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Shangri-La hotels worldwide are keeping kids entertained, with a variety of activities and games on offer.
Shangri-La's Adventure Zones and Cool Zones offer activities from planting fish houses to pool diving for tokens, art classes to adrenalin-pumping slides to keep young guests from four to 12 years old thoroughly amused from check-in to check-out.
Best of all for parents, access to the zones is free for children who are accompanied by an adult guest.
At Kerry Hotel, Beijing, where the hotel's fresh and energetic vibe offers unexpected touches, the children's Adventure Zone recently reopened as part of a RMB35-million phased refurbishment of the hotel's 7,000-square-metre Kerry Sports. Designed for explorers of different ages, the 2,000-square-metre Adventure Zone accommodates children with interactive games and play modules. Toddlers can dress up in the Role Play Village and enjoy the padded slides and climbers.
For the ultimate in excitement, there are three slides: the Hyperglide Wavy Astra slide at 5.5 metres high gives toddlers and young children a gentle thrill, the Double Drop slide at 6.1 metres tall is suited for pre-teenagers, while the tri-level 7.3-metre-high slide, aptly named Demon Drop, is a thriller.
Other children's facilities include net towers, bridges, ball pits, ramps, rollers and a wading pool, as well as three themed party rooms that offer customised invitations, goody bags, kids' food and drink menus, and entertainment when reserved for private celebrations.
The seven-month refurbishment of Kerry Hotel, Beijing's Kerry Sports included the multi-purpose courts for tennis, basketball and badminton; gym; exercise studios for high energy and wellness group classes; wet areas; juice bar; and the massage and locker rooms. The facility also provides an indoor heated pool – Beijing's largest – measuring 35 metres long.
Equally extensive in its Adventure Zone offerings is sister property Kerry Hotel, Shanghai. Housed within Kerry Sports, the city's largest fitness and recreation destination, the Adventure Zone is similarly configured as its Beijing counterpart with three themed rooms, the same heart-racing slides and other play equipment within 700 square metres of indoor fun.
Recently, a dedicated area containing six houses was set-up. The colourful two-storey houses are themed as a café, post office, fire station, market, petrol service station and bank so little guests can interact and role play with each other.
Soon to be launched is a mobile application to enhance the interactive experience. Using the camera function on a mobile device and aiming it at the Adventure Zone logo or at the paintings on the party room walls, guests will see animals or cartoon characters come alive.
At Shangri-La's Mactan Resort & Spa, Cebu, toddlers and children can play under the supervision of trained staff in the three-level Adventure Zone with climbers and slides. Daily activities such as ceramic and T-shirt painting, tie-dye magic and sand art are tailored for age groups, while birthday packages and evening parties can be arranged.
Those who prefer the wet outdoors can take to the Aquaplay, a water playground designed for very young children with three slides that gently splash down into shallow water. The facility has a bow-shaped rainbow shower to create a tunnel effect with soft water spray.
Another entertainment hub is the E-Zone, an indoor centre with an arcade, billiards, football and air hockey tables, Wii console and an X-box 360 video console. A lounge allows guests to view sports matches on TV or sing in two private karaoke rooms.
The fully supervised Cool Zone at Shangri-La's Rasa Sentosa Resort & Spa, Singapore also keeps young ones captivated for days on end. It is Singapore's largest indoor hotel kid's club and comes complete with activity centres for crafts and games, and the popular three-level Treehouse slide that spirals into a pool of colourful balls. For added excitement, The Flying Trapeze on Siloso Beach lets guests as young as four years old – with the assistance of a certified instructor – try their hand at being a flying acrobat.
The resort organises educational tours around the property, beach games and Sunday brunch with a magic show. It also offers a 'natural state' swimming pool, children's pool and splash pad where a water system uses the minimum statutory amount of chlorine to minimise allergies and is gentle on skin and hair.
Another favourite family destination is Shangri-La's Tanjung Aru Resort & Spa, Kota Kinabalu with an enviable Cool Zone that accommodates toddlers with padded walls and soft toys; provides a creativity area for children to develop painting, crafting and other skills; a computer and TV room; and an adults' section for relaxation over coffee.
Other facilities include a 2,000-square-metre pool with tapered shoreline for children and an infinity pool section for adults. Thrills and spills are part of the curriculum at the water play area with theme-park-quality slides and water battle stations with water balloon launchers. Children have as much fun as the parents in the company of other little residents and the resort's caring members of staff who organise daily activities and a weekly Friday themed party, which includes clay painting, coconut bowling, dancing, paper patching, plasticine modelling, face painting or a scavenger hunt.
The zones and club can open as early as 8:00am and close at 8:00pm or 9:00pm.


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BICSI, Tampa, Fla., the association supporting the information transport systems (ITS) industry with information, education, and knowledge assessment, recently announced the Washington, D.C.-based American National Standards Institute's (ANSI) approval and publication of ANSI/BICSI-001-2009, "Information Transport Systems Design Standard for K-12 Educational Institutions," the first-ever BICSI-exclusive standard the organization has produced as an ANSI-accredited standards development organization. This standard specifies minimum requirements and guidelines for the design of ITS infrastructure for K-12 educational institutions.
"The release of this standard is the first significant stride in recognizing one of the major goals set forth in the BICSI Strategic Plan — to be the trusted source of global standards and best practices," says BICSI President Edward J. Donelan, RCDD, NTS, TLT. "At the core of this achievement is a tribute to the ITS industry experts who volunteered their time and resources to advance the knowledge and success of our members, their customers, and the ITS industry."
More information on BICSI standards and upcoming standard releases is available on the BICSI Web site.

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More than 20 million Americans are living with diabetes, and another 40 million are in the early stages of the disease. Managing diabetes can be a challenge all year long, but the holidays can pose special problems. All those extra treats, meals and drinks can add up to extra pounds and higher glucose levels. But a little planning, and will power, can keep diabetes in check, according to Susan Steinweg, a registered nurse and a certified diabetes educator. She's also the coordinator of Carroll Hospital Center's Diabetes Center.
Why are the holidays a particularly perilous time for those with diabetes?
Typically, the holidays are a time for traditions, family and food, and nurturing through food is a common theme. Individuals with diabetes often feel obligated to partake of these tempting delicacies, and once they do, like all of us, they often overindulge. This overindulgence can lead to weight gain and blood glucose level elevations.
What is a good strategy for handling the season?
Do not go to any holiday gatherings "starving." Have a healthy snack before attending. Bring a platter of fresh-cut vegetables with low-fat dip to share and to nibble on. Choose only the food items that are "worth it" and sample them. Do not feel obligated to try everything or to eat everything once you have put it on your plate.
When not at parties or gatherings, continue to be careful with your food choices and increase your activity level. Walking is a great way of burning calories that otherwise would be stored as fat, resulting in weight gain.
What happens if you do overindulge at a party? Do drinks count?
Strive not to overindulge at a party. You will feel sluggish and tired as a result, and you will lack energy to participate in holiday activities. Most folks regret overeating mentally and physically. However, if you should overindulge, exercise more and cut back on portion sizes throughout your day.
Alcoholic beverages do count. Your body recognizes alcohol as a toxin and immediately tells the liver to "detoxify" the alcohol. The calories are immediately stored as fat. People living with diabetes must be especially careful when consuming alcohol, as their blood glucose could drop suddenly, causing safety issues, including loss of consciousness, falls and accidents.
People with diabetes should always include a light snack when consuming alcohol to prevent sudden drops in their blood glucose. Many alcoholic beverages contain sugary mixes and fruit juices, which also will affect a person's blood glucose in a negative way. So stick to one light beer or a glass of wine, and avoid mixed drinks unless they are mixed with diet tonic. One mixed drink (with diet tonic) should be the "limit."
What about pre-diabetes?
Like all of us, people with "pre-diabetes" need to also pay particular attention to their intake over the holidays. Pre-diabetes is the state that occurs when a person's blood glucose levels are higher than normal, but not high enough for a diagnosis of diabetes. In other words, it is the very early stages of diabetes. Most people with "pre-diabetes" have an opportunity to slow their progression to diabetes by eating well, exercising and losing 5 percent of their body weight. Though it may not be realistic to lose weight during the holidays, certainly focusing on making healthy choices, cutting portion sizes and getting plenty of exercise can be steps in the right direction.
What are the long-term repercussions for those who don't manage their disease well?
Diabetes is a sneaky disease. Early on in their diagnosis, most folks do not notice any symptoms of diabetes. They spend some time in denial doubting that they even have it. It is hard to believe that you have diabetes if you don't feel any different, and that makes it easy to ignore.
However, diabetes that is not well controlled can lead to serious complications. These very debilitating complications can include heart and circulatory issues, kidney disease, eye disease, neuropathy ("pins and needle" sensations, pain, burning in the hands and feet) and erectile dysfunction.
Early diagnosis, education and support from certified diabetes educators are essential. We help people understand their diabetes — how to monitor their blood glucose levels using a meter and how to care for themselves, for example —and we're here to answer any diabetes health-related questions they may have.
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text: Westeros #1 Posted February 10, 2011 A raven from Blackhaven arrives at King's Landing, bringing long-expected word of King Baelor's departure from Dorne after negotiating the peace and walking, barefoot, in a show of piety that was over-matched only by his first such journey to Dorne with the forty-nine hostages in his train. The Grand Maester received it eagerly from an assisting younger maester, and read it… and blanched.Unease, and an immediate visit to the royal apartments in the middle of the night, awakening Prince Viserys from his sleep to inform him of the news. It did not take long for what came from Blackhaven to be revealed to the rest of the court in that early morning hour: King Baelor was on the verge between life and death. The Wyls had betrayed the peace he had forged with Prince Marence, leaving the king to free Prince Aemon from a cage beside the Boneway ... a cage that hung over a pit of vipers. Trusting to the gods, he walked into the pit, and despite his prayers, was bitten many times. He freed the Dragonknight, who was able to carry him up to the top of the cage and out of the pit without further harm, but already the king was unconscious. Naked and defenseless, still, the Dragonknight carried Baelor over his shoulder for cold night and a hot day before a pious septon in a Dornish mountain village provided aid.With a cart and a donkey to pull it, Prince Aemon moved as quickly as he could, but the journey from outside of Wyl to Blackhaven was many days. Now while the Dragonknight was being treated for the ill effects of exposure, the king himself had only lately come out of a coma, and he remains feeble and disoriented. Lord Dondarrion's maester stays by his side, and the sept at Blackhaven is filled with the faithful, praying to the Seven for the health of the king. Even now, the royal sept, Visenya's sept, and all the other septs of King's Landing are beginning to be similarly visited.Prince Viserys has since met with the small council, and ravens have already flown. Later in the day, another raven arrived: certain knights of the Marches have begun to gather not far from the Boneway, intent on punishing the Dornish. Prince Viserys now meets with certain Marcher lords, and more ravens are flying, and messengers as well.Is the peace, so hard won, to prove even shorter-lived than the Young Dragon's conquest?Visit the Site! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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As most of you know, I am a sucker for fresh herbs and mint is one of my favorite ingredients. Here in Bali, I am especially loving cooking with mint - just a taste of its flavor and I feel refreshed in the heat.
This Mint Chutney was part of a delicious spread cooked for us by Dr. Sujatha Kekada. She served the chutney as a dipping sauce for her Pakora. The cool minty goodness was a wonderful contrast to warm fried Veggie Fritters.
I think this sauce has potential to find other uses. I imagine it would be lovely served with grilled fish. Kekada also says the this recipe works well with cilantro replacing the mint. Yum.
- 2 packed cups fresh mint leaves
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Grandmother, 88 years old, rides down Chill Hill
Some blogs just simply speak for themselves. And yes, this is one of them.
Ann Thompson of Goose Creek, S.C., just happens to be 88 years young. She recently visited Bristol's holiday attractions; in particular to see her great-grandsons (Matthew and William Agostinelli) ride down the HVAC Chill Hill Tube Slide.
And so begins the fun…
As told by Ryan Agostinelli, a grandson of Ann, the kids asked if she was going to go down the hill with them. She hadn't originally thought about doing it, but she also isn't one to shy away from a challenge.
Ann went down not one, not two, but four times. She went down twice with her adult grandson, and then insisted on riding down solo two more times.
Ann says, ""I've been blessed with good health, and I wanted my great grandchildren to see what could be done at 88-years-old. I've had a good life."
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Some students think that basics are easy and kata are hard. Just the opposite it true.
Basics are very difficult. New students start off with basics and the most advanced instructors continue to work on basics.
Karate are simply a collection of basics in a certain order. If the student has good basics, he will certainly have good kata. Conversely, if the student has poor basics, his kata will be equally poor.
Some students think that they will become better at Karate by learning more kata, particularly more advanced kata. It seems to me that many students learn kata that they are not ready for.
If a student can punch well, just think how many times he will use that punch in various kata. But if he punches poorly, just think how many times he will punch poorly in various kata. Instead of learning another kata, perhaps the student should work on improving his punch.
I often say that if a student can do just one block well, he can use that to learn to do all blocks well. Essentially, the body dynamics of all blocks are the same. Jodan, chudan, gedan... it really doesn't matter. So if a student has good body dynamics for one block, he can use the same body dynamics for all blocks.
Basics are hard, kata are easy... if you have good basics.
Charles C. Goodin
Basics are Hard
Some students think that basics are easy and kata are hard. Just the opposite it true.
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Thursday, May 20, 2010
Relaxing -- Twofold Benefits
I often tell new students, especially those who have already had Karate training experience, that it is critically important to learn to relax when executing techniques. Until the moment of contact, most tension is wasted. The same is true after the moment of contact. Many students waste a tremendous amount of energy (90% or more).
Being tense when it is not necessary slows down the technique. So if you can learn to relax properly, you will be able to move faster and more freely.
You will also be using a lot less energy. As a result, you won't get as tired and will be able to train longer. You will literally be able to do much more with much less. Your recovery time between training session will also be much less (because your muscles won't become as sore).
As we age, the twofold benefits of relaxing become more and more important. I know some students/instructors who seem old and weak at 40 and some who seem young and strong in their 70s!
Trying "harder" is not always the answer.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Friday, May 14, 2010
Try and Fail...
Something I tell my children is that it is OK to try and fail, but not OK to fail to try. I couldn't remember where I learned or heard this saying, and actually thought I might have made it up. But I Googled it and found that it is attributed to Stephen Kaggwa who said "Try and fail, but don't fail to try."
I was speaking to one of my sons recently about becoming skillful in Karate. I have three sons and they all became shodan at the age of 17 because they had trained from the time they were little kids. My son said, "The main reason we became skillful in Karate is because we are athletic." I would agree that they are athletic, especially compared to me. In a Western sense I am a real geek because I never played any team sports or even individual sports. Since the age of 8, all I did was martial arts.
My sons are definitely more athletic than me, but if I have an advantage it is that I am more determined than them when it comes to Karate training. I really believe in Chotoku Kyan's saying that "if he trains three times I will train seven times." I feel that I can make up for my lack of athleticism by practice, practice, practice.
I will try, try, try, and if I fail at least I would have tried my best. I would feel good about it. And I tend to believe that people who try hard do succeed, not just because of their effort alone but because their effort attracts people who will help them. In my case, I have been fortunate to be "adopted" by truly fine Sensei and I think this has to do with my effort because it certainly was not because of my ability.
People who try hard are rare in any art, sport, or endeavor. Most people just try until they are bored or tired or interested in something else. A person who would literally move a mountain to reach his goal is very rare.
If a student can learn how to try, he can apply this to endeavors other than Karate. He can try hard at school, at work, with his family, etc... A person who can try hard in Karate can try hard in everything.
It is OK to try and fail, but not OK to fail to try. Even an athletic student will fail at Karate if he quits or just trains weakly. But a non-athletic student who trains hard for a long time will almost certainly succeed.
I should add that while I am more determined than my sons when it comes to Karate training, my eldest son was just as determined in Kendo training, my third son is just as determined in Ju Jitsu training, and my second son is catching up to me in Karate determination. And my daughter is just as determined in dance training. So maybe children and students can learn or be influenced by determination too.
I would also add to the saying about "to try and fail" with another saying, "fall down six times, get up seven times." Even if you try and fail, you can get up and try again. In Japan, the Daruma doll is an example of this saying -- no matter how many times it tips over, it rolls back up. The public usually only sees a person's success, not how many times he failed before he succeeded.
"If you fall off the horse, you have to get right back on it." Of course, I don't ride horses so this saying is a bit foreign to me. But falling off a horse seems a lot more traumatic than just tipping over like a Daruma doll.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Sunday, May 09, 2010
Form, Body Dynamics & Applications
I our dojo, we teach some basics first followed by kata. I feel that kata are a good way to learn basics and are more interesting than simply squatting and punching, so to speak.
Once the student learns the "outer" form of the kata (the steps, techniques, directions, etc.), we turn the focus to body dynamics. We work on "how" to move, essentially the inner "form" of the kata. The "inner" form powers the "outer" form. Anyone can copy the movements of a kata, but it is quite another thing to move like a seasoned Karate expert.
Once the student makes progress in learning "how" to move, we gradually introduce the applications (bunkai or imi), essentially "how" to use the techniques. The reason this is done second, after body dynamics, is important.
With ordinary body mechanics, the applications will have a limited effect. Done in an ordinary way, a punch is just a punch. There is nothing wrong with it -- it is just limited.
Learning body dynamics takes a long time. Actually, the bunkai is relatively easy. In Kenpo, we used to call certain techniques "tricks". Certain defenses were used against certain attacks almost like a formula.
Form, body dynamics, applications. The ultimate goal is to be able to perform each and every movement optimally and to apply each and every technique effectively. This requires constant work and great attention to minute details.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Flyer for Our Class
Here is a link to a flyer for our class at Halawa District Park, Mondays and Wednesdays, 6 to 7:30 p.m.
With summer just around the corner, it is a good time for new students to start training.
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Michael Valdivielso | Alexandria, VA | 06/08/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"First off, once you get past the idea of a Stargate the rest kind of falls into place. The government, with the help of Professor Daniel Jackson (James Spader), figures out how to work it. Pro. Jackson, with an escort of soliders led by Colonel Jack O'Neil (Kurt Russell) step through it to the other side.
They find a desert planet where humans are being made to mine for the same material that the gate was made from.
The people are Egyptians who were removed from Earth over 10,000 years ago, by an alien, and even Daniel Jackson can't understand their language because living languages CHANGE.
The movie is careful to stay away from many of the cliches of most sci-fi movies but also stays away from having characters which are TOO simple. Both Daniel and Jack (played by James and Kurt) are real people, not cardboard cut-outs, with all the flaws and merits of our own reality. The natives are catch between trying to be friendly towards strangers AND not pissing off their Gods.
The science and technology used by Ra and his men look very sleek and very real. From the spaceship to the gliders, everything has a touch of old Egyptian myth mixed with advanced alien know-how.
The DVD comes with two versions of the movie, Director's Cut and the theatrical cut, in which the former has audio commentary. The DVDs also have a great 'Making of Stargate' featurette, a 'Is There a Stargate?' short starring Erich von Daniken himself, trailers, scane access, crew and cast information and production notes.
Everything you could want in a DVD set, a mixture of sound science fiction, a touch of great effects and the pinch of old fashion adventure. This is a great pop corn flick. Enjoy!"
Director's Cut Is Excellent!
chemikalguy | Durham, NC USA | 04/22/2003
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"I'm not sure what makes the ultimate edition much different from the special edition, as both include the director's cut and theatrical version. The ultimate edition does include a 'making of' featurette, as well as a 'Is there a stargate' featurette that isn't included on the special edition. These are both interesting, but nothing to write home about. One big difference is the audio. The ult. ed. includes DTS 6.1 audio, as well as dolby digital 5.1.Good: Being a fan of Stargate SG-1, I wanted to own the original movie as well, and when the ult. ed. was released, knew it was time to buy. I watched the director's cut, and was amazed. There were added scenes, as well as extended existing scenes. These changes really gave me a better understanding of how things in the tv show came to be the way they are, such as the relationship between Jack O'Neill and Daniel Jackson. In the director's cut, we see more interaction between them. We also get more into the head of Jack, and better understand just how messed up he really is after the loss of his son.Bad: The only disappointment I have with the ult. ed. is that there were no 'gag reels' or bloopers, or other deleted scenes included. I enjoy watching these on other DVDs I have, and would have loved to have seen them for Stargate.Overall, I'm glad I added this DVD to my collection. My only wish is that the Stargate SG-1 DVDs included behind the scenes or blooper reels as well."
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Bill E. | California, USA | 05/30/2007
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"First, let me start by saying that I love this movie. Perhaps because I traveled to Egypt when I was 16 and I saw the glory of the giant pyramids in person (just don't tell an Egyptian that it was the aliens who built their pyramids and not their ancestors, he or she will be mad at you forever!).
I also love Sci-Fi flicks, and this movie has a great story. if you haven't seen it and you like Sci-Fi movies, even adventure movies with Kurt Russell, you'll love this one.
Now about the Blu-ray DVD:
Let me say that I have been a happy HD DVD owner for almost a year now, but seeing some the movies that I love in Blu-ray only, made me decide to get a Blu-ray player.
Video: The picture quality of this Blu-ray disc shows excellent CLARITY and BRIGHTNESS and BETTER COLORS that were not on the standard DVD. It seems that the brightness level was boosted, but also at the cost of some graininess and video noise.
The Picture looks almost perfect in the bright sunny desert scenes, but with very visible grains indoors.
Overall, comparing this version to the dark (less grainy SD DVD) is like the difference between Day and Night!
Also, This BD has a cool disc menu with ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic that turn into English letter.
There was a problem with the subtitled translation of the Alien language or ancient Egyptian (I'm not sure if this language was actually made up in Hollywood like the "KLINGON" language in the Star Trek Movies). The problem is, the translation should show up in English whenever that language is spoken, but it doesn't!!!!!! One helpful reviewer on this page suggested going to the main menu and selecting English subs, and it works!, but you end up with subtitles throughout the whole movie. This release might have been rushed to the market (like many Blu-ray releases of 2006 in order to compete with the other HD format). How long do we "Stargate" fan have to wait again before we get a release with a good picture quality (hopefully grain free and no subtitle problem)????
Audio: very good
Conclusion: I can say that this is the best version of this movie available to date! but it has its problems. If you can't wait and you don't mind turning on the subtitles during the whole movie, it's a great release under $20."
Subtitle issue...correct solution here.
Christopher Lord | Whittier, CA United States | 09/24/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I own this disc although the reviews of subtitle problems. However, I found the solution! Do NOT go to the menu screen and select english subtitles. The correct way to do it is to press your subtitle button on your remote and select English 3. This will correctly display the alien subtitles without the English subtitles. Whew! I am glad I found this out!
4 stars due to no major special features. The Blu Ray transfer makes this movie look more and more like 1994! Great movie!"


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The Oscar-winning siblings will direct from their own original screenplay about a fixer in 1950s Hollywood who works for the studios to keep their stars out of trouble.
Clooney has been attached to the project for several years, and "Caesar" will mark his fourth film with the Coens, after "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," "Intolerable Cruelty" and "Burn After Reading." Brolin worked on the duo's "No Country for Old Men" and "True Grit."
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Devin Copeland, a singer who performs under the name De Rico, and Mareio Overton filed papers in the U.S. District Court in eastern Virginia on Thursday (02May13), claiming they created the song in 2008 and included the tune on De Rico's album My Story II.
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A few months ago, I found miniatures to dazzle in the Paris Balenciaga shop.
Who could have guessed that this small Pompon bag would prove so addictive?
I've said goodbye to my all-powerful gigantic bags and hello to this small perfectly formed creature.
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- tea said...
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- 8 March 2012 at 13:10
Bien que je sois habituée à porter des grands sacs à main j'avoue je pourrais m'y attacher à un tel "bijou". J'aime.
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Quinton Coples shows his love for Kinston again beginning Friday with his second annual community weekend.
When Quinton Coples was young, he dreamed of giving back to his community. He�ll have that unique opportunity again beginning Friday when the former Kinston High School and UNC football star � and current New York Jets defensive standout � hosts the second annual Quinton Coples Community Weekend at several venues throughout the city.
�He always talked about giving back to the community, so this is his way of doing it,� longtime friend DaMarcus Quinerly said. �He likes to see smiles on kids� faces when they come out to have a good time.�
At the inaugural event in 2012, the event essentially consisted of a cookout and some activities in one afternoon in and around Southeast Elementary School. This year, though, there are three days of events all over the city.
�I wanted to do more this year,� Coples said. �Last year was a great turnout but I wanted to make sure I spent more time this year giving back, branching out to every part of the city and touching every person I can. I want us to have fun, but I want it to be educational, as well.�
The weekend of events kicks off Friday morning at the Teacher�s Memorial gymnasium, 500 Marcella Dr., with a 5-on-5 basketball tournament. The tourney, conducted with the help of the Kinston/Lenoir County Parks and Recreation Department, will run until 3 p.m.
The organization�s director, Bill Ellis, said his parks department is excited to be a part of the Quinton Coples Community Weekend.
�Quinton�s always been a great young man, from high school through college and now into the pro�s,� Ellis said. �He�s always cared about Kinston and loved Kinston, and Kinston loves him back. It�s good to have him back home this weekend.�
At 6 p.m., Friday, a professional networking event at the Community Council of the Arts, 400 N. Queen St., takes place, bringing the area�s top professionals together. The event will feature silent auctions for several Coples-related items, including a signed jersey and Jets/Carolina Panthers game tickets. Tickets for the professional networking event at the Arts Council are $15.
Saturday morning, there�ll be a football and basketball camp hosted by Coples and friends at Kinston High School. Saturday night, the 5-on-5 basketball championship will be held at KHS at 6, followed by what is being billed as an �Old School/New School� game at 7. Rosters for those games have not been released yet.
Tickets for those games are $8 for adults and $5 for students; children under 5 will be admitted free.
Following the games is an after party at Olivia�s at Frenchman�s Creek; tickets are $10 for that event. According to Kurtis Stewart of Knightdale-based Millennium Sports Group, all proceeds raised by the networking event, the basketball games and the after party will go towards putting on future QC Community Weekends.
Sunday�s cookout at Southeast, 201 S. McDaniel St., starts at noon and runs until 5 p.m. All those activities � including the food, bingo, games for children and music � are free to the public.
Coples said he has a lot of good memories from the inaugural event a year ago.
�The kids running up to me and saying, �What�s up� and giving me a handshake meant a lot to me,� Coples said. �But there was a serviceman who said he came a long way for his family to meet me, and I�ll always remember him.�
What impressed Coples the most though, was the hundreds of people who came to the cookout despite a torrential rainfall that threatened to cancel the event.
�Even with all the rain, all of those people that came and stood under tents were impactful to me,� Coples said. �I will always treasure those moments.�
While some professional athletes are content with simply donating money to organizations, Coples said that�s simply not his way.
�No disrespect to those guys that write checks or give back that way, but the most important thing to me is being able to touch someone personally,� he said. �Sometimes, just giving someone a handshake or a hug lets them realize that I was once in their shoes only a few years back.
�I hope it helps give people hope and a different outlook on life. That�s the most important thing to me � being hands-on. I won�t feel like it�s been a successful weekend until I�ve shook someone�s hand or I see someone smile. That fulfills me.�
He credits his mother, Gail Coples, with inspiring the idea for the weekend � and his life.
�My mom is my everything,� Coples said. �She�s my backbone and introduced me to what�s important in life. She taught me to work hard for everything. She raised me by herself so she was doing things I can only commend her for.�
One thing he wants Kinstonians to know: the Quinton Coples Community Weekend is here to stay.
�As long as I have breath in my body, we�re going to do this event,� Coples said. �Even after I�ve retired, I�m still going to do this.�
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The schedule for Quinton Coples Community Weekend in Kinston:
9 a.m.-3 p.m.: 5-on-5 basketball tournament at Teacher�s Memorial Gym, 500 Marcella Dr., in conjunction with the Kinston/Lenoir County Recreation Department
6-9 p.m.: Professional networking event at Kinston Community Council for the Arts, 400 N. Queen St. Event includes silent auction for signed Coples� N.Y. Jets jersey, two tickets to N.Y. Jets/Carolina Panthers game on Dec. 15 and dinner for up to four with Coples. Tickets are $15
10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Football/basketball camp for youth ages 6-15 (first 75 boys/girls who register) at Kinston High School, 2601 N. Queen St. Registration is from 9-10 a.m.
6 p.m.: 5-on-5 basketball tournament championship, Kinston High School gymnasium. Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for students, free for children 5-and-under
7 p.m.: Old school/new school basketball game, Kinston High School gymnasium. Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for students, free for children 5-and-under
10 p.m.-2 a.m.: Basketball after party at Olivia�s at Frenchman�s Creek, 225-C E. New Bern Road. Tickets are $10
12-5 p.m.: Community cookout, Southeast Elementary School, 201 S. McDaniel St. Free activities include bingo, a kid�s fun zone, cookout and music.
Note: All proceeds raised during the 2013 Quinton Coples Community Weekend will be used for future community events


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Let's again, together, examine Matthew 15 this morning, as we look to the Word of God, to hear from Him who speaks through His Word. I think we are all very conscious today of the term 'pollution.' We see it in the newspapers, and hear it discussed all the time; air pollution, mind pollution, environmental pollution. It has become almost a byword in our society.
The word pollution is also a biblical word. In fact, every time you see the word 'defile' in the Bible, it could be translated 'pollute.' Every time you see the word 'defilement' it could be 'pollution.' In the passage that we will look at this morning, , our Lord speaks to the issue of pollution.
"When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, 'Hear and understand: not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.' Then His disciples came and said to Him, 'Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?' But He answered and said, 'Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.' Then Peter answered and said to Him, 'Explain this parable to us.' So Jesus said, 'Are you also still without understanding? Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.'"
Five times in that text we see some form of the word 'defile.' The dictionary basically says that the word defile means 'to make impure, unclean, dirty, foul,' or 'to pollute.' In the Greek, koinoois an antonym for 'clean,' and means 'unclean, dirty, defiled, polluted.'
In the New Testament, there are five verbs used for the word defile - three nouns, and one adjective. The combination of these nine different terms is used dozens of times. The New Testament does say much about defilement, but it can't begin to compare to the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, the basic Hebrew word chalal, which most of the time means 'to defile, to pollute,' appears 225 times, 175 of which it refers to defilement or pollution.
So we can say that hundreds of times, God speaks to the issue of being polluted or defiled. Let me give you some examples. In Psalm 119:1, the Bible says, "Blessed are the undefiled." In James 1:27, he calls for pure religion and undefiled. Paul, writing to the Corinthians in I Corinthians 8:7 wants us to avoid a weak and defiled conscience. In Hebrews 12:15, we are commanded not to be defiled by a root of bitterness springing up in us.
I Corinthians 3:16-17 says, "Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are." In Revelation 3:4, our Lord prays for the few faithful in the church at Sardis, and said, "They have not defiled their garments," so they would walk with Him in white, for they were worthy. In Revelation 14:4, as we listen to the song of praise offered to the Lamb in glory, it is sung by those who were not defiled. In Revelation 21 tells us that in Heaven, there will enter nothing that defiles.
Of course, as believers, the Bible says that we are to be like Jesus Christ, whom the writer of Hebrews describes in Hebrews 7:26 as 'harmless, holy, and undefiled.' If you go into the Old Testament and find the man of great virtue, Daniel, he is a virtuous man because it says in chapter 1, "He would not defile," or pollute, "Himself."
The point of all of this is to give you a very quick perspective on the fact that God calls for an undefiled life. God has called His people to be clean, pure, holy, undefiled, spotless, unpolluted. If that is the case, if we are to be undefiled and unpolluted, then we must understand what pollutes us and how to deal with it. The Apostle Paul says that God wants to present to Himself a chaste virgin, a pure church. He told the Ephesians that the Lord wanted His church to be spotless, without blemish, blameless. So if God calls us to an unpolluted, undefiled, pure, and holy life, then we must know what it is that pollutes so that we can deal with it. We'll see that in this text.
I'll give you three points: the principle stated, the principle violated, and the principle enunciated. Let's look at the principle stated in verses 10-11, and here, our Lord gives us the clear word on true pollution. Verse 10 sets the scene; "He called the multitude to Him, and said, 'Hear and understand.'" This is very likely the multitude described in Matthew 14:34-36, the multitude of people who had come from the area of Gennesaret, which was a plain area, an agricultural area without a city in it, but it had people living in various places, and they were all collected there. It is very near Capernaum. They were there for healing, and Jesus was speaking with them, teaching them, and healing them.
Out of that incident, which may have lasted for a long time, or many days, some Pharisees came to Jesus. In the first nine verses of the chapter, the multitude was there, and the Pharisees had come and attempted to discredit Jesus publicly, to make Him look bad. They had confronted Him in verse 2, and said to Him, "Why do You transgress the tradition of the elders? Why do You violate Jewish tradition by not going through ceremonial washing?" Jesus had countered by saying, "Why do you violate the commandments of God with your tradition?" Then He pointed out one of their traditions which was nothing more than a man-made rule to keep their own money so they wouldn't have to give it to their needy parents, which was commanded in the Scripture.
So rather than them embarrassing and discrediting Jesus, they had been publicly shamed and discredited by the piercing words of our Lord, who ended up His denunciation in verses 7-9 by calling them hypocrites who are described by the prophet Isaiah and who worship God in an empty manner, substituting the commandments of men for true doctrine.
The multitude, then, has heard all of this. They are standing there, and we don't know how much of the Pharisees' conversation they heard in total, but it was certainly in their proximity. Now, having gone through this dialogue with the Pharisees, He wants the multitude to come a little closer to Him because He is about to give a principle that they must know. So He calls them to Himself.
I think the term 'hear and understand' is a very important phrase because basically, it is like saying, "This is very important; I want you not only to hear it, but to get it in your minds." What He is about to say, and believe me, as we'll go along, you'll see, is an absolutely monumental new thought for them. It will strike a devastating blow at all of the religion that they are used to.
He says, "Listen and understand." It isn't that what He is going to say is difficult to understand; it is actually axiomatic. It is self-evident. But it is going to come to them as such the antithesis of everything they've ever heard in their religion that He wants them to listen carefully and think it through. That brings us to verse 11. It is not so hard to understand as it is hard to accept. He says, "Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."
That is a very simple statement; it isn't what goes into you that pollutes you, it is what comes out of you that pollutes you. It doesn't take much to understand the statement in terms of its basic sense. He is saying, "Defilement is an inside matter, not an outside matter."
You see, the Pharisees had come along and said, "How dare You eat food without going through ceremonial cleansing! You eat with defiled hands, and therefore defile the food. You take it and defile and pollute Yourself because You haven't washed." They aren't talking about whether they washed their hands from a cleanliness perspective, but whether they went through the ceremonial rinsings that they had to do between each course, as a matter of Jewish tradition. So they are saying, "You have defiled Yourself by eating food that is defiled," and the Lord is saying that it isn't what goes in that defiles, but what comes out.
In the context of the prior conversation, the statement is rather obvious. Jesus is saying that pollution and defilement is not a physical issue, but a spiritual one. It is not a ritual matter, but a moral one. At this juncture, and you must understand this, you have just seen Jesus crystallize in one statement the antithesis between extant, or current, Judaism and the truth that He came to proclaim. He came to proclaim the truth that was inward, and they were completely committed to that which was outward religion. In fact, Paul says that they had a form of godliness that was impotent. So in that one statement, Jesus set Himself in absolute diametric opposition to the religion of the Pharisees and scribes.
Frankly, they shouldn't have been so shocked that He would preach that the heart was the issue, because even in the Old Testament, had not the Bible told them in I Samuel 16:7 that man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart? Had not the prophets again and again said that God desired the heart to be circumcised? Had not it been said over in the Old Testament that the issues that proceed out of the heart are the matters that concern God? Jesus says that; it's not what goes into your mouth, but what comes out.
Just a note about what He says, in the phrase 'that which comes out of the mouth defiles a man.' The parallel passage is indicated in Mark 7:15, it says the same basic statement, but instead of saying, "That which comes out of the mouth," it says, "That which comes out of the man." In other words, the evil that is in us is not only demonstrated by what we say but also by what we do. Mark gives us the broadest perspective, and that indicates to us that Matthew is using 'mouth' here to make the analogy a little more tight in comparing it with the eating of unclean foods, and also using the mouth as a symbol of the whole man, and the mouth is a good symbol of the depravity of man, because it is nowhere more evident than in what comes out of his mouth. The mouth being the more dominant revealer of internal pollution. Really, here it is a symbol of the whole man. In other words, it isn't what goes in you that defiles, but what comes out of you.
This is absolutely devastating to the Jewish people. Mark adds just a small word at the end of verse 19 of the companion passage, that says, "Thus He declared all foods clean." That is just unbelievable! Jesus is saying, "There are no more unclean foods, no more kosher, no more ceremonies, no more forbidden food. That is over." That would create instant apoplexy; they couldn't handle that. Their whole life, they had been following a prescribed diet based upon clean and unclean, not only that which was defined as such biblically, but that which was defined as such traditionally, and they had this mass of ceremonial stuff that they had to abide by in their diet and activities: eating, drinking, touching, and all these things. They were living by external rituals.
May I say to you that any religion other than Christianity cannot change the heart. If it can't change the heart, then it can't ever really deal with the inside of a person, therefore all religion apart from the truth is left with only externals. So they tend not only to feed on externals, but to sort of pile them up, to have mounting external activities. Any false religion is bound up in all kinds of ceremonies, rituals, and external issues. The heart is wretched, and theirs were particularly wretched and filled with hate, desiring to murder Jesus. Yet they were going through all these external ceremonies.
Let me ask two questions. The first question is: why did they feel so strongly attached to external issues? Where did all this ceremony and ritual and washings and all the rest come from? Let's say at the beginning, in fairness to them, that basically, it all started in the book of Leviticus; if you read that book, you'll find a long list of ceremonial observances that they were required to follow. There are lists of animals they could and couldn't eat, birds they could and couldn't eat, things they could and couldn't touch, the ways they could and couldn't cook, certain dietary features, and features of clothing, certain things they could drink and not drink. There is a mass of ceremonies in the Old Testament.
For example, they were considered defiled if they had contact with the carcass of an unclean animal (Leviticus 11) or with any carcass (Leviticus 17), by eating a carcass (Leviticus 22), if they came in contact with any kind of abnormal issue coming from any bodily organ (Leviticus 15), they were considered unclean during the process of menstruation, or unclean by contact with anyone who was unclean, so it could be passed to a second level. They were unclean after childbirth, or after touching anyone with leprosy, if they touched the dead or had contact with someone who touched the dead, or by funeral rites (Leviticus 21) or by creeping things (Leviticus 22), and it goes on and on. They had all of these things that made them ceremonially unfit.
I want you to notice something: at no time in the Old Testament does it ever say that these things were sinful. It isn't sinful to have a child, or a bodily function, or to touch a dead body, or to touch an animal that isn't fit for consumption. So the Bible never says these things were sins, but it said that it constituted a person ritually unfit, and that is very important. They couldn't come in to worship God because of this external unfitness until they had followed whatever cleansing was necessary to prepare them physically to come into the presence of God. All this started in the Old Testament.
The question that immediately comes to mind is, "Why?" Here's why. As I said, you have to remember this: it was external, never defined as sin, but only defined as ritual unfitness. Here's why. When God gave the Old Testament, it was in the early, dawning days of God's redemptive plan with His covenant people. The New Testament calls it 'the rudiments,' or the A-B-Cs.
Whenever you want to impart information to a child, if you are like we are as parents, what we gave our children were books. The books they got when they were very little were full of pictures. You don't give your kid volume 22 of Encyclopedia Britannica; you give them pictures. So there were lots of pictures, and the world began to dawn through pictures. Then, when they learn words, words make sense because words describe things they see in the pictures.
The Old Testament is a book full of pictures, and the entire ceremonial system was like a book given to a child that was full of pictures. God was saying, "Do you see how you cannot come into God's presence to worship Him physically when you are ceremonially unclean? So does God want you to come to worship Him spiritually only when your heart is pure." Do you see the picture? The whole ceremonial system is a picture of what God wants on the inside.
Remember last Sunday night, we were studying circumcision. We said that circumcision doesn't save people, or save the Jews; circumcision was a constant sign that what tearing away had occurred in the flesh, God wanted to do in the heart. That's why the prophet said, "Circumcise your heart." The reason that God gave the ceremonial system was as a picture that if God was concerned that we be clean on the outside, how much more was He concerned that we be clean on the inside? So when you come to God's holy hill, you come with cleans hands and a pure heart. The whole point of the clean hands was to demonstrate the need for the pure heart.
Sadly, throughout the history of Israel, they abandoned the reality and just kept the pictures. So by the time you come to Jesus, instead of going on to the fullness of real spirituality, they were just multiplying the pictures, and had added multitudinous ceremonies to the ones which were given in the Bible. They thought that if God wanted pictures, they'd just keep on adding them. They actually rejected the reality. In fact, when the reality came, they killed Him.
By Jesus' day, the Pharisees and scribes had developed such an elaborate external system of ceremonies, it was so complex that it became an absolutely intolerable burden, and cast its shadow over the whole New Testament. In Matthew 23, Jesus says, "You bind burdens on the people that are too grievous to be borne, and you don't even lift a finger to help." The whole thing was so ridiculous that they developed what was called 'the Law of Intention.' In other words, you couldn't even keep all the ceremonies in one day; you would struggle to get it all done. So they developed this law, so that if you got up in the morning and said, "I intend to be pure all day," you could waive all the ceremonies. Convenient, eh?
I suppose you could ask a second question. If God didn't intend for holiness to be an external matter, then why all these ceremonies? I'll say it again - pictures, symbols. That is really the essence of Hebrews 9-10. You will never understand the book of Leviticus until you understand the commentary on Leviticus, which is Hebrews. Listen to some selected statements.
Hebrews 8:5 says that all of that stuff in the Old Testament is an example and a shadow of heavenly things. In Hebrews 9:9-10, it says that they were figures for the time then present, and that foods and drinks and various washings and fleshly ordinances were imposed until the time of reformation. What is the time of reformation? The time of the arrival of the Messiah and the new covenant. That was the picture-book time, but when Jesus came, it was graduation from elementary school. In fact, in Hebrews 10:1, it says, "They were a shadow and not the very image." They were always intended as a shadow, a sketch, a picture.
That's why, in Hebrews 10:22, the lesson is summed up in this: "Let us draw near with a true heart, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water." In other words, let's go to the spiritual cleansing that God was after. That's why Hebrews 6:1-2 says, "Leaving the principles of the doctrines of Messiah." That's not talking about Christianity, but Judaism. "Let us leave the doctrine of," and then it translates in the King James, "Baptism," but is never translated that in any other instance. It is always translated 'washing,' and that's what it means. "Let's leave the washings, move out of those things."
In fact, from Hebrews 5:12-6:8, it's written to Jews who are sitting on the fence and won't abandon their ceremonialism. He's saying, "Let's not lay again the foundation of repentance toward God, dead works, and those basic doctrines. Let's get on to perfection." Every time you see 'perfection' in the book of Hebrews, it refers to salvation. He's saying to leave the washings, since they were pictures, symbols, nothing more. God wanted to deeply and indelibly impress on the hearts of the Israelites the idea of holiness and sacredness. He gave them all the pictures they needed. How tragic it is that they just kept the pictures and rejected the reality.
So what is the Lord saying in verse 11? This principle has to be established while we're taking a little more time on this verse. We will get done with the passage this morning, so you can rest easy. They did need to know that God, all along, had intended that it wasn't the stuff going in from the outside that defiled, but what was coming up from inside. You can go through all the ceremonies you want to, but your heart can be a veritable cesspool, pumping out filth. Jesus, then, sets Himself in diametric opposition to the Pharisees. It's one of the ways in which He fulfilled Matthew 5:17, "I have not come to destroy the Law, but to fulfill it." In a very real sense, there are many ways He did that, but this was one of the ways - by abolishing the ceremonial system, putting and end to the pictures, and bringing the reality.
Then, as we come to the New Testament, we see this transition. We see that, as Mark 7:19 says, "Thus He called all foods clean," and ended the system of ceremonial foods, because whenever we see things in the New Testament that defile or pollute, they never have anything to do with the outside. For example, it says that things of the heart defile in verse 18. In Titus 1:15, it says unbelief defiles; in I Corinthians 8, idolatry defiles; in Hebrews 12, bitterness defiles; so it is always internal in the New Testament because the external picture has passed away.
An illustration of this can be brought to our attention. Acts 10 is a very important passage. Peter went up onto his roof to pray, and the Lord gave him some kind of divine anesthetic and put him in some kind of a trance. He was hungry, so he was thinking about food, and sometimes when you're thinking about something, you keep thinking about it when you're asleep. He was in a special, divine sleep, but he was still thinking about food. He was hungry, and you would have thought he'd see a big table spread with kosher food, but instead, in his vision, Heaven opened and a big sheet came out, and everything was in it. Four-footed beasts of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and fouls of the air.
This would be very difficult for a Jew to handle. You couldn't mix those animals, because they had clean and unclean animals and birds and so forth, and a voice tells him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat. Go for it, Peter; it's all for you." His reaction is, "Not so, Lord! I've never eaten anything that is common, or separated, set apart, unclean. I can't do it, Lord!"
I can understand that. All his life long, he'd not eaten that, so he'd probably gag on that stuff. But the voice tells him a second time, "What God has made clean, don't call unclean." He was so thick that it happened three times to get the message across. That was a difficult thing for a good Jewish boy like him, raised all his life to eat only clean things, and now he's told to eat anything, that the ceremonial law is abolished and over with - that was tough.
In fact, it was so tough that it comes up in Romans 14. It was so tough that Jewish Christians couldn't handle it, so when Gentile Christians would invite them for dinner, they'd want to show them their liberty and serve ham. You know, they just couldn't eat it, and it was causing tension in the church. In Romans 14:2, it says, "For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him." The point is, it doesn't matter what you eat. But if someone's conscience bothers him, don't force him to eat something that will bother his conscience.
Dr. Ganat told me last week that he doesn't necessarily fully observe the kosher diet, but many of his friends are very scrupulous about it. He said he was visiting a certain place, and a man invited him to dinner, and asked, "What can you eat?" He replied that he could eat certain things, and also beef. So on his way home from work, he went and bought kosher franks made from beef. He had to go to about five places to find them, and wanted them to be a nice appetizer for the meal for Dr. Ganat and his family. He didn't know it, but his wife prepared them and served them wrapped in bacon. He said, "My kids actually love it, so now we serve them bacon. That's not a problem."
Not everyone is quite so liberated, and maybe that woman, in her misunderstanding of the whole process, did them a service. I don't know. But Paul is saying that eating isn't the issue, but not to force it or offend anyone. Verse 14 says, "I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean." He's saying not to grieve your brother because of your food. Verse 20 says that certainly, you should not destroy the work of God because of food.
I Timothy 4 tells us the same thing, that this whole issue has been abolished. It says that in the last days, people will come along and talk about abstaining from certain foods. But he says,
"God created it to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer."
You want to know why you pray at dinner? I Timothy 4:5. There is no more clean and unclean, because Jesus abolished the ceremonial system. Go back to Matthew 15, for here, we are introduced to where that actually happened, the first step. It was a monumental statement by the Lord that totally pulled the rug out from under their entire perspective of religion. We have seen the principle stated, and we'll move rapidly through the remaining verses.
We now see the principle violated in verse 12. Having stated the basic truth in verse 11, we are face-to-face with the hypocrites, the Pharisees and scribes, who have confronted Jesus. They are described for us wonderfully in this passage. Mark tells us that they had now moved to a house, very likely the house the Lord used to stay in in Capernaum. They are inside, away from the crowd, the scribes, and Pharisees, and now it's time to face the issue.
Verse 12. "Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?" Bless their hearts, I think they are trying to warn the Lord that He had gotten them angry, saying, "We have to avoid those guys; they were offended." The word is skandalizo, or scandalized. They were totally offended by the fact that He said people could eat anything they wanted; it blew them away. So they said, "Boy, they were offended, Lord," and I think they're trying to help the Lord out here. They're warning Him to be careful about what He says, or He could get them in a lot of trouble.
The whole statement was a fierce blast at their empty worship and hypocrisy, and He knew it. But if the disciples thought that was offensive, just wait until they get to chapter 23, when He calls them whitewashed graves, or Luke 11 where He calls them graves overgrown with grass, so that people walk on them without knowing what they're walking on. Peter will call them wells without water, or empty clouds. In Matthew 23, the Lord called them hypocrites, devouring widows' houses, shutting up the Kingdom of God, blind guides, fools, blind, hypocrites, paying tithes of minuscule herbs and omitting justice, faith, and mercy. They were swallowing camels and straining at gnats, cleaning the outside of the cup, whited sepulchers. So He offended them purposely. The disciples were curious about all of this, but the Lord knew exactly what He was saying.
You see, they were so deep into their system that they had God in their system. For example, they believed that God spent all day studying the law and all night studying the Mishnah, their tradition, so that He could keep up on everything. They also believed that God was the presider over the heavenly Sanhedrin, and that the rabbis sat next to God in order of rank according to their holiness, and that together, they studied the Halacha and made decisions. They also believed that the last three hours of each day, after such hard work in the law and the Mishnah, God spent three hours playing with Leviathan, the dragon.
They taught that the Almighty was so grieved over the destruction of the temple that once in each of the three watches of the night, He roared like a lion, and when tears fell from His eyes, they dropped into the ocean and caused earthquakes. They taught that God wore a prayer shawl and phylacteries. Worse than that, they taught that when God came to Egypt, He got defiled and had to be purged by Aaron, and when He went to the burial of Moses, He touched Moses, and had to be bathed in a fire to purge Himself. They had God right in the middle of their system.
So when Jesus blasted their system, from their perspective, it was a blast at God and everything they considered to be sacred. This is not the only time the Lord did this; He was very confrontive. Look at Luke 11:37. This is a different environment, but they get the same speech.
"A certain Pharisee asked Him to dine with him. So He went in and sat down to eat. When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that He had not first washed before dinner." So Jesus is the guest of the Pharisee, and he is not marveling that Jesus had dirty hands, but that He didn't go through the ceremonies. The Pharisee can't believe it, and he's amazed. But the Lord didn't say, "I'm sorry, I don't want to offend you." But He did say, "Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and dish clean, but your inward part is full of greed and wickedness. Foolish ones! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also? But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass by justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like graves which are not seen, and the men who walk over them are not aware of them."
You can imagine that by this time, the guy is up against the wall! He's thinking, "This is the last time I'll ever invite Him for dinner." See, He always took a direct blast at hypocritical religion. We learn the first thing here about hypocrites that I want you to note in our passage; they are offended by the truth according to verse 12. Spiritual phonies don't like their masks torn off, and they were scandalized and offended. There is no question about that. That still goes on.
Hypocrites may come into this church and be offended I hope! There are many people who will say, "I'll never go back to that place. I don't like what he said." Hypocrites will be offended when confronted with the truth, because they come up short and are unmasked, and there is no one so ugly in the sight of God as the person who covers his ugliness with the paint of beauty when there is no real change at all. I submit to you that if your heart is offended by the truth, then you ought to look deeply into your heart, because it may be that you're a hypocrite.
The second thing we find about hypocrites in verse 13 is that they are not only offended by the truth, but destined for judgment. The disciples are telling Him that the Pharisees are offended, and He says, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted." That tells us that they are going to be judged. He sees a field with a number of plantings, and the Greek word here is for planting. His heavenly Father, which was His common name for His relationship with God, had planted them, and there are some that He has not planted.
Remember the parable of the wheat and the tares, where God sowed the wheat, and the enemy, Satan, came and sowed the tares. So He's saying that the ones that God doesn't plant will be rooted up, or judged. His message to them was judgment on the hypocrites. The only person that God in Christ really blasts in the New Testament, where you get the person along with the sin, is the spiritual hypocrite. For the rest, He'll hit the sin; but in the case of the hypocrite, He'll hit the person with his sin. So He says that they're destined for judgment, and it's almost the same as the parable of the wheat and the tares; they are going to get rooted up. Remember that it says they will grow together until the judgment, and then the Father will separate them. If they aren't His, they'll be rooted up.
Notice the beginning of verse 14, a very important statement. "Let them alone." That is a hard statement. What does that mean? It really can be translated, "Stay away from them." Anyone who pretends to represent the true religion, or know God, or to know the truth, but his inside is not true, stay away from him.
What does that mean? One, it's the staying away of judgment. Hosea 4:17 says, "Ephraim has joined idols; let him alone." It's almost as if they are abandoned to judgment. Secondly, it's the staying away in terms of, "Don't you act as the judge." Remember how we saw that in the wheat and the tares? They said, "Should we rip the tares out?" And He said, "That's not your job; the angels will come in due time and do that. Your job is to proclaim the message of the Kingdom. We'll take care of the judgment. Don't try to rip them up."
I confess to you that that is hard, because basically, I would volunteer to be a ripper-upper, and I don't know what it is about me, but one of the great tensions I have in my heart is how God can want His church so pure, and at the same time tolerate such horrible impurity in the midst of it. If given the freedom by God in the Scripture to do that, I'm afraid I would create a sort of spiritual Gestapo and move out. "Let them alone, MacArthur, stay away from them," He says. He'll take care of them in the end, but I confess to you that it is a grave issue for me to understand, that God can tolerate within the framework of so-called Christianity so much absolute hypocrisy. So stay away.
There is a third thought. Not only to stay away in terms of abandoning them to judgment, and in terms of not thinking you can tear them up, because you might know who the tares are. You might rip up the wheat and leave the tares in your acts of judgment. The third thing that I think He's saying is just to stay away from them. Why? Because of verse 14. The third truth about a hypocrite is that they lead others to disaster. "They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a pit."
It's not the word for 'ditch,' it's the word for the hole in a field that they fill up with water to water the animals. "Stay away from them, because they lead people into the pit." The pit can mean nothing other than Hell; they lead people to Hell, so stay away from them. Don't ever expose yourself to these kinds of people, not in the name of anything.
In fact, in Jude, it says that when you come across such a person, you snatch them like a brand from the burning lest your own garments be spotted. You don't want to get near that stuff, or listen to their so-called knowledge. Paul tells Timothy not to listen to their vain babbling or supposed theological insights and truth. Purge yourself, he says, from these influences, and stay away from these people. Don't expose yourself to them because they lead people to disaster.
Of course, this blind leading the blind is a play on their own teaching, because the rabbis called themselves the leaders of the blind. In Romans 2:19, Paul says, "You fancy yourselves to be guides to the blind," and the Lord several times calls them blind guides. The people who are leading them are blind, and they all fall into Hell. Stay away from them, don't go near them. Don't expose yourself to hypocrites, or people pumping out false religion in the name of Christianity. It can do you no good, but eats like a gangrene, according to Paul. Don't even give them the satisfaction of an audience. They have a self-inflicted, self-deluded blindness, and they push people to Hell.
It says in Matthew 23 that they make their converts twice the sons of Hell than they themselves, and at the end of that passage, it says, "You serpents, you generation of vipers. How can you escape the damnation of Hell?" That's why I encourage young people, when they go for their education, to be obedient to the Word of God and not to put themselves in the place where they are going to be interacting with hypocrites. A hypocrite is anyone who pretends religion on the outside but doesn't know God on the inside. Stay away from that person.
Finally, the principle is elucidated. Would you believe that I could cover five verses in five minutes? Just watch; how about six verses? Verse 15. They move into the house, and they're together, and Peter breaks the ice (we're not surprised). Peter said, half-reverently, half-fearfully, "Explain this parable to us." He's talking about the parable in verse 11, about the mouth and stuff going in and coming out. "Explain it to us."
It is a question of honesty; they wanted to know. It wasn't that they couldn't understand what He meant, it was just that they couldn't accept it; Peter especially. That's why he had to have three visions of the same thing in Acts 10, and then go to a Gentile, and have a Gentile convert. He still didn't get it well, because later on, when he went to Antioch, Galatians 2 says that some Judaizers came along who still believed you had to keep all the ceremonies, and as soon as Peter saw the Jews, he separated from the Gentiles. He went over with the Jews and started doing all that stuff. Paul says, "I withstood him to the face." It was very, very hard to for Peter to make that adjustment. So he says, "What are we to understand by this?"
Now we come to the principle elucidated; we've seen it stated, violated, and here, it is elucidated. "Jesus said, 'Are you also still without understanding?'" 'Also still' is a phrase never used in the Greek New Testament anywhere but right here, and it means 'even yet.' He's saying, "With all that you know, and all that's been said, are you also even yet without understanding, like them?" He says, "Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?" And He repeats is clearly. And Mark adds, "Does not enter the heart." You can't be defiled by what goes in your mouth, because it goes through normal body elimination process; it does not pollute you.
The question the Jew was going to be asking at this moment is, "What about all those ceremonies?" That's where they had to hear what you had to hear this morning - those were only pictures of the real pollution, representations. So He says that it just goes in the stomach and out the draft, but those things that proceed out of the mouth, and Mark is the one who said, as I mentioned, "Out of the man," come from the heart. They pollute the man.
You're never polluted, people, because of what you take in; you're polluted because of what you pump out. The cesspool is inside of you, and it is your heart. Verse 19. "For out of the heart proceed." The word 'heart' here is not the physical pump, but the inner self - the mind, the source of thought, attitude, motive, desire. Just like we say, "I love you with all my heart," or, "My heart goes out to you," or, "I feel my heart." We use the term, the physical pump, related to emotion, thought, feeling, primarily the thinking process. He is saying it is the filth pumped out of the inside, such as evil thoughts.
By the way, in the Greek, that has to do with wicked schemes, which the Pharisees were plotting right at that point against Jesus, or murders, adultery (sexual stealing and covenant breaking), fornication (pre-marital sex), theft (violation of others' property), false witness (dishonest testimony), blasphemy (violent, malicious accusation and slander).
He says, "It's this stuff that comes out of the heart." Does that remind you of Matthew 5? The Pharisees had said, "We don't murder," and Jesus says, "If you hate in your heart, you might as well have, because it's the same thing." The Pharisees said they didn't commit adultery, but Jesus said, "If you look on a woman to lust, you've committed adultery in your heart."
You see, it's the heart that gives birth to the garbage on the outside. They washed their hands, but not their hearts. Verse 20. "These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man." The unwashed heart is what defiles, so what is man's greatest need? Ceremonial religion? No, the religion of the heart; the heart has to be cleansed.
I want to show you one Scripture in closing - Titus 1:13. Here, it talks about some filthy people, "'Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.' This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn from the truth." Tell them to lay away themselves from those external, ceremonial activities.
"Put those things away. To the pure," and he means pure of heart, "All things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled. They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work." They are reprobate.
In other words, no matter what they say, or profess, or what kind of Jewish fables or commandments of men they go through, they are defiled on the inside, so everything on the outside is defiled. However, in the middle, you have that wonderful statement of light in the midst of darkness, "To the pure, all things are pure." Pure men with pure hearts receive all things as pure.
So what do men need, then? If we're to be sure we avoid the defilement and pollution that God is so against, we need a pure heart. Isn't that Matthew 5:8? Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. So the prayer of every individual should be, "Lord, purify my heart." How does He do that? Only one way can our hearts be purified, and that is by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who purifies the heart and washes away the sin. In the terms of Ezekiel, He gives us a new heart. Every man needs that.
At the conclusion of the first service this morning, a man walked up to me, took my hand, and said, "Where do I go to get a new heart?" I took him to the prayer room; and that's where you need to go - to God, to get a pure heart. You can do it between just you and Him, a divine transaction, believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, receiving Him as Savior. He promises to wash your heart, make you undefiled, blameless, pure, holy before God. Let's bow in prayer.
Father, I pray that no one will leave this place with an unwashed heart, counting on some external, religious ceremony, but that the heart might be made clean through the blood of Christ.
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Hubble Frontier Field Galaxy Cluster MACS J0416.1-2403
MACS J0416.1-2403 cluster
Redshift: z = 0.396
MACS J0416-2403, MACS J0416.1-2403 is part of the Frontier Fields Program. These data were observed via the HST proposals:
13496: J. Lotz (STScI) et al.;
12459: M. Postman (STScI) et al. Supplemental data were obtained by proposal 13386, PI: S. Rodney (JHU) et al.
The science team comprises: L. Infante (Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile), W. Zheng (JHU), N. Laporte and P. Troncoso (Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile), A. Molino (University of São Paulo, Brazil/Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia/CSIC, Spain), J. Diego (University of Cantabria, Spain), F. Bauer (Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Chile/Space Science Institute, Boulder), A. Zitrin (Caltech), J. Moustakas (Siena College, NY), X. Huang (University of Science and Technology of China), X. Shu (Anhui Normal University, China), D. Bina (IRAP/CNRS Toulouse, France), G. Brammer (STScI), T. Broadhurst (University of Basque Country/IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Spain), H. Ford (JHU), and S. Garcia and S. Kim (Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile).
ACS/WFC: F435W (I) and F606W (R);
ACS/WFC: F814W (I) and WFC3/IR F105W (Y);
WFC3/IR: F125W (J), F140W (JH), and F160W (H)
This image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by the WFC3/IR and ACS/WFC instruments. Several filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are:
Blue: F435W (I) + F606W (R)
Green: F814W (I) + WFC3/IR F105W (Y)
Red: F125W (J) + F140W (JH) + F160W (H)