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Joseph Ranney
In 1912 Chief Justice John Winslow wrote a history of the Wisconsin
Supreme Court. Winslow's history stopped at the year 1880; he expressed
the hope that at some future date another person would continue the
history of the court through his own era. Winslow believed "the
foundation [had been] broadly laid for Wisconsin's temple of justice" by
1880. He downplayed his own era by comparison, commenting that it
"cannot approach in dramatic interest the [1848-1880] period, ... yet
there will be found in it many events well worth the consideration of
the historian."1
Winslow was entirely too modest. During his years on the supreme
court (1891-1920), "more changes were made in Wisconsin's laws, with a
greater impact on the state's life, ... than at any other time in the
state's history."2 Wisconsin moved from the
task of accommodating industrial expansion to that of creating the
regulatory and administrative systems necessary to balance individual
rights against the needs of a society increasingly dominated by mature
industries and other large institutions.
The new task was not easy; there was much resistance to the changes
of the Progressive era. Winslow played a vital part in shaping the
court's response to those changes. He engaged in a principled debate
with his conservative colleague Roujet Marshall (who will be profiled in
a later article in this series) over the appropriate legal balance
between social needs and individual rights, and he helped the
Progressives make their legacy permanent. Winslow is indisputably one of
the most important justices in the court's history.3
Winslow was born in western New York in 1851. His father, a
moderately prosperous businessman, moved the family to Racine in 1855.
Winslow spent his youth in Racine; he attended college and graduated
from the U.W. Law School in 1875. Winslow rose quickly in the legal
profession: he returned to Racine, built a successful practice, and was
elected judge of the local circuit court in 1883.4 He first attracted statewide notice in 1888 when
Reverend Olympia Brown, a fellow Racine resident who headed the women's
suffrage movement in Wisconsin, attempted to vote. The Legislature had
recently enacted a law allowing women to vote in elections "pertaining
to school matters" but had not made clear whether this meant women could
vote for all offices on the ballot at elections involving school issues
or only for school offices. Winslow interpreted the law in favor of
broad suffrage and upheld Brown's right to vote, but he was reversed by
the supreme court later that year.5 Winslow,
who had three daughters, remained sympathetic to women's causes
throughout his career and actively supported women's suffrage after he
became chief justice.6
Winslow's innate sympathy for outsiders was due in part to the fact
that he viewed himself as a political outsider: he was a lifelong
Democrat in a predominately Republican state. Winslow believed his
politics would hamper his chances for judicial advancement, but in 1890
his party briefly gained control of state government and in 1891 Gov.
George Peck appointed him to the supreme court. Even though Winslow was
highly thought of, he faced Republican opponents in his reelection
campaigns in 1895 and 1905 and was reelected only by narrow margins.
This prompted him to crusade for nonpartisan judicial elections, and he
played an important role in bringing partisan judicial nominations to an
end in Wisconsin.7
During Winslow's first full term on the court, Robert LaFollette was
elected governor and Wisconsin's Progressive era began. Between 1901 and
1915, LaFollette and his supporters enacted far-reaching reform laws in
a variety of areas including election practices, civil service, public
utility regulation, taxation, and workplace health and safety
reform.8 Throughout their time in power, the
Progressives watched the Wisconsin Supreme Court closely to see if it
would follow the lead of the U.S. Supreme Court and many other state
courts, which periodically invoked the doctrine of substantive due
process to strike down reform laws. Under substantive due process, "any
state statute ... which imposed any kind of limitation upon the right of
private property or free contract immediately raised the question of due
process of law. ... Not in every instance was the statute found to be a
violation of due process, [but] the [courts] insisted upon [their] right
to examine the statute in question and to determine whether it
constituted a legitimate exercise of the police power."9
Progressives throughout the United States were so disturbed by
substantive due process that they proposed a variety of devices to curb
perceived judicial excesses. The most prominent were provisions for
popular recall of judges and recall of any decision striking down a law
as unconstitutional. Radical Progressives bluntly attacked the courts as
tools of the rich and powerful; more moderate critics argued that the
courts should exercise only narrow powers of review and defer to
legislatures, which were better equipped to assess and respond to the
needs of modern society.10
At first it appeared that Winslow and his colleagues might join the
substantive due process bandwagon. In 1897 the court struck down a
Beloit school regulation requiring students to be vaccinated for
smallpox,11 and in 1902, in State ex
rel. Zillmer v. Kreutzberg, it struck down a state law forbidding
employers to fire workers for joining a union.12 The court, still heavily influenced by mid-19th
century concepts of free labor13 and
apparently unimpressed with the argument that the rise of large
corporations had changed the balance of power between labor and capital,
reasoned that workers and employers should be left free to negotiate
individually with each other and that the law "invad[ed] the liberty of
the employer in an extreme degree."14
Between 1903 and 1907 the court upheld several major pieces of
Progressive legislation against constitutional challenges.15 But in 1907 the specter of substantive due
process returned when, in State v. Redmon, the court struck
down a state law governing Pullman sleeping cars.16 Speaking for the court, Marshall argued that the
Wisconsin Constitution required the court to review reform legislation
for reasonableness. He warned that if this was not done, "the incentive
to industry, to the acquirement and enjoyment of property, those things
commonly supposed to make a nation ... great, would be largely impaired
and in some cases destroyed."17 In
Bonnett v. Vallier (1908), the court struck down a major piece
of legislation designed to eliminate slum housing on the ground that it
did not take into account the difference in housing conditions between
Milwaukee and the rest of the state and, therefore, deprived landlords
of property rights.18
Winslow, who had succeeded John Cassoday as chief justice, became
concerned about rising public discontent with the court. Beginning in
1909, he decided to use his position to combat the problem. In early
1909 he addressed the Milwaukee Loyal League and laid out the main
themes of his campaign.19
Winslow pleaded for "constructive conservatism" on the part of both
judges and ordinary citizens and made clear that he and his colleagues
understood the forces driving reform. Winslow agreed that legal reform
was necessary because "the imperious and complex problems of great
cities and crowded populations have come suddenly upon a people whose
fundamental law was designed for a rural or semi-rural state," but he
reminded his audience that "judges are sworn to protect both the federal
and state constitutions as they are, not as they would like to see
them." He concluded by urging that if the law "is faulty and fails to
meet new social needs, [the reformer's] course is not to abuse courts or
judges but to take steps to amend the basic law, wearisome though the
task may be."20 During his remaining years,
Winslow took every opportunity to repeat these themes to audiences
whenever opportunity offered.21
The year 1911 was a watershed year for both the Progressives and the
court. The Legislature enacted three epochal measures that ushered in
the modern regulatory era in Wisconsin: a worker's compensation law, a
law creating the Industrial Commission to create and enforce workplace
safety standards, and an income tax law.22
Joseph A. Ranney, Yale 1978, is a trial
lawyer with DeWitt Ross & Stevens S.C., Madison. He is the author of
Trusting Nothing to Providence: A History of Wisconsin's Legal System
(1999) and has taught as an adjunct professor at Marquette University
Law School.
Earlier attempts to enact worker's compensation had been struck down
in other states as violative of employers' due process rights, most
recently in New York, and there was widespread concern that Winslow and
his colleagues would follow the example of New York's highest
court.23 Instead, the court upheld
Wisconsin's worker's compensation law in Borgnis v. Falk
Co. (1911),24 and Winslow used
the occasion to send his message of constructive conservatism to the
entire state.
Winslow began by pointing out that industrial accidents were becoming
epidemic in Wisconsin and that tort law had failed to meet the problem.
"To speak of the common-law personal injury action as a remedy for this
problem," he stated, "is to jest with serious subjects, to give a stone
to one who asks for bread."25 Winslow then
gave perhaps the most eloquent defense of flexible constitutional
construction ever presented in Wisconsin. He stated:
"When an eighteenth century constitution forms the charter of liberty
of a twentieth century government, must its general provisions be
construed and interpreted by an eighteenth century mind in light of
eighteenth century conditions and ideals? Clearly not. This were to
command the race to halt in its progress, to stretch the state upon a
veritable bed of Procrustes."26 (Procrustes
is a figure from Greek mythology who tied his victims to an iron bed and
stretched or shortened their bodies to fit the bed.)
Marshall protested that the worker's compensation law could be upheld
under traditional rules of constitutional interpretation, and he warned
that "if the constitution is to efficiently endure, [it cannot] be
resquared, from time to time, to fit new legislative or judicial notions
of necessities."27 But he could not
persuade his colleagues to join him on this point.
Winslow's efforts generated much favorable publicity for the court as
well as for Winslow himself. Presidents Taft and Wilson seriously
considered appointing Winslow to the U.S. Supreme Court at various times
between 1910 and 1916, but ultimately he was not appointed because of
friction between the presidents and LaFollette (who by now was a U.S.
Senator) and because the Midwest was already represented on the high
As Winslow aged he became, if anything, more liberal. In 1915 and
1916 he delivered a series of lectures to law students at the University
of Wisconsin in which he stated bluntly that "inequality of opportunity
is becoming greater with every forward step which we take" and that "it
is the great business of the government to correct these inequalities so
far as possible by law."29 Winslow even
expressed tacit regret for the court's 1902 Zillmer decision,
commenting ruefully that: "It is quite probable that few working men
appreciated the anxiety shown by the courts in decisions to prevent the
restriction of their liberty to make contracts. ... An academic victory
like this achieved against him under the generalship of his employer and
wrought out in the rarefied atmosphere of abstract reasoning must have
been about as satisfactory to the workingman as a 'Barmecide feast' to
the hungry."30 (In the Arabian
Nights, Barmecide, a nobleman, served an imaginary feast to a
beggar.) Winslow regularly urged law students and young lawyers to study
sociology, economics, and other social sciences along with law and to
apply their training to promote the public welfare.
In 1916 Winslow played an important behind-the-scenes role in one of
the last great decisions of the Progressive era, State v. Lange
Canning Co., in which the court upheld the 1911 workplace safety
law.31 In Lange Canning, the court
initially held that a portion of the law authorizing the Industrial
Commission to establish limits on women's working hours was
unconstitutional because it impermissibly delegated legislative power to
another body. Winslow was the sole dissenter. If the court's initial
holding had stood, it would have posed a threat to many other
Progressive efforts to implement reform through administrative agencies
such as the Railroad Commission and the Civil Service Commission.32 But Attorney General Walter Owen asked the court
to reconsider its decision, and after further review, the court,
speaking through newly appointed Justice Marvin Rosenberry, changed its
There is no record of the court's internal debates, but it is very
likely that Winslow persuaded Rosenberry and the other members of the
original majority to change their minds. The case prompted Rosenberry
(who also will be profiled in a later article in this series) to think
deeply about the role that agencies should play in a modern governmental
system. Eventually, Rosenberry concluded that the delegation doctrine on
which the court had originally relied in its first decision in Lange
Canning should be abandoned and that the court should recognize
agencies as a new, fourth branch of government. "It only leads to
confusion and error," said Rosenberry, "to say that the power to fill up
the details and promulgate rules and regulations is not legislative
power."33 Rosenberry's views of
administrative law gained national attention. Winslow, in Lange
Canning, probably set in motion the revolution that Rosenberry
This is the fifth of a series of articles on Wisconsin's legal
history that will appear in the Wisconsin Lawyer through 2003
to commemorate significant anniversaries of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
(150 years), the State Bar of Wisconsin (125 years), and the Wisconsin
Court of Appeals (25 years).
This series presents biographies of prominent Wisconsin
Supreme Court justices and is part of the work of the Wisconsin Legal
History Committee, which was appointed by Chief Justice Shirley
Abrahamson to commemorate the legal entities' anniversaries in 2003 and
to encourage the study of Wisconsin legal history generally.
Visit WisBar's newest feature: Wisconsin's legal
history. Celebrating Wisconsin's Rich Legal History, a new
feature on WisBar, is a permanent archive of important events and
biographies in Wisconsin's legal history. It describes events and
activities commemorating the important role the legal profession, the
organized Bar, and Wisconsin courts have played in the state's
development over the past 150 years. Peruse a collection of legal
history-related materials written over time, plus new materials prepared
in celebration of the State Bar's 125th and the Wisconsin Supreme
Court's 150th anniversaries in 2003. To learn more, please visit www.wisbar.org/bar/history.
The last major challenge of Winslow's life came during World War I,
when he provided a voice of moderation to counter the wave of
anti-German sentiment that swept Wisconsin and the nation. Many
Wisconsinites of German ancestry had strong reservations about the
United States' decision to enter the war against Germany in 1917, and
the federal government enacted a series of harsh laws that it used
vigorously to suppress criticism of the war effort. Several Wisconsin
German leaders, including Judge John Becker of Monroe and Victor Berger
of Milwaukee, were convicted of sedition and sentenced to long jail
terms for remarks that, under any modern view, were well within the
scope of protected free speech.35 Winslow
actively promoted the war effort, but at the same time he joined Gov.
Emanuel Philipp and other moderates in cautioning that German-Americans
should not be judged as a group and that their right to discuss the war
must be protected.36 In at least one case,
when a colleague wanted to insert into a court opinion comments
criticizing Germany's part in the war, Winslow persuaded him not to,
arguing that "while perfectly proper in a Liberty Loan speech, [the
comments] are of doubtful propriety in a judicial opinion which is to be
indefinitely preserved and probably should not bear evidence of
Winslow's death in 1920 prompted a tribute unprecedented in Wisconsin
legal history. Winslow was not wealthy, and when it became known that
his wife and daughters faced a real prospect of destitution, lawyers
throughout the state spontaneously sent contributions for their support
that eventually totaled $15,000, a very large sum for the time.
This tribute reflected a general feeling that Winslow possessed an
extraordinary combination of personal and intellectual virtues. One of
his colleagues on the court said privately (and accurately) that many of
Winslow's decisions "by beauty of language approach the field of
literature" and that "[Chief Justice Edward] Ryan's work, only, in this
state may equal or surpass his reasoning and diction."38 Winslow was also admired for his lack of
pretension and the fact that after he ascended to the bench, he actively
cultivated ties with practicing lawyers.39
It was not clearly recognized at the time, but can be clearly seen
now, that Winslow's philosophy of "constructive conservatism" played a
vital role in shaping Wisconsin law to accommodate the final stages of
the state's adjustment to the industrial era and in preserving the
Progressive reforms that ushered in Wisconsin's modern era. The
Progressive movement also was facilitated by able judges in other
states, but it is likely that any comprehensive survey would rank
Winslow as one of the most important American judges of the Progressive
1 John B.
Winslow, The Story of a Great Court 379 (Chicago, 1912).
2 Joseph A.
Ranney, Trusting Nothing to Providence: A History of Wisconsin's
Legal System 255 (Madison, 1999).
3 See
Joseph A. Ranney, Shaping Debate, Shaping Society: Three Chief
Justices and Their Counterparts, 81 Marq. L. Rev. 923,
937-46 (1998).
4 Clarinda
Winslow, John Bradley Winslow, American Jurist 8, 25-30, 50-55
(Dodge City, Kan., 1984).
5 Brown v.
Phillips, 71 Wis. 239, 36 N.W. 242 (1888); see also
Gilkey v. McKinley, 75 Wis. 543, 44 N.W. 762 (1890); Genevieve
G. McBride, On Wisconsin Women 39-41, 117-33 (Madison,
6 McBride,
supra note 5, at 218, 249.
7 See
John B. Winslow, supra note 1, passim.
8 See
Ranney, supra note 2, at 255-358; Herbert Margulies, The
Decline of the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1900-1920
(Madison, 1968).
9 Alfred H. Kelly
& Winfred A. Harbison, The American Constitution: Its Origins
and Development 525-26 (4th ed.: New York, 1970); see also
id. at 689-96, 710-11.
10 Kelly &
Harbison, supra note 9, at 635-36; Ranney, supra note
2, at 360-63.
11 State ex
rel. Adams v. Burdge, 95 Wis. 390, 70 N.W. 347 (1897).
12 Laws of 1899,
chapter 332; 114 Wis. 530, 90 N.W. 1098 (1902).
13 See
Joseph A. Ranney, Concepts of Freedom: The Life of Justice Byron
Paine, 75 Wis. Law. 18 (Nov. 2002).
Zillmer, 114 Wis. at 546.
15 See
Railroad Tax Cases, 128 Wis. 553, 108 N.W. 557 (1906);
Nunnemacher v. State, 129 Wis. 190, 108 N.W. 627 (1906)
(upholding inheritance tax).
16 134 Wis. 89,
17 Id.
at 109.
18 136 Wis. 193,
19 John B.
Winslow, "The Patriot and the Courts" (Feb. 3, 1909), Winslow Papers,
Wisconsin Historical Society.
20 Id.
at 9, 12.
21 See,
e.g., John B. Winslow, An Understanding Heart: Does the
American Judge Possess It?, 31 Survey 17 (Oct. 4, 1913); editorial,
Chicago Tribune, July 6, 1912 (discussing Winslow's efforts);
Winslow, "The Judicial Recall: Is It A Remedy or A Nostrum?",
13th Annual Kansas Conference on Charities and
Correction (1914), all in Winslow Papers, Wisconsin Historical
22 Laws of 1911,
chapters 50 (worker's compensation), 485 and 486 (Industrial
Commission), and 658 (income tax).
23 Ives v.
South Buffalo R. Co., 201 N.Y. 271, 94 N.E. 431 (1911);
see Ranney, supra note 2, at 344-355.
24 147 Wis. 327,
25 Id.
at 347-48.
26 Id.
at 349-50.
27 Id.
at 375 (Marshall, J., concurring).
28 See letters,
LaFollette to Roujet Marshall (Jan. 2, 1910); Marshall to LaFollette and
Sen. Isaac Stephenson (Dec. 10, 1910); Sen. Albert Cummins (R-Iowa) to
Marshall (March 13, 1911); Judge Andrew Bruce (North Dakota) to Wilson
(Aug. 13, 1914); all in Winslow Papers, Wisconsin Historical
29 John B.
Winslow, lecture notes at 20 (no date; probably 1915), in Winslow
Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society.
30 John B.
Winslow, "Some Tendencies of Modern Legislation and Judicial Decision,"
lecture notes at 26-27 (May 3, 1916), in Winslow Papers, Wisconsin
Historical Society.
31 164 Wis. 228,
32 See
Ranney, supra note 2, at 383-84.
33 Id.
at 384-88; State ex rel. Wisconsin Inspection Bureau v.
Whitman, 196 Wis. 472, 505-06, 220 N.W. 929 (1928)
34 Ranney,
supra note 2, at 383-84; see also Marvin B.
Rosenberry, Administrative Law and the Constitution, 23 Am.
Pol. Science R. 32 (1929).
35 Ranney,
supra note 2, at 240-46; see also John D. Stevens,
When Sedition Laws Were Enforced: Wisconsin in World War I, 58
Wis. Acad. of Science, Arts & Letters 39 (1970).
36 See
Robert S. Maxwell, Emanuel Philipp: Wisconsin Stalwart 164-68
(Madison, 1959).
37 Letter,
Winslow to Justice Aad J. Vinje, no date (probably 1919), in Winslow
Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society.
38 Memorandum of
Justice Christian Doerfler, no date (probably 1921), in Winslow Papers,
Wisconsin Historical Society.
39 See
"In Memoriam: Chief Justice John B. Winslow," 174 Wis. xxiii, xlvii
(1921) (remarks of Chief Justice Robert Siebecker).


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By Trey Shaughnessy
Published September 15, 2006
I heard the news that the city is finally going to realize the potential of the European style piazza of Gore Park, and eliminate all vehicle traffic from the south leg of King.
That's one step forward. Let's try to make it to two before we step backward again. Kathy Drewitt, the Executive Director of the downtown BIA, wants busses off King Street between James and John...
...so that we can make it a parking lot. Let's call that two steps back.
Immediately, Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell began ringing through my head: "They paved paradise/And put up a parking lot".
A parking lot will at best provide spaces for about 40 cars, give or take. Furthermore, any patrons these 40 cars bring will certainly scare away more than that in pedestrian traffic because of the unfriendliness of the vehicle traffic, like all the potential pedestrians and patrons from the proposed Connaught Plaza's 140-unit condo, one block away.
Who wants to have a cup of coffee in a parking lot?
By making the south leg of Gore pedestrian only, it could bring hundreds of patrons daily walking in the plaza, enjoying the stroll and pleasure of not having to play Frogger with the traffic.
I'll bet Drewitt can see it now, grandiose visions of patrons leaving the Limeridge Mall and the Meadowlands in droves to come to the 40 parking spots at Gore Park.
When will we understand that cars are the problem, not the solution? Not catering to cars has never adversely affected Toronto's downtown. In fact, Toronto's downtown and too-numerous-to-mention neighbourhoods are some of the most desired pieces of real estate in North America, without a parking lot in sight.
Thousands of people stroll along Yonge, College, St. Clair, Dundas Square, Bloor, King, Queen, all because the city decided to put people first. People and people places make the city, not cars.
Gore Park was clearly meant to be a piazza, a square, a plaza, in the style of every European city small and large. It was meant to be a gathering place to socialize, conduct commerce, meet friends, spend family time, and a public forum.
Hamilton needs to make sure that Gore Park takes steps in the right direction, because another backwards move at Gore may erase many good steps we have already taken downtown.
Even John Dolbec, the CEO of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, is slowly starting to come around to the idea that the economy benefits when the streets support pedestrian life.
Here's an excerpt from the September 8, 2006 Hamilton Spectator article "Gunplay on James":
But Hamilton Chamber of Commerce CEO John Dolbec says James North has begun a quiet but significant renaissance, driven in part by traffic flow, but also by a younger crowd less concerned about the reputation of the James Street strip.
Merchants report much more activity, particularly in the hospitality sector, he said. Retail businesses have also seen small increases.
"It seems to have started about the same time the city made James North into a two-way street" in 2002.
"I ... was always skeptical about that, but a lot of merchants in the area swear by it."
Now James North, with its strong Portuguese and Italian presence, is undergoing a rebirth.
"It seems to be acquiring a kind of status as a go-to strip, attracting people from different parts of the city and even from out of town," Dolbec said.
"It's attracted a lot of artists ... and any place that attracts those bohemian types, there seems to be a certain hospitality traffic that follows that and boosts the local retail traffic at the same time."
By Jelly (anonymous) | Posted September 15, 2006 at 14:16:43
Way to go RTH... Kathy Drewitt should have been let go of a long time ago.
Are they fucking serious? A parking lot?
I think it's about time the whole BIA was revamped- it hardly seems worth the money the city grants them each year- all the businesses in the BIA pay a levy on their tax bill, and that money ends up being wasted with banners, caged reindeer and Kathy's salary. It would be nice for once to see someone in that position who is actually passionate about the downtown, someone who knows the realities of downtown, preferably not someone who lives on the mountain or stoney creek.
By jason (registered) | Posted September 15, 2006 at 15:23:51
Also, I've been told by 2 sources now that the downtown BIA is making comments that "we will never host another live music/entertainment event downtown."
this of course, follows their fiasco in a gravel parking lot this past summer (more to come in the next issue of RTH). I guess turning Gore into a parking lot is one way to remove all possibility of any festivals, events, arts, music, entertainment or FUN from ever happening in the park. What a joke.
By Jelly (anonymous) | Posted September 17, 2006 at 16:32:58
Yeah, the BIA has never been able to put on a good show- we should just talk to a couple of the city's music promoters, and put together a show in the park worth attending- not some unknown smooth jazz band...
By jason (registered) | Posted September 18, 2006 at 11:28:27
i'm convinced that's exactly what would happen with the Gore made car-free. That's why I think they need to move busses and cars from there. Then we bascially eliminate the need for that BIA to do these things...musicians, artists, promoters, entrepreuners would all flock to the new pedestrian-zone with great events, markets and festivals throughout the year. The BIA could stick to sprucing up their storefronts, planting flowers and attracting business downtown. Obviously entertainment isn't their strong point. So let those who know how to 'entertain' have free reign over the Gore...not 35 cars or a once-a year hack of a festival.
By trey (registered) | Posted April 30, 2008 at 13:38:11
for the record Kathy Drewitt lives in Caledonia.
By Ezaki Glico (anonymous) | Posted February 11, 2011 at 17:54:44
Just noticed the latest addition to Gore Park – two automated parking ticket machines. So although the buses are out, the south leg of King is effectively now a parking lot. Maybe this is how the city plans to bankroll the piazza concept?
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debian-9 virtual disk named
stored in
gcloud compute images import my-imported-image \
--source-file gs://your_gcs_bucket/your_server.vmdk \
--os debian-9
Importing a non-bootable virtual disk
If your virtual disk does not have a bootable operating system installed on it,
you can still import it using the
--data-disk flag in place of the
flag. This skips over the step that installs drivers and guest environment
packages to make the image bootable on Compute Engine.
gcloud compute images import [IMAGE_NAME] \
--source-file [SOURCE_FILE] \
[IMAGE_NAME]is the name of your destination image.
[SOURCE_FILE]is a virtual disk file. It can be a local file or a file stored in Cloud Storage. If your virtual disk is a local file, you can use an absolute or relative path. If your virtual disk file is already stored in Cloud Storage, the file must exist in a storage bucket in the project that is used for the import process, and you must specify the full path of the file in the
Making an image bootable
If you have a Compute Engine custom image that has a bootable operating system on it but does not have the necessary Compute Engine drivers or guest environment packages, you can use the image import tool to make that image bootable on Compute Engine.
Use the
--source-image flag to specify a custom image to make bootable,
instead of using the
--source-file flag that specifies a new disk to import.
gcloud compute images import [IMAGE_NAME] \
--source-image [SOURCE_IMAGE] \
--os [OS]
[IMAGE_NAME]is the name of your destination image.
[SOURCE_IMAGE]is the name of your source image.
[OS]is the operating system of the SOURCE_IMAGE. It must be one of the following:
The following example turns a Compute Engine image named
into a bootable image named
my-bootable-image. In this example, the operating
system installed on the image is Ubuntu 16.04.
gcloud compute images import my-bootable-image --source-image=my-image --os=ubuntu-1604
Support for Bring Your Own License (BYOL)
By default, virtual disks that use Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating systems are imported and configured as premium OS images that incur additional charges.
If you prefer to use your own software subscriptions for RHEL, you can import
the disks as BYOL-licensed images by specifying one of the following BYOL values
for the
[OS] field.
BYOL is not currently supported for Windows Server virtual disks.
Resource cleanup
Files stored on Cloud Storage and images in Compute Engine incur charges. The import tool imports the virtual disk file to Cloud Storage and creates one Compute Engine custom image.
After you verify that the image is imported correctly and that it boots
correctly as a Compute Engine instance, you can delete the virtual
disk file from Cloud Storage. The tool prints the URI of the file as
it uploads it to Cloud Storage. This URI has the following form:
gs://<bucket name>/tmpimage/<image name>.
If you imported an image using the
--data-disk flag and then ran the
import tool a second time with the
--source-image flag to make that image
bootable, then the first image will still exist. If you have no need for it,
consider also deleting that image. If you specify the same image name for both
[IMAGE_NAME] and
[SOURCE_IMAGE] parameters, then the image will be
automatically overwritten and no further cleanup is required.
What's next
- Create a new VM instance that uses your bootable image.
- Share your image across projects


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The Rev. Timothy Cargal, Ph.D., serves as Assistant Stated Clerk for Preparation for Ministry in Mid Council Ministries of the Office of the General Assembly.
"... the Land that I Will Show You" is the blog of the Office of Preparation for Ministry of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). This blog is designed to serve as a resource for those discerning and preparing for a call to the ministry of Word and Sacrament as ordained teaching elders of the church. It will also provide a place for reflecting on and dialoging about the changing context of pastoral ministry in the early 21st century.
For quick announcements about changes or developments in the preparation process, dates related to exams or other key events, discussion boards, surveys, etc., you can follow us on Facebook at "Preparing for Presbyterian Ministry."
The 220th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) completed its work on Saturday morning, July 7. It will likely be remembered both for the things that happened at the Assembly and for actions the commissioners did not take. A full-wrap is available on the church website (click here), and all the details are on PC-Biz. As previously promised, here is an update on the business items highlighted in my previous blog.
Ordination Examinations: By unanimous consent the Assembly approved the suggestion from the Office of the General Assembly to incorporate a study of the standard ordination examinations into a planned review of the overall process for preparing pastoral leaders for the Presbyterian Church (USA) in the 21st century. The exams will receive specific attention with regard to the structures and processes for their development, all within the broader context the role of such assessments within the overall process. Recommendations will be reported to the 221st General Assembly (2014).
Special Committee on the Nature of the Church in the 21st Century: The Assembly chose not to create a task force to study issues related to bi-vocational ministry. It instead directed the Presbyterian Mission Agency (formerly GAMC) "to make recommendations regarding vocational development and training; fundraising, support, and interpretation of bi-vocational ministry within church councils; increasing the utilization of the Church Leadership Connection to connect churches and teaching elders called to bi-vocational ministry; and addressing issues surrounding the compensation and provision for benefits to support this important form of ministry" (Rec. 2). The cluster of recommendations (Rec. 03a, d, e) asking the Committee on Theological Education (COTE) to look at how seminary courses are responding to changing cultural conditions and at representation issues among student bodies and faculties were approved, as was the request that the Office of Vocation study how to address issues of educational debt for those newly ordained as teaching elders (Rec. 06e).
Authoritative Interpretation Review: The report of the Special Committee on Authoritative Interpretations was approved by the General Assembly. We expect that by mid-August 2012 we will have updated the sections in the Advisory Handbook on Preparation for Ministry related to the circumstances in which a presbytery might grant exceptions to the preparation requirements for ordination as a teaching elder (see Handbook, 49-51), and when candidates may use the Church Leadership Connection in searching for a first call (Handbook, 45-46). In brief, there is a potential for broadening the circumstances where exceptions may be considered by presbyteries, but the requirements that must be met before permission to "negotiate for service" prior to "final assessment" (G-2.0607) remain unchanged from the Assembly action in 2010.
In response to discussions in a meeting of persons involved in overseeing preparation for ministry about questions that may be asked and considered given the change in ordination standards approved by the presbyteries in 2011 (see several items that were before the Church Orders and Ministry committee [07]), we will also be adding a section to the Advisory Handbook around that topic. We will publicize the release of the updated Advisory Handbook through our website, Facebook page and this blog.
We continue in prayer for all the commissioners as they return home and carry out the important responsibility of interpreting the Assembly's actions to their presbyteries and congregations.


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Hill has warned Mercedes about the need to treat the United Kingdom driver with care if they are to keep Hamilton, who could be in demand if other teams realise that he is not happy with his current team.
The new F1 season begins on March 26 with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, with Hamilton seeking to win back the world championship he lost to Nico Rosberg last season. Hamilton is also notable for his enthusiastic use of the social media platform, something that many experts and fans deemed as a distraction to his career.
Mercedes have dominated F1 for the last three years, marching to both the drivers' and constructors' titles and winning 51 of the 59 races since the start of 2014.
Just five days after Rosberg won the title in Abu Dhabi, he stunned the sporting world with his decision to retire from the sport as champion. Damon Hill has warned Mercedes that it must treat Hamilton carefully. "If it's not going well for Lewis, then he does have a tendency to make his feelings known".
"He is in a strong position".
With the fastest and most reliable vehicle on the F1 grid, Bottas is expected to push his new teammate, three-time world champion Lewis Hamilton, throughout the 20-race calendar. The sport's most successful team endured a trying and winless season a year ago but have been quietly going about their business, saying little and setting no expectations.
"Nico stopped because of the pressure of competing". But more crucially, they have been racking up the laps, completing 1,096 tours of the 4.655 kilometre Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, more than any rival.
"As a talented driver you must create the conditions where you can do your job without it consuming you".
"This is Lewis' 11th season on the trot and he knows how to manage his resources". "He is a Finn so he doesn't talk much, but he works hard to get used to the team".
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"I use 'disruptive' in both its good and bad connotations. Disruptive scientific and technological progress is not to me inherently good or inherently evil. But its arc is for us to shape. Technology's progress is furthermore in my judgment unstoppable. But it is quite incorrect that it unfolds inexorably according to its own internal logic and the laws of nature."
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A Triptych is a work of art that is divided into three sections or three canvas' that hinged together relating to each other.
It is a type of polyptych, the term for all multi-panel works. Despite its connection to an art format, the term is sometimes used to connote anything with three parts and are integrated into a single unit or thought.
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I was angry when I painted "Demons". Several months later "Purgatory" was what I felt like I was in. Months later I was somewhat at peace when I painted "Angel of Mercy". After 20 years of faithful companionship, the house was so quie. That was almost ten years ago and I still miss them. And thats my story.
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Martina Chapman, independent expert in Media Literacy and Digital Engagement, spoke to us at the Media Literacy Policy launch. Martina was involved in the development of the policy and shared some of the projects which informed it's development. She also spoke about why it is important to have a Media Literacy Policy.
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text: running a consultancy business where time is money, tunring it off and configuring as we always did before represents the best technical solution and value for money for my clients. Those of you who work in big corporates or have time to experiment with every last detail of SELinux features in a lab by all means go and do it, here at the coal face its rather like offering options for window dressing while we are still building the shop front.... Turning it off stops all the junk filling up the logs and allows you to see the real stuff.....and is the best option for me and my clients, others may have different objectives, but my machines stay secure without it. Therefore I don't need it.... period... P. Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> What is on-topic is the simple fact that CentOS ships with SELinux on >> by default; this is the way things are, whether you or I like it or >> not. I happen to like it; YMMV. I quite strongly disagree that the >> answer to SELinux problems should be 'turn it off' as this is the >> lazy way out. > > > That's a bit too declarative for my taste. It certainly could be the > lazy way out -- or it could be a sysadmin asking the honest question: > is it worth more to my organization *now* for me to spend X hours > figuring out SELinux policies or to spend those hours on a different > project. > > You and Lee both have valid points, and I appreciate the discussion. > I'd be hard-pressed, however, to deride the admin who chose to install > SELinux in permissive mode because s/he made an honest assessment that > the time was better spent elsewhere. > > It could be laziness. It could be priorities. From the cheap seats, > that assessment isn't mine to make. > > As for the machines under my care, most work fine in targeted mode. > For now, those few that don't get the permissive treatment because, > frankly, I don't have the luxury of telling my executive staff that > their priorities need to wait while I solve SELinux policy issues. >


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Bible Study Notes:
Under Our Feet
Ephesians 2:6-15
notes are from a transcript of the postings during Bible
Study on Friday Nights at 7 PM at Bible Study Chat at
|We're starting on Ephesians 2:6.
Just think, in some countries what we are about to do
would be considered illegal! Thank God for freedom!
Praise you Jesus! Thank you for the Word. Than you for the refreshing it brings, the peace and joy!
Won't it be good when we get to Heaven and don't have to rush around to study the Word, HE will be present with us always! I don't know if we will get instant knowledge, or sit at His feet soaking in His wisdom, either way it will be glorious!
Father God we exalt your most holy name and praise you! Thank you for the Word and the revelation knowledge you have given us. Thank you for your peace and joy that fills our hearts tonight!
Father God we welcome the riches of your Holy Word, and prepare our hearts to receive it's many wonders and wealth in the name of Jesus. AMEN
Open our minds to your Word, Lord. Help us understand it, open the eyes of our heart to receive what you have for us tonight.
Holy Spirit we invite you to be our teacher and bring all things to our remembrance. Engraft the Word into our hearts so that we may be doers and not hearers only.
satan, we come against you in the Name of Jesus and command you to flee from this holy place. We bind you and rebuke you and cast you out in Jesus Name.
Father, we pray a spirit of peace upon this place. May there be no dissensions or disagreements, but let there be unity in your Word. AMEN and AMEN
OK! Last time we talked about Paul's prayer for the believers at Ephesus. After the prayer, in Ephesians 2:1-5, Paul goes on to describe our former state as sinners subject to satan. Thank God for deliverance!! Because of our sinful nature, v. 3 says we were "objects of wrath", BUT - any time you see a but that means there's a change coming!
4-5 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved.
Hallelujah, we've been made ALIVE with Christ! Because of God's love and merciful riches, He made us ALIVE even when we were DEAD in sins, by His grace, unmerited favor, and unearned gift! This brings us up to date - to verse 6.
6-7 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
Now this verse refers to Chapter 1:20 or so where it says: That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.
I believe that a lot of our problems come from not seeing our position in Christ. bear with me a minute and you'll see what I mean. Look at Jesus now - seated in heavenly places at Gods right hand, FAR ABOVE all rule and authority. Any Name that is named: King President, Congressman, Boss, Ruler, Dictator - any power on earth - Christ is seated above them. Any problem, distress, disease, circumstance, depression, power, oppression you have - Christ is seated above them. Can you see Him way, way up there - far above the stress and strain of your life???
We are also told in chapter 1:22-23 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
Any problem you have is under His feet! Any disease, any oppression, anything that the devil sends against you, is under Jesus feet. Can everyone see that?
But the good news doesn't stop there - verse 6 says - AND GOD RAISED US UP WITH HIM! All these things are under our feet too IN CHRIST! What happens when we have a problem? We say, "Woe is me, I am under such burdens, you just don't understand." BUT the Bible says YOU are seated in heavenly places, all of your problems, burdens, fears, diseases are way, way down there below you - under your feet!
Can you see them down far below,
like tiny specks of dust. God says to you ('cause you're
right there with Him IN CHRIST), He says, "See those
tiny specks of dust? That's what your problems look like
from up here! Is there anything too hard for me? I can
whisk them away in no time!"
We can only rule over our problems IN CHRIST, as we are seated with Him in heavenly places, He gives us authority to rule over the principalities and powers - which are the satanic forces that create our problems! We have to take AUTHORITY over them.
But if we could just get a vision of not only WHO we are in Christ, but WHERE we are - seated in heavenly places, it would revolutionize our lives!! Can you see yourself way up there - now don't get dizzy - looking way, way down on the things of this earth?
I guess you can tell this is one of my favorite verses. I even wrote a song about it.
When God raised up Jesus,
And God raised us up with Him,
We are Christ's body
For it's by grace we're saved,
And the Lord gave it to me when I was down, down, down under a truckload of problems, moaning and groaning...The Bible says that we are Christ's Body, and how did we get to be part of Him? He raised us up from the death of sin!
It's a matter of perspective - looking at life from heavenly places, or looking at life from under a bunch of garbage! We know the devil is always trying to get our eyes off of Jesus, the Author (beginner) and Finisher of our faith, and on to our problems. Then our God seems small, and our troubles tall. But when we by faith SEE ourselves in heavenly places, look how big God looks now! And those tiny specks down there - God can surely take care of those!
Our position in Christ is a statement of fact, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually- whether we "feel" it or not! We walk by FAITH, not by sight. Sight includes all of our senses, we don't walk by what we see, think, feel, or know with our senses, we walk by the Word. Our senses can be fooled and deceived, but the Word is true FOREVER. It is settled forever in the heavens!
FAITH comes by hearing the Word!
6-7 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
There are more jewels in this treasure chest verse! A treasure chest is a box full of valuable things, like jewels and gold and money. I was comparing this verse to a treasure chest because it has so many valuable things in it. To this world we are just pebbles on the beach, but to Jesus we are the finest diamonds, the purest gold.
Why did God raise us up? Not only because He loves us, but as examples of the riches of His grace! Hallelujah - when we get a vision of WHO and WHERE we are in Christ, we can't help but pass it along. What God does for me, on the authority of His Word, He can do for you too! Witnessing should never be a chore or duty, but a joy! Look what Jesus has done for me! Look what He can do for you!
An example is a sample of something - we are samples of what God can and will do for us by His grace. If you think about it, if we could just hold on to this vision of us seated in heavenly places with Christ - we really wouldn't have to say a thing - the glow on our faces from being in God's presence would testify WHO and WHERE we are as a testimony to unbelievers AND to believers who are discouraged or bound by legalism or whatever.
Remember that grace is God's unmerited favor - we don't deserve it and can't earn it - it is part of His loving nature, that agape - unconditional love - that causes the rain to fall on the just and the unjust. The love that prompted Him to give His most precious possession - His Only Son.
Salvation means deliverance in the fullest sense - from sin, death, disease and the grave! It was bought with a steep, steep price. Jesus showed His love for us by dying for us while we were yet sinners. And we receive this salvation by faith - believing in God's faithfulness, love and truth!
Isaiah 53 - "He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement (punishment) of our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes (lashings) WE ARE HEALED." In Acts 10:38, we are told "how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him." Mark 16 says "These signs shall follow them that believe, they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover..."
James says "If there be any sick among you, let them call for the elders of the church, to pray over him, and anoint him with oil, in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up" (James 5:14-15)
"Not by works" - we are not saved by what we do. If salvation could have come by following rules and doing good works, then Jesus would not have died for our salvation.
"So that no one could boast" None of us can boast that we are good enough for heaven in ourselves, we are not. We are saved by grace through faith ALONE, our boasting should be in God ALONE.
You know we really have to fight to keep our freedom in Christ. Someone is always trying to bring us into bondage by a set of man-man rules. I don't mean that our freedom is a license to sin, there are commandments in the Bible we should follow, but to please God because we love Him, not under obligation for salvation.
10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
"For we are God's workmanship" - workmanship has the connotation of a WORK of ART! To God we are His masterpiece! He is working on us, making us perfect in Him, doing good through us - What an artist!
I remember when I was younger thinking how hard the Christian life is! It seemed so hard to be good, so hard to do the right thing - I was trying to do the good works, instead of letting God do the work THROUGH me in Christ Jesus.
"Prepared in advance for us to do" refers to the verses in chapter one that tell of God's glorious plan of redemption! God is prepared, nothing takes Him by surprise. If we would just be wise enough to yield to Him, let Him work through us, what peace and joy we would have! No striving to do it ourselves...
What a relief! We just have to let God work through us! He has the plan, He has the power, all He needs is our cooperation. It should be a joy for us to share, to witness, to love!
Notice also the word "created" in Christ Jesus - God didn't stop His creation in the second chapter of Genesis - He is still creating today. And I believe He wants us to be co-creators with Him. No we can't create people and we can't save people, but through our renewed minds, we can come up with creative solutions IN HIM to so many problems that plague the earth!
It isn't college degrees or labels given by men that are a witness for God, it is our personal testimonies that bring God's light to others. Sadly, some of the most educated are the least able to testify because their intellects have been corrupted by unbelieving professors!
Anoint us all to do your works O God, we are willing, work through us to witness to a lost and dying world! AMEN. Praise the Lord! I love God's Word! Such riches of mercy, such treasures of grace!
11-12 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men)--remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
THEREFORE, because of the things I've just told you, because of the riches of God's grace, because of your inheritance with the saints, REMEMBER!
Now Paul reminds the Ephesians - most of whom were NOT Jews (the circumcision) before they met Christ - of where they were before they were saved by this grace. He says "at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. "
This is a picture of most of the world today, sad to say, separated from Christ - their savior and deliverer - excluded from citizenship in God's nation, strangers to God's covenants and promises. WITHOUT HOPE - what is there to hope for without Christ?
Material things don't last - Without Christ you're born, you pay taxes, you die - that's all! Our hope is in God, His love, His promises, His grace! One day all that unbelievers hold on to will be gone, without Christ they are nothing and they have nothing. But the devil puts up a mighty fine smoke screen - he makes it look like they are something and they have something - they are blinded by the things of this world. Without hope and blind too!
Why did the Ephesians need the reminder of their past? Were they having problems living their faith and staying close to the Lord? The text doesn't indicate that there were problems, but Revelation 2:3-5 indicates that they had problems later!
In Revelation 3:2-5 when Jesus is walking among the churches, here speaking to Ephesus: "Yet I hold this against you. You have forsaken your first love. REMEMBER the heights from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first..."
There were some in Ephesus in time who forgot the HEIGHTS they were in - raised to heavenly places with Christ! It's almost like a prophecy here, isn't it? They had forsaken, left, or abandoned their FIRST LOVE, Jesus Christ, and had gotten their eyes on earthly things! THEREFORE REMEMBER!
It is sad - "and without God in the world". The world is a tough place to be without God! Back stabbing, gossiping, being used, rejected - it's a wonder more don't give up! And this is how the Ephesians were before Christ was preached to them.
THEREFORE = because of what I've told you, Paul is saying, REMEMBER where you were before you came to know Christ. They remembered where they'd been and remembered where they ARE because of God's grace!
Here's another BUT - Paul is reminding the Ephesians of where they WERE, BUT NOW.... Aren't you glad there was a BUT NOW in your life? You once were lost, BUT NOW you're found? Was blind, BUT NOW you see??? Hallelujah.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
Brought near by the blood of Jesus! We were all "AFAR OFF" until Jesus brought us near. Praise God. Father I am reminded to pray for our prodigals - those who once walked with you and now are a far off. Lord Jesus draw them back we pray, renew their hope, and let them think of the Father and of home. Let the sin they are in bring them no pleasure, let it be like pig slop to them! Turn their hearts towards home. Bring people across their path to witness for You. In Jesus' Name AMEN
We need to yield ourselves to Him, but we don't have to struggle and strive to be accepted by God - we are His WORK OF ART! Hallelujah
The next passage is kind of long, but want to post it to get the context, then we'll break it down.
14-16 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.
Keep in mind that Paul has just spoken about the Ephesians who were Gentiles, lost without God in the world and separated from citizenship in Israel.
And remember in verse 13 "But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ."
Jesus is our peace! He said, "Peace I give, not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled..." The world promises us peace - but can it deliver true peace - NO, the best it can give is a "cessation of conflict", and that is only temporary.
Paul was reminding the Ephesians where they were BEFORE salvation.
In Chapter 2 verses 11-12, Paul reminded the Ephesians where they WERE without Christ. They were a far off, separated from Christ, without hope and without God in the world. But they have been brought near by the blood of Jesus. Now Paul is expounding to them what this NEARNESS means.
Jesus is our peace - there is no other source. "He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities (sins), the chastisement (punishment) of our PEACE was upon Him, and by His stripes (lashings) we are healed" Isaiah 53.
Chastisement of our peace - means that Jesus paid the price, not only for salvation from sin and healing of the body, but took the punishment to BUY our peace. The Amplified Bible says "the chastisement needful to obtain peace and well-being for us was upon Him".
Part of the deal way back in Eden, is that PEACE was taken from the earth! When Adam and Eve gave satan dominion, he brought discord, arguments, factions, arguing and war! Part of salvation is PEACE. Praise God forever.
Now Jesus is our peace and "has made the two one" - meaning the believing Gentiles and Jews - has made it possible for us to fellowship together, to receive the promises together. How did He do this? By removing the barrier or dividing wall of hostility. What was this wall?
THE LAW! v. 15 - that's what separated the Jews from the Gentiles; that's what created the hostility. Hostility for the Jews, because they believed that the Gentiles were unclean and not fit to associate with because they didn't have the Law. Hostility for the Gentiles because they resented the fact that the Jews "wouldn't let them in".
Paul said that Jesus ABOLISHED - destroyed, did away with, got rid off, in His flesh, the rule of the law with its commandments and regulations. In Colossians 2:14 Paul put it this way: "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross." Now Jesus said in Matthew 5:17 "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." He said He came to fulfill them - He obeyed the Law perfectly and became the perfect sacrifice, and ended the reign of LAW by the new covenant in His blood. And since Jesus fulfilled the requirements of the law, we no longer live under it.
But the Law still basically shows what God thinks like, doesn't it? What he expected, but we couldn't do? Yes that's true, but now the Bible says the law is written in our hearts, not in tablets of stone. And we don't have that set of rules and regulations to follow to please God; we please Him by letting His love rule us and flow out of our hearts.
Now a covenant is an agreement, like a contract, that included woes and blessings. Woes were curses or consequences that occurred when the contract was broken. Blessings were benefits that occurred when the contract was kept.
In Old Testament times, contracts were CUT, that is blood was shed to bind them. For the Old Covenant or Old Testament, the cutting was circumcision. For the New Testament or New Covenant, the blood that was shed was Jesus' own. That's why men do not have to be circumcised to be Christians. The Galatians had a real problem with this.
In the Old Testament times, people were responsible for keeping the contract by following the LAW. In the New Testament, Christ has fulfilled ALL of the obligations for us. We have faith in that and walk by God's grace.
Well then why did Jesus have to be circumcised? Because Jesus had to fulfill the OLD contract fully before He could CUT a new contract on the cross with His blood. If you're interested in more about the covenants read the book of Hebrews and make a comparison between the two.
Christian boys are sometimes circumcised today, but that's more of a social custom for hygienic purposes today. For the Jew it was serious business. No circumcision - no part of Judaism... Let me back up a bit. The Old Covenant or Old Testament was a rule of LAW. When a boy was born, on the 8th day he was circumcised as a sign of his covenant with God, promising to follow all the Law. (A person could be circumcised at any age to become a Jew, but the usual custom was 8 days.) When he was 12, he had a Bar Mitzvoth, which indicated that he was a man and a Son (BAR) of the Commandment (MITZVOTH). He was then bond to the Law all his life if he wanted to please God and be blessed.
For Jesus to fulfill all of the LAW, he had to go through the processes like any other Jewish boy. The problem with following the LAW, is for it to save you, you have to keep it perfectly, every day all the time, impossible for anyone but Jesus.
That's why they had animal sacrifices in the Old Testament, it was an ATONEMENT or covering for their sins - sins require death -and the animals were substituted for them. But when they sinned again, another sacrifice had to be made, and another and another...
Now since Jesus fulfilled the requirements of the law perfectly, he was without sin and didn't need a sacrifice for His own sins! That's why His sacrifice is able to atone for ours. 2 Corinthians 5:21 "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."
Father God, thank you so much for this precious time with You and Your Word. Bless the listeners and give them divine understanding. Engraft the Word deeply into our hearts and help us put it into practice. AMEN.
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the blessed companionship of the Holy Spirit!
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Victor A. Friedman (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1975) is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago, where he also holds an appointment in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and an associate appointment in the Department of Anthropology. He is also Director of the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, a National Resource Center at Chicago. He is president of the U.S. National Committee of the International Association for Southeast European Studies and vice-president of the U.S. National Committee of the International Committee of Slavists. Professor Friedman is a member of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of Albania, the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Kosova, Matica Srpska, and has been awarded the "1300 Years of Bulgaria" jubilee medal. He has thrice been awarded the Golden Plaque from Sts. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, from which he also holds the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa. In 2009 he received the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages' Annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship. During the Yugoslav Wars of Succession he worked for the United Nations as a senior policy and political analyst in Macedonia and consulted for other international organizations. He has held Guggenheim, Fulbright-Hays, ACLS, IREX, NEH, and other fellowships. His publications include The Grammatical Categories of the Macedonian Indicative (1977), Linguistic Emblems and Emblematic Languages: On Language as Flag in the Balkans (1999), Turkish in Macedonia and Beyond (2003), Studies in Albanian and Other Balkan Languages (2004, a nominee for Tirana's Institute of Albanology's Çmimi i albanologjisë [prize for Albanology]), a scholarly edition of Aleko Konstantinov's Bai Ganyo (2010, winner of the Bulgarian Studies Association John D. Bell Book Award), Očerki lakskogo jazyka [Russian: Studies in Lak Grammar] (2011), as well as more than 200 scholarly articles. His main research interests are grammatical categories as well as sociolinguistic issues related to contact phenomena, standardization, ideology, and identity in the languages of the Balkans and the Caucasus.
Recent Publications (see also http://home.uchicago.edu/~vfriedm/)
Balkan Epic Cyclicity: A View from the Languages. Balkan Epic Song, History Modernity, ed. by P. Bohlman and N. Petković, 293-309. Lanham, MD:Scarecrow Press. 2012.
The Languages of Bai Ganyo: Codeswitching as Social Commentary, Balkanistica 25,1.301-317. 2012.
Conjunction Calquing — A Heartland Balkanism. Balkanismen heute — Balkanisms Today —Balkanizmy segodnja, ed. by T. Kahl, M. Metzelin & H. Schaller, 31-37. Vienna: Lit Verlag. 2012.
Tense-Aspect and Language Contact. The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect, ed. Robert Binnick, 398-427. Oxford: Oxford. 2012.
Copying and Cognates in the Balkan Sprachbund. Copies vs Cognates in Bound Morphology, ed. by Lars Johanson and Martine Robeets, 323-336. Leiden: Brill. 2012.
Perhaps Mirativity is Phlogiston, but Admirativity is Perfect: On Balkan Evidential Strategies. Linguistic Typology Vol. 16, No. 3. 505-527. 2012.
Europe, Eurasia, Southeast Europe, and Southeast Asia: On the Question of Areal Linguistics in the 21st Century. Philologica Jassyensia 8,1(15).113-122. 2012
The Balkan Sprachbund in the Republic of Macedonia Today: Eurology as Discontinuity and Dialectology as Continuity. Colloquia Humanistica 1: The Continuity and Discontinuity as a Research Problem, ed. by Jolanta Sujecka, 125-129. Warsaw: PAN. 2012.
Urdhërorja treguese në gjuhët ballkanike [Albanian: The narrative imperative in the Balkan languages], Albanian and the Languages of the Bakans, ed. by Rexhep Ismajli, Prishtina: Academy of Arts and Sciences of Kosova, 119-124. 2012.
Beyond the Borders: Bulgarian and Macedonian Poetic Cover Art in the Early and Middle Twentieth Century. New Histories of Modern Art: The Eastern European Avant-Gardes, special issue of ARS - Journal of Institute of Art History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, ed. by Steven Mansbach, Victor Friedman, Janis Kreslins, Vol. 45, No. 1, 37-48. 2012.
Enhancing National Solidarity through the Deployment of Verbal Categories: How the Albanian Admirative Participates in the Construction of a Reliable Self and an Unreliable Other. Pragmatics and Society. Vol. 3, issue 2, 189-225. 2012. [to be republished in Benjamins Current Topics book series]
Balkan Reflexivity: Albanian and the Balkan Linguistic League. Studimet për nder të Rexhep Ismajlit me rastin e 65-vjetorit të lindjes, ed. by Bardh Rugova. Prishtina: Academy of Arts and Sciences of Kosova. 275-284. 2012.
Albanian and Slavic - Comparative Perspectives on Contemporary Issues. Sovremennaja albanistika: Dostiženija i perspektivy. ed. by A.M. Domosileckaja, A. Ju. Rusakov, et al., 419-425. St. Petersburg: Russian Academy of Sciences. 2012.
A Tantrum from the Cradle of Democracy: On the Dangers of Studying Macedonian, Macedonia: The Political, Social, Economic and Cultural Foundations of a Balkan State. Ed. by Victor C. de Munck, and Ljupcho Risteski. London: I.B. Tauris. 22-43. 2012.
Compartmentalized Grammar: The Variable (Non)-Integration of Turkish Verbal Conjugation in Romani Dialects. Romani Studies. 5, 23.1-14. 2013.
The Use of li as a Marker of Evidential Strategy in Romani. Contrastive Linguistics 38,2-3.253-261. 2013.
The Languages of the Balkans. Oxford Bibliographies Online: Linguistics, ed. Mark Aronoff. Oxford Bibliographies On Line <http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0108.xml> 2013.
Acts of Identity in the Balkans: The Role of Turkish Plurals. (Mis)Understanding the Balkans, ed. by Michel de Dobbelier and Stijn Vervaet, 157-159. Gent/Ghent: Academia. 2013.
The Morphology of Imperatives in Lak: Stem Vowels in the Second Singular Simplex Transitive Affirmative. Language Typology and Historical Contingency. ed. by Balthasar Bickel, Lenore Grenoble, David Peterson, Alan Timberlake, 445-462. 2013.
Linguistics Courses: Language Contact; Language, Power, and Identity in Southeastern Europe; Language, Power, and the Nation-State: France & the Balkans; Introduction to Slavic Linguistics; South Slavic Linguistics; Balkan Linguistics; Comparative East South Slavic Linguistics; Comparative Slavic Linguistics through Bai Ganyo; Structure of Albanian; History of Albanian; Albanian Dialectology; Bulgarian for Slavists; Structure of Lak; History of Macedonian; Structure of Macedonian; Romani Linguistics; History of Russian; Structure of Russian; Perspectives on Language in the Humanities; History of BCSM; Structure of BCSM; Advanced Old Church Slavonic; Language Courses: Albanian (three levels); Bulgarian; Georgian; Lak; Macedonian (three levels); Old Church Slavonic; Russian; Romani; Turkish. Other Courses:; Macedonian Literature; Bulgarian Literature A. Konstantinov's Do Čikago i nazad; Croatian Language and Nationalism; Balkan History from the Early Middle Ages to the Present; Balkan History from the Arrival of the Sklavenoi; Balkan History from 1371; The Brighter Side of the Balkans: Balkan Humor.


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Dr. Corey Hammond, a leading practitioner of recovered memory therapy, believes that his work proves the existence of an international Satanic cult of Nazis and C.I.A. agents who have engaged in Satanic abuse of children for over 50 years. The purpose of the ritual abuse, Dr. Hammond says, is the creation of robotic humans, who are "programmed" to behave in specific ways when specific commands are given. In his own words, the Nazi-CIA group (which also includes NASA) hopes to create "tens of thousands of mental robots who will do pornography, prostitution, smuggle drugs, engage in international arms smuggling. Eventually, those at the top of the satanic cult want to create a satanic order that will rule the world."
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Despite another apparent staggering loss, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said Tuesday he is staying in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Shortly after Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump was declared the victor of Tuesday's Nevada caucuses, Carson took the stage at his caucus party.
He told his supporters that he would continue to share his ideas despite an alleged media "blackout" of his campaign.
"I believe things are starting to happen here. I know the pundits and the political class — they want to call anything. They say it's all done, it's all over, we may as well go home and do the coronation now. But you know what? I believe they're wrong," Carson said.
"I believe people are starting to wake up," he added. "We are going to put the fire in our bellies."
Though Carson surged in some surveys of Republican primary voters last year, his campaign staggered toward the end of the year. And he has failed to mobilize support in the early states. As results trickled in Tuesday night, Carson appeared headed for fourth place, the same position he placed in the Iowa caucuses.
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