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Architects: Izaskun Chinchilla Architects
Location: Conde de Casal, 28009 Madrid, Spain
Architects Collaborators: Adriana Cabello, Alejandro Espallargas, Guillermo Sánchez, Jesús Valer
Trainee Student: Cristina Traba
Area: 900.0 sqm
Project Year: 2016
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I want to know if people drive above or below or at speed limit. Im a very nice driver and let people go through intersections before me. I even drive over the speed limit within the 5 mph cushion. However, I hate drivers that blatantly pass me going 80 mphs in a 60 mph zone. I want to hear your opinions and driving habits.
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I always drive fast enough to make sure that when I hit someone, I kill them.
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I'm still a student driver so I go ~5 mph above or below the speed limit depending on the road and traffic. People aren't usually impatient so it's ok if I'm a little slow.
Usually no more than 5 over, but lately I've been trying to slow down a bit to try and save some gas.......
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No I have the worst case of lead foot. Average for me is 15 over what the sign says, its a terrible habit but I love to drive so it can't be helped
I try not to drive 3MPH over the speed limits set.
However, mountain passes with little to nonexistent traffic and unlabeled speed limits are the exception (most especially 1-lane mountain pass roads).
What I hate most are the people who speed in straight roads but drive excessively slow (like, granny slow) whenever there's a damn turn.
Speed limit in residential areas, School zones
Highway- 9 mph over
Open stretch of road- 20 over, have gone 160 in a 65 before tough......... judge me if you must but its happened
Depends on the location. Cops usually hang around the same spot in my area and I do usually speed. I've been driving for 4 years and no tickets yet. I don't see that in my future though, unfortunately
speeding on main roads and highways i see no problem with. as long as its not more than 15 over. but residential roads i think you should obey the speed limit signs. most importantly school zones.
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My friend goes double the speed limit in some areas.
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While I may speed on the open road, In town I obey the speed limit.
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On highways, no
but on residential streets, i usually drive at least 3-5mph over the posted limit.
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It's always +4 (to avoid getting caught/ticket)..
And on the highways it's +10 (safe)
Also, whenever there's someone ahead of me that goes faster than the rest of us, I usually try to match his speed.
The difference is summer and winter
Depends on where I am at. Generally I keep to the 10MPH grace that most constabularies give. If I see them off to the side of the road or someplace, I IMMEDIATELY slow down to the posted limit or slightly under.
Some idiots will tell you to keep going at the speed you are at . . . never get out of a ticket if they actually clock you. Getting it reduced is not getting out of it.
If they follow me on the freeway or highway I either keep to the limit or go 5 MPH slower.
Generally I've found that the State Police/Highway Patrol are only interested in people being stupid, unless they are doing a "speed emphasis". The County Sheriff is less inclined to bust speeders in most places I've been, they seem more interested in getting criminals than filling imaginary quotas.
The city cops can be the biggest enigma and they vary from town to town. Where I live they usually won't bust you for anything less than about 5 over and they'll pull you over to tell you to get your tail-light fixed. If I go across the river to the bigger city they'll bust you for 2 or 3 over and they will ticket you for tail-light out rather than tell you to get it fixed. They also have a tendency to shoot people acting strange . . . but the gangs have been acting up lately so I can sort of see their perspective.
I try to drive my car the same why I ride my motorcycle... pay attention!! An easy test to see if you are keeping an eye on the road is knowing what state the car that you just passed or just passed you is from... Always scanning the road in front of you is most important, I was driving home from Seattle one night and the guy in front of me almost hit a deer in the median of the interstate. After he went by it stepped further into the roadway and almost into my truck. The guy in front of me didn't even notice the deer.
The other thing that I tell people just starting on motorcycles (street-bikes), is make sure you see the eyes of the people that are around you, either directly or in their mirrors. You will get a feeling when they haven't made eye-contact with you . . . and those are the people that will likely run your ass over if you don't watch them. I could go on for a looooooonnnnngggg time . . . but watch everything.
Most importantly . . . while speeding . . . . the guy driving to catch up with you is most likely a cop.
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We indeed are looking at Romans chapter 4 again tonight, and while it may seem that the Apostle Paul and this preacher is somewhat belaboring the point, it is necessary for us to capture all the beautiful magnificent nuances of this great doctrine of justification, and that is why the New Testament gives us so much very, very careful detail about it. The message of the Christian gospel is that salvation comes through faith alone, not works. That is the message of the Christian gospel, that for a sinner to be made right with God, it requires only the sovereign grace of God and the willing faith of the sinner.
Now in order to illustrate to us what real faith looks like, Paul in Romans 4 picks a model of faith and somewhat surprisingly the model that he picks is an Old Testament man and somewhat surprisingly perhaps not even a Jew but a Gentile by the name of Abraham. Before there ever was a Jewish people, there was Abraham. Jewish people, you know, preceded from him and so here is a man that transcends the Jewish people, here is a man of the world, a man from among the nations, from among the Gentiles who is the model of the faith that saves. This, of course, would be especially surprising to Jewish people since the Jews believe that salvation comes by works, law-keeping, ceremony, ritual. They would be surprised to find out that salvation comes by faith and even more surprised that Abraham is the model of salvation by faith.
Now we've looked at this chapter down to verse 17, so let me read you verses 18 to 25 and we'll focus in on this section. "In hope against hope, he believed so that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, so shall your descendants be. Without becoming weak in faith, he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb. Yet with the respect of the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform. Therefore it was also credited to Him as righteousness. Now not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him, but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited as those who believe in Him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead. He who was delivered over because of our transgressions and was raised because of our justification."
Now you recognize a lot of very important theological themes there. You recognize that the overarching reality is this is a section that gives testimony to Abraham's faith. It is his faith to which God responds in verse 22 and based on his faith credits to him righteousness. But this is not only for Abraham, as verse 23 says, not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him by faith but for all of us so that we would all know that righteousness is imputed to those who put their faith in God, and more importantly, vers 24, who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, having covered our sins by His sacrifice on the cross and then raised for our justification.
And so the general flow of this text is simply this, Abraham is a model of faith. His faith is defined, he then is credited with righteousness and gives us the example of how we too can have righteousness imputed to our account, apart from working for it simply by believing in the God who raised Christ who had satisfied Him with His sacrifice on the cross.
Now with that in mind as sort of the overview, let me go back into the story of Abraham a little bit because I want you to understand all that I could possibly deliver to you about the nature of his faith so that you can see the reality of what saving faith looks like. And I'll tell you the story. He started out with the name Abram, A-b-r-a-m. Abram means father of many...father of many and no one has been more inappropriately named because Abram was the father of nobody. At the age of 60, God came to Abram and called him out of idolatry in the city of Ur, told him to go to a land that He would show him. God literally sovereignly plucked him out of all humanity and said, "Leave your city, leave your idols, go to a land that I will show you."
We don't really know what the means of divine communication was, but it was very effective. We have no biblical record of the conversation that God had with Abram but Abram obeyed. He left his home. He left his people. He left his land and took his wife and went on a journey with his servants to an utterly unknown destination. That is a big leap of faith.
Now on the way to wherever he was supposed to be going, the land of promise, he stopped...he stopped, actually, in a place called Haran, H-a-r-a-n, and he stayed there for 15 years. So this is a man who had a deferred promise, to put it mildly. Fifteen years he's in Haran and finally after the 15 years is finished, he sets out for the land of promise.
Now consider the picture. Sovereignly chosen by God, told to leave everything familiar, everything precious, everything he had, go to a land about which he knew nothing, and on the way get stuck in a kind of no-man's land for 15 years. Very early on then in the saga of Abram, we understand that he is a man who can operate on a promise. He is a man who doesn't have to see an immediate fulfillment. He is a man who can defer that for which he waits. He is a man who knows how to live by faith.
But there's even more than that. God told him that He would bless the world through him. He would bless the world through Abram and through Abram's seed. But he had no seed. He was the father of absolutely no one, no seed, only a promise. Here is a man operating in faith, headed to a country that keeps being deferred for years, and being told he's going to be the father of many and that he has an appropriate name when in fact he's the father of no one. But he keeps moving and he keeps believing. He is looking for God to fulfill the promise. He's waiting for the land. He's waiting for the seed, and it's all by faith. He's living on hope. He's living on a promise. He made a complete break with the past, including idols, and turned to worship the true and living God.
Eventually, as you know, he arrives in Canaan and when he arrives in Canaan his faith is tested again and again and again and again. He finally gets to the land of promise but there's not a lot of promise that unfolds immediately. There is a famine. He faces a famine. There is a pharaoh, there is a fight, there is fear, there is foolishness and there is postponed fulfillment. And all through all of this, he held on to God's promise and really it wasn't easy to do that.
Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse many years ago wrote this, "Now Abram was an oriental, he was used to the palaver of the orientals. Furthermore, he was strategically located along the roads of the camel caravans that carried the commerce of the ancient world between Egypt and the north and east. He owned the wells and his flocks and herds were great. The Scripture says in Genesis 2 that Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver and in gold and when the caravans of the rich merchants came into the land, either from the north or from the south, they stopped at Abram's wells. The servants of Abram took good care of the needs of the camels and the servants of the traders. Food was sold to the travelers. And in the evening time the merchants would come to Abram's tent to pay their respects. The question would have followed in a set pattern. The guests would have said, 'Abram, how old are you? How long have you been here?' But maybe the most interesting question they ever would have asked would be, 'How is it that you have the name Abraham? How many children do you have?' It must have happened a hundred times...says Barnhouse...maybe it happened a thousand times and every time more galling than the time before. 'O father of many, congratulations, and how many sons do you have?' And the humiliation answer had to come back, 'None.' Many of a time there must have been the half-concealed snort of humor at the incongruity of the name and the fact that there were no children to back up such a name, Abram must have steeled himself for the question and the reply and hated the situation with great bitterness.'
Barnhouse says, "Father of many, father of none, and it was a world of cloth and goatskins where everybody lived in tents and where there was little privacy from the eyes and none from the realm of the ears. There must have been many conversations on the subject. Who was sterile, was it Abram or was it Sarah? Was he really a full man, or was the patriarch somehow deficient? He had no children and his name was father of many."
Well certainly there was desperation on the part of Abram and there was desperation on the part of Sarah. There's a serious measure of embarrassment because of his name. So Sarah decided to sort of help the thing along a little bit, made the suggestion that Abram go in to the servant girl by the name of Hagar and try to get her pregnant so that somehow he could produce a child, at least they would know it was him or Sarah that was deficient.
Abram was so desperate about having the promise seed, that he agreed to such a union. Hagar became pregnant and everybody knew that Sarah was the problem. She then felt despised. She didn't realize that she couldn't bear a child and she hated the handmaid who could and the child born of the handmaid whose name was Ishmael. But Abram, he finally had an heir, he finally had a child. He was finally the father of somebody. He felt like a man at the age of 86. Abram even cried to the Lord, Genesis 17:18, "O that Ishmael might live before Thee." Praying on behalf of divine blessing for Ishmael.
He had a son, follow now, born of natural powers...born of natural powers. And when asked his name, he could say, "I am Abram and I have one son." Thirteen years later when he was 99 and feeble, God gave him another son. This is not the son by natural powers, this is the son by supernatural power. God gave him the promise of an heir, the son of the promise, a son not of his natural ability but a son of the power of God. And amazingly God changed his name.
Now his first name, "Abram, father of many," had built into it a promise. The promise at least initially began to become true when he had Ishmael, but it still was a stretch to view him as the father of many. Now he has had the son of promise, a second son by the name of Isaac, and God changes his name by adding a "ha" in the middle, Abraham, that means father of multitudes. Ishmael was the son of natural generation, Isaac of supernatural generation because Abraham was so old and Sarah was barren. Abram begot Ishmael in the power of human strength. Abram begot Isaac in the power of God, and in fact, a kind of resurrection strength. God gave life to the deadness of Sarah and the deadness of Abraham.
This message is so foundational to our understanding of the gospel that I want you to turn to Galatians 4 for a minute. In Galatians 4 you have a look at this that ties beautifully in with this. Galatians 4:22, "It is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the bond woman and one by the free woman." One by the bond woman, meaning Hagar the slave; the free woman being Sarah, his wife. "But the son by the bond woman was born according to the flesh, by natural powers. And the son by the free women (should be woman) through the promise, divine power." Ishmael then illustrates the principle of the flesh, rejecting the promise of faith and in the flesh seeking to purchase the purposes of God by works.
Ishmael is the child of human effort. Ishmael is the human effort child while Isaac is the divine provision child. Ishmael is the son born in the usual way and is a living representative of all those who have experienced only the natural birth, who have been born only into the slavery of sin. On the other hand, Isaac is a son born of faith by a supernatural miracle and is an illustration of all those who receive spiritual birth. This is the allegorical aspect, or analogical aspect would be a better way to translate that. This is an analogy, verse 24 says. There are no real allegories in Scripture. An appropriate translation would be an analogy, a picture, for these women are two covenants...one proceeding from Mount Sinai bearing children who are to be slaves, she is Hagar. Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. Verse 26, "But the Jerusalem above is free, she is our mother, for it is written, 'Rejoice, barren women, who does not bear, break forth and shout you who are not in labor, for more numerous are the desolate than of the one who has a husband. And you, brethren, like Isaac are children of promise but as at that time he who was born according to the flesh, persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also. But what does the Scripture say? 'Cast out the bond woman and her son for the son of the bond woman shall not be an heir with the son of the free woman.' So then, brethren, we are not children of a bond woman, but of the free woman."
That may sound very convoluted and difficult, it is not. It is a marvelous simple analogy. Ishmael equals flesh, human effort, natural power. That equals Sinai, Law, Law-keeping. That is manifestly the religion of Jerusalem where they tried to earn their way to salvation to a right relationship with God and all they ended up with was bondage. Isaac illustrates supernatural power, spiritual power. Isaac is like the Jerusalem above. Isaac is connected to the promise and to the freedom of being liberated from sin by the fulfillment of that promise. The contrast is simply between human effort and divine power. Isaac is a child of divine power. Ishmael is a child of human effort. Sinai is the Law and if salvation comes by the Law, it is by human effort, human power. But salvation cannot come by the Law, salvation comes by promise. It comes by divine provision.
So Paul shows us that Ishmael analogically, or as an illustration, connects with Sinai, which connects with the Law which connects with natural effort, where as Isaac connects with the Jerusalem that is above, divine power, divine presence, divine promise. Abraham did not receive the promise by human effort. His human effort only brought Ishmael and Ishmael brought nothing but trouble. The Middle East even today is full of Ishmaelites who profoundly hate the seed that came from Isaac.
So Abraham finally received the son of promise and the son of promise is an analogy of salvation by faith alone. Abraham made no contribution to that child on his own because he could not bring about the pregnancy of Sarah at the age of 99, nor could Sarah produce a child. There was no way for that to happen by human effort. It was Abraham's faith that was counted to him for righteousness.
So, if we break down the chapter, go back to Romans 4, break down the chapter a little bit, the first eight verses said Abraham was justified by faith, not works. The second section, verses 9 to 17, he was justified by grace, not by Law. And now verses 18 to 25, he was justified by divine power, not human effort. Salvation is by faith, by grace, by sovereign power...divine power.
So as we look at this section, summarizing Abraham's justifying faith, just three things to think about. Number one, the analysis of Abraham's faith. What kind of faith is it that saves? What kind of faith is it? There are a series of phrases that are overlapping and interlocking that flow from the Holy Spirit through the pen of Paul describing Abraham's faith. First one, he believed against hope. He believed against hope. Or to put it another way, he believed what appeared to be unbelievable, verse 18, "In hope against hope, he believed." In other words, it's a figure of speech, it's an oxymoron. You know what an oxymoron is, there are lots of them that you hear today. An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which opposite ideas are combined. "The silence was deafening." That's an oxymoron. I heard the other day someone say, "Postal Service" is another oxymoron. Well there may be many oxymorons that you could come up with. "Christian Science," is an oxymoron. Apparent contradictory things. In an oxymoronic fashion, Abraham hoped against hope. He hoped when there was no reason to hope, when hope didn't make any sense against all human ability, all reasonable expectation, he believed. Hope is expectation for something that has been promised, that is anticipated, that is looked forward to.
God had told Abraham that he would become the father of many nations, Genesis chapter 12, and that was repeated through all of God's conversations with him. Chapter 12 and right on through chapter 15, chapter 17, and so forth. God's intention was to make him the father of many nations. Abraham believed that promise.
God also said to him that He would give him a land, He would give him a great land. Abraham believed that God would keep that promise. He was a man who had hope when there was no human way to see that hope realized. He had no army to conquer the land. He had no capability to produce the child. But he believed the promise and he hoped when there was absolutely no reason to hope. So in hope against hope, he believed so that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, so shall your descendants be. God had told him they were going to be like the sand of the sea...he believed that. According to what God had said, Abraham hoped for the fulfillment.
And it's an amazing thing to think about it. Just when you go back over the story I just told you, but listen to the discussion. In 15 of Genesis, verse 2, "Abraham said, 'O Lord God, what will You give me since I'm childless and the heir of my house is Eleazar of Damascus?'" The only one to inherit everything he had was a servant by the name of Eleazar. "And Abraham said, 'Since You have given no offspring to me, one born in my house as my heir.' Then behold a word of the Lord came to him saying, 'This man will not be your heir...this Eleazar...but one who will come forth from your own body, he shall be your heir.' And He took him outside and said, 'Now look toward the heavens and count the stars if you're able to count them," and He said to him, So shall your descendants be.' Then he believed in the Lord and He reckoned it to him as righteousness."
The moment of Abraham's salvation was when he believed something that was just plain unbelievable. He believed in something he could not see. He lived in something to which he could not make any contribution. But he believed. How strong was his belief? Well, he believed that promise for at least 25 years before it came to fulfillment. And this is a grandiose promise. Children that number like the stars, or the sands of the sea, many nations, and through him to bless many nations, and to possess this massive land. And all the years go by and the years go by, and the years go by and he keeps believing.
If you go back to verse 19, it tells us a second thing about his faith. One, he believed against hope, or he hoped against hope, or he believed when it seemed impossible. Number two, he was not weak in faith. Verse 19, "Without becoming weak in faith." Which is to say through all those years of having absolutely nothing to indicate that this massive promise could come to pass, his faith did not diminish. It was never without strength. He did not doubt the God who had promised. His faith is strong Verse 20, "With respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith." Now how can this be? How can it be possible? He and Sarah can't have children.
I think you have to go back to verse 17. I don't know how God fully revealed Himself to Abraham, because it doesn't tell us in Scripture. But Abraham believed in this about God, verse 17, middle of the verse, "In the presence of Him who he believed, even God who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which doesn't exist." He believed that this God who had plucked him up out of Ur was the Creator, ex nihilo, He called into being things that didn't exist. That's creation, exnihilo, out of nothing. And he also believed this God also had the power to create everything out of nothing, but He had the power to give life to that which was dead. It is sufficient then to assume that God had so declared this and revealed Himself in this way as the Creator and as the life giver to Abram...Abraham, and he believed. He believed, let's say then, in the God of creation, and he believed in the God of resurrection.
The most formidable obstacles to fulfilling our plans would be non-existence and death. It's kind of hard to work with what doesn't exist and it's extremely difficult to get past the article of death. That is no problem for God because He can call into being what does not exist and He can give life to what is dead. And again, we don't know how God planned in his mind these confidences, but when God came to him at the age of 99 and said he would have the son that He had promised 25 years earlier, Abraham hadn't lost his faith. It is an amazing kind of faith. It's an amazing kind of faith when we compare it, I think, very often with our very short-sighted high-demand kind of faith, where if we don't see something immediately, we begin to wonder if it's ever going to happen.
So when you look at the faith of Abraham, it is clear that the supreme verification of his trust in God was not that God loved him so much, it was not that God led him in a certain way, it was not that God had given him a land, it was not that God had even given him the seed. He was able to believe God for what didn't exist...what had not even come into existence and he was able to believe God that what was dead could come to life. Hence, when God asked him to take Isaac up in Genesis 22 and put him on the altar and take his life, Abraham had no hesitation in doing that because he knew that God is a God who gives life to the dead. That is the testimony of the writer of Hebrews to Abraham. In chapter 11 of Hebrews, that wonderful, wonderful testimony to the faith of Abraham, let me just read you a couple of verses, Hebrews 11, "By faith, Abraham," verse 17, "when he was tested, offered up Isaac and he who had received the promise was offering up his only begotten son. It was he of whom it was said, 'In Isaac your descendants shall be called.' He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead.'"
So it may have not been a full New Testament orbed theology, but he had a very clear understanding of God as Creator, source of life, who could make things out of nothing and give life to those who were dead. And it was an unwavering faith. He could bring a life into existence and He could bring back life from the dead.
Now, third thing about his faith, go back to Romans chapter 4, was that he was not discouraged by his own natural weakness. Back to verse 19 again. "He contemplated," he didn't become weak in faith even though he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead.
That's kind of an odd way to refer to old people, as good as dead, "Since he was about a hundred years old and the deadness of Sarah's womb." Her womb had always been dead, and now he was as good as dead.
How interesting. He was not even weak in faith in the contemplation of the reality of his own deadness and the deadness of Sarah. That is the human impossibility. His own impotence and Sarah's barrenness was in his mind, katanoeo(??), to fix one's mind, to contemplate, to consider, to concentrate. He is now in a state of deadness. He fixes his mind on that reality, but it never ever diminishes his faith because he understands that this is a divine promise, this is not something that he has to pull off. Oh, I agree for a while he succumbed to Sarah's plot and plan. It was certainly a time of temptation and sin. But it was not the death of his faith. Abraham still counted on a God who was omnipotent and could create out of nothing and revive what had been long dead.
This is the kind of faith Noah had. Just think about Noah. God told him to build a boat because it was going to rain and there never had been rain in the history of the earth. Spent 120 years building a ship, but he believed in the God who could create. And if God said there was going to be a flood, then God would create the flood.
Abraham had no personal capacity to make the promise happen. None whatsoever, but he was not weak in faith because he knew God and he knew how powerful the Creator/God was. The key to everything for Abraham and his constant perspective was to focus on God.
Another thing it says about his faith, characterizing it. He was not doubtful because of circumstances outside of him. That's implied also in verse 19. "Sarah's womb was dead." He contemplated his own situation and he could make no contribution to this child. And then outside of him there was Sarah, she could make no contribution either. According to Genesis 18:11, Scripture says her body was unable to produce a child. It couldn't happen. The circumstances within him and the circumstances outside of him together made no contribution whatsoever. His faith then was purely on the creative and resurrection power of God, nothing other than that.
So verse 20 says, "Yet with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief." No vacillating, no staggering, no wavering, he's fixed, steady, set, locked on, like Psalm 57:7 where the psalmist says, "My heart is fixed, O Lord, my heart is fixed." He has a full vision of God, he's not expecting that he's going to make a contribution or Sarah's going to make a contribution. I love the way the King James put it. "He staggered not at the promises of God but was strong in faith." The word for "stagger" there, or equivocation, or waver, as it's translated in verse 20, is diakrino, it means to vacillate between two opinions. He doesn't flip-flop. He's not wavering. He's fixed, strong in faith, literally a passive word, he's been made strong in faith, it's a divine gift.
Sure in his humanness, he struggled. But his faith was always triumphant. Sure he fell to temptation and sin, but his faith was always triumphant. It was a real faith. It was a God-given faith and it was strengthened in the struggle, and the more he struggled, the stronger his faith became. Even coming out of the whole situation with Ishmael, his faith was strong. God continued to affirm His covenant again and again with Abram. His faith grows in the midst of his struggle.
And here's the key to everything, back to verse 20, end of the verse, "...Giving glory to God...giving glory to God." Always God focused, always God focused. It seems impossible, it seems like it can't happen, but I give all the glory to God. He has the power. He has the plan. He made the promise. He keeps His Word. Nothing is too hard for Him. All his hopes, all his dreams, all his expectations, all his anticipations, all his hopes and promises were bound up in God. And he was such a true worshiper of God, even with that which was unrealized, he was such a true worshiper of God that in the midst of all the things that were not happening as the decades rolled by, he continued to glorify God. That is a marvelous kind of faith. What faith.
And finally, in verse 21, all of this because he was being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform. If I took you back to the book of Genesis, I could show you how many times God repeats the promise...repeats it, repeats it, repeats it, repeats it, repeats it again and again and again and again, even puts Abraham to sleep, anaesthetizes Abraham and God goes through an amazing scenario to seal the covenant in blood. He is then convinced because God continues to reiterate His promise to him. This is the kind of faith that is the model faith of saving faith.
Look, you have not yet received your inheritance, have you? You're like Abraham, you have an inheritance undefiled, fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. Anybody seen it? No. You haven't received it. It's waiting for you. You have the promise of spiritual perfection in heaven, you haven't received it. You live in hope. You can make no contribution to it. You don't know how to get from here to there, do you? What did Thomas say to Jesus? When Jesus said, "I'm going to go away." Thomas says, "Wait a minute, Lord, we don't know the way. How do we get there?" You don't have any way to get to heaven. You want to go there, you're dependent on the promises of God which are as yet completely unfulfilled, right?
Oh you have some indications because God keeps reiterating His promise to you like He did to Abraham on the pages of holy Scripture, and by the confirming work of the Spirit of God in your life so that you live in hope. And when you struggle with sin, like Abraham did, and when you fall to temptation, and when you doubt and have those moments of fear and wonder about those things, the Spirit of God comes alongside and comforts your heart and strengthens you and builds you up. But you are like Abraham, you're strangers wandering in a foreign land, you're somewhere between Ur and Canaan. You're somewhere between here and heaven. You're stuck in Haran for your whole lifetime Why do you believe in the future? Why do you believe in heaven? Because you believe that the Creator created this and has the power to create that and you also believe that the Creator is the life giver who raises the dead. So when you look at the faith of Abraham, it's not as different as some people might think from the necessary faith that we have, but our God can create heaven, can create a perfect environment, can recreate us and raise our dead bodies to everlasting glory as well as raise our dead souls from the deadness of sin.
So Abraham lived just kind of the way we live, in the middle of a whole lot of repeated assurances from God. I know you haven't seen it, I know it hasn't come. I know you haven't arrived. And by the way, when Abraham died, the fullness of the promise hadn't come to pass either because bound up in that promise was the greater Son who was the Messiah, Abraham saw His day and rejoiced, but he certainly never saw the Messiah. So he died in hope the way all believers die. His whole life was the outworking of these great promises from a sovereign God who plucked him up out of nowhere, communicated to him who he was to the degree that Abraham sought only to glorify God and that he knew at the heart of glorifying God was believing Him, trusting Him, banking his life on God's promises even though he himself could make no contribution to it.
I mean, in all honesty, do you know absolutely for a fact unequivocally that your sins are forgiven? Well, you believe that because the Bible tells you that if you put your trust in Christ, your sins will be forgive, right? But you can't see the transaction, so you live in hope, you live in faith. That faith is based upon the promises of God. The promises of God are trustworthy because there is evidence that God can make something out of nothing, namely the universe, and that He has power to give life. And how do we know that? We're going to find out in a few moments, because He raised Christ from the dead.
So when we're here on Earth and we're waiting for all the fulfillment to come in the future, we live the way Abraham lived. We hope against hope but we don't grow weak in faith when we don't get the realization of our promised inheritance. We're not discouraged because we can't create our own heaven. We're not discouraged because we can't earn our own salvation. We can't gain our own righteousness by our own works. We don't waver in faith, we glorify God and we live in a full faith and a full confidence, like verse 21, "Being full assured that what God has promised, He's able to perform." That's how you live your life. That's how Abraham lived his life. That was Abraham's faith Now what was God's answer to Abraham's faith? Verse 22, "Therefore, it was also credited to him as righteousness." Everybody would think, except Christians that you have to sort of earn your way, how could...how could someone be credited with righteousness that wasn't theirs? I mean, that seems like it's unjust, right? But the grandeur of Abraham's faith and the wonder of Abraham's faith was that it was all that God asked and it was sufficient based upon Abraham trusting God to fulfill His promise. It was enough for God to impute to Abraham His own righteousness, to credit to Abraham's account the very righteousness that belonged only to God. He is given divine righteousness, not that his faith earned it, his faith received it.
Justification, this great doctrine of justification is the imputation of righteousness to undeserving sinners. You remember that back in verse 5. "To the one who doesn't work, don't earn it, but believes in Him...here's the key...who justifies the ungodly." Not the godly cause there wouldn't be anybody qualified. "He justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness." There's the same point. Justification is a gift of God, righteousness credited to our account so that before God you are viewed as righteous, not because we earned it or deserved it, but because we believed that God would give it if we put our trust in Him.
Salvation not by works, by faith...not by Law, by grace...not by human power, by divine power. Well the Apostle gives a final point, the application of Abraham's faith, verses 23 to 25, and this brings it down to us. "Not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him." The point is, what does it say to us? What does this mean to us? These things were not recorded as mere historical facts, but as illustrations for all people of all times of God's method of justification, that God credits righteousness to those who have faith.
So this isn't just the story of Abraham, this is everybody's story and that's why we can be called by the Apostle Paul, in the New Testament, the children of Abraham. Not in a racial sense, but in a spiritual sense. Here's an illustration of how anybody in any time period is saved, by believing in the promises of God. And this is also a great statement, by the way, on the role of Scripture. Look at it again. "Now not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him." It was written for us. Verse 24, "But for our sake to whom it will be credited, or imputed, as those who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead."
The very one who was delivered over, crucified because of our transgressions and raised because of our justification. The application of the story of Abraham is to everybody. Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone, not by works righteousness...I love this phrase...verse 24, "It was written for our sake also to whom it will be credited...it will be credited." That is to say from now on. It's not a future. It starts now and it will always be this way. It will always be this way. Righteousness will always be imputed to those who believe. Abraham is living testimony to the great Old Testament truth...the just shall live by faith. And he even gives us a definition of that faith, s we saw so magnificently explained by the Apostle Paul. The only way for any sinner to be saved is the way that Abraham was saved. The only way for any of us to be made righteous before God is the way that Abraham became righteous before God. Righteousness was imputed to him because he trusted in the revealed promises of God.
It is the object of Abraham's faith that saves. Do you get that? It is the object of Abraham's faith that saves, not the nature of his faith. He's not saved because some...there's some meritorious faith. He is saved because he puts his trust in God, the true God. He fully believed in the God who could create out of nothing, the creator God, he fully believed in the God who could raise the dead and he utterly committed his life in submissive obedience to that trust. He believed that God could raise him, could raise his son, could raise a child out of their deadness. He believed that God had the power to do anything when it came to giving life. He even believed that God would raise up one day a Redeemer...a Redeemer who was dead and came to life.
Did Abraham really believe in Christ? I mentioned it earlier, here it is, John 8:56, "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day and he saw it and was glad." Could it have been that in the occasion with Isaac God gave him some personal instruction that taking Isaac and laying him on the altar and then providing a ram out of the thicket as a substitute, could God have given him the full theological lesson of substitutionary atonement by a provision that God Himself would bring? And then that God would raise that one from the dead, as Abraham believed He would have done in Isaac's case if he had taken his life? We are saved because we believe in the Creator/God, the God who raises the dead and now on this side of the cross, we believe in the God not who will raise the dead, but who has raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, after His atonement on the cross for our transgressions.
What does it take to be a Christian? Romans 10:9 and 10, "To confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead." It is He who went to the cross...I love verse 25, just a couple of comments..."Delivered over," technical term meaning to put somebody in prison or trial or take them for execution, "for or because of our offenses, our transgressions." He paid the penalty, as you know, "And was raised for our justification. By raising Jesus from the dead, God affirmed that He had accepted Christ's atoning sacrifice as sufficient in full."
So we're nothing but a lot of Abrahams in a way. We're made right with God because we believe whatever God has said. He didn't have the full picture, but he probably had a lot more than we know about what was to come. On the other hand, we have the full story, salvation comes to us, this is the Christian message, this is the Christian gospel, not by something we do, not by our works but by believing what God has said to be true about Himself. At any point in time, saving faith was faith in God to the full point of His self-revelation. Now, of course, the revelation is full and complete concerning Christ.
Father, we thank You for this wonderful portion of Scripture that unpacks for us the essence really of saving faith, to believe what we cannot see and haven't experienced, but because You have said it to us again and again and repeated Your promise in Your covenant on the pages of holy Scripture and You have verified it in our hearts by the work of the Holy Spirit and You revealed Yourself again and again to us. We trust You. We know You to be the Creator/ God. We know You can raise the dead because You have given us the record of Scripture in which the dead have been raised and most notably You raised Christ and based on His resurrection, we will rise as well. We thank You for the hope in which we live. We thank You for the righteousness given to us to which we could make no contribution by our own effort. The only heaven that exists is the one that You created and the only way to get there is to have You take us. The only way we could ever be taken is to be righteous. The only way we could ever be righteous, to have a righteousness not our own imputed to us, the only way that happens is when we know we can't earn it and we ask for it as a gift of faith and grace. Encourage our hearts, Lord, in the wonder of this salvation, in Christ's name. Amen.
Now before you go tonight, as you know we are blessed in this church to have a missionary family that has to be the best on the planet...all over the world, such faithful people. One of our special treasures and one of our beloved missionaries is Josiah Groundman(?), his wife Crystal, they've been down in Mexico now for a number of years and I don't know how many years you've been down there now? Two years and Josiah struggles with all kinds of physical issues, telling me earlier that the whole time you're down there your temperature never goes below 101. Thirty-six hours here and he's normal, well as normal as Josiah will ever get, normal temperature. He's a special servant of the Lord and I think we talked about a few years ago how difficult it was to have a child and lost a child, Crystal lost a child in pregnancy but since that time the Lord has given them a daughter and you're on your way to having a son, and we're so excited. They came back for a few days for a wedding, and get this, he got out of there on one of the last flights before the quarantined everybody on the Swine Flu. So he flew before the flu took over Mexico. We're glad, we're glad that he's here and by the time they're scheduled to go back, the real fear element is over. But they canceled the seminary, they canceled church and the church where he serves and a seminary with great blessing. And just to give you a little bit of look forward, I'll let him talk about this. He's coming back on a permanent basis in August, he's going to start a training center here to train Spanish-speaking pastors. We need to do that. Sixty-five million Hispanics in America and a tremendous need there. We're going to bring him back where it's easier for him to survive.
Well I said, "Who's going to replace you?" Well he spent the last two years training all the guys to replace him, right? I doubt that. But I think you made a good effort at it. So Josiah's going to come and I want him to say a word, say what's on his heart, greet you a little bit and then lead in a closing prayer.
Let's welcome Josiah. (Applause)
JOSIAH: It's really a joy to be with you here this evening. We are so grateful to the Lord for His kindness that He shows us through your gifts and your prayers. Crys and I were talking before the service and saying we wonder if, unless you've been a missionary, you can understand the preciousness of receiving cards and phone calls and e-mails, so we're just so thankful to the Lord for you and the support that you guys show us in real tangible ways. We're staying in your house, the missionary house next door, that's a great blessing. We would love to meet you throughout the week if you want to stop by, we're going to be here for another week. But it's just a joy to be here.
One of the biggest things on my heart, the five years before we went to Mexico City, I served as a hospital chaplain in downtown L.A.A. and it was just such a burden on my heart to see what precious little we were doing to reach the Hispanic community here in Los Angeles. To give you a...not we as a church, sorry, I got some weird looks there...church at large in America, just to give you an idea, to put it in perspective, there's eight millions Hispanics supposedly in Los Angeles, seven million people that live in El Salvador and you have thousands of churches, hundreds of seminaries in those locations and in the United States we're not doing that much. So we're just real excited to be coming home, going to have a night school here to be training pastors. And we're really, really looking forward to that.
Please join me in a word of prayer.
Father, we praise You for who You are. We thank You for faith and the precious gift that it is, the grace and the peace and the hope and the forgiveness that come with it. As we think of the short-term missions team that will be sent out, we're reminded that this message of faith and forgiveness is a message that has been entrusted to us as Your ambassadors to take with us in our communities and to the ends of the world. And we pray that You would make us faithful. We thank You in Christ's name whom we long to be like. Amen.


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With a subject as specific as sex addiction, comparisons to 2011's "Shame" are inevitable. That dark drama was a deep-probe character study, intensely focused on a man consumed by his cravings.
By contrast, "Thanks for Sharing" is an ensemble piece juggling humor with sober observation of three men intent on overcoming their dependence on the pleasures of the flesh.
Making a technically polished directing debut, screenwriter Stuart Blumberg ("The Kids Are All Right") has in essence crafted the date-night version of the sexaholic's confessional.
While it doesn't crawl under the skin the way "Shame" did, "Thanks for Sharing" probably will prove more widely appealing to audiences, with a name cast and a glossy portrait of New York as a playground of visual stimuli.
Captured in crisp advertising imagery and singing colors by cinematographer Yaron Orbach, it's a metropolitan catwalk, a promo-reel for romance and desire. Gorgeous women glide along the streets, pretty young couples make out on the High Line, and every billboard, bus and taxi display explodes with sensuality.
All of that keeps "Thanks for Sharing" watchable and mildly entertaining, even if it's 15-20 minutes too long. What stops the film from being more satisfying, however, is a problem with the way the central character, Adam (Mark Ruffalo), takes shape.
Also troublesome is the miscasting of Phoebe (Gwyneth Paltrow). Bashing Paltrow has become a tired, easy sport that anyone can play. But her preening performance in an inconsistently drawn role here is a major intrusion.
Adam is a smart, soulful environmental consultant celebrating five years in recovery, with the character carefully set up to give the film a core of emotional integrity.
When his sponsor, Mike (Tim Robbins), insists it's time for him to bite the bullet and start dating again, Adam conveniently meets Phoebe at a foodie evening. She's a cancer survivor and fitness fanatic whose previous boyfriend's alcoholism gave her an aversion to addicts. This means, of course, that Adam predictably stalls before sharing details of his recovery.
In a staggeringly miscalculated scene, Phoebe processes the unsettling news and then gives the relationship another shot by stripping down to fetish lingerie and demonstrating her lap-dancing skills on a stunned Adam.
While this reads as insensitive, sadistic, stupid or all three, Blumberg and co-scripter Matt Winston justify the behavior by having Phoebe say: "I'm a very sexual person. I need to express that side of me." The queen of mixed signals, she's a phony character and a too-transparent catalyst for Adam's inevitable fall from the wagon.
This shortchanges Ruffalo, who gives a typically sensitive performance, both in his monastic adherence to the vigilant rules of sobriety and his wounded admission of defeat. But it's hard to remain invested in whether or not Adam and Phoebe work things out. He deserves better.
The film has more nuance and credibility in its secondary strands. One concerns the stubbornness of Mike, the aphorism-spouting elder statesman of the group, who has little faith in the claim that his ex-junkie son Danny (Patrick Fugit) is now clean and eager to atone for his missteps.
Meanwhile, Danny is still waiting for Mike's contrition for his drunken toxicity during the boy's childhood. Both actors bring conviction to the gradual bridging of the distance between them. Joely Richardson adds tender notes as Danny's mother.
Also getting considerable attention in the recovery group is the progress of Neil (Josh Gad), a chubby young ER medic doing court-ordered SAA time. Unrepentant at first, and reluctant to adopt the austerity measures required by the program -- no television, no Internet, no masturbation, no subways -- Neil alienates his designated sponsor, Adam. But when he's fired as a result of his illness, he gets serious.
Help for Neil comes, paradoxically, from the lone female in the group, Dede (Alecia Moore, aka the rocker Pink), a tattooed tough girl who has hit 30 with the realization that she can only relate to men through sex.
A breakout star of "The Book of Mormon" on Broadway, Gad does the film's comedic heavy lifting, much of it demeaning physical gags and scenes with his suffocating Jewish mother (Carol Kane).
But it's in the sweet blossoming of Neil's loving yet platonic friendship with Dede, and their mutual support, that Gad's work resonates most.
In her film debut, Moore proves to be a capable actor with a relaxed, enormously likable screen presence.
Showing an even-handed mix of dramatic episodes with light moments, Blumberg and Winston's script mostly treats sex addiction not as joke fodder but as a serious condition.
However, unlike the director's work on "The Kids Are All Right," in which every emotional response felt organic to the characters, "Thanks for Sharing" is too neat and tidy. Not to mention overwritten. Too much of what happens as the characters undergo their various brushes with failure and redemption feels predetermined and formulaic.
"Thanks for Sharing," a Roadside Attractions release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "language and some strong sexual content." Running time: 112 minutes.


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duke wrote:I'd like to see the storm rain figure displayed on the dashboard and similar to above the RG11 data. Perhaps the RG11 data could be optional as I assume not many of us have these.
Taking note of Steve's comments above, the storm rain figure would be more suited to the 'Now' page. Where as the RG11 data is 'realtime'.


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A judge in Chicago on Friday sentenced Michael Selvie to 55 years in prison for the murder of Willie Posey, the best friend of Bengals defensive tackle Tank Johnson.
But at the sentencing, the Chicago Tribune reports, Judge Joseph Claps reserved his harshest words not for Selvie but for Johnson. The 2006 incident that resulted in Posey's death began with Johnson, who then played for the Bears, bumping into Selvie at a nightclub. And it ended with Johnson running away and then lying to police about what happened.
"Mr. Johnson has to live with his behavior that night, his failure to render aid to a person he described as his best friend . . . his cowardice and his attempts at self-preservation," Claps said.
At Selvie's trial, Johnson admitted that he had lied to police and said he wasn't present for the shooting, saying he did so in the fear that the Bears would release him if they knew the truth. In reality, the Bears stood behind Johnson at that point, even though he had recently violated his probation by having unregistered weapons at his home.
The Bears did eventually release Johnson, after he was arrested for suspicion of DUI during the 2007 offseason. Johnson has avoided legal trouble in the three years since then while playing for the Cowboys and Bengals.
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Local coverage of Kevin Alston's recent chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) diagnosis includes pieces from the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston.com and ESPN Boston.
Searching #GetWellKA on twitter will cull many well wishers for Alston. Steve Davis did his own search and compiled some of the notable responses. See which former teammates sent Alston their support in this NBC Sports ProSoccerTalk piece.
On a lighter note, Goal.com's weekly power rankings have been released. The Revs started the season at No. 15. Find out where they now stand in Kyle McCarthy's rankings and what he thinks about the Revolution's road trip to Seattle.


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As a strong proponent of abolishing Maryland's death penalty, I was pleased to learn that the General Assembly recently voted to eliminate the practice ("Reason over revenge, at long last," March 17).
I oppose the death penalty because it is an inhumane act that serves no purpose and because it has led to wrongly convicted individuals being sentenced to death. I encourage skeptics to read the compelling story of Kirk Bloodsworth, a Marylander on death row who became the first inmate in the nation ever to be exonerated by DNA evidence.
While I am disappointed that Dels. James Malone and Steve DeBoy, who represent Columbia, and state Sen. Ed Kasemeyer, all voted against repealing the death penalty, I am encouraged that Gov. Martin O'Malley has committed to signing the ban into law.
Fortunately, there doesn't seem to be any groundswell of support for bringing the repeal to a referendum next year, and I hope this continues to be the case. The repeal of the state's death penalty is long overdue and it deserves to remain in place so that the execution of innocent Marylanders is no longer a possibility.
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HOOD RIVER - Gov. John Kitzhaber sounded notes of optimism after a year in office, during a round table talk and speech to Hood River Rotary Thursday.
Leaders in local government, as well as agriculture, technology, manufacturing and tourism reported on works in progress and gave Kitzhaber a wide range of requests and ideas, during the governor's half-day visit to Hood River County.
"I am optimistic about Oregon's future," said Kitzhaber, speaking to packed house of 400 people at the Rotary meeting at Best Western Hood River Inn.
"With your help, we can weather this economic challenge, and we can do it without losing our sense of community, without losing our commitment to one another; and emerge stronger and more united than where we began," Kitzhaber said.
"We've changed the tone at the top, and our collaborative partnership with labor, business groups, chamber of commerce and the regional solutions advisory committee has been the key to our early successes," Kitzhaber said in his Rotary talk.
Also on Thursday, Kitzhaber cut the ribbon at the Port of Cascade Locks' new Herman Creek facility. With him were port officials and State Rep. Mark Johnson and State Sen. Chuck Thomsen of Hood River. Johnson and his staff organized the governor's visit.
Johnson said the governor got a look at the "economic tapestry" of Hood River, made up of "multi-dimensional, multifaceted businesses that rely on each other, support each other and create a great place to do business and raise our kids." Johnson spoke following the round table of agriculture, technology, manufacturing and tourism business leaders.
"As we continue in the depths of this frustrating recessive economy, and look for traction back to normalcy, the rest of Oregon has much to learn from Hood River County," Johnson went on to say.
The governor called for a revision to the Oregon Business plan that has as its main goal "creating and retaining economic activity and family wage jobs while reducing our carbon footprint and restoring our natural environment."
"Expanding the manufacturing sector to reduce reliance on imports, and minimizing export of raw materials and maximizing export of value-added (timber) precuts are two other keys," he said. Kitzhaber also said the Business Plan should minimize the need for imported energy and "keep capital circulating in our state through local sourcing and supply chains."
He added that "this economy has both an environmental restoration element and a resource conservation component" and should initially include at least six elements: upgrading energy-efficient upgrades to schools and all public buildings; adopting a 10-year energy plan emphasizing renewal energy and "efficiency opportunities"; supporting "emerging innovation" in Oregon's biomass industry; strategies to reduce export of raw logs and raw agricultural products while increasing the use of Oregon agricultural and wood products in Oregon"; and creating a "cluster" strategy -- connecting Oregon manufacturers and suppliers with each other.
"These steps are all key points in the Oregon Business Plan and we have been aggressively pursuing them with our partners in business and labor. But clearly, we still have a long way to go," Kitzhaber said.
Kitzhaber quoted Albert Einstein, who said, "You should not use an old map to explore a new world."
"Each new generation faces a new world with new challenges," Kitzhaber said. "These are challenges that cannot be met by clinging to the past but only by imagining a new world and a new set of tools with which to build it."
He called on Oregonians "to set a new chart, and sail into the future together."
"When I took office I vowed to focus on three priorities from day one of my administration. First, I wanted to ensure that the state would be an effective partner getting the private sector economy going again for big companies and small entrepreneurs alike - and to set the stage for breaking the boom-bust cycle that has plagued us for decades. Second, I wanted to transform our health care system to reduce the opportunity costs involved with spending an ever-growing portion of our resources on this one sector alone. Third, I wanted to transform our system of public education to create a skilled workforce capable of competing and excelling in the global economy of the 21st century.
"One year later, and a little grayer, I believe we have made significant progress," Kitzhaber said.
"And while too many Oregonians still remain out of work and facing uncertainty, we will emerge from this recession stronger and better positioned for the future.
"On the jobs front, we are making progress," said Kitzhaber, who had met earlier with local business and government leaders and heard about economic development projects, as well as requests for assistance on interests including immigration reform, protecting air quality and improving export markets.
"We ask that you really push for immigration reform," at the federal level, said Jean Godfrey, director of Columbia Gorge Growers Shippers, which represents orchardists and packing houses. Hood River agriculture constitutes 30 percent of the county's economy, Godfrey noted.
Citing a severe lack of orchard workers in 2011 and the resulting delays in getting fruit off the trees and into the packing houses, Godfrey said, "We ask that the state work with the federal government and ask that they not enact any immigration reform like they have in other states."
Kitzhaber's visit to Hood River was his first since he was elected in November 2010 to his third term. Kitzhaber, a Roseburg Democrat, also served as governor for two terms, 1992-2000, and was a state legislator before that.
On health care, Kitzhaber said, "With legislative leadership and the involvement of Oregonians in communities around the state, I believe that we have been very successful in catalyzing a new approach in health care.
"The passage of SB 99 (which established our state health care insurance exchange), and HB 3650 (which established a pathway to transform our health care delivery system for the 600,000 people on the Oregon Health Plan), has allowed us to take the first step to reduce cost and improve health outcomes for all Oregonians."
Kitzhaber's education advisor, Ben Cannon, toured Hood River schools on Thursday, meeting with Supt. Charlie Beck and other educators.
At Rotary, Kitzhaber said, "With help from local communities like Hood River, business leaders, strong leadership from the legislature, and from educators around the state we are also making progress on changes to our system of public education, which will deliver better results for students and more resources for teachers.
"With only two-thirds of Oregon students graduating from high school, I feel a tremendous sense of urgency at this effort. Indeed, our social, civic and economic objectives depend on meeting aggressive targets for all Oregon students to earn high school diplomas and at least 80 percent to earn an associate degree, a technical certificate, a baccalaureate degree or higher. With the passage of SB 909 and SB 242 we are, for the first time, aligning funding and governance across the full continuum of education from early childhood services through K-12 and post-secondary education and training to achieve these goals."
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WORCESTER — Neighbors say three men found dead Monday afternoon in an apartment on Outlook Drive were probably dead for some time before their bodies were discovered by a maintenance worker just before 2:45 p.m.
Police said the dead men's ages were 49, 54 and 55. Two were from Worcester and the third was from Dudley, police said.
Police said they believe the deaths were drug-related and they do not suspect foul play, though "the exact cause of death will not be determined until toxicology reports are completed," they said in a news release.
In the release, police said they went to an apartment in the Washington Heights Community at 2:41 p.m. after a maintenance man reported finding two unresponsive men inside.
The worker had gone to the apartment for scheduled maintenance, police said, and entered with a master key after no one answered the door.
Police said they found two men dead in the front part of the apartment and another man dead in the rear part of the apartment, located at 67 Outlook Drive.
Neighbors said one of the men lived in the apartment and the other two were friends.
A foul smell occasionally wafted through the area as staff from the medical examiner's office clad head to toe in white protective gear removed the bodies, placing two inside a van and a third into a hearse.
Jeffrey Colzie said he knew the men and they were "good people" who got hooked on drugs. He'd last seen them on Friday and suspected they may have died sometime Saturday.
"The first of the month, every city, you get bodies piling up," Mr. Colzie said, referring to people who are drug-addicted and receive a monthly assistance check.
He and several neighbors gathered in a courtyard and watched as the bodies, covered in white cloth, were removed.
Some of the neighbors said they hoped that what their children were witnessing would be a deterrent, should they ever consider using drugs, but, Mr. Colzie said, television news has "desensitized" many people to death.
It may be months before police can say for sure whether drugs were the cause of death.
"Under current circumstances, these results can take up to six months for final determination," police wrote in the news release.
Police said the names of the men were being withheld pending notification of family members. Investigators were still at the apartment Monday evening conducting interviews and collecting evidence.
Brad Petrishen and Scott J. Croteau of the Telegram & Gazette staff contributed to this report.