkansas Tech rallied and the game was tied at 26-26 at the half.
In the second half the Bisons held a double-figure edge for several minutes, but watched a 13-point lead, 54-41 with 7:16 left.
With 1:11 Arkansas State trimmed the lead to five at 60-55.
The Bisons blocked 10 shots, a new team record for a single game in the NCAA era. The previous high was eight against Stetson on Feb. 17, 2003.
Once again freshman forward Brandon Brown was the leader for the Bisons with a game-high 19 points and also added 10 rebounds. It was his second double-double of the season and the fifth out of the last six games that he has finished in double figures in rebounds.
"Brandon played good," Sanderson said. "He has to keep it up and keep getting better."
Lipscomb center Jason Hopkins had a game-high 11 rebounds.
Forward Eddie Ard added 13 points for the Bisons.
The Bisons shot 37.5 percent from the field, hitting 21-of-56 shots. They were three-of-19 from 3-point range. The Bisons hit 21-of-27 free throws.
"When you shoot 37 percent and turn the ball over 21 times you are going to struggle against most teams," Sanderson said. "There was a lid on the basket. What if there is a lid on the basket another night? Are we going to guard and rebound the way we are supposed to do it?
"Defensively, I thought we did some good things. But offensively when you are not making shots it takes the energy out of you. That is what happened to us in this game."
Arkansas Tech placed three players in double figures. Guard Terrance Whiters led the team with 16 points followed by forward Troy Marcus with 14 and Jamar Flowers added 13.
Arkansas Tech shot 33.8 percent from the field, hitting 22-of-65. They also struggled from 3-point range connecting on three-of-14.
The Bisons held a 46-36 edge in rebounding.
"Defending and rebounding go hand-in-hand," Sanderson said. "You can't have one without the other. The better you defense, the more rebounds you are going to have."
The Bisons are 4-5. Arkansas Tech is 3-5.


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Glen79 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 61 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
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Sphenic is a new Clean Tech start up. We focus on applying Plasma Physics to combustion process. Our goal is to improve combustion efficiency and reduce emmisions.
Our first product is SPDI-Spark. A logo was created for SPDI-Spark under a previous 99designs competition.
The Sphenic logo does not necessarily need to be related to SPDI.
What does Sphenic mean:
In mathematics, a sphenic number (from Ancient Greek: σφήνα — wedge) is a positive integer which is the product of three distinct prime numbers.
Our website will be sphenictechnologies.com
Sphenic is a research/development/holding company. Each product, such as SPDI-Spark, will be marketed under its own brand.
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We are a Canadian company and a maple leaf in the logo may or may not be desireable.
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I will try to provide as much feedback as possible.
The logo should look good on:
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The Irmler P132E 'Europe Edition' piano is designed by Blüthner and made in Europe. Superb pianos with all the quality you would expect with instruments from the House Of Blüthner.
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Today, the company is thriving due to its fine instruments. A wide selection of the finest finishes is available. The use of noble timber had always been something special, manufactured by hand, selected by fine craftsman. An Irmler creates always an elegant and comfortable atmosphere.


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Woodruff wrote:Armandolas wrote:Its not about being dramatic.
Even if its a third party add-on, its developed for CC and take an important role on many people gameplay. Just because its not CC default it should not be forgotten.
Also, u keep on forgeting, thats not about the addon, its about the people who plays CC with the tool.
I dont have Bob broken, but i understand the frustration of those who do
I would suggest that it is the responsibility of the third-party add-on developer to fix the problem, rather than that of the ConquerClub developers.
Agreed. I think that all that is being asked for here is that the add-on developers be notified of changes like this ahead of time so that they can adjust the scripts before they are broken.


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A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with the ground. if the circulation is not on the ground, then it is defined as a funnel cloud.
Wind speeds in tornadoes can range from 65 miles per hour to 318 miles per hour, the highest tornado wind speed ever recorded. Tornadoes come in different sizes, from narrow rope-like swirls to large wedge-like funnels. In Alabama, tornadoes are often rain-wrapped and hidden or obscured by terrain. This makes them more dangerous.
Tornadoes typically develop when the right atmospheric ingredients come together, including warm, moist, unstable air near the surface; cooler, dry air aloft; and strong, atmospheric winds, increasing with height. All thunderstorms can produce tornadoes, but they are most likely to develop within supercells.
April 27th 2011Courtesy: Huntsville NWS
In Alabama, most tornadoes occur during two peak severe weather seasons. The spring severe weather season spans March, April, and May. The fall severe weather season includes November and early December. Tornadoes typically develop during the warmest part of the day, but are possible any hour of the day or night, and during any month of the year.
March 2nd 2012
What to do when you hear a tornado siren?
If you are in your home:
Go to a pre-determined shelter, such as a basement. Get under something sturdy like a heavy table, if available. Protect yourself from flying debris with pillows, heavy coats, blankets, or quilts. Use bicycle or motorcycle helmets to protect your head. If an underground shelter is not available, go to a small interior room, such as a closet, bathroom, or interior hallway, on the lowest level. Put as many walls between you and the outside as possible. Stay away from windows and doors.
If you are in a mobile home:
Leave well in advance of approaching severe weather and go to a strong building. If there is not one nearby, take shelter in the most interior room that has no windows, such as a interior bathroom or closet.
If you are caught in your vehicle or outside:
Get out and into a sturdy shelter. If one is not available nearby, get to a low spot and cover your head from flying debris. Do not take cover under an overpass as this does not provide adequate shelter during a tornado and can actually cause increased wind speeds due to a tunneling effect.
If you are in a public building, such as a hospital, school, mall, etc:
Go to the best available, pre-designated, protective area. Basements are best, but interior locations on the lowest level also offer protection. Stay away from windows and rooms with expansive roofs.
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