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Though their headquarters are in Chatan Village in Central Okinawa, Reef Encounters operates marine excursions all over Okinawa prefecture, from the northern tip of the island at Cape Hedo all the way down to Yongauni Island in the Yaeyama Region. Both experienced and novice divers can choose between snorkeling, diving and fishing, and can even become certified scuba divers. The staff is fluent in both English and Japanese, and the company also offers all-inclusive tour packages. Visit the website to make reservations.
Forest Adventure Park is a zip lining sports park for kids and adults. The harness used at the park is made by experienced professionals and experts from Europe. The design and manufacturing has also been done in Europe itself. Forest Adventure Park is built through trees and valleys of the forest with the longest zip line of 120 meters (393.70 feet) and 30 meters (98.42 feet) high. Their aim is to rebuild the forest and build an ecological park in harmony with nature. A safety course is provided before the start of the adventure that challenges ones stamina and confidence, a great way to have fun. The staff here are experienced and well trained with immense knowledge. A great way to spend a day with friends and family in the midst of fresh air and nature.
This little strip of land jutting out into the azure waters is one of the most picturesque sights in Onna. The area round Cape Maeda is a popular diving spot in the region and attracts adventure enthusiasts. For those who simply want to enjoy the scenery, the plateau-like features of the cape offer sweeping views and leisurely hikes. Don't miss the spectacular sunset from here.
Piranha Divers is a scuba diving company in Okinawa run by a couple Jan and Tomoko, who have about 10 years professional experience in learning and teaching scuba diving. At Piranha Divers there are various learning courses for people depending on their diving experience. Open Water Diver for first time scuba divers, Advanced Open Water the step after Open Water Diver, Rescue Diver & CPR an advanced course in scuba diving for people with over 30 dives experienced and a Divemaster course to be a professional diver which is a two-week course as compared to the other courses which are for three days only. Learning scuba diving at Piranha Divers definitely makes the experience and learning a great one, as the instructors and staff are well trained, efficient, friendly and welcoming.


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Specialty Earth Sciences provides solutions for industrial clients by developing customized process and wastewater treatment systems designed to meet or exceed today's stringent environmental compliance standards. Together we work within established budgets to reduce water, energy, waste and surcharge fees, making it possible for our clients to recognize increased revenue and profit.
Our senior staff of PE's and CHMM's have years of experience solving these complex environmental challenges. Supported by properly trained and equipped field service personnel, SES is uniquely qualified to work in the most restricted industrial environments.
Methods that worked in the past may not meet today's more stringent NPDES or POTW regulations. Changes in facility operations may also require modifications to existing treatment systems.
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Game NightMovies Reviews Game Night
The work of writer/director duo John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein has been a bit of a mixed bag so far. Their screenplay for Horrible Bosses loosely remade 9 to 5 with more of a '90s brand of average joe masculinity, capitalizing on the chemistry between its leads to turn into an unexpected hit in 2011. Daley and Golstein were also two of the six credited writers of last year's Spider-Man: Homecoming, which borrowed a lot from John Hughes Brat Pack flicks to deliver a winning combination of new and old.
The duo's directorial efforts carry less clout. Vacation, their reboot/sequel of the popular series about the Griswold family's continuing misfortunes whenever they dare to take any time off to travel, was such a lazy and cynical attempt at appealing to the lowest common denominator that it besmirched the reputation of even the most mediocre of the Chevy Chase films. (When Vegas Vacation starts to look like a masterpiece next to your reboot, you've done something exceptionally wrong.) Again, Vacation was a product whose soul was stuck a couple decades in the past, believing that the late-'90s kind of gross-out comedy would still work as a winning formula in 2015.
Game Night is Daley and Goldstein's second feature, with a script credited to Mark Perez, esteemed author of Herbie Fully Loaded and The Country Bears. It's surprising that Daley and Goldstein didn't write it, since the film's adherence to the "average joes/crime/wacky" formula could have easily turned it into a sequel or a spin-off of Horrible Bosses. Here's yet another work these guys are attached to that could have been popular if it was made, maybe, 10 or 15 years ago.
An uber-competitive couple, comprised of Max (Jason Bateman) and Annie (Rachel McAdams), use their weekly game night to lord their superiority over their friends. Their common obsession with winning at any board game at any cost is supposed to be charming, but immediately comes across as grating and pathetic. One game night, Max's rich brother Brooks (Kyle Chandler), whom Max envies so much that his insecurities are causing his sperm to die, leaving him and Annie unable to get pregnant—that's an actual sub plot, with its own bargain bin character arc—decides to spice things up by hiring a company to fake-kidnap him, leaving the participants to solve a series of clues to find him.
Wouldn't you know it: Brooks ends up kidnapped for real, giving Daley, Goldstein, and Perez ample excuses to extract simple physical comedy bits centered on our average middle class working stiffs acting like tough guys to real hardened criminals because, get this, they think they're still in a game. Once everyone quickly realizes they're all in real danger, the script completely abandons its game premise, wherein the characters solved puzzles and riddles to get ahead of the competition, to shift gears into a generic "survive the night" scenario that would be indistinguishable from, say, the Steve Carell/Tina Fey comedy Date Night. Game Night's third act goes completely off the rails with desperate attempts at an array of plot twists that crumble under the tiniest of scrutiny. Its final 15 minutes stink of half-baked resolution as characters and conflicts that have been barely mentioned take center stage to deliver a bigger and supposedly more crowd-pleasing action finale.
Too bad, since there are glimmers of comedy gold here. The sight of the game night attendees calmly conversing and enjoying some fine cheese while Brooks is getting his ass kicked as if he's a stuntman in The Bourne Supremacy is a fun example of a bit that relies on complete tonal opposites. However, the fact that Brooks never yells out for help when he knows the kidnapping is real sucks out all credibility from the sequence. Which is an ongoing problem with the film, the filmmakers trying so hard to get to a specific punchline that they're unwilling to wave off any glaring plot and character inconsistency to get there, even though it's obvious that little to no distinct characterization is given to the majority of the games' participants.
Bateman and McAdams have some fun with the gonzo goofiness of the project, and milk a couple of comedy set-pieces—like one about a gunshot wound and a squeaky toy—but the flatness of their characters leaves no room for relatability. Meanwhile, Jesse Plemons as a monosyllabic, creepy cop who's obsessed with his ex-wife gives the film's standout performance. Game Night's action is semi-competent, though, besides the use of board game-like miniatures for establishing shots, there isn't much visual creativity. That doesn't speak well of DC's tapping of Daley and Goldstein to direct Flashpoint, one of the best comic storylines in DC's history. Let's at least hope they manage to drag the spirit of that one into the 21st century.
Director: John Frances Daley, Jonathan Goldstein
Writer: Mark Perez
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Jason Bateman, Jesse Plemons, Kyle Chandler, Chelsea Peretti, Kylie Bunbury, Lamorne Morris, Billy Magnussen, Sharon Horgan
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John Woodruff discovers novel and innovative beauty ingredients that meet the criteria for natural and/or green chemistry
The cosmetics world's love affair with all things natural shows no sign of diminishing. Allied to this are the concepts of sustainability and green chemistry: the focus of this article.
Green chemistry is based on a set of principles that reduces or eliminates the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of chemical products. It includes environmentally improved routes; new, greener and safer chemicals and materials; and the use of sustainable resources and biotech-derived alternatives to chemistry-based solutions[1].
Fermentation processes are encouraged as alternatives to traditional chemical synthesis. For example, Active Concepts uses green algae to produce an array of unique bioactive complex lipids and fatty acids, which it incorporates in AcquaSeal Algae (INCI: Chlamydomonas reinhardtii extract).
It provides cellular renewal, hydration and proliferation, as well as anti-inflammation benefits.
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Kidrobot has six convention exclusives that will be available for pre-order on Kidrobot.com starting Monday, June 13th! A limited amount of each exclusive will be available to pre-order at a special pre-order price for San Diego Comic Con pick-up only. Quantities of each exclusive will be reserved for purchase at San Diego Comic Con.
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AMBER LOVE 26-MAY-2014 This year has not been good for gender equality. When we finally see some progress in human rights like more states allowing marriage equality and occasionally seeing transgender rights addressed, how does misogyny rear its ugly head so dangerously?
Let us take a step into the way back machine to March 30, 1981. On that date, President Ronald Reagan and James Brady were shot by John Hinckley, Jr. who claimed to be so in love with actress Jodi Foster that he was caught in the delusion of her movie TAXI DRIVER. In it, Robert DeNiro's character tries to protect the young prostitute character and eventually attempts to assassinates a Senator. Hinckley decided to act this out because he "loved" Foster. The male ego stepped in and Hinckley believed he was entitled, even destined to be with Foster. This sexual drive is considered erotomania, a condition where the person believes someone famous, powerful, or "out of their league" is in love with them.
On Valentine's Day in 2013, Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. He can't even deny it. His defense is that he thought there was an intruder in the house even though Steenkamp was not in bed next to him. He's trying to get a judge and jury to believe that he couldn't possibly be a murderer because he was actually defending Steenkamp. This trial is still ongoing in 2014.
In 2014, Maren Sanchez, an honor student was stabbed to death by a male student that claimed to be in love with her. His motive was that she wouldn't go to the prom with him.
In Nigeria, 270 girls were stolen from their school to be used in the sex trade. The perpetrators used the girls as bargaining chips to free Boko Haram members from captivity or said the girls, who they forcefully converted to Islam, would be "married" which is code sex slavery.
Today I pulled up my Google News page because I saw a headline on Twitter for ABC News that said the Nigerian girls were located. What I saw was that the story was off to the right side in a smaller font (image above). The top stories were the recent Santa Barbara massacre and the headlines and photos were Grade A sexism from the various media; more on that below. (Google News shows a headline from one outlet with related stories by other sources under it). Â Google News caught up about an hour after Twitter (image below). It sure seemed that the news was too busy making a celebrity out of the Santa Barbara killer than the victims of any of the sexist crimes occurring.
Originally when Steenkamp was mentioned and the only thing ever said about her was "his girlfriend who was a model," I thought I'd dismiss it agreeably assuming that if she was a district attorney, a dentist, a teacher, or anything else that the press would identify her according to profession as well. They had plenty of photographs to choose from since she was a model so each and every picture was gorgeous.
Now we have the media who have tracked down the girl that was the allegedly the subject of the Santa Barbara killer's ire. This is the young woman who supposedly ridiculed him in middle school when he had a secret crush on her. She wasn't even aware that he liked her. Although who really knows the truth? I don't. First reports said she rejected him. Then they said she was his "pal." Then it became that he wasn't even on her radar and the crush was a secret. I realize those are the sort of details that change as a story unfolds. But once the press discovered who she was, the disparity in the photos used in headlines was apparent. When it came to tracking down the girl who allegedly drove this coward to his crimes, media chose to use a couple nice normal pictures of her but their headlines featured her in a bikini. All showed the shooter picture of him sitting in his car.
I asked one of the vocal feminists I follow on Twitter if she thought the pictures would be the same if Steenkamp or the California girl had been anything other than models. She said, "I think so, provided they could be discussed in similar terms as desirable, vacuous, unattainable." She's probably right. The mainstream media would pick up any silly selfie or gratuitous drunk bar shot found in a Facebook gallery to use.
I'm not embarrassed by my drunk photos, modeling photos or even my porn photos. However, when I die, I prefer the images that my loved ones have to see on the news should I be newsworthy, not be something inappropriate to them. Hell, I hope they're me in costumes. When it comes time for someone to create a salacious memoir, then by all means, crack those galleries. But if my parents have to ever see my picture on the news I hope it's me dressed as Wonder Woman.


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The U.S. State Department has warned American citizens that travel to Iran carries the risk "of arrest and detention" particularly for American-Iranian dual nationals.
This warning replaces a similar one issued a year ago, on August 22. The United States warning also mentions risk for non-U.S. dual nationals of Iranian origin.
The warning issued on August 15, also cautions U.S. citizens living in Iran to "closely follow media reports, monitor local conditions, and evaluate the risks of remaining in the country."
The State Department also warns that the U.S. or the Swiss who represent the U.S. interests in Iran, cannot provide protection to dual nationals, as the Iranian authorities "make the determination of a dual national's Iranian citizenship without regard to the dual national's personal wishes."
As before, the U.S. travel warning also says that the Iranian authorities continue to repress minority religious and ethnic groups, therefore travel in certain areas of Iran is especially dangerous.
It mentions Sistan-Baluchistan, Kurdistan and East Azerbaijan as unsafe areas.
Over the past few years, there have many instances of U.S. citizens, especially dual citizens who have either been arrested or prevented from leaving the country for extended periods of time.
A controversy erupted towards the end of Barack Obama's presidency that the U.S. had delivered cash to Iran in exchange for release of detained Americans.
The State Department at the time denied the allegation, insisting that the $400 million delivered to Iran was the result of a court settlement. To the contrary, the Obama administration insisted, the money was withheld until three U.S. citizens were freed and allowed to leave Iran.


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This fun and exciting twelve-piece band features four dynamic and diverse front vocalists who really know how to wow an audience with their well-rehearsed harmonies and choreography. Three of their vocalists can sing in English as well as Spanish and they truly encompass the Miami style and flair! The group has a powerful and soulful horn section, an internationally acclaimed percussionist, and even offers optional Latin Dancers! We have Miami's best of the best backing them up in the rhythm section with a drummer who holds down the groove like no other, and a highly respected team carefully handpicked by the group's bandleader.
As with all of the Florida Music Group bands, this group brings the excitement off of the stage right out into the audience! The group authentically covers a huge range of music with an emphasis on fun dance hits. From Etta James to Dua Lupa, Frankie Valli to Cardi B, Post Malone, or Blink 182, or perhaps Celia Cruz, Juanes, or Pitbull. They can seamlessly transition from one genre to another and will keep your party energized.
We are very lucky to have international touring musician Jacin Nagao leading the band and bringing his unique experience to the group. Jacin has been a high demand top touring artist for many years performing equally well on guitar, saxophone, and as a vocalist. He has toured the world with many famous artists including New Kids On The Block, Joss Stone, Jon Secada, Hilary Mcrae, Flo Rida, Ricky Martin, and Enrique Iglesias. Needless to say, there are many exaggerated or false claims to be found on the internet, even many opportunists who simply pose with an artist in order to claim some kind of working relationship with said artist! In our case, you can simply Google the bandleader's name and you will see all that he has done, no false claims here!
Jacin has learned from the best and knows the amount of work and talent needed to create a top touring band. He brings this work ethic to The Miami Beats. Jacin does tour selectively, but now married with two small children opts for a more settled down lifestyle that allows for more time at home.
What makes the band special?
1). A bandleader, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who has toured internationally with Joss Stone, En Vogue, Flo Rida, Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias, and still does occasionally!
2). A set and well rehearsed group that are always the same people. Musicians who are the best of the best, some who have also toured internationally with famous artists as well.
3). Four diverse, fun and exciting front vocalists with three bilingual vocalists who can sing in English as well as Spanish!
4). Optional DJ, and Latin dancers.
5). High quality state of the art equipment along with a professional sound tech at every show.


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"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now."- Chinese Proverb
India has set a new record of most trees planted in a single day with the help of more than 800,000 volunteers from the state of Uttar Pradesh, planting a whopping 50 million trees last week on July 11th. The volunteers planted about 80 different species of plants in UP along railways, public lands and roads breaking the record set by Pakistan in 2013 with a relatively scanty 847,275 trees.
The government of India has designated 6.2 billion dollars for tree plantation in accordance with the pledge it made in December last year, at the climate change summit in Paris. According to the agreement, India resolved to reclaim 12% of its land by reforestation covering an area of 235 million acres by 2030, which is almost 29% of its entire land area. This initiative will also reduce India's emissions by 35%.
India is suffering from one of the worst cases of pollution in the world becoming one of the leading causes of death. Chief Minister of UP state- Akhilesh Yadav said during a speech delivered to volunteers in Kannauj:
"The world has realised that serious efforts are needed to reduce carbon emissions to mitigate the effects of global climate change. Uttar Pradesh has made a beginning in this regard."
Trees use the carbon dioxide in air and reduce the effect of greenhouse gases and subsequently, reduces global warming. Among the top 10 most polluted cities in the world, 6 are in India. Uttar Pradesh is most populated province of India hosting 1.25 billion people and this initiative can help clean the air they breathe in. Dr. Anit Mukherjee, who works at the Center for Global Development says:
"The biggest contribution of this tree planting project is, apart from the tokenism, that it focuses on the major issues. It addresses many of the big issues for India: Pollution, deforestation, and land use."
The survival of trees is a major concern of officials involved with the project. They are hopeful that approximately 60% of the saplings will survive while the rest will die owing to either water deficiency or disease, as is the case with planting trees in such massive numbers. They will use Aerial photography to check for trees that need attention. The Guinness Book of World Records will take another 2 months to verify the record based on survival of saplings but nevertheless, it was a good reclamation effort by India.
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SHSU Student Named First Regents Scholar
Nov. 16, 2012
SHSU Media Contact: Julia May
|Chair of the Texas State University System Board of Regents Charlie Amato (far left), SHSU President Dana Gibson and TSUS Chancellor Brian McCall congratulate SHSU student Sahabia Ahmed for being named the first Texas State University System Regents' Scholar. — Photo by Brian Blalock
A Sam Houston State University student has been selected as the first Texas State University System Regents' Scholar.
Sahabia Ahmed, a senior economics and international business major from Tanzania, was selected by the system chancellor based on her outstanding academic achievement and scholarship in her studies, strong commitment to and leadership in co-curricular activities, and notable contributions to her university and community.
In addition to a framed resolution and medallion, Ahmed was awarded a $2,500 scholarship at the TSUS Board of Regents meeting held Nov. 16 on the SHSU campus.
Frank Parker, vice president for student services at SHSU, suggested the idea of a system-wide recognition for an outstanding student each year.
"There are approximately 78,000 students who attend schools in the system," Parker said. "Notices were sent to all the peer institutions requesting nominations for those students who were deserving of the award. It speaks very highly of Sahabia to be selected as the first Texas State University System Regents' Scholar.
Ahmed, who has a perfect 4.0 grade point average, has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions during her time at SHSU. In addition to being named to the Dean's List and President's Honor Roll every semester, she has been awarded a College of Business Administration summer scholarship, Elliott T. Bowers Honors Scholarship, Undergraduate Academic Achievement Scholarship, the Mary Alice Mays Scholarship, Farm Credit Bank Scholarship, Beta Gamma Sigma Scholarship, the Assam Scholarship, and the William B. Green International Business Scholarship.
Her essay on Sam Houston State University's motto, "The measure of a Life is its Service," was recognized as the "Best Freshman Essay" in a contest sponsored by the SHSU Writing Center in 2011, and she won an award for her entry in the Undergraduate Research Symposium earlier this year.
Ahmed is president of the International Student Organization; student adviser for the Nepalese Student Association; a student in the Elliott T. Bowers Honors College; an economics and business analysis tutor for the SHSU economics department; and a member of Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society for students in the business disciplines.
She was the organizer of the SHSU International Festival held on campus in the spring and serves as the SHSU student leader for "Course Hero," an organization that donates books to Africa. She also works for the university's Counseling Center as a note-taker for visually impaired students.
Following her graduation from SHSU, Ahmed plans to attend law school in the United States and become a corporate attorney before returning to Tanzania.
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Sermon 3187. The Great Pot and the Twenty Loaves
(No. 3187)
"Set on the great pot." 2 Kings 4:38.
"Then bring meal." 2 Kings 4:41.
"Give unto the people that they may eat." 2 Kings 4:42.
WE scarcely need go over the story. There was a shortage of food in the land. Elisha came to the college of the Prophets,which consisted of about a hundred Brothers and found that they were in need as the result of the famine. While he was teachingthe young men, he observed that they looked as if they needed food and he found that there was none in the house. Elisha,therefore, ordered his servant to take the great pot, which generally stood upon long legs over the fire, and make a nourishingsoup in it. True, there was nothing to put in this pot, but he believed that God would provide. It was for him to set thepot over the fire, and it was for the Lord to fill it! Some of the young men were not so sure as Elisha was that God couldfill it without their help-and one, with great eagerness, went out to gather something from the fields. His help turned outto be of small service, for he brought home poisonous cucumbers, cut them up and threw them into the broth. And, lo, whenthey began to pour it out, it was acrid to the taste, gave them a terrible colic, and made them cry out, "There is death inthe pot!"
Then the Prophet said, "Bring meal." This was put into the steaming caldron, the poison was neutralized, the food was madewholesome and the students were satisfied. This miracle was in due time followed up by another. A day or two afterwards, theyoung Prophets were still needing food and the larder was again empty. Just at that time, a devout man comes from a littledistance, bringing a present for the Prophet which consisted of a score of loaves similar to our penny rolls. The Prophetbids his servitor set this slender quantity before the college. He is astonished at the command to feed a hundred hungry menwith so little, but he is obedient to it. And while he is obeying, the little food is multiplied so that the hundred men eatand are perfectly satisfied-and there is some left!
I believe there are lessons to be learned from these two miracles and I shall try to bring out these lessons in three forms.First, as they shall relate to the present condition of religion in our land. Secondly, as they may be made to relate to thecondition of backsliders. And thirdly, as they may afford comfortable direction to seeking sinners.
I. First, then, our text, as in a parable, sets forth in a figure our course of action in connection with RELIGION IN THISLAND.
And first, there is a great need of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We have not a hundred men famishing nowadays, but hundredsof thousands-and even hundreds of millions in this great world who are perishing for lack of heavenly food! The Church mustfeed the people. It is not for us to say, "We hope they will be saved," and leave it there. Or set it down as a work thatcannot be done till the millennium and, therefore, we have nothing to do with it. Our business is in the strength of God tograpple with the present condition of things! Here are the millions famishing-shall we let them famish? I remember seeingsimilar sentences under the likeness of the late Richard Knill-"The heathen are perishing! Shall we let them perish?" "But,"says one, "how can we possibly supply them with food?" Look what Elisha did-the people were hungry and there was no food inhand, except a little meal, yet he said, "Set on the great pot."
Faith always does as much as she can-if she cannot fill the pot, she can, at any rate, put it on the fire. If she cannot findmeat for the pottage, she pours in the water, lights the fire-and prays and waits. Some have not this faith, nowadays, anduntil we have it, we cannot expect the blessing! Thus says the Lord, "Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretchforth the curtains of your habitation." Why? Because, "you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left." Few willregard such a summons as this. The feeble faith of our time finds it difficult to enlarge the tent even after the increasehas come and the people are there to fill it! Great faith would enlarge the tent and expect the Lord to keep His promise andmultiply us with men as with a flock! The Church of God greatly needs not foolish confidence in herself, which would leadher to be Quixotic, but simple confidence in God which would enable her to be Apostolic, for she would go forth believingthat God would be with her and great things would be accomplished by her! She would open her mouth wide, expecting that Godwould fill it, and fill it He would! Faith does what she can, and waits for her Lord to do what He can. Brother, Sister, whatis your faith doing? Are you putting a great pot on the fire in expectation of a blessing?
"Set on the great pot," said the Prophet, "and boil the pottage." He was not in jest. He meant what he said. Often, when weget as far as setting on the pot, it is not for boiling pottage! We feel the desire to carry out spiritual work, but we donot come to practical action as those who work for immediate results. Oh, for practical common sense in connection with Christianity!Oh, for reality in connection with the idea of faith! When a man goes to his business to make money, he goes there with allhis wits about him-but frequently when men come to prayer and Christian service-they leave their minds behind and do not actas if they were transacting real business with God. Elisha, when he said, "Set on the great pot," expected God to fill it!He was sure it would be so and he waited in all patience till dinner was ready. O Church of God, set on the pot, and the greatpot, too! Say, "The Lord will bless us." Get your granary cleaned out, that the Lord may fill it with His good corn! Put thegrist into the hopper and look for the wind to turn the sails of the mill. O you doubters, throw up the windows that the freshbreeze of the Divine Spirit may blow in on your sickly faces! Expect that God is about to send the manna and have your omersready! We shall see greater things than these if we awake to our duty and our privilege! It is the Church's business to feedthe world with spiritual bread-she can only do so by faith- and she ought to act in faith in reference to it!
The faith of Elisha was not shared by all the Brothers. There were some who must go and fill the pot, as we have said, butthey gathered the gourds of the colocynth vine and poisoned the whole mess! And it became necessary to find an antidote forthe poison. We here see our second duty-the Church must provide an antidote for the heresies and poisonous doctrines of thetime. There has entered into the public ministry of this country a deadly poison. We may say of the Church in general, "Oyou man of God, there is death in the pot!" Zealous persons, whose zeal for God is not according to knowledge, have gone aboutand gathered the gourds of the wild vine. I think I could tell you what kind of gourds they are-some of them are very prettyto look at, and they grow best on the seven hills of Rome, they are called "Ritualistic performances." These they shred intothe pot. There are gourds of another kind, very delicate and dainty in appearance, which are known as "liberal views" or,"modern thought." As a philosopher once talked of extracting sunbeams from cucumbers, so the wild gourds are said to consistof "sweetness and light," but the light is darkness and the sweetness is deadly! They have shred these into the pot and nobodycan taste the doctrinal mixture which is served out from some pulpits without serious risk of soul-poisoning for, "there isdeath in the pot." What Scriptural doctrine is there which men do not deny and yet call themselves Christians? What Truthof God is there which our fathers held which is endorsed by those who think themselves the leaders of advanced thought? Havethey not polluted the entire sanctuary of truth and lifted up their axes against all the carved work of the Temple? On theother hand, have we not, almost everywhere, put aside Christ for the crucifix? And the blessed Spirit thrust into a cornerby the so-called "sacraments"? Is not the outward made to drown the inward, and is not the precious Truth of the Gospel overlaidby the lies of Rome?
There is death in the pot! How is the Church to meet it? I believe it is to imitate Elisha. We need not attempt to get thewild gourds out of the pot-they are cut too small and are too cunningly mixed up. They have entered too closely into the wholemass of teaching to be removed. Who shall extract the leaven from the leavened loaf? What then? We must look to God for helpand use the means indicated here. "Bring meal" Good wholesome food was cast into the poisonous stuff and, by God's graciousworking, it killed the poison. And the Church must cast the blessed Gospel of the Grace of God into the poisoned pottage-andthen false doctrine will not be able to destroy men's souls as it now does. We shall
not do much good by disputing, denouncing and refusing to associate with people. I call such things barking, but preachingthe Gospel is biting. The surest remedy for false doctrine is preaching the Truth of God. Christianity is the cure for Popery!Preach up Christ and down go the priests! Preach Grace and there is an end of "masses." I am more and more persuaded thatthe good old Calvinistic truths which are now kept in the background, are the great Krupp guns with which we shall blow topieces the heresies of the day if once more they are plainly and persistently preached in harmony with the rest of revealedTruths of God!
Is the remedy too simple? Do not, therefore, despise it! God be thanked that it issimple, for then we shall not be temptedto give the glory to man's wit and wisdom when the good result is achieved. In this work you can all help, for if only mealis needed, a child may bring his little handful. One man may contribute more than another, but the humblest may put in hispinch of meal, and even the most common servitor in the house may assist in this work. Spread the Gospel! Spread the Gospel!Spread the Gospel! A Society for Prosecuting Puseyites, will that do the work? Appeals to Parliament, will they be effectual?Let those who choose to do so cry to lawyers and Parliaments, but as for us, we will preach the Gospel! If I could speak witha voice of thunder, I would say to those friends who are for adopting other means to stop the spread of error, "You wasteyour time and strength! Give all your efforts to the preaching of the Gospel. Lift up Christ and lay the sinner low! Proclaimjustification by faith, the work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration and the grand old doctrines of the Reformation and yourwork will be done-but by no other means." "Bring meal," said the Prophet, and our word at this time is, "Preach the Truthof God as it is in Jesus."
Some of the grossest errors of our own day may yet be overruled by God for the promotion of His Truth. There are men who believein Sacramentarianism who love the Lord Jesus very ardently. When I read some of the poetry of this school, I cannot but rejoiceto see that the writers love my Lord and Master-and it strikes me that if the whole Gospel could be put before them, we mightexpect to see some of them become noble preachers of the Truth of God and, perhaps, save the orthodox from dead dry doctrinalismby reviving a more direct devotion to the Savior. Perhaps they will not, with us, talk often of justification by faith, butif they extol the merit of the precious blood and wounds of Jesus, it will come to much the same thing. For my part, I carelittle for the phraseology, if essential Truths of God are really taught and the Lord Jesus is exalted!
Some of the doubters, too-"thinkers"-as they prefer to be called, if our Lord renewed them by His Spirit, might bring outthe old Truths with greater freshness than our more conservative minds are able to do. I love to hear those who have knownthe vanity of error speak out the Truth! They are more sympathetic towards the tempted and are generally more conversant withthe grounds of our faith.
Who knows? Who knows? I have a hope which may not prove a dream. I hope that thousands are feeling their way into the Lightof God and will come forth soon. Let us not despair, but keep to our work which is Gospel preaching, telling about Jesus andHis dear love, the power of His blood, the prevalence of His plea and the Glory of His Throne and who knows but that a multitudeof the priests may believe, and the philosophers, also, may become babes in Christ's school? "Bring meal," and thus meet thepoison with the antidote!
Another lesson comes from the second miracle. Let us look at it. The loaves brought to Elisha were not quartern loaves likeours, but either mere wafers of meal which had been laid flat on a hot stone and so baked, or else small rolls of bread. Thatstore was but little, yet Elisha said, "Feed the people," and they were fed. That is the third lesson, the Church is to useall she has and trust in God to multiply her strength. Nowadays, individuals are apt to think they may leave matters to Societies,but this is highly injurious. We should, everyone, go forth to work for God and use our own talents, be they few or many.Societies are not meant to enable us to shirk our personal duty under the idea that our strength is small. Little Churchesare apt to think that they cannot do much and, therefore, they do not expect a great blessing. What can these few cakes dotowards feeding a hundred men? They forget that God can multiply them! Do you limit the Holy One of Israel? Do you think Heneeds our numbers? Do you think He is dependent upon human strength? I tell you, our weakness is a better weapon for God thanour strength! The Church in the Apostolic times was poor and mostly made up of unlearned and ignorant men-but she was filledwith power. What name that would have been famous in ordinary history do you find among her first members? Yet that humbleChurch of fishermen and common people shook the world! The Church nowadays is, for the most part, too strong, too wise, tooself-dependent to do much. Oh, that she were more God-reliant! Even those whom you call great preachers will be great evilsif you trust to them! This I know-we ought never to complain of weakness, or poverty, or lack of prestige-but should consecrateto God what we have.
"Oh, but I can scarcely read a chapter!" Well, read that chapter to God's Glory! You who cannot say more than half-a-dozenwords to others? Say that little in the power of the Spirit! If you cannot do more than write a letter to a friend about hissoul, or give away a tract to a stranger in the streets, do it in God's name! Brother, Sister, do what you can and in doingthis, God will strangely multiply your power to do good and cause great results to flow from small beginnings. Active faithis needed-and if this is richly present, the Lord in whom we trust will do for us exceeding abundantly above all that we ask,or even think!
II. And now, briefly, but very earnestly, I desire to speak TO BACKSLIDERS.
In all our Churches there are members who are no better than they should be. It is very questionable whether they ought tobe allowed to be members at all-they have gone very far back from what they used to be, or ought to be. They scarcely everjoin the people of God in public prayer, though they once professed to be very devout. Private prayer is neglected and familyprayer given up. Is it not so with some to whom I address myself? Have you not lost the Light of God's Countenance and gonefar away from happy communion with Christ? It is not for me to charge you-let your own consciences speak! I hope that youare now beginning to feel an inward hunger and to perceive that your backslidings have brought famine to you. What shall Ibid you do? Go and attempt your own restoration by the works of the Law? By no means-I bid you bring your emptiness to Christand look for His fullness. Yours is a great empty pot-set it on the fire and cry to God to fill it! Jesus says to lukewarmLaodicea, "If any man hears My voice, and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him." "Alas," says theLaodicean, "I have nothing in the house!" Your confession is true, but when our Lord comes to sup, He brings His supper withHim! He stands at the door of every backslider and knocks. Will you let Him in? "Oh," you say, "I wish He would enter." DearBrothers and Sisters, open your heart, now, just as you did at the first when, as a poor sinner you went to Him. Say to him,"Blessed Lord, there is nothing in me but emptiness, but here is the guest chamber. Come in all Your love and sup with me,and let me sup with You. I am nothing, come and be my All-in-All." "But," says the backslider "may I really come to Jesus,just as I did at the first?" Listen! "Return, you backsliding children, for I am married unto you, says the Lord." He is marriedto you! And though you have behaved badly, the marriage bond is not broken. Where is the bill of divorcement which He hassued you? Is it not written ,"He hates putting away"? Come just as you are and begin anew-for He will accept you again.
"But," you say, "alas for me, I have been gathering wild gourds!" What have you been doing, professor? You have left undonewhat you ought to have done and you have done many things you ought not to have done and, therefore, there is no health inyou. You have been trying to find pleasure in the world and you have found wild vines. You have been tempted by love of music,love of mirth, love of show-and you have gathered wild gourds, a lap full, almost a heart full! You have been shredding deathinto the pot and now you cannot feel as you used to feel-the poison is stupefying your soul. While we were singing, just now,you said, "I want to sing as saints do, but there is no praise in me." When you meet with a man who is mighty in prayer, yousay, "Alas, I used to pray like that, but my power is gone." The poison is paralyzing you! If you are a worldling, and notGod's child, you can live on that which would poison a Christian, but if you are a child of God, you will cry out, "O youman of God, there is death in the pot!" Some of you have become rich and have fallen into worldly fashionable habits-theseare the colocynth cucumbers. Others of you are poor and necessarily work with ungodly men and, perhaps, their example haslowered the tone of your spirit and led you into their ways. If you love this condition, I grieve for you-but if you loatheit, I trust you are a child of God, notwithstanding your state.
What are you to do who have in any way fallen? Why, receive afresh the soul-saving Gospel! "Bring meal"-simple, nourishing,Gospel Truth-and cast it into the poisoned pottage! Begin anew with Jesus Christ, as you did at first! Say to Him, "God bemerciful to me a sinner." "Repent and do your first works." Do you not recollect the period when first your eyes lighted onHis Cross and you stood there burdened and heavy-laden, fearing that you would sink to Hell until you read in His dear woundsthat your sins were put away? There you found peace as you saw your transgressions laid on Jesus and removed from you. Oh,how you loved Him! Come, Brother, come, Sister, let us go tonight again to the Cross and begin to love Him again. That willcure you of the world's personal influences and bring back the old feelings, the old joys, the old loves-and take the deathout of the pot! Backslider, you see now exactly what you needed at first,
namely, faith in Jesus. Come repenting, come believing in the Savior and He will remove the ills which the gourds of earth'swild vines have brought upon you!
"Ah," say some of you, "we can understand how the Lord Jesus can fill our emptiness and heal our soul's sicknesses, but howshall we continue in the right way? Our past experience has taught us our weakness-we are afraid that even the great pot willonly last us for a little while and then our souls will famish." Then remember the other part of our text, in which we readthat when the few loaves, and the ears of corn in the husks, were brought to Elisha, the Lord multiplied them. Though youmay have very little Grace, that Grace shall be increased. "He gives more Grace." We receive Grace for Grace, daily Gracefor daily need! Between this and Heaven you will need a Heaven full of Grace and you will have it! No one knows what draftsyou will make upon the sacred bank of the King of kings, but His treasury will not be exhausted! "Trust in the Lord and dogood-so shall you dwell in the land, and verily you shall be fed."
III. Our third and last word is TO THE SEEKING SINNER.
Many of you, I trust, desire salvation. The subject before us has much comfort in it for you. You are hungering and thirstingafter Christ, but have not yet found peace in Him. You lament your own emptiness of all that is good. Then, poor Soul, dojust what the Prophet bade his servant do, "set on the great pot," that is, confess your emptiness unto the Lord! Tell theLord what a sinner you are. I know not whether the story is true of Mr. Rowland Hill's leading the landlord of an inn to pray.Mr. Hill would have family prayer wherever he stayed-and if this was refused, he would order out his horses and go on. Onone occasion, he is reported to have asked the landlord to act as priest in his own house, but the man replied, "I can't pray,I never prayed in my life." However, after a while, Mr. Hill had him on his knees and when the man said, "I cannot pray,"Mr. Hill cried out, "Tell the Lord so and ask Him to help you." The man exclaimed, "O God, I can't pray, teach me!" "Thatwill do," said Mr. Hill, "you have begun." Whatever your state is, tonight, if you desire salvation, go and tell the Lordyour condition! Say, "Lord, I have a hard heart-soften it." If you cannot feel, tell Him so and ask Him to make you feel.Begin at the root of the matter-set on the great pot, empty as it is. Be honest with the Most High. Reveal to Him what Heknows so well, but what you know so little-the evil of your heart and your great necessity. If you cannot come with a brokenheart, come for a broken heart! If you cannot come with anything good, the mercy is that nothing good is needed as a preparationfor coming to Christ. Come just as you are! Do not wait to fill the pot, but set it on to be filled.
Do I hear you reply, "Ah, you don't know who I am. I have lived many years in sin"? Yes, I know you. You are the young manthat found the wild vine and went and gathered of its gourds a lapful-a horrible lapful. Some of you rebellious sinners haveruined yourselves, body and soul, and perhaps in estate as well, by your sins. We hear of people sowing their wild oats-thatis a bad business. They had better never do it, for the reaping of those wild oats is terrible work! You have poisoned yourlife, man, with those wild gourds. Can the pottage of your life be made wholesome again? Yes! You cannot do it with your ownefforts, but, "bring meal," and it will be done. If you believe on the Lord Jesus, He will be the antidote to deadly habitsof sin! If you will simply trust in Him who bled for you, the tendency of your soul to sin shall be overcome, the poison whichnow boils in your veins shall be expelled, and your soul shall escape as a bird out of the snare of the fowler! Your fleshupon you, in a spiritual sense, shall become fresher than a little child's. Though you are full of the poison till every veinis ready to burst with it, the Great Physician will give you an antidote which shall at once and forever meet your case! Willyou not try it? Incline your ear and come unto Him-hear, and your soul shall live! May God put the meal of the Gospel intothe pot tonight!
"Ah," you say, "but if I were now pardoned, how should I hold on? I have made a hundred promises and always broken them. Ihave resolved scores of times, but my resolutions have never come to anything." Ah, poor Heart, that is when you have thesaving of yourself, but when God has the saving of you, it will be another matter! When we begin to save ourselves, we verysoon come to a disastrous shipwreck! But when God, the eternal Lover of the souls of men, puts His hand to salvation-workand Jesus puts forth the hand once fastened to the Cross, there are no failures!
I have tried to preach a very simple sermon and to say some earnest things. But it is likely that I may have missed the markwith some and, therefore, I will again draw the Gospel bow in the name of the Lord Jesus. O Lord, direct the arrow! If Godwill bring souls to Jesus, I will bless His name throughout eternity! Poor lost Souls, do you know the way of salvation, doyou know how simple it is? Do you know the love of God to such poor souls as you are and yet do you refuse to attend to it?Do you know that He does not exact any hard conditions of you, but He points to His Son on the Cross and says, "Look"? Canit be that you will not look? Does Jesus die to save, and do you think it is not worth your while to think about salvation?What is the matter with you? Surely you must be mad! When I look back on my own neglect of Christ till I was 15 years old,it seems like a delirious dream! And when I think of some of you who are 30 or 40 and yet have never thought about your souls,what can be invented to excuse you? I see some of you with bald heads, or with the snow of wintry age lying upon them andyou have not yet considered the world to come. I would say to you, "Men, are you mad?" Why, you are worse than mad, for ifyou were insane, you could be excused! Alas, the madness of sin has responsibility connected with it and, therefore, it isthe worst of all insanities! I pray you, by the living God, you unsaved ones, turn unto the Savior tonight! Whether you aresaved or lost cannot so much matter to me as it will to you. If I faithfully beseech you to look to Jesus, I shall be clear,even if you reject the warning. But for your own sakes, I beseech you to turn to Jesus! By death, which may be so near toyou. By judgment, which is certain to you all. By the terrors of Hell, by the thunderbolts of execution, by eternity and,better still, by the sweets of Jesus' love, by the charms of His matchless beauty, by the Grace which He is prepared to give,by the Heaven whose gates of pearl are glistening before the eyes of faith, by the sea of glass unruffled by a single waveof trouble-where you shall stand forever blest if you believe in Jesus-by the Lord Himself, I entreat you, seek Him at once,while He may be found! May His Holy Spirit lead you to do so! Amen and Amen.
Verse 1. Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the Prophets unto Elisha, saying, Your servant, my husband,is dead; and you know that your servant did fear the LORD. And the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.According to the very cruel custom of those times, if a man were in debt and had no means of payment, his children were soldfor slaves. Here was a poor widow whose husband had been one of the sons of the Prophets, but he had died in debt. He wasevidently one who was known to Elisha as a faithful, God-fearing man and, perhaps that partly accounted for his poverty. Thefalse priests were fed at Jezebel's table, but because this man worshipped Jehovah, the one living and true God, he had probablybeen persecuted and hunted down until he had lost what little he formerly had and, therefore, when he died, he could leavehis wife no other legacy than that of debt. And in consequence, the creditor came to seize her two sons to be bondmen.
2. And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for you? Tell me, what have you in the house? And she said, Your handmaid hasnot anything in the house, save a pot of oil They used oil extensively in the preparation of their food as well as for lightingtheir dwellings. This woman was so poor that she had no meal in the house, but she had a little oil. When our Lord was aboutto feed the five thousand, He asked His disciples, "How many loaves have you?" So here the Prophet asked the poor woman, "Whathave you in the house?" and she told him she had only "a pot of oil."
3. Then he said, Go, borrow the vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. [See Sermon
#2063, Volume 35-THE FILLING OF EMPTY VESSELS.] Evidently the poor
woman's credit was good, though her debts were heavy. Her neighbors knew she would have paid her creditor if she could, sothey were willing to grant her request though they probably wondered why she wanted so many empty vessels.
4-7. And when you have come in, you shall shut the door behind you and your sons, and shall pour out into all those vessels,and you shall set aside that which is full. So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons, who brought thevessels to her; and she poured out And it came to pass when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yeta vessel. Andhe said unto her, There is not a vesselmore. And the oil ceased Then she came and told the man of God. As
it was through obeying his directions she had miraculously obtained this large supply of oil, she would not make use of it
without further counsel from the man of God who had already given her such good advice.
7. Andhe said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt "That is your first duty-'pay your debt'"-
7, 8. Andlive, you andyour children, on the rest. Now it happened one day that Elisha went to Shunem, where was
a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in there to eat
bread.The Prophet had helped a poor woman. Now a rich woman helps him. God sometimes pays His servants in kind
very speedily for anything they have done for those who belong to Him. At other times, He puts it to the credit of their account.
9-13. And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy Man of God, which passes by continually.Let us make a little chamber, I pray you, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and acandlestick: and it will be that whenever he comes to us, he can turn in there. And it happened one day that he came thereandhe said to Gehazi, his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him. Andhe said untohim, Say now unto her, Behold, You have been careful for us with all this care. What can I do for you?Do you want me to speakon your behalf to the king or to the captain of the army?God's servants must not be ungrateful for any kindness that is shownto them. If they receive hospitality, they must be ready to give a return of such things as they have. Elisha was willingto do anything in his power for this hospitable Shunammite, so he said to her, "Do you want me to speak on your behalf tothe king, or to the captain of the army?"
13. And she answered, I dwell among my own people. She had no desire for earthly greatness and she was very wise, for, usually,happiness is to be found in that middle state which Agur desired when he said, "Give me neither poverty nor riches." ThisShunammite had no wish to be moved to the trying and perilous atmosphere of the court or the army-so she answered, "I dwellamong my own people."
14-19. Andhe said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she has no child and her husband is old. Andhe said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door. And he said, About this season, according to the timeof life, you shall embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord. Man of God, do not lie to your handmaiden. And the woman conceived,and bore a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her according to the time of life. And the childgrew, and one dayhe went out to his father to the reapers. Andhe said unto his father, My head, myhead/The sun had been too hot for the child.Sunstroke had seized him.
19, 20. Andhe said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. And when he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on herknees till noon and then died.How transient are all our earthly treasures! The child was well, and ill and dead in the courseof a few hours! Hold with a loose hand all things earthly! Make not your gourds into gods, for they will soon wither and die.Very often we destroy our own comforts by thinking too much of them. As soon as we make anything that we have into an idol,it will be broken in pieces, or taken from us, or in some way turned into a curse to us! See how this good woman acted whenshe had suffered this great sorrow.
21, 22. And she went up and laid him on the bed of the Man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out. And she calledunto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray you, one of the young men, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the Man ofGod, and come again. She did not tell him her errand. She wished to keep the trouble to herself for a while.
23. Andhe said, Why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon, nor Sabbath. "It is not the ordinary time for goingto the Prophet."
23. And she said, (Salem, that is, Peace, as we read it), It shall be well She must have been a woman of great faith. Shechecked her natural emotions and believed in God that all would be for the best. "It shall be well."
24-26. Then she saddled a donkey and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not your riding for me, except I bidyou. So she went and came unto the Man of God at mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off,that he said to Gehazi, his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite: run now, I pray you, to meet her, and say unto her,Is it well with you, is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well. It is heroic faithwhen we can feel that if the child shall die, it is well. If this husband shall die, it is well. And if we ourselves shalldie, all is well, for He who has the arranging of all that concerns us cannot arrange otherwise than well! Alas, that oftenour rebellious spirit says, with poor old Jacob, "All these things are against me," but true faith sits humbly down at thefeet of the great Disposer of all events and says, "He has done all things well."
27. And when she came to the Man of God at the hill, she caught him by the feet. As if she feared lest he should go away beforeshe had poured into his ears the story of her grief.
27. But Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone, for her soul is vexed within her: andthe LORD has hid it from me, and has not told me. Those ancient Prophets of God had only limited knowledge.
The Spirit of God taught them some things, but not all things, so Elisha was made to feel that he was but man, even thoughthe Spirit of God often spoke through him.
28. Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? Did I not say, Do not deceive me?Then he learned what her trouble was, andunderstood that the child was dead. Before she had said as much as that, he read the news in the tones of her voice.
29, 30. Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go your way; if you meet any man,salute him not; and if any salute you, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child. And the mother ofthe child said, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. She did not believe in Gehazi, nor yet inthe staff, and herein she was a wise woman. God would not bless the Prophet's staff to the child's restoration, lest relicworship should spring up among the Israelites, or lest they should begin to attach some value to outward signs!
30-34. And he arose, and followed her. And Gehazi passed on before them and laid the staff upon the face of the child; butthere was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed. He went in, therefore, and shutthe door upon them and prayed unto the LORD. And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, andhis eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the childwaxed warm. See the power of prayer? The very gates of death are made to open when Elisha, a man of like passions with ourselves,bows before the Lord in prayer! Learn a lesson also from Elisha's attitude toward the dead child, for often God is pleasedto give spiritual life through the power of human sympathy. When we put ourselves into the condition of the sinner-hope forhim, pray for him, agonize for him in broken-hearted sympathy on his account, putting ourselves as far as we can into hisplace-God often makes us the instruments by which His Spirit quickens the dead in sin!
30-37. Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the
child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he calledher. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up your son. Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herselfto the ground, and took up her son, and went out Her heart was too full for speech just then, so she took up her son and wentout.


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In 1999 John & Barbara Norman were operating an old time general store in their home town of East Bend. Looking for an effective way to tell folks about the store was always top of mind… here's an idea… we could expand our store newsletter to a magazine format, promoting the store, but also area points of interest as well as other neighborhood stores.
Over the next year the couple worked on the idea and were were lucky enough to find a firm in the nearby town of Boonville to help them understand the complexities of desktop publishing. In September of 2000, the magazine known as Yadkin Valley Living launched, found a niche, and took off! The couple wound up closing their retail store to devote full effort to the publication.
Barbara's background in high school/elementary teaching and Library Science combined with John's long career in radio advertising sales lead to a strong editorial and business foundation that now, nearly two decades later, continues to grow. The company has a wonderful team of contributors who pack the magazine with page after page of locally produced content.
The magazine operated for many years in what was a horse barn, turned offices in the middle of the Norman family farm. Today the company has moved back to "downtown" East Bend in an old farmhouse that offers plenty of office room to grow. The out in the country feel and theme to the magazine continues to celebrate home and garden, family, inspiring stories and great Southern Foods.
In March of 2017 the magazine earned a new name: Yadkin Valley Magazine! A name that symbolizes exactly what it is, the Yadkin Valley's regional magazine.
It seems that readers can't wait to get their hands on every issue, discovering good people doing good things in a beautiful place, North Carolina's Yadkin Valley.


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It's billed as an online "co-parenting facilitator," but 2Houses.com could just as well be called "sanity saver" and "communication coach" for divorced moms and dads sharing custody of their children.
Even the most amicable relationships can feel the strain of staying on the same page when a child needs a booster shot next week (wait, which one was it again?), a gift for her BFF's birthday party, the away-game uniform for basketball on Friday, new pants because hers are now floods, sodium bicarbonate (and supervision) for the science project due Monday, $50 for the field trip in two weeks, and a reminder that "bedtime is 10 p.m. at daddy's house."
The service not only helps cordially convey and organize these details, it also offers blogs and advice geared toward building a healthy family—even if that family has two addresses. 2houses is an app for Chrome, iPhone, and Facebook.


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This past weekend, I joined my first game jam, hosted by Butterscotch Shenanigans! I've never participated in one, nor have I ever fully made a game.
Several years ago, I dabbled with the idea of learning programming, but never took it seriously and only learned what I needed to help me get by. I was in a rough place career-wise; I wasn't in a place where I was able to focus on one specific field within IT and I was mainly putting out fires in my company with very little resources and a tiny team. So when I did get into experimenting with making games, I tried to ease into it with platforms like Clickteam Fusion and RPG Maker. I didn't get very far into learning the coding behind it and coddled myself by mainly sticking to the GUI-side of things.
I did, however, learn a bunch about logic, game mechanics, and meta-game type of stuff that you might not actually consider when you jump into creating games. How much did it help during my first game jam? Not sure it helped at all, haha. I went into this with Chovin (his name is going to pop up a lot, by the way), kind of hoping he'd carry us through it with his amazing coding skills. However, we jumped in deciding to learn a new platform altogether–Godot. I didn't do enough research in the days leading up to the jam, and really had to rely on Chovin to do the heavy lifting…on a platform that he didn't know, either. I only helped with the mediocre artwork and finding sound bites and a song to use in our game while he trudged his way through tutorials and reference guides to construct something playable.
Would I do it again? What would I do differently?
It was a lot of fun, but I definitely felt the pressure. Chovin constantly reassured me we didn't have to finish our game, and that the game jam for him is more about the learning process and overall experience. Of course my sometimes-overachieving tendencies scream at me to set the bar unrealistically high, even though rationally I knew we couldn't get much done in two-ish days. I'd definitely do it again, but I'd like to be more familiar with the platform we'll be using beforehand–that way, we can focus on actually creating something together, as opposed to stumbling through the learning. Not that there's anything wrong with learning as you go along, but there's a time and place for learning the very fundamentals of a system, and a game jam is not it (at least for me).
I'd like to get to a place where I'm the one doing most, if not all the coding. I entertained the idea of finishing our game to give me more experience on Godot, but I'm not sure it's the platform I want to invest in first. I already have an unruly backlog of things I want to learn as well as practicing and refining the things I already know, so adding yet another engine I'm not keen on feels overwhelming. I like the charm of PICO-8, so I'll likely stick to that for now.
As a last segue and shameless plug, check out our Intro to Game Development with PICO-8 course on freeCodeCampGuam's website! Chovin and I are still working on creating the content as of this post, but we hope to make this course comprehensive enough not only to get you going on PICO-8, but so that you can transfer the skills and knowledge you learn to other programming languages and technologies and explore the world of computer science!
Happy coding! And if you're like me, happy floundering about in variables and functions! 😁
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text: Our Annual Fund Appeal kicks off in September! The goal of this fund is to provide tuition assistance to Holy Rosary Bilingual Academy families. This allows for a Catholic education to be feasible for many. Holy Rosary gives out over $400,000 in tuition assistance to families. Please help to support our mission. You can make a donation directly online here. Donate now!


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Working internationally is a choice. The benefits are there but it depends on you. Life is about choices.
Frost isn't the only one who came to the fork in the road. The difference is you'll reach the fork at least twice: at the beginning of your career and at the end.
International Experience Will Change the Whole Direction of Your Life
If you take the road less travelled and go for the international experience, you'll truly change the whole direction of your life.
You and your family will never see yourselves in quite the same way again and when you go home, wherever that might be, you'll certainly won't see your old friends and neighbours and even your extended family with the same eyes you'd used before.
Your children will have whole new ways of looking at the world and the parameters around their own lives. Their futures will change as alterably as their lives have unless you hide out in an expat ghetto.
International Work Could be Your Second Chance
Your second chance comes at the end of your career where you've climbed your mountains, scaled a few cliffs, got scrapes and a few tumbles and have a story to tell to people in new countries just starting on the journey you're wrapping up.
The second chance to choose the road less travelled may have a cost in terms of old friends at home who are just retiring slipping off to the golf course but the satisfaction tied up in the words" Im paying back" can be one of the greatest joys of your whole career.
So, there it is. Take a risk. Share an adventure. Or, hanker down and plod out a life of safety and convention.
Benefits to Working Internationally
Your life doesn't have to be a novel but it could have pieces of a novel in it.
When you take your chance at working internationally, here are the benefits:
1. Strengthen your skills in working with other cultures and with a team coming from varied backgrounds.
Even for just a short time, international work is intense. This is especially true when you work with an international team to put together a plan or a framework to present to the Government.
Usually, each member of the team has his or her own particular assignment but it must fit together in the overall plan. Cultures, experiences, expertise and egos are all at play.
Disagreements have to be resolved and I tell you, even if your part is only for 3 months, it will teach you plenty of lessons on working with a team from varied backgrounds, lessons you will never learn if you just work in your own country.
Working with the locals who in many cases will be your bosses will also be a challenge but it will hone your skills to understand where other people come from when they express their views or behave in ways you won't understand.
2. Build your skills to work more effectively in challenging and unfamiliar environments.
Maybe you're used to getting data easily or meeting people you need to talk to when you are preparing a paper in your own country.
This is often not true in many countries where you can hardly get data or information. In many cases, there is no mechanism for efficient data collection. In other cases, they are hesitant to share information. So, what do you do?
I remember one consultant whom we truly admire. He goes through his work without much complaint as the others do whose only cop out for their ineffectual behaviour is to blame the locals. This consultant has been very effective and he has led or be part of hundreds of projects.
What we observed is when he needed data, he goes to where it is lodged and stay there and waits for it even if it takes him a day to get it. His patience often pays off. Maybe, they take pity on an old man.
3. Provide your family international experience which can enhance their career possibilities.
Even when your family only stay with you for a short time, the experience will always shape their lives.
If they stay longer especially study there for a year or two or even more, they often expand their network of friends from different countries, learn about other cultures and learn to speak another language. Something deeper than that happens internally, too. It shapes the person they become.
4. Enhance your own career possibilities.
Once you have done one international assignment, you often get into the network of international consultants who, if you have proven to be a good team leader or a capable specialist, will recommend you for the next assignment.
Before you know it, you will keep working internationally and never go back to your regular job. If you do go back, you will have the advantage of having international experience and all that such brings and will be an asset to your company.
5. Expand your network internationally.
Not only will you have friends locally, but you will be meeting and living with many other expats. Before you know it, you will have friends in many other countries.
6. Learn a new language, work skills and about new places.
Often, you think all you need to do is transfer the skills you have in your work back home. A new environment can challenge this. You may have to work on other things you have never done before and learn fast to do it.
There are many aspects of your skills set that will be further enhanced when you work in new environments. Other skills which were not important in your own country may become key in your new workplace.
Here's one that is fun. When you work in other countries, it is easy to travel to nearby countries or arrange stop-overs when you go to your new assignment. So, this is your chance to see the places you have always wanted to visit.
7. Experience new values, traditions and ways of doing things. Whatever country you will work in will have plenty of unique tradition and ways. Becoming part of these is a rare experience. Chances are it will bring you new insight not only about other cultures but your own self as well.
So, what are you waiting for? In our family, we've always said the difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. so children, grandchildren, sisters and bothers are all over the world sharing and being part of the great international community. the choice is always yours.
Take the road less taken…it will make all the difference.
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Everything was excellent.
The only thing I would change is more time to shop for souvenirs and to take pictures. With the tight time constraint between sights, it felt like we were rushing and I didn't get to shop for keepsakes for myself for memories or souvenirs for family and friends. But overall a great experience and a wonderful trip.
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By Kimber of Myhcgdietrecipes.blogspot.com
makes 20 (1/4 C) cookies
Approx 164 calories per cookie
makes 20 (1/4 C) cookies
Approx 164 calories per cookie
1/2 C coconut oil, melted
1/4 t powdered stevia
5 (1 1/4 C) egg beaters
1/2 t vanilla
1/8 t salt
Stir in:
1 1/2 C non sweetened coconut
3/4 C unsweetened chocolate chips
3/4 C nuts
1 C coconut flour
Drop or roll into balls and place on pizza stone or cookie sheet.
Note: They will not spread.
Note: They will not spread.
Bake in preheated oven 375 degrees for 14-15 minutes.
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Ovation Lifestyle Nara Vase Arrangement
NARA symbolises stability and maturity in growth, with a captivating mix of pure white and cool toned flowers.
50cm L x 22cm W x 35cm H
*All flowers and leaves used are artificial.
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text: Ms Shubika Bilkha, Director Real Estate Management Institute, shared her views on how Mumbai Development Plan 2034, where Mumbai is currently facing land shortage but after this plan coming up, it has changed the earlier demarcated land categories and has opened up use of the salt pan land for affordable housing projects. 10 lac economical homes are expected to be built on these lands. This plan will lead to one of the biggest additions in organizable land for housing purpose in recent history.


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The title Professional organizer and NABBW Associate Regina Leeds uses to describe herself.
Leeds is the author of several books on the topic of organization:
"The Zen of Organizing; Creating Order and Peace in Your Home, Career and Life"
"Creating a Place Without Losing Your Space: a Couples Guide to Blending Homes, Lives and Clutter" (Alpha Books).
In 2002 she ghost wrote a book for a shelf help guru on an aspect of getting organized.
"The Idiot's Guide to Decluttering" (Alpha Books) was published in May, 2007.
New York Times Best Seller "One Year to an Organized Life" (Perseus) hit bookstores in January, 2008.
"One Year to an Organized Work Life" debuted January, 2009.
She wrote book seven, "One Year to an Organized Financial Life" with writer and financial planner Russell Wilde.
Book number eight, written with Meagan Francis, is "One Year to an Organized Life with Baby."
Regina was a regular contributor for two years to Sirius Satellite Radio Channel 114 and their web site Lime.com. A one-hour TV special called 'The Zen of Organizing' was created for the Fine Living Cable Network in the spring of 2003 and continues to air.
The 'Zen Organizer' has been featured in national magazines, including Bon Appetit, Redbook, Delta Airlines' Shuttle Sheet, The Utne Reader, New Age Magazine, In Style, Women's World, TV Guide Canada and Los Angeles Magazine among others. The latter named her the 'Best Organizer in LA'. Regina was a regular contributor to VegNews Magazine during 2006. She has been featured in the Home section of the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. She was the resident expert for the Home and Garden Channel at iVillage.com for 5 years.


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If at first you don't succeed. . . Governments around the world are taking a dim view of flu vaccines, partly because they're expensive, but also because there is not enough evidence to show they are a proven preventative. A few might also be warned off by the American experience in the 1970s when the government was sued by patients or relatives of patients who either died or suffered serious reactions to the approved vaccine of its time.
Not to be deterred from a slice of this lucrative cake, the drug companies are now working on nasal sprays instead. First to be approved in the UK, Sweden and Australia is zanamivir, while waiting in the wings is ostelamivir, both virus restricting agents.
Zanamivir was tested on 455 flu patients and apparently relieved the symptoms quicker than a placebo. Researchers admitted that much more research needed to be carried out, and there was the small matter of adverse reactions, which included bronchitis and cough (BMJ 1999; 319: 655-6; Lancet 1998; 352: 1877-81).


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W A R H O L - Color Bleed Version
This is the Andy Warhol bridge, depicted in a bleeding-color style of selective color. This photograph was taken during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, when the city was on lockdown and there was virtually no traffic. Don't worry, I practiced social distancing and didn't come near a soul while taking this! Still, it was haunting to see the city so...empty. Absolutely strange to be able to stand right on the center line of this bridge and not worry about cars or traffic...and to simply focus on the sights. It was wonderful to get some fresh air, on top of that! (This is the 'color bleed' version of the photograph, in which the golden color bleeds out from the bridge itself. There is another version, where the gold color is confined to only the bridge)
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If you order the photograph from one of the predetermined sizes below, it will arrive loose (unframed), professionally printed on high grade photo paper.