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Police seek link to robberiesApril 05,2013LEBANON, N.H. Authorities are investigating whether a New Hampshire man shot dead after a Vermont robbery may be connected to similar robberies in Lebanon.
Detectives with the Lebanon Police Department are investigating whether 51-year-old Larry Bohannon of Grafton could have been the man involved in the armed robberies at the Little Store and the Family Dollar store last month.
Bohannon was shot and killed by police Friday after allegedly robbing an office supplies store in Bellows Falls, Vt., at gunpoint and leading police on a chase that ended when the truck he was driving crashed in Walpole.
Bohannon died from gunshot wounds to the head, chest, and abdomen.
Its unknown if Bohannon fired at police before he was killed.MORE IN This Just InBy Josh O'Gorman Full StoryBy Gordon Dritschilo Full StoryCASTLETON - Police have released a picture of a man who robbed a convenience store Monday night. Full Story
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Okay so this is set 4 Years later. Bella and Caspian are missing each other like crazy. One day Lucy and Peter go back to Narnia, Caspian is glad to see them again but sad to see that Bella is not there with them. He is depressed, but Bella is dealing with some personal issues at home. One day she escapes and is back in Narnia and with her Caspian. The two lovers grow more closer and their loves blossoms. But Old Enemies return and Bella discovers who she really is. What will Happen?
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Chapter 4~Caspian's Cousin Part 1
Chapter 4~Caspian's Cousin Part 2
Chapter 14~Caspian and Bella's First Born
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Yeah he did really tell her off. Yeah secrets come out in the open
You'll have to wait and find out if he really is or if there is something else up my sleeve
And what is Bella
a prinses or something else ??
And OMG Lucy is back !!!!!
Yeah Bella is a Princess, her father is a king in Narnia.
Chapter 9~Haunted
Lucy layed there in the freezing snow as she cried her self to sleep, she layed there in the snow as it kept snowing, it was like she forgot it was cold and snowing, part of her wanted to forget maybe.
Peter along with Bella, Lilliandil and Caspian went to pay their respect to Dorian;s grave stone, they got there to see a girl sleeping curled up near it. He looked closer and gasped "Luce" he said and picked her up in his arms, Lucy's head and arms were limp and they fell back and to the side as he picked her up
Bella looked worried "We got to get her inside" she said, shivering slightly, Caspian rubbed her arms softly to keep her warm, Peter carried Lucy inside and he layed her down in her room, in the warm bed and covered her up to keep her warm, one of the maids lit up the fire place to warm up the room more.
Peter sighed as he sat down beside Lucy on the bed. He watched his little sister whimper and sob in her sleep, she was sobbing out for Dorian. He rubbed her back softly, Dorian died about 6 months ago, no one was really sure how or what happened to him, but it was tragic. He felt so bad for Lucy, he guessed she came back as she missed him and wanted to work things out with him but it was just too late.
Lilliandil sighed looking at Peter "Maybe we should let her sleep in peace" she said and Peter nodded as he got up and he hugged her and sighed. Lilliandil kissed his head and sighed and linked her arm with his walking out of the room closing the door gently when Caspian and Bella walked out of it as well.
Lucy was tossing and turning in her sleep, she heard a soft whisper Lucy, Lucy....Luce. She sat up and clinged the sheets to her self as she looked around, she swore she just heard Dorian's voice calling out to her. She sobbed and buried her face in her knees crying.
Lucy! the voice said again, this time it was like he was right beside her, whispering her name in her ear, she shakes head and curled up on the bed trying to escape from it, it felt like a nightmare, she was being haunted by his death, it was all her fault, if she never left then he would be still alive. She stayed curled up like that till the morning, she barely slept as she kept hearing the whisperes but as they went on more things were said.
It's not your fault, Lucy
I love you
I'll be here with you, in spirit
I miss you
Next Day:
Everyone was at breakfast when Lucy walked in, she looked paler then a ghost and she looked all cried out. She didn't even get to the chair before she sat down, she landed on the floor.
Peter helped her up and he set her on the chair, she was just staring into space, which was creeping everyone out. Bella watched Lucy worried and she shivered from how Lucy was just staring into space, Caspian held Bella close while Lilliandil looked worried
Lucy picked up her glass of water about to take a sip, when she saw....his reflection, smiling at her in the water, she droped the glass in shock as it slipped from her hand.
Bella looked at Lucy and looked worried over at Caspian, did Lucy see something? she asked her self, as she saw Lucy was shaking with fear and more tears spilled down her cheeks then she broke down on the spot
Peter wrapped his arms round his sister and he held her close rubbing her back "Aww, Luce" he said and held her close rocking her softly in his arms.
Caspain sighed and he got up pulling Bella with him, he whispered to her "Let's go and talk to Aslan" he said and they walked out to find Aslan.
Bella held her coat around her more as she was cold, they walked around "Aslan?" she called out calling for him, he appeared making her jump a little
He looked at them "Yes, how may I help you my children?" he asked, looking at them.
Caspian sighed "It's about Lucy, she's back and she's not dealing with well my cousin death so well, we're not sure but I think she might be haunted by his spirit" he said
Aslan nods and sighed "I see" he said looking at them
Bella looked at Aslan, she knew he was very powerful and he had more powers then any of them knew and realized he even had "Can you bring him back?" she asked looking at him
Aslan was silent for a few moments then he looked at them both "Yes"
Wow! Poor Lucy!!! That must have been really hard for her!!!
Dorian can come back !!!!
Yeeey !!!!
And Dorian is right it isnt Lucy's fault !!
I know thanks to Aslan :)
Chapter 10~Back From The Dead
Bella sighed in relief with Caspian "Thank you" they both said, Caspian held Bella to his side as he rubbed her arm as Bella was shivering a little, his other hand was placed on her stomach.
Bella smiled and leaned her head on Caspian's shoulder as she had her hand on her stomach as well, she snuggled into him and was feeling slightly tired.
Aslan nods "Welcome" he said and took a step back as he began to chat an old ancient spell to bring people back from the dead. Dorian's body appeared in front of them floating, his hair was grey and he looked pale as a ghost and wasted away, as Aslan kept chanting the spell his hair became darker full of color, his color came back to his face and rest of the body. Dorian soon began to breathe and he had a steady heart beat and pulse, his eyes opened and he was teleported into Lucy's room by the balcony
Lucy was by the mirror brushing her hair when she saw Dorian's reflection, she thought it was just her going even more crazy again, so she shook her head and walked out of her room and into the garden, she had her jumper around her, she was by the frozen lake in the rose garden.
Dorian looked confused as to why Lucy did not see him, or maybe she did but because she heard his voice and saw his reflection she thought this was her mind playing tricks on her again, he walked outside and stood behind her "Lucy" he said softly
Lucy gasped and fell back but he caught her as she looked at him "Dorian....you're....you're" she couldn't even say it, "am I dreaming?" she asked as tears were in her eyes
Dorian wiped her tears away with his thumb softly "No, you're not dreaming Lucy" He said and he hugged her tightly and he kissed her hair "I missed you so much Lucy, I am so sorry that I did not tell you about Alexis, but I could not go through it, I could not marry her, but before I told you, you left" he said
Lucy buried her face in his chest as he held her "I missed you too" she said and sighed and held onto him more tightly, her head snapped up when she realized he did not marry Alexis "But...."
Dorian cut her off by pressing his lips against hers kissing her softly, he held her closer to his chest as he kissed her softly with love and passion he felt for her, he pulled back and kissed her forehead "I love you Lucy, I loved you from the moment we met, I never felt this way about anyone, only you" he said looking at her
Lucy blushed and bit her lip "I love you too" she said as she looked at him and placed a soft kiss on his lips
Awww that was sweet!!!
Wow Aslan is so awesome!!!
Can't wait for more!!!
Thanks :)
Yeah Aslan just keeps getting better and Better Lol
Yeey !!!
Dorian is back !!!!!
It is Lucy and Dorian !!!
Loved it
Yep its them :)
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Eighties star Adam Ant is struggling to cast the right actor to portray him in his energetic punk days for a new biopic.
The "Goody Two-Shoes" singer started out on the punk scene in London in the late 1970s, before finding fame in the charts with a string of pop hits. He is now planning a biographical film based his life before he became a star, but admits he can't find the perfect actor to play him.
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He tells Britain's Daily Star, "Getting someone who can portray how physical I was during the punk days is tough.
"James Franco and Jude Law were mentioned but I won't let anyone play me unless they can handle the danger and sexuality of those early days.
"I want it to focus on the punk era rather than when I became a success, that's when it was most interesting. It's a bit mundane once you're on [defunct British music show] 'Top Of The Pops.'"
Adam, I love you but why just do a movie about your punk years? I read your autobiography and found it to be utterly fascinating. I couldn't put it down. It was so honest and it really educated me about bipolar disorder. I think that a film based on your entire autobiography would be a really amazing movie.
As to who should play you, I vote for Kellan Lutz. :-)


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Pink Floyd has confirmed they'll be releasing a new studio album titled The Endless River in October. A message on the group's official website describes the project as "an album of mainly ambient and instrumental music based on the 1993/4 Division Bell sessions."
The note also reveals that the record is being produced by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour , along with Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera , frequent Paul McCartney collaborator Youth -- aka Martin Glover -- and engineer Andy Jackson . The post adds that work on the album is still underway, and that more details about the project will be announced "at the end of the summer."
News about The Endless Summer first emerged on Saturday in a Twitter message posted by Gilmour's wife, sometime Pink Floyd lyricist Polly Samson . Durga McBroom-Hudson , a backing vocalist for both Floyd and Gilmour, then revealed more information in a couple of posts on her Facebook page that same day. Among the tidbits McBroom-Hudson shared was that Gilmour and Floyd drummer Nick Mason both have added new performances to the original 1990s recordings, and that she also will appear on the record.
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'Rio 2′ Review: Now With More Birds!Movie Reviews By Neil Miller on April 11, 2014 | Be the First To Comment
These days animated films can go one of two ways: either you're making something original and potentially interesting, or you're making a sequel to that something original and potentially interesting you made previously because there's a studio behind it that likes money. Such is the story of Blue Sky Studios and filmmaker Carlos Saldanha. Several times now Saldanha and the very talented animators at Blue Sky have given us something interesting. This includes Ice Age in 2002, Robots in 2005 and Rio in 2011. And with the exception of one (the sadly underrated and clever Robots), they've come back for more every single time. Four times in the case of Ice Age. Why? Because kids like it, parents will pay for it and these movies sell toys of prehistoric squirrels just trying to find a nut. Does the mere idea of a sequel discount a movie's quality? No. Does the fact that they are treading on well-worn narrative ground take anything away from the vibrant animation? Not at all. These movies have plenty of right to exist. Most of them are financial, but some of them are creative. Still, that doesn't make it any less sad to see talented teams doing pre-merchandising work when we know they're capable of telling us original and unique stories. As I sat in a mostly empty Thursday evening screening of Saldanha and Blue Sky's latest sequel, Rio 2, I was struck with a thought as that prehistoric squirrel scampered around the Blue Sky introduction logo: I wish that guy who co-directed Robots would […]
'Rio 2′ Trailer: Birds of a Feather Flock to the Amazon to PartyMovie News By Samantha Wilson on October 2, 2013 | Be the First To Comment
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Principal Photography Begins Voyage Into Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar'In Production By Samantha Wilson on August 13, 2013 | Be the First To Comment
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Christopher Nolan's next film as a director, Interstellar, is something of a mystery. We know that it was originally set up by Steven Spielberg, that it has something to do with wormholes and time travel, and that Jonathan Nolan was brought on board to write the initial script, but any sort of plot or character specifics have been closely guarded. Lately some casting news regarding the sure-to-be-huge blockbuster has started to leak though.
Casting Couch: Anne Hathaway and Chloe Moretz Are Gal Pals, Kate Mara Achieves 'Transcendence,' and MoreCasting Couch By Nathan Adams on March 27, 2013 | Be the First To Comment
What is Casting Couch? It's a roundup of all the day's casting developments that are fit to print. Read on to find out about a cool cameo Gareth Edwards set up for Godzilla. Though she's still in the early stages of her directing career, Lynn Shelton (Humpday, Your Sister's Sister) has already proven that all she really needs is a couple of good actors and a room to shoot in, and she'll be able to make a good movie. It stands to reason, then, that her next project could be the biggest thing she's ever done, because Deadline is reporting that it's close to landing a trio of high profile and extremely talented actors. Anne Hathaway, Chloe Moretz, and Sam Rockwell are all close to signing on for Laggies, which sees Hathaway playing an immature twenty-something who hides from her life for a week with her new teenage best friend (Moretz) after she's spooked by a marriage proposal. Rockwell is reportedly up for the role of some old dude named Craig.
Casting Couch: James Marsden Will Antagonize Ron Burgundy, Megan Fox Will Befriend the 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' and MoreCasting Couch By Nathan Adams on February 22, 2013 | Be the First To Comment
What is Casting Couch? It's your handy one stop destination for news about what all of your favorite and least favorite actors are up to next. Today we've got news about Anne Hathaway's latest excuse to sing and what Adam Sandler's next excuse to get paid to go on vacation with a beautiful actress will be. When James Marsden first caught international attention, it was as the stone-faced and charisma-free Cyclops in Bryan Singer's first X-Men movie. People didn't have much love for him back then. But since then he's shown in things like Enchanted and Death at a Funeral that he's not so bad when he's letting his figurative hair down and getting a little goofy. That's a good thing, because now we don't have to meet Deadline's report that he's just become the latest name to join the Anchorman 2 cast with annoyed groans. Apparently Marsden will be playing Ron Burgundy's rival news anchor, which sounds like quite a bit of fun, because Marsden can do smug pretty well.
2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Supporting ActressAcademy Awards By Jack Giroux on February 18, 2013 | Be the First To Comment
When it comes to acting categories, especially supporting, predicting who's going to come away with the Academy Award is always a much easier bet than, say, Best Picture or Director. Looking over the past few years, there haven't been many upsets when it comes to supporting categories. Based on this year's list of nominees, expect the same results. All the critically lauded films are represented here. So, before we get into the breakdown of the nominees, here is a shout out to a few actresses who were overlooked during this awards season: Emily Blunt (Looper), Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty), Ann Dowd (Compliance), and Lauren Ambrose (Sleepwalk with Me). Whether it's because they're in sci-fi film or a little seen indie, none of them received the recognition they deserved. But these actresses did. Here are the nominees for Best Supporting Actress with my predicted winner in red…
Criterion Close-Up: Dreyer's 'Passion of Joan of Arc' vs Hooper's 'Les Miserables'Criterion Files By Landon Palmer on January 23, 2013 | Comments (6)
What is the very best way to use of the close-up? Is it best to save close-ups for the emotional arcs of a film, or to introduce a character? Can too many close-ups leave audiences feeling claustrophobic, and can too few prevent us from properly identifying with characters? Much has been made of Tom Hooper's controversial use of the close-up for Les Miserables. The lack of critical consent over the film's close-ups could be a major reason why Hooper has been on few shortlists for directing awards, even as the film garners attention fin other categories. Hooper's use of the close-up perhaps reaches its apex early on, in an extended shot of Anne Hathaway as Fantine singing "I Dreamed a Dream," a sequence that has been generally celebrated as the film's strongest moment and ostensibly ensured Hathaway's lock for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. But Hooper's isn't the first filmmaker known for implementing the close-up liberally and controversially. How does Hooper's use of the close-up for a film musical compare to one of cinema history's most famous close-up-structured films, Carl Theodor Dreyer's silent masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc?
Anne Hathaway to Play a Shrew Worth TamingCasting Couch By Scott Beggs on January 15, 2013 | Comments (1)
According to The Wrap, Anne Hathaway is coming off her Golden Globe win with an eye on playing Shakespeare they way it's meant to be played. Screenwriter Abi Morgan (Shame, The Iron Lady) is crafting a script that takes the Bard's "Taming of the Shrew" and places it in mid-20th century America for producer Debra Hayward and Working Title. Obviously this isn't the first adaptation to be shifted in time and it won't be the last, but it should be a fun one with Hathaway and Morgan involved. Although hopefully it'll have more laughs than The Iron Lady. The story — which is focused on a young woman anxious for love but forbidden from looking for it until her righteous bitch of a sister is married off — should find a welcome home in the mid-20th century, especially if that's code for "The 1950s." Funny how something that resonated in the late 16th century could ring even louder today. That Shakespeare guy must have been good.
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What is Casting Couch? It's not so much a couch as it is a list, a list of recent castings. And it seems to be talking a lot about World War II today. George Clooney and Matt Damon must have decided that they both look super handsome when they're standing next to each other, because not only have they already worked together on the Oceans movies and Syriana, but now Deadline is reporting that Clooney has decided that he's going to cast Damon in his next project as a director, The Monuments Men. This is that one about the museum curators who try to save as many artifacts and works of art as possible during the Nazis' slash and burn campaign that took place during the dying days of World War II. If Damon's negotiations go well and he signs up, he'll be joining a cast that already includes Clooney himself, Daniel Craig, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, John Goodman, Hugh Bonneville, and Bob Balaban—which is enough big name actors that they should probably just cash in and rename this thing Oceans Monuments Men.
'Les Miserables': A Guide to the Surprising Depth of Its Stars' Singing BackgroundsFeatures By Kate Erbland on December 5, 2012 | Comments (5)
Let it never be said that director Tom Hooper took the easy road with his follow-up feature to his Oscar-winning The King's Speech. While Hooper's decision to again tackle a period piece with a new film version of an already often-adapted piece of work might have seemed simple when it was first announced, Hooper's inspired idea to make his Les Miserables as close to an actual stage production as possible is anything but safe or expected. With Hooper making the bold decision to use "live" singing from his cast (not going the more traditional route of lip-syncing and recording tracks in post-production), his version of Les Miserables places quite the premium on getting truly great musical performances out of its stars. Which is why it might be confusing to many a moviegoer that the cast of Hooper's Les Mis is rounded out by big name movie stars that most people wouldn't necessarily associate with the Great White Way. But Hooper knew exactly what he was doing when he cast such stars as Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathway, and Amanda Seyfried in his film, because while the cast of Les Miserables is rife with well-known acting talent, it's also filled to the brim with exceptional (and, in most cases, exceptionally trained) songbirds. Not sold on the dulcet tones and vocal stylings of this new Les Mis cast? Let's take a look at their singing backgrounds.
A Storm Is Brewing with 'The Dark Knight Rises' Drinking GameDrinking Games By Kevin Carr on December 4, 2012 | Comments (1)
You may have heard of the small independent film The Dark Knight Rises, which hit theaters this summer. Now, it's out on DVD and Blu-ray, and also available in a box set of all the Nolanverse Batman movies. Bat-fans around the world can finally die happy in the Mayan apocalypse with the knowledge that they can have this movie in their Blu-ray collection. Of course, the film does run close to three hours, and in the privacy of your own home, it's something that can be enjoyed with a drink in hand. You may not get as tipsy as Bane does with that opium-fueled mask he has, but with this drinking game, you can have even more fun as Gotham crumbles.
Casting Couch: George Clooney Circling Brad Bird's Top Secret Project, Anne Hathaway Ready to Face the 'Robopocalypse,' and MoreCasting Couch By Nathan Adams on November 12, 2012 | Be the First To Comment
What is Casting Couch? The day's casting news, all in one place, because you're a very busy person. At this point we don't know anything concrete about the secret project Brad Bird is directing over at Disney. It's largely being developed under the code name 1952, but for a minute it was being called Tesla. It's rumored to be a science fiction film involving aliens, but in what regard isn't clear. It's said that Disney is thinking of it as a major tentpole release, but why it would have such mass appeal is being kept under wraps. All we have is rumors. And the latest rumor for the pile, courtesy of Variety, is that The Facts of Life star George Clooney is currently negotiating to star. If this proves to be true and Bird lands Clooney, that would be a pretty big step toward making this the blockbuster sort of feature that Disney wants it to be. And, generally, what Disney wants, Disney gets.
Alex Proyas Wants to Turn Chris Hemsworth and Anne Hathaway Into Cyborgs For 'Amped'In Development By Nathan Adams on November 7, 2012 | Comments (7)
If you're looking for a movie about cyborgs that has a creative team with a good amount of solid, robot-related sci-fi experience under their belt, then Amped might be the project for you. THR has word that this is going to be the next film for director Alex Proyas, who first captured film fans' attentions with things like The Crow and Dark City, and later went on to make his robot bones with 2004's I, Robot. Proyas isn't the only robot-friendly name with a hand in the creation of this project, either. Amped comes from a Daniel H. Wilson novel of the same name; and if you don't know who Wilson is, he's a contributor to "Popular Mechanics" as their "resident roboticist," and he wrote the novels "How to Survive a Robot Uprising," "How to Build a Robot Army," and "Robopocalypse," which is serving as the source material for Steven Spielberg's next film. The guy knows his robots. But what, exactly, is the story that Proyas' eye for sci-fi visuals will be bringing to the big screen? Let's let the original novel's Amazon description fill us in:
Anne Hathaway Is Into Mindy Kaling's 'Low Self-Esteem'In Development By Nathan Adams on October 9, 2012 | Be the First To Comment
After getting off the sinking ship that is NBC's The Office earlier than most of her co-stars and successfully getting her starring vehicle sitcom The Mindy Project picked up for a full season at Fox, actress and writer Mindy Kaling's career is looking to be in pretty good shape. But wise moves in the TV landscape may not be the extent of her current success, as it's now looking like a romantic comedy script Kaling co-wrote is likely to get produced as a feature as well. The film, which Kaling co-wrote with veteran TV writer Brent Forrester, is called The Low Self-Esteem of Lizzie Gillespie, and is reportedly about a girl, who has dated nothing but losers, suddenly getting pursued by the most attractive man in the world. The reason Lizzie Gillespie is likely to soon be put into production is that it just got a big star attached to it in Anne Hathaway. Hathaway, of course, was a big name in the business already, but after playing Catwoman in this year's The Dark Knight Rises, she's got to be considered one of the most powerful leading ladies around, and every time a bankable star gets attached to a script, it's generally only a matter of time before a director signs on and distribution deals come a callin'.
Anne Hathaway May Save Us From the 'Robopocalypse'Casting Couch By Scott Beggs on September 25, 2012 | Be the First To Comment
Not only is the newly semi-untethered Tim Rothman going to produce Steven Spielberg's forthcoming Robopocalypse, The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Anne Hathaway is in talks to play the lead role. She'd join Chris Hemsworth who has been in talks to star as well. The film is based on the book by Daniel H. Wilson in which a sentient computer named Archos launches small test attacks against humanity to check for weaknesses before descending into an all-out assault, pitting a small group of survivors and a "freeborn" robot to fight back. It seems likely that Hemsworth and Hathaway will play important figures in the revolt. There's reasonable excitement with all these names involved (and the straight-ahead genre possibilities), but it's really fantastic to have Drew Goddard (Cain in the Woods) writing the script. With all the pieces in place, the production is looking to release April 2014.
'Les Miserables' Video Featurette Explains the Emotional Advantage to Singing On SetMovie News By Scott Beggs on September 21, 2012 | Comments (1)
A decent amount of talk has been dedicated to director Tom Hooper's decision to have the cast of Les Miserables sing live during takes instead of using the more traditional method of overdubbing. Rightfully so. Though it's not the first movie to eschew dubbing, it's the largest scale project to do so completely, and that creates a bit of danger in the form of raw voices. On the other hand, as cast members Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Russell Crowe, Samantha Barks and Eddie Redmayne explain, there's a freedom that comes with it which allows for them to truly emote through their songs. After a stunning teaser, this look into the method behind the madness proves once again that there's a lot to hope for with this flick. It looks to be an epic given the proper epic treatment, and the on-set singing aspect, especially, gives it a fascinating edge that will most likely be something far beyond a simple gimmick. If nothing else, this featurette shows plainly the filmmakers' investment in and dedication to the process. Check it out for yourself:
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1 Thessalonians 5:21-22
June 09, 1991
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As we come now to the joy of examining the truth of God's Word, I ask you to open your Bible to Paul's letter to the Thessalonians, the first letter, chapter 5 and look with me at verses 21 and 22. We began two weeks ago to consider the truth of 1 Thessalonians 5:21 and 22. We'll continue this morning and then again next Lord's day.
Let me remind you of its truth with a simple and straight forward reading. "But examine everything carefully, hold fast to that which is good, abstain from every form of evil." This is a call to discernment. Examine everything carefully. Beloved, this is absolutely critical in the Christian life, absolutely critical. The Christian life is the most precise life of all. It is the most disciplined pattern of thinking and conduct. It calls for exacting precision, in comprehension, in deed, precision that conforms to an absolute standard revealed by God in Scripture. The Christian life is a life that pursues perfect and total conformity to fixed laws commanded and empowered by God Himself. There is no life so precise and demanding as the Christian's life because it not only calls for precision on the outside in terms of behavior, but precision on the inside in terms of thought and belief. We do not life a happy-go-lucky catch as catch can, free-wheeling, do-as-you-will, do whatever feels good kind of existence. The Word of God sets fixed demands for every area of our lives. There are no changing doctrines in Christianity. There are no changing values. There are no changing morals. There are no changing ethics.
It is amazing to me, and I'm sure to you, to be watching over the last couple of weeks all of these major denominations meeting...the Methodists, the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians, to vote in new theology...to vote in new morals, to vote in new ethical standards, to change the tradition of what has been believed in the past. And as one Presbyterian leader I heard interviewed on the radio said, "If we don't change our morals to accommodate today, we're going to lose all our members."
In true Christianity of course there are no changing morals, there are no changing values, there are no changing ethics and there are no changing doctrines. We are required to live in a disciplined pattern of thinking and we are required to live in a disciplined pattern of conduct. And at the very foundation of this disciplined precise kind of living is the necessity for discernment. We must be able to discern what is true from what is false. We must be able to discern truth from half truth as well as truth from error. And when the church loses its ability to so discern, it therefore forfeits its precise theology, it forfeits its precise morals, values, ethics and doctrines and therefore abandons any hope of precise living...precise conduct. And when you look at Christianity today and you see it filled with immorality and a low-level commitment to holy living, you must understand that that imprecise kind of conduct is the result of imprecise kind of thinking which is the product of an inability to make discernment work.
Evangelical Christianity is in a severe state of confusion. It is not sure how it is supposed to act because it is not sure what it's supposed to think because it is not sure what it believes. Watered down diluted theology will fail to produce deep reverence, deep worship, deep repentance, deep humility, deep understanding of God, His nature, His work, His ministry, His laws, His standards, His principles. It fails to make people God centered. The church today caught up in relativistic thinking about doctrine, relativistic thinking about morality cannot then come to precise living. Discernment then is crucial.
Paul knew it when he put it in this little list. Starting in verse 16 he is giving us what amounts to a composite summation of the very cardinal elements of Christian living...rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks, that deals with your attitude toward God. Don't quench the Spirit and don't despise revelation, prophecies which God has given namely the revealed Word, and then examine everything carefully, those are the components that are at the heart of Christian living.
Paul then is calling us to something very basic when he says, "But examine everything carefully." It isn't easy to do that. There are three reasons why. Reason number one, human weakness. Our minds are fallen. Our thinking is skewed. We are biased to be subjective in our own favor. We are debilitated by the indwelling unredeemed human flesh which has a propensity toward sinfulness. So we have to fight human weakness. Our mind is depraved. Secondly, we have Satanic deceit. There is an ongoing onslaught against the church by the king of darkness, the prince of this world, and he is doing everything he can to confound and confuse the church. Thirdly, you have the overpowering inundating influence of the ungodly world around us. Between the world, the flesh and the devil the process of spiritual discernment can be quite easily debilitated. And unfortunately the church has fallen into chaos and confusion under this onslaught. It is unable today to discern true from false and good from evil and that is creating imprecise doctrine, imprecise conduct.
In fact, as essential as it is to precise Christian living, being discerning and discriminating is not popular today even in the church. If you take stands strongly on issues you are looked down on.
Now that means that a call to discernment is appropriate. In calling you to discernment and helping expand and elucidate the truth of these two verses, I want to ask three questions. The last two questions we'll look at next Sunday, let's go back to question number one which we discussed in our last study. Why is there such a lack of discernment? I've already showed you the influences, the weakness of the flesh, Satanic deception and the influence of the world. But why is it that the church has been victimized by this? What are the factors that have led to this lack of discernment? First I'll review and then I'll add some new ones.
Last time I told you the main contributor to this lack of discernment is a weakening of doctrinal clarity and conviction...a weakening of doctrinal clarity and conviction. There is today an assault on doctrine. And any assault on doctrine is ultimately an assault on God. It is an assault on knowing God truly and knowing His truth properly...therefore it is an assault on His character, is an assault on worshiping Him accurately, it is an assault on morality as well. Churches today are not primarily concerned with doctrine as such. They are for the most part, and of course there are exceptions to this, they are mostly concerned with making sure that whatever we are we are loving, we are unifying, we are non-divisive, we are relational, we are non-confrontive, we are non-offensive. We want to be experiential. We want to deal with feelings and emotions. And we want to make people feel better about their life. We want them to be fulfilled and satisfied in their life. We want them to be comfortable. And so our dominant hermeneutic has to do with all of this. And I told you two weeks ago that the liberals couldn't sell us their theology so they sold us their hermeneutics. What is hermeneutics? It's from a Greek word hermeneuowhich means to interpret. They couldn't sell us their theology so they sold us their principles to interpret Scripture. Their principles are you interpret the Bible in the light of what is loving, what is unifying, what is non-threatening, what is non-offensive, what is non-oppositional, what is non-divisive, what makes people feel good and comfortable and relational, what will bring them joy and satisfaction and happiness and self- fulfillment. And if you approach the Bible with all of those as the principles of interpretation, you're going to come up with a liberal theology. And so they sold us their hermeneutics instead of their theology which they knew we wouldn't buy but were going to end up with the same thing.
In fact, today you hear that relevant Christianity is not doctrinal. I saw an ad for some church in a flier this week and it made the statement, "Are you tired of traditional church services? Are you tired...I can't exactly remember the specific words...of boring preaching which is irrelevant?" The assumption is that anything that is traditional, anything that is biblical, anything that is expositional is somehow not relevant. This is a fairly pervasive viewpoint. Some months ago a doctoral dissertation was sent to me by a young man who wrote it to complete his Ph.D work and he wrote it on comparing my preaching to another well-known preacher. And his final assessment of me at the end of the section on me was "MacArthur is accurate but irrelevant. He speaks the truth but is not relevant." Now I don't know how speaking the truth can possibly be irrelevant. The other side of it would be to speak lies but be relevant. I'm not sure what that means. Irrelevance is associated with preaching the Word of God, with being dogmatic or speaking truth firmly today. So worship and preaching and conduct reflect this weak kind of doctrinal commitment.
I can think of so many, many amazing trends in the last five to ten years. Even radio stations that once were eager to put everything we preach on the air now write us and tell us if you deal with this issue or that issue or this issue, we're not going to play it because it will offend some of our listeners and we want to be loving. We want to be loving too but you speak the truth in love. Obviously discernment isn't going to flourish in an atmosphere of fuzzy thinking, obviously.
Look at 2 Timothy for a moment, chapter 4. In 2 Timothy chapter 4 verse 1, Timothy is solemnly charged with a pretty intimidating charge. He says, does Paul, "I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead and by His appearing and His Kingdom." In other words, I want you to feel a lot of intimidation. I want you to feel a lot of motivation. You are being watched by God and you are being watched by Christ Jesus who is going to judge everything and I'm telling you, Timothy, verse 2, preach the Word. Don't abandon that. You be ready in season and out of season. In other words, when it's tolerated and not tolerated, popular and unpopular, accepted and not accepted, you preach the Word. And how is it going to come out? It's going to reprove, it will rebuke, and it will exhort and you just do it with great patience and instruction. That's the mandate. We are to preach the Word. We assume that will reprove people or convict them. We assume it will rebuke them or make them face the waywardness of their conduct and their belief. We assume it will exhort them which is a word that means it will warn them about judgment and call on them to change their conduct. That's how we have to preach.
Then in verse 3 he says, "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but wanting to have their ears tickled they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths." The primary responsibility of any preacher and any pastor is to make sure he preaches the Word to his people and gives them sound doctrine. It isn't always going to be what they want, it is always going to be what they need. And when they begin to accumulate to themselves teachers who tickle their ears and make them feel good, who feed them what they want out of their own desires, they will turn away from the truth and they'll buy myths. Discernment will not flourish in an atmosphere like we have today which is characteristically described, I think, as one of doctrinal confusion rather than doctrinal conviction.
There's a second cause I noted for you in our last message and it contributes also to this lack of discernment, it is a failure to be antithetical. And it follows exactly along the first one. It fails...this culture fails to want to be antithetical. It doesn't want to debate. It doesn't want to be polemical, it wants to be relativistic. We are feeling the in roads years ago of existentialism, of subjectivism. People just want everything to sort of be in a wide spectrum of relativity. There are no black and white issues, absolute issues. But biblical preaching, teaching is absolute. It divides, it confronts, it separates, it judges, it convicts, it reproves, it rebukes, it exhorts, that's not acceptable today. That's not desirable today. It's a day for fun and games. It's a day to sort of dance over lightly every issue and make sure you don't offend anybody. It's not a day for debate. It's not a day for polemics. It's not a date to draw the line and say here's the truth and everything on the other side is error. And obviously in a relativistic day when there is not the desire to be antithetical, to put a thesis and an antithesis against each other and see what is true, in a day like that, a day of doctrinal relativism, discernment is not going to survive.
Look at Titus 1:9. In Titus 1:9 we have instruction for an elder or a pastor and he is to hold fast the faithful Word which is in accordance with the teaching and he is both to exhort in sound doctrine and refute those who contradict. It is mandated by God that we be antithetical, that we take issue with error. We must do that or we do not fulfill our divine calling. But where that is not tolerated, where you're not allowed to be divisive, you're not allowed to say you're wrong, that is error, that must be corrected, because the loving unifying relational hermeneutic dominates, discernment cannot survive.
Thirdly last time I told you that another contributor to the demise of discernment in the church is preoccupation with image and influence as a key to evangelization. The church has bought the idea, the lie that to reach the world we must become popular with the world. We must be nice and inoffensive and accepting and accommodating. We need to make sinful people feel at ease. We need to make the church warm and embracing. We need to make sinners feel comfortable and happy and entertained. And if they like us they'll like Jesus. Image and influence are believed to be more powerful tools of evangelism than the preaching of God's inspired and powerful Word. And obviously discernment doesn't survive in an atmosphere of doctrinal confusion. It doesn't survive in an atmosphere of moral relativism. And it doesn't survive in an atmosphere of compromise with the world. And yet that's what the church is in to today. It is accommodating everything it does to the unregenerate world, trying to win their approval, to win their approval. Instead of being the light that turns on and reveals their sin, it wants to be so dark that they can be with us a long time and they never really have to confront that, they can just enjoy how nice we are.
Now I want to be loving and want to be gracious and I want to see sinners repent. But I know the only way that's ever going to happen is when their sin is confronted and they face the reality of their eternal doom.
In 1 Corinthians I pointed out to you, and I just remind you of it, chapter 4, the Apostle Paul had quite a different philosophy of ministry. He said about his own ministry, "We are hungry and thirsty...verse 11...poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless, we are reviled, we are persecuted, we are slandered and we have become...verse 13...as the scum of the world and the dregs of all things even until now." Not popular with the world. The church has never sought to be popular, never sought to be influential in the sense that they accept us as we are, never thought that image was the key issue, that our academic erudition was what won them over, or the entertaining quality of our services or our non-threatening sort of loving embracing tolerance, but that's the spirit today. Weak theology, an unwillingness to be absolute in terms of doctrine and a preoccupation with our strategy to market the gospel to the world through image and influence and prestige has killed discernment.
Now let me take you to a fourth one. Failure to properly interpret Scripture...failure to properly interpret Scripture. You know me well enough to know that this has got to be close to my heart and indeed it is. When I was in college I had a great desire to want to learn how to interpret the Scripture. And I knew that there was a path to get to that so my freshman year in college I signed up for five units of Greek first semester and five units of Greek second semester. I took ten units. My second year I took three each semester. My third year I took three each semester and my fourth year I took two each semester. I graduated with all of that Greek background because I believed that if I was going to interpret primarily my work would be in the New Testament and I was going to interpret the New Testament, I needed to know how to interpret it from its original language. I went away to seminary and I took three more years of Greek and I took some years of Hebrew and I studied theology and I endeavored to discipline myself in understanding doctrine and church history and background history and culture and philosophy and all of the things that I could learn in order to enrich and enhance my comprehension of the context and understanding of Scripture. And I have endeavored through the years to try to apply the things that I learned, to rightly divide the word of truth. Being able to interpret Scripture is crucial, especially for one in my position because James 3:1 says, "Stop being so many teachers, for theirs is a greater condemnation." The one who rushes into teaching better realize that when you take the profile of teacher you bring upon yourself potentially a greater condemnation because now you are responsible not only for what you believe and affirm, but for what you have caused everybody else to believe and affirm...who listened and believed you.
There is a very very exacting science in Bible interpretation...a very exacting science. Some of our men were telling me recently, they were talking to a famous preacher in America and one of them asked him, "What are you going to preach on this Sunday?" It was probably middle of the week and he said, "Oh, I don't know yet, I'm a Saturday night special guy." You cannot interpret the Word of God like that. It is not something whimsical. But you have today in the churches many preachers who do not pursue the discipline in the science of interpretation of Scripture. And as a result of that what they do is go lightly across the top of things, preach relationally, sort of a quasi Christian psychology or tell a lot of stories or whatever it might be, and as a result they're not ever really interpreting the Word of God. And then you can add to that the reality that there is a sort of a new elevation of everyone to the level of an expert in Scripture. Everybody coming down the line seems to feel they can interpret the Bible when in fact unless they have sat under good teaching or unless they are well read and have learned how to interpret the Scripture from someone who knows, it is highly unlikely that no matter how spiritually minded they are and how much they love Christ they will be able to accurately divide the Word of truth. People who have inadequate training in the Bible but who have advance training in some other field, somehow feel that they can just move over and interpret the Scripture. And then many folks just feel that because they're Christians they can interpret it for themselves with little or no training and not having sat under careful explanation of Scripture so that they learn how to interpret by listening to those who do it. So we've somehow pulled everybody to the same level and everybody has an equal right to write books about the Bible and interpret the Scripture no matter who they are or how inadequately prepared they might be.
And you can add another problem that leads to this lack of proper interpretation and that is that the Charismatic Movement which is sweeping the world basically says that you just...you just read the Bible and somehow Jesus will tell you what it means, somehow it just...it rises up from within you mystically which eliminates the need for interpretation at all. By the way, virtually every cult and false teaching ever spawned was begun on the premise that Jesus gave them some new revelation. This is a very frightening thing because it's so pervasive. And you hear people all the time if you listen to radio or watch the Christian programs on television who come along and do these kinds of interpretations and talk about how Jesus told them this and God told them that, there's no need to interpret the Bible with that because it just comes from within you.
Bill Hayman(?), for example, heads a network of Charismatic prophetic ministries. He advises people to ignore reason, logic and the senses when attempting to discern the truth. Ignore reason, logic and the senses when attempting to discern the truth. He writes, I'm quoting him, "Our traditions, beliefs and strong opinions are not true witnesses to prophetic truth. The spirit reaction originates deep within our being. Many Christians describe the physical location of its corresponding sensation as the upper abdominal area." Do you hear what he just said? If you want to know truth it comes by a reaction in your upper abdominal area. "A negative witness with a message of no, be careful or something's not right, usually manifests itself with a nervous jumpy or uneasy feeling." So you read the Scripture and then you wait for something to happen to your upper abdominal area.
He goes on, "There is a deep almost unintelligible sensation that something is wrong. This sense can only be trusted when we are more in tune with our spirit than with our thoughts." What is that? Double talk, nonsense. He further says, "If our thinking is causing these sensations, then it could only be soulish reaction." So mindless, irrational, senseless nothingness while you sit there and wait for an upper abdominal jumpy nervous feeling. And if it happens, then that's not true. You've got to come up with another interpretation. "On the other hand, when God's Spirit is bearing witness with our spirit that a prophetic word is right, you found the truth, then our spirit will react with the fruit of the Holy Spirit. We have a deep unexplainable peace and joy, a warm loving feeling, or even a sense of our spirit jumping up and down with excitement. This sensation lets us know, the Holy Spirit is bearing witness with our spirit that everything is in order even though we may not understand it." In other words, ignore your mind, forget your beliefs, disregard your theology, reject your common sense and don't ever take Tums, that will mess up the Holy Spirit's process. Don't fool with your upper abdominal area because then He can't lead you.
I..it begs language to even look for adjectives to describe such idiocy. Utter nonsense. You're not going to find that in the Scripture. We don't read the Bible and sit around and wait for some feeling in the upper abdomen to determine what truth is. Indigestion, heart problems, that's ludicrous, could give you the same or even greater feelings.
And yet how many people follow that kind of advice? Millions. And move their church membership over to that church and donate their life savings to that ministry. The price of Charismatic mysticism and subjectivism is much too high. Everybody is free to do and say and teach whatever his upper abdomen tells him. And the uniqueness and centrality and necessity to interpret the Scripture has been eliminated. So on the one hand you have people who perhaps could interpret it but they've opted out for Christian psychology and story telling. On the other hand, you've got people who really don't have the tools to interpret it but they're making a whack at it. And then you've got a third group of Charismatics who are sitting around waiting for some feeling to tell them what's right. Is it any wonder why we can't discern the truth because we go at the Scriptures all wrong?
The following letter was written to an acquaintance of mine from a young man in the Charismatic Movement. It illustrates this typical attitude toward Scripture. This is the letter, quote: "The greatest experience in love I have ever had was at the foot of the cross as the blood of Jesus Christ poured out over me. He filled me with His Spirit. He brought me across the vale in to the city of Jerusalem, in to the holy of holies, there I beheld myself in Him and He in me, I received the baptism as by fire and from this His love dwells in me, from this I have communion daily." Well that whole paragraph is pretty mystical to me, I don't know what he's talking about. And I don't think he really wants the baptism of fire, that's judgment, but we can excuse him that mistake for a moment and follow the rest of the letter.
"I do not feel the need for the study of the Scriptures for I know Jesus as He has revealed Himself to me within and as He dwells in me there is the Word, Scriptures are a secondary source." Do you understand why people can't be discerning? Because they don't have a standard for discernment. Do you understand why people can sit down on those television talk shows and just continue to advocate bizarre things and wild things and no one ever says, "Hold it, stop, that's wrong, not true, not in the Bible, can't be defended?" No one ever says that because experience is the validator. The Reformers fought error with the proper interpretation of Scripture. Now in the twentieth century the church is going to have to fight the same battle only this time we're not fighting the Roman Catholics, we're fighting the Protestants who have fallen in to the same kind of patterns of ineptitude in dealing with Scripture. And the Word must be properly interpreted and it will yield all necessary truth precisely for holy living, if rightly understood.
Look at 2 Timothy chapter 2 for a moment and I want to reacquaint you with familiar ground and enhance your understanding, I trust. In verse 15 of 2 Timothy 2 Paul says, "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed handling accurately the word of truth." That's very straight forward. "Be diligent" has been translated "study to show yourself approved to God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth." The implication of the verse is if you don't handle the Word accurately you ought to be ashamed...you ought to be ashamed. And if you don't want to be ashamed and you want to handle it accurately, you don't wait for some motion in your upper abdomen, you diligently study for God's approval as a workman, a skilled craftsman, cutting straight the Scripture. This gives us, by the way, rich insight in to the precision required in biblical interpretation.
Remember this now, people do not move in to false doctrine by design. I mean, they're not all saying "I want to find a false doctrine. I want to find a lie. I'm looking for a deception here." No. It isn't by design or by motivation that they err so terribly. It is by laziness, ineptness, carelessness, foolishness in handling the Scripture.
Follow down in to verse 17 and meet two people who here would be an illustration of this. Hymenaeus and Philetus, it says they are men, verse 18, who have gone astray from the truth. Now stop at that point for a moment. That little verb "have gone astray" means they missed what they aimed at. And the idea here is they were aiming at the truth, they just missed it. People don't come up with error because they're seeking error. People come up with error because in the process of seeking truth they don't know how to find it or they don't make the effort or they don't appropriate the necessary elements. They missed what they aimed at. They may have had the right target, truth. They missed it and they missed it and they came up with a ridiculous thing, they came up with "the resurrection has already taken place." Now how do you sell that? You're going to tell people they've already died and been raised? You'd say, "Well now wait a minute, I know whether I've been dead and alive again. You can't fool me with that one." Sure I can. They must have come up with the fact that it was some kind of a spiritual resurrection, that the only resurrection there's going to be is a spiritual one and it already was. Maybe they were the original annihilationists coming up with the idea that when you're dead you go out of existence, soul sleep or whatever. Maybe they were saying that Christians have already had all the resurrection they're going to have and there isn't any future one and that resurrection was a spiritual one. And you know what? They upset the faith of some, for every screwball idea there is a following. Right? Especially in Southern California. Grow a beard, put on a bathrobe, go to the beach, say you're Moses, you'll have 50 followers in a half hour. There's always a group to follow you. And it wasn't that they were aiming at error, it was they were aiming at truth ineptly, carelessly, lazily, foolishly. And they came up with error.
And now you go back to verse 15 and he says, "Don't be like Hymenaeus and Philetus, but you study and be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed because you have handled accurately the Word." You need to have conscious integrity before God whose judgment is always accurate. The handler of the Word should never be ashamed because he didn't use all the resources and all the energy to do quality work and master the true interpretation. There are plenty of preachers, dear friends, who are popular with men, but ashamed to God...popular with men but ashamed to God. And any time that I would ever misrepresent the truth, I would be ashamed to God. Poor work in the Word is intolerable. It must be accurately handled, rightly divided.
People say today, "Well, I...boy, if you say this and you say this guy's wrong and that guy's wrong and that interpretation is wrong, 1 Chronicles 16:22, touch not the Lord's anointed...touch not the Lord's anointed...touch not the Lord's anointed." Well if somebody is teaching error, they're not the Lord's anointed. We have to be faithful to the Word of God. It isn't the personal attack, it's the preservation of truth. Whether failing to interpret Scripture accurately, being preoccupied with worldly image, failing to be antithetical, whether a lack of clarity and conviction of doctrine, any and all of these things will literally kill discernment. How can we be discerning if doctrine isn't an issue? How can we be discerning if we're not willing to say this is right and this is wrong and get rid of relativity? How can we be discerning if we're trying to compromise and make the world comfortable? How can we be discerning if we don't even know how to rightly interpret Scripture?
Two more in closing, very brief ones...failure to discipline in the church...failure to discipline in the church. Beloved, here is a really serious issue and I want to just mention it briefly, but listen carefully to what I say. One exact point to mention, church discipline...what is it? Confronting sin in individual lives. If your brother's in a sin, go to him...go to him, confront him. Try to lift him up. Try to build him up, strengthen him, try to get him to repent. Jesus said, "If someone's in a sin, go to him, if they don't repent, take a couple with you, if they don't repent, tell the whole church and if he still doesn't repent, put him out." Paul said, "Don't have a meal with him. Don't treat him like a friend in terms of accepting everything but love him like a brother and pray him to repentance."
Paul told the Corinthian church to turn him over to Satan and his body would be destroyed, his flesh would be destroyed in chastening. The church must hold up a holy standard, a high standard. There are times when we have to confront sin. Two weeks ago a member of our church took me with him to confront a sinning man who had left his wife and was living with a girl, not his wife. And we were there waiting when he showed up at a certain place and said, "We're here to call you back to holiness. And we want to pray for you and with you." If he does not respond, you'll hear about it because we have to follow that process.
Now listen very carefully. When you discipline in the church that means that you deal with sin confrontively, you put a wall up between the world and the church...no question...you put a wall up between the world and the church. Because if you confront someone about sin and they don't stop sinning, you put them out. Maybe they're not even a Christian. But it keeps the wall very very clear. Here are the people walking in obedience to the Lord and here are the ones that aren't. And that wall of separation between the church and the world is crucial. But as soon as you stop disciplining sin, the wall comes down, the world mingles with the church and you can't tell the difference...can't tell the difference. The world feels comfortable. And you don't know whether you're dealing with believers or unbelievers. Why do you think the Lord killed Ananias and Sapphira in front of the whole church? Now today any church marketing, church growth strategist would say that was a foolish act for God to do because it gave the church a bad reputation. You know what the reputation of the church was? Don't join that organization because people die in there. The word went through the city like wild fire. Two people came to the offering and didn't give what they told God they would and they're dead...wow, stay out of that organization. How's that for marketing? It's like running a restaurant where the last two people that ate there died. How's that for publicity? You don't want to join that organization, people die in there. They're serious about sin in there. They're real serious about sin. You know if they find you sinning, they come to you and they confront you and if you don't deal with it they publicly speak about you.
I heard about a church this week, has a two-year rule and one of their people said that someone coming in to their church living in a sinful situation...they were talking about a homosexual...they don't want to say anything for at least two years until the person feels very comfortable and accepted and then they want to deal with the sin. You know what that tells me? If a homosexual can sit in a church comfortable and accepted for two years, that church hasn't said what it's supposed to be saying. I don't think a homosexual can come to Grace Community Church for two years period...comfortable or uncomfortable. He's going to say to himself...I'm getting out of this place, I don't need to listen to this guy, who needs this? Or he's going to repent.
I get letters, lots of interesting letters. Some even from homosexuals who just come one time and write me amazing letters about their anger and hostility. And other sinners of assorted kinds as well. You tolerate sin in the church at all and you've got to tolerate sin overall and now you've destroyed the holiness of the church and now the church can't be discerning. Where are you going to draw the line? You've already said you're not going to draw lines. You want everybody to feel all right. You want to tolerate compromise to the point where discernment and discrimination aren't tolerated.
Look at 1 Peter 4...1 Peter 4:17, this is as simple as it could be in terms of an understanding, "It is time for judgment to begin with the household of God." That's Peter's way of saying...Look, start to divide, start to separate, start to confront, start to evaluate, start to make judgments on people's lives in the church, you can't accommodate sinning Christians. And certainly...certainly if we're dealing with sin strongly in our church because God tells us to. We're reflecting God's desire for holiness and he says if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? What Peter is saying is...Look, if God wants us to be judging sin among ourselves, imagine how He's going to judge sin among those who reject Him.
We can't lower the standard. We can't accumulate sinning Christians or sinning non-Christians. We've got to purge and discipline and sift and purify and if God does that at His own church as a first priority, then what in the world is He going to do to the unbelievers? So if we preached judgment and chastening and purity to the church, we have to preach judgment and chastening and salvation to the lost. We have to confront their sin. Start that judgment in the church, he says. And remember, if God wants His church pure and He's going to judge the church if it isn't, what do you think He's going to do to the unbelievers?
And then verse 18, amazing statement taken out of Proverbs, "If it is with difficulty that the righteous is saved, what will become of the godless man and the sinner?" What does he mean by that? If we barely get it, if we barely get in...what do you mean by that? Well, we sin and the Lord chastens us and it's tough enough being a Christian, feeling the chastening hand of the Lord, if it's tough for us to make it because we keep stumbling in to sin and God has to judge us, what is He going to do to the godless? We should be sending a message to the world. And you know what the message should be? The message shouldn't be...we're a nice place, you'll like us. The message should be...this is a holy place where we deal with sin. That's the message. Not this is a happy place, this is a holy place, this is a holy place, not this is a place you'll like, this is a place you won't like if you don't deal with sin, if you don't come to the Savior, if you're not willing to live a holy life. No, the absence of church discipline and the absence of a high degree of holiness will kill discernment.
Last point, one final contributor to the abysmal lack of discernment in today's church is spiritual immaturity...spiritual immaturity. I'm convinced that many in the church have shallow knowledge of God's truth, very shallow, and they follow popular views and feelings and experiences and they seek miracles and healings and a solution to the routine trials of life. And they chase personal comfort and they want personal success and it's a very shallow kind of Christianity. And basically we could call it "baby Christianity." And I think it would be safe to say that that characteristic which is most descriptive of an infant would be the characteristic I call selfishness...wouldn't you agree? They never say thanks for anything. And they scream if they don't get what they want when they want it. They're selfish. If anything characterizes the immature it is self-centeredness, selfishness. Just look at the church today. It is utterly preoccupied with itself. It wants its own problems solved and its own comfort elevated and it's not lost...as the hymn writer said in "Wonder, love and praise and focusing on the Lord." The church is selfish and selfishness is an evidence of immaturity. The church is like a self-centered baby, seeing the whole world needing to stop while their needs are met and their desires are fulfilled. There's no discernment in immaturity.
Go back to Ephesians 4, I want to show you a familiar verse that you already know, but it makes the point...Ephesians 4:14 says this, "We are no longer to be children, we're no longer to be children...here's why...children are tossed here and there by waves and they're carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men and craftiness and deceitful scheming." There you are. Spiritual immaturity makes victims out of people...makes victims out of them. They don't know what's right. They don't know what's wrong. They're yanked all over the place, blown all around. They're deceived easily. How do you change that? Verse 15, "Speak the truth in love so we can grow up," verse 15. Speaking the truth in love we're to grow up. How does the church grow? It grows under the truth, clear truth spoken in love. That's how it grows up and is built up. It talks about at the end of verse 16 the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. Immaturity just does not discern. Just like a little baby crawls along the floor, puts anything it finds in its mouth, no discernment, it doesn't know what's good, what isn't good. We have such immaturity today and going with it lack of discernment. And that is a direct result of shallow teaching, preaching of the strange bizarre mystical kind of stuff that much of the church is exposed to in the Charismatic end of the sort of homespun stuff that comes out of people who perhaps are not properly trained and of the story telling relational kind of preaching that lacks real deep substance and foundational doctrine which is essential for us to grow.
One last text, Hebrews 5 and it cements this final point of immaturity. Hebrews 5, in another context this principle here is certainly illustrated. The writer of Hebrews says to his readers in verse 12 of Hebrews 5, "It's time you should be teachers." In other words, you've been around long enough, you've heard enough that you should be able to teach. But the problem is, "Instead of being able to teach, you have need for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God and you have come to need milk and not solid food, for everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, he's a babe." You're babies. I can't...you've been around long enough to be teachers but instead I have to feed you milk, I have to keep giving you elementary things. You can't take solid food. You're not accustom to the word of righteousness...the Word, the Word, the Word. You've got all this experiential stuff and you accumulate a lot of stories and you've had a lot of emotional feelings, but you don't know the Word.
And then in verse 14, "Solid food is for the mature who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil." Discernment and maturity go hand in hand. Discernment and maturity go hand in hand. Sitting under the Word, understanding the word of righteousness, taking in solid food, engaging in spiritual practice, conduct, trains your senses to discern good and evil.
So whether you're talking about the lack of doctrinal conviction, whether you're talking about image and influence as the key to evangelization, the unwillingness to be absolute and this desire to be relative, whether you're talking about inadequate interpretation of Scripture, or whether you're talking about the absence of church discipline, or immaturity...and they're all overlapping and intertwined, these things are the contributors to the loss of discernment. Soft on doctrine, we're not real sure what we believe, don't want to be black and white, don't want to make issues, want to be sure we compromise enough of the world to make them feel comfortable so we can win them over, haphazardly interpreting Scripture, spiritually immature, we have no hope of discerning. And yet the Scripture says, Proverbs 14, "Knowledge comes easily to the discerning." Proverbs 14:33, "Wisdom reposes in the heart of the discerning." Proverbs 16:21, "The wise in heart are called discerning." Proverbs 17:24, "A discerning man keeps wisdom in view but a fool's eyes wander to the ends of the earth." All of those out of the NIV. The undiscerning just wander all over everywhere. But the discerning is focused.
Now some of you are very discerning. You really are. About the food you eat, you get the box and you look at it and you read all that little stuff about how many grams of fat and how much of the daily required amount of whatever its got, and you're very careful that you want to avoid any kind of pesticides and you want to eat healthier, very discerning about that. Some of you are very discerning about what investment you're going to make and you read all that stuff in fine print in the newspaper, on the stock market and in the investments and all of that. You're good at discerning that. Some of you are very careful when you're going to have surgery, you want to find a doctor who knows the way in and the way out. And you're very very careful, you pick somebody who's been analyzed carefully and has recommendations and maybe you get another opinion. And some of you are highly analytical politically and you can assess the issues of the day and you can quote editorials from all kinds of national magazines and you've got it all figured out in terms of the government and foreign policy. Some of you are absolutely unequalled as armchair quarterbacks. You can assess any offense, any defense, you can discern the whole problem of winning and losing. Some of you know the batting average of everybody and why they hit the way they do and how they do it. Some of you analyze things to the inth degree but never get around to using your analytical faculties in the Spirit and in the Word to discern what is good and evil. How sad. And because the church is not discerning, it is being poisoned with a deadly chemical that looks like living water.
Now, so much for question number one. How do you become a discerning person? That's for next time. Let's pray.
Father, we pray that through this message this morning we might be able better to diagnose the issues around us and begin to set our course to correct that. We don't want to be ashamed. We want to be like the noble Bereans who search the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. We want to be as discerning as they were. And we know that You've given us Your Word and You've given us Your Spirit and You've given us teachers who teach us, preachers who preach to us, skilled writers who write to us so that we can learn how to be discerning. And, Lord, help us to be willing to come to convictions that are true and strong, to fight for those things, not to become a part of the drift. Help us to be willing to discipline, to pursue holiness. Lord, may we grow to spiritual maturity with our senses trained to discern good and evil so that we might honor You. You've given us all we need to be discerning. You've given us the truth, the Word, the standard. You've given us the Spirit to teach us. And You've given us all our teachers to enrich us. And may we use all that is given us to be able to properly discern what is most important in life, and that is Your truth. And we'll thank You, Lord, for what that will accomplish in our lives and for Your glory in Christ's name. Amen.
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After dropping a demoralizing state final to Ponte Vedra in penalty kicks last year, the Patriots have wanted nothing other than to return to that championship game — and this time win it.
After a 3-0 win over Seminole Osceola at home in the Class 3A state semifinal Friday night and a 1-0 Ponte Vedra win over New Port Richey Mitchell in the other half of the bracket, American Heritage will get its rematch.
"We definitely want to see Ponte Vedra because we have a big revenge to take on them," American Heritage coach Cindy Marcial said. "This is what we've been working all year for. Since the day we left last year at states, this is all we've been looking at.
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The Class 3A state final will be played Feb. 9 at Melbourne High School.
Martha Thomas had a hand in all three goals for the Patriots (24-2), scoring twice and assisting another goal.
"Making an impact in state semis is great, but at the end of the day it's about the team and it was a whole team effort," said Thomas, who has been on and off the field all year with injuries.
Two of the Patriots' goals against Osceola (19-2-1) came in the first four minutes of the second half to break a scoreless first-half tie.
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Thomas then found a wide-open Alyssa Robinson, who had nothing but Brown between her and the net. Brown left the goal to try and get to the ball before Robinson, but Robinson had already snuck it passed her to let it slowly roll into the net.
In the 72nd minute, American Heritage tacked on a third goal when Thomas connected on a header off a long assist from Robinson.
After penalty kicks eliminated American Heritage last year, it seems the Patriots have been staying as far away as possible from them. In their four playoff wins, they've shut out every opponent and have won their matches by a combined 21 goals.
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If one's mental illness could be cured by a single pill, would you choose to do so?
In the talk by Elyn Saks, Seeing Mental Illness, she mentioned that, if a complete and permanent cure was offered, she would take it.
I found this sentiment highly interesting for many reasons. I am a high-funtioning autistic person with Obsessive Compulsive disorder. My symptoms are not debilitating, but they have had a profound impact on the way I live my life. I'm no stranger to social rejection and high-anxiety.
That being said, if I were offered an complete and permanent cure for my condition... I can say that for my anxiety issues at least, I might be interested. However, despite the focus on a cure for autism in the public sphere, I would approach a cure for my autism with extreme reluctance. For myself, there is to deep a connection between what are considered to be clinical signs of autism and what I would consider to be my personality, my "self."
I suppose that this difference in opinion is related to our own individual experiences with the unique manifestations of our conditions. My own condition occationally strips me of control, but never in so stark a manner as discribed by Saks in her talk.
I would be interested in hearing others views on this topic.
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Jul 11 2012: Yes there are side effects with any medication, but it all depends on you personally react to them. What what person feels may not happen to you. I personally can't take one generic medication, but can take many others with no problems. Others I know can take that same med in a generic with no problem, but for me, I experience every single side effect for the worst.
Jul 13 2012: Conor, I actually don't take them, my husband is Bipolar, I'm an advocate for him, so I know a lot about medications. It's always important to weight the side effects against the benefits of the medications. In my husbands case, he takes 4 meds, down from 5, but he is much better, stable, and has much better control of his feelings. We refer to his life as "before meds" and "after meds."
Leo WalshJul 13 2012: Interesting conversation. I kept the personal out of it in my initial post, but now that I read yours, I realize I may have been too cautious.
I think part of a "mental illness" is what you make of it. I went to college, grad school, and wrote two and a half novels. I was pretty much a gung-ho, fun-loving guy who could cook a meal, play jazz guitar, write computer programs in several languages, and spent his free time doing higher math problems.
I was also able to see, in one quick glance, the entire answer to many business problems. Even when in high school, working in a kitchen of a full service restaurant, I sold the chef on a line arrangement that simplified our work, and made the kitchen easier to work with.
Yet, I constantly forgot bills, even though I typically had thousands squirreled away in the bank. And don't get me started on the grief I caught for missed anniversaries, birthdays, etc.
And then, in my 40's, I was diagnosed with a very severe case of ADHD. On a standardized test for ADHA, the TOVA test, I scored several standard deviations from the norm. I was prescribe Adderall. Which made me edgy, and too serious. My creativity shriveled. And I actually grew "short-tempered" with people, something which had never happened in the past.
So I stopped taking it. I am again the creative fool. Playing on trampolines with my nephews. Writing again. And contemplating beginning an urban farm for profit.
Maybe I'll take meds again. They did help me focus. But Adderall did alter my basic personality.
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