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I want you to open your Bible as we turn to the Word of God tonight to the eighth chapter of the gospel of John...the eighth chapter of the gospel of John. I have been somewhat restrained over the last few years in not preaching more from the gospel of John because I've spent so much time working on the commentaries on the gospel of John. The first volume, John 1 through 11, was completed about a year ago. And the second volume, John 12 to 21 completing the gospel of John, was just completed a few weeks ago. In fact, I have the final galley proofs on my desk and have been reading through for any final corrections.
It's such a stunning, stunning book. It is relentlessly exalting of the Lord Jesus Christ. And, of course, that makes it a very special treasure to me. And so I want to steal away a little bit tonight, into a portion of the gospel of John, at least as a starting point, and that's the eighth chapter and in particular, I want to draw you down to verse 43 through verse 45. And there is a truth expressed here that I want to be a foundation for our thinking tonight.
Jesus in this particular context is speaking to the Jews who are defending themselves as to their place with God because of their Jewish ancestry, their Abrahamic heritage. Jesus takes issue with that. He says this, verse 43, "Why do you not understand what I'm saying? It is because you cannot hear My Word. You think you belong to God, you think you are children of Abraham, you are actually of your father, the devil. And you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, or essence. For he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me."
The world is divided into two people, two kinds of people, those who belong to the kingdom of Satan, who are the children of the devil, and those who belong to the Kingdom of God who are the children of God. Those who are in the kingdom of Satan do not know the truth. Satan himself does not stand in the truth. There is no truth in him. "Whenever he speaks, he speaks from his own nature, he is a liar and the father of lies. On the other hand, I speak the truth."
That draws the line boldly between truth and lies...truth and lies. This is a very important thing to affirm in the society of any time period, any culture because it is critical that if someone is to be saved from sin and escape hell and be brought to the glories of heaven, he or she must believe the truth. Anything that is not the truth is a lie. Everything God has said is true. Everything Satan says is a lie in one form or another.
In light of this, it is a strange, strange thing that popular evangelicalism today seems to live with the biggest fear of all fears and that is that somehow the world that belongs to Satan will not accept their message. And so, we've got to soften that message. We have to make it something that is not threatening, that is not hard, that is not absolute, that is not narrow, that is not precise. The idea is to approach the Bible in a completely different way, a kind of a soft way and not be concerned at all about the interpretation of Scripture, for that in itself is offensive. And yet, the Scripture is very clear that you are either a friend of God or a friend of the world. And friendship with the world, James 4:4 says, is enmity with God.
This is one place where you have to pick your sides. You are for God, for Christ, for the gospel and for the truth or you are for the lie, for the devil. That is the line that is drawn biblically. There has always been, there always will be, a fundamental irreconcilable incompatibility between the truth and the lie, between the truth of God and the lie that dominates the world. You cannot have both. You cannot accommodate the Bible in some generic way to floating, changing, shifting, whimsical attitudes of people who live in the domain of Satan under the dominance of lies.
Back to Luke 6:26, Jesus said, "Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets." It goes with the territory that if you believe the truth and preach the truth and preach it with authority, as we've been saying over the last several weeks, it will be rejected and resented. In John 15:18 and 19, Jesus said, "The world hates you because it hated Me. The world hates you because you're not of the world. I chose you out of the world." Again, there's only two kinds of people. Those who are in the world and those who are in the Kingdom of God. Those who are under the headship of Satan, those under the headship of Christ. Those who live in the lie, and those who live in the truth. And they collide, there's no way around it. They collide. There is a fixed animosity between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan, between the truth and the lie.
Consequently, in the world there is naturally going to be contempt for the gospel, contempt for the truth. Jesus said in verse 43, "You cannot hear My Word," meaning you cannot comprehend it, you cannot understand it, you cannot affirm it, you cannot believe it. You don't have capacity for that, same as Paul in 1 Corinthians 2:14, "The natural man understands not the things of God, they are foolishness to Him because they are spiritually appraised, spiritually discerned, and the natural man is spiritually dead."
In John chapter 3, in that familiar chapter in verses 19 and 20, Jesus says, "This is the judgment that the light has come into the world and men love the darkness rather than the light for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the light." If you live in the truth, if you live the truth, you run to the truth. If you live in darkness and you live in death and you live in the kingdom of Satan, you resent the truth, you resist the truth, you hate the truth, you cannot accept the truth, you cannot believe the truth. This is the foundational way to view the world. And you cannot be faithful to the Word of God and somehow mitigate that.
And you heard the testimonies tonight, didn't you? The sort of recurring refrain about how offensive I was when these people began to listen to what I had to say. It wasn't that I was personally offensive, they didn't know me and I didn't know them. The message was offensive. This is the nature of the truth.
Now we have been talking about how important it is to preach the Word. That was our theme the last couple of weeks. The week before that we reminded ourselves of Titus 2:15 where we're instructed to speak the truth with all authority...with all authority. And I want to reemphasize tonight a way to view that, if you will, a paradigm to borrow a modern word that will help you think it through. Here's a way to understand how we relate to the truth.
I put this in a book some years ago called Why One Way?...Why One Way? A little book of about 75 or 80 pages, it might be maybe the most important foundational thing that I've ever put in print. There is a way to understand how critical the truth is to us and to all people. And by the way, the only time the church makes any real impact on the world is when the people of God stand firm for the truth. First Timothy 3 tells us the church is the pillar and ground of the truth. If it is anything, it is the place where the truth is firmly established. We understand that the natural man doesn't understand it. We realize that the world resents it and hates it and thinks its narrow. That doesn't change the fact that it is the truth....it is the truth. And again I say, the church is only advanced genuinely, the true church, when it has been uncompromisingly committed to the truth. I know post-modernism says there is not truth, moral relativism says there is no authority, personal freedom says there are no rules, humanistic atheism says there is no judge, but the Bible disagrees with all of that. There is truth, that truth has authority, that truth is articulated in the Law of God, and God Himself is the judge.
So let me give you a way to think about truth, I'll give you six words, okay? Six words. The first one is objectivity...objectivity. When we say something is objective, we mean it is outside of ourselves. When we say something is subjective, we mean it is inside ourselves. We say something is subjective, it means that it has come up from within us. When we say it's objective, it means that we can only observe it outside of us.
We start then with the reality that the source of truth is objective. Luther called it "the external Word." This is critically important if you are to have a true Christian world view. You must understand that the truth of God is completely outside of us. It's outside of all of us. It's outside of each us individually, and it's outside all of us collectively. It is fixed.
In fact, it is unassailable and it is eternal. You can't change it. You can accept it or you can reject it. You cannot alter it. It is unalterable. This is profoundly essential. So ministers and preachers and Christians, we are brokers, if you will, of the truth transmitted by God in one book. And this is it. We may discover the truth, we must. We must learn the truth. We must understand the truth. We must love the truth, guard the truth and proclaim the truth and live the truth. But the truth itself is outside of us. We are not its source. We make no contribution to the truth. Authentic Christianity understands that the Scripture and the Bible is objective. It is absolute divine truth. No person has ever had in himself any idea or any experience or any thought or any intuition that determines the truth. The truth is already determined by God and revealed in Scripture. No human individually, no humans collectively are sources for establishing the truth. Neither is any angelic being a source for establishing the truth. That's why Paul says, "If anyone..anyone, even an angel from heaven teaches you anything other than this truth, let him be cursed." What someone thinks is true does not make it true. And there's so much of that folly floating around that you can by your own ideas and by your own will and even by your words create reality. That is not true. There is no such thing as personal truth, individual truth. Scripture is God's revealed truth. If you never lived and I never lived, it would have no bearing on the truth.
It is true, Scripture is. It is perspicuous, meaning it is clear. The meaning is evident on the face of it. There are no puzzles hidden in Scripture. There are no secret codes in Scripture. It is not truth concealed, it is truth revealed. Sure there are some things hard to understand. Sure you've got to dig a little to get to those things. But it is revelation not obfuscation. The message of Scripture is clear and unambiguous and it is not existential. You don't create it by your own ideas and your own intuition. None of it comes by the will of man. Second Peter 1, "Scripture comes not by the will of man but men were moved by the Holy Spirit to write it down." All Scripture, 2 Timothy 3, as we saw in our last little series, all Scripture is given by inspiration from God. Scripture is God's truth whether it affects anybody or nobody. It is God's truth whether you agree with it or disagree with it, like it or don't like it. And the worse possible statement, like fingernails down a blackboard for me to hear is, "Well, this is what the Bible means to me." And I want to say kindly, "Really, I couldn't care less what the Bible means to you since you are not the determiner of its truth."
Again and again Scripture makes claims for itself, as we just read. It endures forever. It is trustworthy in every jot and tittle. It is unchanging and eternal, Isaiah 40 verse 8. Heaven and earth will pass away, My words will by no means pass away, Matthew 24:35, said Jesus. Authentic, genuine, true Christianity has always held that Scripture is absolute, objective truth. It is true for one person. It is true for another person. It is true for all people and it is the same truth. Our opinions, our spiritual experiences and our feelings have no bearing on its true meaning. It is not a clay model to be shaped into any form by anyone who wants to shape it.
That is why, I will confess to you, there are lots of things that dishonor the Lord that bother me. A zeal for His house eats me up, I confess to you that. I am angered, I am saddened, I am grieved about a lot of things that are carried on in the name of Christ that I know brings dishonor to Him, but nothing...nothing is worse to me than a misrepresentation of the truth. That's inexcusable and it is constant, even in the name of Christianity. The truth of Scripture is not decided by your insight or mine, or your experience or mine. What it does for us or in us or to us or how it affects us has nothing to do with its actual meaning. Frankly, just saying that you would deal a blow to about 80 percent of what parades itself as evangelical Christianity.
So many people open a Bible and then they're being taught, "Listen to the voice of God and try to hear what God is saying to hear you through this Bible." I'll tell you what He's saying to you through the Bible. Put your head down, look at the words and read them. That's what He's saying. Biblical truth is objective. It is true in and of itself. It is true whether you know it or don't know it. It is true whether you understand it or don't understand it. It is true whether it's been experienced by you or not experienced. It is wholly true, it is true entirely, Psalm 119:160 says, "The entirety of Your Word is truth and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever." The proof of the truthfulness of Scripture is its everlasting character. This is the very starting point and the necessary foundation for a Christian world view. You give up anything on this ground and you've just given up truly Christian world view. Give up any ground on the fact that the Bible itself is the revealed truth of God, objective, external, absolute, give up any ground at that point and what you have left is not worthy to be called Christianity, even if it has vestiges of Christian lingo and symbolism. In fact, many who would call themselves Christians today are using the language of Christianity, the symbolism of Christianity, but their real source of authority is something inside of them, or something inside someone else that they think is a prophet or a seer or someone in touch with God.
True Christianity begins with objective truth, everything God has revealed in one book, that is the Bible. Second word, the first word, objectivity. You want a Christian world view? Here's your second word, rationality...rationality. This is good news, folks. This is good news. The objective revelation of God in Scripture is to be understood rationally...rationally. For years I've read so much about listen for the voice of God, listen for God to speak in your mind, listen for God to speak in your heart and show you what He wants you to do and show you the meaning of Scripture, etc., etc. That is mystical. That is irrational. I don't even know what they're listening for. Sometimes they're told to take everything and empty it out of their mind, a kind of Buddhist experience. Create a vacuum of nothingness in your mind and let God fill it with some mystical revelation of Himself unique to you. This fails to understand that an objective revelation of God is to be understood rationally. What do I mean by that? By normal reasoning, normal mental faculties.
I don't think it would surprise any of you in the church here if you were to ask me, "How do you come up with your sermons?" To find out that I do nothing mystical. I don't light candles. I don't put incense in the room to create some...some spiritual aroma as some do. I don't turn out the lights and try to empty my mind so God can deposit something there. I go to work. I go to work to work hard to understand the Scripture. Scripture is logical because God is logical. Scripture is non-contradictory because God is non-contradictory. Scripture is clear because God is clear. There are no errors, no discrepancies, no lies, no unsound truths, no fantasies, no absurdities, no inconsistencies, no myths. It is infallible, it is inerrant, it is true and it is to be understood by normal mental powers. We all remember 2 Timothy 2:15, "Study to show yourself approved of God, a workman needing not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth." This is a mental exercise, not a mystical one. You remember the great revival in Nehemiah chapter 8 when they brought the Scripture and they read the Scripture for most of the day? And it says that after they read it, they gave the sense of it. And the people understood it and they repented and a great revival broke out. And that, of course, was led by Ezra himself who gave himself to study the Scripture and to do it and then to teach it. Scripture is understood by the process of reason, in the same way you would solve a math problem, in the same way you would solve a science problem, in the same way you would solve any issue, the same way you would deal with an engineering problem, or any other problem that you're trying to solve. You put your brain in gear. You're not going to solve a math problem in your calculus class by lighting candles, turning on the incense and hoping something comes down out of the sky. You're not going to understand the Bible that way either.
And, of course, the meaning of the Scripture, and I tell preachers this all the time, the meaning of the Scripture is the Scripture. The meaning of the Scripture is the Scripture. Scripture meaning the writings from God, the meaning is the Scripture. If you don't have the meaning, you don't have the Scripture. If you don't know what it means, you haven't heard God. The meaning of the Scripture is the Scripture. And the worst thing you can do is take it and abuse it and make it mean what you've already predetermined you want it to mean to fit your scheme. The truth is in the meaning. The truth is in the interpretation of the words themselves. And this is an exercise in reason. You use your mind and your faculties.
There are, of course, a growing anti-theology bent in evangelicalism, anti-doctrine bent. People see doctrine as divisive. With it is a growing anti-intellectualism.
Every time I hear Joel Olsteen interviewed, he says this, "O, I don't know...I don't know. Oh, I don't know. O, I think Mormons worship the same Jesus we do. I know there are some differences but I don't know what they are." Is that some kind of virtue that you don't know? You think that's the right answer when somebody confronts you with something to say, "I don't know," which is to say, "I don't know and I don't really think it's important to know?" That's a view of truth that is non-Christian. That's a non-Christian view of truth.
The growing anti-intellectuals in the church has, I think, sadly marginalized Christians. I really don't think the world respects that. I don't think they respect whimsical superficial shallow people who call themselves Christians and have absolutely no interest in rigorous mental rational work to understand the Scripture and to be able to defend it effectively. I don't think we gain any ground in the world by parading indifference toward the truth.
This has been coming for a long time, by the way. You can go way back to the American Puritan era when colleges in the Ivy League were all founded as seminaries to train pastors and they decided they didn't want to be faithful to the truth and began to jettison the truth for the sake of broader tolerances. You can go back to Charles Finney, and his kind of evangelism which depreciated biblical truth and tried to create an experience. Finney had a powerful, powerful impact on people's psyches up in New York. But when he was done, people weren't converted. He himself said, "I think it's been my unhappy lot to have produced many half-converts." He was appealing purely to their emotions. And when he was finished in that area, it became known as the burned over district, full of unstable, untaught and unconverted converts. And what came in his wake? The establishment of Mormonism in that area sucked up those people who had no doctrinal protection.
And the trend has continued even today, especially through mystical charismatic and now seeker-friendly emotional kind of intuitive personal interpretations of spirituality. There's a whole lot of talk today about spiritual formation which first came out of Roman Catholicism where they were trying in a non-Christian environment, Roman Catholics who are not true Christians, to do something about their sin since they weren't justified, didn't have the Holy Spirit, it's kind of hard to be sanctified. And so they came up with these mystical movements of spiritual formation that have now jumped across into contemporary evangelicalism, people trying to form their spiritual lives apart from an understanding of the Word of God in the mind that then prompts the emotion to act responsibly in response to the truth. Careful cultivation of the mind is to be high on the list of priorities for Christians. This is not intellectualism, this is not academic pride, this is having a sound mind.
Now by rationality, what do I mean? I mean this, you interpret the Bible in normal ways, the way you would interpret a letter or any other book or historical document, common language, okay? It is common language. That is to say the language is to be understood as it would have been understood in the day it was said or written, it means what it says. Secondly, real people. It's not a mystical language, not a secret language, not a hidden language, common language, second, real people...not fake people, not allegorical people, not poetically created people, real people.
Thirdly, actual history...actual history. So you're looking at language that is normal. You're looking at people that are real. You're looking at history that actually happened. There are no secret meanings, no allegories, no transcendental insights, no divine voices, no mystical interpretations. So this is critical to a Christian world view...objectivity, rationality.
Third, veracity, is to keep our endings similar. Veracity which is a word for truth. We are sure that the objective revelation of Scripture interpreted rationally yields the truth. I'll say it again, the objective revelation of Scripture, the absolute external Scripture interpreted with the mind using all of its faculties, comprehending the meaning of language, the reality of the people and the actuality of the history yields the truth in perfectly sufficient measure to accomplish God's intention for that revelation. You can only have the truth if you get the meaning right.
That's why it grieves me to hear Scripture mishandled, misrepresented, misinterpreted then misapplied, misappropriated. Look, we just have this, this is all we have...that's all we have. You know, ministry is simple in that sense. We just have one book, that's it. It's all we have, just take this book, understand that it is the objective revealed Word of God without error, that it can be understood by the careful, thoughtful use of all your mental skills, drawing on all the mental skills of other people who have also applied themselves to the Word of God and written about it, you can enrich yourself fully in an appropriate and accurate understanding of its truth. And the yielding of that is the truth of God.
I know I have been accused through the years of being narrow minded, I heard it again tonight. I understand that. I know that I have been accused of being dogmatic. I know that I have been accused of acting like I know the truth and I just have to tell you this...I believe that if I am to preach the Word of God with authority, which I'm commanded to do, then I must be safe in saying that if I understand the Word of God accurately, and if I've done everything I can and tested it against every other passage in the Scripture, and tested against all other sanctified, illuminated scholarship of the past and the present and here is the consensus of meaning about this text, the best I can do that I can preach it with conviction, assuming that God wrote it, not to make it unclear but to make it clear. And I understand that it will offend people who have other views.
But they're never going to come to the truth unless their false understanding is exposed. Right? The Word of God is not just another source for discussion, it is the final authority. I was reading an article today in which one of the modern Emerging Church preachers was demeaning and mocking preaching as far to authoritarian. This goes way, way back, this has been around for many, many years, this mocking of those who speak the Word of God with authority. But it is, after all, the final authority. We believe that. Some people may prefer a conversation. They may prefer dialogue. The new trend, believe it or not, in the Emerging Church is to have the non-believers lead the discussion because they also have natural illumination. But the Bible says, "Preach the Word...preach the Word in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all patience. Do this, let no one disregard you, do it with authority." We don't put it on the table for discussion. Obviously there's discussion about the application. There can be discussion about the interpretation. That's helpful. But we're all working to come to a true understanding. Salvation is by the truth. Romans 6:17 tells us that we were saved because we came an understanding of the truth. We were delivered from error to that form of doctrine which saves us.
Now, objectivity, rationality produces veracity. That leads unarguably to authority, that's the fourth word. If this is what the Bible means, it's authoritative. Plain and simple, it is the oracles of God, it is the oracles of God. It is the final Word on everything of which it speaks. It is the mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians, it is the mind of Christ.
We're so thankful. First Corinthians 2 talks about how that the Spirit of God illuminates our minds as we study. It's not just a rational exercise. We use our rational powers, of course, aided by the indwelling Holy Spirit who leads and guides and directs us into an understanding of the truth. But when we come to that truth, we speak it with authority. God intended it to be spoken with authority. People don't like to hear the Law of God preached. They don't like to hear that. They don't like to hear the thundering message of the law. They don't want to hear the Ten Commandments. They don't want to hear the Law of God and that they are violators of the Law of God and therefore they are under sentence by God to final damnation, and one day God will be their judge and send them to everlasting hell. They don't like to hear the Law of God. They don't want to hear God's Laws, they don't like them. They don't like that they're not to commit adultery, that they're not to lie, that they're not to steal, etc., and all the rest of the things the Scripture speaks of.
Sinners don't want to hear that. They reject that. There's an interesting trend today in the church, evangelical church, to dismiss the Law, to get rid of it because, they say, it is: one, offensive, and two, it is somewhat obscure to a post-modern generation that doesn't believe in absolutes anyway. So there is a very, very aggressive trend to take the Law out of evangelism. Instead of confronting sinners about their sin and violation of the Law of God, and the impending judgment of God upon that sinner for those violations, you remove that because they don't understand absolute law. We can't talk about that. They don't get it. And so, this is a very rapidly moving trend among some of the better of the preachers and leaders in the Evangelical Movement who want to substitute something else. And the trend now is to substitute the idea that people kind of worship the wrong thing. They worship their career, they worship money, they worship sex, they worship whatever goal they set for themselves, a house they want to get, a car they want to get, and they've got all the things, all the idols of the heart...that's the way to approach them because that's what they understand. They don't understand absolute Law.
I can understand how somebody can come up with that idea. However, there's a problem there. And here's the problem. Scripture says, Romans 7, the Law is designed to reveal sin. The Law is designed to arouse sin, Romans 7:7 and 8. The Law is designed to bring the sinner to ruin. The Law is designed to reflect the sinfulness of sin and that it is so bad that a holy God must judge. The Law is our school master to bring us to whom? To Christ. The purpose of the Law is to lay us under a curse.
You say, "Well sinners don't really understand that." Yes they do understand that. Yes they do understand that. I'll tell you why. Because not only is there the Law of God written in His Word, but according to Romans 2, there's the Law of God written in the heart. And the Law of God written in the heart is an ally to the evangelist who is approaching the sinner on the basis of his violation of the Law. This is the authoritative note in evangelism. You are violating the absolute Law of God.
Furthermore, John 16:9 through 11 says, "The Holy Spirit who is the only one who can save, the only one who can bring a sinner to repentance, convicts the world of sin, righteousness and judgment." Those are allo terms connected to the Law. Sin is a violation of the Law, righteousness is the standard by which that Law is given and the standard by which the sinner's failure is measured and judgment is the outcome. That is what the Holy Spirit works in the heart of one He is convicting. The Law written in the heart, which is an ally to the evangelist, you have the work of the Spirit. Why do we have to come up with other ways to do this and avoid the very things the Spirit of God has called us to do. We preach Law. We preach sin. We preach guilt. We preach fear. The most necessary, the most successful, the most powerful preaching is that which aims at radical conviction of sin. I'll say it again. The most powerful preaching is that which is aimed at radical conviction of sin. And sinners do not become concerned about their lives and they do not become concerned about their idols, until they are face to face with God and become very concerned about Him and what He's going to do.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones once said, "The sinner is a monstrosity in God's universe and he needs to know it." Proverbs 16:6 says, "By fear of the Lord men depart from evil." We have to preach with authority. The objective Word of God understood rationally yields the truth, we preach it with authority to alarm the sinner, to activate the conscience which accuses or excuses to face the sinner directly toward the Law and the standard of perfect righteousness to tell the sinner you must be holy. And if you're not, you need a Savior. The initial objective for evangelism is to bring people under the powerful authoritative Word of God's holy Law. And then to take them to Christ.
Thomas Scott, 1793, said, "Leave out the holy character of God and the holy excellence of His Law and the wholly condemnation to which transgressors are doomed and the wholly loveliness of the Savior's character, the holy nature of redemption, the holy tendency of Christ's doctrine, the wholly tempers and conduct of all true believers, then dress up a scheme of religion of this unholy sort, represent mankind in a pitiable condition, rather than through misfortune than crime, speak much of Christ's bleeding love to them, of His agonies in the Garden and on the cross without showing the need or nature of satisfaction for sin, speak of His present glory and of His compassion for poor sinners, of the freeness with which He dispenses pardons, of the privileges which believers enjoy here, of the happiness and glory reserved for them hereafter. Clog this with nothing about regeneration, nothing about sanctification, or represent holiness as somewhat else than conformity to the holy character and Law of God and you will make up a plausible gospel, calculated to humor the pride, soothe the conscience, engage the heart, raise the affection of natural men who love not God but themselves." Thomas Scott.
A message of Christ only makes sense, the doctrine of justification through substitution and imputation only makes sense in light of the Law and the violation of that Law. One writer said, "We live in an era which places a high value on hardness of heart. We can tell this by our love of soft teaching." Further says, "We like to believe that this love of soft words, words which will trouble neither the mind nor heart, nor anything in between, is a deep love of tenderness. Such a condition flatters us, but our love is exactly the opposite of tenderness. The one who really wants a tender heart would be calling for the jack hammer. Hard words, hard teaching are the jack hammer of God. It takes a great deal to break up our hard hearts and the God of all mercy is willing to do it. But He always does it according to His Word and His Word is not as easy on us as we would like. Jeremiah 23:29, "Is not My Word like as a fire," says the Lord, "and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?"
Listen to what he says. "When Christians call for smooth words, easy words, the result is hard people. When we submit to hard words, we become the tender hearted of God. But let soft words have their way in a congregation, let soft words dominate the pulpit and hardness of heart manifests itself in countless ways. Marriages dissolve, heresies proliferate, parents abandon children, churches split, children heap content on their parents. Quarrels erupt on the church board, in the choir, bitterness rancor, envy and malice abound all because the people will not abide the loathsome jack hammer." That's right. You preach the hard truth, the hammer of God breaks up the hard hearts. Preach the soft message and all you're going to get is unchanged people.
There's a fifth word as we rap up, incompatibility...incompatibility. The truth which itself is authority is incompatible with error. Here the noose is tightened on our paradigm, so the victim can feel the burning of the rope around his neck. The truth is absolutely incompatible with error. It makes no sense to say we need to hear the opinions of the other religions. We need to take what's good from Hinduism and Islam and blend it together with Christianity.
First John 2:21, "No lie is of the truth. No lie is of the truth." No lie is of the truth. Incompatibility. We have a ministry with an objective source of truth, rightly understood yields to us God's absolute truth. That truth is authoritative in every area of which it speaks. And it is incompatible with error. Truth is intolerant. Truth is absolutely intolerant...intolerant. And in this culture it sets off all the alarms. I understand that...I understand that. Tolerance toward people, that's good...gracious compassion, compassionate attitude toward people, that's a biblical virtue. Tolerance toward error, that's a sin...that's a sin. God hates lies, hates lying tongues. And Satan is the liar and the father of lies.
One final word, integrity...integrity. Objectivity, rationality, veracity, authority, incompatibility and integrity. What do we mean by that? Once we know the truth, we know the truth has divine authority, we know the truth is separate from and incompatible with error, integrity becomes our responsibility. What do I mean by that? The truth is to be applied, it is to be applied. If we believe that divine truth is authoritative and incompatible with error, reflecting God's holy will and purpose, then we must be faithful to live it and proclaim it. To do otherwise is equal to denying the truth.
Titus 1:16, "There are those who profess to know God but in works they deny Him." Wow. Those who profess to know God but in works they deny Him, they are abominable, disobedient and disqualified for every good work. Integrity says this is the truth, this is the truth, it's authoritative, incompatible with error, this is the truth, I believe. This is the truth I live.
Job 32:1, "Then these three men ceased to answering Job because he was righteous in his own eyes." Wouldn't it be wonderful to come to the place in your life where you said, "Yes, I believe the truth and I can say this, I live the truth?" That's my testimony.
There's no way around it, folks. The Word of God is the authority. That's why we're told pay close attention to yourself and to the doctrine, continue in them. That's God's Word for us. Let's pray.
Father, we thank You for the call to the truth that is so replete in Scripture. I thank You for this blessed congregation here at Grace Church, this wonderful, wonderful Holy Spirit filled part of Your Kingdom where people love the truth written and incarnate. And I can say with the Apostle John, I have no greater joy than to know my children walk in the truth. I thank You, Lord, for the integrity of this congregation, that because it is true and authoritative and incompatible with error, we affirm that and that affirmation is a true expression of our hearts because we endeavor to live that. This is Christianity, this is what it means to be a Christian, to live lives consistent with Your Word. Lead us in that way, Lord. Forgive us for our failings and shortcomings. Help us to walk with integrity where there's no breach between what we say we believe and how we live. Be honored and exalted, we pray, in our midst. In the name of Christ, amen.
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UK, directed by Simon Shore, and released in 2006. It stars Keeley
Hawes, Ben Miles, Sheila Hancock and Duncan Preston, with a first
performance by the young actor Andrew Byrne, as the young boy Kyle.
It is based on a true story, also written in a book called A
Friend Like Henry by Nuala Gardner, about her autistic son
Dale who gained a therapeutic benefit from the presence of a Golden
Retriever dog called Henry in the family. After winning a small dog
competition, the family and Henry were invited to appear on Pet
Power (a TV show that focused on stories about extraordinary pets)
and this moved one viewer, Lindsey Hill, so much that she contacted
the family asking to write a screenplay about their experiences.
The family agreed in the hope that their story might help other
families, and invited Hill to stay with them on two occasions to
enable her to produce this, her first ever screenplay. Hill, worked
closely with the family over nine years and involved them in
developing the screenplay, which included some actual experiences
that help to make the portrayal especially realistic.
The film opens with six-year-old Kyle and his
mother Nicola out shopping for shoes. Kyle dislikes any change and
cannot bear this process. A massive tantrum ensues in the shoe
shop, including some physically challenging aggressive behaviour
directed at the sale's assistant. We are immediately absorbed in to
the exhausting world of mother and a son who has autism. After
leaving the shop a further serious and potentially dangerous
tantrum follows as they are crossing a road. Members of the public
are seen looking on aghast, but not offering any help, prompting a
desperate outburst from Nicola as she manages to manhandle Kyle
home. Once home, Kyle is calmed by a Thomas the Tank Engine video
because trains are his main interest and the focus of his
When Kyle's dad, Rob, returns home the strains in
his marriage with Nicola are all too clear and despite his huge
love for Kyle and his respect for Nicola's attempts at connecting
with Kyle, he suggests that they consider sending Kyle to a
residential school with a good reputation. After Nicola's initial
reluctance, she agrees to a visit. During this visit, Rob and
Nicola are reassured by the charismatic headmaster, that Kyle's
current day school has a very good reputation. This supports Nicola
in her attempt to remain the main influence in Kyle's life and to
continue trying to breakthrough the barriers to communication
brought about by his autism. In this she is solidly supported by
her own mother, Pat, and father, Jim, played brilliantly by Sheila
Hancock and Duncan Preston, who offer her some brief respite from
her role as a carer. In her extensive research of interventions
that might help a child with autism, Nicola comes across a book
about a dog that made a difference to one family. She suggests to
Rob that they get a golden retriever dog, but he is initially
against the idea. However, he agrees to visit some puppies with
Kyle and the first positive signs of a connection between boy and
puppy are seen. The puppy is bought and named Thomas, after Kyle's
favourite train, and then slowly Kyle begins to show affection for
his pet building to an apparent understanding of Thomas' feelings.
Cleverly Rob finds that he can stop a tantrum that Kyle is having
by speaking in the 'voice' of Thomas and soon both parents are able
to use this technique to communicate with Kyle. As further progress
is made, the family is shaken by the sudden death of Grandma Pat,
and then by the illness of Thomas, who eventually recovers, but by
then too much progress has been made by Kyle to shatter the
intimate bonds he is starting to develop with both his parents.
After Thomas offers an excellent platform for anyone
wanting to learn about the subject of autism and the spectrum of
disorders associated with it. As a teaching tool it would make a
great starting point for a discussion about diagnosis as well as
treatment, in conjunction with the reading of an article, assessing
the evidence base for certain psychological treatments used for
children with autism-spectrum disorders. It was published in
Advances in Psychiatric Treatment in 2010 (16: 133-140), entitled
Evaluating psychological treatments for children with
autism-spectrum disorders by Professor Patricia Howlin
Many personal reviews written about After
Thomas, by parents of children diagnosed with autism, support
the accuracy of the portrayal of the condition and of the effect it
can have on parents and wider family. Many of those reviewers have
stated that this film provides an excellent window on their
difficult world as they struggle to raise a child with autism.
There is plenty of excellent information about
autism at
The National Autistic Society, the leading UK
charity for people with autism and their families. There is also a
helpful fact-sheet at the Royal
College of Psychiatrists. I would recommend this film to anyone
wanting to work in the field of child and adolescent mental
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NEW YORK — Brian Cashman's expression said it all.
NEW YORK — Brian Cashman's expression said it all.
Every time Alex Rodriguez's name was mentioned Friday, the Yankees general manager appeared as if he might get sick.
The subject was the third baseman's claim that his left quadriceps really isn't injured, but it could have been any one several topics: Rodriguez's alleged performance-enhancing drug use, his pesky Twitter and radio appearances or his knack for creating tabloid headlines.
Cashman challenged A-Rod to have his leg examined by an outside doctor, defending the team's medical and training staff and saying he wouldn't comment on "extra noise."
The third baseman detailed his frustration during a radio interview Thursday, just hours after team management said he wouldn't be ready to resume minor league rehab games until Aug. 1. Rodriguez wouldn't answer when asked whether he trusted the Yankees.
"The MRI is the MRI. It's fact. You can't change the results on an MRI," Cashman said before Friday's homestand opener against Tampa Bay. "So, we're very comfortable with it, and if anybody wants to utilize the process in place with the union, go right ahead. It's not something we're afraid of."
Recovering from January hip surgery, Rodriguez is being investigated by Major League Baseball for his reported ties to a Florida clinic accused of distributing banned performance-enhancing drugs. A lengthy suspension appears likely.
Seemingly days away from rejoining the Yankees, he complained of leg pain last weekend, and the Yankees said an MRI Sunday showed a quadriceps strain. An outside physician, Michael Gross, said Wednesday he looked at an MRI at Rodriguez's request — it's not clear when the MRI was taken — and could not detect an injury. Gross is not on baseball's list of doctors recommended for second opinions, and he admitted he never personally examined Rodriguez.
The Yankees responded angrily because Rodriguez didn't follow the procedure in baseball's labor contract, which requires him to provide written notice that a player wants a second medical opinion, and the team intends to discipline him — most likely with a fine.
Rodriguez did conditioning work Friday at the team's minor league complex in Tampa, Fla., a day ahead of his 38th birthday, and Cashman said the three-time MVP is on a schedule that could have him resume minor league games Aug. 1.
Cashman's careful answers sounded more like those of a White House press secretary rather than responses of a big league GM.
"I'm not going to comment really on the Alex stuff. Feel free to just reach out to Alex and ask him, because that's something that's hard to keep up with," Cashman said. "I just provide you the facts, and that's what I'll continue to do. We're running a baseball team, and I will provide you with the most accurate information that I can provide on a daily basis about anybody and everybody who's either healthy on that field or hurt and what the current state of their medical condition is and their rehab."


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Sup. Not sure if you're accepting ideas or not, 'cause I haven't been on here in forever..But if you are, then I got an idea.
Don't wanna give anything away here (just in case), so let me just ask, who should I message/whatever else about this?
Sorry if I'm just wasting you're time. No idea how this site works since I left for a while...what was it, it was at least half a year.


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I pretty much never scum.
The closest I'll get is bailing on a run if I end up getting a bad configuration of monsters that forces me to explore way too much of the dungeon at the early levels.
What's the deal with that? Don't you understand that your technique is allready giving you so much of an advantage over the intended power curve that you don't need to scum?
(Oh, and if you want to do anything purist, just take a gnome bloodmage and pay minimal attention. It'll take you more effort to chase badges than beating dungeons dacfrsure)
Darvin wrote:You can't prep GG at full power. You can't prep an early ENDISWAL find. You can't prep the Trisword/Alchemist Scroll combo. You can't prep the zombie money subdungeon. You can't prep a specific boss on a random dungeon. Scumming isn't something I do regularly, but when I do it's for something that you can't get from preps.
Sidestepper wrote:Hee hee, I just posted a Dorkling run through without even having seen this discussion. The reason you scum for weird combos is because weird combos are fun. If I had my way, there wold be some sort of sandbox mode that you could unlock so that you could have fun experimenting with all sorts of once-in-a-lifetime set ups.
Why would any sane person NEED any of the things you mention?
Darvin wrote:Why would any sane person NEED any of the things you mention?
You don't need them, but that doesn't mean you don't want to crush powerful monsters beneath your ridiculously over-sized boot, hence scumming.
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Art of war: Dubai gallery haven for Syrian artists
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Inside the gallery, artworks by Syrian artists were drawing auction bids from collectors. Outside on the street, the artists traded the latest gossip from Syria and checked their smartphones for news from the civil war.
So goes the divided world for a cadre of Syrian artists brought to the safety of Dubai by their gallery to continue their work but still remain deeply connected and influenced by the bloodshed they left behind.
The Syrian refugee diaspora — now at 2 million and growing — has fanned out across the region and beyond for more than two years from tent camps in Jordan to others trying to rebuild lives in cities such as Beirut and Istanbul. But the Gulf states present a paradox: Deeply involved in the war as some of the strongest backers for the Syrian rebels yet holding firm to tight entry controls that effectively block most refugees.
The auction Monday in Dubai's evolving art district — tucked inside an industrial zone of warehouses and businesses — served as a window into a small but forward-looking effort to save one niche of Syria's artistic community with no end in sight to the civil war that has already claimed more than 100,000 lives.
"It's a tragedy what is happening there now, but it would be an even bigger tragedy if all this art and culture that Syria has so much of would be lost," said Hisham Samawi, whose Ayyam Gallery moved from Damascus to Dubai in late 2011 as the Arab Spring rebellion widened.
"For us,'" he added, "the artists are part of our family. We had to do it. It was for us and for them."
Step by step for nearly two years, the gallery operators moved 15 artists and their families to Dubai — hiring them as employees to obtain visas in line with United Arab Emirates' system that requires a person or company to act as sponsors. Meanwhile, Ayyam crews managed to ship about 3,000 paintings, sculptures and other pieces as fighting intensified in the Syrian capital.
Among those under the gallery's wings in Dubai is one of the rising stars in Syria's revolution-inspired art world, Tammam Azzam, a Damascus-born painter who has shifted to prints and multimedia work seeking to draw attention the horrors of conflict. One piece, "Freedom Graffiti," superimposed the golden-hued sensuality of Gustav Klimt's masterpiece "The Kiss" over a shattered and bullet-scarred apartment wall near Homs. The image became an Internet sensation with hundreds of thousands of views and established the 33-year-old Azzam as one of the artistic voices of the civil war.
Another piece done since his arrival in Dubai is "Syrian Olympics," a digital print of stick-figure stencils in the shape of Olympic event logos. The shooters aim like snipers at the runners.
A signed copy sold for $12,000 at the auction, attended by more than 300 people. A copy of "Freedom Graffiti" brought in $6,000.
"I have to do something for the people there," said Azzam. "I want to do anything to send any message to people around the world about what happened in my country: People dying every day, every minute, and nobody can stop that."
Azzam struggles with the frustrating feeling that "art doesn't make sense" in the middle of a war.
But conflict has always been an incubator for creativity: The political cartoons of the American and French revolutions in the 18th century, the powerful canvases inspired by the 1930s Spanish Civil War such as Pablo Picasso's "Guernica," and now the Web-driven protest art of Middle East uprisings.
In Iran, songs, videos and artwork followed onto the Internet during the unrest after the disputed presidential re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009. In the latest election this June, Iran's art community and others rallied around the fictitious candidacy of "Zahra," the heroine of a graphic novel narrative begun in 2009.
Since 2011, dozens of prominent exhibitions have showcased the work of Arab Spring artists, including Egyptian Ahmed Basiony, who was killed during clashes in Cairo during the final days of Hosni Mubarak's rule. Street battles this summer in Turkey, meanwhile, stirred a kind of mass performance art as anti-government protesters mimicked the "Standing Man" sentinel of choreographer Erdem Gunduz, who stood motionless amid the skirmishes around Istanbul's Taksim Square.
"The artists are paramount so we had to get them out," said gallery owner Samawi. "There was no question about it. It wasn't like: We'll go find other artists. These are our artists. We believe in them and believe they have a voice."
He said there are plans to try to bring other Syrian artists out of the country, but the efforts are made more complicated by the deepening battles and the increasing lockdown atmosphere in Damascus over threats of possible U.S.-led military action.
"It's a good thing we started when we did," said Samawi, "because it becomes more and more difficult as every month passes."
The artist Azzam said he has friends watching his abandoned studio in Damascus.
"But who knows if it will be there when I return," he said. "And who knows when I can return."


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White-breasted Nuthatches usually nest in large natural cavities or old woodpecker cavities, typically around 5 to 20 m above the ground. The nest, built by the female, is a simple cup of bark fibers, grasses, twigs, and hair. The usual clutch size is 5 to 9 eggs. The eggs, which are white with reddish brown spots, are incubated for 12 to 14 days by the female, who is fed on the nest by her mate. Young are fed by both parents.
Differences in vocalizations, morphology, and ecology among Pacific coast, interior montane, and eastern populations may indicate three or four distinct species (see Spellman and Klicka 2007; Walstrom et al. 2012).
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Photographer Peter van Bohemen would never have imagined that he would one day go travelling with a 600mm telephoto lens. But he has now done just that twice: He flew to America with the new Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5.6-6.3 Di VC USD in the spring – and then managed to even smuggle it along with him on a family holiday in the summer.
Do you still stick to the old rule of always taking photos standing with your back to the sun? It's high time to break this habit as quickly as you can! To take really good pictures you actually need to confront the light quite often.
Tamron launches its first high-power zoom lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras
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Board town hall meeting today
The Sun City Hilton Head Board of Directors will host an open town lall meeting from 1-3 p.m. today in the Lakehouse Ballroom.
There won't be an agenda; residents are welcome to come and ask questions and interact with board members.
Holiday open house, tree lighting today
Santa's coming to Palmetto Commons. Meet your Community Association staff and tour the decorated building while enjoying coffee, tea and sweets during the Annual Holiday Open House from 3-5 p.m. today. Afterwards, join them at 6 p.m. for the lighting of Sun City's holiday tree, located in the circle between Pinckney Hall and Magnolia Hall.
The Sun City Singers and the Mountain Strings will lead the caroling around the tree. Afterward, complimentary hot chocolate, hot cider and sweets will be served in Pinckney Hall. Pick up complimentary tickets at lifestyle services.
Hold on to your golf score cards
Attention golfers: Hold on to your score cards in December.
The Golf Associations of the Carolinas is transitioning the GolfNet handicapping system to USGA GHIN through early January. Scores cannot be entered during the transition time. Handicaps will not change. Sun City's pros will be trained on the software, and the new software will be installed in the computers in the golf shops.
More information about the new system will follow when it is available.
Book Exchange to get new carpeting
The Book Exchange in Pinckney Hall is getting new carpeting and is closed for installation through Friday.
Please do not drop off books during the closure.
Unused 2012 fitness class passes good in January
The Health & Wellness Department is extending the expiration date of fitness class passes purchased in 2012 through the month of January.
Residents don't need to take any additional action to redeem their unused 2012 class passes during January. 2013 fitness class passes may now be purchased at the Hidden Cypress, Lakehouse and Purrysburg fitness centers. The six month unlimited is a new offering this year. You can purchase this bundle January through June 2013. The passes are valid for any consecutive six-month period. Check eNews Weekly for the breakdown of land and water aerobic fitness class passes for 2013.
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Everywoman magazine, a slim second-tier woman's magazine of the 1950s, employed an interesting assortment of illustrators whose work rarely (if ever) appeared in other publications. We've looked at one previously; H.B. Vestal, another was the subject of my last post; Gustav Rehberger (although Rehberger did regularly work for both Coronet and Esquire as well as Everywoman). Still another was an artist named Ric Grasso.
Grasso was a proficient painter of story illustrations whose work appeared regularly in Everywoman throughout the 1950s...
...but rarely elsewhere. This one Grasso spread (below) from Family Circle magazine is the only work of his I've seen in another publication.
A brief paragraph in the front of one mid-'50s issue both confirms Grasso's relationship with Everywoman magazine and provides the only biographical information I've ever seen on this artist.
Grasso was an inventive illustrator, often employing clever graphical devices...
... or experimenting with technique to give his illustrations more visual punch.
The art director at Everywoman magazine was clearly on board for some fun; agreeing for instance to allow Grasso to play out this amusing scenario...
... over two spreads...
... when a different single spread solution would likely have sufficed.
Based on the examples I've seen I'm pretty sure Ric Grasso was an admirer of Al Parker's work (as was just about every illustrator of those days). His use of flat, reductive graphics mixed with classical rendering strongly suggests he aspired to achieve 'the Parker effect' in his work.
But in the competitive market of magazine illustration of the 1950s, being this good...
... did not necessarily open doors to assignments from first rate magazines like Collier's, Ladies Home Journal or the Saturday Evening Post.
Let's hope the work he did for Everywoman brought him both creative and monetary satisfaction. What kind of illustration work occupied the rest of his time - and what ultimately became of Ric Grasso - remains unknown.
Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, August 31, 2012
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As you'll recall, last week Floyd and Animal appeared at The Webby Awards ceremony to accept the Muppets' Webby Award for "Bohemian Rhapsody." Well, almost a week later, the band OK Go has put up a new video on their YouTube account featuring both Animal and Floyd as Animal has a staring contest with OK Go's drummer, Dan. The video that follows is hysterical. Don't believe me? See for yourself!
Lucky Dan... gets to be The Electric Mayhem's road manager for a year... 'Course, when's the last time they had a gig, man? Mm... might just end up bein' the one to feed Animal, ya dig?
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Jun 24, 2010
Staring Contest? OK... Go!
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Defense Business Confidence Report Q2 2014 is a new market research publication announced by Reportstack that globally analyzes industry opinions on the latest economic and customer issues, and their impact on investment decisions and growth prospects within the defense industry. This report also examines executive opinion about the current and future state of the economy and its retrospective effect on the industry. Furthermore, it analyzes the likely effect of supplier price changes, sales performance, and staff headcount within the industry over the next six months. In addition, it provides an overview of the key priorities, threats, and opportunities for the global defense industry over the next six months. Moreover, this report provides a comparative analysis of survey results with Q1 2014 and Q4 2013 results, wherever applicable.
Key Findings
- Overall, 38% of defense respondents state that they are operating in a stable economic environment, while 30% state that the current economic conditions are favorable
- In comparison to Q1 2014 and Q4 2013, the percentage of respondents who opted for a positive change in customer confidence observed a significant rise in Q2 2014
- Industry respondents from North America expect considerable growth in staff headcount and sales in Q2 2014 when compared to Q1 2014 and Q4 2013 results
- Improving operational efficiency and retaining customers are the most preferred priorities by defense executives operating across all regions.
This report is the result of an extensive survey drawn from exclusive panel of leading global defense industry executives. The report analyzes current economic conditions prevailing across the globe and their impact on the defense industry, and forecasts the company and industry growth prospects over the next six months. Furthermore, it provides information about the impact of customer confidence, supplier prices, and staff headcount likely to affect investment decisions in the industry over the next six months. Moreover, this report provides a comparative analysis of survey results with Q1 2014 and Q4 2013 results, wherever applicable.
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See what was happening in Redwood Falls 50, 25, and 10 years ago this week.
1962—50 years ago • When William Berg of Redwood Falls finished changing the oil in his 1954 Chrysler, he kicked out the block holding the car in place. However, he had forgotten to take the car out of reverse. Seeing the car backing out of the garage toward children playing in the driveway, Berg dived into the driver's seat, catching his arm between the car door and the wall of the garage. The force drove Berg's elbow through the double plaster wall, but stopped the car. A neighbor rescued Berg and drove him to the hospital, where he was treated for bruises and released. • During the shortstop golf tournament, the Redwood Falls Golf Club kept the audience back at the clubhouse updated with how the golfers were doing by using state-of-the-art technology: radio walkie-talkies. • The Redwood County fairground got its lawn mowed in a novel way when three elephants grazed outside before the Shrine circus. • An interesting weather fun fact: during the first 28 Redwood Falls weekends in 1962, only four didn't have rain. The city council considered passing an ordinance saying, "Resolved: All weekends in 1963 shall occur in the middle of the week." • Workmen welding in the tunnel at the intersection of E. Third and S. Washington streets accidentally set insulation on fire, flooding the basements of Ehlers department store, J.C. Penny Co., and Nelson's Pharmacy with smoke. 1987—25 years ago • Former Redwood resident Les Peterson emerged from a three-way tie to claim the Redwood Fall invitational golf tournament title. • Marvin Husman of rural Echo attracted attention when he went shopping in Redwood Falls in a 1972 Ford pickup he'd modified to run on firewood. Husman estimated the truck ran on a mile per pound of wood chips. • The state Board of Animal Health quarantined three Redwood County swine herds believed to be infected with pseudorabies. • Residents near the airport attended a county planning commission meeting to protest against a Utah-based company's proposal to open a 12 acre kaolin mine east of the Redwood Falls airport. • Robocop and Spaceballs were the movies playing at the Falls Theatre. 2002—10 years ago • Frankie Avalon, and the duo of Jan and Dean, performed at Jackpot Junction Casino, making time to visit the Redwood Area Hospital's annual fundraiser. • Redwood County Human Services estimated the county spent $1 million dollars a year placing children in foster care. • A month after being sentenced to 90 days in jail for assault, a Redwood Falls man solicited a court-appointed attorney to try to change his plea after-the-fact from guilty to not guilty. The judge denied the order, pointing out the defendant had announced in court he wouldn't follow any conditions set on him for probation anyway. • Mike Smith won his fourth Palmer Kise Invitational at the Redwood Falls Golf Club. • The Childrens Theatre performed its summer musical, "Once Upon a Lily Pad."


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1. Re: Bios and new CPU.vbaderks May 6, 2012 4:32 AM (in response to acjantsch)1 of 1 people found this helpful
The Intel support site for your DH67BL shows if your board can handle the 3770k or not. Their is a detailed overview on that page which BIOS version you need and how to upgrade (it depends on several factors).
You may want to check the review sites if the 3770k is worth the upgrade if you already have the 2700k CPU. The GPU in the 3770k is indeed much faster, but only interesting if your are planning to use it.
2. Re: Bios and new CPU.Flying_Kiwi May 6, 2012 5:43 AM (in response to acjantsch)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Maybe this very recent thread about the same topic will go some way towards informing you: http://communities.intel.com/thread/29284?tstart=0
3. Re: Bios and new CPU.acjantsch May 6, 2012 1:14 PM (in response to acjantsch)
Thanks to all.
I'll buy the 2700K.


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James H. Arbuckle, 81, of Du Quoin, passed away at 5:15 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014 at the Shawnee Christian Nursing Center in Herrin.
James had been a mechanical instructor at John Deere Manufacturing in Moline, Ill. He was a member of the Spirit of Life Christian Church in Du Quoin. He was a U.S. Army veteran. James was an avid fisherman and enjoyed woodworking and camping.
He was born Jan. 26, 1932 at Tuscola, Ill., the son of William and Celia (Ballard) Arbuckle.
He married Catherine Meserve and she preceded him in death on May 1, 1987.
He is survived by five children - James H. Arbuckle Jr. of Newman, Ill., Tony Arbuckle of Allerton, Ill., James L. Arbuckle of Newman, Ill., Mary Kellems of Villa Grove, Ill. and Hope Arbuckle of Villa Grove, Ill., special companion for many years - Mary Jo Varnum of Metropolis, one brother - Harold Arbuckle of Carbondale, several grandchildren and several great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, wife and two sisters.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 at the Searby Funeral Home in Du Quoin with Rev. Jerry L. Conner officiating.
Friends may call from 8 a.m. until the time of service on Friday at the Searby Funeral Home in Du Quoin.
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Barcelona striker Lionel Messi has said the shock 3-2 loss to Real Sociedad on Saturday was not entirely unexpected, but added that the side must now rebound with a win in the Cope del Rey.
Despite bagging a goal in his 10th straight league game in consecutive seasons, Philippe Montanier's men staged an incredible comeback to stun Messi and the Blaugrana.
But the newly-crowned Balon d'Or winner told reporters: "Losing a game had to come at some point.
"We have to pick ourselves up immediately because of the cup match coming up.
Meanwhile Pedro, who scored Barca's other goal, was quick to blame the defeat on the referee's decision to produce a second yellow-card for Gerard Pique.
"Pique's red card conditioned the match, because it was a [tackle] that wasn't dangerous. On Thursday, we simply cannot fail," he said.
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Hobgobwins are a non-Capital Side. They have been natural allies to Gobwin Knob since at least the reign of King Saline IV and up to the current turn.
Hobgobwin units are orange skinned humanoids similar in appearance to Gobwins, but considerably bigger (somewhat larger than Men).
Any side allied with Hobgobwins will not be able to ally with Elves or Marbits.
Notable Hobgobwins
- Vurp
- Henchman Mung
The naming scheme for hobgobwins seems to be related to slang words that can be found in the urban dictionary. In IRC, Titan Rob declared that 'Vunt' was officially the name of a hobgobwin and referenced the appropriate entry in the urban dictionary.
Hobgobwins may be significantly better fighters and knights than Men are, which would explain why the Knights in Stanley's Service are all Hobgobwins.


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Nick Diaz Says He Would Trade Fighting For Triathlons if the Pay Was Better
(Video courtesy YouTube/Fight!Magazine)
If you haven't seen it yet, take a few minutes to watch the short feature Fight! Magazine did on Nick Diaz. You wouldn't know that Nick had issues with doing interviews or media by watching the smiling and laughing Stockton, California native talk about his life and early days of training.
Some interesting things he had to say that may surprise some is that he doesn't overly like fighting, doesn't care about his Strikeforce title and that if the pay was better he would forgo fighting to focus on being a triathlete.
"Do I love fighting? No, I don't love fighting it's a living hell. My first thought when I step in the cage is, 'In about 20 minutes I'm going to be in a shower rinsing all the blood off of me; hopefully it's the other guys and not mine,'" Diaz explains. "If they paid me to race triathlons as much as they do to fight, I probably wouldn't fight any more."Read More DIGG THIS


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The Parents and Carers Guide to the Internet
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The show covers topics such as, talking to your child about the technologies they use and the things they might see, such as pornography.
With interviews from leading experts such as, Professor Tanya Byron, Dr Linda Papadopoulos and Reg Bailey, as well as key industry players from Facebook, Club Penguin and Moshi Monsters, this online guide aims to equip you with the tools to have those tricky conversations with your children and keep your family safe online.
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Reducing the Incidence of Heat Stress in Cattle
Understanding and avoiding heat stress in cattle can be a valuable management tool in Oklahoma, where most areas of the state experience 70 or more days each year with temperatures that exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
Understanding and avoiding heat stress in cattle can be a valuable management tool in Oklahoma, where most areas of the state experience 70 or more days each year with temperatures that exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Cattle have an upper critical temperature that is approximately 20 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than humans. When we're uncomfortable at 80 degrees and feel hot at 90 degrees, cattle may well be in the danger zone for extreme heat stress.
The potentially bad news does not end there. Humidity is an additional stress that intensifies ambient temperature problems by making body heat dissipation more difficult. In other words, it can be tough to cool off in Oklahoma during the summer, for people and cattle.
High humidity contributes to the likelihood of heat stroke or prostration because water evaporation from the oral and nasal cavities is decreased, in spite of rapid panting, a heat regulatory device in cattle. Panting often occurs at rectal temperatures at or above 104 degrees Fahrenheit, but may begin at even lower body temperatures.
Signs of overheating in cattle may develop suddenly and depend on the environmental conditions and health of the animal. Some overheated cattle manifest restlessness, excitement and muscle spasms. Others may be dull and depressed. A protruding tongue may be covered with saliva, and frothy mucus may be discharged at the nostrils.
Fortunately, overheating in cattle can be prevented under most management conditions. Access to shade and air circulation should be provided if possible. Allowing cattle access to fresh water and mineral supplements is a must during hot summertime weather. Cool, fresh water is especially vital for animals that are in close, confined areas for any length of time. During hot weather, cattle will drink more than 1 percent of their body weight per hour. Producers need to be certain that water supply lines are capable of keeping up with demand when working cattle during hot weather.
It is a good idea for producers to work cattle before 8 a.m. during hot weather, and all cattle work should be completed by 10 a.m. While it may seem to make sense to work cattle after sundown, they may need at least six hours of night cooling before enough heat has dissipated to enable them to cool down from an extremely hot day. Cattle that must be handled during hot weather should spend less than 30 minutes in the working facility, according to OSU recommendations.
Excitable cattle will be even more prone to heat stress if handled at high environmental temperatures. Dry lot pens and corrals loaded with cattle will have little if any air circulation. Cattle will gain heat constantly when in these areas. By limiting the cattle's time in a working facility, the producer can help limit the animal's heat gain and therefore the heat stress. If animals are going to have limited access to water under stressful conditions such as shipping by truck or trailer, they should be allowed water prior to further stressful situations.
It is fortunate that most cattle handling for health and production purposes in Oklahoma occurs in the relatively cooler weather of spring and fall, resulting in only an occasional need for cattle handling in the heat of summer.
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It takes a lot more than a putrid, error-filled Game 1 performance to rile St. Louis Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak, who seems more like a college philosophy professor than a man who has put together a championship major league baseball team over the past six years.
Mozeliak was pleased after Thursday's 4-2 win over the Red Sox in Game 2 at Fenway Park, but also rather emotionless. He stood in the cramped visitors clubhouse, having fully expected his team to bounce back. But even he acknowledged that, at the start of the season, no one in the organization expected Michael Wacha to be the central figure of any postseason victory.
And he was pleasantly surprised that less than 24 hours after having X-rays and CT scans on his injured ribs, Carlos Beltran was back in the lineup to scrape together two hits, including a critical RBI single in the seventh inning that allowed the Cardinals bullpen to pitch with more of a margin for error.
This "Cardinal Way" chatter that has been buzzing in the ears of Red Sox fans over the past few days took a beating after Game 1, but there is indeed something to it. To a man, the Cardinals were more surprised by their Game 1 performance than their Game 2 resurgence.
St. Louis players were matter-of-fact about the victory, blasé about the prospect of returning to Busch Stadium, where raucous fans will be waiting. The ringleader of this casual atmosphere was Mozeliak, who, in his best Ben Stein impression, attempted to describe what he was feeling between Games 1 and 2.
"I definitely don't think there was panic, more like frustration and 'get it over with,' " Mozeliak said. "That was very uncharacteristic to give up four or five outs. It's not good.
"Playing back home is nice. Seeing the energy of our crowd in St. Louis will be uplifting."
The Cardinals have made it this far by being steady, never panicking, even when they trailed, two games to one, against the Pirates in the Division Series with Game 4 at Pittsburgh. The Cardinals used the stellar pitching of Wacha and a two-run homer from Matt Holliday to tie the series, then sealed it in Game 5 at Busch Stadium.
Against the Dodgers in the NLCS, the Cardinals responded after losing Game 3 by stealing Game 4 behind another Holliday homer, and then romped, 9-0, in Game 6 behind Wacha. The Cardinals are resilient, even after their shocking performance in Game 1.
Yet there wasn't a sense of glee in the clubhouse, despite the prospect of three straight home games and a chance to close out the series at home.
The Game 2 rally began after David Ortiz changed the momentum by tagging Wacha for a two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth inning for a 2-1 lead. The Cardinals started their rally with a David Freese walk, a Jon Jay single, and then a critical double steal by Jay and pinch runner Pete Kozma. A sacrifice fly, two Boston errors, and a Beltran single later, the Cardinals had seized a 4-2 lead and the momentum.
And manager Mike Matheny was able to unleash his lethal bullpen.
"When you think about the approach of this club, they're opportunistic," Mozeliak said. "If we have opportunities to score, we try to take advantage of them the best we can. No different than any club, but at this stage, the pressure mounts, things become tougher, but these gentlemen have been able to respond."
The Cardinals and Red Sox are very similar teams. They pride themselves on their ability to respond to adversity. While victorious clubhouses are generally filled with loud music, plenty of chatter, and constant giggling, the Cardinals were more subdued Thursday.
They accomplished what they set out to: take home-field advantage and set themselves up to take control of the series by simply playing their typical game. But they also assume nothing.
"We play well at home," said Holliday, whose team was 54-27 at Busch Stadium this season. "[But] this is a crazy game, stuff happens. You are going to play games like [Game 1]. You don't want to, but occasionally that stuff happens. You turn the page and you move on to the next day and try to win the next game, and that's how we've handled it all season.''
Beltran played despite bruised ribs, receiving an anti-inflammatory shot that helped reduce the pain. His general manager was grateful for his contribution in Game 2, which was indicative of Beltran's desire to play despite an aging, 36-year-old body.
When he hits the field for Game 3, it will be on a day's rest and with the knowledge that the Cardinals have an opportunity to seize control of the series.Gary Washburn can be reached at email@example.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @gwashNBAGlobe.


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vibrantly painted woman in hoodie by Linda Cardina,
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Jennifer Lawrence and Her Ex Reunite For Dinner in a "Private Room"
Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult had dinner at The Little Door restaurant in LA on Monday night, stirring up rumors that they may be reuniting as a couple. The former couple apparently had a spot in the well-known restaurant all to themselves; a source tells POPSUGAR Jennifer and Nicholas has "a private room all to themselves." Jennifer showed off her new short haircut and held on to a copy of Anna Karenina as the former flames made their way out of the back exit and drove off in her car together.
Jennifer and Nicholas met on the set of X-Men: First Class in 2010 and dated for two years before parting ways in January 2013. In spite of the breakup, Jennifer bounced back in a big way — she went on to become an award-season darling and a member of the A-list set while taking home an Oscar for her role in Silver Linings Playbook. While it hasn't been confirmed that Jennifer and Nicholas are linked up romantically, they are likely seeing a lot of each other on the set. The pair is currently filming X-Men: Days of Future Past along with Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, and Anna Paquin, in addition to Jennifer's other big-screen projects. She spent time in Boston earlier this month while shooting American Hustle with Bradley Cooper and will gear up later this year to promote Catching Fire ahead of its November release.