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The desire of my heart this morning to bring to you a word from the Lord which is fitting for our Shepherd's Conference and for the many folks who are with us who are pastoring and leading churches and church ministries around the country and the world. And with that in mind I have been drawn, I'm sure, by the prompting of the Holy Spirit to a marvelous text in Matthew chapter 16 and I would invite you now to open God's Word to that chapter...Matthew 16. And I would like to read from verse 16 on, down through verse 19...Matthew chapter 16. "And Simon Peter answered and said, `Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.' And Jesus answered and said to him, `Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you but My Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church and the gates of Hades shall not overpower it. I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.'"
I want to focus our attention on one particular part of this text and that is verse 18 where the Lord says, "I will build My church." Men can build buildings and men can build organizations but only Jesus Christ can build the church. There are churches built by men, some of them you have attended, no doubt, as I have. But here our Lord says, "I will build My church," the only one approved by God and supernaturally constructed. For all of the years of labor here at Grace Church, it has been my prayer and my desire to see Christ build His church. I never want to come to the end of my life and look back and wonder if He did it or I did it. I want this church to be the church that Christ is building. That's why we resist the gimmicks and techniques and manipulations and all the rest that people use to increase attention or numbers, all we want to do is get out of the way so the Lord can build His church His way. And it has been an exciting ministry here for me, and for you, I know, because we have seen Christ build His church.
This particular passage of Scripture, I think, is the most hopeful one in all of the New Testament with regard to encouragement for those in the ministry because it gives us the promise of God that He will build His church. As the disciples walked along the dusty roads of Caesarea Philippi, they were in a kind of exile. The leaders, the religious and the political powers as well as the people of Israel had rejected them. They had also rejected their message and their leader, the Lord Jesus Christ. In fact, it was apparent by now to the disciples that some of the Jews not only weren't interested in Jesus but wanted Him dead. Down in verse 21 the immediately following passage, Jesus tells His disciples that He will go to Jerusalem and be killed.
Now the disciples knew that He was the Messiah and the confession of Peter in verse 16, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God," really summed up what they had all come to know by the revelation of God. They were convinced that this was God in human flesh, God the Son and indeed the Messiah, the anointed King, the promised one. But they seemed to be alone in that conviction. Few people identified with it and affirmed it. For the most part, both the Kingdom and the King were being rejected wholesale. Things looked very bleak and very discouraging. And in just a few moments when Jesus said He was going to die, it was a statement that absolutely devastated whatever was left of hope in them...so much so that Peter said, "No, no, it can't happen, it won't happen." And Jesus rebuked him and said, "Get thee behind Me, Satan. You're a stumbling block to Me, you're not setting your mind on God's interest but on man's."
I mean, the disciples had really believed all along that indeed when the Messiah came there would be a great spiritual awakening and revival. And they would have expected Israel to turn from sin and embrace the Messiah. They also expected that there would be a wholesale political takeover of the land of Israel at first and all that Israel was once promised, stretching from the Mediterranean east to the rivers of the Mesopotamian Valley and they would have expected that the Messiah would have, first of all, thrown Rome out and broken the Roman yoke and begun, as it were, to establish a kingdom that embraced the world. And it wasn't going that way. The little group had retreated north to the very farthest northern point in the land of Israel, right up on the border, what we now know as the border of Lebanon, at the foot of the mountains in that obscure little town populated mostly by border Gentiles called Caesarea Philippi. They went there for meditation. They went there for some instruction. They went there for prayer. They went there to regroup. They went there to sort out the plan and what was supposed to be happening. And they went there for safety.
And all in all, it looked like the Messianic program of redemption was a failure. And they had put a lot into it. And they had abandoned everything. And the promise of it and the hope of it was so bright, but what was happening didn't at all square up with their cherished anticipation. They were struggling with unfulfilled hopes. They were struggling with the fact that they had made a major investment of their life in something that looked like it wasn't going to be what they wanted it to be. The rejection and the hostility of the people all around them was not what they had planned. There they are huddled up in that lovely area, an area of beauty even today, where the head waters of the Jordan begin and rush down through the Jordan Valley. A beautiful little clear stream rolls out of the hills. I've sat at that stream, drunk that water and eaten a little piece of Arab bread and thought about the disciples that day when they were there and wondering why it all seemed to be crashing down around their ears.
Because of their despair and broken heartedness that they were experiencing and because Jesus was about to tell them they hadn't seen the worse yet, He was going to be killed, He has to say to them what He says to them in verse 18. He has to fan the flame of whatever smoldering hope is left. And so He says to them, "I will build My church," as if to say, "I know it doesn't look very hopeful, I know the plan isn't unfolding the way you thought it would, I know that by all outward appearance it isn't working, but I will build My church and nothing is going to stand in its way, not even the gates of Hades." And Jesus is reminding them that you can't always tell by appearance. Do you remember the church at Smyrna? And the Lord gave the letter to John to send with the messenger to the church at Smyrna, part of the letter says, "I know your tribulation and your poverty, but you are rich." Couldn't tell by appearance. Smyrna looked poor, it was rich. And later on to the church at Laodicea the Lord said, "You say I am rich and increase with goods and have need of nothing and you don't realize you are poor and you are blind and you are naked." Can't always tell by appearance.
It didn't look well but Jesus said, "I'll build My church in spite of what it looks like." And these men needed that confidence. And I am sure that through the history of the church as it has ebbed and flowed through all the years of redemptive planning, that there have always been times when God's few sat back and said, "It looks like this is the end...it looks like we're being swallowed up...it looks bad and bleak." And these disciples were only the first of many who have gone back to the confidence-building statement of Matthew chapter 16 and verse 18, "I will build My church." The church through its history has been beleaguered, it has been persecuted, it has been martyred and rejected and maligned. It has been ignored. It has been liberalized and apostatized and the poor, ignoble people of God have looked like losers. But the truth is, we're not. And here in this brief passage the Lord affirms the triumph.
Now as we contemplate the rich meaning of the statement of verse 18, I want to help you look into some of the characteristics, some of the features of the church that Christ is building. First, let's look at the certainty of it...the certainty of it. Without any qualifiers, without any caveats, Jesus said, "I will build My church." That is a divine promise. That is a promise from Christ who is the true and faithful witness, from Christ who is God who cannot lie. That is a promise from the one who faithful and true, the one who cannot speak an untruth, who cannot promise and it not come to pass. That is a promise from the one who keeps His word...I'll build My church.
The future tense does not imply that God has not been doing it, it does imply emphatically that He will continue doing it until its completion. There is so much inherent in this that may escape us. Let me remind you of something in Titus chapter 1, for a moment. In Titus chapter 1, the first two verses the Apostle Paul gives the three main components of his ministry, the three main elements of his preaching and teaching.
One, he was sent from God, a messenger of Christ for the faith of those chosen of God. That is he had an evangelistic purpose. He was to come and bring the message of the gospel which elicited saving faith in the elect. Secondly, his ministry involved the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness. And he was come also for edification. He was come for evangelism leading to salvation and edification leading to sanctification. And then he says in verse 2, "I was also come to instruct in the hope of eternal life." And here he says I was come for encouragement leading to security, endurance. My ministry then is evangelism, and edification and encouragement. It is to bring people to salvation and sanctification and security about the permanent reality of their eternal life. And all of this...look at the end of verse 2, he says...God who cannot lie promised. And when did He promise it? Long ages ago. Literally what that says is before time...before time. God made a promise to redeem people before time. He made a promise that there was an elect who would come to faith, who would hear the truth and pursue a path to godliness and live in the hope of eternal life. And He made that promise before time.
Go back to 2 Timothy 1:9, just keep that thought, 2 Timothy 1:9, "God...says verse 8...who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to His own purpose and grace, which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity but now has been revealed." Here it is again. God made a promise, God made a plan involving Jesus Christ, a plan of salvation way back in eternity, before time. That's why Hebrews 13:20 calls this the "eternal covenant."
Now the question immediately that comes to mind is: If God made such a promise to redeem humanity, to whom did He make it? If He made it before anyone was created, if He made it before time, if He made it back in eternity, to whom did God make the promise? In John 17, listen to verse 24, "Father, I desire that they also...listen to this...whom Thou hast given Me be with Me where I am in order that they may behold My glory which Thou hast given Me, for Thou didst love Me before the foundation of the world." That is...just a massive statement that's so transcendent I don't know that we can even capture its significance. What Jesus is saying is this..."Father, there are some people that You have given Me and I want them to be with Me where I am in Your presence, I want those You've given Me to see My glory for You loved Me...here's the line...before the foundation of the world." Now let's follow the thought, let's pull it together.
Before time, way back in eternity, before the foundation of the world, the Father loved the Son. He loved the Son so perfectly that He desired to give to the Son a gift that would somehow express His love. And the greatest gift that the Father could give the Son as an expression of His love was a redeemed humanity. And Jesus is simply saying here, "I want them that You are giving Me, that You've chosen before the foundation of the world, I want them to be with Me where I am to see My glory." In other words, "I affirm the plan, I want it to happen." And in a sense, in the wanting and the affirmation of verse 24 is the inevitability of the cross.
Go back to John 6...back to John 6, familiar words, but here them maybe in a new way. Verse 37, "All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me and the one who comes to Me I'll certainly not cast out." Why? Because he's a gift from the Father, he's a gift of love from the Father, I'm not about to cast him out, I'm not about to spurn the Father's love, "For I have come down from heaven...why?...not to do My will but the will of Him who sent Me." And what is the will of Him who sent Me? "That of every one He gives Me I lose none, but raise them up on the last day. So this is the will of My Father that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life and I Myself will raise him up on the last day."
In other words, Jesus said, "Look, I've come into the world to do the Father's will. And the Father's will isn't some multiplicity of things, the Father's will is for Me to come and do the redemptive work on the cross which will provide the salvation by which the Father can give Me...the elect. He wants to give Me this redeemed humanity as a gift of His love and I have come down from heaven to do My part to make that a reality. And My part, obviously, is to die and to rise again that I might provide resurrection for them."
So when Jesus said He had come to the Father's will, what He meant by that was to fulfill the plan of God in eternity past, the covenant that God made to give to Christ a redeemed humanity and Christ in order to receive that redeemed humanity had to play a part, namely to come and die on the cross. The wonderful, wonderful conclusion of this is in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, don't turn to it, I'll just read it to you, it says there, that ultimately, "Everything will be put in to Christ's control and when all things are subject to Christ, then He says, all things are put in subjection. What does He do? The Son Himself then, verse 28, will be subjected to the one who subjected all things to Him, that God may be all in all." What will happen? The Son will say, "I have received this redeemed humanity as a gift of Your love, I have received them, Father, and now I give them back to You as a gift of My love to You." This is immense. When we read in the Scripture Jesus' words, "I will build My church and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it," what He means to say is, "I am coming to earth and I am going to do the redemptive work and I am going to do what must be done to redeem all those who are the elect from all the way back in the beginning to all the way to the end, My death will make provision for all the elect, I will do that, nobody will be lost, I will raise them all because this is My part in fulfilling a role in the Father's plan to give Me a love gift, a redeemed humanity which in the end I will give back to Him as an expression of My own love."
The certainty then of the church is based on the unchanging, unwavering, absolute promise of God and the power of God to effect the fulfillment of the promise. That's why when you go in to the book of Acts you read things like this in chapter 2 verse 39, "For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off...that is Jews and Gentiles...as many as the Lord our God shall call to Himself." That's why in verse 47 you see the Lord adding to their number day by day those who were being saved as He is collecting His redeemed assembly. That's why in chapter 5 verse 14 it says, "And all the more believers in the Lord, multitudes of men and women were constantly adding to their number." That's why in chapter 11 of Acts and verse 24, "Considerable numbers were being brought to the Lord." And over in chapter 13 verse 48, it just keeps going like this, we read, "And when the Gentiles heard this they began rejoicing and glorifying the Word of the Lord, and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed." The book of Acts starts the flow after Christ's resurrection of gathering the redeemed humanity.
And so the Lord says, "I will build My church." And it's a far bigger plan than any of us could ever conceive of as He fulfills His part in the Father's expression of love to Himself. Will you please understand this? The primary reason for your salvation is not to keep you out of hell, it's not to make you happy. The primary reason for your salvation is so that you can spend forever and ever and ever and ever glorifying Jesus Christ. That's the Father's purpose and the Son's purpose is to have you do the same for the Father. That's the infinity of this glorious plan.
This simply means that we're not building the church. Do you understand that? We cannot figure out a better way to get more folks in than God had in mind. Nor can we mess it up so fewer arrive than He planned on. It doesn't matter what human means we use, we cannot increase the number that God has ordained, and nor can we decrease it by our ineptitude. We are endeavoring to be holy and faithful and obedient so that God can do His work and we may have the privilege of being instruments in it. There is such certainty here. Against all the opposition of human wisdom and all the assistance of human wisdom, against all the efforts of carnality and ineptitude and indifference and apathy and apostasy and liberalism and error, against all the denominationalism and fanaticism and everything else, the true church will be built. If God's going to do it, it can't be stopped.
Secondly, I want you to notice the intimacy of it...the intimacy of it. Jesus said, "I will build My church." It was His by right, the Father said it was His. The Father made a pledge to give the Son a redeemed humanity, it was His. He personally possesses and owns it. That's such a tremendous truth. You start to see that unfold more clearly, don't you, in John 10 where those magnificent words of Jesus in the context of speaking of Himself as a shepherd says, verse 14, "I am the Good Shepherd, I know My own...I know My own and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father and I lay down My life for the sheep...I know Mine and Mine know Me and they belong to Me." You are not your own, says Paul, you are bought with a price. Acts 20:28, "He's purchased you with His own blood." First Peter says that it is the blood of the Lamb without spot, without blemish. The price has been paid. John 10 further down in verse 15, the next verse, "I lay down My life for the sheep." And the fruit of that comes in verse 27, "My sheep then hear My voice, I know them, they follow Me, I give eternal life to them, they shall never perish and no one shall snatch them out of My hand, My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand, I and the Father are one."
He was trying to tell those Jews that this was all about an eternal plan between the first member of the trinity and the second member of the trinity and that nobody was going to slip through the cracks. And that He was collecting a redeemed people that were His own and they belonged to Him and they were so much His that no one could ever stop them, prevent them from becoming His. Nor could they ever be snatched out of His hand or the Father's hand. Instead of the Jews saying "Hallelujah," they picked up stones to kill Him. But Jesus is saying when He says "I build My church" that I have a personal relationship with these people, they are Mine. He is not just the architect and the builder, not just the key chief cornerstone, but He is the very life of the church, so much so that "Nevertheless I live, yet not I but Christ lives in me." "Christ in you, the hope of glory," Paul told the Colossians. He lives in His church. His church is truly His church. His life pulses in the very veins of His church. Christ lives in you. You are His and He is yours. That's the intimacy of it. And the great transcendent reality is that you are His because the Father has given you to Him. You are a love gift from the Father to the Son for the purpose of spending all eternity glorifying Him. That's because the Father loves Him so much. He wants all of this humanity gathered from the very beginning of redemptive history to the end to spend all eternity praising His Son. You're His in that sense. That's your purpose.
Thirdly, He speaks of the identify of the church. And I suppose at this point we need to ask that fair question...what does church mean in this context? Now you've got to realize that these disciples were sitting up there in Caesarea Philippi and they don't know anything more than what Jesus has been teaching them. They know nothing about the future unless the Lord has given them some window on it. They don't know what a church is. They've never seen a church cause there's never been one. They don't know what a steeple looks like. They've never seen a church building. They've never heard of a Baptist or a Presbyterian or a Lutheran or Grace Church or a Bible church. They've never heard of any kind of organization with that name formally. They've never met a pastor or an elder or a deacon. They don't know anything about a church.
So when Jesus says I will build My church, they don't think what you think. They don't think what I think. Somehow you've got to fill in that a little bit. What did they think when He said "I will build My church?" I mean, after all, this is the first time the word "church" is ever used in the New Testament and it's only used twice in the gospels, the other one being in Matthew 18. It is not a technical term here for the institution that we have come to know. It is not some dispensational promise about a future entity that's going to come into existence, though it is true the church did come into existence in its formal sense on Pentecost. But I believe what He is saying here is just a general expression without the precise meaning that comes into play later on the book of Acts and ultimately in the epistles. It has the non-technical sense of an assembly, a congregation. In fact, most likely, though the New Testament was given by the Holy Spirit in the Greek language to the writers, when Jesus spoke He likely spoke in Aramaic. And if He was speaking here in Aramaic, the common every day language of the time, He would have said, "I will build My kahoul(??)," that word would mean congregation, the body of people that come together in the name of the Lord. Even ekklesia for Jews who knew the Greek language would have the same kind of meaning as a gathering of Jews in a synagogue, an assembly of people to worship God, a non-technical word. The basic word in Greek simply meant a town meeting, or a gathering of freemen to discuss whatever they wanted to discuss.
So when Jesus said "I will build My church," all they would understand is "I am going to assemble My redeemed people...I am going to gather My congregation of the worshipers of God who worship Him in truth and in Spirit." He was promising the assembly of a redeemed people. To support this non-general...I should say this general non-specific use of the word, you need only to be reminded that in Acts 7:38 the word ekklesia is used to refer to Israel. In Acts 19 verses 32 and 41 it's used to refer to a pagan Gentile crowd. And in Hebrews 12:22 to 24 it's used to refer to all the redeemed of all the dispensations. So there are times when it does have a more technical usage. There are times such as this time when it has a non-technical usage. He is simply saying, "I'm going to collect My people." If you compare it with verse 19, twice in verse 19 He makes reference to the kingdom of heaven, and that is to say all of those who are the subjects of the king in the kingdom which is entered by salvation. I'm gathering My redeemed people. I'm gathering the elect humanity into that redeemed congregation. I believe that's what He is saying. I'm bringing in the subjects who will be in My kingdom.
Later on there will be a more defined understanding of the church in its dispensational distinction as apart from Israel. Such definition starts to emerge in the book of Acts, gets particularly refined in Romans chapter 11 and other places in the epistles. But here is the promise of Christ that in spite of what it looks like, the continuity of the kingdom is going to go on. The assembly of redeemed people is going to go on. I mean, these Jews had a sense of history. They were part of the redeemed in this gospel era with the Messiah in their very presence. And they knew there were ancient folks who had believed in God and been true saints and true believers and Jesus is saying I want you to know that these are all My people from the beginning to the end, the church is no more the possession of Christ than are the Old Testament saints, this is all My people and I will continue to gather them. This generally focuses on the glorious continuity of God's saving and redemptive purpose.
There is a distinction as you will note later on between Israel and the church. It stays distinct even on in to the prophetic literature, clear down to the very end when God will bring a kingdom to His people Israel as a nation. But Israel and the church while having some discontinuity in the distinction, also have continuity in being all together ultimately the eternally redeemed people of God who forever and ever and ever will give glory to the Son and then back to the Father as well. Nations come and nations go, history ebbs and flows, time marches on, people attack the church but it remains...it remains...and it grows...and it grows. So our Lord is building a church whose certainty is that it is built by the promise and power of God whose intimacy is that each in it is His own personal possession and whose identity is that they are the redeemed people of God who come by faith.
And most importantly, the heart of the whole message, the fourth point, the foundation of it, the foundation of it...in verse 18 He says, "And I also say to you that you are Peter and upon this rock I will build My church." Now that's a very important statement. As you know, the Roman Catholic Church says this verse means that the church is built on Peter and it establishes him as the first head of the church. They say this passage proves that Peter was the first Pope...the Pope, Catholic literature writes, is crowned with a triple crown as King of heaven, King of earth and King of hell. He wields the two swords, the spiritual and the temporal. The Catholic Church says that the Lord conferred here on St. Peter the first place of honor and jurisdiction in the government of the whole Church. And that same spiritual authority that was in Peter is now incarnate in the succession of Popes and Bishops of Rome since they succeed Peter. To be true followers of Christ, they say, all Christians both among clergy and laity must be in communion with the See of Rome and they must understand that Peter still rules in the person of his successors. The Roman Catholic Church has used this verse to establish Catholic tradition, Catholic authority, Catholic power. That view, of course, is in grave error. Peter can't be the head of the church, he can't be the foundation of the church since Christ is both in the truest and purest sense. As Lenski said, "No Peter could hold up this structure."
The Protestants, on the other hand, have typically said that this is a play on words and it really doesn't refer to Peter at all. What Jesus is saying is you are Peter, petras, little stone, but upon this rock, petra, rock bed, cliff, I will build My church. And it's kind of an adversative there, the word "and" and should be translated "but" on the other hand, you're a little rock but on a rock bed I'm going to build My church and the rock bed of which He speaks would be Peter's confession in verse 16, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." That may be. That may be. Certainly that's a viable way to understand the passage.
But let me take you to another understanding that I think may be more accurate. It does refer to Peter. When He says, "You are Peter and upon this rock," He changes tense for obvious reasons that are demanded by the use of the Greek language and the modifying terms. But He is talking about Peter and what He is saying is, "Peter, I'm going to build My church on you in this sense, the fact that you are articulating the truth. I'm not going to build it on your office, I'm not going to build it on your rank, I'm not going to build it on your worthiness, I'm not going to build it on your talent. No, I'm going to build the church on you because you are affirming the foundational truth of the church, namely that I am the Christ the Son of the living God.
What's the point? The point is, I believe Christ builds His church, builds His redeemed assembly through all of redemptive history on one premise and that is the articulation of the truth of divine revelation. And I believe He's saying what He says to Peter but He knows that Peter is only representative of the rest because in Ephesians 2:20 he says, "The church is built on the foundation of the Apostles and the prophets." All then who articulate divine revelation are foundational to the building of the church.
My, what a word this is for us today. The church is not built on clever technique. It's not built on manipulation. It's not built on a strategic marketing plan. The church will be built on those who affirm divine revelation which is foundational to the church. Peter was one of those key persons...the Apostles and prophets...who confessed foundational revelation. And as I said, all the Apostles, I think, are included in the Lord's statement. Peter is not alone the foundation but as the confessor of the great foundational truth of the person of Christ and all that God had revealed in Him, he becomes foundational to the building of that era. And I believe that even today when the Lord is building His church, He's building it on those who articulate revelation, those who proclaim the Apostles' doctrine. What did the early church do when it met together? They gave themselves to the Apostles' doctrine. The Lord is still building His church on those who confess that. The Lord will still build His church on those who unabashedly and unashamedly proclaim Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God and who proclaim the Apostle's doctrine. Those who reiterate the same foundational truth are the ones on whom Christ is building His church. There are churches being built then that aren't being built on this foundation, they aren't Christ's church, they're somebody else's church.
This does not establish the primacy of Peter. If you think for a moment that this establishes the primacy of Peter, then ask yourself why in a few verses He looks Peter in the eye and says, "Get thee behind Me, Satan?" The point is, if you speak the Word of God, I'll build My church on you. If you speak the word of Satan, you're in My way...you're a stumbling block, not a foundation stone. Foundation is true and revelation.
Fifthly, as we look at this text, we see the invincibility of the church...the invincibility of it. Verse 18 says, "And the gates of Hades shall not overpower it...the gates of Hades shall not overpower it," shall not prevail against it, some say. Now what does it mean? Well I've heard all kinds of things saying that we in Christ are strong and when the enemy attacks us we can stand and be triumphant. It's not talking about an attack. No army ever attacked another army carrying a bunch of gates. Gates are not a weapon. "Oh, here comes the army carrying the gates." No, they don't do that. This is not an attack.
"Gates," what does that mean? Well what's a gate for? Keep somebody in. That's the idea. It's the idea that the church is going to be contained, wrapped up, imprisoned, held in so that it can't escape. The word "prevail" has the idea as translated in the NAS of overpowering, being dominant, winning a victory.
There aren't any gates that can dominate the church. There isn't any fence, any wall, any fortress that can close the church in and keep it captive. Not even...He says...the gates of Hades. Hades always means death, it's the grave, Sheol. And what He is saying is, "There isn't any gate that's going to lock up the church, not even death." That's the idea. Not even the realm of death. The power of death itself cannot hold the church. Why? Because in Christ we have conquered death. That's His point. This is the promise of resurrection. This is all involved in the promise as articulated in John 6, "I will raise him up at the last day," it doesn't matter what Satan does, though he has the power of death as Hebrews 2 says, it doesn't matter what he attempts to do in destroying the church and killing the church. As Henry Martin said, the great missionary to India to his persecutors, "You cannot harm me, you can only kill me." The mighty river rushes underground and some day will burst out again in resurrection life. Jesus said, "Because I live you shall live also." Jesus Christ came down and He died and He went into the grave and when He came out of the grave, Revelation 1:18 says, He had in His hand the keys of hell and death. And He unlocked the gate and let everybody out into glory. This is the promise of resurrection, nothing is going to prevent the church from being what it's to be in the end.
You see, I think Satan knows the plan. And the reason Satan wants to devastate and destroy the church and keep it captive is so that it can't get released into heaven and spend all eternity praising God. I think every time you sing a hymn he detests it. His whole kingdom detests it. And the last thing he wants is a whole redeemed humanity occupied forever in glory, praising the Son and praising the Father, and he wants to stop it by taking the church prisoner in the grave. He can't do it. Our spirits don't even go there, they go immediately to be with the Lord and our bodies some day will be released in the great resurrection to be joined with our redeemed spirits and forever in the presence of God will do what we were originally called and elected to do. The church will burst to life and accomplish its purpose.
The certainty of the church, the intimacy of the church, the identity of the church, the foundation of the church, the invincibility of the church, of the redeemed, and lastly, just a word about the authority of it. Verse 19, "I'll give you the keys." Oh I love that. The guy who has the keys has a lot of power. Aren't we always looking for the guy with the keys? He can let you in, he can keep you out. He can say, "I'm sorry, sir, I'm not letting you in there." You give somebody keys, they have authority. Jesus says, "I'm going to give you the keys."
The keys to what? To the Kingdom. You can unlock it and usher people in. Can lock it and keep them out. You say, "Do we have that kind of authority? Absolutely. Do you know that I can say to a man, "Sorry, my friend, the Kingdom is closed to you," so can you. I can say to another man, "Yes, sir, the Kingdom is open to you."
You say, "Wait a minute, how can you have that power?" I have that power. "On the basis of what?" On the basis of what those people do with the gospel. If a man rejects the gospel, I can say, "Sorry, the Kingdom is closed to you, you're outside." If a person comes in repentance and faith and affirms Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and says, "I want to know Christ, I want to come into the Kingdom and I put my faith and trust..." I can say, "You're in the Kingdom, come in, sir." It's not based upon my rank or my office, it's based upon this message, isn't it? Don't we do that all the time? Don't we take the gospel to someone, present the gospel...in humble faith they respond, turn from their sin, embrace Jesus Christ...and don't we announce to them, "Welcome to the Kingdom?" And aren't there times when we present the gospel to someone and their heart is the stony ground and we have to say to them, "I'm sorry, the door is shut to you?"
The point is this that we have the wonderful opportunity of being gate keepers in the Kingdom. As the Lord is assembling His elect, redeemed people from all of humanity to praise Him forever and ever, He employs us as door keepers to usher people in, tell others they can't come based upon how they respond to the gospel.
He said that to Peter but it wasn't just unique to Peter. It was true of all the other Apostles, it's true of all preachers, it's true of all of us. And then He says this, "Whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven. And whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." And that particular statement has been misused repeatedly and confused. It's very simple, not even complicated. The rabbis used to say, "If you don't repent your sin is bound to you. If you do, it's loosed from you." That's an old rabbinical concept. The rabbis would say, "You obey the Law, you're free. You disobey the Law, you're bound in sin." And that's what that's saying. Whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven. In other words, when you say to someone..."You won't repent, you're bound in your sin," heaven is in agreement with that. You're doing on earth what has been done in heaven, like the disciples' prayer says. And if you say to someone, "You know, I want to tell you, because of your confession of faith in Jesus Christ and your affirmation that He's your Savior and Lord, your sins are loosed from you, you are forgiven," and when you said that you know you're saying on earth what heaven has already said. So here we are, this great eternal plan is being worked out that God ordained before time began with the Son and heaven is on schedule with it and we get to be the earthly gate keepers who act in harmony with heaven. What a privilege.
That's what we're to do. We're all about telling people how to get through the door and telling them whether they've properly responded in order to enter or whether they have improperly responded and are shut out. You see, do you get the picture that it isn't ingenuity that God is looking for? It isn't the ability to develop a back door and say, "Well this one is a little tougher, let me take you to the easy door." All God wants out of us is the recognition of what we've been called to do and that is to be door keepers to the Kingdom, to preach the unadulterated crystal-clear gospel of Christ and then to tell men their consequence in believing and not believing. We are the authority in the world. We are the standard in the world. We're not here to just kind of share little niceties with people, we're not here to coddle them and cajole them along and make them feel the warm and fuzzies and hopefully wake up some day and feel nice about Jesus. We are here to tell them there is a Kingdom and it has a door and here's how you enter it. And it's urgent. And it's not something we can postpone while we try to smooth out their ruffled feelings. We have a tremendous responsibility. The Lord will build His church, it will be what He wants it to be. It's going to be complete. No one is going to slip through the cracks. He'll raise everybody at the last day. And He's asked us to participate in it and to be partners with Him in opening the door and letting His own in. We're part of a winner, not a loser, folks. No matter what it looks like, don't be fooled. We may look poor, we're rich. We may look like we're losing, we're winning.
Father, we thank you for this great confidence that comes to us through Your Word. What a joy it is as we put ourselves with those disciples on that day who heard these thrilling words of hope and promise. What a joy. It must have been for them confusing even yet as things continued to unfold and looked so negative. But oh what a day when they saw the risen Christ...what a day when the Spirit came at Pentecost. And we've seen that day extended for centuries and millennia and we have seen so much of the triumph of the church, our faith should be so much greater than those disciples because of what we've seen.
Father, help us just to get in line and to get alongside of You and do the church the way You want it done and preach the way You want preaching to be done and teach the way You want teaching to be done...to lay the foundation of biblical truth, to be door keepers who preach the message of saving grace. Keep us faithful and filled with joy as we anticipate the ultimate triumph yet to come for Christ's glory we pray. Amen.
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The New York Giants signed free-agent OT Michael Bamiro (Giants), WR Julian Talley (Giants), WR Juron Criner (Giants), WR Chris Harper (Giants), DE Jordan Stanton (Giants), CB Thomas Gordon (Giants), CB Josh Victorian (Giants), FB Nikita Whitlock (Giants), LB Unai Unga (Giants), CB Bennett Jackson (Giants) and P Robert Malone (Redskins) to futures contracts Monday, Dec. 29. Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
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|Bills | Try out several players
Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:05:17 -0700
The Buffalo Bills had several free-agent players in for workouts, including QB Tajh Boyd, RBs Maurice Hagens and Franklyn Quiteh, WR Jeremy Kelley, TE Kyle Auffray, OT Michael Bamiro, LBs James Davidson and Jerrell Harris, DBs Ross Weaver and Junior Mertile, and DTs Jeremy Towns, Derek Landri, and Abe Koroma.
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|Packers | Host several free agents
Sun, 31 Aug 2014 15:31:56 -0700
The Green Bay Packers worked out free-agents OT Michael Bamiro, OT Manase Foketi, OG Adam Gettis, CB Robert Steeples, QB Pat Devlin, QB Jon Jennings and QB Jeff Mathews Sunday, Aug. 31.
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|Eagles | More cuts announced
Sat, 23 Aug 2014 09:39:13 -0700
The Philadelphia Eagles have waived TE Blake Annen, OT Michael Bamiro, OG Karim Barton, WR Kadron Boone, OG Donald Hawkins, TE Emil Igwenagu, LB Jake Knott, DE Joe Kruger and SS Daytawion Lowe.
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|Eagles | Michael Bamiro works at OG
Thu, 29 May 2014 17:16:51 -0700
Philadelphia Eagles OT Michael Bamiro worked exclusively at right guard during organized team activities Thursday, May 29.
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|Eagles | Seven signed to futures contract
Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:18:17 -0800
The Philadelphia Eagles have signed QB G.J. Kinne, WR B.J. Cunningham, TE Emil Igwenagu, OT Michael Bamiro, DE Brandon Bair, LB Emmanuel Acho and LB Travis Long to futures contracts. Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
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|Eagles | Several added to PS
Tue, 03 Sep 2013 20:26:14 -0700
The Philadelphia Eagles signed RB Michael Bamiro, LB Travis Long, WR Greg Salas and RB Matthew Tucker to the practice squad. The team also signed free-agent FS Trenton Robinson (49ers) to the practice squad.
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|Eagles | Five players cut
Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:27:40 -0700
The Philadelphia Eagles have released OG Danny Watkins, TE/WR Clay Harbor, WR Russell Shepard, SS David Sims and OT Michael Bamiro.
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UNDERRATED: Trains
They've inspired music by Johnny Cash, Duke Ellington and the Yardbirds, yet for some reason California seems hellbent on keeping rail travel sidetracked. The proposed bullet train to San Francisco now won't run until 2033 — if at all, thanks to high cost projections — and given all the in-fighting, it'll take about as many years for the long-promised "subway to the sea" to happen. Luckily, there's still plenty of room for all our cars on the freeway.
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From a recent press release:
Amdahl Software, a leading supplier of development tools for multi-core software, after extensive beta testing by evaluators over a dozen countries and numerous end-user application markets, today announced the production release of OpenCL CodeBench. OpenCL CodeBench is an OpenCL Code Creation tool. It simplifies parallel software development, enabling developers to rapidly generate and optimize OpenCL applications. Engineering productivity is increased through the automation of overhead tasks. The tools suite enables engineers to work at higher levels of abstraction, accelerating the code development process. OpenCL CodeBench benefits both expert and novice engineers through a choice of command line or guided, wizard-driven development methodologies. Close cooperation with IP, SOC and platform vendors will enable future releases of OpenCL CodeBench to more tightly optimize software for specific end user platforms and development environments.
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Tips for the Holiday Diet
'Tis the season! If you'd like to enjoy the holiday meals and treats this year without packing on the pounds, you'll need to do some simple and smart diet planning. It's easy and fun to get in the spirit with a healthy approach for the holiday diet.
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The Dao forms an isolated enclave in central Portugal, largely surrounded by mountains and well watered by a network of rivers flowing into the Mondego at the center. It is named after the Dao river which lies entirely within the area.
The focus of the region has always been the commercial center at Viseu. The highest parts of the zone reach 6,000 feet, but the best grape producing land is between 600 and 1,500 feet. Expansion of the vineyards frequently requires the blasting of extensive granite.
Protection of the Dao wines dates back to the twelfth century. Presently administered by the Federation of Vinicultures of the Dao, to obtain the Seal of Origin, the wines must pass tests for quality and content. Red wines must be aged for at least 18 months, but are usually held two to three years before bottling. Only 35% of the entire region's production can be marketed under the Dao classification, forcing the highest quality.
A profusion of vines are grown. Red wine grapes include Touriga Nacional (minimum 20% required in all Dao reds), Alfrocheiro Preto, Tinta Pinheira, Jaen, Bastardo, and Tinta Roriz (Rioja's Tempranillo). White wines generally include Arinto do Dao, Borrado das Moscas, Cercal, Barcelo, Encruzado, and Verdelho.
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On September 8, 2011, San Joaquin County Pest Detection staff captured two Oriental fruit flies in an insect trap located in North Stockton. Confirmation of the fruit flies was made by an entomologist from the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA). As a result insect traps that are specifically designed to detect Oriental fruit fly will be deployed in an 81 square mile area around the detection site by pest surveyors from the Agricultural Commissioner's Office and CDFA. "Oriental fruit fly is a serious threat to our local agricultural crops and urban gardens," said Agricultural Commissioner Scott Hudson. "We must move quickly and take action before the pest can cause widespread damage." Oriental fruit fly is not established anywhere on the mainland of the United States. The fruit fly is widespread throughout much of the mainland of Southern Asia and neighboring islands including Sri Lanka and Taiwan. It is also found in Hawaii. The Oriental fruit fly is known to target over 230 different fruit, vegetable and plant commodities. Damage occurs when the female lays eggs inside the fruit. The eggs hatch into maggots that tunnel through the flesh of the fruit, making it unfit for consumption. If the Oriental fruit fly became established in California, backyard trees and commercial crops would soon become infested resulting in a federal quarantine on most California produce, higher prices for fruit, maggoty fruit for the gardener and shopper, and increased use of pesticides. While fruit flies and other pests threaten California's crops, the vast majority of them are detected in urban and suburban areas. The most common pathway for these pests to enter the state is by "hitchhiking" in fruits and vegetables brought back illegally by travelers as they return from infested regions around the world.More information on Oriental fruit fly can be found on CDFA's website;


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Reception Honoring Governor David A. Paterson
On November 30, 2010, the Franklin H. Williams Judicial Commission on Minorities hosted a reception honoring Governor David A. Paterson in recognition of his commitment to Judicial Diversity. View Program
Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, Governor David Paterson, Justice Rose H. Sconiers
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David Bowie is obviously thinking about his pension. He not only has a new album out next week – and it is rather good apparently – he has also teamed up with iconic Brit designer Paul Smith to launch a range of T-shirts.
With all due respect to Mr Smith this hardly looks like his most challenging projects, The shirts, which are white and available with (men) or without (women) sleeves feature the image from Bowie's new album The Next Day – itself a cut up of the sleeve of Heroes. They are made from high quality organic cotton and complimented by a simple 'Paul Smith for David Bowie' insignia.
It is not a new partnership either as Paul Smith and Bowie have apparently been pals for years.
"David Bowie has worn a lot of Paul Smith throughout his career and I was excited and delighted when asked if I would do the official T-Shirt for his album The Next Day. They'll also be some other great things coming up later in the year." Paul explains.
The men's t-shirt will be available from 7th March via PaulSmith.co.uk and from the 8th March via our standalone shops and key wholesale partners. The same T-shirt in women's fits will be available exclusively from the 7th March via PaulSmith.co.uk.
There's no details of the price – but I guess they will be fairly pricey.
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So we sold about a dozen slide carousels again this year.
I've mentioned this before: what does and doesn't sell, come the end of July, is impossible to predict. In a world of PowerPoint presentations and slideshows downloaded to your phone, who would have guessed slide carousels could still be a hot item?
Videocassettes sold, but not in any mad and heart-stopping way. We DID, however, sells ten of those prefab pressboard VHS cassette cabinets. As well as both of our audiocassette cabinets built in the same style. So you folks did want to buy something to put your cassettes in, even if you weren't impressed by ours. (Mind you, it makes me feel better after being told by people that what we SHOULD be putting all those outmoded formats in was the recycling bin.)
At one point, I glanced through the Reference section to see how things were going there, and found that the shelf devoted to old high school and college yearbooks was pretty much empty. You might think this is natural: customers seeing their old school yearbook might decide to pick it up. But this is one of those sorting tricks I haven't explained to you yet. Yearbooks from schools in Illinois go into the Chicago section. The yearbooks in Reference are the ones from New Mexico or Massachusetts. How many graduates of East Malarkey High in New Jersey wander past our reference section?
I think it has to do with those old "Before They Were Stars" shows. If you can find a celebrity in a yearbook, you can put it up on eBay for a couple hundred times the price you paid at the Book Fair. It's worth scooping up an armful. (I do check some yearbooks for celebrities—I've had Saul Bellow and Rudy Vallee, among others–but I can't even keep track of all the celebrities these days, much less their alma maters.)
All those noisy children's books with tabs you can press to make sounds sold. Yes, I know they're popular (I usually have one or two that I keep in the sorting room for months just because I like the sounds they make.) But, um, half of them weren't working. This means—assuming you bought them so they could amuse your bundles of bounce with all those noises—that you will have to get a Phillips screwdriver, remove the panel, figure out what kind of battery the things take, and find a place that sells them. (Trying this myself a couple of times, I found that hearing aid battery makers change all the identifying numbers on their batteries every few months, so that SR12 battery the book originally took is now a THX 6 7/8.)
It's like that all around the Book Fair. You bought the teddy bear; you didn't buy the puppy with the squeaker in its foot. You bought the Chagall lithograph; you didn't buy the Currier and Ives Civil War print. You bought the German Donald Duck comic books; you didn't buy the Spirit comics. All of the laminated historic front pages sold; not a single vintage Playboy magazine left the premises. (You have something against Barbi Benton?) The Olympic spoons sold; the Olympic First Day Cover didn't move. You ignored our array of postcards; you bought virtually every miniature book we had out. You bought the signed Alice in Wonderland; you left me both books signed by Nancy Reagan.
At least one person asks me every year, "Why do you even put out stuff that won't sell?" We never put out things that won't sell. We just don't always get in the right customers.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 7, 2013) – While 14 members of the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team are participating in the second weekend of the FIVB World Grand Prix in Serbia, 14 athletes remain in California training and will be highlighted by an Aug. 9 Red-Blue intrasquad scrimmage at Sage Hill School in Newport Beach, Calif.
The match starts at 7 p.m. PT at the Sage Hill School located at 20402 Newport Coast Drive in Newport Beach, Calif. Admission is a $3 donation. This venue has limited seating, so it is advised to arrive early.
20 – Jenna Hagglund (West Chester, Ohio, University of Washington)
37 – Caitlyn Donahue (Overland Park, Kan., Kansas State University)
6 – Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif., University of Southern California)
33 – Stephanie Klefot (Louisville, Ky., University of Kentucky)
Middle Blockers
2 – Danielle Scott (Baton Rouge, La., Long Beach State University)
27 – Kristen Dozier (Sandy Spring, Md., Ohio State University)
28 – Cursty Jackson (Los Angeles, University of Arizona)
29 – Arielle Wilson (Broadview, Ill., Penn State University)
Outside Hitters
36 – Kindra Carlson (Eaton, Colo., University of Washington)
38 – Rachael Kidder (Moorpark, Calif., UCLA)
39 – Sonja Newcombe (Lake Arrowhead, Calif., University of Oregon)
40 – Gina Mancuso (Omaha, Neb., University of Nebraska)
14 – Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio, Penn State University)
31 – Alaina Bergsma (Chandler, Ariz., University of Oregon)
Coaches: Kevin Ring and Tom Pestolesi
Trainer: Jeanne Vandenberg


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We review the latest Nicolas Cage film and Louis prepares us for the oncoming Anglo/Mexican wars.
Nic Cage has had a varied career. He' s played family men, vampires, business tycoons and more. His range carries him from one role to the next with ease. There is only one thing more varied that Cage's roles and that is his hair.
At this point in his career Nicolas Cage has fallen into the same category at Tom Cruise. There's no doubt he's got talent, movies like "Leaving Las Vegas" are proof enough of that. But at some point he took a hard left and now it's almost impossible to take him seriously. "Drive Angry" is a throw back to the late 80's and early 90's action movies a lot of us grew up watching and if it had been made back then it probably would have been taken a lot more seriously, or at the very least, we'd still be in a Pre-"The Wicker Man" Nic Cage world.
If you're like me and had a Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis then when you were a kid then you probably owned the game "Zombies Ate My Neighbors". So you're going to be super excited that there's going to be a movie made out of the game. You're then going to also think back to how you were overweight, had acne, wore way too many Metallica t-shirts and couldn't get a girlfriend until college. It's OK to cry, I am.
For those of you giddy about "The Walking Dead" then you're probably going to waddle your chubby ass to the store on march 8th when Season 1 hits DVD and Blu-Ray. Well put down the McRib fat ass and enjoy this new DVD trailer in honor of the release. I have no idea why I'm calling everyone fat, I've run out of other sarcastic things.
If there's one thing that's a good time it's making fun of people who World of Warcraft, sorry Erin. But now Undead Labs has teamed up with Microsoft to build a new zombie franchise game that will be available on Xbox Live for the Xbox 360. The game will allow gamers to play out their sickest fantasies of what they would do in a zombie apocalypse. They're currently calling the game "Class3" but I assume that will change by the time it comes out.
As much as it pains me to keep talking about "Drive Angry" I just can't stop. Here's a new NSFW video for the film that literary has a half a second shot of boobs for no reason whatsoever other than to make it a NSFW clip. "Not Safe For Work"? More like "No Stupid Freakin Way"! I'm still working on it.
If your car breaks down and you agree to getting a lift from a strange guy as long as you ride in the trailer for his big rig then you deserve every awful thing that is coming your way. In the case of "Prowl", the latest release form the After Dark Originals series that awful thing is being left in a warehouse full of flesh eating monsters.
The world sits and waits for what I assume will be the academy award winning film "Drive Angry" to be released in late February. To tide us over the makers have put out a dandy motion poster which you can print out and hang on your wall. Of course then it won't be in motion anymore but you can still fawn over Nic Cage in the privacy of your own bedroom. Sicko.
Hammer Films is at it again with "Wake Wood", a happy go lucky little tale about a couple who loses their only child in a dog attack and move to a small town where a pagan ritual gives them three more days with their daughter. A bunch of new photos have hit the net for your viewing pleasure and if you like you can email me and I'll send you some photos of myself that I've titled "Wake Wood" also.
I didn't even realize they were making a sequel to "Laid to Rest" but here we are kids with a trailer. "ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2" should please fans of the first, I think. honestly I haven't met any fans of the first. Come to think of it I don't think I'm met anyone's who saw the first. Come to think of it I forgot to put on pants today!
Every day I look on the tubes for news that's going to grab you by the lips and yank. Some days that task is pretty hard. Today is not one of those days. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a very NSFW clip of from "Drive Angry" where Nic Cage is having sex with a women while having a gunfight. I don't want to say you should skip the rest of the news but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't going to go downhill after this.
Because "Piranha 3D" is hitting DVD and Blu-Ray and that gives us a reason to continue being pervs, the makers recently held an online "Hottest Babes in Horror" showdown on their site. The winner? One Miss Eliza Dushku. The losers? A porn stay way past her prime, a girl I think is someone but if I'm wrong I sound really racist and a bunch of other people I don't recognized. So yeah, congrats.
Michael Tully is a director and he's created a movie called "Septien" that has the greatest movie poster I've seen this year. No there isn't anyone nude on it, sometimes I can be classy to you know. The movie focuses on a gambler who returns home after being away for years to reconnect with his insane brothers. Side note, I have no idea how to pronounce the title of this film.
"Dibbuk Box", which sounds like a Japanese prono, has added Kyra Sedgwick to it's ever growing cast list. From Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures, the movie follows the story of a young boy who becomes strangely attracted to a wooden box that contains a soul chomping demon. Sedgwick will play the unlucky tike's mother.
You read it here first. 2011 will be the year of Nicolas Cage. There's no denying it. He's got 47 films coming out including "Drive Angry" which now has a trailer for your viewing pleasure. The movie follows Nic as he angrily drives around looking for his daughters murderers. Then he drives some more.
According to Vin Diesel he's been tasked with having 3 different body types for this upcoming "The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking" flick. Of course he compared each of those types to his other movies and I've never once seen him look different in anything but what the hell do I know. Despite internet reports that have stated otherwise I won't spend my free time looking at Vin Diesel's washboard abs.
There's a new image, poster and synopsis for "Red Riding Hood". Don't bother clicking I'll explain them all. The pic is of Amanda Seyfried behind a tree, the poster is of Amanda Seyfried from far away and the synopsis is way to long for me to read but I assume the movie's going to be awful. You're welcome.
Finally here's the gals over at Team Unicorn, a group that I assumed was a number of things I can't mention here, have put together a video on how to deal with Zombies this holiday season titled "A Very Zombie Holiday". Adorable isn't it?


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Playing with paper.
Gathering it up.
Binding it into fun journals.
And right now my sweet Daughter is hosting a give away...and one of these journals is a prize.
Even better than winning of the prizes offered..is the chance to help a little guy find a forever family.
So - come - enter - donate - spread the word. Such an easy way to feel really great about helping out. And, you know honestly....I so waste $10- $20 in my life.
AND even if you don't win...you can still feel good about doing something GOOD.


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Securitization of Small Business Loans
by Christopher Beshouri and Peter Nigro
OCC Working Paper 94-8, December 1994.
This paper assesses the potential impact of securitization in improving small businesses' access to credit. It begins by examining the nature of small business lending and the factors that make banks the primary providers of credit to small businesses. The paper then examines the conditions under which the benefits of securitization are fully realized and whether the nature of small business lending satisfies those conditions.
We argue that certain characteristics of small firm finance, especially information problems and the need for ongoing monitoring, are likely to mitigate the full benefits of securitization, i.e., the substantial funding cost advantages. Specifically, loan buyers will demand substantial levels of loss protection to compensate for their uncertainty over the returns on the underlying credits and to leave intact the seller's incentive to monitor properly the loans sold. Loss protection, however, will reduce or eliminate any funding cost advantages, including capital cost reductions. In the absence of lower funding costs, banks are unlikely to undertake substantial new lending to small businesses. Securitizations of small business loans could still take place, but they are likely to be undertaken for special purposes rather than as a primary funding mechanism.
As with all OCC Working Papers, the opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency or the Department of the Treasury.
Any whole or partial reproduction of material in this paper should include the following citation: Beshouri, Christopher, and Peter Nigro, "Securitization of Small Business Loans," Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, E&PA Working Paper 94-8, December 1994.


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The group, which includes Friends of the Earth, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and WWF-UK, has written to Duncan Wingham, NERC's chief executive, expressing "grave concerns" that the council "failed to comply with the basic legal requirements of a fair and adequate consultation" when putting forward its proposal on the merger.
According to the NGOs, NERC failed to allow enough time for responses and appeared to present the merger as a foregone conclusion in the consultation, which closed on 10 October. Having sought legal advice, they argue that a four-week consultation was "plainly inadequate" and that the council should have given respondents 12 weeks to share their views.
"As a result, the consultation was unlawful and would fall to be quashed on a claim for Judicial Review," it reads. "Any formal decision to proceed with the proposed merger that was premised on the flawed consultation would also be unlawful and would similarly fall to be quashed."
Speaking to Research Fortnight, Vicky Wyatt, a climate campaigner at Greenpeace said the group would "take further legal advice" if the merger goes ahead, depending on the basis for the decision.
More than 350 responses are thought to have been submitted to NERC in response to the consultation. Those to vocally oppose the move include Nick Owens, the former director of BAS, Mike Richardson, former head of the Foreign Office's Polar Regions Unit, and the Environmental Audit Committee.
The letter comes at a crucial time since NERC is due to make a decision on the merger on 1 November. It was originally due to reach a conclusion in December but brought forward the process following concerns that the uncertainty surrounding the situation was having a "damaging effect on staff morale" at both BAS and NOC.
The NGOs argue that moving the decision date forward doesn't leave enough time to properly consider the hundreds of responses sent in to the consultation.
NERC declined to comment on the letter, saying that Wingham could not be reached for a response.
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee is to question Wingham and his colleagues on the merger on 31 October.
"I hope he turns up with some proper reasons and solid rationale as to why this is a good idea—it doesn't seem to stack up," says Wyatt.
Science minister David Willetts is also due to give evidence at the specially scheduled session. The MPs were forced to bring this meeting forward after NERC's announcement that the decision would be made this week.
Further concerns expressed by the letter's signatories include the effects a merger would have on the international reputation of BAS and potential conflicts with the Antarctic Treaty of 1991. They claim NERC's referral to the polar regions as "frontier environments" in the consultation document goes against the Treaty's description of Antarctica as a "natural reserve, devoted to peace and science". A merger would undermine BAS' influence and weaken its ability to provide scientific and policy advice to, among others, the Foreign Office, they add.


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The East-West confrontation over Ukraine, which led to Moscow's annexation of Crimea but long predated it, is potentially the worst international crisis in more than fifty years—and the most fateful. A negotiated resolution is possible, but time may be running out.
A new Cold War divide is already descending in Europe—not in Berlin but on Russia's borders. Worse may follow. If NATO forces move toward Poland's border with Ukraine, as is being called for in Washington and Europe, Moscow is likely to send its forces into eastern Ukraine. The result would be a danger of war comparable to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
Even if the outcome is the nonmilitary "isolation of Russia," today's Western mantra, the consequences will be dire. Moscow will not bow but will turn, politically and economically, to the East, as it has done before, above all to fuller alliance with China. The United States will risk losing an essential partner in vital areas of its own national security, from Iran, Syria and Afghanistan to threats of a new arms race, nuclear proliferation and more terrorism. And—no small matter—prospects for a resumption of Russia's democratization will be terminated for at least a generation.
Why did this happen, nearly twenty-three years after the end of Soviet Communism, when both Washington and Moscow proclaimed a new era of "friendship and strategic partnership"? The answer given by the Obama administration, and overwhelmingly by the US political-media establishment, is that President Vladimir Putin is solely to blame. The claim is that his "autocratic" rule at home and "neo-Soviet imperialist" policies abroad eviscerated the partnership established in the 1990s by Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin. This fundamental premise underpins the American mainstream narrative of two decades of US-Russian relations, and now the Ukrainian crisis.
But there is an alternative explanation, one more in accord with the facts. Beginning with the Clinton administration, and supported by every subsequent Republican and Democratic president and Congress, the US-led West has unrelentingly moved its military, political and economic power ever closer to post-Soviet Russia. Spearheaded by NATO's eastward expansion, already encamped in the former Soviet Baltic republics on Russia's border—now augmented by missile defense installations in neighboring states—this bipartisan, winner-take-all approach has come in various forms.
They include US-funded "democracy promotion" NGOs more deeply involved in Russia's internal politics than foreign ones are permitted to be in our country; the 1999 bombing of Moscow's Slav ally Serbia, forcibly detaching its historic province of Kosovo; a US military outpost in former Soviet Georgia (along with Ukraine, one of Putin's previously declared "red lines"), contributing to a brief proxy war in 2008; and, throughout, one-sided negotiations, called "selective cooperation," which took concessions from the Kremlin without meaningful White House reciprocity and followed by broken American promises.


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Exclusive Photos From Kanye West's 'Yeezus' Listening Party
Last night, Kanye West embraced social media and cameras like never before. During his star studded (Jay-Z, Beyonce, Timbaland, Busta Rhymes) Yeezus listening session at Milk Studios in New York City, the father-to-be previewed 9 new songs from the project. Yeezy's forthcoming sixth studio album has a noticeably darker vibe than his last LP, MBDTF . Though the anger many took away from his first releases from the album, "New Slaves" and "Black Skinhead," lessons throughout Yeezus. Kanye stirs up the pot once again and experiments with a blend of hip-hop, rock and industrial sounds.
Check out a handful of candid shots the VIBE team was able to snap before Yeezus left the building.


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T-Mobile's plans for the HTC one X+ may be up in the air, but the image above shows that the device will be "coming soon" to O2. The leaked brochure page shows off a handful of specs along with its £479.99 price tag for O2′s Pay & Go customers. The price is quite a bit higher than the £399.99 they are charging for the current HTC One X, but that's most likely due to the faster 1.7 GHz quad-core Tegra 3 chip and 64GB of internal storage.
The exact launch of the HTC One X+ is still anyone's guess, but we have a very good feeling that all of our remaining questions about the device will be answered in the next week or two. Are any of you planning on picking up the HTC One X+ when it comes out later this fall and is 64GB of internal storage enough for people to stop complaining about the lack of expandable storage?


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The epic film series chronicling the rise, fall, and redemption of Anakin Skywalker.
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I watched Star Wars last night and it was awesome as always. Then I went to bed and dreamt of something other than Star Wars. The next morning I went to work and didn't think about Star Wars all day. That night I went to a party and didn't talk about Star Wars once.
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Star Wars represents the ultimate story, evil dictator and his innumerable armies vs. rag-tag rebellion. The ultimate tale of good(Jedi/Luke Skywalker) vs. pure evil(Palpatine).
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How to Optimize Your Supplement Intake
You see, most multivitamin or multinutrient formulas combine vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients together, and they can be conveniently taken in just one or a few doses a day.
If you're going this route exclusively, things are pretty simple.
However, many nutritional "purists" prefer to buy their nutrients individually and take them on specifically tailored schedules in order to help maximize their absorption. This, of course, can be a bit more complicated.
So if you're a "die hard" nutrient seeker looking for pointers on what to take when and why, here are some guidelines to help you get the most out of the supplements you take. Enjoy!
Take Fat-Soluble Nutrients with Fatty MealsBefore we begin, here's a list of some common fat-soluble nutrients:
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin D
- Vitamin E (tocopherols and tocotrienols)
- Vitamin K
- Beta-carotene
- Coenzyme Q10
If you're taking supplements that actually contain fats, such as omega-3 fatty acids, you can take fat-soluble nutrients along with them. However, some people can't tolerate this, since taking fish oil supplements on an empty stomach irritates their stomach. If this sounds like you, be sure to take your fat-soluble nutrients with a meal.
Finally, although there's no harm in dividing doses, fat-soluble nutrients can be taken together once a day.
Take Water-Soluble Nutrients With or Without FoodWater-soluble nutrients dissolve in water and don't need to be taken with fat or food, unless it upsets your stomach. This group includes vitamin C.
Because members of the B vitamin complex work together, it's best to take them together and not individually. Recommended doses vary. For example, 3,000 milligrams (mg) of niacin has been recommended for high cholesterol levels. And although niacin is a water-soluble vitamin, many people take it with meals to minimize the niacin-flush, which is a typical reaction that includes reddening of the skin, itching, and tingling.
Minerals are not fat soluble, so there is no reason to take them with food unless they're irritating to your stomach. Zinc and copper, which are notorious for causing nausea when taken on an empty stomach, are an exception.
Calcium (particularly when sold as calcium carbonate, such as TUMS® and other products) is good at neutralizing stomach acid. However, the normally acidic environment of the stomach is ideal for digestion and protects against unwanted bacteria. For this reason, take calcium on an empty stomach for optimal digestion.
Take Amino Acids SeparatelyAmino acid supplements can be taken with or without food unless you're targeting the blood brain barrier (or if they're antagonistic toward each other). Those used for brain health include L-arginine, L-ornithine, L-lysine, L-phenylalanine, and L-tyrosine.
L-lysine, for example, competes for cell receptors with L-arginine, so they're best used separately. Other antagonistic amino acids are tryptophan and phenylalanine or tyrosine, taurine and glutamic acid or aspartic acid, carnitine and tyrosine, and cysteine and lysine.
If you're using a protein supplement that contains a full spectrum of amino acids (or eating foods that do), don't worry about amino acid competition. Protein supplements are generally used to support muscle rather than target an individual condition, which is the case with single amino acids.
The Bottom LineIt's almost impossible to regulate your nutrient intake so that everything is optimized at all times, but this should at least help those of you who are trying. Did it? Let us know in the comments below!
Note that even though the information above is good to know, many people prefer to just take a multinutrient supplement along with a good diet, and leave the fine-tuning to the experts.
So, please don't worry if you can't always take your nutrients at their "ideal" times. By simply consuming a little more than the average diet provides, you should be in pretty good shape anyway!


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With its roots in text-based adventures and simple shooters, computer gaming makes up an integral part of today's electronic games industry. An adaption of tic-tac-toe created in 1952 represents one of the earliest computer games, along with the heavily influential Spacewar!, a space combat game developed by MIT students on a PDP-1 mainframe computer in 1961. Personal computers brought games into the home, with manufacturers such as Atari, Texas Instruments and Commodore leading the way in the 1980s. While many early computer games required text commands to be entered via the keyboard, making text adventures and interactive fiction games popular, publishers also took advantage of the arcade game craze sweeping the nation. Ports and clones of the most recognized graphics-based games, such as Pac-Man, Frogger and Space Invaders, became top sellers on the personal computer. Increasing graphical capability, larger amounts of memory and the growing popularity of the mouse contributed to the rise of the computer gaming industry in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The mouse was especially influential in popularizing certain genres over others for the PC, as it allowed faster and more accurate movements than console controllers. Real-time strategy games and first-person shooters especially benefited from these advantages. Manufacturers also distinguished their products from console games by packaging them in larger boxes that often included extra game-related merchandise, such as badges, stickers or glasses. Computer games also popularized the idea of multiplayer gaming, especially once broadband internet became common. The first multiplayer online role-playing game, Neverwinter Nights, ran on AOL from 1991 from 1997. Other popular games followed, such as World of Warcraft, Ultima Online, StarCraft and The Sims Online. Most online games allow players to work both collectively as well as against one another in Player vs. Player or Deathmatch modes. Computer technology is currently developing and improving at a rapid pace, and computer games follow the same trends. Improved graphics, faster processing speeds and terabyte-sized memory allow games to reach new heights of realism and interactivity.
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Willie Nelson's newest album, Band of Brothers, comes out on Tuesday, but he premieres this acoustic version of the title track exclusively on AARP's YouTube channel today through Wednesday.
Having released four albums since February 2012, Nelson is watching his career blossom in a way that must be the envy of artists half his age: The Desperado-in-Chief of the "outlaw country music scene" turned 81 on April 29.
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Because Band of Brothers features 14 new recordings – nine of them debut tunes that Nelson cowrote with his longtime producer, Buddy Cannon – his label, Sony, seems justified in crowing that this is "the artist's first album of predominately new original material in nearly two decades."
The new album offers compositions that nimbly range in tone from the rowdy fun of "Wives and Girlfriends" ("… may they never meet / May they never know each other / When they pass on the street") to the introspective depth of "Send Me a Picture" ("I used to think time would make it all better / But I have learned better as time passed away").
Nelson himself acknowledges the creative bronco he's been riding of late: "I got on kind of a writing kick," he said recently. "It's good to be writing again."
Photo: James Minchin
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