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Now we come in our study of God's Word to 2 Corinthians chapter 11. And the text before us in this particular study is from verse 7 down through verse 15, although we'll not be able to cover all of that this morning. In fact, I can make a few confessions to you that this is a somewhat historical portion of Scripture, it really deals with the debate between the Apostle Paul, as it were, and the false teachers in Corinth. It is a comparison that Paul makes between himself and those false teachers for the benefit of the Corinthian church. It largely concerns itself with a historical incident. It doesn't really have anything in it that's particularly doctrinal, at least in the first part which we'll cover today. It doesn't even have anything in it in the first part that appears on the surface to be very practical. And, of course, as I read the Scripture I'm always looking for those things that are true about God, those things that are true about Christ, those things that are true about the great doctrines of the faith, those things that apply to me as an individual Christian, and those practical issues of life. As I was reading through this some weeks ago, realizing that there isn't a lot there that isn't just related to the historical event itself, I decided that maybe I ought to dig a little bit deeper. So I dug a little bit deeper and that's really all there was...was just a reference to the issue between Paul and the false apostles and his interaction with the Corinthians. And yet I know the Spirit of God has put it in the Scripture because it is instructive for us. I don't know how in specifics the Spirit of God will apply all of these things to our hearts, but I'm confident that He has used it in my life to strengthen my resolve to be faithful to the truth and to be guarded against the seducing error that Satan so subtly brings across our path. It's another one of those passages and I've entitled it, "Beware of Gullibility." It's another one of those passages that deals with the potential gullibility of the church and its susceptibility to satanic deception and seduction. And throughout the history of the church, the most damaging assault on the church has not come from atheism. It has not come from the rise of scientific skepticism and humanism. Those aberrations are damning error but they don't threaten the church. What has always threatened and devastated the church is the convergence of spiritual deception and public gullibility: Christians who lack discernment, who lack wisdom, being seduced by what appears to be divine truth but is not. G.K. Chesterton said that when people abandon the truth, they do not believe in nothing, they believe in anything. And history has verified that statement. As the church has been assaulted through its life by false doctrine and deceptive lies about God and Christ and the gospel, there have developed thousands and thousands and thousands of sects and cults and aberrant groups within the larger picture of believing in God. Bizarre and unbiblical systems by their success verify what Chesterton said, that when people don't believe the truth, they believe anything.
Roy Clements, a pastor in England, wrote, "The church does not have to worry seriously about atheism. That is an ephemeral superstition. It does not seriously threaten the religious consciousness of the world. Marxism, which is atheism, sustained whatever limited success it had in promoting it only by vicious policies of repression. No, the real danger is not unbelief but wrong belief, not skepticism but superstition, not irreligion but religion, not the doubter but the deceiver. And again and again church history has proven this true. It is not external assaults on Christianity by its ideological, philosophical or religious rivals that have represented the most serious threat to its survival, it is the subtle infiltration of saboteurs who exploit the gullibility of Christian people," end quote.
The bottom line is what really threatens the church is what sounds Christian, what sounds biblical, what sounds spiritual. Those are the people who do damage to the church. Those who say they represent God, those who say they represent Christ, those who say they teach the truth of the Bible or have the right interpretation of the Bible, deceivers who present themselves as true Christian preachers and ministers and teachers and succeed in duping the gullible church with their false claims to spiritual authority, these are the people who do real damage to the church and have throughout the church history. The Bible warns about this, it warns about it over and over and over and I will not beg the issue by dragging you back through all the myriad of passages which you're already familiar with. We've covered them many times in this series. But there always have been false teachers, there always will be false teachers and they will escalate the closer we get to the end of the age. There will be those who have fabricated a false gospel, a false Jesus come in the power of a false spirit, those who are prompted by seducing spirits, sprouting doctrines of demons, those who come as deceivers, those who come wanting to steal the souls of men and women for damnable purposes, those who profess the truth but in attitude and behavior deny the truth...those false teachers are ubiquitous, they're everywhere all the time. And Scripture literally is loaded with such clear warnings about them.
Nonetheless, the church has still proven to be gullible. Here we are living this far after the biblical record is completed, 2000 years ago, here we are this far after refining our theology for 2000 years, here we are as well taught as is possible with the proliferation of theology and books that have been written through the years, of all Christians in all times we should be the most discerning...we should be the most able to discern truth from error, we should be the most impervious to the subtle deceptions of Satan. But I've watched over the last ten years and seen the evangelical church in its massive gullibility slide into deception after deception after deception. Satan is very powerful, he is very clever and he is very subtle. His disguises are myriad and they are well designed. His seductions are alluring and Christians continue to be gullible. Christians find it hard to believe today that anyone who is nice, friendly, charming, sound spiritual and is clever with words, talks about God, talks about Jesus could ever be a hypocritical liar espousing demon doctrine. Christian gullibility or if you want another definition for that it's the absence of discernment, Christian gullibility has made the church today subject to the wiles of the devil. They're working successfully and effectively to seduce the church.
That's exactly the way it worked in Corinth and that's the way it works now. The church today is being beguiled and the church then was being beguiled. And this is a good passage to look at to see how...how clever the beguiling tactics of Satan really are and how Satan can shift and move depending on what happens to carry out his seductions. He'll play the game anyway you structure it and if you're not discerning, you can be seduced. In fact, the 2 Corinthian letter, the letter before us, is written by Paul to act as an antidote to already beginning seduction. False teachers have come in to Corinth, they had begun the seduction. Paul realized it was going on and he wrote this letter to reestablish in their minds his apostleship, the integrity of his ministry so that they would turn back to him because he spoke the truth. This whole letter was written then to defend Paul's true apostleship and bring the Corinthians back under the true authority of Christ's apostle speaking the Word of God. Now he's been defending his own authority all the way through the end of chapter 10. That section did make some references to the false apostles and the false teachers, but primarily that whole ten chapters was devoted to Paul defending his apostleship and its integrity and his character and the place he had in serving the Lord Jesus Christ. Starting in chapter 11 now he moves directly to dealing with the false apostles. He saved that for the last. Starting in chapter 11 and running all the way to the middle of chapter 12 is really a comparison between himself and the false apostles. And it's helpful to all of us because it gives us some criteria, it gives us a model by which to compare true teachers today with false teachers. Remember in the opening six verses he addressed the crucial matter of spiritual loyalty and he asked really the question of the Corinthians...are you going to be loyal to God, Christ, the gospel and divine truth, or not? Because if you're disloyal to me, you are disloyal to God, Christ, the gospel and divine truth. If you're loyal to the false apostles, you are disloyal in every sense to those matters. So he called for their spiritual loyalty in the first six verses, and then starting in verse 7 and flowing from verse 7 all the way down, as I said, to the middle of chapter 12 he contrasts himself with the false apostles. As I have told you, this is something he hates to do. He doesn't like doing this. He doesn't want to compare himself with others, as he said in chapter 10, but he is forced to do it.
And so the opening section is verses 7 to 15 and here he compares himself as a true apostle with what he calls in verse 13 false apostles, deceitful workers who are disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. So here is the passage that shows how he is the true apostle and how they are false apostles. He compares his humility with their pride. He compares his sacrificial unselfishness to their greed. He compares his integrity to their masquerade. He compares his love to their abuse. True apostles are characterized by humility, truth and love. False apostles are characterized by pride, and by the inherent element in pride called greed, by lies and by abuse. And that's the contrast.
The section provides this contrast in very stark terms, between those who lovingly, humbly proclaim the truth and those who hatefully, deceptively abuse the church by seduction. This is nothing new. This is very pertinent. But the structure of it here deals specifically with the issue in Corinth.
Now the underlying theme, this sort of behind the major theme of the contrast, the underlying issue at first here is the issue of money. And it's important to note that because always, as I told you through the years, false teachers in the Bible are motivated by money. Greed always drives them, the love of filthy lucre. And so the underlying element of this comparison has to do with money. And we'll see how that unfolds because false teachers are always in it for the money, whereas true teachers disdain greed, don't operate out of filthy lucre, seek nothing but the souls of men, minister sacrificially in every sense as you well know. False teachers don't. They want the money.
Now as you remember, Paul had been forced to this distasteful necessity of making the comparison by the defection of the Corinthians. And so unwillingly but necessarily he gets into this contrast. They were in danger, the Corinthians were being brainwashed by the false apostles and Paul wants to save them from that so this is an antidote to that.
Now as I said, there's a comparison here between the true Apostle, verses 7 to 11, and the false apostle, verses 12 to 15. The true apostle is characterized by humility, truth and love. The false apostle is characterized by pride, deception and hate, or abuse. Now this morning we'll just get a start in to this passage because I have to give you some historical background and I'm going to feel more like the professor in a class than I am the preacher, this morning. But this is all part of expositing Scripture, you have to deal with what the Lord puts before you. I don't feel I need to make any excuses for that, nor do I need to spiritualize it to turn it into some little...little idea that you can somehow implement into the practical matter of your daily life. It's enough for me to give you the truth the way God gave it to us and watch the Spirit of God weave it into the fabric of your life which will issue in combat as God sees fit.
But let's look, first of all, at the true apostle, verses 7 to 11...the true apostle. You will notice that he is marked by humility, first of all. Verse 7, "Did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge? I robbed other churches, taking wages from them to serve you. And when I was present with you and in need I was not a burden to anyone. When the brethren came from Macedonia they fully supplied my need and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you and will continue to do so." Secondly, the true apostle is characterized by truth, verse 10. "As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia." And thirdly, the true apostle is characterized by love, verse 11. Why? "Because I do not love you, God knows I do." And there in those statements Paul essentially defines himself as a true apostle by virtue of humility, truth and love. Let's start with humility, verses 7 to 9, and for this morning, actually, that's where we'll start and that's where we'll end because it gives us so much to talk about. The true apostle is characterized by self-effacing, self-sacrificing humility.
Verse 7, "Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?" Now you feel like when you read that verse you're just kind of jumping in somewhere because the first word is "or" and actually you are jumping in. But let me just say, first of all, before we find out what the jump...where the jump came from, Paul is asking a very simple question, but it's full of sarcasm and it's full of irony. He is saying...Has my preaching to you the gospel without accepting any money made me guilty of some sin?
Now the implication is that that is exactly what he was being accused of. And herein lies the subtly of Satan's approach. You say...Well, what do you mean by that? I mean that the Corinthians had been convinced that one of the evidences that Paul was a charlatan, that Paul was a fraud, that he was a fake was that he didn't take any money. Paul was trying to take the high ground, not take any money. Satan through the false teachers twisted that so that it became a reason to question Paul's integrity and authority. How can that be? Well you have to go back to verse 6, the "or" takes us back. Let's go back to verse 6. "But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I'm not so in knowledge. In fact, in every way he had made this evident to you in all things."
Now Paul admits here to being unskilled. Let me give you the Greek meaning of that word, I gave it to you last time, but I'll give it to you again. The root meaning is "amateur." Even if I'm an amateur. You remember back in chapter 10 verse 10 the false teachers trying to discredit Paul, obviously, if they were going to be successful they had to wipe out Paul's influence and they did that by endeavoring to attack his credibility and integrity. And one of the things they said about him is his letters are weighty and strong but his personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible. They said the man lacks any oratorical skill. The man is a lousy public speaker. The man is dull, he's uninteresting, he has none of the flair and fancy rhetoric. He can't even compete in the circles of rhetoriticians and magicians and philosophers. He doesn't even belong there. He's...he's common, he's an amateur and all he ever does is drone on about the cross. He disdains clever words of human wisdom.
And so they...and he admitted it. He said in the first letter, 1 Corinthians, he didn't come to you with the words of human wisdom, he didn't come to you in clever words, but he came in simple terms, preaching only Christ and Him crucified. He really disdained any of that flowery, fancy rhetoric that was so popular among the Greeks. They said he's an amateur. He said...Okay, I'm an amateur. And this is what brings up the issue of verse 7. Among the Greeks, a skilled orator, a recognized orator, a recognized philosopher was considered a professional. That's how he made his living. He traveled around as a public speaker. He traveled from city to city, or traveled around a city or go daily to the gruel of the marketplace or the forum or somewhere to be heard and he would gather a crowd and he would charge them a fee to hear him speak. He lived by his craft. He would be polished, erudite, articulate and he was a professional and he lived by his speaking. For a teacher to refuse remuneration, for a speaker to refuse pay, to refuse money would be to label himself as an amateur. So that's exactly what the false teachers said. Can't you see Paul won't take any money because he knows he's an amateur. He doesn't even belong with us in the same breath. He shouldn't even be standing in this place and speaking to you he's such an amateur. His presence is unimpressive and his speech is outright contemptible. You ought to be suspicious of the credentials of that man because the very fact that he won't charge you for his preaching is how he values it. He's put the price on his own preaching, it's worthless. He himself has made that clear.
And because it had none of the flair and none of the fancy and none of the cleverness of the popular rhetoric, because it was simple and straightforward and plain language, unembellished, this seductive idea had some...some power in their minds. If he really had something to say that was worth hearing he would charge for it like all the other professionals, wouldn't he? He himself has put the price on his own stuff, it's worthless.
Greek culture actually, and this is...you can find this in Greek history, Greek culture actually measured the importance and value of a philosopher by the fee he could command. The more he could command, the more valuable he was. Antiphon was recorded to have told Socrates who used to make no charge for his teaching, that was Socrates' custom. Antiphon said, "If you consider your conversation to be worth anything, you would demand for it no less remuneration than it was worth. And accordingly the just, though he might be because he deceived nobody through covetousness, wise he could not be since he had no knowledge that was worth any value."
Professional philosophers and sophists who sold their wisdom for money were a familiar feature in Greek society, not only in Socrates' time but later on in Hellenistic times and times and times of Paul. So here is another one of those subtleties that Satan will use to get his way in, another false accusation against Paul. He was not a genuine apostle, he was not a genuine spokesman for God...he didn't bring profound truth and knowledge and that ought to be obvious since his teaching was so worthless to himself that he wouldn't even accept money for it. How could it be worth anything to you? A man with such reluctance is declared himself to be an amateur, unworthy of people's acceptance as an authoritative apostle. That was their argument and the Corinthians bought into it...so gullible. And they bought into it in spite of what Paul had written in 1 Corinthians.
Go back to 1 Corinthians 9. It wasn't that they didn't understand why he didn't take any money, he told them why. It wasn't that he put no value on his teaching, he put great value on his teaching. Back in 1 Corinthians 9 in a letter he had written them earlier, the issue came up about money and this is what he said starting in verse 3 of 1 Corinthians 9, "My defense to those who examine me is this..." He's going to get into this whole defense about support. "Do we not have a right to eat and drink? Don't those who teach and preach the gospel, those who travel around and plant churches have a right to daily sustenance?" Of course they do. Verse 5, "Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas...Peter? Don't we have a right to have a wife and to bring the wife with us and have her sustained as well? Don't we have a right to be supported in this labor, in this work? Or do only Barnabas and I have a right to refrain from working?
Don't we have a right to eat? Don't we have a right to bring a wife along? Don't we have a right to stop our job so that we can spend all our time in ministry and be supported by that? And the answer to each of those questions is of course you have that right. You have a right to eat and drink. You have a right to be married and bring your wife along. And you have a right not to work because you give all your time to the ministry. After all, he illustrates it in verse 7, from just practical life analogies, "Who at any times serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and doesn't eat the fruit of it? Who tends a flock and doesn't use the milk of the flock? I'm not speaking these things according to human judgment, am I? Doesn't the law say these things?"
In other words, beyond the human analogy, can't we go to the law of God? Didn't Moses say you shall not muzzle the ox while he threshes? In other words, the animal that's doing the threshing should be able to eat while he's threshing. "And God's really not concerned about oxen, is He? Wasn't He speaking all together for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written because the plowman ought to plow and hope and the thresher to thresh and hope of sharing the crops."
The point is, you ought to be sustained by your work. And so verse 11, "If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we should reap material things from you?" It's not too much to ask, is it? That's pretty normal. It's a normal way of life. It's been said to be so in the law of Moses. Well, but you just said he didn't take any money from them. He didn't. And in verse 12 he says why. "If others share the right over you, do not we...do we not more?" In other words, if you've paid other preachers and other teachers, wouldn't you pay us? "Nevertheless we didn't use this right." Paul refused it. He had a right to it. He wanted to make it clear he had a right to it. He didn't use it. "We endure all things, we suffer whatever we need to suffer and we will not take money from you that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ."
Paul believed that when he went into a new place to found a church that if he charged the people for his preaching it would be a hindrance to the gospel. And so he didn't do it...not only in Corinth but really that was his pattern everywhere. Down in verse 14 he says in verse 13, "The priests who serve in the temple are supported by that service." And verse 14 he says, "The Lord directed those who proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel." If you preach the gospel you can earn your living preaching it. Verse 15, "But I've used none of those things." I don't use those. I...why? End of verse 15, "It's better for me to die than to have any man make my boast an empty one."
Why is he not taking money? Well he says in verse 12, "I don't want to cause a hindrance to the gospel." He says in verse 15, "I'd rather die than have anybody take away my boast in the gospel and make it vain." What's he saying here? He didn't charge wherever he went to preach the gospel because...one, he did not want to be compared with all the other false teachers. He didn't want to put a fee on himself like everybody else put a fee on them. He didn't want to just be another in a long line of orators and charlatans and frauds and philosophers and hucksters and con-men and so forth. He just did not want to be identified with that at all. He didn't want anybody to ever question his motive and he didn't want to be a burden to anyone.
Furthermore, on a number of occasions both to the Ephesians in Acts 20 and to the Thessalonians in 1 Thessalonians 2 and 2 Thessalonians 3, on all those occasions he told them, "I have worked with my own hands to earn my own way and one of the reasons was to show you how a Christian should work." So he disdained taking money from the church when he was founding the church, when he was planting the church, when he was evangelizing the area. One, because he did not want anything to hinder the gospel and he didn't want people to say, "Oh, he's just in it for the money," he didn't want anybody questioning his motives. He didn't want to follow the standard Greek practice of establishing a fee or charging a fee or taking an offering because he didn't want to be just another in a long line of guys who were plying their profession. And he worked, I believe, to give the believers a pattern of work, to show them how Christians work hard to support themselves. And further, he didn't want to be a burden to anybody. He did not want to be a burden to anybody.
Now let's go back to our text of 2 Corinthians. When he says in verse 7, "Did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?" There's irony there and there's sarcasm there. He's saying, "Have I committed some sin by breaking the Greek culture or pattern? Have I committed some iniquity by not following the norm that a teacher's worth is determined by his fee? You know why I didn't take any money." He had worked, by the way, the whole time he was there, nearly two years. He had worked as a tent maker or literally a leather worker...tents being made out of hide. According to Acts 18:3 while he was there he worked as a tent maker, he worked as a leather worker. And he worked to pay his own way while he ministered. He did the same with the Ephesians in Acts 20:34, "You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my own needs and to the men who were with me." He was so skilled at his trade, he was so good at it he could not only make a living for himself but everybody who traveled with him. And he did it. And there he established a pattern of work and there he relieved a burden, he didn't want to be a burden on the people, and he distinguished himself from the popular sophists and philosophers and false teachers. And he put no hindrance to the gospel and didn't want anybody to question his motives. He wanted it clear that he was not in the ministry for the money.
He held himself then to the place of a common worker. And he labored with his hands rather than preach the gospel for a fee and give any opportunity to any of his enemies to say he had selfish, monetary motives, like false teachers all do. He was glad to support himself.
Now one footnote to this. His policy throughout his ministry was not to take money from churches while he was establishing them. Okay, mark that in your mind because it's very important. His policy was not to take money from churches while he was establishing them. But he would receive gifts from already established churches after he had left. That was his pattern. It is still, I think, wise in new ministries to follow that pattern. When workers go out, and men go out to found a church, plant a church among unbelievers, winning unbelievers to Christ and building a church, I think it's wise for them to be supported by already established churches so that the folks they're trying to reach don't have to pay their support. When people go to the mission fields or places where Christ is not named to establish churches in other cultures, they are usually supported by their home churches, aren't they? Even when national pastors go out to found and plant churches in places where there are no churches, they will be supported by a home church. That..that's a pretty solid pattern throughout the history of Christian mission and church planning. And I think it's a wise one.
It was in the course of Paul's second missionary journey that he visited Corinth and founded the church there, around 52 A.D. And there he lived and worked with his friend Aquila in the craft of leather work so that he would be free to preach the gospel and never have to take any money for it. He stayed there, as I said, nearly two years. It was during that period while he was at Corinth in that 20 months or so that he wrote 1 and 2 Thessalonians. And in these letters this is what he said, "You remember, brethren, how I labor and travail working night and day that we might not burden any of you we preached to you the gospel of God." So he had done the same thing in Thessalonica and he reminds them of it. And again he wrote, "Neither did we eat bread for not at any man's hand, but in labor and travail working night and day that we might not burden any of you because we don't have the right," 2 Thessalonians 3:8 and 9.
He reminded them that he had done the very same thing that he was doing at Corinth. And as I noted earlier, the same thing is true in his case at Ephesus. He was there for three years and in the time he was there he continued to work with his hands and not be chargeable. Wherever he went to start a church, he did the work and he charged them nothing. And later on when he left, out of love they would send gifts which he would receive.
Now look back at verse 7. "Did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted?" They had been exalted, what does he mean by that exalted? Lifted up...lifted up out of the darkness into the light, lifted up out of sin to righteousness, lifted out of hell to heaven, lifted from Satan to God, lifted from death to life. He said, "Did I commit some sin in humbling myself to lift you up?" Is that a sin? This free preaching elevated you from damnation to glory, had I committed a sin in doing that? Well he makes it such a sarcastic statement because it's so foolish. They know better than that. Paul had lived in a measure of material poverty, that's right. He had lived in a measure of material poverty so his hearers could become rich. He had followed the pattern of Jesus in 8:9 of this same letter. Chapter 8 verse 9, Jesus who was rich but for your sakes became poor that you through His poverty might become rich. Paul could have been very wealthy, he was an astute man. He was a brilliant mind. He was a highly trained man. He was obviously a very skilled craftsman. He could have done very well for himself. But he put that all aside and operated really from hand to mouth, working to earn his daily food...not only his but everybody who traveled with him. He became poor that he might make others rich. And in that he was like his Lord and therefore he demonstrates the humility that marks a true apostle.
Then verse 8 further explains his modus operandi, "I robbed other churches taking wages from them to serve you." His pattern, as I said, was to take money from other churches already established but not the one being established so that he could offer the gospel without charge, 1 Corinthians 9:18. So he says I robbed...it's interesting that he uses that word, it's a strong word and it's a word used in a military context to plunder or to pillage. It's used in classical Greek of stripping the armor off a dead soldier. It's a word for plundering.
Now you say, "What is Paul saying that for? Why would he choose a word like that? Why would he say 'I plundered and pillaged other churches?'" Well not because he actually robbed them, not because he pillaged them, but because in his mind...he was such a humble man...in his mind he looked at these churches which were already poor and they sent him gifts to support him which even made them poorer. It was like a plundering in his mind. These churches were very poor and they gave to him generously and thus furthered impoverished themselves as if they had been plundered by some invader. Specifically he has in mind here the churches in Macedonia. You know, Greek...Greece is divided into two parts, the northern part, Macedonia, the southern part, Achaia with a little isthmus in the middle. He is now in the southern part, Achaia, on the western shore where Corinth is but he's been up in Macedonia where Philippi, Thessalonica and Berea are the cities the churches have been established in. And you remember in chapter 8, go back to chapter 8, that the churches of Macedonia are mentioned in verse 1, that would be Philippi, Berea, Thessalonica. The churches of Macedonia, verse 2, were in a great ordeal of affliction and were characterized by deep poverty. Macedonia was very, very poor and the churches were very, very poor. But in the middle of their affliction, in the middle of their deep poverty, verse 2 says they overflowed in the wealth of their liberality. And verse 3 says they gave beyond their ability. We know that the church at Philippi sent him gifts because he refers to them in Philippians chapter 4 verses 10 to 18. In fact, they sent him a gift that was so significant that he can say, "I have received everything in full and have an abundance," Philippians 4:18. "I am amply supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you have sent and it's a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice well pleasing to God and my God shall supply all your needs." So he received this gift from the Philippian believers. He also received a gift from the Thessalonian believers, most likely. And so he says in verse 8, "I wasn't at all taking wages from you, I robbed other churches taking wages from them to serve you." Wages is simply a word that means sustenance. It was used of a soldier's pay, a soldier's ration. I got my rations from them to serve you.
Here was this humble man, utterly selfless, taking nothing so as not to be thought of as an ill-motivated man, not to be motivated by greed, not to be accused of being like all the rest of the phonies. He gave up everything and worked with his own hands and sacrificed and other churches became even more impoverished to help him so that he could serve the Corinthians and not provide any opportunity for the false teachers to accuse him of anything and not to make the gospel chargeable and not to hinder them at all in believing. And now the church was so stupid, so gullible as to believe that the apostle who had humbled himself and given them his life and ministry freely was a fraud because he didn't charge them. That's how Satan had twisted everything.
Then in verse 9, for the first time he tells them something about his exigency, something about his need. "And when I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone." Wow, this is the first they've heard of that. "When I was present with you, when I was there, I was in need." And what does he mean? "I didn't have food, I didn't have the necessities of life." He had been working at his trade from Acts 18, I told you we know that, that is his ministry was getting more and more intensive and maybe the demands of that ministry were curtailing the time that he had for work and maybe work had run out and his resources were depleted. Whatever it was he was in a dire situation. He says, "Even when I was in need I was not a burden to anyone." That word "burden" means dead weight. It literally means to cause numbing by pressing against. I was not dead weight to you, even when I was...they didn't even know about his need, he didn't even tell them about it. Then verse 9, "For when the brethren came from Macedonia they fully supplied my need and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you and will continue to do so." Some brethren came down from Philippi and most likely down from Thessalonica and they brought some money, they brought some gifts. They arrived at exactly the time of Paul's need. They arrived when the situation was acute. And even in that extremity he said, "I didn't ask anything out of you." He wanted to give no occasion to anyone to accuse him of greed. And by the way, the occasion of that coming of those brethren is indicated in Acts 18:5 as the occasion when Timothy and Silas came and they fully supplied my need. In the wonderful sovereign omniscient providence of God they brought exactly all that Paul needed. So he says, "In everything I kept myself from being a burden to you and I'll continue to do so."
What does he mean by that? Well, on an upcoming visit should I come back, believe me, I want nothing...I want nothing. I think there were probably some of the Corinthians who thought, "I wish he'd take something, we love him so much." But he wouldn't give those false teachers any opportunity or any satisfaction. He didn't want them to have any opportunity to accuse him of greed. So what they did accuse him of was not loving the Corinthians, that he wouldn't take their money cause he hated them. And we'll deal with that next time.
The Philippians by God's movement of the Spirit on their hearts stepped in with the generosity. They sent him gifts and they did it more than once in his ministry. Even ten years after this they sent him gifts by Epaphroditus to Rome where he was waiting trial before the emperor, that's when he wrote Philippians. The Philippians showed him great generosity. When he was in Thessalonica they sent it to him a couple of times. On his journey south from Macedonia they sent him a gift, as I said, ten years later when he was in Rome. So he would be supported by the loving gift of churches already established. He had learned to trust God's supply through generous friends and beloved churches and not change his policy in Corinth or anywhere else which could grant a victory to his enemy.
So here is a selfless and humble man and this selflessness and this humility is so crucial to his distinctiveness from the false apostles. But it is just this issue that Satan twists and uses against Paul...he is so clever and so subtle. "Oh, Paul, you won't take anything. Ha, that shows how valuable your teaching is." And then they went on to question whether he was teaching the truth and then they went on to question whether he had any love at all for the Corinthians since he wouldn't receive any gifts from them. And he had to answer those accusations as well. And we'll see that next time and then we'll see how he turns the tables on the false teachers and describes them as proud, lying and abusive. Let's pray together.
Father, we thank You for the example of the Apostle Paul. We thank You for the model of virtue and character that he was. And, Lord, we see not only in this passage the model of Paul but we see the illustration of the gullibility of the church, that even when you've done everything you can possibly do to prevent false and destructive accusations, Satan can find a subtle twist, a subtle way to attract gullible people. And we can only pray, Lord, that You will give us a great understanding of Your truth that we might not be children tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, or by the sleight of hand, the cunning craftiness of Satan. He would want to destroy our church, he would want to destroy Your work and if he cannot find overt and blatant ways to do that, his clever disguises and subtleties can be very effective where there are people who lack discernment. Well we could pray constantly, unceasingly that You would give Your church discernment, that You would open their eyes to the truth that they might not be led astray so easily by Satan. Your own heart must be grieved with such gullibility then and now. We pray, Lord, that You will help us all to have the care to search the Scriptures that therein we may have the understanding that allows us to recognize true teachers, true apostles and false ones, that we might be the guardians of the truth and the protectors of Your church. We thank You for Paul's example. We thank You that true teachers marked by his humility, marked by his preaching and teaching of truth as can be measured accurately against the Word of God and marked by his love. And, Lord, deliver us from those false apostles, those deceptive and proud deceivers who seek only to abuse the church for satanic purposes to the triumph of the evil one over against You. Protect Your church, Lord, and raise up many true apostles, true preachers and teachers who can call Your people back to Your Word. And bless us this day, Lord, and work Your Word in our lives and help us to be all that You want us to be for Christ's sake. Amen.
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Preparing Transplants for Next Spring
Article written by blogger Jennah Watters from Jennah's Garden
If hard frost hasn't hit your area yet, there's still time to get transplants ready for spring! I move plants around often, and quite frequently don't get around to planting them until long after I've dug them up (planting procrastination!). Here's how I prepare my plants for winter if they're going to have to tough out a winter before I actually get around to planting them.
When digging up the plant from its current home, do only light pruning if necessary. Sometimes you have to cut back a larger plant to be able to get to the roots and transport it. That's fine, but try to make pruning as minimal as possible. Heavy pruning just adds to the list of the things a plant already has to account for when dug up and moved around. If it's a perennial that usually dies back in the winter, feel free to go crazy with pruning.
After pruning, start digging several inches out from the base of the plant (or at least a foot for a large shrub). Dig down a bit all around the plant until you get a good feel for the root ball. Try not to damage the root ball and keep all roots as intact as possible when digging. This will make it easier for your plant to get nutrients now and in the spring when it finds its full-time home.
Once you've dug up your plant, put it in a large pot. I recommend thick plastic pots: these provide shelter from cold, but also won't crack during frost heaves and are less heavy than alternatives. You want the pot to be big enough to fit a good barrier of potting soil all around the root ball. This will help protect the roots and mimic the plant being underground like it normally would be, had you not dug it up. Stick the plant in the pot with plenty of soil and give it a good watering. Be sure to label what's in your pots. You'd be surprised how easy it is to forget several months later!
Store your pots in a sheltered location, such as along the side of a house or garage. Remember that you still want the plants to be able to get some precipitation from rain or snow. I also like to rake leaves and stuff them around the pots for some extra protection. As the leaves break down in the winter and spring, they provide a boost of nutrients.
When spring arrives, wait for your plants to sprout and water them normally until they get large enough for replanting. Once they've sprouted and you've determined where their new home will be (be sure to account for sunlight, water needs, and the plant's mature size), plant them as you would any new planting and water them well. They'll be happy in no time!
You may find, though, that you like them in their pots! I plant lots of perennials in pots (daylilies are great), and it's a great option whether they stay there for a season or two, or even permanently.

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I saw Spalding Gray up close just once. It happened on the night of Sept. 11, 2001, when much of Lower Manhattan was open only to rescue workers and emergency vehicles. The nearest I could get to the site of the Twin Towers was Houston Street. As I headed toward a set of police barricades, he walked right past me - instantly recognizable in his flannel work shirt, with his wavy mane of gray hair.
I counted Gray's monologues "Swimming to Cambodia,'' "Terrors of Pleasure,'' and "Monster in a Box'' among the most entertaining and rewarding experiences I ever had in a theater. There, less than a mile from ground zero, I wondered how this great American storyteller would wring drama and humor out of the attacks, but felt certain that he would. After all, here was a man who found dark comedy in the story of his own mother's suicide and his fear that he too would take his own life.
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As each layer of a tree planted Monday at Central Davidson Middle School forms, the tree trunk will grow wider like the love shown from the students and community for Lauren Cecil.
As each layer of a tree planted Monday at Central Davidson Middle School forms, the tree trunk will grow wider like the love shown from the students and community for Lauren Cecil.
Classmates took a moment on the first day of the school year to remember their friend who would have entered the sixth grade for the 2013-14 school year. The 11-year-old young swimmer died July 16 after being electrocuted at the Brookside Swim Club on Queens Road. A power line that fell caused electricity to travel through the rain-saturated ground and into the pool. Lauren died when she touched a metal ladder while getting out of the pool.
More than 200 sixth-graders attended the ceremony in front of the school after lunch that gave them hope and a challenge as they remembered Lauren's spirit.
"She was nice," CDMS sixth-grader Adriana Keene said about her best friend. "(I will always) remember that she's like a sister to me. The tree makes me feel like she's in a better place, and I'll see her soon. It makes me feel good they are planting a tree in her memory."
Carley Hanes, another sixth-grader and best friend of Lauren, hopes the tree lives forever. Carley was on the swim team at Brookside, too.
"She was such a sweet girl," she said. "I will never forget that she was my best friend. I'll think of her with the tree."
Principal Deana Coley told the students that planting the tree in remembrance of a loved one is a meaningful way to honor a life. She said it's a form of dedication and a wonderful way to honor not only what the tree is destined to represent, but also to honor the importance of what the tree will provide to the world through its lifetime.
"This tree symbolizes strength, tranquility, longevity and life itself, and its growth year after year will provide a unique memorial," she said. "Today, we have planted this tree to honor the memory of Lauren Cecil, a true little Spartan. The act of planting this tree provides an opportunity for friends to gather to express sympathy and also to celebrate life."
Students who knew Lauren described her characteristics on links made out of construction paper. The links were all put together to be placed around the tree. Lauren attended Davis-Townsend Elementary School last school year.
"I have heard a lot of sweet things over the weeks about Lauren," said Karrie Sink, CDMS guidance counselor and education liaison with the American Children's Home. "I challenge (the sixth-graders) as you remember the qualities (Lauren) had that you let them live on through you. If you didn't know her, take those qualities she would have brought to Central Davidson Middle School and let them live through you. She was a kind and sweet girl. She treated everyone with respect."
Students from Davidson County Schools and Lexington and Thomasville city schools, as well as private schools, returned to the classroom as well Monday.
CDMS eighth-grader Aby Armas experienced an enjoyable summer. She was curious to see what her last year at the middle school would entail. She mentioned her excitement as a band member playing in concerts.
She's also looking forward to being a leader with 39 other eighth-graders through WEB, or "where everybody belongs." The program gives eighth-graders the opportunity to serve as mentors for sixth-graders through orientation and school activities to make the younger students comfortable at the school.
"I feel proud to be chosen as a leader. My first day is going pretty good," she said.
Jordan Long, CDHS seventh-grader, enjoyed returning to school because he was able to see his friends again.
"I was nervous because I haven't seen them in so long," he said. "I was anxious to see who was in my classes and make new friends. It feels good to come back to school and meet all of my new teachers."
Lauren's Fund, an organization created by friends of the family, as well as the school were responsible for the 10-foot crape myrtle tree, donated by High Rock Nursery, being planted on the campus.
Geelea Seaford, one of the co-founders of the fund, noted that the fund's purpose was to give back to the community and spread Lauren's love. She said a page on social media website Facebook has 4,000 followers, and fund organizers have raised $6,000 so far. More information can be found at www.facebook.com/laurensfund.
She said the ceremony was a team effort with a goal of keeping Lauren's spirit alive. With the sixth-graders already struggling with transitioning into middle school, Seaford noted it may be harder for some of Lauren's classmates to grasp that they are missing one of their friends who did not start the first day with them.
"This is a nice way to recognize and remember her and hopefully help the students heal. This is one way to remember her and have a lasting presence on the campus," said Seaford, who is also a childhood friend of the family.
Lauren is the daughter of Keith and Lori Cecil of Lexington. The links will remain around the tree until the next school day.
"Our sixth-grade class stands united together as we dedicate and honor the memory of Lauren Cecil," Coley said. "Thank you students for this wonderful opportunity for us to come together to honor the memory of one of our own."
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Sibling rivalries abound on track for decathlon, heptathlonBy IAN CLARK
New Hampshire Union Leader
June 14. 2013 11:58PM
On Father's Day weekend, it will be a family affair at the New Hampshire State Decathlon and Heptathlon Championships at Nashua South.
The 57th decathlon for boys is the oldest high school decathlon in the country. For the girls in the heptathlon it will be the 37th state championship.
The decathlon begins at 9 a.m. today and the heptathlon at 10 a.m. Both events are scheduled for 9 a.m. starts Sunday.
The unusual wrinkle this weekend is that six sets of twins will be participating.
Nashua South boys' track and field coach and decathlon director Jason Paling said that he and wife Siobahn Kemezys, who is the Nashua South girls' coach and director of the heptathlon, noticed the unusual nature of all the twins participating when the athletes were signing up.
"I like to joke that it's occurring on Father's Day weekend and you'll have these sibling rivalries vying for attention," Paling said.
Not only are there six sets of twins, but they come from just three different schools.
Manchester West has two sets of twins from the same family competing in the heptathlon: seniors Rachel and Rebecca Avard and sophomores Vanessa and Hannah Avard. Monadnock of Swanzey has two sets of twins in the heptathlon in freshmen Skyler and Alexis Cooke and seniors Michaela and Jenna Athanasopoulos .
Coe-Brown of Northwood has seniors Lindsey and Katelyn Terry and brother-sister senior duo Samantha and Anthony Toscano.
All told, Paling said that 167 athletes will be participating, representing 27 schools on the girls' side and 26 on the boys'.
"It's a great turnout from Divisions I, II and III," Paling said.
Athletes to watch on the decathlon side include Stevens of Claremont's Ramario Bailey, who finished seventh last year, and Nashua North's Bill Goulding.
Paling said that the potential favorite to win, Kearsarge of North Sutton's Gabe Carter, would not be able to participate because his graduation takes place during the decathlon.
On the heptathlon side, the Athanasopoulos twins are solid contenders after finishing second (Jenna) and third (Michaela) as juniors last year.
Other names to keep an eye on on the girls' side Lebanon senior Kelly Ledew, who was fifth last year, and Souhegan of Amherst's Sarah Hurd, who finished sixth.
There will be no repeat winners as decathlon champion Chris Bohi of Merrimack Valley of Penacook and heptathlon champion Hillary Holmes of Exeter were both seniors last year.


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Lily Stockman, DTLA, 2014, oil on Indian linen, 60 x 48 in
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
November 8 - December 20, 2014
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 8, 6-8 PM
"Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. ...What is going on in these pictures in my mind?"
–Joan Didion
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is very pleased to present LILY STOCKMAN in her first solo exhibition with the gallery, titled Women, on view from November 8 through December 20, 2014. An artist's reception will be held on Saturday, November 8, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Lily Stockman's exuberant, vibratory abstract paintings are based on commonplace experience that transcends the "object" to reveal a phenomenological experience for the viewer. They are a distillation of her own immediate interactions in the world: her observations on specific architecture (a drive-in theater in Twentynine Palms, the Art Deco "movie palaces" of Downtown Los Angeles), landscape (the desert palette of Rajasthan, India, and Joshua Tree, California), evolution through repetition (Darwin's finches, Agnes Martin's grids), passions (gardening, Indian textiles), and labors and sacrifices (craft, beauty, purpose). Stockman forces us to look at the object as not so much the result of a process but a representation of one. Her work poses new questions for process in terms of both the analysis and the making of paintings, and points to how multiple activities, histories, and locations can be embedded within single images.
Lily Stockman, Baboon, 2014, oil on Indian linen, 52 x 32 in
Borrowing from a banquet of art historical traditions (she is a student of both Indian miniature and Mongolian thangka painting), Stockman's work is athletic and rigorously anti-technology; hers is a practice devoted to the hand, the pulled line, and multiple layers of transparencies that serve to coax her curiosity about the physical process of making a painting. The Women are suggested through a combination of pared down geometricized compositions that employ tubular lines, heightened colors (Pepto pink, gunmetal grey) and bawdy, organic shapes suggestive of body parts. Yet the works are not the contrived detritus or byproduct of art history--neither a form of appropriation nor a form of conceptual painting.
Stockman writes about her hardscrabble garden in the Mojave Desert as "the perfect metaphor/mode for painting: a fine balance between bending something to your will, your fancy, your instinct, your style, your perspective, while also working within the strict parameters of the given conditions; the harsh climate of the desert or the picture plane." Thus, we are brought to her works' ultimate dislocation: out of history and into the moment. "How one couches oneself as a painter in 2014--in the tradition of 19th and 20th century Western art--is ultimately irrelevant,' states Stockman. 'What endures, what has meaning, what has lasting clout is the experience."
Based in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, Lily Stockman graduated with an honors thesis in painting in 2006 from Harvard University and received her MFA in studio art from New York University in 2012, where she also taught undergraduate painting. She was a 2013 teaching fellow in the Visual & Environmental Studies Department at Harvard University, and has apprenticed in thangka painting with the Union of Mongolian Artists in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and in Indian miniature painting with Ajay Sharma in Jaipur, India. She is co-founder of Block Shop Textiles, a hand block printed textile collaborative in Bagru, Rajasthan. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include The Morning After at Tyler Wood Gallery in San Francisco and for all intents and purposes and The Road at Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles. This winter she will participate in exhibitions at Gavlak Gallery in Los Angeles and Palm Beach.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Coker College lacrosse players Hayley Ferone and Marabeth Durden have been named the South Atlantic Conference Women's Lacrosse Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, the league office announced today. Ferone and Durden are the first-ever weekly award winners in Coker women's lacrosse history and the second Coker duo to sweep the POTW honors in any sport since the school joined the conference in 2013.
Ferone led Coker to a 19-11 win over Wingate in its SAC opener by recording four goals and a match-high four assists. She also picked up four ground balls and finished with an efficient 66.7-shooting percentage in the contest.
On the season, Ferone has 10 goals and six assists for a team-high 16 points. Her assists, points and goals are good for first, second and fourth, respectively, in the SAC statistical standings.
Ferone, a freshman, is an Art major from Orlando, Fla. She is the daughter of Ed and Debbie Ferone.
Durden did a little bit of everything for Coker against Wingate, finishing with three goals, six ground balls and three caused turnovers in the victory. She paced a Coker defense that caused 15 Bulldog turnovers and contributed to a 36-18 ground ball advantage.
A freshman defender, Durden has registered 12 ground balls and caused four turnovers to go along with three goals and three assists on the season. Her ground ball total is good for third in the SAC.
Originally from Orlando, Fla., Durden is an education major with a concentration in early childhood education. She is the daughter of Mitzi and Karl Sheppard and Michael and Lisa Durden.
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Sociopath: a person who has "no social conscience." We often hear this term used to describe criminals who commit heinous acts but show no signs of remorse. These people lack the ability to discern between right and wrong.
Look, I'm in no way saying that Mitt Romney is a sociopath in the sense it's applied to serial killers. But Mitt Romney might just be a new strain of this malady: a "political sociopath." How else do you explain how Romney can change positions so frequently on key issues with no sense of remorse or guilt?
Or does Mitt have a split personality, sorta of a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Romney"? Or is it "Dr. Mitt and Mr. Hyde"? In either case, is it possible there are two Mitt Romneys. And like in the famous Jekyll and Hyde tale, it seems that one has no memory of what the other has said or done.
I'm not even referring to Romney's earlier "evolution" on issues from years ago which gave us "Romney 2.0." By now most are familiar with these Olympic quality flips: Mitt being unabashedly pro-choice when Governor of Massachusetts, but a few years later when seeking the Republican presidential nomination, he suddenly become a hardcore pro-lifer. Or his reversal on gun control: when Governor, he signed into law a ban on assault weapons but now opposes similar gun control measures. And, of course, his championing a health care plan that was the first in nation to impose an individual mandate but now opposing that very same element of Obamacare.
No, I'm talking about Romney 3.0. This Mitt seems to have no recollection of his prior statements made just a few short months ago. For example, when Mitt Romney was the scary Mr. Hyde, he tried to appeal to conservative voters in the Republican primary by promising a tax break for, "…everyone across the country by 20 percent, including the top 1 percent."
But in the first presidential debate with President Obama, that Mr. Hyde was nowhere to be found. Instead we only saw a moderate, reasonable "Dr. Romney," who now pledged: "I will not reduce the taxes paid by high-income Americans."
Even President Obama sensed there was two Romneys, stating the day after that debate: "When I got onto the stage, I met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be Mitt Romney, but it couldn't have been Mitt Romney." This led Obama to coin his own diagnosis: Romensia.
And Romney's split personality has become more acute in the closing days of this campaign. For example, Dr. Romney continually claims that when he was Governor, he worked in a bipartisan manner with the Democrats who controlled the Massachusetts Legislature. But what Mitt doesn't tell us is that his Mr. Hyde used his veto over 800 times in a four year period to block Democratic legislative initiatives.
And now Dr. Romney argues that he did not oppose using government funds to help bail out the auto industry. However, Mitt 's Mr. Hyde had stated the opposite in a Republican primary debate: "…with regards to the bailout…whether it was by President Bush or by President Obama, it was the wrong way to go….My plan, we would have had a private sector bailout…with the private sector guiding the direction as opposed to what we had with government playing its heavy hand."
And Mitt's Mr. Hyde – obviously unable to predict that a massive hurricane would strike the Eastern seaboard a week before the election – stated in another Republican primary debate that he would take the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from the federal government and give it back to the States. The result would be that when a massive disaster occurs impacting more than one State- as they often do-there would be no umbrella organization coordinating the effort.
But now Dr. Romney says he wouldn't abolish FEMA. Instead, in times of emergency, people should get "help from the federal government and FEMA" in coordinating where disaster assistance is most needed.
And amazingly, Dr. Romney has in the last few days started billing himself as the"change" candidate. It's just a mater of time before we see a poster of Romney colored in red, white and blue, emblazon on the bottom with the words: "Hope."
While obviously there are voters who are not fans of President Obama's polices, at least they know what he stands for. In the case of Mitt Romney, not only don't we know what his stands for, we don't know even know which Mitt Romney would serve as President.


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Earth Day
Earth Day is coming up, on April 22. Forgive us if we're less than enthused.
Forty years after the great, green, grass-roots environmental movement of the 1970s began, it already has begun to lose its luster.
The greatest environmental catastrophe of all—human-generated global warming—did not rate a mention in last year's Presidential elections. And if that was not embarrassing enough, it barely got a tweet in President Obama's State of the Union message in January.
On top of that, the U.S. Senate and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could not even bring to the floor a vote on limiting carbon emissions, effectively stopping not just the bill, but, in our view, the entire environmental effort.
It would be hard to describe to our children what it was like, way back in the early 1970s, when the movement found its feet.
Working from the bottom up, far away from Washington, D.C., activists ultimately inspired Congress to pass the Clean Air Act of 1970.
After that, it was one victory after another—a real winning streak on a big-time level.
Congress passed the Clean Water Act of 1972, the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and, at the urging of Republican President Richard Nixon, it created the Environmental Protection Agency.
Across the country, little disorganized groups celebrated a new thing called "Earth Day," and when you added them all up, there were millions involved in the effort.
The result was palpable.
Big, awful, environmental catastrophes from Lake Erie (it once caught on fire, for Heaven's sake) to the Hudson River were saved. The quality of our drinking water improved dramatically. In California, smog levels that would rival the Beijing of today grew less oppressive.
It wasn't just a one-off kind of thing, either.
As Nicholas Lehmann points out in this week's edition of the New Yorker magazine, dozens of colleges and universities began environmental-studies programs. Many news organizations created full-time environmental beats.
For those of us who sought the pristine beauty of the Sierra Nevada, then chose to live here, Earth Day is every day, of course. Just this past week, here on the Eastside, government groups as diverse as Caltrans, the National Forest Service, the Los Angeles District of Water and Power, and the Mammoth Community Water District all were wrestling with environmental issues.
That is why it is hard for us to fathom the downward spiral of environmental activism.
It is sobering to realize that the last major piece of environmental legislation was nearly a quarter-century ago, when President George H.W. Bush—another Republican—signed off on a 1990 bill aimed at reducing acid rain.
Writes Lehmann:
"Today's environmental movement is vastly bigger, richer, and better connected than it was in 1970. It's also vastly less successful. What went wrong?"
It's a darned good question, and one that author Adam Rome addresses in a new book, "The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-in Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation" (Hill and Wang).
It is a must-read for those of us who lived through the movement in the 1970s, and that is why we were less than enthused about Earth Day on April 22.
It reminds us of a time when Earth Day really meant something. Nowadays, it's a day to remember how we somehow dropped the ball along the way.
It is an indictment that will be hard to live down.


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See a Still of Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard in Lowlife
More like the snoring twenties, right?
Phoenix plays a pimp, Cotillard plays a stripper, and, also, it's the twenties, which makes it glamorous.
More like the snoring twenties, right?
Phoenix plays a pimp, Cotillard plays a stripper, and, also, it's the twenties, which makes it glamorous.
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Griesbacher, Wilhelm (d. ca. 1536)
Wilhelm Griesbacher, of Kitzbühel, Austria. Like many other Anabaptist martyrs, little is known of him beyond his martyrdom and a letter that he sent from prison to the brotherhood by his companion, Hans Donner of Wels. Griesbacher, a Diener der Notdurft, was seized at Schäkowitz with several of his brethren during the height of the persecution (1536) when Hutter was being sought, and was taken to Brno, Moravia. Here he was cross-examined on the following points: (1) Why did they accept this treacherous faith that was tolerated nowhere? (2) Whether they had an agreement with other sects from whom they received help on occasion (the consequences of the Münster revolt are evident here); (3) Why they would have nothing to do with government; and (4) Why they attacked the king so rudely in Hutter's reply to the governor. The report of the authorities was followed by a command to try the prisoners on the rack, and if they were obstinate, to use the mandates against them moderately. Only one of them (named Loy) renounced his faith. Griesbacher sent the brotherhood the letter mentioned above, in which he admonished them to pray for the backslider. At the trial under torture Griesbacher was also asked how the exiles fared financially. He replied that they had not left home and land and come to this country for the sake of money, but for the sake of their faith. Griesbacher was sentenced to die at the stake and was burned in Brno.
The letter mentioned above is in a manuscript of the Pressburg Domkapitel, and extracts of it are printed in Beck, Josef. Die Geschichts-Bücher der Wiedertäufer in Oesterreich-Ungarn. Vienna, 1883; reprinted Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1967: 119.
See also Wolkan, Rudolf. Geschicht-Buch der Hutterischen Brüder. Macleod, AB, and Vienna, 1923: 77, 78, 115.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II, 173.
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Johann, Loserth. "Griesbacher, Wilhelm (d. ca. 1536)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 18 Aug 2018. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Griesbacher,_Wilhelm_(d._ca._1536)&oldid=145317.
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Johann, Loserth. (1956). Griesbacher, Wilhelm (d. ca. 1536). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 18 August 2018, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Griesbacher,_Wilhelm_(d._ca._1536)&oldid=145317.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 579. All rights reserved.
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SENECA — Brent Bergeson made two early runs of support stand up, but only after three plays at the plate in the final four innings went Seneca's way.
Bergeson went the distance in a 2-1 win by the fourth-seeded Fighting Irish over fifth-seeded Somonauk Monday in a Class 2A Marquette Baseball Regional play-in game. He took a no-hitter into the sixth and struck out 12, but it would be hard to say Bergeson and the Irish were in complete control late.
In the top of the fourth inning, Bergeson hit one batter and walked another, but escaped damage when Mitch Westbrook was caught trying to score on a wild fourth ball issued to Nick Saltzman. In the fifth, two walks resulted only in two runners left stranded when Bergeson struck out the side.
The drama escalated in the top of the sixth. John Wathen drew a leadoff walk, stole second base as Bergeson struck out Westbrook and scored as Zac Goldsboro ended the no-hitter with a double down the left-field line. Saltzman then hit a single up the middle, but Irish center fielder Logan Pifer got the ball in to catcher Matt Houchin, who had to make a leaping catch and was then ruled to have tagged Goldsboro before he reached home plate.
"I'm not sure that I got the tag on him, but his body went into mine before he got (to the plate) it seemed like," Houchin said. "He was probably safe."
Bergeson gave up another single to Kevin Clukey before a strikeout got him out of the inning. Kyle Hatton then led off the seventh inning with an infield single. Hatton got to second base on a groundout and to third as Scott Thomas reached on an error, but he was thrown out trying to score on a pitch that went to the backstop.
Bergeson then induced a Wathen groundout to end the game.
"I thought it looked like an air tag. I had a pretty good angle. But the umpire was right there and he seemed pretty sure of the call," Seneca coach Kirk Houchin said of the Goldsboro play." "But if there was ever a kid who deserved to catch a break, it's (Bergeson). This is only his second win, and he's pitched like that for most of the season. Maybe at times he's been a little more wild than he was today, but for the most part he's thrown the ball well."
Bergeson walked six Monday and totaled 134 pitches.
"(My arm) feels good. I'm definitely going to try for the (complete game) whenever I can," Bergeson said. "My curveball was effective today. ... I knew about (the no-hitter), but it wasn't like I was thinking about it when I was out there. I was just pitching."
Seneca got to Somonauk pitcher Joe Palasiewicz quickly. Pifer led off the bottom of the first inning with a double to left-center, stole third base and came home on a Brian Bergeson sacrifice fly. Another leadoff double from Daniel Hamilton got the Irish going again in the second. Hamilton scored from third on a two-out double to right-center by Nick Kirkton.
From there, the Irish had only three hits, all singles, in three different innings.
"The three doubles right off the bat were nice to see. (Palasiewicz) has beaten some good teams, including Westmont," coach Houchin said. "We beat a good pitcher and a good team."
Seneca will continue the regional Wednesday versus top-seeded St. Bede at 4:30 p.m. at Masinelli Field in Ottawa.


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•Dr. Albert Rossi, who teaches pastoral theology at Saint Vladimir's Seminary in New York, and will be presenting on "You are the Light of the World";
•Fr. Stephen Powley, the Assistant Director of the Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry, who will be presenting on "Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone: One of the keys to a purposeful Orthodox life";
•Catherine Varkas, the founder and director of the Orthodox Christian Spiritual Formation Teacher Education Center, who will be presenting on "Spiritual Formation – the Early Child: A brief discussion about the 3-6 year old child and faith based experience";
•Terrie Sauer, a teacher and director of the church school program at Christ the Savior–Holy Spirit Orthodox Church in Cincinnati, OH, speaking about "Creating Active Involvement Opportunities for Church School Students to Help Them Understand How to Live Their Orthodox Faith"; and
•Annalisa Boyd, the author of the popular books Hear Me: a Prayerbook for Orthodox Teens and Special Agents for Christ. She will be presenting "Don't Just Stand There—Living Life on Purpose" in which she will discuss her journey through parenthood with her own children, as well as parenting over 20 children through foster care.
The webinar is available to anyone with internet access and a computer, iPad, iPhone, or Android with audio speakers. Attendees to the webinar can listen to the speakers live and follow along with the visual presentation on their screen. During and after each presentation, attendees have the opportunity to send questions via a chat box directly to the speaker.
Sign up here for $29.99 per household. The virtual ticket includes a link that is emailed the day before the conference, with no download required. It also offers entrance to the webinar for everyone living under one roof, including spouses and children.


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Making Artist's Paint
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By Tony Johansen, Director, East Sydney Academy Of Art
At one time all paint was made in the studio, usually by the apprentices from their first year and itinerant journeymen. Due to the deep understanding every artist had of the properties of the paints they were making it was easy for the artists of the day to produce artworks of intense beauty and great durability that testify to the skills and knowledge gained grinding colors for their master in their early years.
There are many reasons for an artist to make their own paint even today. Despite this need there are surprisingly few places for the average artist to learn these old master skills. Even the internet offers little in the way of easy to find practical resources for the artist wanting to make paint. Hence this site, with its series of articles and demonstrations seeks at the one site to acquaint the artist with the basics of paint making, reveal some of the important background information you need, and then point the way to further resources on the web.
Note For Conservators
This site was written specifically for working artist's and so uses language addressed to the artist. The conservator will, however, find much helpful information here. The techniques described, the history and background information, and the ingredients information and lists of suppliers of historic materials are all based on historic documentation from Pliny the Elder in the years before the Christian era to the latest investigative offerings including treatises written at important points in time relevant to the use of all major paint media used since Ancient Greco-Roman times to the present day. This current work offers practical working methods relevant to the conservator working with early paintings, and sources of supplies of pigments and many of the art materials available to artist's working in Europe during the last 5,000 years, so far as is known in the present day, and by prehistoric peoples everywhere, going back to the beginnings of human art making. Some of the suppliers of pigments and other materials listed on the links page supply materials for the conservation of the world's great masterpieces as a central function of their business.
Getting Started
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The Demonstration has an emphasis on making of oil paint because that is what most people want to do, but there is ample information on the making of other media. The media introduced here are Oils, Alkyds, Acrylics, Egg Tempera, Watercolor, Gouache, and Encaustic. How to make Pastels and hard Chalks is also included in the demonstration. The demonstration applies across all paint types. All paint making shares some essential similarities. The differences to be aware of when making watercolor for instance instead of oil paint is explained on appropriate linked pages.
There is a data base of historic pigments used by artist's down the centuries and millennia. There are also detailed notes on the latest products of paint laboratories. This site tries not to advocate one approach or another although the dangers and limitations of many older colors are pointed out.
This site has a central ethos of practical usage for the average artist in the average professional studio. Simplified ways of doing some things are described where something might otherwise require special training. Testing for light fastness for instance is described in a way that the scientific community might not accept, but that the average artist can easily do, and get useful results from. Acrylics and Alkyds are not as easy to formulate from base ingredients as other paints, so all that is offered is a way to use ready made mediums as paint bases, and as a way for the average artist to get color on canvas in as simple and quick way as possible.
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Grey's Anatomy Caption Contest XXXVIIISteve Marsi at . Comments
Monday, January 15, was a national holiday, but at the Insider, that wasn't about to derail our Grey's Anatomy Caption Contest. Especially as we awaited Part II of the previous week's thrilling episode, "Six Days."
We received 57 replies to the image below and are proud to announce the winner: LoveGreys. It was the very first entry we received and none could quite top it, although a lot of you sent in terrific ones and came close. The winning entry appears beneath the image.
Check out the list of captions we received by scrolling down the page. Good luck this coming week, and thank you for making the Insider the best Grey's Anatomy site on the web!
Here's this week's Caption Contest image:
"He helped me birth my baby and he can help you birth yours, too!"
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