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Restoring Balance to the Republican Party
The third thing necessary to bring back Liberal Republicanism is for people who believe in Liberal Republican principles and pragmatic, consensus-driven government to get involved in the political process. It is understandable that people on the Left and Right who are passionate about political and social issues are also passionate about taking the time and spending the resources to effectuate those passions. In contrast, people who are inherently moderate and pragmatic are more likely to be moderate and pragmatic in how they practice politics. Unfortunately this moderation destroyed Liberal Republicanism before. Liberal Republicanism will not re-emerge until people who believe in its values and policies are willing to get back into the political arena and duke it out (politically, not with their fists) with their more conservative Republican brethren.
A little more background on how all of this happened, and how it has changed all aspects of politics, including basic civility among our politicians, sheds some light on what needs to be done to reverse the tide:
Clifton White was an American Republican political activist who evolved from moderate mainstream Republicanism to become the conservative force behind the movement that secured the Republican Presidential nomination in 1964 for Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. The only time White ran for elective office himself was in 1946. Apparently his candidacy was sabotaged by Communists under orders from Moscow, who were attempting to infiltrate and take over liberal-leaning organizations. Although the Communists were greatly outnumbered, they were able to get their way through secrecy, rigid unity, manipulation of parliamentary procedure, and sheer ruthlessness.
According to Geoffrey Kabaservice in Rule and Ruin: The End of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party,[27] "Sometimes the Communists simply demonstrated a superior grasp of organization and tactics, for example by voting as a bloc for one candidate while their opponents spread their votes across multiple candidates. At other times they would run roughshod over the democratic process, employing stalling motions to keep a meeting going all night until enough of their opponents had left in disgust, then ramming home the vote. Or they would wait until a rival candidate had built up such a majority that most serious challengers had dropped out, then destroy the front-runner through foul-play and make their own candidate available as a last-minute substitute. That was the fate that befell Clifton White, as he was on his way to victory in the state chairman's race, when at the eleventh hour the Communists spread a rumor that he had diverted funds to an adulterous tryst with his secretary. Most of the non-Communists who witnessed these abuses of democracy were horrified; some were moved to join the CIA in order to dedicate themselves to attacking the evils of Communism around the world. White, on the other hand, wanted to emulate the Communists. He saw in their example methods by which a small, disciplined minority uninhibited by bourgeois scruples of fair play or tradition or truth, could defeat a majority and bend an organization to its will."[28]
The 1964 Republican Convention that nominated the archconservative Senator Barry Goldwater put these strategies into action. Former Republican President Dwight Eisenhower (less than four years out of office) "felt it was unpardonable- and a complete negation of the spirit of democracy. I was bitterly ashamed."[29] Former baseball star Jackie Robinson, who was one of the most prominent African-Americans in the convention audience, felt that he was witnessing white supremacy in action. "I know now how it felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany."[30] Many African-American delegates and alternates walked out of the convention. Others stayed out of determination not to give into the thugs.
It is fascinating and ironic that this long-shot success of White and his colleagues in recasting the Republican Party as exclusively conservative was accomplished using tactics of the Communist Party, whose politics were diametrically opposed to the politics of White and his colleagues. Modern Liberal Republicans likewise must be equally tenacious in advocating and organizing for Liberal Republican candidates and policies if they hope to be as successful as White and his colleagues were when they transformed the Republican Party to the exclusively conservative party it is today. Even though surveys show that moderate political principles are held by the plurality of Americans.[31] moderate political tactics will not suffice to rebalance the Republican Party.[32]
In contrast, while White and others were building their movement "Moderate Republicanism, considered as a long-range political movement, was 'in terrible shape.' It lacked articulate spokesmen, movement-conscious intelligentsia, action organizations, financial backers, and coordination. Critics of moderate Republicanism identified its crucial shortcoming as the lack of a national grassroots organization", and an inability or unwillingness to commit funds and resources to building the moderate wing from the ground up. [33] (This was a criticism leveled particularly at Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who arguably "failed to do for Republican moderates and progressives what a few wealthy individuals were doing at that time for the conservatives: building an enduring political infrastructure of opinion journals, think tanks, donor networks, and grassroots organizational support)".[34] And the fact that the major Liberal Republican newspaper, The New York Herald Tribune, went out of business in 1966 also was a serious blow to the liberal wing of the Republican Party.[35]
"The most detailed moderate battle plan for Liberal Republicans came in the mid-1960s from Doug Bailey, a Ripon Society founder and Rockefeller aide, and David Goldberg, a Boston attorney.[36] Both had attended the 1964 Republican Convention in San Francisco, and both were sufficiently horrified that they drew up an analysis of what would be required to reverse the conservative takeover."
"The Bailey-Goldberg plan called for a widespread moderate effort to replicate F. Clifton White's seizure of the party machinery at the grassroots level, building a moderate counterpart to the conservative political infrastructure that had sprung up in the previous decade. They also insisted that moderates would have to generate clearly defined policy proposals and an inspiring ideology that they had so far lacked."
"We sent the proposal far and wide,' Bailey remembered ruefully, 'and it was ignored far and wide… No moderates ever mounted that kind of grassroots effort, so far as I'm aware, despite the obvious need."[37]
The roots of the modern Republican Party are in Clfton White's "take no prisoner's" politics. Viewed through the lens of the 1960's and 70's, it is no wonder that today's Republican Party is so uncompromising, and inter-party communication has become so uncivil.
That this would be the result of such political tactics was foreseeable at the time. For example, after the 1964 Republican Presidential Convention at which Goldwater was nominated, George Romney responded by writing a piece in which he pointed out that he and Goldwater differed on the desirability of realigning the Republican and Democratic parties into "conservative" and "liberal" parties along the European model. Romney observed: "Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation, lead to governmental crises and deadlocks, and stymie the compromises so often necessary to preserve freedom and achieve progress."[38] Romney sure had that right.
The New York Times editorialized that:
"Heterogeneous national parties are confusing and untidy but they lend stability to a diverse society which always needs a stabilizing influence." When the parties spanned a broad ideological spectrum, each was forced to appeal to independents and moderates in the opposing party, which softened the sharpness of partisan battles."[39]
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The decline of moderate Republicanism continues to reverberate in our politics today. Both Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush's political roots are in moderate Republicanism. Jeb Bush's father, President H.W. Bush, was a moderate Republican, as was his grandfather, Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush. (Senator Prescott Bush served as the treasurer of the first national campaign of Planned Parenthood and was an early supporter of the United Negro College Fund.) And as for Secretary Clinton, her politics actually evolved from a place further to the political Right of moderate Republicanism as a "Goldwater girl," to moderate Republicanism, before she abandoned Republicanism entirely, preferring instead the emerging moderate wing of the Democratic Party.
This history is lost to most Americans, especially to young people who came of age politically after the Republican Party had become the predominantly conservative monolith it is today. For example, according to Geoffrey Kabaservice, "A symbolic indication of youthful disaffection with moderate Republicanism occurred when Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke [link] addressed the Wellesley College commencement in late May 1969. Brooke, one of the Senate's most progressive Republicans as well as its lone African American, tried to persuade his restive audience that change within the system was still possible, as demonstrated by the poverty rate's having fallen from 22 percent of Americans in 1959 to 13.3 percent in 1967. (That is an extraordinary reduction in such a short time.) Brooke was followed on the speaker's platform by the student government president, Hillary Rodham, who was the first student ever permitted to address a Wellesley graduation ceremony. The future New York senator, then a slight blonde in Coke-bottle glasses, departed from her prepared text to tear into Brooke for his alleged indifference to poverty. "What does it mean that 13.3 percent of Americans are poor?" she demanded. "How about talking about the humans, not the statistics?"[40] Her classmates predictably gave her a standing ovation.[41]
Brooke was convinced that his young antagonist hijacked the occasion for her own purposes, and would have attacked any other commencement speaker: "I was there representing authority, and she was representing the frustrations of her own generation, which she did most effectively." But Hillary Rodham's political trajectory suggested a broader generational significance as well. A dedicated Illinois Republican for most of the 1960s, she had been a Goldwater Girl in 1964, interned for Melvin Laird (President Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense), campaigned for Brooke in 1966, and assisted the Ripon Society with an antiwar symposium in 1967. By the spring of 1969, however, even a progressive Republican like Brooke appeared hopelessly reactionary to her, and she left the GOP to support the New Politics wing of the Democratic Party."[42]
It is certainly easy for young people today to conclude that government is such a mess that their efforts and passions should be directed elsewhere. One only needs to look to Secretary Clinton's evolving politics to understand the complexity of forming political opinions, especially in our fast-moving times. But abandoning politics will not help end the poisonous politics we face today. In the words of the late David Foster Wallace, in his essay "The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub: Seven Days in the Life of the Late, Great, John McCain":
"There are, of course, some groups of Young Voters who are way, way into modern politics… It is interesting, though, that what gives these small fringe blocs such disproportionate power is the simple failure of most mainstream Young Voters to get off their ass and vote... And it's not just the fringes who benefit – the fact is that it is to some very powerful Establishments' advantage that most younger people hate politics and don't vote… If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home… By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote."[43]


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Call to Surrender
Ten years ago today I gave birth to my amazing son, Aidan, and nervously passed through the threshold into motherhood. I remember so clearly my prayers that day... surrender, surrender, surrender.
Now, I find my self on the other side of the planet about to cross through a totally different kind of threshold.
As I prepare to teach Women's Yoga internationally for the first time, I am marveling at how blessed I am to get to do so in the foothills of the Himalyas. Breathing deeply as I take this next step towards fulfilling my dharma.
Appreciating how although SO many things in my life have changed over the last ten years, the call to surrender remains the same.

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Spiro Polymerides is a con artist, petty thief, and parasite who survives basically via his younger good looks and ordinary crafty. Restlessly, he drifts from one sufferer to a different: Irvine Stroh, an American reduction employee and repressed gay; Helen Bristow, a prosperous, middle-aged widow; and Kiki, the younger daughter of a Greek delivery wealthy person. As he exploits, betrays, and finally destroys all the those who love him, Spiro will come to discover that the ultimate sufferer is himself . . .
The guy at the Rock (1957) used to be the 7th novel via the prolific Francis King (1923-2011), who was once hailed by means of Beryl Bainbridge as 'one of our nice writers, of the calibre of Graham Greene and Nabokov'. one in every of King's most well liked and best-reviewed novels, it returns to print during this variation, which encompasses a new creation via Gregory Woods.


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I am a Year 7 student at Christ the King School in Auckland, NZ. I am in Room 5 and my teachers are Miss Goodier & Mrs Ashe.
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In Room 5 for R.E, we have been learning about Saint Mary MacKillop so we did a timeline on her. Here is my timeline of Mary MacKillop.
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What makes a good teacher
What makes a good teacher?
All good teachers should have great skills, attitudes and qualities. Skills that a good teacher needs is to be, well organised and to be able to encourage their students. Attitudes that a good teacher needs is to have a kind attitude and to have a encouraging attitude. Qualities to make a good teacher is to be trustworthy and understanding.
A good teacher should be well organised. They should be ready before students enter the class. This will show their students to always be organised before coming to school. Another skill that good teachers should have is to be able to encourage their students at all times. Student's should be able to have encouragement by their teachers as much as possible, especially when they need help.
A good teacher needs a kind attitude. Student's shouldn't be afraid to talk to their teachers. A good teacher will have an encouraging attitude as well. Meaning their student's will always receive support and motivation towards learning. They also encourage their students to always do their best so they can have a bright future.
Good teachers have many different qualities. 2 qualities a good teacher needs is being trustworthy and understanding. Teachers should always be trustworthy. If a student needs to talk to a teacher about something happening at home it should stay between them two. Student's should be able to trust their teachers. Teacher's should always be understanding to be able to relate more to their students.
In conclusion I think that all teachers need skills, attitudes and qualities to become a good teacher. I think that Jesus had all these skills, attitudes and qualities because he was an amazing teacher to the apostles and disciples.
In Room 5 for writing, we have been learning about the different qualities, skills and attitudes of what makes a good teacher.
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Take It Easy With These Weekend Smart Home Routines
Arguably one of the greatest benefits of smart technology is its ability to make our homes and lives more comfortable. This certainly comes in handy on the weekends, when all we want to do is take a break from the work week and participate in leisurely activities. Check out some Yonomi Routine ideas for relaxing on the weekend and let the Yonomi App automate everything. Cheers to that!
Here are a few weekend Yonomi Routines to consider:
Soak in the Bath
Get the Epsom salt and a cup of tea ready. Some nights you just need to stay in for the sake of self-care.
Create a new Routine in the Yonomi App called "Bath Time" with the following actions:
Dim bathroom lights to 20% soft yellow light
Play "Bath Songs to Relax" playlist on Sonos One
Warm up the house
Devices you'll need: Philips Hue or LIFX Bulbs, Sonos Speaker, Nest or Honeywell Thermostat
Wake Up Late
There are few luxuries as great as sleeping in on weekend after a long weekend or a fun night out.
Create a new Routine in the Yonomi App called "Weekend Wake Up" with the following actions:
Turn on the smart lights in your bedroom
Broadcast today's weather on your Sonos
Start up your coffee maker
Warm up the house
Turn on the downstairs TV
Devices you'll need: Philips Hue or LIFX Bulbs, Sonos Speaker, Nest or Honeywell Thermostat, Logitech Harmony Hub, and a WeMo Coffee Maker or Switch
Chill by the Pool
Soak up the sun and let your smart home create the optimal conditions for a relaxing evening by the pool.
Create a new Routine in the Yonomi App called "Pool Day" with the following actions:
Play "Chill Hits" playlist on Sonos outdoor speakers
Turn on string lines using the Insteon outdoor module
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Stay in for the Movies
Get ready for a cozy night of binge-watching the latest Netflix show. This routine can be triggered from your phone or voice assistant.
Turn on TV and Apple TV
Dim living room lights to a soft yellow
Turn all other lights off
Turn up the heat
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Enjoy a Meal on the Patio
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Play "Acoustic Covers" playlist on Sonos
Turn on WeMo switch to engage the outdoor heater
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How do you use smart home technology to relax and unwind on the weekends? Let us know what "chill" routines you've created with Yonomi in the comments.


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Sermon on Psalm 89. Beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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1 Sermon on Psalm 89 Beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, Perhaps you noticed something remarkable when we read through Psalm 89. We read it in three parts of more or less similar length. We did that so that we could read the whole Psalm carefully, despite its length. But we also did it because the Psalm actually does have three parts: vss 1-18, 19-37, And what is so remarkable about these three parts is that the third part is completely different from the first two. The first part sings about God s faithfulness. The second part underpins that with reference to God s covenant with David. But in vss we find a complete turnaround: But now you have cast off and rejected; You have renounced the covenant with your servant! So, in other words, in the first and second part the writer of the Psalm sings praises to God s faithfulness, and in the third part he cries out in pain because God has become unfaithful! How is that possible!? Can God be faithful and unfaithful at the same time? No, that cannot be. There is no contradiction in God s nature, no black and white, darkness and light at the same time. God is faithful, there can be no doubt. The thing is rather, that the first two parts speak the language of promise, and the third part the language of experience. The first two parts speak the language of the ideal, the third part the language of reality. And as such it reflects what we often find in our own hearts and lives. We profess and believe something, but sometimes it seems that in real life it just does not work that way. More specifically: God promises to take care of us - that we know and believe. But in real life, we still sometimes have to go through terrible ordeals. Or: God will provide for us, and makes everything work to the benefit of those who trust in him - that we believe. But in reality we often do not see the purpose of the suffering we have to go through. Sometimes we feel that God s promises on the one hand, and his actions in our every day life on the other hand, simply do not coincide. And in those times we may say, or perhaps only feel in our hearts: is God really faithful? Does God really do as he says? Why then do these terrible things happen to me? These are the questions and doubts that are addressed by Psalm 89. Some say that the remarkable third part has been added to the original Psalm in later times, perhaps just before the exile, when the people of God began to doubt God s faithfulness. That may be true. Had not God promised to David that there would always be a descendent of David on Israel s throne? But when the people of Israel and Judah were led away into exile, the line of David seemed to be broken. And so the question emerged: what happened to God s faithfulness to his covenant with David? Indeed, the Psalm refers to God s covenant with David quite clearly. And that makes it a very suitable Psalm to study in this time of Advent as well, as we prepare for the celebration of Christmas. We celebrate Christmas with great joy and thankfulness, because the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in the flesh proves that God can be trusted! The people of God sometimes doubted God s faithfulness, as reality seemed to overcome the promise. But the promise was definitely fulfilled! The Messiah has come! And God continues to be faithful. The second coming of Jesus Christ is promised to us in the time of the NT. We wait still for the final fulfilment of the covenant with David, when our Lord will come back as Judge and King on the clouds of heaven. And what goes for the people of God at large, in OT and NT, also applies to each and every individual child of God in particular. If God proves to be faithful to his people as a whole throughout the ages, then he is also faithful to his promises to each and everyone of us. And so we find strength and comfort in the words of this Psalm. Strength to continue to put our trust in God, who will not disappoint us, but will care for us, and give us everything we need for body and soul. Psalm 89 teaches us about trusting in God s faithfulness. That is the 1
2 theme for the sermon. And we will together study three aspects of this trust, as presented by the text of this Psalm: Trusting in God s faithfulness 1. The reason for our trust is God s covenant promise 2. Our trust is put to the test by the reality of our lives 3. The birth of Jesus Christ proves that our trust is not misplaced 1. The reason for trusting in God s faithfulness is God s covenant promise Crucial to the understanding of Psalm 89 is the covenant that God made with David, at the time when David wanted to build a temple for God. We find the making and the words of this covenant in 2 Sam. 7:1-17. When David was king, he fought many wars. The Lord blessed him and granted him victory over his enemies. Then David considered: how can I live in a beautiful palace, while God has to make do with a tent, the tabernacle!? So David decided to build a temple for God. But the Lord responded to him, by mouth of the prophet Nathan, that David need not build a house for God, but that God would build a house for him - meaning, a dynasty, a royal line, which would never be broken. The operative, crucial word in this prophecy of Nathan is the word forever. God makes a covenant with David. And God gives David a promise: I will establish the throne of the kingdom of your son forever. (vs 13). And vs 16: Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever. We find an echo of these words in Ps. 89:4: I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations. This is a wonderful promise, because it is the promise of the coming salvation in Jesus Christ, who was the great son of David! God had a special relationship with David. He was the man after God s own heart. God chose him as the one with whom he would fulfil his plan of salvation. The Messiah would come from the line of David. What a wonderful privilege and favour of God for this king of Israel! No wonder that Ethan the Ezrahite, the writer of the Psalm, sings his praises to God almighty for this promise. He sings about the power of God to underline that God is surely going to fulfil this promise. God can be trusted to deliver on his word. Nothing or no one can stand in his way, for there is no one as powerful as he. Vss 5-14 sing about God s heavenly majesty, about God s command over the hosts of the angelic armies in the heavens. Ethan sings about God s rule over creation, over the raging of the sea, over the powers of nature, the mighty seas and the high mountains. God has made all of these and they under his control. He continues to sing about God s attributes: his righteousness, justice, love, faithfulness, and more. All of this paints the picture of an almighty and wonderful God. He is incomparable, he has not an equal! He is unsurpassable in power and majesty! Surely, a promise made by a God like that, will stand firm as a rock! Blessed are the people who live with this God (vs 15)! In the second part of the Psalm (vss 19-37), Ethan speaks specifically about God s covenant with David. He gives many literal quotations from 2 Sam. 7, and elaborates on the words of the promise of God with poetic liberty. He sings about God s sure promise. God has chosen David. David is God s anointed one, meaning that God appointed him and equipped him with his Holy Spirit to be king in God s name. Ethan sings about God s strong hand with which he granted David victory over his enemies. He sings about God s love for David, and about David who is allowed to call God his Father. The relationship between God and David was truly exceptional. God will surely keep his promise given to this king of his choice, this man after his own heart, his anointed firstborn king even (vs 27)! In his jubilant expression of trust in God s faithfulness, Ethan also repeats the words of God to David in vss I want to highlight these remarkable verses. First of all because they can be easily misunderstood, and secondly because, if understood correctly, they underline God s love and faithfulness in a most profound way. Let s read just these three verses again. (Read vss 30-33). Sometimes people misunderstand these words to say that God 2
3 will never abandon his covenant with his children, whatever they do. If we sin in life, then God may discipline us, but he will never abandon us - so say vss However, God s promise does always require the response of a believing heart. We must not confuse election and covenant. God will never abandon those whom he has chosen for everlasting life, they are his elect. But not everyone who is in the covenant is elected to everlasting life. We see this when baptised members of the church leave God behind and go their own way. When God calls us in his love, we must still respond with our love for him. Our baptism, as a sign and seal of the covenant, is not a license to sin. Then how can God say in vss that he will not remove his steadfast love from those who forsake his law? Well, that is the power and wonder of God s love and faithfulness in his plan of salvation. To David God essentially said that he would not allow anyone, including sinful kings of the line of David, to stand in the way of the fulfilment of his promise. Whatever the children of David would do, God would make the Messiah come. So God s words here must be read in this context, and not carelessly be applied to individual believers in general. God takes the initiative. God will carry out his everlasting plan of salvation with his people. And no one will be able to stand in his way. And that is our comfort still in this time of Advent. If it depended on the wisdom and faithfulness of man, then salvation would never have come, the people of God would have ceased to exist long before the Messiah could come. If it depended on the faithfulness of man the church of the NT would not remain. Many sinful kings came after David in the OT, and after Christ many leaders of the NT church have acted contrary to God s Word, and preached heresy. If it depended on the wisdom of man, the church of Jesus Christ would not stand for long. But she still exists because God made a covenant with his people, and he is faithful still. That is also why art. 27 BC says about the church: This church has existed from the beginning of the world and will be to the end, for Christ is an eternal King who cannot be without subjects. This holy church is preserved by God against the fury of the whole world. God will not abandon his covenant with the church. God will preserve his church. He did that in the OT till the coming of the Messiah, and he continues to do that in our time till the coming of our Lord to judge the living and the dead. God is faithful to his covenant promise. And our trust in him is not misplaced. 2. Our trust in God s faithfulness is put to the test by the experiences in our lives But then, after these wonderful and strong words of Ethan, and the assurance of God s faithfulness, comes this complete turnaround in vss 38-39: But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant. After all those wonderful words, comes this devastating disappointment: God has abandoned his servant, David and his people, after all! The first two parts of the Psalm were words of faith, but here comes reality: God has renounced the covenant after all! All of a sudden those wonderful words of promise and faithfulness seem hollow in comparison to the reality of every day experience. What made Ethan say this? What experience made him say these basically very insolent words? Well, it must have been something that indicated the breaking of the covenant, the breaking of the line of David, the end of his house, his dynasty. The text of Psalm 89 does not give us the exact historical background of Ethan s disappointment. But it is most likely the exile of the people of God, the kingdom of Judah. When the Assyrians came, they burned Jerusalem and plundered it (vss 40-41). The enemies of the people prevailed (vs 42). But most importantly, the crown of the kingdom fell to the dust, God cast the crown of David to the ground (vss 39, 44). This probably refers to king Jehoiachin, one of the last descendants of David to actually sit on the throne of Jerusalem (2 Chron. 36). Jehoiachin was the last king of David s dynasty. When he was taken to Assyria, and Jerusalem was left devastated and ruled by governors, the line of David s descendants was effectively and truly broken. 3
4 Ethan must have experienced this and must even have felt betrayed by God. When the people of God were led into exile, it felt like it was the end of everything. No more kingdom, no more Messiah, just slaves forever. Isn t this our own experience sometimes as well, brs and srs? Most of us live happy and healthy lives. We just coast along, through the routine of every day, almost on auto-pilot. We know about the promises of God that he cares for us. He will give us everything that we need for body and soul. We are his covenant children. We are safe with him, and comfortable in the church. But then, all of a sudden, something terrible happens. It may be an accident, or a marriage break-up, or we lose a loved one, or our child leaves the church, or we become very sick. We have always known and trusted that God is there for us. That s what we ve always been taught. God will make all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. says Paul in Rom. 8:28. LD 9 echoes this when it says about God s providence: God will turn to my good whatever adversity he sends me in this life of sorrow. You ve always known that, never had any reason to doubt it. But now, when trouble comes, you catch yourself thinking: is it not true after all? Is God really there for me? Questions and doubts multiply as you sink deeper in the quicksand of sorrow and sadness. That is the way Ethan must have felt when he saw the last king of the line of David being led away into captivity. Now what do you do when you feel like that? Ethan does not give a direct answer to that question. But he does give some kind of an indirect answer. It is kind of in the background, but let s take from the background and put in the spotlight: Notice that all the vss 38-45, where Ethan expresses his complaint and lament, begin with the word you. This you is of course God himself. God has cast off and rejected; God has renounced the covenant; God has breached the walls of Jerusalem; God has given victory to the enemies; God has cast the crown of David to the ground. So there is no doubt why all of these terrible things have happened. God did it! He is the acting Person. God has destroyed Jerusalem as if by his very own hand. Assyria was just an instrument in God s hand. Now how is that an answer to our doubts about God s faithfulness and guidance you ask? Well, it is the beginning of an answer, because these words tell us that God is the One in control. Vs 32 says that God will punish his people with the rod if it forsakes his law. And that is exactly what happened. Assyria was the rod of God s anger (says Isa. 10:5!). That does not mean that every test and trial in our life is a punishment, but it definitely was a punishment for Judah! God is in control, and it is better to be punished by a loving Father, than to be victim of circumstance or fate. God chastises the children whom he loves (Hb. 12:6). God was not overcome by circumstances beyond his control. Judah did not go into exile because the armies of the Assyrians were stronger than God s heavenly hosts. Jehoiachin was not led away because foreign gods outnumbered the one and only God of David. No, God was in control all along. And God is still in control. That is the beginning of our comfort in times of tests and trials. God is faithful even through times of sorrow and pain. In fact, some say that God is even more faithful in times of affliction. What that means is that they have found that God is so very close when they suffered. Especially when our faith is put to the test, we are pulled close to God to find comfort and peace. Someone once said: if you must suffer for a while in your life, don t waste that time. For in the deepest pain the greatest comfort is found. It s just like when you are sitting in the dark, you see the light of a candle shine so much brighter, a candle you may not even have noticed in the daylight. So God s presence may be felt stronger in times of pain and distress than in times of rest and peace. When we go through the valleys of our lives, God is there. He is always in control, he never abandons those who love him. God s faithfulness is God s nature. God cannot lie or deny himself. That is why our trust in God is never misplaced. And in addition, we see proof of that, in the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh of man. That brings us to our third point. 3. The birth of Jesus Christ proves that our trust in God is not misplaced 4
5 The last part of the Psalm (vss 46-51) shows that Ethan was not stuck in his doubt. The cry of vs 46, How long, O Lord? is not a cry of unbelief, but a cry of faith! God is in control, that is out of the question. The only thing was for Ethan, when would he see God s faithfulness again? His cry is not a cry about whether or not God was really faithful, but when he would see it again. It was a matter of timing. How long was this delay going to last? When you think about that, it is a bit tragic to realise that Ethan has not seen the return of God s faithfulness. The final fulfilment of the covenant with David was the birth of Jesus Christ, the King of the Jews. The actual dynasty was broken when king Jehoiachin was led away. But the spiritual substance of the promise remained. And it was fulfilled when Jesus was born as King of Israel. In Lk. 1:32-33 the angel Gabriel says to Mary: He will be great and be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end. Ethan has not seen this. He has most likely not even seen the return of the people from exile, as the period of exile lasted 70 years. It is tragic in a way, because in vss he prays that he may see God s faithfulness in his own lifetime still. But this prayer was not granted. Ethan passed away before he saw the hearing of his prayer. And that explains another aspect of this Psalm, and that is that it is basically open-ended. There is no final solution, no closure, no happy ending. When we disregard vs 52 for a moment (which is the closing verse off the third part of the book of the Psalms), we see that the prayer, Ethan s lament, ends with a plea to God to put an end to the mockery of God s people and his anointed. But we do not read about an answer of any kind to Ethan s prayer. Tragic perhaps, but also realistic. Whenever we go through times of trouble and affliction, we may also pray with great passion. But God does not always do what we ask. God does not always give solutions for a broken marriage, he does not always restore health, he does not undo the consequences of an accident that we had. And also, God does not always answer our questions. The Lord God almighty does not work according to our timetables. So, do we end our discussion of Psalm 89 on this tragic note? As in: God apparently does not always hear our prayers, God does not always answer our questions and doubts, now let s get on with life? No, we do not! That is not all that God has to say to us. God s final words are about love and faithfulness! We do not have a heartless God who does whatever he pleases, whenever he pleases. We have a wonderful and loving God who gives us what is best for us, as a loving Father does. And how do we know this? How can we be so sure? Because we know and have seen Jesus Christ! The cry of Ethan in vs 46 How long, O Lord? is essentially an Advent cry. It is a cry for the coming of the Messiah. It is a cry for the fulfilment of God s promises. And we have seen the fulfilment of this promise! The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has come in the flesh of sinful man. He has dwelt among us, he was one of us. He is the Anointed King, the Son of David according to the flesh (Rom. 1:3). God promised to David that his descendants would always sit on the throne of Israel. And in Jesus Christ this promise was fulfilled. So God has proven his faithfulness in his Son. We do not live by empty words about things that still remain to be seen. We live by the warm and true Word of God. We do not live a life of tragedy, we live a life of joy and peace, yes, even in times of sadness and pain. We have the sure promise of God s presence in our lives. Fair enough, we do not always see the reason why we go through the things we do, or sometimes we see God s purpose only in hindsight. And God does not always do what we ask of him, or not in the way we ask him to, or not at the particular time or speed we ask him to. But we do always have his love and compassion, and the sure knowledge that God cares for us in a way that is best for us. When we go through times of pain and suffering, it is God who is chiselling at the rough rock of our life and faith, turning it into a clear stone and polishing it to be a bright diamond that reflects the wonder and love of God. And we need not doubt this, although we may still sometimes cry, How Long? For God has proven his faithfulness in Jesus Christ who has come to bring salvation to all those who love him. 5
6 Conclusion God s faithfulness guarantees the future of the church in Jesus Christ, and of all those who believe in his name. In Rev. 6:10 the souls of the saints cry out: O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth? And in Rev. 22:20 our Lord answers: Surely I am coming soon! Jesus Christ will come again, because God is faithful still. And when our Lord Jesus comes back the suffering of the church will be over. When Jesus Christ comes back all the crying will stop. No more tears of suffering, no more tears of frustration. Our crying will turn to singing, to singing the praises of the almighty and faithful God of heaven and earth, the God who loves us so much that he sent his only Son into this world to die for our sins. If God did that for us, will he then not give us all things with him? He definitely will. And that is why we say with Rev. 22:20: Amen, come Lord Jesus! He will surely come to establish the perfect kingdom of God on earth. And there he, our King, the Son of David, will reign over us forevermore. Amen. 6
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- Single Family Home
- Status: Sold
- 3 Total Rooms
- 1 Bedrooms
- 1 Full Bathrooms
- Est. Square Footage: 490
- Est. Above Grade Sq Ft: 490
- Garage Size: 3.0
- Garage Type: Detached
- Est. Year Built: 1930
- School District: Cambridge
- High School: Cambridge
- Body of Water: Lake Ripley
- County: Jefferson
- Postal Municipality: Cambridge
- Listing Company: Shorewest - Watertown
- Listing Agent: Ann Braasch
- Price/SqFt: $244
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N4143 Sleepy Hollow Rd, Oakland, WI 53523-9527 - Your summer cottage, fully furnished, and an additional buildable lot with beautiful Lake Ripley access. All this for $120,000! Cottage comes furnished including a queen size sleeper sofa in the 3 season porch. A new roof was put on both cottage and garage in 2017. The 3 car detached garage has plenty of space to store all your toys. Lake Ripley is a great water skiing lake and fishing and snowmobiling add year-round fun. You're close to downtown Cambridge where you will find quaint shops, restaurants and parks. The Lake Ripley Country Club is just a short golf cart drive away. Bring on summer at the lake and begin making your own memories! Call for your private showing today!
Room Dimensions
- Master BR: 12.0 x 7.0
- Living Rm: 15.0 x 13.0
- ThreeSeasonRoom: 16.0 x 8.0
- Full Baths: 1
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Other Rooms
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- Water Waste: Municipal Sewer, Private Well
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A museum in memory of Taiwanese women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II is scheduled to open in Taipei by the end of this year, a Taipei-based women's rights group said.
The themes of the museum will be peace and women's rights, said Kang Shu-hua (康淑華), executive director of the Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation, a driving force behind the initiative.
Before the formal opening on Dec. 10, the foundation will hold a ceremony to unveil the museum plaque on Aug. 14, a date that is considered as a memorial day for "comfort women" by civic groups in countries such as Taiwan, South Korea, China, Indonesia and the Philippines, where there were World War II victims of sexual slavery, Kang said.
Spread over about 360m2, the museum will display historical documents on Taiwanese comfort women and chronicle the exchanges between the foundation's members and the women over the past two decades.
Aside from mounting a permanent exhibition on comfort women, the foundation is planning to organize workshops at the museum on topics such as human rights education and sexual abuse.
The museum, the first of its kind in the nation, will allow the next generation to learn more about the history of comfort women and the issue of women's rights, Kang said.
More than 2,000 Taiwanese women were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army during the war, the foundation said.
Only four of the Taiwanese women who have spoken openly of their suffering at the hands of Japanese forces are still alive, Kang said.
Over the past two decades, the foundation has been dedicated to helping Taiwanese comfort women cope with their mental anguish, and to seek justice and compensation from Japan.
Since it took up the issue and began interviewing former Taiwanese comfort women about 20 years ago, the foundation has collected many firsthand documents.
It has also produced a documentary that is scheduled to open in local cinemas on Aug. 14, Kang said.
The 76-minute documentary, titled Song of the Reed, chronicles the later years of Taiwanese women who were forced into sexual slavery during the war.
It shows how some of the women overcame grave physical and mental trauma and grew in their attitudes toward life through 16 years of workshops organized by the foundation.


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