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Harbourside House Surf Lodge and Hostel
Harbourside House
Harbourside House offers self catering accommodaton in the heart of the Old Town of Scarborough. The place is ideally set up for surfers & other outdoor pursuits, with a purpose built heated wet room indoors to make sure that wetty is dry & warm for the morning session. With the proximity of the beaches it is now possible to get suited up inside, walk to the surf and return to change in the warm!!!!
Harbourside House is situated beside the Harbour which can be viewed from the house. South Bay Beach (European Blue Flag status) is two minutes walk away and the Town Centre 5 mins away. There are numerous restaurants, cafes and pubs within 10 minutes walk. Scarborough's famous North Bay is 15 minutes walk via the fabulous Marine Drive or a fun ride on the open top bus, and the historic Scarborough Castle, again viewed from the house, is a short, if steep walk away.
Rooms Description
The lounge has TV/DVD and leads into a dining room with a table that seats eight comfortably. Large sliding French doors lead from the dining room onto a good sized patio with barbecue facilities and garden table and chairs for al fresco dining. The kitchen has a large table & chairs for breakfast. There is private parking for two normal sized cars.
Please provide your own towels. Our house is perfectly sited to really enjoy Scarborough's Harbour and beaches as well as being within easy walking distance of the Town Centre.
LocationsUK + Ireland » Scarborough - South BayUK + Ireland » Scarborough - North BayUK + Ireland » WhitbyUK + Ireland » Cayton Bay - Pumphouse
ServicesAccommodation Surfer friendly places to stay near some great surf spots. Including camp-sites, hostels, hotels, B&Bs and surf lodges. Bed and Breakfast Businesses of this type offer both accommodation and include breakfast. Local Information Information about the local area, not always from a surfers perspective.


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Weekend Top 10
By Sarah Story, Citizen Events Editor 11/16/12
Capitol Opera Richmond's inaugural performance of Puccini's famous love story "La Boheme" will take place at 7 p.m. Nov. 16-17 at Henrico Theatre, 305 E. Nine Mile Rd. The concert will feature local artists and the Greater Richmond Children's Choir. Music will be sung in Italian with English subtitles. Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $8 for students. For details, call 328-4491.
D.S. Freeman High School, 8701 Three Chopt Rd., will present "Moon Over Buffalo" at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16-17. Ken Ludwig's madcap comedy looks at life and love in the theatre. It is the play that brought Carol Burnett back to Broadway after 30 years in 1995. Tickets are $7 in advance and $10 at the door. For details, call 673-3700.
Santa will arrive at 6 p.m. in the Main Plaza at Short Pump Town Center for the mall's grand illumination. A parade will feature The Gingerbread Boy, Raggedy Ann and Andy, Frosty, toy soldiers, Santa's Elves and, of course, Santa and the Snow Princess. Following the parade, Santa and some of his special friends will illuminate the 50-foot Holiday Tree with more than 50,000 twinkling lights. Magic wands, for children 10 and under, will be distributed at Guest Services while supplies last. For details, visit http://www.shortpumpmall.com .
The Taters, winners of Billboard Magazine's Critic's Choice, will perform at 8 p.m. at McCooks Lakeside Sports Grill, 5516 Lakeside Ave. The Taters play "roots-pop," an eclectic blend of power-pop and country roots similar to the styles of the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison and the Beatles. For details, call 266-2717.
The first-ever Tree Lighting Toast at The Shops at Willow Lawn will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the Willow Lawn Plaza. Get into the holiday spirit with wine tastings, free photos with Santa, arts and crafts, giveaways, merchant specials and more. Silly Bus, Jonathan the Juggler and Kurt Stemhagen will provide entertainment. Admission is free; wine tasting fee is $5. For details, visit http://www.willowlawn.com .
Learn more about Thanksgiving 1863 from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Meadow Farm Museum, 3400 Mountain Rd. Admission is free. For details, call 501-2130 or visit http://www.henricorecandparks.com .
The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's "Give Thanks. Walk" family-friendly 5k will take place at 9:30 a.m. in North Shore Commons at Innsbrook, 4951 Lake Brooke Dr. There will be fun activities for kids, entertainment and awards for highest fundraisers. Monies raised will support the life-saving mission of St. Jude. Registration is free. For details, visit http://tinyurl.com/aovj53h .
Laurel Hill United Methodist Church, 1919 New Market Rd., will host a fundraiser in honor of Henrico resident Jill Tromba, who has been battling cancer for four years, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Products from 31 Gifts, Pampered Chef, Premier Jewelry and other vendors will be available for purchase. All consultants' profits support the Tromba family during the holiday season. For details, and how to order products if unable to attend, call Ashley Steininger at 339-0141 or Kasey Warren at 310-6305.
The 2012 Book Fair at the Weinstein JCC, 5403 Monument Ave., continues with author Ellen Fischer at 9:30 a.m. She will read her children's book "The Count's Hanukkah Countdown," in which Grover and the Count welcome visiting Israeli Muppet friends Brosh and Avigail while learning that eight is the perfect Hanukkah number. There will be a yummy Sesame Street character themed breakfast. Admission is $3 per person; family max is $10. For details, call Lisa Looney at 545-8608 or visit http://www.weinsteinjcc.org
Gayton Baptist Church dedicates new outreach center
The John Rolfe YMCA and Gayton Baptist Church have partnered in an effort to bring greater health and wellness opportunities to the community.
Through this partnership, the John Rolfe Y will run Youth Winter Sports programs, including basketball and indoor soccer, in Gayton's newly renovated $5.5 million outreach center that features a new gymnasium, youth and teen space, social space with café, meeting space and full service commercial kitchen. > Read more.
Henricus Historical Park to host Publick Day Sept. 20
Citizen Staff Reports 09/15/2014
Henricus Historical Park will commemorate its anniversary during Publick Day, a signature annual event that celebrates the establishment of the second successful English settlement in the New World. In September 1611, Sir Thomas Dale, along with soldiers, tradesmen and farmers, ventured from Jamestown to create the Citie of Henricus. Leaders of Henricus developed the first English hospital, chartered the first college in North America, established tobacco as the first cash crop in Virginia, and created a place where Pocahontas lived and met John Rolfe.
Publick Day will take place Saturday, Sept. 20, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free and parking is $5 per vehicle. > Read more.
Commonwealth Parenting, CMoR-Short Pump to present 6-part parenting forum series
As part of its 30th anniversary year and partnership with the Children's Museum of Richmond, Commonwealth Parenting will present a six-part RVA Parents Forum Series to address some of the toughest issues confronting parents.
Parenting experts and family educators will tackle topics ranging from bullying to alcohol, sex to divorce, and technology and stress. Parents will learn how to identify potential problems.
"We're excited about bringing this much-needed forum series to parents in central Virginia. Through our valuable partnership with Commonwealth Parenting, we can have a deeper impact in the community through parent and caregiver education," said Karen Coltrane, president and CEO of the Children's Museum of Richmond. > Read more.
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Check out these three B's in Henrico this weekend: books, bluegrass and "Born Yesterday." Other activities to participate in – and feel good about – are the 15th annual James River Regional Cleanup and the 5th annual Richmond Out of the Darkness Community Walk. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
When the cliche stands tall
Inspirational football movie tries too hard for its own good
When the Game Stands Tall is based on a true story – an unbelievable true story that takes the word "inspiring" about as far as it can go.
It's a film about Bob Ladouceur, coach of the De La Salle High Spartans, a California high school football team with 12 consecutive undefeated seasons (a staggering 151 games won in a row).
Along the way, Ladouceur (played by Jim Caviezel) faced the kind of hardship most football coaches (thankfully) can only imagine – suffering a near-fatal heart attack, the death of a star player, and rebuilding the team after that 151-game streak came to a humiliating end. > Read more.
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The Puppet Labs Issue Tracker has Moved: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com
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It is no secret that President Obama has taken quite the political hit amidst the plethora of scandals involving his administration. Obama's about as popular as George W. Bush was at this point in 2005, which is to say he is about as popular as a rug burn. With the hits piling up like a hoarder's collection of old newspapers, it's probably a good time to point out just how much control Obama's lost since re-election.
5. He can no longer sway the public
Just after re-election, Obama used the bully pulpit and recycled speeches to push for tax hikes on the wealthy. He won that battle. The next fight he took to the American people was over gun control, and despite a tragic shooting involving children, Obama couldn't get a law passed. It was an embarrassment for the president, and why he is now employing stealth tactics to control the immigration debate (wearing all black, tip-toeing around and traveling via air duct).
Even his Twitter account is fumbling. Referrals from the account are barely better than traffic from accounts with far fewer followers. Huffington Post's director of social media described the traffic from @BarackObama as "meh."
4. The Supreme Court could defeat him
The Supreme Court has announced it will decide whether Obama had the right to appoint members to the National Labor Relations Board without Senate confirmation. Turning over the recess appointments would call into question over 1,000 decisions made by the NLRB since the appointments. The decision would also cause collateral damage for Democrats who decried Bush's recess appointments and then flip-flopped under Obama. Because, Democrat, or something.
The Daily Beast points out that Obama has had a terrible year at the Supreme Court, winning just 37 percent of cases when past administrations have won around 70 percent. That's a pretty pitiful percentage, and even worse than when the U.S. filed as a "friend of the court" brief, where they won 44 percent of disputes. That means that letting other people fight their battles for them is better than the Obama administration fighting for themselves. They might as well just hire middle school bullies to fight their political battles for them.
3. His base is abandoning him
Last week at Netroots Nation, the progressive equivalent to CPAC, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was booed when she tried to defend the Obama administration's surveillance programs. That particular scandal has irked many on the left who are apparently just now getting their voices back from screaming about surveillance under Bush.
Since the scandal broke, one of Obama's largest bases of support -- those aged 18-29 -- have abandoned the president in droves (read: not drones). His support for that group has dropped by 17 points over the past month, with many taking to popular mediums to denounce the president.
2. World leaders are shunning him
Around the world, leaders are nodding as Obama speaks, and then politely disregarding everything he says. China allowed whistleblower Edward Snowden to leave despite the Obama administration providing a warrant for his arrest. Russia said "nahhh" to the administration's request to expel Snowden. And if, as reported, Ecuador grants Snowden asylum, it would defy the US again, as it has already given WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange refuge in it's London embassy.
Beyond Snowden, Obama had to be dragged kicking and screaming into Syria. His "red line" had been crossed weeks ago, but it was only recently that he decided to arm Syrian rebels.
1. He's trying to change the subject
It is clear to at least the Business Insider that Obama's sudden decision to talk about climate change policy is an attempt to get the heat off the current scandals. Since it is clear that Obama broke his campaign pledge to end the surveillance programs that were started under Bush, it seems he is now trying to return to a campaign promise he long abandoned.
Obama intends to further regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from existing power plants, a move that has already caused coal-fired plants to shut down, with hundreds more on the way out.
Obama might as well be blaming oil and gas for NSA surveillance. No word yet on if Wall Street or the NRA were also involved.


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Ephesians 6:10-13
April 29, 1979
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In our Bible study this morning, we're going to worship the Lord together as we learn more about Him, by hearing His word in Ephesians chapter 6 and we're just kind of now looking at verses 10 to 13. We're talking about the believer's armor. As Paul closes the letter to the Ephesians he speaks of a great struggle which lies before every believer. And we told you last time that Paul is very clear about the fact that the world is a battleground. That the whole universe, in fact, is at war, there is a war between God and Satan, we see it in many places in Scripture. Perhaps no more clearly than in the book of Job where Satan and God are in conflict verbally. But everywhere throughout the history of man and the revelation of God the conflict is seen. The conflict between God and Satan comes down to the holy angels and the evil angels and they are at war. It comes down another step to good men and evil men and they too are at war. The whole of the universe is a warfare. The whole thing since the fall of man since the curse entered the earth is a warfare.
Christian life is a struggle, a battle, a wrestling match as Paul calls it in verse 12. So, we literally exist as believers in a life and death struggle. And frankly, people, I don't think anybody understands this. I really don't. I think that there is a ... and this is easy to see here and I love you all and that's why I say what I feel because I want to help you all to understand it...but I feel you can get such a smugness about Christianity that you lose the whole perspective.
You know, you just kind of sit in the corner and you kind of dote over your theology for one thing. Where everything is so good, you know, at Grace Church, you know, your kids are in the junior high department and you've got one in the high school department, having a great time, everybody is going to camp, you've got little kids over there in the gym playing around and you've got them in Awana or you've got this going, you're buying them books, listening to tapes. The world is all beautiful and glorious and you get so wrapped up on your little thing that you forget what a warfare is going on. And you forget that there are literally millions of souls around the world who are in the grasp of Satan. And you forget the things Satan is doing so subtly to just debilitate you by what may be the greatest attack of Satan, lethargy, indolence, indifference, stagnation.
And I fear for this, I fear for this for Grace Church. You know, I get up here to preach about the warfare and everybody sort of sits there and says - we're going to talk about the warfare today. What warfare? What battle is he talking about? He must be going through a lot, poor fellow; we need to pray for him. There are so many people who don't even realize what is going on. You look at each other and you say - this battle seems very serious; I wonder what it is like. See. There is a warfare and if you don't know it then you're not a soldier or a very good one, you're not fighting. You know, one thing I couldn't stand when I was young was sitting on the bench. I could take a lot of things in life but sitting on the bench wasn't one of them.
I remember when I was playing football in college my first year I got some injuries, in fact the first game I played in I had a rather severe injury and so the coach decided to leave me on the bench because he was afraid I would get hurt. And held save me for special things like carrying the equipment, passing out the tape to tape the ankles, and things that really mattered. But so one day I said to the coach, - You know, there is one thing I really hate and that's sitting on the bench. There's a guy playing a position that I'm supposed to be backing up and I really feel I can do better than he can. And the coach says - Well, do you want to try and prove that? And I said - Yeah, give me an opportunity and let us go head to head and let's see who wins. And so he did. One night after practice it was dark and he turned the headlights of a car on and he said - Alright, you guys, he drew a white line on the ground and he said I'm going to give you 45 minutes to go at it head on, I'll blow the whistle and you hit each other and you see who drives each other across the white line the most times. Well, that's the way it is in football, if you're going to prove it it's going to be a little tough, So we went at it for 45 minutes, I mean, it was rough because we both wanted that position. And as it turned out I prevailed in the end, didn't always prevail but I did that time and I got that position.
You know, that sticks in my mind as indicative of the fact that I didn't like to be on the bench. I couldn't stand to be on the bench. I mean, if there was something going on I wanted to be where it was going on. It was kind of like the apostle Paul, you remember we saw last time in I Cor. 16: 8 and 9, he said, "I have to stay in Ephesus because there are many adversaries." I think a lot of Christians don't know there is a battle because they don't ever go where the battle is, you know? They hole up in their sanctified environment. And we don't really ever get in to the warfare. And I think we're lulled to think the warfare isn't there when all the time Satan is gaining the victory in our lives because of our indifference and our lethargy. Oh, indifference is such a killing thing.
You know, the greatest tragedy that could ever happen to Grace Church would be to have all these people come and enjoy what is going on and be indifferent about the battle. Do you see it as a warfare? It's easy to see, look at your life. Where do you invest your time? Where do you invest your money? Where do you invest your talent? Where do you invest your energy? If it's all in the things that are passing and mundane then you don't understand the warfare at all.
Somebody said to me the other day, you know - I feel that the wonderful thing about life is that basically you can do what you want. This is a Christian. Basically you can do what you want. People do what they want, basically. If they want to do this, they do it, if they want to do that...and I said to the person - You know something, to be very honest with you, this is a personal testimony, I can't remember the last period of time in my life when I did what I wanted. I don't do what I want. You know what I do? I keep doing what I have to do. There are so many things that I have to do that I don't ever think about what I want to do. I guess what I want to do is what I have to do. I mean, there are pressing things I have to do. The last time I said - Well, I've got a little time I wonder what I want to do. I can't even remember that. There's a warfare. There's a battle.
I get on an airplane and sit down, I've been flying so much lately I feel like I ought to have a pilot's license but I get on an airplane and sit down and I say to myself, I know what I want to do I just want to sit here, I just want to sit here and read, I want to meditate. I know what I've got to do I've got a guy sitting next to me I've got to tell him about Christ. Going back there again, I sat down and said - Lord, give me a Christian, will You? Really a mature one who won't care. So this guy sits down next to me and he says - What do you do? Here we go. There goes three hours and a half to Chicago I'll have to talk. And so I told him what I did and he said Oh that's interesting, he said, he told me about his business and so forth and so on and told me he was a Catholic and so we went to Chicago talking about the difference between ritualistic religion and a relationship with Jesus Christ. And I said - I just so happen to have a series of tapes in my suitcase so I gave him the series on Kingdom life and the beatitudes. I didn't do what I wanted to do; I did what I had to do. What I have to do and what I'm compelled to do like the apostle Paul says, "For the love of Christ constrains me." Right? We do what we have to do, this is the battle.
You can't just let the war pass in front of you without ever fighting it. I can't let the enemy drop somebody right in my lap and not do anything about it. This is a warfare. It comes down to the issue of what I do with my dollars. Where do I put my dollars? Do I put them in the passing mundane things of the world or do I put them in the things that are going to make an eternal difference? What do I invest in? This is a warfare. And sometimes I don't think we understand it. It's so easy for us to just waltz in and out of the church and enjoy all of the entertainment that is provided and all of the activities that are provided and we never get to the place where we understand how serious this is.
Oh, I pray, God, that the devotion and the commitment level of this church will deepen to the point where we will never settle for indifference, we will never settle for complacency and yet in my heart I know there are some who will and I fear it like I fear the Bubonic plague. Now that's what Paul wants to say in Ephesians 6. He wants to say this is a war.
And you see, even though we are in Christ, chapters 1 through 3, and even though we have all spiritual blessings in the supernatural realm and even though we have in chapters 4 to 6 all of the direction for living the Christian life, and even though we have the fullness of the spirit of God, and even though we are literally drowning in the love of God, and even though we have power to do beyond what we could ask or think in view of all of that we still must remember it won't be easy. This is war. And every child of God is a soldier and we've all been drafted and you can't dodge the draft and there are no deferments. This is war. And if you don't know that there is a war you just lost the battle. We have so much in Christ. We have so much in the word of God to give us direction. We have the indwelling Holy Spirit. And yet we can't stand on our own confidence. We can't smugly say - Well, I've got all of this going for me, I'm alright.
In I Cor. 10:12 it says - Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed, lest he - what? Lest he fall. Now we have to recognize that we're in a war. Now where do we turn for our resource? In this war? The hymn writer said - "The arm of flesh will fail you, you dare not trust your own." We don't turn to ourselves. Isaac Watts wrote, "From thee, the overflowing spring, our souls shall drink a fresh supply while such as trust their native strength shall melt away and droop and die." We can't trust ourselves. And so verse 10 says this; "Finally, brethren, if this is war and if to win you have to be a soldier my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might." That's God's half, that's God's hundred percent, really. That's God's part, His strength is the issue. God is our strength. From thee, the overflowing spring our souls, shall drink a fresh supply. He is the resource. The arm of flesh will fail us and so we must know, then, to win the battle there is a divine energy, there is a divine resource and a divine power that gives us victory. But verse 11 says we have to have a part too. And verse 11, as we saw last time, says, "Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil."
Listen, there is that same divine paradox. The strength is God's and yet the commitment must be ours. We see it even in salvation, we are saved because we are chosen by God and yet the faith is ours. We see it in the Christian life, the apostle Paul simply says, I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ. So it is my life yet it is Christ in me. This divine paradox we see in every revelation of God's word to man. We see it even in the Scripture itself, the book of Ephesians is written by Paul and yet it is written by the Holy Spirit. You were saved by God and His sovereignty alone and His grace alone and yet you committed yourself to Christ. You must live the Christian life with diligence and commitment and yet it is God's power and God's power alone living through you.
And so we see both sides. And so it's there together here. We are strong in the Lord and it is the power of His might and yet we must appropriate the resources. Cromwell said it right, he had great theology, he didn't know it when he said - "Trust in God and keep your powder dry." I remember when I was a little boy, we were watching television with my father and there was a boxing match, and the fighter was standing in his corner, you know, going through the little ritual of kicking his feet and getting his rosin on his shoes and all of a sudden he knelt down and crossed himself. And I said to my dad, Dad, does that help? And he said it does if he can punch. The fact of the matter is if he can't punch it won't do a bit of good.
You see, that's the way it is in the Christian life. The strength is God's and the might is God's and the power is God's and does it help? It does if we can punch. It does if we put the armor on. You see, it's a question of availability and appropriation. Beloved know first, it's war, know second, the power is there and know thirdly you've got to appropriate it. You can live as impotent, as wishy-washy fruitless life as you wish, even though residing in you is the power to do beyond and above what you can even ask or think. You can choose to live that way. You can live a lethargic, indifferent, cold, fruitless life, drift into the church and drift out, spend all your years doing that, still be in heaven for all eternity by the immeasurable grace of God but you can live that way and forfeit the blessing of this life and fail to glorify God to the extent that you could if you choose. You can turn your back on all the available power, you can blunt the energy of the spirit of God, you can say no to that incomprehensible work that God wants to do through you with divine power if you choose.
I remember when I was involved in the accident that God used to turn my life around, when I was thrown out of the car and all those things happened and I really came to grips with my ministry, there was one thing I asked the Lord at that time. And as I look back on this, I haven't thought about it too often but I remember it, I remember saying to the Lord - Lord, if You want me in Your ministry I want to be different than just run of the mill. I want to have Your power in my life. I don't just want to do this thing, if it's going to be that I'm going to give my life to this then I want to know Your power in my life. And the answer has come back all through the years, the power is available, John, it's just a question of whether you put the armor on.
That's all, it's all there. It's all there. And you know it's so stupid for a Christian to live his life in a listless manner. It's so silly to fill yourself up with the things of the world, to just move along at a snail's pace when all the power of God, the God of the universe, is available. And so says the apostle Paul - Yes, it's a battle, yes, it's a battle and know well that our enemy is a formidable enemy, you can't see him, you can't touch him, and you can't outwit him and it's an enemy in the supernatural realm, literally perhaps, millions of demons engulfed in a system that's beyond our comprehension, - There is no way you can deal with that system with human intellect. There is no way that you can deal with that system in human power but be this known, God's power is available and if you put your armor on the whole system is impotent against you. What an incredible thought. God is our strength, but that strength can only be appropriated in obedience.
We're secure, ultimately, I believe that. I believe that if you're a Christian you're secure in God's power. I think God's power is enough to hold you, You know, in John 10:29 it says, Jesus is talking about His sheep and how secure they are. And He says, "No one can pluck them out of My Father's hand." Know that statement? "My Father is greater than all and no one can pluck them out of My Father's hand." It says no man, I've heard people say - Well, it says no man, that's all. No. It says no one, it's oudis, no one, dunati, no one has the power.
In other words, if I am a believer and I'm in the Father's hand, no being has the power to pluck me, and by the way, the word there is harpazan which means to snatch. No one can snatch me out of His hand. It is the same word used in Matthew 13:19, you know, where it says the "Word is planted and Satan snatches it away." Satan is a snatcher. But no one can snatch you away from the Father's hand because He is greater than all, and so ultimately, Beloved, that we win. There is no power to overcome us, none at all.
In Psalm 91, just a tremendous portion of Scripture, listen to what it says, "He who dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide unto the shadow of the almighty." What security. The secret place of the Most High. We abide in a place that is so secret no one can take us from there for they don't even know how to get there. That's in essence what he is saying. I will save the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God in Him will I trust. He shall cover thee with His feathers under His wing shall thou trust. His truth shall be thy shield and buckler, therefore, thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night nor the arrow that flyeth by day nor the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor the destruction that wasteth a noon day, a thousand shall fall at thy side, ten thousand at thy right hand but it shall not come near you. See? What a tremendous promise. Psalm 34:7 says the angel of the Lord encamps around those that trust in God.
Listen, as far as the ultimate is concerned, as far as the war is concerned, we can't lose because He is greater than all. And His power is beyond all but the fact is we can really lose in the skirrimmishes along the way. II Cor. 2:11 says - "We by our sin can give an advantage to Satan." Doesn't have to be a very big sin either. It's the little foxes that spoil the vines. The little sin gives Satan a foothold and from the foothold he cracks open a grand entrance for his demonic efforts. Oh, we won't lose the war. No being has the dunati, the power. No being has the power to snatch us out of his hand. Satan is the snatcher and he'll try but he can't do it. Satan cannot overpower God. If Satan is a strong man then God is a stronger one. And so it is, then, that ultimately we win the war but the sad thing is even though we're going to win the war ultimately we keep losing the battle along the way. Because we're not willing to put on the armor.
Now, let me go back to verse 12 where we left off last time. I want you to understand how important it is to put on the armor. It's important because of our enemy, look at verse 12. "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood." Man is not our enemy. Man is not our enemy. That's a good reason why we shouldn't hate men. That's the reason Jesus hated sin and loved sinners because the sinner was not really the one. It was what was behind the sinner. That's the reason Jesus would weep over sinners. He wept for sinners because they were duped.
You see, the god of this world has blinded the minds of them that believe not lest the glory light of the gospel should shine unto them. The thing you should feel about sinners is pity. A loving, sympathetic, gracious, merciful pity because they are the duped of Satan. If you're going to hate then hate him and his forces. He is the enemy. And don't be so foolish as to think that if you've outwitted man you've accomplished the victory. Men are not the enemy. We're men, we can cope with men. Our enemy is beyond the human and the point that Paul is making here is that you cannot do this on your own. You cannot fight this battle on your own. It is not a human battle. You, as a human being, are fighting against a superhuman force and not just one of them, Satan is not a solitary enemy, he has amassed a force of demon beings that are so vast they are beyond our ability to know. Now how does he define them? Let's look back where we left off with the terms of verse 12.
And you will notice the word "against" appears before each of these separate items, against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in the heavenlies. Now you'll notice the use of the word against separates each of the categories. You have principalities, you have powers, you have rulers and you have wicked spirits, literally.
Now these are simply categories of demon beings. Here is Paul's statement; we are fighting a superhuman foe, highly and intensely organized. In God's governmental order, you'll notice, that as you study God and the holy angels, God had the angels organized. God created all the angels, I believe, the Bible says, all the angels at one time. The angels do not procreate so they were all created at some point in past eternity, they were all created at one point of time. They have existed since that time. They were created differently, just like people are different. Angels are different. They are all different kinds of angels.
For example, we read in the Bible about archangels and then we read about cherubim, and we read about seraphim, and we read about principalities, and powers and thrones and dominions and those that are even called strengths or mights. And if you want to look at that look at the first chapter of Ephesians verses 20 and 21 where you have some of those terms. So, God has organized this whole angelic force from the top down, you've got the archangels and then you've got the principalities and then the powers and the thrones and the dominions and the mights and the cherubim and the seraphim and they all have different functions, all have different capacities.
For example, read the book of Daniel, and you go back into chapters 9 and 10 and you get some insights into this. God gave orders, perhaps, to the archangels and the archangels would then disseminate the orders to the host of angels who would carry them out. And in Daniel's case some angels on the way to assisting Daniel. This angels is on his way to assisting Daniel, he gets confronted up in the heavens somewhere by a demon who holds him up.
Now I don't know how that works, they're spirit beings, but that's not for me to know. Someday, maybe, I will. But anyway, this demon holds up this holy angel from accomplishing his purpose. And so God, then, dispatches Michael who is super-angel, archangel, he comes down, gives a shot to the demon and sends the angel on his way. Which means one angel apparently has greater resources in dealing with the foe than another. Which simply points out the distinctions in angelic beings. Now there are among the demons, distinctions also.
Some of them are demons and some of them are called wicked spirits, such as here. Some of them are even called evil spirits and they are probably the ones involved in the most wretched, vile and filthy kinds of evil enterprises. Whereas you have the principalities and the powers who maybe more involved in higher operations and then you have, look at the phrase, the rulers of the darkness of this world, literally should be translated the world rulers of this darkness. These would be demons that infiltrated the political structure of the world. They are called world rulers of this darkness. The term darkness refers to hell and the pit and the dominion of Satan. When you were saved, Col. 1:13 says you were taken out of the kingdom of darkness; you were translated out of the kingdom of darkness. The Bible says that hell is a place of darkness where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. It's called outer darkness and so darkness is synonymous with the dominion of demons with the abode of Satan. In Revelation chapter 9 it is out of the darkness that the belching forth of the filthy vile locust comes to overrun the earth. So, darkness is associated with Satan's dominion in light with God's. And from this darkness come world rulers. I believe that behind the scenes ruling the world are demon forces.
You know, it's interesting nowadays, people are always asking me this wherever I go, do you believe there is a sort of a world-wide conspiracy going on? People have called it all kinds of things, they've talked about ancient writings of this and Egyptian writings and people use the phrase the Illuminati and they talk about this conspiracy and that conspiracy and what about on the dollar bill the pyramid with the Cycloptic eye on it which is an occultic symbol and all of this network of things they say - do you believe in this and do you believe there are demons in high places and ... well, I'm not too sure that all these people know what they are talking about, frankly. And I'm not too sure that all of their sources are proper and all their information is correct but aside from all the proliferal stuff there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that there is a global conspiracy in which demons are involved in high places working the world to their own ends. There is no question about that.
Now whatever terminology it takes and whatever the things that we think it is, I'm not sure about that, and I'm very slow to believe some of the stuff I read and I hear but I know demons are behind the systems of the world. Not just the shaws and the Idi Amins but the sophisticates of the world too. I know the Old Testament says the gods of the nations are demons, I know that in Daniel's time he saw Satan behind the King of Tyre, I know that Daniel also saw demons behind the rulers of other empires as well. There is no question in my mind that demons were behind Hitler and no question in my mind that demons were very active in other world rulers such as Napoleon, Alexander the Great, and on and on and on, we could go.
Yes, of course, that's what Paul is saying. There are not only principalities and powers, certain kinds of high ranking demons but there are world rulers that have come out of this darkness too. I believe the world is Satan's. Do you believe that? He is the prince of this world, right? He is the prince of this world and I believe he has infiltrated the world with the network of world rulers that are demonic. And I think the way the world is going it is going because of demonic influence. In some places it is overt such as in the case of Idi Amin and other places it is covert such as the occupation of demonic forces functioning in our own country to godless, humanistic atheistic ends. But it is there. There is no doubt about the fact that it is there. In fact, we find the culmination of the system defined in Revelation 18 as a system known as Babylon which is to be literally obliterated and destroyed as the Lord Jesus comes to set up His kingdom.
So the term, by the way, world rulers here in verse 12 is one word in the original, just one word. These demons are behind the forces of the world. I remember talking to a young man who had come out of the occult and he was very highly involved in this thing, had reached high, high levels of what was a thing called the Mark Age society and he was getting all kinds of privy opportunities to get in on some information and they were teaching him in one particular point in time how the demon network worked and how demons were involved in all these things. They gave him the name of certain demons that were involved in the United Nations and certain demons that were occupying themselves in various continents and in various countries and he told me things that were literally beyond my comprehension. There is no doubt about the fact that this is a reality, biblically to say nothing of what we hear from the testimony of those who have been in on some of that information.
And so what we are saying is this, beloved, we are in a warfare that is very sophisticated. There are high ranking and powerful demons who are principalities and powers, there are others who have found themselves to be occupying places of world leadership as they literally indwell the world rulers.
And finally, you'll notice in verse 12 they are called wicked spirits. There are some that are just the vile, wretched, rotten, evil spirits who go about doing all they can to make life more evil. And so the battle lines are drawn. It is against this incredible force that we fight. We are pitted against an enemy that is beyond us. We can't see, we can't touch. We can't out-think, outwit, that is deceiving, that is lying, that is powerful, supernatural, superhuman, and that's where the battle lies. And the sooner you realize it the better off you're going to be that's where the battle lies. And if you don't know there is a battle, as I said, you probably lost one along the way. Because you really haven't taken time to think it through.
The saddest thing, as I said in the very beginning that could ever happen to Grace Church would be for us to think that we have arrived. Just get smug. Just sit here and say - well, you know we've got it all now, we know everything, got a full thing going here, isn't it all wonderful, we're all here and everything is fine. All of a sudden we forget that there is a whole world out there that is lost. When is the last time you brought somebody here? When is the last time you packed up people and came on a Sunday night because you knew the word of God would be given to you? Because you knew Jesus was going to speak through His word? You say, -Ah you know, I'm kind of tired, I had a big lunch and something on TV --what are you talking about? What would you think of a person on an athletic team who didn't show up for a game because he felt a little bit like that? What would you think of a soldier in an army who didn't show up for the battle because he just felt so good lying down in the barracks? Just really so comfortable...that's just a wonderful meal today, I think I'll just flake out and somebody else can go fight the war. That doesn't make any sense.
You know, we try to provide the resources but in the very provision of the abundance of resources is the delusion latent that this is the beginning and the end. And all of a sudden Grace Church becomes an end in itself instead of a means to an end. You know why I preach to you on Sunday morning and Sunday night? Do you know why people teach you the word of God? Because we want you to win the war. We want you to have the principles to get the armor on and live the life and be victorious. We want to cut a swathe through Satan's kingdom that will make a difference. We want to lift up and exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and unless we keep that vision in perspective we forfeit all the things we gain.
Now what is the object of our warfare? What is our part? What are we supposed to do? Verse 13 and we're just going to talk about this for a minute. "Wherefore," and that's the word you need to notice. Listen if the strength is in the Lord, verse 10, and if we have all available armor, verse 11, and if the enemy is this strong, if the enemy is this comprehensive, if the enemy is this powerful, wherefore, "Take unto you the whole armor of God." I mean, you better get it on if it's this serious, if God is so powerful and armor is so necessary and the enemy is so formidable then get it on. That's what he is saying. You can't be indifferent. You can't lose! Put your armor on, so that you may be able to withstand in the evil day. You say, "when is the evil day?"
Today, today is the evil day. That's right. What is this? April 29, 1979: this is the evil day. So will tomorrow be. And so has everyday been since Satan usurped the throne of the world. This is the evil day. From the time the usurper took over until he is cast into the bottomless pit, it is the evil day. And evil assaults the kingdom of God and he says that you may be able to withstand you must have the armor and having done all to stand. Boy, I like that. To stand.
Boy, you know I like to see when the shock of battle is over and the dust settles and the smoke clears that somebody stands. I was in Scotland, a man came to me in Frazerborough and he had on a backward collar as some of them do up there in the church, and he introduced his name, he said, "my name is mister Reverend Cecil Mills," he said, "I am a minister and I have been for many years." He said, "Is your father named Jack MacArthur?" and I said, "Yes." He said, "Your father came to Ireland at least 30 years ago and he said he came with two other men to hold a revival in Ireland, in Belfast and all around Ireland." And he said, "at that meeting I went to hear your father and I received Jesus Christ and dedicated my life to the ministry." And he said, "I am a pastor now because of the Lord using your father and I just wondered if it was indeed your father and would you do me a favor and tell him that when you see him?" And I said, "I will." And he said, "let me ask you a question." He said, "where is your father now?" I said, "oh he is pastoring, ministering, teaching the word like he always has." He said, "is he still faithful to the word?" And I said, "yes, he is still faithful to the word, still carrying on. Still standing." He said, "good." He said "what happened to Chuck?" I said, "Oh, he became an apostate. Denied the faith, forsook the truth, denied the word of God." He said, "oh, oh, that is so sad, he had so much potential." He said, "what ever happened to Jack?" I said, "Oh, he died an alcoholic." He said, "Oh no." I said, "Yes. He did." I don't relish telling you that but you want to know something, three men went to Ireland 30 years ago and they did it all, lots of people have done it all, but when the battle is over and the dust clears they're not all standing, you see? They're not all standing. There are people who do it all. I got a letter this week from a lady, she said, "You know, I've been to Grace Church for several years and I've been very involved but," she said, "I'm leaving because I've decided to marry a non-Christian." Having done it all, she is not standing anymore.
Paul says, "you know, I'm willing to preach, I'm willing to fight, I'm willing to run to win this race," I Cor. 9, "I'm willing to do everything I can for the cause of Jesus Christ but down deep in my heart I have one gnawing fear that at preaching I myself might become a what? A castaway." Listen; there are lots of people who did it all. Did it all. Pastored a church, taught a class, had a bible study, led people to Jesus Christ, but when the battle got hot and the smoke cleared they were down. You know why? They didn't have the armor on. Didn't have the armor on. I've had people in church say - You know, our pastor, so and so, terrible things happen in his life, why? He didn't have his armor on. Didn't realize how strong the foe was. But what about God's power, couldn't God protect him? God's power could protect him but he didn't appropriate it. See?
Listen, we don't chase the devil around. It doesn't say - find the devil and get him. It doesn't say - you go find those demons and you call them by name and you chase them around. Send them to the pit and all that. It doesn't say that. What it says is when they come to you - you just stand. And by the way, the word stand here is the same word used in James 4:7 where it says - "Resist the devil and he'll flee from you." Exactly the same word used in I Peter 5:8 and 9 where it says the devil goes about like a roaring lion seeking who he may devour, and verse 9 says who resist steadfast in the faith. Same word. Standing and resisting is what we're called to do.
Listen, Satan will be there making his attack constantly if you are living for God. You don't have to find him. Just stand against him, with the armor on. Oh, God, help us. You know, I look at all you dear people and we pray for you, we love you and so many of you know so much and you have so much of the truth of God and there are so many resources here and yet, you know, if you live foolishly without your armor on and you don't live the kind of life God wants you to live and you're not in the middle of the battle equipped and ready to be what God wants you to be appropriating the resources, someday you can fall and when you fall it's so sad because it's such a terrible collapse, the world sort of climbs over you and watches you lying there and gloats.
You know, in your failures. And you forfeit your reward, you know, II John verse 8, "Look to yourselves that you lose not the things that you have wrought but that you receive a full reward." You know, you can amass a reward to receive in heaven to place at the feet of Jesus Christ and lose the whole thing by falling. I look at my own life and I see all the things that God has given me, a godly heritage, all those preachers in my background, I'm the fifth generation of preachers. And I see all the godly heritage and I see all the education God gave me and the ministry here and how He has blessed my life and enriched it with friends and people who stand by me in prayer and how he has given us fruit beyond anything we ever imagined and I see all of this and yet I know deep down in my heart that this is all the grace of God and were I to stumble and fall I would forfeit all of those things. And I would lose in terms of victory in this life. Oh, I'd be saved because no man can snatch me out of the Father's hand. I'd forfeit the blessing and the fruitfulness and the reward.
So, we're standing, that's what he says. Now, beloved, listen, if you're going to stand you've got to have the armor on. That's the whole point of what I want you to get. You've got to have the armor on. Look at the armor with me for a minute, would you? I'm just going to read from verse 13 to 17 so you get it in your mind. "Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand - stand therefore, having your loins girded about with truth, or truthfulness, having on the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. On top of all that taking the shield of faith with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God." What a tremendous thing. We're going to find out in the weeks to come what every single one of those things mean.
But listen to me now, and I want you to get this, it isn't easy and I think the more we stand for Christ in the world the hotter the battle is going to get and the better we're going to like it because the greater God is going to be glorified, I think we ought to be ready. But there is one thing I want to add, the Lord has the strength, verse 10, verse 11 we put the armor on because verse 12 says the enemy is so strong. Verses 13 to 17 define the armor but even when we get it on, now watch this, even when we're all ready and the armor is on he says in verse 18 this, "Praying always," why? Because even when we are equipped we're dependent on God. You see?
And so, beloved, we covenant together to pray for each other. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching there unto with all perseverance and supplication and who are we praying for? For all saints. Are you praying for each other in the battle? Are you really? You know, when we get together for a prayer meeting we talk about somebody's broken leg and somebody's medical treatment, all of that kind of stuff and I wonder whether we really pray about the needful things, instead of praying to God to repair bodies we ought to pray to God to give strength to spirit and souls.
That's what our prayer life ought to be. We ought to be picking out people, first in our own family. You pray for your children that they'll win the battle? Husband do you pray for your wife that she'll win the battle? That she'll have her armor on? Wife, do you pray for your husband, instead of nagging each other why don't you pray for each other. I mean, maybe, that's the solution. If we would begin a network of prayer for each other that we would stand firm in the strength of God I believe God would hear and answer our prayer. If we're willing to fight the battle the way God wants it fought and willing to pay the price I think God will give us victory that will absolutely give us an ecstasy that we've never known. Greatest joys come in the greatest victories.
I've just kind of unbeared my heart to you this morning, I just have fears, you know, I come on Sunday night to preach and I see empty seats and yet on Sunday morning I don't see any and I say, "what level are people committed to?" I realize some of you live far, you can't come, you know. You've got problems. But I think down in my heart there are so many people who just don't understand that this is a war, this is a battle. And you've only got one shot at it. It's just one game. When the final gun goes off it's all over. And what you did is in the record. So, I ask God to give us His strength to win. Let's pray.
Father, just preserve us from the stupidity of the flesh. The rouse and deceit of Satan. The subtly of his demon hosts. The line the world pumps at us. God, help us to come out and be separate. Help us to have our armor on. Help us to live with boldness according to Your principles. Make us a great army, Oh Lord. A great army. Raise us up to fight. May the old hymn, ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS not just be an old hymn. But may it be a right-now marching order, ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS, going on to face the foe. We recall the words of the hymn writer who said, "Shrink not, Christians, will ye yield? Will ye quit the painful field? Will ye flee in danger's hour? Know, ye not your Captain's power." God, help us to dedicate ourselves to live for You at all costs.
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Before the last cookie is eaten, the last drop of egg nog drank, or the last gift unwrapped this holiday season, people are asking, "What are you doing New Year's Eve?" With the Christmas rush, it's easy to be left scampering for an answer. Fret no more! I've compiled a list of various options to ring in the new year, whether you're looking for a big bash or a quiet affair.
Start the party off with the University of Louisville versus Kentucky basketball game [3]. The game is set to tip-off at noon in Lexington's Rupp Arena. Unfortunately for UK fans, Big Blue Country, a UK themed sports bar, closed November 1. However, you can expect a party for all fans at any of the sports bars in town.
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Spirit of Jefferson Riverboat Cruise [4](401 W. River Road, Louisville): $25-60. Two cruises are offered for New Year's Eve: a 5:30 p.m. early dinner cruise and a late night New Year's Eve bash. The 5:30 cruise offers a two-hour cruise and dinner buffet at a price of $40 per adult or $25 per child. The late night cruise boasts a lavish buffet, champagne toast at midnight, and party favors. The three hour cruise leaves the dock at 10:00 p.m. and returns at 1:00 p.m. Price is $60.
Galt House Hotel [5](140 N. Fourth Street, Louisville) – Night of All Nights: $129 and up. Live music featuring Burning Las Vegas. Burning Las Vegas is Nashville's foremost funk, rock, rhythm & blues soul band featuring a blazing hot horn section, a grooving rhythm section, and three powerful female vocalists that can shake you out of your shoes. Various packages offered with prices starting at $129.
Louisville's Biggest New Year's Eve Party! at Fourth Street Live [6]! Free - $80. Music from 100% Poly, a Times Square ball drop at midnight, plus register for your chance to win a trip to the 2012 Grammy Awards. This free event is hosted by Radio Now 98.9 and Louisville's Gen X Radio 100.5.The party starts at 9:00 p.m. and you must be at least 21 to enter. All access packages are available for $25 which grant you access to four venues: Angels Rock Bar, Hotel Nightclub, Tengo Sed Cantina, and The Sports & Social Club. All access plus open bar packages are $80 per person.
Hyatt Regency Louisville [7](320 West Jefferson, Louisville) is offering a special Fourth Street Live! Package which includes the two all access open bar tickets to Louisville's Biggest New Year's Eve Party!, mentioned above, plus overnight accommodations starting at $279.
Louisville Improv [8](441 S. Fourth St., Louisville) - Comedy of Bryan Callen: $18. If you don't recognize the name Bryan Callen, you'd recognize his face. Callen has been in a ton of movies and television shows including The Hangover, The Hangover II, Old School, How I Met Your Mother, MTV's Death Valley, and was one of the original cast members of Madtv. He has two shows New Year's Eve: 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. This is an 18 and over show and requires a two drink minimum.
Jim Porters Good Time Emporium [9](2345 Lexington Rd., Louisville) – New Year's Eve Blowout: $20. Event features four live bands throughout the night: Cosmo & The Counts, Lindsay Lane & Axis, The Flying Martinis, and Bluestown. $20 ticket package includes party favors, midnight balloon drop, and champagne toast. Hotel packages at Best Western are also available.
Seelbach Hilton [10](500 Fourth Street, Louisville) - Retro New Year's Eve Party Hosted by 102.3 The MAX: $159 and up. Live DJ playing music from a different decade every hour up to midnight. Packages starting at $159 a couple include buffet dinner, champagne toast at midnight, and party favors. Throw in overnight accommodations for an additional $160.
Phoenix Hill Tavern [11](644 Baxter Ave., Louisville) - The Last Blast: $20. The Hill gives you six bands starting at 8:00 p.m and playing throughout the night this New Year's Eve: The American Dream, Kirby's Dreamland, Sponge, King Sonic, Wax Factory, and Centerfold. Admission also includes party favors, midnight balloon drop and champagne toast, and live countdown from New York's Times Square.
Headliners Music Hall [12](1386 Lexington Rd., Louisville) - WFPK's New Year's Eve Latin Dance Party at Headliners: $10-12. WFPK DJ's Woodrow on the Radio and Matt Anthony will broadcast live from Headliners beginning at 9:00 p.m. At 10:30 p.m., and playing until midnight, the band Cosa Seria takes center stage. Cosa Seria fuses Salsa with Timba and other contemporary Latin rhythms. The $10 advance ticket ($12 at the door) also includes photos from photoboothphotos.com, dance lessons from the Me Salsa es su Salsa Dance Company when the doors open at 8:00 p.m., and a balloon drop at midnight. This is an 18 and over show.
Also, check out our write ups of New Year's Eve at Zazoo's with the Broken Spurs and the Bad Reeds [13] and Tink's Pub, Louisville's only lesbian bar, which is closing on New Year's Eve [14].
If you happen to have a ticket to the sold out game and want to ring in the new year in Lexington, try one of these options:
Hyatt Regency Lexington [15](401 West High Street, by Rupp Arena) –New Year's Eve Package: $249. Package includes guestroom accommodations, admission into the New Year's Eve Celebration featuring Caught Red Handed, cash bar, balloon drop, champagne toast, and New Year's Day breakfast buffet for two.
Cheapside Bar and Grill [16](131 Cheapside, Downtown Lexington) – Rockin New Year's Eve Party: $10-15. Music by August Christopher. Table reservations for the entire evening are $15 per person which includes champagne and party favors at midnight. Cover charge for Walk-ins, with no table seating, is $10 per person.
Two Keys Tavern [17](333 South Limestone St., Downtown Lexington) – New Year's Celebration: Free. A casual joint that boasts three bars, no cover charge, and cheap drinks. Doors open at 8:00 p.m.
Forte Live Venue & Night Club [18](815 E. Euclid Ave., Lexington) – New Year's Eve Party: $15 and up. Live music featuring The Jimmy Church Band and Resident DJ John Sims. Reserved table seating is $45 per couple, $25 singles, General Admission is $25 per couple, $15 singles. Package includes party favors and champagne toast at midnight. Doors open at 9:00 p.m.
Buster's Billiards and Backroom [19]New Year's Eve Extravaganza (899 Manchester St., Lexington Distillery District) - The G-Funk Allstars in concert: $8-10. Admission is $8 in advance, $10 day of show. Doors open at 9:00 p.m. This is an 18 and over show.
So there's just a few options to ring out 2011 and ring in 2012. Of course, if none of these choices appeal to you, you could always get a bottle of champagne, a bag of streamers, and host your own fabulous bash in the comfort of your own home!


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Seeing God (pt III)
This is a post in relation and expansion to a post about Seeing God (pt II) and being a spy.
Numbers 13. This is a story familiar to a lot of people. And to be fair - most of the chapter isn't very interesting, and almost negative.
Background: so the Israelites had been given this Promised Land by God (which is funny, because there were still other people living in the land and the Israelites had to fight for it***). And Moses sent out scouts/spies to see what the Land was like and how the enemy faired in opposition to Israel in strength and numbers.
The account that came back wasn't exactly mixed. 20 out of the 22 spies said the land looked good - but the people there were mentally stronger than the Israelites were, and so they shouldn't bother with trying to occupy the land.
2 spies said the opposite. The land is amazing - it's a great idea for us to occupy it. (One of these spies was Joshua - who became the man that lead the Israelites to a victory of a city by marching around - the application of a principle that he learns here).
20 people saw a good thing surrounded by a bad thing, that physically seemed impossible to do. Therefore God 'couldn't' do it (this is anthropomorphising God - putting our inadequacies onto Him). 2 people saw a good thing together with God's promise and therefore they could do it because of what God had said.
In effect out of the 22 people only 2 of them actually saw God. They saw his promise and not the problem. They took God at His word and saw what God was going to do.
That's the thing about being a spy - you need to keep your eyes open. Your job is to be observant and note down everything that is going on around you and report back to your Cheif, or collate your data. Out of the 22 spies, only 2 did their job. They weren't originally told to see if it was a good idea or not to invade the land (vs 17-20 are just instructions, they're never asked for their opinion). The two that came back gave the report that matched the promise of God - that if this was going to be a land of Promise it was going to be a land of plenty - which it was.
We need to be observant and open as Spies. We need to know the promises that God has given us, and see how they match with what we see. It's this way round - Promise - Process. The Process happens because of the Promise.
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If you are a Mets fan, and you want the team to acquire Manny Ramirez, a Mets fan has started a petition similar to the Red Sox fans who wanted to keep Manny Ramirez. The URL is appropriately www.bringmanny.com. Not that I think Omar needs a petition to heighten his interest in Manny; I'm pretty sure it's at an all-time high anyway. It's a nice gesture, though. If interested, go there and sign it up.


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The Arbor Inn at Griffin House is located less than one half mile from the Hamilton College campus (25 minutes from Colgate University) and just 10 minutes from the Westmoreland exit #32 of the NYS Thruway. Situated in the Mohawk Valley of Central New York, our Bed and Breakfast rests on five peaceful acres and provides a quiet country setting, yet the historic Village of Clinton is just a short drive down "the hill" where you can enjoy our local shops and restaurants or stroll around the "New England style" village green. Our location is also convenient to many area attractions and events including the Turning Stone Casino, the Madison Bouckville Antique Show and the Utica Boilermaker Race. The neighboring towns of Utica, Rome, Vernon, Oneida and New Hartford are all within easy driving distance.
Our Bed and Breakfast provides lodging in five well appointed guest rooms and suites located in both the Main House and the Courtyard Wing. Our 1800's farmhouse has been beautifully renovated and expanded resulting in a wonderful combination of elegance and vintage charm. All accommodations include complimentary wireless internet access, private baths, televisions, 24 hour coffee/tea availability and morning breakfast. The well kept grounds are filled with gardens and the front porch is the perfect spot for enjoying the upstate New York surroundings.
To further accommodate our guests, The Arbor Inn recently opened a second lodging option in the picturesque Village of Clinton. Our new Williams Street Lodging location is the ideal choice for guests seeking an accommodation that is private but convenient to the bustle and activity of the village with restaurants and shopping just steps away. The two side by side upscale guest suites at #8 and #12 Williams provide the comfort of king beds, queen sofa-sleepers, sitting areas with electric fireplaces, two large LCD televisions, complimentary wireless internet access and kitchenettes with mini refrigerators, microwaves and single serve coffee brewers.
For whatever reason your travels bring you to Clinton, New York, our goal at both The Arbor Inn and Williams Street Lodging is to make your visit a memorable one.
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CLINTON, NY -- Life can be scripted or unpredictable, and the latter would be true for the new innkeepers of The Arbor Inn on Griffin Road, Dave and Ellen Varecka.
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The former Buffalo-area couple have recently purchased the Inn from Bob and Carol Renauld, which includes the Griffin Road residence, formerly called The Arbor Inn at Griffin House, and the
Williams Street location, collectively now known as "The Arbor Inn of Clinton."
The Vareckas will tell you, excitedly, that they are brand new to the B&B world. Their road to The Arbor Inn began unexpectedly when they were on a tour of historic homes in Buffalo and stumbled upon one home in particular that just happened to be a B&B.
"It all started as a passing joke," Ellen recalls. "On our way out of the door I said to Dave, 'We can do that,' and it turned out that gorgeous B&B was for sale."
While they didn't go on to purchase that B&B, it did spark a new passion for the couple who were looking for an adventure after retiring. Dave was a principal partner of an architectural firm; Ellen
had an extensive career in business operations and human resource management.
"We were ready to leave our corporate lives," Dave adds. "We just weren't ready to settle down."
The couple describes their discovery of The Arbor Inn as rather serendipitous. They arrived in Clinton on a typical snowy, cold upstate New York night. Ellen says when they walked into the warm and inviting Arbor Inn, it felt like home.
They also explain that they were attracted to the Inn because of its unique setting. "We like that it has rural ambience but is still close to urbanlike amenities," Dave adds.
Returning guests won't notice any striking differences to The Arbor Inn or William Street Lodging. Dave and Ellen say they don't plan on making any major changes other than enhancing the common area, and adding their own personal touches.
The couple also sees being new to the area as an advantage. They plan to immerse themselves in the college, village, and business communities.
"We see ourselves as being cheerleaders, advocates for the local colleges. Having grown children and the experience of being a college parent, we understand where they are coming from," Ellen explains. "We find this thrilling and exciting that we'll be even closer to our own family near Syracuse."
On August 1, Dave and Ellen opened the doors of The Arbor Inn on Griffin Road and William Street Lodging as new innkeepers. They plan to continue catering to guests visiting Hamilton College, Colgate University, Utica College, and all upstate New York attractions. They also plan to promote to business travelers with special, corporate and extended rates.
The Renaulds opened The Arbor Inn as a B&B in 2000. The first guest suite at Williams Street Lodging opened in 2009.
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The changing role of custodian banks - 05/07/2013
The world of the depositary bank is changing due to increased regulation
There has been much public debate and comment around initiatives aimed at reforming the European internal market and beyond it the global arrangements in the wake of the financial crisis.
In general such initiatives are centred around two pillars – the drive towards greater investor protection and the measures aimed at identifying and mitigating systemic risk.
One of the key areas where legislation seeks either to change or to clarify and harmonise existing practices is within the realm of the Depositary Bank and its close cousin the Custodian.
The principal instruments instituting these changes include:
- AIFMD (Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive) and UCITS V (fifth release of the Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive)
- EMIR (European Market Infrastructure Regulation) and relevant clauses of its transatlantic cousin Dodd-Frank, both seeking to bring transparency and greater security to the world of Over the Counter (OTC) Derivatives
- Other longer term infrastructure projects such as Target 2 Securities (T2S).
To translate this intent into practical actions, these pieces of legislation are supplemented by guidance and direction issued by relevant authorities and bodies such as:
- ESMA (the relatively newly created European Securities and Markets Authority),
- IOSCO (International Organisation of Securities Commissions)
- US regulatory authorities operating under the general principles of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Such an ambitious legislative agenda will inevitably result in change, but in seeking to understand the dimensions of this change, and how each legislative package interacts, a brief look back as to how the current situation has arisen is a useful exercise.
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The Washington State Patrol says Todd Oatman, 39, struck a traffic barricade while driving a motorcycle on I-90. Oatman was injured in the wreck and his Suzuki was damaged.
Troopers pulled over the driver at I-90 and Argonne.
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July 12, 2014
6th AGM a success!!
The 6th AGM of the Belize Table Tennis Association took place on Saturday July 12, 2014 as planned at the BES Auditorium.
Members present were updated on the 2013 President report, as well as finalcial report for 2013. Copies of financial reports were also distribued to members in atendance. Elections as well as resolutions were also tabled and voted on by the participants.
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Mr. Gabriel Guerrero - BTTA Technical Director
Mr. Gabriel Guerrero was appointed the new post of "BTTA Technical Director" on July 1, 2014.
His overall tasks is to coordinate the development of table tennis in the local schools, as well as provide support to the BTTA Executive in the overall development of table tennis.
Gabriel is an ITTF Level 1 Coach, as well as an advance table tennis player, having competed in the top categories of the BTTA.
He will report directly to the BTTA Executive as well as the Development Committee on detail programs and initiatives of growth to the association.
He will also assit in talent identification from within the schools and junior players, as well as provide structured training programs on Saturdays.
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