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Congruence and Coincidence
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Objective: SWBAT use a rigorous definition of congruence--aided by tracing paper, compass, etc.--to identify congruent figures. Students will understand the meaning of congruence in terms of superimposing figures with rigid motions.
Big Idea: Hands-on activities reinforce the connection between congruence and coincidence, helping students to go beyond "same shape, same size".
Lesson Open
The warm-up prompt for this lesson asks students to define congruence. The warm-up follows our Team Warm-up routine. I choose students at random to write the team's answer on the board.
We review the team answers as a class. Most of my students will probably define congruent as "same shape, same size". I tell students that that definition is still true, but it is only part of the story. For example, what does it mean for objects to have the same shape? Students will probably agree that objects have the same shape and size if--and only if--one can be superimposed on the other so that all points coincide--line up. In geometry, that means we can describe a sequence of reflections, rotations, and translations that carries one object onto the other.
I display the agenda and learning targets for the lesson. Today we will focus on re-examining the concept of congruence in terms of the rigid motions.
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Re-Defining Congruence
Old notions die hard, so I re-teach the concept of congruence explicitly with the aid of Guided Notes on Congruence and Symmetry. For more on how I use guided notes to teach, see this description of my thoughts on this instructional strategy: Guided Notes.
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Matching Congruent Objects
Displaying the slide, I tell students that I want them to think about how they can use transformations to tell whether objects are congruent. A range of tools is available for them to use, for example: compass, rulers. (I am looking for students to find their own methods of deciding whether objects are congruent (MP5). I make tracing paper available, but only after students have tried using other methods to identify congruent polygons in problem #3 of the set. I like tracing paper, because students can use it to represent rigid motions in a very concrete way. However, I want students to make other connections, as well. Among these, I want students to see that a compass performs transformations on a line segment. Also, I want students to make the connection between the congruence of segments and the equality of their lengths, and between the congruence of angles and the equality of their measures.)
I ask students to use Rally Coach, so that they can compare ideas and check each others' work. I hand out the problems on half-sheets of paper as I circulate around the classroom.
I am on the lookout for:
- Do students see that a compass is a very efficient tool for comparing the length of segments (MP5)? I do not discourage students from using a scale to measure length, but I want to make sure that they are aware of the other tools in their toolbox.
- In problem #2, do students see that angles may be congruent regardless of the apparent "length" of their sides? To highlight this point, I use an animated slide.
- Are students using protractors correctly to measure angles? They should be extending the rays of the angles or sides of the polygons to measure accurately (MP6).
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Matching Congruent Parts
Displaying the slide , I tell students that now we will practice writing congruence statements and using congruence marks to show that objects are congruent. We will also practice matching up corresponding sides and angles of congruent polygons.
As with the last activity, I ask students to use Rally Coach, and I hand out the problems on half-sheets of paper as I circulate.
Be On the Lookout For: Do students see that they can use the congruence statement to identify pairs of corresponding vertices and sides (MP7)?
Corresponding vertices are given in the same order when naming congruent polygons to make it easier for the reader to follow. I will expect students to follow this convention, as well.
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Individual Size-Up
The lesson close follows our individual Size-Up routine. The prompt asks students to tell how they used transformations to determine whether figures are congruent during the lesson.
For homework, I assign problems #6-8 of Homework Set 1 for this unit. These problems provide additional practice in matching congruent segments, angles, and polygons and in identifying corresponding parts of congruent polygons.


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The title of the fifteenth chapter verses 1 to 35 simply is, The Salvation Question: Law or Grace? Now the salvation question, law or grace is the crucial issue in this chapter, and it is the crucial issue period. If you were to understand everything about Christianity and not understand the doctrine of salvation, everything else wouldn't do you any good. You'd spend all your eternity in hell going over what you knew, and find it unrelated to the real issue. Salvation is the issue. How a man comes into the relationship to God is the crux of everything.
And in the growth of the early church as it progressed, there became a very significant issue over the doctrine of salvation. And it's not a dead issue even today, believe me. The greatest heresy in the world today is the heresy of false systems of salvation. They are the things that damn people. And in the early church Satan threatened to split and fracture the church and to destroy the whole doctrine of salvation, and that is the issue dealt with in chapter fifteen.
Now let's back up just a minute so we get kind of a running start, as we have been studying the book of Acts we are aware that it is history. It is the history of the church from its birth through its early years, through the growth until such a time as it reached the city of Rome. And as we have studied this history of, we have found that it is unlike some history courses, anything but dead, anything but dull, anything but uh, but antedated. It is alive, it is vital, it is vibrant, it is now, it is today, it is practical. Because you see, the history of the book of Acts projects principles that are timeless. And we have seen as we have studied this book certain principles and patterns and practices which were the genius of the power of the church, and still are the genius of the power of the church. And then on the negative side we have seen problems and we've seen pitfalls that threaten to steal the power, and they're the same ones that we face today.
So what we have here is really a picture that is applicable to every church in every age, a picture of what brings results, and what stymies results, of what pleases God and what displeases God. And really the dominating factor in all that we've studied is the power of the Holy Spirit, isn't it? Were we to trace just that concept we would be here about an hour just going over the verses that say, and the Holy Spirit moved them to do this, or the Holy Spirit came upon them, or they were filled with the Holy Spirit, or the Holy Spirit said to me to do this, or the Holy Spirit indicated that this was wise, etc, etc, it is really the acts of the Holy Spirit.
Now back in chapter 1, this particular history began with the words, "The former treatise have I written unto you, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach." And Luke said, I'm telling you now, what is the continuation of what Jesus began to do. We talk about the finished work of Christ, we don't say much about the unfinished work of Christ. He finished the work of salvation and He only began the work of preaching and teaching, and it's ours to finish, isn't it? And in the first chapter then Jesus gives all of the important equipment to finish the work which He began. And then in chapter 2, the Spirit comes to empower them to do the job, and you'll remember in chapter 2 the church was born and the Spirit descends, they're baptized into the body they're filled with the Spirit and they go out and they blitz the city of Jerusalem and Peter preaches and three thousand people responded and three thousand were added to the church, and that's the kind of evangelism that's pure, where you get three thousand professions of faith and three thousand join the church, no loss. And then in chapter 2 we saw that the pattern of the early church, they occupied themselves with doctrine, prayer, fellowship and communion, breaking of bread. We saw how aggressive they were in their witness, and then we moved on into chapter 3 and 4 and we saw the ministry of Peter and John as they preached and as they healed, and the wonders of the power of the Holy Spirit began to spread until the people in Jerusalem reacted. And the leaders reacted negatively and they hauled them into jail and they threatened 'em and told 'em to stop preaching, and that only gave them greater impetus and the gospel begin to saturate Jerusalem until finally ready to tear their hair out they said, you have filled all Jerusalem with your doctrine, and they said, humm, that's exactly what we intended to do. And the gospel was spreading. And then in chapter 5 we saw that Satan had to do something because it was going too fast, and so he attempted to infiltrate the church with sin, and he picked out Ananias and Sapphira who were susceptible to temptation and who fell, and he got them to lie to the Holy Spirit and the church was threatened, and God dealt sternly didn't He? The Holy Spirit singled them out of the congregation and God struck them dead right there in front of everybody, and the church was purified instantly and learned a great lesson, that God hates sin.
And when the sin was removed from the church, it began to explode again, in fact it begin to do all kinds of different things, and finally there was even a ministry to widows. And there were various caring ministries.
And then in chapter 6 they had to get organized because the Spirit was doing things and they needed to get frames around what the Spirit was doing, and so they chose men full of the Holy Spirit and put 'em over the business of caring for the needy, and the church was organized.
And immediately after that we begin to focus on individuals. The church continued to spread and we run into a man by the name of Stephen, and Stephen was a fearless man. And Stephen preached Christ, and we got kind of a new feeling because Stephen didn't just preach Christ to Jerusalem Jews, he preached Christ to Hellenist Jews, Jews who lived outside Jerusalem, and we had a kind of a feeling that the church was getting ready to move out, and we were right. But Stephen wasn't goin' carry that message, because Stephen was so fiery that they killed him, they stoned him to death. And standing there at Stephen's stoning was a man by the name of Saul. And Saul picked up the persecution of the church and he began to, to slaughter Christians. And you know what that did? That scattered Christians, and when Christians got scattered, the gospel got scattered with 'em, and they scattered into Judaea, and they evangelized Judaea, and they scattered into Samaria and you remember that Samaria got evangelized, primarily by Philip. And Jesus had said, the gospel will go from Jerusalem to Judaea to Samaria, and it did.
And Paul was really the catalyst in that, on the negative sense. And then the Lord finally thought well, Paul's done all he can do from the wrong side, let's get him on the right side, and so in chapter 9 he stopped him on the Damascus Road, spun him around, turned him into the Apostle Paul and he was selected to evangelize the last dimension of four-fold scope, Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria and what was fourth? The uttermost part of the earth, and now He had His man. And then in chapter 10, God used Peter to open the door, and Peter opened the door through Cornelius and company, Gentiles who got saved, and once the door was open then Paul marched right through. And we find the preparation of Paul, the preparation of the church at Antioch, which was goin' be the church which Paul pastored, and then from there he and Barnabas went out with the gospel to the Gentiles, chapter 13 and chapter 14, they went to Cyprus, they went to Galatia, they not only preached but people were saved, they went back and strengthened the believers and confirmed them and organized them, they returned to Antioch and said, we accomplished the mission. And now the gospel was not only Jerusalem, it was Judaea, it was Samaria, now it was the uttermost part of the earth. And you know what? There weren't only Jews in the church, there were half-breed Samaritans, and there were Gentiles. And the prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they might be one, was coming to pass and there was a unity in the church that God had designed, and again Satan said, it can't be, if God wants unity, I want division, and Satan tried to destroy what God was building and chapter 15 deals with the issue, that Satan brought up to try to fracture the church. And like everything Satan ever did to try to destroy the church it had an ultimate end of bringing the church closer together, and making a more positive commitment to the things that were true. The issue of how do you get saved came up and instead of splitting the church, they came up with a positive statement and the church set down for all time the doctrine of salvation, And so we can thank Satan for helping us to solidify our theology. But he's always doing that he must get tired of that.
So in chapter 15 the issue is dealt with, and the issue is the issue of salvation. How is a man saved? To begin with as we studied, still reviewing, we found that uh, of course we know that a man is saved by grace through faith, right? Plus nothing. No law, no ritual, no legalism, no rules bring a man to salvation. Pure faith and the gracious gift of God in Christ that's all. But there were some Jews in Jerusalem who were so super-duper zealous for the Mosaic Law that they could not allow Gentiles to get accepted in the church unless the Gentile first became a Jew. They had such an exalted opinion of Judaism, and it was really an ego trip. The Jews were the only ones that God favored. And so if you were ever goin' come to God, you're goin' have to come to Judaism first. And so you can't just take a, a plain old run of the mill crummy everyday pagan, and make him a Christian, he must become a proselyte to Judaism, and he had to go through circumcision, the whole thing. This group was called the circumcision party, commonly known as Judaizers, that is they were imposing Judaism as the vestibule into Christianity. Remember the little illustration that ya can't get into the living room unless you go through the porch, and the porch is Judaism: and the living room's Christianity, Judaism is the way to Christ. And they were goin' stand for all the ritual and ceremony of Judaism as necessary for salvation. Salvation by works and legalism. Well, this threatened to split the church, and it had to be dealt with, notice the dissension, and we'll review our little outline. The dissension in verses 1 to 5, "Certain men who came down from Judaea taught the brethren, (everything is down from Judaea as we told you, 'cause it's up in the air, altitude wise) and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you can't be saved." Now what is he saying? These teachers are saying that you, you get saved by a physical operation.
First you become a Jew physically, then salvation is available. Now let me tell you something, there is nothing wrong with being a Jew, that's a wonderful blessing of God. But to make Judaism the necessity for salvation is anti-God, is heresy, damnable heresy. They were making Judaism the only way to get saved. This is salvation by law, or by legalism, or ritual. And there are a lot of people today who are doin' the same thing, it isn't Judaism anymore it's if ya do this, and do this and do the other, every system of religion's got their own little deal, but it's the same spirit. Well it became such a serious issue that, "Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them," verse 2. And they decided that they oughta all go to Jerusalem and let the Apostles and elders deal with the question. And you remember that they went on the way, and they went through Phoenicia, Samaria, and they were spreadin' the word about the salvation of Gentiles and everybody was gettin' all excited about it. They came to Jerusalem, verse 4, "received by the church, the apostles and elders," a formal reception. And then "they declared all things that God had done with them." They told all about Gentile conversion, and that set off the action in verse 5, "There rose up (shot up out of their seats or off the ground, if they were, if they were just sitting cross legged) certain of the sect of the Pharisees, who believed, (this is a part of the Pharisees that used to be Pharisees, now they've plugged into the church, they believe in Christ as Messiah, and they said,) it was needful to circumcise them, (ya gotta go back through all that territory and circumcise every one of those guys) and command them to keep the law of Moses." In other words, their salvation is not legitimate. Now this is what is known as Judaizing. Their salvation is not legitimate, they must become Jews first, and their feeling was, only Jews could come to God. Well, they had been willing to let a few half-breed Samaritans in, and they had been willing to let in Cornelius and company and the Ethiopian eunuch, both of whom were Gentiles, but those guys were exceptions and they were also quote, God-fearers which was a technical term for somebody who had attached himself to Judaism. But to just run around saying, all right, all you Gentiles, come on in, just...they couldn't handle that. And so they wanted to impose upon them Judaism, they wanted to tell them that you can get saved if you become a Jew.
Well the dissension led to the discussion, verse 6. And you'll remember that the discussion was a most powerful presentation of salvation by grace. Now we know the Apostles had already made up their minds look at verse 11, "But we believe (this is Peter talking for them, but we believe) that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they." The statements very simple. Salvation's by grace. That's Peter, speaking, we believe for the Apostles, there's no question about that, we believe that salvation is by grace, but he's goin' support that. And there are three speeches to support it, Peter's, that of Paul and Barnabas, and that of James. And Peter is first, and the three of them together, the three speeches, give us six solid reasons why salvation by grace is to be accepted. Reason one, Peter, verse 7, there..."Peter rose up, and said, Men and brethren, you know how a good while ago (and we indicated that maybe ten years ago) God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the Word of the gospel and believe." Period. Who's he talking about? Cornelius.
You know that before when Cornelius was saved, all he had to do was believe, God didn't make him be circumcised. Past revelation then, says Peter, reason number one to believe in grace. Are you goin' bring some new doctrine? Ten years ago God was saving Gentiles by grace, through faith. Second reason, the gift of the Holy Spirit. Do you think God gives His Holy Spirit to somebody who's not truly saved? Of course not, look at verse 8 then, "And God who knows the hearts, (in other words God knew if their salvation was real, God wasn't fooled.
You say, well maybe God didn't know they weren't real. God knows everything. And God who knows the hearts, bore them witness, (how did He bear witness to the validity of Cornelius salvation?) giving them (what?) the Holy Spirit, (to Cornelius and his friends, God gave the Holy Spirit which was God's testimony to the, really the validation of their conversion. And it even goes on to say,) even as he did to us: And put no difference between us and them." They have the same Spirit, you remember when the Spirit came the same things happened that happened at Pentecost? So past revelation and the gift of the Spirit show that grace was enough. Thirdly, cleansing from sin, look at verse 9, the middle of the verse, "Purifying their hearts (God purified their hearts, how?
By what?) by faith." That was all God required then. And then fourthly, Peter says, another reason we don't wanta impose law as a way of salvation is it doesn't work. "Now, therefore, why put God to the test, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?" Are you goin' make them get saved by law when it wouldn't even do it for Jews? Pretty powerful argument, and the response is in verse 12, "All the multitude kept silence." I guess so.
Then Barnabas and Paul chimed in with their fifth proof that salvation is by grace, and that was the miracles. They declared what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them." Now listen to this point, it's a powerful one, Paul and Barnabas preached the message of salvation by what? By grace. Why did God do miracles? Miracles were to confirm the message. If God confirmed the message of grace, then the message of grace is the message, right? That's the point.
Then James was last, and he showed that prophetic promise indicated Gentiles would be saved by grace, and he goes through Old Testament prophecies from Amos and brings it to the point in verse 17, "That the residue of men ought seek after the Lord, and all the nations." In other words you can be saved as a Gentile, you don't have to become a Jew. And we went into that very difficult passage in great detail.
All right, so the speeches then gave the discussion very clearly. Salvation was by grace, all the proof was in. And everybody just kept silent, it was an overwhelming argument. And that led to the decision, verse 19 to ?9. And here the decision is arrived at and stated, and then restated in the letter, and then taken to the Gentiles. Verse 19, James says, "Wherefore, (that is on the basis of all this discussion, on the basis of all that we know to be so) my judgment is this, that we trouble not them, who from among the Gentiles are turned to God." In other words he says, here's my judgment, let's not hassle them, and the word in the Greek for trouble means annoy. There's no point in tacking on a lot of hassles. Why their salvation is already legitimate, isn't it? The issue is settled. Do not trouble them. They have turned to God.
It's legitimate. Let's not go running up there, making them get circumcised, and making them keep the law, and making them do this. But, you say, well that takes care of the doctrine. Sure does. But it doesn't take care of the fellowship, 'cause there was still goin' be a possibility of real problems. You know it's one thing to say, we all agree on the same doctrine: but it's easy to offend and so this is what's added by James in verse 20, "But, let's tell them, to abstain from pollutions of idols, fornication, things strangled, and from blood."
You know why? Those were things that were very offensive to Jews, weren't they? So we're not talking about how to be saved anymore, we're just telling them that they shouldn't do these things, because these things will irritate the Jew. We can say, yes you're truly saved as Gentiles, we're not goin' add anything to it, but here are a few things you might watch just for the sake of fellowship. And for the sake of reaching unsaved Jews, why? Verse 21, "Because Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath day." There are still plenty of Jews who are plugged into Moses.
And there's no sense in running around using your liberty as a cloak of maliciousness. There's no sense in running around saying, I'm free, I'm free, I'm free, so I'll step all over you. And what you can't understand I'll flaunt in your face. That's offensive. And remember how we talked about the law of love in Christianity, which says, I don't do certain things because they make my brother stumble. That's what he's saying. He's not talking about how to get saved by not doing that, he's talking about how to maintain unity. So the decision is clear, the doctrine is settled and the fellowship issue. And the law is the law of love, the perfect law of liberty. You ever heard of the law of liberty? Sounds like a paradox. Perfect law of liberty is love isn't it? The royal law, James calls it. And we went into that in detail. So, the decision then is arrived at, we're not goin, hassle 'em, they're saved, we accept 'em, but we'll be careful in the area of fellowship, not to offend them, and that's showing love.
Well notice verse 22, and we'll pick it up from there. "Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas, surnamed Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren." I want ya to notice something. Do you realize that there is in that verse something that is very foreign to most church meetings?
"Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole church." You know you...I don't know how many of you have had church background experience but for somebody to come out of a church meeting and say, you know what? Everybody agreed, uhm. People say, oh no, you can't please all the people, no, we might as well forget that. Well, it pleased everybody. They were not only pleased with the decision, they were pleased to send along two of their leaders. I'll tell you something friends, and I'll just digress for a minute. You know why it pleased all of those people? I'll be honest with ya, I think every meeting, in terms of the things of the Lord oughta end up pleasing everybody, you know why? Because the Spirit never disagrees with Himself, are you with me? And if everybody is Spirit filled and Spirit controlled then everybody's goin' come out agreeing. And if somebody doesn't agree then one or the other side needs to reconsider their own relationship to the Spirit of God or their own information on the decision. You know back in chapter 6 in verse 2, when they went to choose deacons uh, most wonderful indication in chapter 6 verse 2, they were, the Apostles wanted to study the Word and pray and so they said, you choose some guys and they'll do that work, "And the saying (verse 5) pleased the whole multitude." You say, that's a different kind of church than I'm used to. Well you know what was the genius...what'd I tell ya was the genius of the early church? They were subject to the Spirit's control, and the Spirit doesn't disagree with Himself. One of the things that I believe in so strongly and have, we've made a part of our ministry here, among our elders is that the elders do nothing, make no decision unless that decision is unanimous. It's unanimous. We may have anywhere from fourteen to eighteen of the elders at a given meeting and nothing is ever done unless it is unanimous, why? Because if it isn't then we do not know the mind of the Spirit or somebody's out of touch with the mind of and the Spirit. So when something is decided to be done here at Grace Church it is because all of us, without exception have decided to do it, because we feel this is the Spirit's direction. I was sharing with a board, another church and they just talking and questioning me about certain things, and they asked, well how do you, how do you have your all meetings and how do you have your voting and of this, and I say, well we don't do anything unless we agree on it. And they said, ohh, we wouldn't get anything done. You don't even have a majority? You just ...you don't do al...and that's I believe Biblical. If there's only a majority then you have failed somehow either to communicate the fullness of the information so that everybody can decide or somebody's out of touch with the Holy Spirit, or everybody's out of touch with the Holy Spirit, except one, or two. I'll tell ya something beloved, that's why I progress in the ministry at Grace Church with confidence, because when something is decided, it is decided not by me, and not by a, a majority vote, and not by two thirds even, it is decided by all or it is not done,
People say, John, why do you think God is blessing? Well I think there are many reasons, one of them is, that we endeavor only to do those things in which we have the unity of the mind of the Spirit. And if there's resistance to it all, we don't do it. And that gives us a great confidence in going ahead. And I dare say, you may be at Grace Church a long time before you ever hear anybody say, well they decided to do this but I'm against it, I pray God that'll never happen. And so this early church had the unity of the Spirit. Now you may have a group deciding issues: you may have a class deciding issues, those issues if they relate to spiritual issues oughta be decided on the basis of a...total unity. Then you know you have the mind of the Spirit. Or else if there's a wayward individual there, you need to deal with him on an individual basis. Well, that's another sermon. But it's important.
Notice that they chose two men to send along with Paul and Barnabas, it would have been great just to send Paul and Barnabas obviously, but that's their own church they could have gone back and reported, but undoubtedly some of the Judaizers would have accused them of giving a bias report, right? Here come Paul and Barnabas back and they say, hey everybody, we don't have to do it, we don't have to have circumcision, they settled it, and some of the Judaizers who were up there would say, oh right, what would we expect you to say? We expect you to come up here and tell us? And so the Jerusalem Church wanted everybody to know that this was right, so they sent two of their own up there. Paul and Barnabas were two of the five pastors of the Antioch Church, and they sent these two fellas, Judas and Silas, of Judas we know nothing, he's mentioned that's all we know. Obviously not the Judas, two Judas' who are named prior in the New Testament, a different one. And then Silas, of Silas we know very much. Silas, called Silas in the book of Acts is called Silvanus by Paul and Peter, and he was a...he was really the, the guy who accompanied Paul on his second missionary journey, he was a citizen of Rome, he was the one who carried the first Epistle of Peter.
He was a very important fellow. So we meet these two, and notice that it says they were chief men among the brethren. Jerusalem sent two of its best, to give a solid report on what the decision was salvation's by grace through faith, plus nothing! You tell 'em that, not just Paul and Barnabas but you tell 'em from us in Jerusalem. That's our commitment. Now notice that it says they were chief among the brethren. The Greek word hegeomon, is an interesting word. It, it is the word for commander. We don't usually think of church leadership as commanders.
It is the word used of the procurator of Judaea, it is the word used of the governor of a province. Keep this in mind beloved, God has always sent in the church authority. The idea that a church can just kind of free wheel exist without authority is all wrong. Or the idea that the church is to be run by the congregation is all wrong. The church...the authority in the church is granted by God to shepherds, under shepherds of Christ. Now let me hasten to say this, I do not believe that there is ever in the New Testament the statement of one man being the chief man. There are always...there's always a plurality. Now when you think of the church at Jerusalem, here in the book of Acts uh, of whom do you think as the head man? You think of James, don't ya? We always say, James, the head of the Jerusalem Church, no. Christ is the head of the church. James was one of the chief men, he perhaps was the guy with the, the gift of teaching and preaching and uh, he also was the one who wrote the letters, so he was maybe the one who could articulate better than others. And you know when people think of Grace Community Church they think of John MacArthur, people say, well uh, your church, well I know you make all the decisions. I don't, I don't, I come back and I go to a meeting, they say well John, while you were gone here's what we did, and I say, well terrific, terrific. So, I don't believe in a ruler in the church, I believe in a plurality of chief men, raised up by God. And that's...you know I praise God for those such men here.
At the end of Hebrews, just to support the point so you don't think I'm in left field, Hebrews 13:7, "Remember them who have the rule over you."
And the word again is the same word that is used here in Acts 15. It means the command, the authority. Uh, I mentioned in my book on the body that the very important point that when you have a church without strong leadership, without authority, without strong central leadership, then you have nothing but chaos. Class A example, Corinth. In the whole letter of First Corinthians, which is a chronicle of all of the crummy things the Corinthians were doing, and it's just a description of the messed up situation. There is not one mention of a pastor, of an elder, of any leaders. If they were there, they weren't doin' the job. And he finally has to even say in the fourteenth chapter, you prophets, bring your own spirits into subjection. You know they were probably under that deal, well we'll all get together and just let it all hang out and the Holy Spirit will move. Yeah, well ya know what'll happen? It'll just all hang out, period. The church was never designed to be run on a foot-loose, fancy-free we'll let it all hang out and the Holy Spirit will work basis. There have always been men of God set in the pattern of leadership in the church, and not single but plural.
So there is a need for leadership. And chief men is a great indication of the plurality of leaders in Jerusalem Church. There's a terrible danger when a church is run by nobody, there's the same danger when a church is run by one man. I don't know who would ever want that responsibility? Anyway, they get blamed for everything wrong and, be a terrible responsibility, fearful.
Verse 23, in addition to sending these guys along, it says, "They wrote letters by them after this manner:" And here was the letter, this is a...really they're takin' great pains to get this issue straightened out, they're sendin, two of the best men they've got, plus they're writing everything down, just so there'll be no mistake, and the letter says, and I love this, "The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren who are of the Gentiles," don't ya like that? The Jewish brethren to the Gentile brethren. Ohh, there was no division in their minds, there was no schism, just love. The brethren to the brethren. Listen you can't imagine from your perspective in the 20th century, sitting here in a Gentile dominated society, you can't imagine this tremendous impact of just that greeting. The brethren to the brethren, and the apostles and elders thrown in, whoo, tremendous, and what a shot it was to the Judaizers, believe me. We send greeting, interesting word, greeting, only used one other place in the Bible, James 1:1, so it must have been a word that James used and therefore we say James probably wrote the letter, probably wrote it out. Anyway, "greeting unto the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia."
Now you say, it doesn't talk about Cyprus and Galatia where they founded the churches, well they were extensions of Antioch. They would have been included in the Antioch. And the word Cilicia, you say, well when did the churches get founded in Cilicia? I'll tell ya when, remember when the Apostle Paul was hustled out of Jerusalem 'cause he caused so much trouble? I mean that was when he was a Christian, he brought down so much persecution that the Christians decided that he needed to get outa town. So they sent him to Tarsus, you know what he did? He went to Tarsus for a while and then he took off to Cilicia and founded churches. So they're writing all of the Gentile churches, all of them were getting in on the information. And this is what they say listen. Forasmuch as we have heard that certain who went out from us. Now it's interesting that these guys weren't authorized by the Jerusalem Church, they probably didn't even know about 'em, but they did accept the blame for them having come from Jerusalem, They probably pretended to be representatives of the Apostles, anyway, they, "have troubled you with words, subverting your souls." The rest of the verse is not in the best manuscripts, so we'll stop there. Subverting your souls, and the rest of it was picked up from an earlier statement, you must be circumcised, keep the law, to whom we gave no such commandment. And that's a true statement, although it doesn't appear in the best manuscripts. Anyway let's stop with this, "troubled you." He says now, some people have come and troubled you. You know what happened? Paul and Barnabas going around preaching the gospel, and dogging their heels are these Judaizers, and they're going into these Gentiles saying, nope, nope they're wrong, it's not enough you've got to be circumcised and keep all the law. Now I want ya to notice the word, troubled, that is a very interesting word.
It is a different word than verse 19. You remember I told you the word trouble in verse 19 means to annoy or to hassle, it's like a gnat, you know just, just a, just an annoyance, an irritation. Let's not irritating...irritate them by imposing some foolish ritual on them. But here the word is a tremendously strong word, it means to deeply upset, to deeply disturb, to perplex, to create fear. A very severe kind of response. In fact it is used in John 14, the very same word. Remember when Jesus said, "Let not your heart be troubled." Those disciples were not just annoyed, they were really torn up. He had just announced His death, and they were shaking, they were horrified, they were in terror.
And twice in verse 1 and verse 27, He also said, I'm going to give you My peace, so let not your heart be troubled. It is used in Matthew 14 when they were out on the sea, and they were afraid because somebody was walking on the water and it says, they were troubled and they thought they saw a ghost. And that's not being annoyed, that's being real deep down troubled, Scared. And it's used in Luke 24 verse 37, post resurrection appearance of Jesus Christ which deeply troubled them. So it's used in the sense of physical troubling or troubling circumstances. But it is also used here, notice, they were troubled with words. This word troubled in connection with false doctrine is used in two passages.
Galatians 1:7 listen, he says in verse 6, I marvel you Galatians that you are so soon removed from grace. See what happened to the Galatians? They got the grace message and some Judaizers came along and messed them up, told them about law and legalism and trying to make them become Jews.
Man, you've bought the bill he says, you've bought their message. And some are troubling you. And there the word trouble, this Greek word is used of legalism. Legalism is a strong word. In Galatians 5:10 it is used again, the same way, and here you can see Paul getting mad, he says, "I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will none otherwise be minded: but he that troubles you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be." Whoever that guy was that messed you up is going to get it. Two times the word is used, both times in connection with Judaizing. The third time it is used, connection with teaching, it is used in Acts 15 and again with Judaizing. This word then, somehow the Spirit of God has separated to show the deep turmoil that legalism brings about when it's imposed on grace. It messes up people. False doctrine is trouble my friends. Legalism is deep trouble. Because when you start tampering with the doctrine of salvation and you destroy grace, you have destroyed salvation and you have damned people.
The second thing it did, not only did it trouble them but it subverted their souls. That word subverting though used only here, I think in the New Testament, is used outside the New Testament for several things. For one thing it is used to speak of going bankrupt. It is secondly used in a literal sense to speak of plundering a town, dismantling it, wiping it out. So it is a word that is applied to robbers and marauders. And he says, you are spiritual marauders, you are going in trying to dismantle the souls of men. These Judaizers, you're trying to bankrupt these people, they are rich with the riches of grace and you're trying to steal them all, and turn them into bankruptcy. So he uses strong language condemning. Believe me people; legalism needs to be condemned, doesn't it?
Now let me give a footnote and then I'm going to quit, pick it up next time.
People say, well John, you can't get so hard on law, legalism, why the Old Testament teaches legalism. It does not. The Old Testament does not teach legalism. You say, but God in the Old Testament always prompted legalism, wrong. God can't stand legalism, Old Testament or New Testament. You say, but, but look at all the law in the Old Testament, oh, God loves law, God hates legalism. God loves law Old Testament, God loves law New Testament, God hates legalism both. Let me show you what I mean. This is important, if you get this you'll get a handle on' principles that will help you to get definition. God always wants obedience, God can't stand legalism. You know what obedience is?
Obedience is doing something for the glory of God. Legalism is doing something for the glory of self. Legalism is I do it because I look spiritual, see? Let me show you the difference between Old Testament and, and New Testament law, first of all, then I'll define legalism. God has always had laws, are there laws in the Christian life? Well of course there are. The perfect law of liberty, the royal law, the law of love, the new commandment I give unto you, love one another, bear one another's burdens, lie not one to another, put away all this, read Ephesians chapter 4 or 5, read Galatians chapter 5, the lust of the flesh, the works of the flesh, all those things are to be set aside. There are all kinds of things that the believers are to do, we are to be obedient. God is not against law. There is law in the old economy, there's law in the new economy. But that isn't legalism. But watch, there's a difference between the Old Testament law and the New Testament. There's a difference between obedience in the Old and obedience in the New, and I'll show you the difference. In the Old Testament, watch this, you obey and you are blessed. You got that? God would say, if you do this, I'll do this. Many times, Exodus 19 verses 5 and 6, don't look it up, I'll just read it to you but it serves an illustration. "Now therefore, if you will obey My voice, and keep My covenant then shall you be a peculiar treasure to me above all people: for all the earth is mine' You shall be a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation." If you do this, then I'll do this. "If My people which are called by My name, shall humble themselves seek My face, turn from evil ways, then will I heal their land.
See? If you do this, I'll do this. It's illustrated by the Sabbath.
You work six days and I'll give you the seventh off. Six days and you've earned your rest. Do you know something? The law of the New Testament is the exact opposite, are you ready for this? The law of the New Testament doesn't say, if you do this, I'll bless you. The law of the New Testament says this, you have been blessed with all spiritual blessings already therefore, walk worthy. It's the exact opposite. Old Testament, you do this and I'll bless you, New Testament, I've blessed you so do this. Do you see the difference?
Now, some Christians are going around in the New Testament doing the Old Testament bit. See? I'm going to do this and God will like me better. God couldn't like you any better than He does. You say, well if I do this I'll be blessed. No, no you have been blessed with all spiritual blessing. That would be like a guy saying one man had all the money in the world and he was working to earn a living. There's no reason. Some people are, are trying to make points with God, you already have all blessing. Therefore we say this friends, legalism is an attitude. That imposing on the New Testament the Old Testament kind of law smacks of legalism. That's step one in legalism. But step two is the capper, and step two is the real...puts the lid on the coffin. Step two is, that you not only do New Testament kind of obedience, Old Testament kind of way but secondly you do it for self-glory. You know that's the natural outcome of that? When you start doing things as a Christian to earn God's favor then you're going to start glorifying yourself, you're going to say I did this and I did that, oh, God must be so happy, God are You enjoying this, see? You know there's a lot of things that are hard to tolerate but the most difficult for me to tolerate is, is supercilious piousity. You know, self-righteousness, ooh yek! It's terrible stuff.
You say, but in the Old Testament God...no God didn't want that in the Old Testament, God did not want people performing little deals for self-glory. And I mean Isaiah lambasted them chapter 1 just listen, do you want to think...you know in the Old Testament we always think of God's sacrificial system and all this, listen to what God said about His own system, listen to this, 'Hear the word of the Lord, (said Isaiah) To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? (Listen to that, God says that about His own sacrifices?) I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts, I delight not in the blood of bullocks, and lambs and he-goats. When you come to appear before Me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread My courts? Don't bring anymore oblations: your incense is an abomination to Me: Your new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I can't bear: it's iniquity, even the solemn meeting, Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they are a trouble unto Me: I am weary of bearing them. And when you spread forth your hands, I'll hide My eyes from you; when you make your many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood."
Then He says, go home and wash yourself, make yourself clean on the inside, put away the evil doings. "Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; and though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
God says, cut out all of that superficial stuff and get down to repentance and I'll clean you on the inside. Even in the Old Testament God couldn't stand self-righteousness legalism. Legalism then is not obedience, legalism watch it, is, is reversing the order in the new economy and doing things to earn blessings, and secondly, and incidentally let me add a footnote to that. You know some people who are the best Christians of all seem to have the most trouble. And if you think by doing 89 little goodies God is going to take away all the trouble umm-umm, you are wrong, wrong, that's Old Testament, sorry about that. But legalism then first of all, is doing New Testament obedience with an Old Testament attitude, and added to that doing it for self-glory. Which is the inevitable result of it. These Jews were hung on legalism. I hope you're not.
You know there are many in our world who are. I was in Rome, what a fascinating place, just loved it, oh, so much history. And among seeing all the other things that you see on the tour you know, and everything we went to the church, I think it was Saint Mary's, I may be wrong, Santa Maria, and uh, they had steps there. And the steps there were the steps that supposedly they had taken from Fort Antonius which was Pilate's place, and they had brought them all the way to Rome, because they were the steps that Jesus walked on. You know the Catholic Church has always venerated relics, all the pieces of the cross and anything Jesus touched and so forth. And so they had these steps transported all the way over years, centuries ago, and they're in this church. And as you go in the church there's a little sign that tells you that as you crawl up the stairs, for every step you crawl up you get one year off purgatory. Now that's a sad thing, believe me people, because those steps were crowded.
They were crowded with people going all the way up and going around and coming and going again. I mean, and I kept thinking about it's a little unfair for people who happen to live in Rome. As opposed to people who happen to live somewhere else in the world and can't get what they need spiritually because they don't live in the right town. I mean if that's, if that's the criterion there's something wrong. But I couldn't help but be overwhelmed with this. Did you know that Martin Luther, himself, on his first visit to Rome visited the Sancta Scala? Those very steps, Martin Luther did. And he started, he was a, he was an incredulous monk of the old church, you know? And he went through what everybody did, and he got there and he got all the way up to those steps, and toward the top of the stairs he said, in my mind flashed these words, "The just shall live by faith." And he said, I got up and walked out. And you know what? The germ of the reformation was born.
Beloved, you can't get saved by crawling up steps. Martin Luther knew it, and Luther said, and you can't get saved by saying repetitious innumerable Ave Maria's, and you can't be saved by carrying around a picture of a Saint or by having a real piece of the real cross. And Martin Luther from that day on began to allow the seed of "The just shall live by faith," to germinate into his mind till it exploded one day and he slammed on the Wittenberg door his thesis. And it was really boiled down to salvation by grace, didn't it?
I don't know what you're counting on for your salvation but I'll tell you one thing, there's nothing to count on except the work of Jesus Christ which has been done, is offered to you as a gift you just take it and that's all. Obedience will come as a result of it.
Salvation is by grace through faith, that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God, not of works, why? Because we would all boast.
And so the council settled the issue. I hope you've settled it.
Father thank You this morning for insights into Your Word, God thank You for the free salvation by grace offered in Jesus Christ.
Thank You that the early church settled the issue put it down by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit for all time. Lord I pray that there's no one here counting on their self-righteousness, counting on their good deeds, counting on their religious performance, but Father may we know that there's nothing to glory in save the cross of Jesus Christ.
To accept by faith is all that is required, to add anything is to lose everything.
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Suicide attack against Yemen military in Sanaa, killing at least 50
Yemen vowed to fight "terrorism" regardless of the sacrifices as Al-Qaeda claimed it was behind a bombing Monday that saw a soldier blow himself up in the middle of an army battalion, killing 96 troops.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the bombing in the capital Sanaa, saying those behind it must be brought to justice, while the United States described the attack as "cowardly" and "despicable".
"The war on terror will continue until it is completely destroyed regardless of the sacrifices," Yemen's president, Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, said in a statement carried by state news agency Saba.
Hours earlier, a soldier detonated explosives under his uniform in the middle of a battalion, killing 96 troops and wounding about 300, in a massive blast witnesses said echoed loudly across Sanaa, causing panic among residents.
The Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, claimed responsibility for the attack which it said targetted "the defence minister and other leaders of the US war on our people in Abyan" province in the south.
"Even if the defence minister (Mohammed Nasser Ahmed) and his aides escaped this operation, we will not tire… we are in a war to defend our blood which is violated in Abyan, and war only breeds war," it said in a statement posted on jihadist Internet forums.
Police Colonel Abdul Hamid Bajjash, the officer in charge of security at the blast site, said Yemen's defence minister was present at the time of the explosion but escaped unharmed.
He said the bomber detonated his explosives as soldiers from the government's central security forces, commanded by a nephew of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, rehearsed for an army parade to mark the 22nd anniversary of the unification of north and south Yemen.
Medics, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the casualties were being treated in seven hospitals across the city. All the dead and injured were soldiers, they added.
Witnesses said human remains were scattered across the site of the blast at Sanaa's Sabeen Square, where the government often stages large military parades.
An AFP correspondent said dozens of ambulances rushed to evacuate the dead and wounded, as security forces cordoned off the area.
Monday's attack is Sanaa's most deadly since Hadi took power in February with a pledge to fight Al-Qaeda's growing presence in the country.
Yemen's army launched an offensive on May 12 to retake Al-Qaeda towns and cities held by extremists across Abyan.
Western diplomats in Sanaa say that US experts have been advising the Yemeni army in combat.
"We remind the collaborators leading the army and security forces in Yemen that the US war in Abyan in which American and Saudi planes kill our women and children will not take place while you are safe in Sanaa. We will take out revenge," AQAP said.
"The flames of war will reach you wherever you are and what happened (Monday) is only the beginning of the road in jihad," it added.
The army's offensive in south Yemen came days after the White House announced that a plot by AQAP to blow up a US airliner had been foiled.
Yemen military and tribal sources said Monday that 11 Al-Qaeda fighters and three Yemeni soldiers were killed in the latest fighting around the southern city of Jaar.
The clashes during the night took place mainly at the city's western entrance, a military source said, adding 17 soldiers were wounded in the clashes.
In a separate incident Monday, Al-Qaeda militants attacked a Yemeni military base in Wadi Hassan, east of Zinjibar, killing seven soldiers and wounding 23 others, military officials and medics said, adding fierce fighting also erupted northeast of the city.
Since the offensive began, 234 people have been killed, according to a tally compiled by AFP, including 158 Al-Qaeda fighters, 41 military personnel, 18 local militiamen and 17 civilians.
Residents and tribes in the area surrounding Jaar have formed armed militias, Popular Resistance Committees, to back the army, similar to those formed in other Abyan towns — Loder and Mudia.
On Monday, Al-Qaeda militants claimed they raked with gunfire a convoy carrying four US military advisers in Hudaida, but American officials said they had no such personnel in the west Yemen port city.
The jihadists said in a statement that gunmen had opened fire on Sunday on two cars carrying four American military advisers who were in the Red Sea city on a training mission with the Yemeni Coast Guard.
The militants "opened fire on them as they left their hotel on their way to work," the statement said, adding that the attackers were able to flee despite efforts by Yemeni security forces to cordon off the city.
The US embassy in Sanaa however denied the presence of American military advisers in Hudaida.
"Reports of US military trainers in Hudaida are false," an embassy email said.


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Envoys of good
The new kid in school typically has trouble getting their locker open or sometimes finding the right classroom. They often sit by themselves during lunch and talk little to others during the school day.
Three years ago, Wapakoneta Middle School students took full ownership of a program to break down those barriers — the Ambassador's Club — which helps new students become acclimated with the school and intermingle with other students.
"You get to show new students around the school," fifth-grader Gwen VanVorhees said, explaining they sit with them during lunch for a week to help.
"I showed a new student his class and introduced him to most of the teachers," classmate Caige Scharre said at a lunch table set up to sell bracelets for breast cancer awareness. "I showed him where everything is in the school."
Lauren Winget remarked how much fun it is help people out, while Mayra Aguirre commented how nice it is to make new friends.
The Wapakoneta Middle School Ambassador Club resulted from meeting one of the challenges in Rachel's Challenge, a program started by family members of Rachel Scott who was the first person killed at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999.
In May 2011, Rachel's uncle, Larry Scott, spoke to Wapakoneta Middle School and Wapakoneta High School students about Rachel's acts of kindness and compassion and the contents of six diaries she left behind which became the foundation of the Rachel's Challenge program.
To further help sustain the positive climate change in the schools, Rachel's Challenge offers a year-long curriculum called the Friends of Rachel (FOR) program that continues training students and plugs them into activities that continue the chain reaction of kindness.
Wapakoneta Middle School guidance counselors Mark Koch and Kristi Fisher latched onto the program and decided to meet the challenge with the help of 36 students at the school.
"Basically, when we have a new student, members of the Ambassador's Club show them around, take them to their locker, to and from different places on their schedule, they give them a safe place to eat at lunch and they introduce them to their teachers and to other students," Fisher said. "They get them through the first couple days of school until they know their way around."
Fisher and Koch decided the club works well and the students respond more positively because the students are helping students instead of having adults showing them the school.
"We have noticed the new kids who come into the school are much more relaxed by the end of the week, they know where they are going and they have met more kids," Fisher said. "Another thing we do is we wrote a grant and we have T-shirts and the new kids get one because we all wear Redskins stuff on Friday."
To become part of the Ambassador's Club, students must fill out applications and then the students are selected at the beginning of the school year.
Along with helping new students, Fisher and Koch have noticed the program has had a positive influence on club members, too.
"I joined this because I really like helping people out so they are not lost in school and can make new friends," Hannah Knueve said.
"I just thought I could help," Gwen said. "My grandma says I have a lot of little cousins that I help take care of and she told me I was really good with kids and that I could help."
For Lauren the benefit of helping a new student paid immediate dividends.
"I get new friends out of doing this, and you could help your friends make a new friend by introducing them to the new friend you just made."


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On a crisp January morning, with snow topping the distant Aspromonte mountains and oranges ripening on the nearby trees, Giuseppe Passarino guided his silver minivan up a curving mountain road into the hinterlands of Calabria, mainland Italy's southernmost region.
We stopped by to chat with the team from the X-Prize Foundation at the show. This dynamic, energetic group develops competitions to spur innovation, from space exploration to automotive efficiency to, now, health.
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Greetings Fellow Campers! I am wondering if anyone here can give me some advice on a tail light/wiring issue I'm having in a 2013 LG 5'Wide. It seems there are some gremlins in the wiring and one of the tail lights still glows slightly even when the tow vehicle is turned off. I was thinking the other tail light must be burned out, but today when I tested the car's emergency flashers, it still lights up, but not when I hit the brake or turn signal. There seems to be a couple burned out LED's in this tail light though, as you can see a blackened area in the light. Is this a 7 pin issue, ground fault, short...or did some bloke wire it wrong when I had my 7 pin plug replaced?
I had tried taking the tail light out, but its so tight in the housing that I didn't think I could get it out without scratching the paint. When I look under the tailer, there is no visible opening to reach into the tail light area as its sealed up with a cloth/paper material that I have no idea how to replace if ripped. If I could get access to the tail light, without having to repair additional things, it would make this so much easier!


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UConn coach Geno Auriemma can't deny that one of the top stories of this season's Final Four is the task the Huskies face in Sunday's national semifinal in New Orleans.
Yes, the Huskies have to play Notre Dame, a team that's beaten them three straight times this season, four in a row overall and seven of the past eight times. And that includes the past two national semifinals.


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Update (9/30): T-Mobile USA confirmed to us that customers who preorder on October 19 will have the phone in their hands several days later.
T-Mobile issued a press release today which announced the official launch date and pricing of the Motorola Cliq. The phone will be available in stores nationwide and online beginning Nov. 2 for $199.99 to eligible customers with a two-year agreement.
The most interesting part of the press release was the following note:
Devices ordered during pre-sale will be shipped to customers as orders are received and will include a complimentary car charger.
As we reported earlier, the pre-sale begins October 19 and runs through November 1, 2009. This means that customers who pre-order will receive the phone weeks in advance. There is no official word what the phone will cost without a contract, but I'm guessing it will $399 for those of us ineligible for an upgrade discount.


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Miley Cyrus teamed up with godmother Dolly Parton and a cappella group Pentatonix for a stunning performance of Parton's hit, "Jolene" on "The Voice" Tuesday night.
The group performed the classic song where Cyrus is a judge. Parton visited the show to promote her new movie, "Christmas of Many Colors," on NBC.
Cyrus, who got to hangout with Parton during the episode, posted a photo on Twitter of the two fooling around prior to the show.


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Mogadishu - Al-Qaeda linked militants detonated several bombs and breached the main UN compound in Somalia's capital on Wednesday, sparking gun battles that killed at least 12 people. A UN official said at least three foreign and one Somali staff members were believed to be among the dead.
The attack comes only six months after the United Nations expanded its presence in Mogadishu, where it had kept only a small operation because Islamic insurgents had controlled much of the capital until being pushed out in an offensive in 2011.
Al-Shabaab said on its Twitter feed shortly after Wednesday's attack began that its fighters "are now in control of the entire compound and the battle is still ongoing."
African Union and Somali security forces responded and took control of the compound about an hour later. The UN staff who sought refuge in the bunker then were evacuated to the secure military base and airport complex across the street, Parker said.
A UN official, who insisted on anonymity because he was not an official spokesman, said he believed three foreigners were killed: one Kenyan and two South Africans.
"There was not very much time to get into the safe area," said another UN official, Ben Parker, a spokesperson for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia.
The top UN official on Somalia, Nicholas Kay, also works out of the building but was not inside the compound when it was attacked.
At 11:30 the compound was rocked by the first explosion. At least two others followed, Parker said. Dozens of staff from UN humanitarian and development agencies were in the compound and many were moved to the secure bunker, he said.
Mohamed Ali, an ambulance driver, said he transported five dead civilian bodies and 10 people who were wounded.
Wearing Somali uniforms
An Associated Press reporter who went inside the UN compound after the battle saw two dead bodies of what appeared to be al-Shabaab attackers wearing Somali military uniforms. An official said seven attackers died in total.
Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon said he is appalled that "our friends and partners" at the UN who are carrying out humanitarian activities would be the victims "of such barbaric violence." An African Union official, Mahamet Saleh Annadif, condemned the "cowardly" attack and sent condolences "to those who had lost loved ones."
The UN has had only a small presence in Mogadishu in recent years. In December, though, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon touched down in Mogadishu wearing a bullet proof jacket to announce a return of the UN's political office to the seaside capital.
That security measure was necessary because of al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda linked militant group.
One of the three blasts included a car bomb that largely blew down the compound's front gate. Inside walls were scarred with bullet marks.
The attacked compound just across the street from the secure airport complex, where UN-backed African Union military forces are based. The UN compound is used by agencies like Unicef, WHO and UNDP.
Mogadishu fell into anarchy in 1991 and is just beginning to move past years of sustained conflict. The UN and foreign embassies were absent from Mogadishu for close to two decades.
African Union forces pushed al-Shabaab out of Mogadishu in August 2011, meaning residents didn't have to live through daily battles for the first time in years.
An international presence slowly began to return and the UN began the process of moving its personnel from the nearby capital of Nairobi, Kenya, back to Mogadishu, a process that has accelerated in recent weeks.
International embassies - from Turkey and Britain, for example - followed. Wednesday's attack underscores the fragile security situation and will force the UN and embassies to review their safety plans and decide if they have enough defenses to withstand a sustained al-Shabaab assault.
Fadumo Hussein, a shopkeeper who was sitting inside her shop near the scene of the attack, described a narrow escape.
"It started with an earsplitting explosion, followed by heavy gunfire," she said, showing holes made by bullets on her shop. "I crouched and then crawled like an animal. I am very lucky. It was a shocking moment."
A number of south africans killed in pursued of peace is increasing, it is only a matter of time before the terror comes into our shores and the signs are there. I hope our dear leaders are aware of this and will be proactive and instead of being reactive. Cry my beloved peaceful south africa.
Don't you think it's strange that our president builds himself a security base in Nkandla then South Africans start getting killed almost immediately he completes construction? Makes you think doesn't it?


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Delve into Savannah's colorful past at the Savannah History Museum, located in the old passenger station of the Central of Georgia Railroad and home to more than 10,000 artifacts. The structure, a National Historic Landmark, features a variety of exhibits, including an 1890 steam locomotive, an antique cotton gin, and artifacts from the Civil War, Revolutionary War, and other eras. The museum is also home to Forrest Gump's bench, one of Johnny Mercer's Oscar Awards, and a carriage owned by the family of Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Lowe. A small theater shows a film that provides an overview of the city's history from its founding in 1733. Grab breakfast or lunch on the patio or aboard a real dining rail car at the Whistle Stop Café located behind the museum, open daily.
The Savannah History Museum is operated by the Coastal Heritage Society, a non-profit organization that preserves two National Historic Landmarks and provides educational experiences for the public.
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The Life Cycle of a Butterfly Day 1 of 2
Lesson 1 of 6
Objective: SWBAT ask and answer questions to understand key details about an informational text. SWBAT to create and label a diagram using key details.
Big Idea: The cycle of the Monarch Butterfly is a beauty to behold. In today's lesson, students learn about butterflies and apply their understanding of diagrams.
Context and Overview
In a later lesson in this unit, my students will be engaging with a narrative about the transformation of a butterfly and a goose (Farfallina & Marcel by Holler Keller). So, today, I am building content knowledge around butterflies with an informational text. We will also work on content knowledge about geese in an upcoming lesson as well.
Today, the students will view a video and be taking notes to answer key detail questions about butterflies. I will have my students pair share and share with the whole group to build their academic language.
Then, my students will draw a diagram of the cycle of the butterfly. They will write a short explanation of each stage.
Afterwards, my students will write what they have learned to synthesize their understandings.
Lesson Opening:
After I share the objective, today, I am asking my students what Questions They Have About Butterflies. First, I have them pair share their questions with their carpet partner and then a few share. I am very interested in the type of questions they have, and the questions will provide me with a window into how much they already know.
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Now, my students are watch a video on the life cycle of the butterfly. I have created a template with text dependent questions on The Life Cycle of a Butterfly. I would recommend taking a break after finishing the first two pages. Doing all four pages could be overwhelming.
My students know how to take notes, and they know notes can include words, phrases, and illustrations. Here are some examples:
This process is very interactive. I have the students read the questions out loud to help them focus on what information they need pay attention to. Also, my students tend to have questions of their own:
- Do Butterflies Help The Earth?
- What Do The Caterpillars Do When They Are Born?
- Why Are The Eggs Laid on Underside of The Leaves?
Here are more examples of their notes:
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Pair Share
I give my students plenty of opportunities to practice academic language. They need different types of audiences to practice their academic language. Now my students are pair sharing around the room their knowledge of the cycle of butterflies.
If there is an odd number of students, then I become that student's partner.
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Whole Group Sharing
Now I gather the students on the carpet for them to share with the whole group what they have learned about the butterfly life cycle.
Gathering students on the carpet to share their learning allows for deeper learning to occur. It helps to maintain accountability too. Sharing in a whole group gives my students the opportunity to respond to a different audience in a successful way. This is a demand of the CCSS.
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Now my students draw a diagram of the life cycle of the butterfly. They use their notes to do so. Therefore, I am asking them to apply their knowledge to draw this text feature. In drawing the diagram, they need to write a sentence about each stage. This task helps to deepen their knowledge of diagrams and consolidates their knowledge of butterflies. (Important note: My students feel comfortable with diagrams. I have given them much practice. The challenge for them here is that they are drawing it and labeling it.)
As students work, I walk around for few minutes. I monitor to see that that they are on task. I give support in making sure they are starting the diagram correctly and they are indeed including a sentence. I ask them to tell me orally what they will write before they write it. This helps their writing.
Here are some of their examples:
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I give my students the time to reflect in writing on what they have learned about the life cycle of a butterfly. Having them write helps them to synthesize their learning. It helps them internalize the academic language they practiced earlier in their conversations. It helps them to make connections too. Here are some examples of their work:
- Explaining the Butterfly Cycle
- What Was Learned About The Butterfly Cycle
- Explaining the Life Cycle
- Explaining The Butterfly Cycle
As students write I give them support by:
- offering spelling support
- making sure they are on task
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A woman who was convicted of orchestrating the beating deaths of her millionaire husband and mother-in-law was sentenced Monday to life in prison. The judge also called her a coward for skipping the court session.
Narcy Novack, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., waived her right to appear at the sentencing, apparently in protest, and listened to it from a prisoner holding area in an adjoining room.
Judge Kenneth Karas called it "her final act of cowardice."
Novack did the same in June when she and her brother, Cristobal Veliz, were convicted of hiring hit men who carried out the 2009 beating deaths of Ben Novack Jr. in New York and Bernice Novack in Florida. Veliz, of Brooklyn, also was sentenced Monday to a life term.
"Because of Ms. Novack's greed and her selfishness and what she thought was her ability to manipulate other people, there are two innocent people — her husband and her mother in law — who are dead," the judge said.
Ben Novack, 53, was the son of the man who built the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach, a celebrity hangout in the 1950s and '60s that appeared in the movies "Scarface" and "Goldfinger."
He was beaten to death with dumbbells in July 2009 in his bed at a hotel in Rye Brook, N.Y., where his travel company was managing an Amway convention. A thug who admitted carrying out the killing testified that Narcy Novack ordered her husband's eyes sliced with a knife and offered a pillow to muffle his screams.
Three months earlier, Novack's 86-year-old mother, Bernice, was killed in Fort Lauderdale by being clobbered in the teeth and head with a plumber's wrench.
The killings "involved particularly cruel, sadistic and gratuitous savagery seldom seen in the annals of crime," prosecutors said when they called for life sentences.
They said Narcy Novack feared that her husband would divorce her, and that a prenuptial agreement would bar her from the multimillion-dollar family estate. They said her motives were "hatred, greed and vengeance."
Rebecca Bliss, a former prostitute and porn actress, testified at the trial that she was having an affair with Ben Novack when he was killed.
She said Narcy Novack had offered her $10,000 to end the affair. According to Bliss, Novack said that, "If she couldn't have him, no other woman was going to have him."
The judge said he could find no mitigating factors in Novack's life.
"There's really nothing to explain what she did," he said. "She lived a life of privilege."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Elliott Jacobson said Novack and her brother are "pathological liars ... extraordinarily dangerous psychopaths."
"The only sentence that would ensure the safety of the law-abiding community is a sentence that assures these two defendants will spend the rest of their lives in jail," he told the judge.
Novack's attorney, Howard Tanner, tried to get the judge to cap the sentence at 27 years, arguing that she had a lesser role in Bernice Novack's death. But the judge said, "The fact she wasn't there doesn't mean she had a minor role."
He called her "the person behind the scenes."
Veliz's lawyer, Michael Keesee, also asked for a less-than-life sentence, and Veliz himself told the judge, "I had nothing to do with this crime. I have never done anything wrong." He continued to blame Narcy Novack's daughter, May Abad, whose two sons stand to inherit the bulk of the family estate, which included Ben Novack's large collection of Batman memorabilia.
But the judge said Veliz "literally provided the tools" for the killings and lied throughout his testimony.
"I've never seen anything like it," Karas said. "After he said his name, I'm not sure he said a truthful thing."
Novack did not testify.
"The two people who were mainly responsible have handled this in a pathetic and cowardly way," the judge said.
In addition to the attacks on Ben and Bernice Novack, the defendants were convicted of domestic violence and stalking. Novack was convicted of money laundering and transporting stolen property, and Veliz was convicted of witness tampering.
The attackers who cooperated with the prosecution have yet to be sentenced.
Novack was fined $250,000 and ordered to pay more than $100,000 to her husband's company.
Tanner would not say how Novack reacted to the verdict or why she left the courtroom. He said he will soon file an appeal of her conviction.
"She is still asserting her innocence," he said.


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The Passion of the Christ (-)
This movie is very well done. It details the last 12 hours of Jesus (James Caviezel) life after he was condemned to death by Pontius Pilate (Hristo Shopov) and the High Priest Caiaphas (Mattia Sbragia).
There were only two classes in Jerusalem in 30 A.D. - the occupying Roman soldiers and the subjugated Jews living in their ancient land, now a province of Rome, governed by the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate. Jesus is accused of blasphemy against the Jewish faith and of sedition against Roman rule. Pontius Pilate is depicted as unwilling to sentence Jesus to death but ultimately does so only to placate the Jewish mob. Jesus is scourged, flayed and crucified by sadistic Roman soldiers and suffers enormous pain on the cross for six hours.
Out of this tragic event, the charge of deicide has been leveled against Jews by anti-Semites for almost 2000 years. The accusation has lead to pogroms and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews, not counting the additional six million killed at Hitlers command before and during World War II.
In 1965, the Second Vatican Council, called by Pope John XXIII, stated: What was perpetrated against (the Lord) in His Passion cannot be imputed either to all the Jewish people of that time or the Jewish people of our time.
Accordingly, all must be careful that nothing is taught about this matter in preaching or in catechizing that fails to agree with the truth of the Gospel and the Spirit of Christ.
That declaration was reaffirmed in 1986 by the current pope, John Paul II, when he said, No ancestral or collective blame can be imputed to the Jews as a people for what happened in Christs Passion: not indiscriminately to the Jews of that time, nor to those who came afterwards, nor to those of today.
Mel Gibsons own schismatic view of Catholicism does not recognize the legitimacy of Vatican II nor the authority of the Pope to denounce and eliminate the charge of deicide. His movie expresses his beliefs.
Television host Charlie Rose recently held a forum on the film. One of his guests, journalist and author Christopher Hitchens, summed up his view of the movie, and I agree with him. He said:
Well, Mel Gibson has made it easy for us in this speculation. Hes a member of a whacko schismatic sect that rejects the authority of the pope and specifically rejects the findings of the Second Vatican Council, one of the most important of which was the lifting after centuries of the condemnation of the Jewish people for what was once called deicide, for the murder of Christ.
His father is never happier than when talking about the absence of any evidence for the Holocaust, shall I put it. And Mel Gibson repeatedly says that his father has never told him a lie. And when asked who his sources for the film are, Mr. Gibson doesnt just mention the gospels. He mentions the 19th century German nun Anne Catherine Emmerich, whose evidence against the Jewish people was that they used Christian blood, the blood of Christian babies, to be exact, to make matzos at Passover time. The film, is, incidentally, set at Passover time.
I think most people will be proof against the nastiness and stupidity of this film. I dont think it will be anti-Semitic in effect, because I think its boring and its sadistic and its lurid in equal measure, but I think it is quite definitely fascistic in intention, and fascistic in its aesthetic, and I hope that no one watching this spends their own money to go and see the film.
People who are not anti-Semitic will not become Jew haters as a result of seeing The Passion of the Christ. On the other hand, anti-Semites will leave the theater more virulent in their feelings against Jews. That would be particularly true in Europe and Asia where Jews are already victims of violence. The Chief Rabbi of Paris has urged Jewish children not to wear their yarmulkes which identify them as Jews and have caused them to be assaulted by French Muslims on the way to school. He suggested they wear baseball caps.
On a recent television interview, Mel Gibson said that he was not anti-Semitic. Indeed, he said he loved the Jews and prayed for us. Why he prays for us he did not say. I would prefer that he pray for forgiveness for what hes done, and for the starving children in Africa.
During this weeks Academy Awards show, the deaths of film artists occurring in the last year were noted. Leni Riefenstahl, who wrote, produced and directed Triumph of the Will was mentioned. The objective of her film was to create a worldwide sense of the invincibility of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. She succeeded. After the defeat of Hitler in World War II, Leni denied she was a Nazi or anti-Semitic. No one I know believed her. I propose that a new Academy Award be established in her name and that Mel Gibson be its first recipient.
- Ed Koch
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Transfer: A Seminar with Naomi Shihab Nye
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$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members
Poet Naomi Shihab Nye, the author and editor of over 20 volumes, leads a round table session for adults that explores how poetry can help us navigate the different phases of our lives—from youth to old age—while examining such issues as absence and presence, loss and discovery. Nye will share her own work about the death of her father and her experience editing an anthology of poems by young poets.
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J.K. Rowling to Write a Harry Potter Spinoff Movie
The first in a series.
To be clear: Harry Potter will not be in the film; it is "neither a prequel nor a sequel"; and you will not have to relive that cheesy epilogue in movie form. But J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. are teaming up again, for a film series inspired by a fictional textbook used at Hogwarts. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be set in the wizarding world but will "start in New York, seventy years before Harry's [story] gets underway." (So Rowling is writing her own Hobbit, basically.) The first movie will follow Newt Scamander, the textbook's author, so expect lots of hippogriffs and stuff. Maybe a Hagrid cameo? You like wizard zoos, right?


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Where in Bradenton? I work on University.
hey Erika,
I am down in Bradenton a lot to visit family. It'd be nice to know someone to go hit with down that way. Let me know if you'd be interested.
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