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Music Discussions
A Quick Music Discussion Guide
Main Point of Discussion
When things look hopeless, God always gives us a reason to hope.
The Song
Your kids probably know a little bit about The Fray, the Denver-based pop-rock quartet that's been straddling the worlds of mainstream and Christian music for a few years. The band's debut,
How to Save a Life
(2005), got plenty of attention due in no small part to its singles, "Over My Head (Cable Car)"—a monster hit in the mainstream charts—as well as the even-more-popular album title track, which hit #3 on the
Hot 100 after the TV show
Grey's Anatomy
picked it up.
A second release (plus a Christmas EP) didn't hit quite the heights as the band's debut, but with the Fray's latest effort,
Scars and Stories,
you might say the fellas have a "heartbeat" again.
Not coincidentally, that's also the name of the Fray's single which has been hanging out for about four months in the
Hot 100, this week sitting at #51. (It's also made a splash on the iTunes chart, this week at #31.)
If you or your kids have been among the nearly 3.8 million folks who've watched the song's stylish music video
on YouTube, you might say there's not much meat behind the visuals (i.e., majestic waves crashing on a torch-lit beach while The Fray plays for a small crowd of hip twentysomethings).
But there is more—much more—that doesn't meet the eye.
Frontman Isaac Slade talked to
Relevant Magazine
recently about the new album—and the impetus behind the band's newest single, "Heartbeat":
"All of our songs are grounded in personal experiences…'Heartbeat'…came from a trip I took to Kigali where I actually felt the pulse of this woman's hand. We were all standing around praying for the food before lunch. It was like I could feel Rwanda coming back to life—like she was the country herself. I went outside, and I remember I busted out my iPhone to record an idea for the song. I turned the corner and there were five or six little school kids singing, and shouting, and jumping up and down, and laughing, and pointing at me and yelling—like they knew I was singing about them or something. So if there is any hope in that song, it just kind of came from walking the streets of the capital that was littered with bodies 20 years ago. To where it is now, it's coming alive. I just tried to capture that feeling. I think if you put hope in songs on purpose it just feels like Botox. It has to be something you actually sense for real."
Sorta makes you wonder why the band didn't just simply recreate Slade's real-life moment for the video in the first place—
would've been an eye opener.
The Music Video:
The song's video can be found at the following link:
Introducing the Song
We're about to take a deeper look at the song "Heartbeat" by The Fray; we'll also discuss what the band has to say about the tune. The bottom line is that the song's video doesn't begin to capture what was really going on in Isaac Slade's head when he wrote it.
(Pass out the lyrics and play the song—preferably the music video linked above.)
Song Lyrics
We're on an open-bed truck on the highway
Rain is coming down, and we're on the run
Think I can feel the breath in your body
We gotta keep on running 'til we see the sun
Oh you gotta fire and it's burnin' in the rain
Thought that it went out, but it's burnin' just the same
And you don't look back, not for anything
'Cause love someone, love them all the same
If you love someone, love them all the same
Oh I feel your heartbeat
And oh, you're comin' around, comin' around, comin' around
If you can love somebody, love them all the same
You gotta love somebody, love them all the same
I'm singing, oh, I'm feeling your heartbeat
I'm tryin' to put it all back together
I've got a story, and I'm tryin' to tell it right
I've got the kerosene and the desire
I'm trying to start a flame in the heart of the night
I know the memories rushing into mind
I want to kiss your scars tonight
I'm laying here,
'Cause you've gotta try, you've gotta let me in, let me in
Oh I feel your heartbeat
And oh, you're comin' around, comin' around, comin' around
You love somebody, you gotta, you gotta love somebody
You gotta, I'm singing, oh, I feel your heartbeat
All your heartbeat, yeah, I said
All your heartbeat, yeah
All your heartbeat
Transitional Statement
The song's melody and (especially) the music video for "Heartbeat" are definitely cool and slick. But after watching the video, you might be surprised that the song's creator got his inspiration for the tune through an experience that's about as far removed from pop-song "cool" as you can get. Let's talk about it, as well as what the Bible has to say about hope in the midst of hopelessness.
Divide into Small Groups
Let's split into our discussion groups, and then afterward we'll come together for a final word.
for a quick training article on how to maximize your small groups using our small group format—a great resource to equip your small group leaders.
Discussion Questions
AROUND THE CIRCLE: Before we dive in, everybody tell us your name and what was happening to you or around you the last time it felt like your heart was going to just pound out of your chest (e.g., scary experience, big surprise, etc.).
ASK A FEW: After watching the "Heartbeat" music video and reading the lyrics, what do you sense The Fray is trying to say through this song?
(If your students are getting stuck, that may not be surprising, as the lyrics are pretty vague. Some possible answers: Someone who's in love and wanting it to be a mutual feeling; someone who's concerned about a loved one and reaching out…but neither response really hits home.)
Be ready to address the holocaust in Rwanda from 1994; here is a story that will help with that task:
. Then say,
"You might be surprised, but Isaac Slade told
Relevant Magazine
a pretty interesting story behind the creation of "Heartbeat." Check this out."
"[It] came from a trip I took to Kigali where I actually felt the pulse of this woman's hand. We were all standing around praying for the food before lunch. It was like I could feel Rwanda coming back to life—like she was the country herself. I went outside, and I remember I busted out my iPhone to record an idea for the song. I turned the corner and there were five or six little school kids singing, and shouting, and jumping up and down, and laughing, and pointing at me and yelling—like they knew I was singing about them or something. So if there is any hope in that song, it just kind of came from walking the streets of the capital that was littered with bodies 20 years ago. To where it is now, it's coming alive. I just tried to capture that feeling. I think if you put hope in songs on purpose it just feels like Botox. It has to be something you actually sense for real."
ASK A FEW: Wow! That's a whole lot different from what the music video seems to say about the song, eh? Okay, given that explanation by the songwriter himself, how do you now interpret the song's themes? (Leader—answers you're looking for:
He's singing about the process of rebirth; getting up after you've fallen down; finding hope in the midst of hopelessness.
ASK A FEW: Check out these lyrics in the chorus: "Oh you gotta fire and it's burnin' in the rain / Thought that it went out, but it's burnin' just the same / And you don't look back, not for anything…" What kinds of images do these lines bring up in your mind, especially related to the idea of hope in the midst of hopelessness? (Leader—answers you're looking for:
Relief after someone who's really sick suddenly gets better; relief after someone who's been depressed or even suicidal comes out it…)
ASK A FEW: Given the band's Christian convictions and the songwriter's explanation, those lyrics seem to indicate that—with God—hope is always just around the corner even when you're walking down "Hopelessness Street." Can a few of you share some stories where that has proven true in your lives?
Read the following passage from the Bible:
Romans 4:17-19 (NIV)
17 As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations." He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.
18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, "So shall your offspring be." 19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah's womb was also dead.
ASK A FEW: In this passage, Paul is referring to the miracle of Abraham becoming a father at 100 years of age—and when his wife, Sarah, was unable to bear children. In spite of the physical facts, who does verse 17 say Abraham believed in? (Leader—
answer you're looking for: God.
ASK A FEW: What humanly impossible feat does verse 17 say that God does? (Leader—answer you're looking for:
God "gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not."
ASK A FEW: Is this biblical declaration something that's easy for you to believe…or difficult? Why/why not?
ASK A FEW: One of the next lyrics in the song is: "If you can love somebody, love them all the same…" Do you believe that means "love everybody the same?" Or "if you love someone, you need to love that person no matter what he or she is going through?" Why? (Leader—answer you're looking for:
The grammar is a bit off, but it seems as though it's the second option—we need to love our loved ones no matter what…
ASK A FEW: What do you suppose is the connection between a person having strong hope in God in the midst of hopelessness and being loved by others—or at least one person—no matter what?
Read the following passage from the Bible:
Hebrews 10:23-25 (NIV)
23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
ASK A FEW: When you notice that others are behaving "unswervingly," what does that look like? (Leader—answer you're looking for:
They're going straight ahead; not veering right or left or going around in circles…
ASK A FEW: What is the writer of Hebrews telling us to do "unswervingly?" (Leader—answer you're looking for:
holding to the hope we profess…
ASK A FEW: What reason do we have for maintaining such unswerving hope? (Leader—answer you're looking for:
because God, who promised to give us life where there was no life, is
ASK A FEW: What do verses 24 and 25 say goes hand in hand with having such hope? (Leader—answer you're looking for:
Spurring each other on toward love and good deeds; continue meeting together; encouraging each other…
ASK A FEW: If God is faithful and provides us hope and life anyway, why does the Bible emphasize that we need to love each other, too? I mean, since God is going to do what God is going to do, why does our mutual love/encouragement matter so much? (Leader—answers you're looking for:
First of all, because that's simply how God set it up; secondly, God wants us to experience his love for us directly…as well as through loving each other with the love God first gave each of us!
ASK A FEW: One of the last lines in the song is "I want to kiss your scars tonight…" and then leading to a plea: "…you've gotta let me in, let me in." Do you believe these lyrics describe God reaching out to love us and comfort us in the midst of hopeless situations? If so, why? If not, why not?
AROUND THE CIRCLE: What can we each do in our individual lives (and as a community of brothers and sisters in Christ) to recognize and accept God's constant reach to give us hope?
Wrap Up
We're living in perilous times. The world economy is still really bad. A lot of people are out of work. Nations all over the globe can't pay their bills, either—and there are protests and even riots because of how uncertain things are.
Plus, young people everywhere are graduating from high school and college without decent job prospects—and those lucky enough to even finish college are usually saddled with student loans that are getting harder and harder to pay back.
And that's just the beginning of our planet's many troubles. You can all read the headlines. They indicate that there's not much reason for having a hopeful attitude. I mean, where is God really in the midst of all these troubles? (And to be fair, a lot of us are just starting to feel the general hardships—many, many countries have been living with a sense of uncertainty, unrest, and hopelessness for decades…even centuries. Only now are we "catching up" here in the West.)
But as we've seen from God's love letter to us, the Bible, Jesus is in the business of giving hope where no one on his or her own could possible experience it.
And that's just it.
The phrases "on my own" and "on your own" have no place in God's eternally hopeful community. Because as we've learned, it's in the midst of community and being together—praying, loving, encouraging, crying, comforting—that Jesus most readily and powerfully comes alive; Christ's hope is supposed to be a shared experience!
So before we close in prayer, I want you all to close your eyes and think about what a community like that would look like in your own lives. Even more…can our group become that kind of community? If we are that type of community, how can we be even more attuned to God's mission of providing hope where hope by any human standard has no place existing?
Let's pray that God will show us tangible, practical ways we can "become" hope for each other…and for our larger communities…and for the world.
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HARTFORD (AP) -- A study of police procedures in Connecticut has found problems with how departments handle complaints against officers.
A report released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut lists issues ranging from a lack of complaint forms, to threats of intimidation or prosecution of those who wish to bring complaints.
The organization says the study points to the need for statewide standards to ensure that those with complaints about misconduct will not be turned away, intimidated or silenced.
A message seeking comment was left Tuesday with Southington Police Chief Jack Daly, the president of the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association.
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Ryan Lochte is on the move — from 90210 to 30 Rock, for a cameo on the NBC comedy's upcoming seventh and final season, New York Magazine reports.
Lochte, 28, who won five medals at the 2012 London Olympics and drew headlines after a controversial comment from his mother, was set to film the secret role this week. 30 Rock writer Jack Burditt tweeted a picture of Lochte with creator, executive producer and star Tina Fey.
Exclusive: 30 Rock casts Bryan Cranston and Catherine O'Hara
Lochte has already filmed a guest-starring role on the Oct. 29 episode of 90210 and he is also set to contribute to E! News's fashion week coverage. He joins previously announced 30 Rock guests Bryan Cranston and Catherine O'Hara.
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Jeff Curran had made up his mind, but didn't want to leave any doubts that his decision to end his 17-year professional fighting career just before midnight Friday night wasn't made on the spur of the moment.
So on Thursday – a day before the 35-year-old Curran dropped a split decision loss to Pedro Munhoz for the Resurrection Fighting Alliance bantamweight championship – he sent a text message to Brian Butler, the managing partner at Sucker Punch sports management.
"I am retiring from fighting after tomorrow and hope I can leave this sport a world champion on a win streak," Curran wrote. "I don't want the public to know yet, but figured we should have some pre-fight evidence :) I know u will keep it straight. Now don't miss tomorrow night!!! God is going into this one with me."
Curran's decision to retire after 53 professional fights didn't come easily. But he could no longer justify the abuse his body took. He had grown tired of the politics surrounding mixed martial arts fighting and wasn't willing to sacrifice missing his kids grow up in exchange for another grueling training camp.
At first, Curran informed only a few people – including his wife Sarah – of his decision. In the days leading up to Friday night's five-round championship fight in Carson, Calif., he told 10-15 more. Occasionally, he wavered back and forth, leaving the door open to keep fighting if UFC officials offered him a spot back in the sport's top promotion if he could beat Munhoz.
But deep down, Curran knew this was it.
"I felt like it was time – win or lose," Curran said. "... I've accepted that I've had a really great career, being ranked No. 2 (in the world) a couple of times, fighting for world titles is going to have to be enough. I never wanted it to be enough, but it's going to have to be.
"I have to move on."
Two weeks before his 36th birthday, Curran's body was telling him it was time. He suffers from arthritis in his hands, feet, knees and elbow. He has put off shoulder and elbow surgery and had taken a lot of punches – both in the octagon and in training camp sessions. With a family and a Crystal Lake MMA training business to run, Curran couldn't consider a future taking more punishment than he already had.
"I just don't want to be that retired fighter that can't articulate and think and talk," Curran said. "I don't want any trauma-induced Alzheimer's type of stuff or dementia."
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"It was definitely emotional, it was hard – not just losing the fight but knowing that he was retiring and knowing this is it," Pat Curran said Monday. "A win would have been great, but it still would have been emotional knowing this was his last fight."
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Since announcing his retirement in the moments immediately following Friday's loss, Curran said his decision has come with some reflection. After suffering a broken orbital bone, broken nose and broken hand in the fight, Curran said the long trip back from Los Angeles has given him time to consider life without a fight on his calendar for the first time in nearly 20 years.
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A California court has ruled that forcing phone retailers to display cancer warnings infringes their first amendment rights, unless said warnings also point out the FCC's scepticism over the threat.
The Northern District Court agreed that there was no evidence that mobiles cause cancer, and that the flyer and poster the city intended to mandate would oblige shopkeepers to express an opinion with which they disagreed. However, the court also suggested that a better-worded warning might be acceptable, as long as it was clear that the opinions presented were not those of the shopkeeper, the FCC or the vast majority of reputable scientists.
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The CTIA got so upset that it pulled its annual trade show from San Francisco in protest. The show had delivered over $80m to the city over the preceding years (though, to be fair, that's the CTIA's estimate).
The city backed down on product labelling, and instead started pushing out the flyer-and-poster plan which has now been knocked back. San Francisco now has until the end of the month to come back with a revised flyer making it clear that it represents the tin-foil-hat brigade rather than the commonly-accepted (and scientifically justified) view that mobile telephony is harmless unless you throw it really hard, though the CTIA is clear that it will fight on until California shopkeepers have the right to say absolutely nothing on the subject. ®


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Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Etsy Shop to Check Out
My cousin has an Etsy shop with a few friends - their work is beautiful. Check them out!
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Free Pattern: Beanie with Crossed Texture Detail Row - 9-12 months
Premie size here.
Newborn size here.
3-month size here.
6-month size here.
I love this color combination, and the way the texture row looks like a headband with the flower on it. I used the small version of the no-sew rose, the open version.
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Labels: 9-12 months, baby, crochet, free pattern, hat, medium yarn
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Pattern Update: Beanie with Crossed Texture Detail Row - Newborn
I thought this pattern could use some fresh pictures. While I had the gorgeous yellow and grey Martha Stewart Crafts with Lion Brand Yarn extra soft wool blend out, I made a new version. I love how it turned out! Much cuter than the original.
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Free Pattern: Triple Crochet Bubble Flower
This is the flower I used on the kid-sized lacy shells headwarmer pattern. I love how the cluster makes a puff. Though if I had made the chains bigger, it probably would have laid down flat - if yours isn't puffing up, try making the chains smaller.
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Free Pattern: Lacy Shells Headwarmer - Kid Size
Adult size here.
This version of the adult lacy shells headwarmer pattern is a little smaller, for toddlers and small kids. I decorated it with this flower.
Medium weight yarn
Size 5 mm hook
Tapestry needle for weaving in ends
SC-single crochet
DC-double crochet
Sl st-slip stitch
Space-space between the second and third DCS in cluster.
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Labels: accessory, crochet, free pattern, headband, kid, medium yarn, toddler, youth
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Free Pattern: Lacy Shells Tie Back - All sizes
This is a tie-back version of the Lacy Shells Headwarmer - adult size here. I was trying to make it in baby size, since it would be a super cute photo prop, or a headband for a special event. But I knew the buttons would dig into baby's head, so I switched it to a tie-back. What came about was different enough that I thought it would be worth doing in adult size, too! I love tiebacks - they are great gifts, since you don't have to have the exact size. And they are quick to make, so you can make bunches of them as accessories.
The baby size will stretch enough to work on a little kid - pictured below is my 2yo in the baby size. Isn't she cute? And the adult size will work on a bigger kid, the back of the thick part just almost touched on my 4yo's head.
Sport/baby weight yarn
Size 4 mm/G6 hook
Tapestry needle for weaving in ends
SC-single crochet
DC-double crochet
Sl st-slip stitch
Space-space between the second and third DCS in cluster.
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Labels: 3 months, 6 months, 9-12 months, accessory, adult womens, baby, crochet, free pattern, headband, kid, newborn, sport yarn
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Free Pattern: Earflap Hat - Adult Medium/Large
Premie size here
Newborn size here
3-month size here
6-month size here
9-12 month size here
Toddler size here
Youth/Adult Small sizes here
The model for this adult medium size is my studly husband! The large size just has an extra round, so the two row color change wouldn't work as nicely for the large size. Love how this turned out in Patons Classic Wool.
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Labels: adult mens, adult womens, crochet, free pattern, hat, medium yarn
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Anna Lipscomb was only 11 years old when she first visited Haiti and came face to face with the reality of children living in desperate poverty. But this talented young music artist did not consider herself too young to help the orphans she met there. Determined to make a difference, Anna used her gifts of music to be a gift to the needy. She wrote a song, sold CDs, and used her Giving Fund with NCF to raise over $90,000 ... enough to build four orphanages in Haiti!
Three givers multiplied their giving impact by giving their businesses, real estate, and stocks before the sale.
A family patriarch passes on values before valuables
A strong love for Jesus! That's the Moye family motto and the motivation behind this family's infectious generosity. And it all started with "Poppy" (Jim Moye), who made it point to pass on his faith. From donating land that was part of the Appalachian Trail to using their Giving Funds to multiply their impact on their favorite ministries, the Moyes are carrying on their giving journey for generations with NCF.
A couple rises from the ashes to birth new life
With an exquisite voice and a heart to serve God, Kristin Cheng thought her life's purpose and plan was clear – to serve God through singing. Until a horrific plane crash left her scarred and silent. But through it all, Kristin and her husband, James, discovered new hope through giving and a new song in their hearts – the lullaby of orphans redeemed. Their story is one of hope and triumph, thanks to God's grace and their heartfelt generosity.


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Monument Lyrics
It's Monday morning,
and I would kill for a chance to drive.
Get so far away from here with you my dear,
that I'll never leave your side.
Nobody knows the troubles I've seen,
in a van, on a soapbox for the world to see.
Miles away,
and I wish this didn't mean so much to me,
to be a monument for the rest of them.
Were getting older and I've started to fear for my life.
Is this the way that it should be?
This whole thing's riding on me.
It's been a long road so far with nowhere to turn.
There's no looking back from here,
no more second guessing my fears.
20 bucks says you'll remember me when you see me on your TV screen.
It may be the first time, but it won't be the last time.
I'll scream so loud that everyone in this place will hear every word I say,
cause this is my time, this our time to shine.
Let nothing stand in our way.


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Wasted time: Is Washington ready to work?
November 12. 2012 6:12PM
Immediately after President Obama won reelection the focus in Washington, D.C., turned to avoiding the fiscal cliff. It was a reminder of just how little has been accomplished in the nation's capital in the last four years.
The "fiscal cliff" refers to the $500 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts ($400 billion in tax hikes, only $100 billion in spending cuts) set to take effect at the end of this year if the President and Congress cannot agree to another arrangement in time. Economists of all political leanings agree that the failure to reach a deal will plunge the economy into another recession.
The inability of Washington to reach a deal to lower the debt and bring the budget closer to balance was a huge failure of the last four years. It was not the only one. We are no closer to fixing Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security than we were when President Obama took office. We are more than $5 trillion deeper in debt. The unemployment rate was 7.8 percent in January of 2009, when Obama was sworn in as President. It is 7.9 percent now. The tax code remains a tangle of growth-choking complexity, institutions that are "too big to fail" still pose huge risks to our national economy, and health insurance prices continue their upward march.
The longer the agonizingly slow pace of this recovery persists, the clearer it becomes how much time both sides squandered. The American people voted on Tuesday to give Washington a little more time. But there is not much left. If they don't use it wisely, we are all going to pay a heavy price.


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First drive review: Honda CR-V
Honda is on the prowl to win some more customers in the SUV market – and it plans to do this with the new fourth-generation CR-V.
What is it?
The fourth-generation of Honda's popular soft-roader, the CR-V. Sold in 160 countries around the world, Honda have shifted an impressive five million since the first model was introduced way back in 1995. Around 170,000 of those are on the road in the UK and Honda hopes this new version will get that figure up to the quarter-of-a-million mark.
What's new?
Quite a bit actually. An updated design gives the car a more planted and aerodynamic stance and the height and length have been reduced, by 30mm and 50mm respectively. There's just as much space inside though. The car has a flat floor underbody to optimise airflow and there has been a 12 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions.
What's under the bonnet?
The big news here is the introduction of a front-wheel drive petrol version of the car which means buyers will be able to get into a CR-V for around £21,000. Honda hope that will widen the car's appeal. In addition, it continues to be offered with the smooth, free-revving 2.0-litre i-VTEC petrol engine and the relaxed and torquey 2.2-litre i-DTEC.
What's the kit like?
Honda has introduced a new 'grade logic' to be more in line with other manufacturers, and therefore simplify things for customers. The kit offered is generous... even on the 'S' models there's a five-inch Intelligent Multi-Info Display screen; dual-zone climate control; cruise control and 17-inch alloys. There is a wealth of safety features too, with more sets of initials than you can shake a stick at.
Any rivals?
Honda claim to have helped create a new market segment with the introduction of the CR-V – and things have got a lot more crowded since its introduction in the last millennium. Ford's Kuga, Mitshubishi's Outlander, Nissan's Qashqai and Kia's Sportage are all competing for the same punters.
Is it any good?
Well, with five million on the road, it must have something going for it. Perhaps not the most exciting drive we've ever had but in terms of comfort, handling, equipment levels and general all-round competency, we'd give it a well-deserved thumbs-up. Maybe that quarter-million target will soon be in sight.
The Autoblog Verdict
Quieter, more environmentally friendly and with oodles of space, the Honda CR-V is a winner in our eyes and VERY family friendly. Dogs, golf clubs, camping gear... the CR-V will swallow the lot and get everyone home comfortably and safely.
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Everything in the universe is made of matter. Matter has mass (that means it is made up of something) and takes up space. Matter is made of atoms. Atoms are teeny, tiny – so tiny you can't see them.
Some things are made up of just one kind of atom. These things are called elements. Some examples are oxygen, hydrogen & copper – you can look at a list of all of the known elements on a periodic table.
A single atom has three parts:
- Electrons – a particle with a negative charge
- Protons – a particle with a positive charge
- Neutrons – a particle with no charge
The center of the atom is called the nucleus and the protons and neutrons are located there. The electrons are outside the nucleus. Sometimes two or more atoms come together to make a molecule. Water is an examply of a molecule. Water is made up of 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom.
What you might not know, is that there is a whole lot of empty space between the parts of an atom. When atoms come together to form molecules the molecules also have a lot of empty space. Atoms and molecules are made up mostly of empty space. You can prove that this is true:
What You Need:
- A Glass
- Warm Tap Water
- Powdered Sugar
Fill the glass all the way to the top with warm tap water – the water should bulge at the top of the glass but not spill over. (Surface tension makes the water do that!) Now take a teaspoon and slowly add 1 teaspoon of powdered sugar to the water. Doesn't it seem like 1 teaspoon of water should spill out of the glass when you add 1 teaspoon of powdered sugar? Does it? Add another teaspoon of powdered sugar. How many teaspoons of powdered sugar can you add before the glass of water finally overflows?
The powdered sugar molecules dissolve into the water. The powdered sugar fills in the empty spaces between the water molecules. Even though it doesn't seem like it…the glass of water is actually full of empty space!
Science Experiment Idea: Get 3 identical glasses. Fill the first glass with ice water (remove the cubes!), the second glass room temperature water and the third glass with hot tap water. Remember to fill the glasses up until the water bulges at the top. Now count how many teaspoons of powdered sugar you can add to each glass before the water start to spill out. Does the temperature of the water effect how much powdered sugar you can add?
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Words to Know:
Atoms – The smallest, most basic unit of matter. An atom is made up of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
Molecules – At least two atoms held together by a chemical bond.
Matter – Has mass and takes up space.
Periodic Table – A table or chart of the chemical elements.
Mass – How much matter fits in a given space.
Dissolve – When a solid comes apart and spreads out into a liquid…like kool aid in water.


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As a physicist, I hate it when women in physics intentionally make something overly female-friendly just to get across the point. It's like screaming "look at me, I'm a woman, and I know I'm not very good at physics but they are so desperate to have women in this field they promoted me anyway!" For younger women interested in physics its what I'm told is called: Inspiration? Fail. Besides, it's a destructive thing to do to your own reputation. The point is you're a physicist, it doesn't matter if you're a woman or a man.
On that note, one of my male colleagues recently went to a seminar by an eminent female physicist in a different field from his own. It was all fine... until she introduced a diagram which he'd never heard of before: the "Handbag Diagram".
Now imagine my friend's shock: on the one hand he thought this female physicist appeared to know her stuff, but on the other she was trying to feminise physics by introducing diagrams which looked like handbags! How dare she?
Turns out - it's not her fault.
It has to be said, most of the other diagrams used in physics have boring names, except perhaps for the "Penguin diagram" - introduced by John Ellis after a bet with (then) student Melissa Franklin. (The bet was that if he lost a game of darts he had to put the word 'penguin' into his next publication. She left early and the person who took her place won. John Ellis felt obliged to keep the wager.)
So where does the handbag diagram come from, and what is it? Fortunately, this female physicist didn't invent the handbag diagram, so it's not her fault that it gave off the impression that she overtly feminised the main topic of her talk. The term describes a particular Feynman Diagram for particle interactions.
Here is an example of a Feynman Diagram:
On the surface, it looks like you can read these diagrams literally - two particles come in from the left hand side, something happens (a photon is exchanged) and two go out on the right hand side with an extra squiggly thing (a gluon radiated by a quark, in this case). Physicists use these diagrams all the time as a useful tool to imagine what is happening in particle interactions. But don't be fooled...
In fact, they are in momentum space. Try to get your head around that and you will definitely need a beer and since you probably don't have one to hand, I'm not going to try to explain it here. Suffice to say that each line and each vertex represent terms in the 10-page calculation that poor graduate students have to do when we're learning Quantum Field Theory in order to calculate the probability of this particular interaction. It's not fun. Trust me.
But back to the topic: the handbag diagram. Here, ladies and gentlemen, is the famous diagram itself (as per Spin in Particle Physics by Elliot Leader pp. 312).
This particular one describes a process called deep inelastic scattering. It is just another Feynman diagram, which has a particular shape. Unfortunately I was unable to get to the bottom of who named this the handbag diagram, so if anyone out there knows, please fill me in!
More importantly though, I think you'll agree that it takes a fair stretch of the imagination to look like handbag. For one - how would you put it on your shoulder? You couldn't - so it would have to be a clutch bag... And on a practical note, what is with the lines pointing out at the bottom? They would seriously get in the way of any real use of this thing as a handbag.
I don't think Louis Vuitton or Mulberry are going to be jumping on this trend any time soon...


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Weekender for automotive lovers
If you love all things automotive, Beaulieu Motor Museum is the place to be on 8 and 9 September. Its most famous motoring event, the International Autojumble, takes place on these dates and is the biggest outdoor sale of motoring items this side of the Atlantic.
Started in 1967 in a one-day show with 75 stands, it is now in its 45th year and boasts over 2,000 stands.
Stands feature everything from vintage and classic motoring parts, accessories, automobilia and literature to tools and clothing. And in the Automart, there will be up to 200 cars on offer, from restoration projects to cars in concours condition while the DealerMart will have a selection of classic cars for sale.
On Saturday, Bonhams will be holding an auction of collectors' motor cars, motorcycles and automobilia and including a 1972 Ferrari Dino Spyder, a 1922 Wolseley H.7, one of only ten known survivors, a horse-drawn phaeton and the only known example of a 1948 DOT AA Truck.
On Sunday, the popular Trunk Traders will offer amateur autojumblers the opportunity to sell their surplus motoring bits from the back of their cars.
Beaulieu's Events Manager, Judith Maddox said: "The demand for stand space is increasing year on year; there are currently just a few spaces left for this year's show and we anticipate it will be another sell-out."
If this sounds up your street, one-day tickets cost £14.30 for adults on Saturday, £12.70 for Sunday, and £8.70 and £8.40 for children respectively.


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Democratic Senate candidate Ted O'Brien is running in part to link his ideals with popular Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
In 2002, as chairman of the Monroe County Democratic committee, O'Brien backed then-Comptroller H. Carl McCall over Cuomo in the Democratic primary for governor.
"I defy any person in this room . . . to find a person with a more compelling, a more complete, a more relevant resume for the job of governor than Carl McCall," O'Brien said at a March 2002 rally, according to a report in the Democrat and Chronicle.
He added that, "The party is prepared to advance the candidacy of Carl McCall."
The fact that O'Brien backed McCall isn't surprising because McCall was the party's pick, and Cuomo was the outsider who dropped out of the race just days before the September primary. But O'Brien's endorsement came in March, months before the party's convention to back McCall, who was seeking to become the state's first African-American governor. He lost to Republican incumbent Gov. George Pataki.
Locally, Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson was backing McCall. The main supporter of Cuomo in Rochester at the time was Assemblyman Joseph Morelle, who remains a close ally.
O'Brien's campaign shrugged off the McCall endorsement a decade ago. McCall and Cuomo have made up, it appears: Cuomo named McCall in December as head of the SUNY Board of Trustees. (Left, here's an AP photo of McCall and Cuomo after a debate in 2002.)
O'Brien this month trailed Republican Sean Hanna in a Siena poll by eight percentage points. An endorsement from Cuomo could help O'Brien.
"In this race, it is clear who is a supporter of Governor Cuomo's leadership and who is not. While Sean Hanna was publicly attacking Governor Cuomo and raising property taxes for Monroe County residents, Ted O'Brien was working with Governor Cuomo to get property taxes under control," said O'Brien's campaign manager Loren Amor in a statement. "Sean Hanna mocked the Governor's mandate relief commission and suggested the Governor's economic development agenda was based on political cronyism instead of merit."
Hanna has been critical of Cuomo, including in last year's special session to approve a new tax deal.


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Lady Steers rally past Springtown, advance to regional final to meet Wylie
SNYDER — The Lady Steers (30-13) rallied Friday at the Coliseum after falling in the first two sets to top Springtown (32-8) 22-25, 19-25, 25-17, 25-16, 15-13, claiming the regional semifinal championship in the process.The win also set up a chance at redemption against District 4-3A rival Wylie (32-9), which is ranked No. 4 in the state by the Texas Girls Coaches Association. A win would crown Big Spring the regional champions and set up a state title run.Wylie defeated Big Spring in both outings during district play, but the Lady Steers have been peaking. They avenged a pair of losses to Monahans in the area round to reach the regional tournament.Big Spring was led by Morgan Seaton, who contributed 23 assists, 15 kills and 13 digs. Julianna Rodriguez recorded 23 digs and Erin Pollard added 16 kills in the comeback win.Results from Saturday's regional championship game will be printed in Monday's edition of the Herald.Individual statsSetters: M. Seaton, 23 assists, 15 kills, 13 digs, 4 blocks, 2 aces; Kinsey Wash, 23 assists, 6 digs.Defense: J. Rodriguez, 23 digs, 3 aces, 2 assists; Stevi Ward, 12 digs, 8 kills, 2 blocks, 1 ace.Offense: E. Pollard, 16 kills, 3 digs, 1 block, 1 assist; Ebony Zavala, 11 kills, 15 digs, 2 blocks, 1 ace; Kelsie Guinn, 7 kills, 4 blocks, 1 dig.Other: Tulsi Patel, 3 assists, 2 digs, 1 block; Emilie Smith, 2 assists, 1 dig.


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We have a great opportunity this morning, a marvelous privilege to begin the final section of 2 Corinthians. Open your Bible, if you will, to chapter 10 of 2 Corinthians. And I want to begin to share with you the opening six verses that are rich, insightful, strengthening, encouraging, ennobling words for every believer. Second Corinthians chapter 10, let me read you the first six verses.
"Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ--I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent! I ask then when I am present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete."
As Paul begins this final section of the epistle, the last four chapters, chapters 10 through 13, he begins by introducing a warfare motif. He is talking here about battle. And we have titled these six verses, "Winning the spiritual war...Winning the spiritual war." This is, by the way, a passage of Scripture oft quoted, many times we hear verses 3 and 4 quoted in reference to spiritual battles of one sort or another. And it is a very pertinent and very central passage to understanding how we are to approach spiritual conflict. You're going to find it to be one of the most rich and helpful of any that we have studied in this epistle, or for that matter anywhere else. I can only wish that we were able to do it in one Sunday, and it would be possible if I had about three hours, but I don't.
When Paul came to the end of his life, he said, "I have fought the good fight." He looked back over his life and realized that it was a war. It had been an incessant unrelenting battle. In fact, he also told Timothy in the very same epistle that he viewed himself as a good soldier of Christ Jesus, one who had suffered hardship in the battle and was fighting loyally to please the One who had enlisted him to be a soldier, his Lord. He battled all the way through his life from the beginning of his conversion to the very end, it was a war. He never battled for personal honor. He never battled for personal achievement or glory or fame or comfort. He always fought, however, for the truth, for the gospel, for the Lord. If he had to defend himself as he does in this letter, it was to preserve not himself. He was ready to die if necessary. But to preserve his opportunity to speak authoritatively the truth of God and be heard and believed.
Defending himself only so that he could continue to be the voice of God whom people would hear, and not for any personal gain. All through his ministry there were hostile opposers to this beloved Apostle and they came at him with slander, and false accusation and persecution and threats and jealousy and envy and murder plots. His apostolic authority was challenged. His personal integrity was challenged. His message was constantly challenged by those who hated and resisted the truth of the gospel.
And so he battled. In fact he said that he faced every day, earlier in this epistle, as if it were his last, realizing that one of the ever-increasing murder plots could come to fruition. He realized that any day could be his last. His life was simply on the line every day.
All of this because he was battling to protect the truth, battling to protect the gospel from assaults. And battling also to advance it, to conquer the satanic realm of error. He battled to preserve the honor and advance the glory of his commander in chief, the Lord Jesus Christ. He battled then for the honor of Christ, for the preservation of the Word of God. He battled for the security and strength of the church. He battled against demons. He battled against men. He battled against false teachers. He battled against philosophies and false religions, all the wolves threatening to devour the church. And the war basically consumed his life. His body was loaded with scars from the battle, whip marks, marks all over his back from the rods with which he was beaten, chain marks on his ankles and legs, stock marks elsewhere, the marks of stones that attempted to crush out his life. And all the rest of things that were as a result of shipwrecks and all the battles on all the fronts where he had to fight.
But all in all, in all the warfare that the Apostle endured, and all the riots from which he escaped with his life, nothing was more ongoing and unrelenting than the warfare waged for the preservation of the Corinthian church. Little did he know when he launched his ministry in Corinth over those first twenty months or so that he would have to engage in a battle that went on for years just to preserve the truth in that place.
Remember now, Paul had founded the church. In a period of about twenty months or so he had gone to Corinth and preached the gospel and led many to Christ and strengthened and built up the church. After that period, he left and word came to him that the church was engaged in sin and he wrote a letter to them. We don't have that letter, we don't know the specifics of what it said but no doubt it was a corrective. It was followed up by a second letter which we call 1 Corinthians. And he wrote that letter and listed and endeavored to correct a long, long list of iniquities that were characterizing that congregation. First Corinthians is a plethora of correctives to a church engaging in sins on many, many different levels.
After they received the 1 Corinthian letter, and no doubt it had some corrective effect upon them, word came to the Apostle Paul about another and even more serious problem than that, and that was the arrival of false teachers who were assaulting Paul and assaulting the gospel. They wanted to teach damning heresy right out of hell. In order to accomplish that they had to destroy Paul's reputation because the people trusted and believed in him. And so they to be accepted had to start a smear campaign against Paul which they did. Undermining his authority, undermining his character, undermining his credibility, his integrity, they made the church into victims who were now ready to list...listen to people teaching damnable lies. The people lost trust in Paul. The false teachers reached a place of ascendancy. Word came to Paul about this and he had to react. He wrote to them a letter which is referred to in 2 Corinthians, a letter between 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians which is called the Severe Letter, a very severe attack on them for following the apostates, the false teachers. He refers to it in chapter 2 and verse 4. It was a letter written with many tears. It was a letter written out of anguish of heart that they had betrayed him at a mutiny and a rebellion and turned against him and went after false teaching. That was tragic to him because it disconnected them from the truth of God coming through him. It disconnected them from the sanctifying effect of that church and from having any kind of powerful witness to the lost around them. And so he wrote the Severe Letter.
The Severe Letter was taken to them by Titus. Titus confronted this issue, gave them the Severe Letter and wonderfully the congregation in general repented of their mutiny and their rebellion. Responded and their relationship to Paul was restored. They reaffirmed Paul's authority. They reaffirmed their devotion, their love to him, their submission to him as the Apostle of Jesus Christ. The severe letter had its desired effect, along with Titus what Paul had hoped for was accomplished. And this is good news to Paul because frankly when the Severe Letter was being taken to them he was in depression and sorrow and anguish and pain which is chronicled, as you remember, particularly in chapter 7 of this letter. He was literally depressed until Titus came back and reported about their repentance.
They did repent and Paul's heart was turned from despair to joy. And he talks about that in chapter 7, as we saw earlier. He was thrilled that the battle for the moment had come a truce.
You say, "Then well why does he write 2 Corinthians?" He writes 2 Corinthians because he knows something that any good soldier, any good leader knows and that is that though a rebellion has been for the moment ended, the vestiges of it can be found in many places. He knew that the poisonous river against him had been pushed underground but it wasn't very deep. He knew that there was still some glowing embers from the fire of accusation against him and in some little places, in some corners they were ready to be fanned into flame at the first opportunity. He knew there were false teachers still there. Still hiding in the congregation were some rebels who were ready to again start up the revolution.
He also knew what anybody knows who has ever dealt with slander that it is extremely difficult to clear your name. Once it goes to the wind, it's almost impossible to get it all back. The lies had been propounded against him with great cleverness, with great subtlety, with great intensity and with great effectiveness. They had been spread and far and wide through a conspiracy that could not be undone easily or quickly. There still were false teachers in the church. There still were those who believed them. They had just been pressed underground by the general repentance of the congregation. There were rebels then waiting for the first opportunity to assert themselves. In the meantime they would war some guerilla warfare behind the scenes, some terrorist activity, picking their spots here and there to repeat their lies in appropriate times and places.
The poison that was underground would no doubt seep to the surface occasionally and furthermore, this had gone far and wide and many people were asking the good folks at Corinth to explain all of this and they needed to be armed with as much information about the integrity and credibility and authority of Paul as possible, and thus does he pen 2 Corinthians.
Now in the final section he directs his words at those remaining rebels, that recalcitrant minority still entrenched there. That group that's poisoned under the surface, those trouble makers who for the moment are silent, those false teachers hiding in the wings, as it were, those...those people ready to assert themselves again at the appropriate moment, those remaining rebels. The minority apart from the majority who repented are the direct objects of what he says in chapters 10, 11, 12 and 13. It's very important, very important that he deal with that.
Earlier in the epistle he said he was so sad and so depressed and so broken hearted and so grieved about the whole situation there that though he wanted to come and visit he was not going to do it because he didn't want anymore sorrow than he already had. And the last time he went there they embarrassed him and shamed him to his face and a man stood up and accused him publicly and the church never even dealt with it, and that broke his heart all the more. So he didn't have the heart to come back until now.
Since Titus has come back and reported their repentance and restoration and they're now ready to affirm his authority, affirm his integrity and embrace him as the Apostle of Jesus Christ, he is going to come back. He's going to come back for a third time. But chapters 10 to 13 are a warning to those people still holding on to those rebellious attitudes that when he gets there if they're still like that, it's going to be all out war. When he comes back he's coming back with his guns blazing. He's coming back armed to the teeth. He's coming back with weapons of warfare that are divinely powerful to the pulling down of strongholds, as he says it here. He's coming back to punish all disobedience. He's coming back to destroy everything lifted up against the knowledge of God. This is a remarkable section.
The first section, chapters 1 to 7 focused on the restored relationship between him and the church. And in general, of course, there was a note of joy as the first seven chapters conclude because they have been restored in love and devotion to each other. So the first seven chapters are gracious, the tone of them is somewhat gentle. The words are conciliatory. There's a certain kind of sweetness about those first seven chapters as he talks about the relationship that he has in general with the church members. How difficult their rebellion had been, how crushed and heart broken he was and how grateful that it had ended and love had been restored.
Then in the second section of the letter, chapters 8 and 9, having had a restored relationship, he can now take an offering. Simple principle, don't try to take an offering from your enemies. You won't get very much. You might have to duck what they give.
Paul having restored the relationship now feels that he can go back to exhorting the Corinthians to give money for a very important collection that he wants to give to the poor Christians at Jerusalem. Once the relationship has been restored, then he calls them to obedience to this very practical expression of love and unity.
Then comes the final section. And he says I'm coming now for the third time and I'm coming to deal sternly and strongly with any remaining hostility to the truth. He moves then from the calm and tender pleadings of chapters 1 through 9 geared to all the Corinthians to strong and stern and authoritative words in this final section. It is directed at the remaining hostility and how he will deal with those who host that hostility in their hearts. The issue with the church in general having been settled, he now goes after the pockets of enemy territory and it's a search and discover and destroy mission that he has in mind.
Now by the way, Titus will take this letter to them and it will be about two and a half months after they get this letter that he will come for his third visit. So he is giving them a couple of months to deal with this issue and for the people who are still disloyal to repent so that when he comes there they don't face this great soldier. He's coming to fight if fighting is necessary. And that is exactly how he opens the whole section, talking about warfare and weapons and fortresses and bringing them down. It is a warfare perspective. This is his battle plan. If he has to fight, he will fight. And, frankly, the Corinthians must decide that. He told them that in the first letter when he wrote in 1 Corinthians 4:21, "What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod? Or with a spirit of gentleness?" end quote. It's your choice. You determine my demeanor by what you do. And so, that is essentially the tone of these final chapters.
Now as we examine this first six verses, this morning and next Sunday, and I wish we could do it in one because it is so potent, particularly the second half of it, we see him presenting himself in his soldier uniform, in his soldier mentality, in his warrior garb. And he gives us four traits of a soldier, four traits of a warrior who will win the spiritual war, an effective soldier.
Trait number one, these are marvelous. He is compassionate...he is compassionate. Do I need to remind you that the best soldiers are compassionate? That the best soldiers only use deadly force when they are absolutely required to? That the best soldiers are tender and sympathetic and have a heart for people and find no particular joy or satisfaction in destroying life in bloodshed, in carnage? They're not entertained by that. They're not satiated by that. That is a last resort. A great soldier may be a soldier of great power and of great boldness, but it is mitigated by his compassion and it is constrained by his compassion so that it is exercised only when there is no other option. And that is the spirit in which he introduces himself in verse 1. This is going to be some very direct language, some very powerful and forceful language, particularly as we get down into verses 3 through 6. And so in order to put that in the context of his right attitude, he starts by speaking of his own compassion.
"Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who am meek when face to face with you, but old toward you when absent!"
Take the word "now" for a moment, it signifies a break in thought. It signifies a clean break in thought. It signifies a fresh line of writing a new subject. This sets off the final section. Some people needlessly have concluded that this means it was another letter added later on. There is no history to indicate that and there's nothing in the context to indicate that. You can change your subject if you want to writing the same letter, or the same book. That's not abnormal or uncommon. He finished talking about the offering, the offering was a very specific matter. He finished with a crescendo benediction, "Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift." That was a fitting way to conclude that particular theme. And now he turns to the final subject.
He may have put down his pen and taken a walk or went to get a drink. He may have put down his pen and slept for the afternoon or the night. He may have put down his pen and taken a couple of days to do something else. But it is in the same letter to the same church in the same spirit that the rest of this epistle stands that he writes the closing section. "Now" signifies the introduction of the final section.
Then he says, "I, Paul, myself..." This is of great importance. It is of significant importance. What had been questioned was his authority. What had been questioned was his right to speak for God. What had been questioned was his message, his gospel, his apostleship. His credentials were under attack and dispute. His authority was under attack and dispute. His apostleship was under assault.
But now the people, the church in general, have reaffirmed that and they have reaffirmed that he is the apostle who speaks with integrity and authority and so having had that reaffirmation he does just that here and says, "I, Paul, myself urge you." He puts himself right in the place of authority. It is his authority as an Apostle of Jesus Christ with which he speaks. He doesn't have to get his authority somewhere else, he doesn't have to have some kind of papers or credentials given to him as the false apostles had said he did. He can stand and speak for himself as the Apostle of Jesus Christ, the founder of the Corinthian church, the spiritual father of all the believers that were there. He was the spokesman of God with the gospel of Jesus Christ. He asserts the authority that they now have affirmed is genuinely his.
He does not have to go beyond himself. He doesn't have to look somewhere else for the authority. And it's very important that he affirms that so that his words come with authority as his threats come with authority and so will his presence come with divine authority. He will confront the remaining rebels. He has the right to do that. He is the authoritative Apostle of Jesus Christ.
But first, before he comes wielding this apostolic authority he says this, "I, Paul, myself beg you," parakaleo, "I beg you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ." I am begging you to end this rebellion. I am begging you to be reconciled. I am begging you for real peace. He has no desire to see blood spilled. He has no desire for an open conflict. He gets no satisfaction out of carnage. He is patiently compassionate. He has waited in patience. He is going to wait some more. He's going to send a letter, he's going to wait a few months more to give them opportunity to repent. Oh how like God that is. And isn't that what he says? "I beg you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ."
A great soldier is not vicious. He is not full of venom and vitriol and hate. He is not full of anger. He is not full of rage. A great soldier is not full of revenge. He is first and first of all a man of compassion. He is a man of meekness and gentleness.
By the way, the word "meekness" refers to the humble and gentle attitude which expresses itself in the patient endurance of offenses. It means you're free from anger, free from hatred, bitterness, desire for revenge when wrongly treated. It means humble and gentle in the midst of unfair treatment. And the word "gentleness" almost a synonym. First word is prautes, the second is epieikeia, it means...it means when applied to someone in authority it means leniency...leniency. It refers to a patient submission in the midst of mistreatment, in the midst of injustice, in the midst of disgrace without anger, without malice, without revenge. And even though you have the power to retaliate, you don't. That's what it means.
And no one more characterized that kind of attitude expressed in those two words than Christ, and he says it...The meekness and gentleness of Christ. No one was more powerful than Jesus Christ and yet no one had a better harness on that power. No one had that power under control better. That's oft used definition for prautes, power under control. No one was more powerful, no one had greater judgment capability than Jesus and yet no one had it under greater control. He took the almighty power of God to bring about a retaliation on sin and kept in check and instead exercised patience and endurance. Paul says I want to be like my Lord. I want to be as patient, as gentle, as meek, I want to hold my power in check, my authority in check. Even though you've mistreated me and maligned me and turned against me, I have no anger, no bitterness, no malice. Even though you have disgraced me and shamed my name and shamed the Lord and shamed the gospel, I want to be patient with you. That's the character of a great soldier.
He doesn't look at the first opportunity to blow someone away. He considers that as the last possible choice. Jesus Himself exhibits this. Turn to 1 Peter 2, this gentleness and meekness is nowhere better chronicled than by Peter who certainly knew his Lord. In 1 Peter chapter 2 verse 19, says that...it finds favor with God, verse 19, "When a man bears up, or endures, under sorrows while suffering unjustly." God is pleased when you suffer unjustly and endure it. When you don't retaliate, when you're not angry and full of hate and rage and revenge, God is pleased when you endure it. Verse 20, "For what credit is there if when you sin and are harshly treated you endure it with patience?" There's no particular virtue in that. You should endure that with patience cause you deserve it. "But if when you do what is right and suffer for it, you patiently endure, this finds favor with God." That is a level of spiritual nobility, when you are misrepresented, persecuted, assaulted, slandered, reviled, all that stuff that was happening to Paul. When that happens to you and all you've done is what is right and you suffer quietly and patiently and you endure it, God is pleased.
And then verse 21, "For you have been called for this purpose." What does that mean? You might as well learn to deal with it because that's part of being a Christian. You must expect it. You live counter to the culture. You live as an alien in the world, everything in the system is hostile toward you. You can expect to be called in to unjust suffering. You can expect to be harassed and harangued and even persecuted for doing what is right. The society will do that to you in various forms and to various degrees. You have been called for this purpose. Count it all joy when you fall into various trials. After you've suffered a while the Lord's going to make you perfect. In this world you shall have tribulation. I mean, that goes with the territory.
So when you learn how to suffer patiently and endure it and have a right attitude toward those who persecute you, God is pleased. "Since," verse 21, "Christ also suffered for you, not only redemptively but to leave you an example for you to follow in His steps." He showed you how to endure unjust suffering. No one ever suffered as unjustly as Christ because verse 22 says, "He committed no sin and never had any deceit found in His mouth at all." We have sinned and deceit has come out of our mouths, though we still suffer unjustly, we're not perfect, He suffered unjustly and was perfect which makes His unjust suffering even worse. He sets the example.
What's the example? Verse 23, "While being reviled He didn't revile in return. While suffering He uttered no threats." What did He say on the cross? "Father...what?...kill them?" No, "Father...what?...forgive them." He uttered no threats, He kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously and quietly bore our sins in His body on the cross. That's Jesus.
Paul says I come to you with the same meekness and gentleness of Christ. I come to you with forebearing patience. I come to you enduring all of this terrible, terrible slander against me. I come to you with leniency. I come to you without anger and without malice. I come you patiently.
He was not ignorant of the character of His Lord. And he wanted to be just like Him. He knew that the character of His Lord was the standard for all soldiers. Jesus had said in Matthew chapter 11, "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart." You want to learn to be humble, you want to learn to be gentle. You want to learn to be meek from Me. And then in the next chapter, Matthew 12 He says, does the prophet Isaiah and it's quoted here by Matthew, that when the Messiah comes, a battered reed, Matthew 12:20, a battered reed He will not break off and a smoldering wick He will not put out. He doesn't come to crush the already bruised. You see a reed that functioned with some purpose, but it's now become battered and useless for that purpose and somebody snaps it and throws it away. Maybe it was used for a flute, as often happened in ancient times. And then there was a wick that was too small and too charred to give off light, all it did was give smoldering smoke that irritated everybody and someone would pinch it out and throw it in the trash. And when the Messiah comes He won't take the bruised reed and break it, He'll restore it. He won't take the smoking wick and crush it, He'll give it back its light. That's what He'll do. He's tender and gracious and forgiving and merciful.
In John 8 He finds a woman brought to Him who was caught in the act of adultery and these men jerked her right out of that act of adultery and slammed her on the ground in front of Jesus and said, "We have taken this woman in the act of adultery, what do You think about that?" And Jesus looking at the woman and looking at them said, "Whichever of you is without sin, you cast the first stone." The conviction gripped their hearts and they all went away. And He looked at the woman and said, "No man condemns you, neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more." Forgiveness, magnanimous forgiveness to one who had blatantly disregarded the law of God and engaged in adultery, a sin punishable in the Old Testament by immediate execution.
He was ready to forgive. God is ready to forgive and you see the patience of God again and again and again and again throughout the Old Testament as He pleads with His people in their sins and patiently waits year after year after year, decade after decade, showing how ready He is to forgive. And when the sinners finally come and repent, He embraces them with all the love that a father showed to a prodigal son in the parable that Jesus told.
Even in Jesus most scathing malediction, most blistering diatribe against religious leaders, Matthew 23, it ends with, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often I would have gathered you as a hen gathers her chicks, but you would not." And it ends with Jesus weeping over Jerusalem. A noble soldier, a great soldier, a soldier who will win the spiritual warfare is compassionate.
Now sadly, go back to the text of chapter 10 verse 1 and here's a most interesting point, sadly they saw his compassion as weakness. They put the spin on his compassion, his tenderness, his patience, his endurance, his kindness as weakness. And Paul refers to that when he says in verse 1, he identifies himself, "I, Paul, I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent," that is sheer sarcasm. He is simply repeating their accusation. This is sarcasm. That tells you a little bit about the sternness of this section. You're never more stern than when you use sarcasm, biting irony. And that's what he does. They had said about Paul he is meek when face to face with you, but, boy, when he goes somewhere he's real bold.
Look down at verse 10, they said his letters are weighty and strong but his personal presence is unimpressive. You know what they were saying about him? They were saying when he's here he's gutless. He's a wimp. Face to face he's a coward, doesn't have any courage, he won't face the issue. He's tapeinos. That word usually is used in the New Testament, I think, everywhere but here as a virtue. But they used it in a derogatory sense, he's a wimp, he's a weakling when face to face with you.
And you know something? When face to face with them he was compassionate and he was tender and he had a healthy humility. Listen to 1 Corinthians 2:3, "I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling." It was true, in his humanity he had no confidence. In his own physical ability no confidence. In his own philosophical capabilities, his own mental and intellectual abilities, his own wisdom he had no confidence. And they took that sound and spiritual humility, that lack of confidence in his own person and twisted it into a negative. And they accused him of being mealy mouth and cowardly and weak. They were like the...those false teachers were like the nation of Israel who expected the Messiah to come riding in on a white horse killing Romans. And when Jesus came into the city riding on the foal of a colt of an ass, it was more than they could conceive and eventually they executed Him because they expected the Messiah to come in kingly dignity and power. If Paul was this great authority from God, this great Apostle, what's he doing sort of shuffling around here with all this humility?
But he was patient and he was compassionate. And he was a pleader. And he made war only as a last resort. And they said about him, "He's bold toward you when absent." Boy, get him behind a pen a few miles away and he gets real fierce. He's like that squirrelly little frizzy-haired dog behind the gate that barks its head off and then when you open the gate runs ninety miles an hour in the other direction. He's fine if he's protected, if he's insulated. Get him a distance away and put a pen in his hand and he becomes fierce, bring him here and he's weak, he lacks courage.
They were misunderstanding his compassion when he was there. They were misunderstanding his boldness when he was away and they used this to accuse him. This is a very clever accusation, by the way, because no matter what you say it's very hard to answer. That's why this section takes so long and has such complexity to it. I mean, if he tries to defend his strength from a distance, that's a problem because they'll say...Oh yeah, look at that, that's what we expect. If he tries to defend his weakness while he was there they'll say...See, we were right, it was true. But how do you defend yourself? What's your answer to that? No matter what he says it could confirm their accusation. If they...if he says he's strong they'll say...Yeah, he has his times of strength. If he says that he's humble and compassionate, they can use that to confirm their assessment. So he has to deal with it very carefully and he does in this section.
This section then welds strength to weakness. It mingles them. He talks about power in the midst of humility in this section. He talks about the power of God in frail humanity. He talks about being the tender warrior, about being the compassionate soldier. It's all very carefully dealt with throughout these four chapters and you'll see it again and again, the mix of strength and weakness, the mix of compassion and conflict is the stuff, listen, of a true hero. True heroism is never more fully exemplified than in the perfect mixture of strength and weakness and compassion and courage.
And that takes us to the second trait of this effective soldier. He is not only compassionate, he is courageous...he is courageous. Verse 2, "I ask that when I am present," this is what he's begging, he said back in verse 1, "I, Paul, myself urge you, beg you," now he returns to that same thought. "I beg that when I am present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous." What he says there is very interesting. He says my hope is that I don't have to be bold when I get there, but if I do I propose to be so. I just hope I don't have to be. He's not weak. When all attempts at compassion are exhausted, when all efforts at patience are eliminated, when the only thing left is to protect the truth from unrepentant, unrelenting rebels, he will fight to the death. When only confrontation preserves truth, when only confrontation secures the church, he will charge into the battle fiercely.
You want severity, you'll get it. He who on one occasion, according to Galatians chapter 2, withstood Peter to the face, Galatians 2 says. I withstood him to the face because he was to be condemned. Peter...Peter, the primary Apostle and Paul went nose to nose and condemned him to his face.
The record of this man's courage fills the book of Acts, starting with chapter 13. His courage against courts and councils and governors and kings and religious leaders and authorities and crowds and mobs is legendary. He is not weak. When all attempts at compassion are exhausted, he comes loaded with arms.
Verse 2, "I ask that when I am present in a few months when I get there I may not be bold." I'm asking you, folks, to repent. I'm asking you remaining rebels to repent and believe the gospel so that I don't have to be bold. The word "bold" literally courageous, tharreo, it's the word to be courageous. If you want to see my courage, I'll show it. Don't force me to display the confrontational courage I can demonstrate if I'm required to do so. He readily admits to having a warring attitude when called for. And he even starts to sort of crescendo with the idea. He says, "I can be bold with the confidence." The confidence, literally the word for conviction. I have convictions. I have very strong convictions. And here he is saying I have the courage of my convictions. And if need be, I propose to be courageous. "I propose," means to judge, reckon to think, to plan. I've planned, I've reckoned, I propose to be courageous if I need to be, to be bold and courageous about my convictions.
By the way, the second word there, the word translated "to be courageous," tolmao, literally means to be daring...to be daring. It's a very strong term. Tharreo, the earlier word, bold, is the more common word for courage. This is "to be daring." And what does it mean? To act without fear regardless of consequences. It's literally to abandon yourself without regard for personal safety, to disregard any personal safety or preservation.
He says, "Look, you want courage, I'll show you courage, I'll show you the courage of conviction that knows no fear." A synonym for that word "daring" is "fearless...fearless." He says I'm resolved that if it's called for I will act with whatever aggression is necessary. I will go to battle with whatever force is required fearlessly, daring to put my life on the line. You want courage, there is courage.
And here is the beautiful picture of a tender warrior, a man of immense compassion. But when a fight has to be fought, he's in the front line fighting it. That's how it works. You want to fight, he said to the Corinthians in the first letter, 1 Corinthians 4:19, let's have a fight. I'll come to you, if the Lord wills, and I'll find out not the words of those who are arrogant but their power, you bring them on. We'll find out whose got the power. If you want to fight, he'll give it to you.
In chapter 13 of 2 Corinthians and verse 10 he warns them that he's going to come to use severity if he has to. And he'll use the authority the Lord has given him. He'd rather use it for building up but he'll use if it he has to for smashing, for tearing down.
Now against whom will this daring bold fearless battle be waged? Back to verse 2. "Against some..." this is the recalcitrant minority, the remaining vestiges of the rebels who are still in the church, false teachers and those who silently went underground or their glowing embers were hidden off in a corner somewhere, the people who are still rebels in their heart and have not yet bowed the knee to the gospel and to the Apostle, "I will be courageous against some," and here he defines them, "who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh."
You know what their accusation, they were just the same things against Paul. He operates according to the flesh. That little phrase, very simple to anybody who reads the New Testament, to walk according to the flesh, to walk is simply a picture of daily conduct, who lives their daily life according to the flesh. The flesh is unredeemed humanness, it is synonymous with sinful desire, personal motivation for pride's sake, self-aggrandizement, all of that.
There again, those people still there who say Paul is a fake, he is a phony, he operates out of the flesh, he is purely motivated by self-interest. He is motivated by corrupt desires. He's got a dirty heart, a rotten heart. Down inside he wants money and he wants illicit, immoral behavior. Down inside he is a rotten individual. This takes us, by the way, right to the heart of the conspiracy against him. Here it is at its core.
They said he was a fake. They said he was corrupt inside, selfish, indulgent, self-serving, unauthorized, worldly motivated, sought only money. They said he was motivated to live for greed and lust and immorality. That's what they were saying about him...terrible things. And he calls them in verse 2, "The some who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh." Repeatedly in the early part of the epistle, in the first seven chapters, he defended himself against those attacks. In chapter 1 verse 12 he said, "My conscience is clear that we have lived in holiness and godly sincerity." In chapter 4 he says, "We don't have a hidden life of shame and we haven't operated in craftiness and adulterated the Word of God." In chapter 2 verse 17 he said, "We're not like others who have corrupted the Word of God." We haven't done that. In chapter 7 verse 2 he says, "We have wronged no one, corrupted no one, taken advantage of no one."
So he's already defended himself against it, but there is the core of the conspiracy right there. They accused him of being rotten inside. And he said those are the folks I'm going after when I get there. I don't want to come with guns blazing. I don't want to come armed for war. But if the rebels aren't gone or haven't repented when I arrive, it will be war. I am compassionate like God, like Christ, but there comes a point at which the enemy becomes impregnable and entrenched and it's time for battle.
Here is the Christian soldier. Compassionate, as compassionate as God and Christ and courageous when it's demanded. The noble soldier. Next week the next two. Now listen, folks, the third one, unbelievable. I'll give you a hint, he is not only compassionate and courageous, he is competent...competent. What makes him competent is the weapons of his warfare. We'll see what those are.
Father, thank You this morning again for the clarity with which Your Word speaks, for the joy of fellowship and the blessing of worship. O Lord, we would be these kinds of soldiers, we would have that wonderful gracious balance between compassion and courage. Help us to endure patiently sinners, to endure accusation, false accusation, hostility against us without anger, without bitterness, constantly...constantly pleading and begging and praying that our enemies who unjustly accuse us would repent and be saved. And then, Lord, when all patience is exhausted, help us to be willing to arm ourselves and with the courage of our convictions fearlessly step out into the spiritual battle for the dignity of Your great name, for the preservation of Your truth and for the safety and sanctification of Your church. To that end we pray, for our Savior's glory. Amen.
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