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In response to a user question about a Nexus call duration counter, the official @GoogleNexus account today tweeted out a screenshot that shows a Dialer app that's different than the one most of us are using today. As you can see in the comparison above, the new Dialer app loses the phone icon and trades in its gray color scheme for something more blue.
Recent leaks and app updates have shown that Google is starting to integrate more colors into its apps, especially in their action bars. Still, it's nice to get an early peek at what's likely a new version of Android's Dialer app that could be coming with a future update. Exactly when that'll happen is anyone's guess, but hey, at least we've got a preview of Google's future plans for Android.
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One of the things that our Lord does is teach us, and He teaches us through His apostles, and we're studying one of the letters that the Lord Himself wrote through the Apostle Paul. The letter is 1 Corinthians, and I'd like you to take your Bible now in hand and open it up and look at 1 Corinthians chapter 8. This wonderful letter, written to the church at Corinth to correct many of their problems, is really the Word of our Lord Jesus Christ to us, to His church. We're in the 8th chapter, and some folks have felt that maybe the 8th chapter wasn't really that relevant to us because of the uniqueness of the problem discussed; but if you were here last week, you recall that we introduced the thought that it is indeed relevant, if not in specific, the general principle that comes out of it is tremendously important.
I suppose not many of us, if, in fact, any of us is bothered by whether we eat ham or not; but that was a big problem in the church at Rome, as indicated in Romans 14 and 15; and I doubt really whether any of us is too concerned about eating meat that has been offered to an idol. That doesn't really seem a problem in our society. I'm not too sure we'd care much if it were; and since it isn't, it's not even relevant to us; but that was a major problem in the church at Corinth. Almost all of the meat that was purchased and provided for people to eat had been offered to a God in one way or another. Some of it had been offered as a sacrifice. Three parts: one would be burned to the god, one given to the priest, the third part taken home and eaten; and if you happened to be at somebody's house, you might be eating meat offered to an idol. The priest would take his third, go out the back of the temple, and put it in a butcher shop. You might be buying meat offered to an idol; and they also believed that demons liked to get in people by getting on their food and going in that way, as we said last time.
And...and so everybody would dedicate the meat that they would butcher to a god so that no demon would get on it, and that would prevent that. So almost every bit of meat that the Corinthians would buy, would be in some way or in some time dedicated to an idol; and so this became a problem. Having been saved out of paganism, having been saved out of idolatry, the new Christians wanted to avoid any contact with that old kind of life. They felt much too strongly tempted toward it, and they wanted to run from it. It's like an alcoholic who comes to Christ, and the best way for him to deal with drink is to stay as far away as he can. Or like somebody who is a...a criminal who becomes a Christian, staying as far away from old patterns and old friends and so forth as he can. His new life is so new that he must withdraw himself and turn away from that and have nothing to do with it.
Well, the Christians in Corinth were so strongly integrated into the idol worship of the age, that when they became believers, the tendency was to wanna run from everything that even related to that and, consequently, to stay away from any meat that under any condition had ever been offered to a god. Now that raises the question the Corinthians posed to Paul in 1 Corinthians chapter 8, and it introduces to us the whole subject of matters that are in that gray area. The Bible did not forbid them to eat meat offered to an idol; and it didn't tell them to do it; so it was in that middle area where they had to make a decision about whether it was right or wrong; and we call this the gray area; and there are decisions in all of our lives that fall into that category. Some have chosen to call it the area of doubtful things. That is, we don't know. We have doubts about whether it's right or wrong; and it may vary from time to time, age to age, culture to culture, people to people, state to state even.
For example, as a boy, I remember the Baptist church that I attended took a stand against smoking; and that was a big issue; and they were always telling the young people not to smoke, that it was a sin to smoke, and you shouldn't smoke, and they had all kinds of reasons for that; and...and I can remember often we would have young peoples' gatherings; and they would tell us this. We'd go to the beach, for example. We'd have a beach party, and everybody'd be playing around the beach all day; and then at...we'd be swimming, having a great time. Then at night, we'd sit down around the campfire, and somebody'd give a speech on we shouldn't smoke; and they'd point around and, "See, those people are smoking, and we'd...this is not what God," and so forth and so on. And that was a very important thing in my young years - to kind of respond to that.
Then, for a while, I lived in the south; and in the south, I found that many churches where I visited and some where I would speak when I was just starting to preach as a very young man, had, as the chief source of industry, among all of the people of the congregation, tobacco. Everybody raised tobacco; and the preacher very frequently in the parsonage had a tobacco patch in his back yard; and I would go to that church. The preacher would come to the church, flip his cigarette in the bush, and go in a preach against mixed bathing...and, you see, they believed it was a sin to run around a beach, boys and girls, you know, with bathing suits on; and I agree some cases today with the kind of bathing suits, that it would be in many cases. You know, it's something I just threw on. Looks like you almost missed kind, you know. The...the facts are that from state to state, from time to time, culture to culture, you have very different standards about what is right and wrong.
Now, the Bible says nothing about whether or not boys and girls could swim together. It says nothing about smoking, other than Rachel lit off a camel, and that has nothing to do with smoking; but the Bible...you hadn't heard that. Oh, well, you can use that now. But the Bible...the Bible says nothing about either one of those things, so in any given society, in any given culture, in any given period of time, and under any given set of circumstances, that's a decision every Christian has to make for himself; and there are factors that contribute to that decision, as have been mentioned to you in the past, last week when we shared some of the guidelines for making those kinds of decisions.
Now, these gray area things can be social issues. They can be amusements. They can be pleasures. They can be habits. They can be many, many different things that we don't need to go into, because you'll find out what they are when you face them, and you can't find Scripture to go either way, and you're trying to make a decision.
Now, how does a Christian decide to do something or not to do something that he doesn't feel is wrong, because he's looked over the Bible and definitely it's not forbidden, and he doesn't know if it's right, because he's looked over the Bible, and it doesn't say it's righteous act to do it. So it fits a gray area. It's a doubtful thing. How does he decide?
Well, there are two extremes. The one extreme is to just make a list of rules; and, you know, there are some people who really love that. They...they feel much more comfortable in the kind of institutional Christianity where somebody puts a big list of rules; and all they have to do is conform to the rule. They've never internalized their Christian life anyway. They believe everything. They've never known how it is to really walk in the Spirit, to really grow in the Spirit, to really live a Spirit-controlled life. They're living in legalism, and they want somebody to say, "Do this. Don't do this. Do this. Don't do this," and they can conform to that little set of rules and convince themselves that that's the equivalent of spirituality.
That happens frequently. There are churches like that where there aren't any principles about how to live the Christian life. There are just lists of what you can't do; and there are some people who conform to that mentality, because it's so easy; and it's such an upfront, overt statement of your spirituality to be a not-doing-this person. Now that's legalism.
One Christian became weary of the struggle, and I read this week a statement that said this. "A group of church leaders should form a list of sinful activities, so the average Christian could know at a glance what is sin and what is not, and we could just follow the list." Now, there are some problems with that. No. 1, you could never get the church leaders to agree on what the list should include; and No. 2, it would set up a horrible standard of spirituality. The spiritual ones would be the ones who did what the list said, no matter what other circumstances there were involved; and legalism would become the spiritual standard, wouldn't it? And when that happens, then you stifle liberty. You take over the work of the Holy Spirit. You ignore the conscience of a believer, and you set a false standard for spirituality and produce hypocrisy.
That's not gonna work; and, yet, there are Christians who live that way. They feel that their spirituality is based upon those areas that they do or do not do, and they believe that if they ever went to a movie, all they would do would be to get in the theater and sit down, and the Rapture would occur, and they'd have to face the Lord because they were taken at the theater. They would never dance or play cards or some Christians would never wanna sip a cup of wine or...or whatever it might be, because that would be unspiritual, and that would...that's an absolute with them...
Some of them are incredible. Some of the absolutes. It's been said by some that, if they were on the desert and couldn't get anything to drink and were dying, and someone offered them an alcoholic beverage, they would refuse it, because God would be displeased. Now, friends...that's a little much, and I'm not sure if they were on that desert and that did happen that they would refuse it. You know, you can't judge spirituality by what people don't do.
Dr. Homer Hammontree used to say, "There is a city that has 2 million inhabitants. None of them smoke, none of them drink, not one of them attends movies, none of them ever dances, none of them plays cards. Not one of them, however, has a bit of spiritual life. The city he was speaking of was the Greenwood Hills Cemetery in New York...Yeah, well, you see, what they don't do has absolutely no relationship to anything...Refraining from doing things is not spirituality. Walking in the Spirit is spirituality. That's the positive, so we don't wanna just set up lega...people ask me, say, "Why doesn't Grace Church have a list of things?" Why should we play the Holy Spirit? Why should we not let you internalize your Christian life and walk with the Spirit as the Spirit of God directs you?
I mean there was nothing Satan would love better than to hear us pray like this. Remember the Pharisee? "Lord, I thank you that I'm not like other men who smoke, drink, play cards, etc., etc., etc., like that poor sinner over there who drinks wine." You see, that kind of mentality is hypocrisy. That's Phariseeism, because that is not the standard. There are plenty of people who don't do those things, but they're not spiritual. They're dead. That's not the issue.
Now, on the other hand, you have what I call libertinism. That's the other gamut. Now, you can come to the gray area, and you can say, "Well, here's all this stuff that I could or couldn't do; and since I'm free in Christ, I'll just do it all. It isn't forbidden anyway, right? So I'll just do every bit of it; and I'm not gonna worry about it. I mean I'm free in Christ. Everything's permitted. There are no other considerations than my liberty." Is that the only consideration?
Oh, not according to 1 Corinthians 8. That's where we come. Paul says, "There is one great principle that limits our liberty, and it is the word love." You can't just say, "Because it isn't forbidden, I can do it." There's a higher consideration than that, and that is love. Love sets limits on liberty, and this is the objective of 1 Corinthians chapter 8.
Now, lemme give you the problem. Here was the potential in the city of Corinth to eat things offered to idols. The strong Christians, the mature Christians, the ones feeling their spiritual oats, were saying, "What's the diff? We're eating." They're writing Paul, and they're saying, "Hey, Paul, what about things offered to idols? We've decided that we can just eat up. We're free in Christ. Live it up. Eat whatever you want. That's our philosophy." And so Paul responds to them by saying, "There is something more important than your liberty, and that is love."
Now, the Corinthians gave Paul three reasons, and they're on your outline there, so you can follow along. Three reasons the Corinthians said why they felt they could do anything they wanted in the gray area, why they could eat meat offered to idols. Reason No. 1, "We have all knowledge, and we've studied the problem, and the Bible doesn't forbid it. Our knowledge tells us it's okay." Two, "An idol isn't anything anyway. An idol is nothing...verse 4 says...So it isn't offered to anything anyway." Third, "God doesn't care what we eat." Verse 8.
"So on those three bases, we have knowledge, and it isn't forbidden according to our knowledge of the Scripture. An idol isn't anything away, so what's the difference, and God could care less about what we eat. So because we've come to those three reasonings, we've decided to go ahead and live it up, and we're just eating away."
Now, Paul is gonna approach all three of those. Now, we... we went into the last one last time. The first one is, "We know we all have knowledge." Look at verse 1 to 3, and I'll just read it to you. "As touching things offered to idols or meat sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. I agree with you. We study the Scripture, and it doesn't forbid it. We know that. It is not forbidden. But remember this, knowledge alone does...what?...puffs up, and love...what?...builds up."
So he says, "It isn't enough to just say you know. There's got to be more. There's got to be love. If you think you know anything...in verse 2...you really don't know what you oughta know; and what you oughta know is all about love," which he illustrates in verse 3. "You have to go beyond knowledge to love. It isn't enough to say, 'We've studied the problem, folks, and we know what the Scripture says, and it doesn't say anything against it, so let's eat.' Hey, you haven't thought about love. You may know something isn't evil. You may know that, in itself, it isn't evil. You may know that it is not something forbidden by God; but knowledge is not enough. You've gotta love. You've got..."
We say, "What do you mean by that?" You've gotta consider somebody else, how it's gonna affect them. Is this a loving act toward another brother? What if it offends him?...What if it hurts his conscience? Then you have to limit your liberty...
Paul said, remember in 1 Corinthians 13, "I know...I have all knowledge and know all mysteries and have not love, I am... what?...nothing. I'm nothing. I can't live on knowledge alone. I can't say, 'Hey, what do I care what anybody thinks? What do I care about you? What do I care how it affects you? I have liberty, and I studied my Bible. It doesn't forbid it. I'm gonna live it up.'"
Wait a minute. You haven't thought about love? Paul said, "If you do that, don't you realize that'll hurt your brother, 'cause he'll be offended?" Now let's develop that as we look at the second reason in verse 4 and pick it up where we left off. Verse 4, here's their second reason. "We know that an idol is nothing, and this is solid." Man, this is the best theology in the passage. It's just really beautiful. Look what he said. "Now, as concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is not other God but One." He says, "Look, I agree with you. In regard to this eating thing, we know this. That an idol is nothing in the world."
Literally, it says, "There is no such thing as an idol in the world. There is no such thing in the whole world as an idol." In other words, nobody's home. Those gods aren't gods at all. There's nobody there...Now this is great theology. I remember when I was in Hawaii, I was working on the Galatians commentary this week and reading that illustration I used when I taught Galatians; and I went in that Buddhist temple; and there was that little lady bowing down to this brass Buddha, great big, fat, ugly Buddha; and she was bowing down and throwing little rocks. She had like dice and rolling out little rocks; and then they would fall a certain way; and I suppose it was sort of an answer from the God how the rocks configure; but rolling out the rocks, you know, and I watched and I watched, and she would bow, you know, and all. And I kept saying to myself, "Lady, nobody's home. There is nobody there." You know, you wanna go up and knock on this stomach and say, "Here, nobody there. No, no, nobody home."
Here is this little lady bowing down to nothing, rolling out her little rocks to nothing; and there was all kinds of food at his feet. All kinds of people had brought food, and they kept putting it there. There wasn't anybody there...nothing, and that's precisely the argument of verse 4. Why not eat? There's nobody there anyway. The stuff that they bring in and offer to an idol, the idol can't respond, because there is no god there. None at all.
Oh, they think there are many gods...verse 5. "There be that are called 'gods,' they call 'em gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are "gods" many and "lords" many." According to them, they're all over the place...But to us, verse 6, "there is but...what?...one God." What's the diff? Boy, that's good theology. Man, it's good theology.
You know, Paul had preached this. He had to agree with it. Acts 19:26, I'll just read it. He says, this is, of course, in Ephesus when the riot broke out, because of what happened and burning all of their gods and everything. Verse 26, "Moreover, you see and hear that, not alone at Ephesus but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods which are made with hands." In other words, there's nothing there. They are no gods. That's Paul's message.
There's a great statement on that in Psalm 115 that all of us should really know well. It's from verses, well, we'll start in verse 3. "Our God is in the heavens...now listen...Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands...now listen to this tremendous description of an idol...They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not. They have ears, but they hear not; noses have they, but they smell not. They have hands, but they handle not; feet have they, but they walk not; neither speak they through their throat. They who make them are like unto them." That's a little bit sarcastic. They're about..."The people who make 'em are as dumb as the gods are. So is everyone who trusts in them."
You know, they're building one of those Buddhist things right down here; and they're all down there running around, bowing down to nobody. Nobody's home. The world thinks there are many gods...in verse 5...the Romans had so many gods they said that it was easier to find a God in Athens than it was a man."
Isaiah 44, and, of course, from Isaiah 40 on, you have so many great statements of the character of God; but Isaiah 44:8. It says, "Fear not, neither be afraid. Have not I told you and declared? You are even My witnesses. Is there a God beside Me? Yea, there is no God. I know not any. They that make a carved image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things shall not profit. And they are their own witnesses. They see not nor know, that they may be ashamed. Who hath formed a god, or melted and cast an image that is profitable for nothing?"
There's nobody there. Jeremiah 10:14 says the same thing. Over in the little Book of Habakkuk, an interesting statement in 2:19, "Woe to him that says to the wood, 'Awake!' To the dumb stone, 'Arise, it shall teach!' Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it." I love this next one, "But the Lord is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before Him." There's a big difference. Nobody's home. False gods. Nobody there. No reality.
Now, the argument then is, "What's the difference if we eat meat offered to idols when the idol isn't there?" There is nobody there anyway; and that's a pretty good argument. I like it. Solid theology. They're really reiterating the Shema of Israel, "The Lord our God is...what?...one Lord." Great statement. Why hassle?
Now, later, we're gonna find out, as we get into chapter 10, that demons would impersonate the gods that they thought were there, and then convince them that there was a supernatural entity there; but the gods they thought were there weren't there. There were no true gods there. They believed that when you worship a god, when you made a sacrifice, you commune by the smoke that went off the sacrifice. You were communing with that god; and the Corinthians said, "But there are no gods, so what's the difference?" They were dead right. They were absolutely right. Their knowledge can't be argued. They just think there are many gods.
Verse 6, this great, great statement, but to us or for us the pagan religion is in verse 5. The Christian in verse 6. "But for us there is but one God...and who is He?...He is the Father. The Father from whom all things exist, and...we in Him, and...this is beautiful, look at it...one Lord...who is He?...Jesus Christ through whom all things exist and we by Him." Now, he's simply reiterating the great statement of the foundation of the Christian faith. One God. "One God, the Father from whom are all things, and for whom we exist," literally. From whom, now watch it. Here's "God the Father from whom everything comes to us and for whom we exist." God comes to us, and we come back to His presence, glorifying Him.
Now, the agency. One Lord, who is it? Jesus Christ, through whom all things exist, and through whom we exist. What is he saying? He's simply saying, God, the Source, coming to us. We going back to Him. Christ, the agency. God came to us in Christ. We go back to God through Christ. The through is the key in defining Christ. God, the ultimate and only source, and Christ, the agent.
So this is a great statement. We could spend tremendous amount of time on it, but we won't for the sake of getting the argument of the passage. He's simply saying here, "I agree with you that there's nobody there anyway. There's only one God, and that settles it, and if that's the case, man, we really might as well eat up. That's a great argument. Really a potent argument. I mean how can you argue with it? Offering something to an idol is absolutely nothing, doesn't mean anything...But Paul isn't finished. Look at verse 7. Now here's his response to their reasoning. "However, with as good an argument as that is... listen...however, there is not in every man that knowledge."
Now stop there for a second. Everybody doesn't yet have that knowledge, that...what knowledge? That idols are nothing. Now, they may have it in their heads. They had been taught the same basic truth, but they don't have an inner understanding of it. Put it this way, that knowledge has not yet been emotionally integrated into the pattern of their living. You know, you can know something in your head that doesn't really get to you yet to make a difference in your life.
Let's say you got a guy here, and he's 35 years old. We'll take an age that's right in the prime of life, and...or 36, somewhere around there. And here's this guy, and he's been living for 35 years in a pagan situation. Every day of his conscious life, fifty firstcould apprehend and comprehend anything. He knew there were gods. There was mother and dad and there were the people around him, and there was gods. Gods everywhere up and down the streets, all over the temples, proliferating everywhere, all over the house. They had 'em over the portals of the doors. They had 'em in the rooms of the house. They had 'em in the columns on the street. You can see some of the ruins in parts of the Roman world, walking down some of those old Roman streets. They're just strewn with statues of gods, everywhere; and so here...here's this guy, all his life, that's all he's known. He's bowed down. He's seen people give testimonials to the gods. He's seen catastrophes come and people attribute them to the gods. He's seen horrible, filthy, pagan orgies going on in the name of the gods, this whole kind of life.
All of a sudden, he becomes a Christian...and then he's saved out of this, and his commitment to Christ is so whole and so beautiful and so fresh and so wonderful and so different that he says, "Man, I don't want anything to do with that vile, evil, life with those false gods." Somebody says, "But there are no real gods there." Well, he may...he may hear that in his mind, but he'll never be able to say, without some time to mature and understand it, "Oh, yeah, that's right. They aren't there at all, are they?" No, too much involvement. Too long has he been intimate with them. Too long has he moved in and among that whole false system to...to emotionally have integrated into his attitude that there are no other gods. That's gonna take time... and that's precisely what Paul is saying.
"Yeah, it's fine to say an idol is nothing, but not everybody understands that, really. Not everybody can feel that, and you can run out and eat up all you want, but that guy's gonna go take one bite, and he's gonna say, "Ooh, this is being offered to Bacchus, that vile, rotten, despicable God," you know; and he's gonna feel guilty and sinful; and it's gonna destroy his personality. It's gonna destroy his fellowship with God. Don't do it. That's the point...
Now, the conscience of some has not yet grown up to understand the liberty. They are weak. They're immature. They're over-scrupulous. They're somewhat legalistic. They're not free to grasp their liberties, and so you don't do it...Now, the weaker brother knows there's only one true God. He knows it in his head; but he's not able to let go of a lifetime of belief. He's not able to just say, "They're not real," and really, really mean and believe it, because it's just too quick, too sudden. He has to grow into that comprehension.
And so look at verse 7. "For some, with conscience of the idol unto this hour, eat it as a thing offered unto an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled." Now notice the phrase "conscience of the idol." The word conscience is not the best translation. It should be translated one of two ways. Maybe both of them together. It means intimacy, and it means being accustomed to. Lemme put it together and read this way. "For some, who are accustomed to being intimate with an idol," you see? Some people are so accustomed to this intimate life of devotion to idols, long accustomed to this, and notice in verse 7, "unto this hour"; and here's the idea that they are just new. That they...it's just right till now that they've still been hung on this. Maybe they've been saved a little while; but, even until then, they're still holding some of those old associations and thoughts, even though they're Christian. They can't shake the feeling that an idol is something real and...and it would be wrong to do anything at all connected with idol worship.
Now watch. With this feeling, if they go ahead and, verse 7, "eat it as a thing offered to an idol, their conscience, because it is still so weak, will be...what?...defiled." Now, the man who eats...is gonna...defile his conscience if he believes it's wrong. You know what...what I mean by that? His conscience tells him, "Don't do that." That little voice in there, "Don't do that. That's...that's a part of paganism. You can't touch that. That's a part of that stuff offered to that false God." His conscience tells him not to do it; but he sees everybody do it; so he goes and does it.
You know what happens? Immediately, his conscience is defiled. What does that mean? His conscience begins to beat on him. His conscience begins to make him feel sinful. It begins to make him feel guilty. It begins to make him feel condemned. It begins to make him feel God has failed him. It makes him have hatred and resentment toward the Christian brother who set the pattern that he followed. It creates division in the body. It pushes him deeper into legalism, deeper into weakness, deeper into sorrow; and it may tempt him because, if he can't handle even the meat, maybe when he begins to indulge in that, he'll get caught up in the whole orgy that goes with the eating of the meat; and he's in a terrible situation of falling into sin, just because he violated that conscience that wasn't yet liberated.
"You're better off...says Paul...to let that guy live by his conscience, even if it's confining him." Better for him to avoid it until his conscience is liberated. Now, Romans says the same thing, and it's very explicit. Romans 14:23, listen. "He that doubts is condemned if he eats, because he doesn't eat believing." He condemns himself. The doubter goes ahead and does it; and he heaps guilt and condemnation and sorrow and bitterness and resentment and antagonism toward those who set the example for him. So if it's gonna be a problem for you, he says, don't do it; and if it's a problem for somebody around you, don't you do it, because you'll set a pattern that, if he follows, will wind up being defiling to himself...
Now, lemme explain it, if I can, another way that may help...Knowledge says you can eat...Love says think about how it affects somebody else...and then decide. Knowledge says an idol is nothing. Let's eat. Love says wait...I choose not to eat, though I may, because my brother believes it's wrong, and I'll bow to his belief until he matures to understand.
Now, the third reason will open it up and fill out the whole case. Watch. Verses 8 to 12. Thirdly, their argument is this. "We know that food is no issue with God," verse 8, and this'll expand on that whole concept again. You'll see it. Now here's their third argument. "Now, we're eating because food commends us not to God." The word commend, peristaymaymeans to draw near to. Food doesn't bring us nearer to God. God could care less what you eat. Now, it doesn't mean...God does care if you're gluttonous, and God cares if you're overindulgent, and God cares if you are wasteful and all that; but God doesn't care whether you have broccoli, cauliflower, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, or whatever. God doesn't care. There aren't any religious rules. All the spiritual people aren't vegetarians. That's the idea. It doesn't matter to God what you eat in terms of, you know, whether you like gravy or not, you know, that isn't the issue.
There are no dietary laws within Christianity other than using your head. You don't wanna eat something that's gonna hurt you, and you don't wanna overindulge yourself, and you don't wanna live to eat. But God doesn't care what the food might be. Those laws have all been set aside, right? Acts 10, Peter saw the vision. God says, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat. No more dietary laws." Jesus said it Mark 7 when He said, "It's not what goes into a man that defiles him. It's what comes out of a man." Timothy, Paul told him in 1 Timothy 4, "Everything is to be received with...what?...thanksgiving."
Eat it all. God's provided all of it; and so the dietary laws are set aside. So they're just reiterating what Paul had said many times. It doesn't matter what we eat. Verse 8, "Neither if we eat are we any better, neither if we eat not are we any worse." There is no spiritual consequence to eating or not eating. God doesn't care. It brings us no advantage... either way. So why not eat? I mean if it's there, and it's tasty, and it's wonderful, what's the difference? God doesn't care what we eat. Well, God doesn't. Specific, but that God does care about His other children; and they care what we eat, verse 9. "Take heed lest by any means or in any way this liberty that you have might become a...what?...stumbling block to them that are weak."
A stumbling block is an occasion to fall into sin. Something that makes somebody fall into sin. You're gonna make a brother fall into sin. You're gonna set an example; he'll follow it; it'll go against his conscience; he'll feel guilty; he'll feel bitter; it'll push him deeper into legalism; and so forth and so forth; and it'll get him in a situation that he can't handle. Maybe he shouldn't be in that idol temple, and maybe God doesn't want him there, because he's not as strong as you. You can go there and just eat the meat. If he goes there, he's gonna get caught up in the orgy along with the eating; and that's the reason God has given him a closed conscience - to keep him out of the area he's not ready to go into yet.
So don't force on him what God is not forcing on him by his conscience; and, believe me, the Holy Spirit's in control of conscience, right? So if the Holy Spirit chooses to live in a man's conscience, don't you think you're superior to the Holy Spirit and force him to do something that his conscience doesn't let him do when the Spirit's in control of his conscience...Don't force people to do things they feel are wrong...
Some of you folks may...you may be married; and you may believe something's right; and your wife doesn't believe it's right; and she...if you force her to do that thing, you are violating the work of the Holy Spirit through her conscience. There's a reason God has made her that way and vice versa.
Now, in verse 10, he explains how this can happen. "For if any man sees you, who have knowledge." You're the one with all the knowledge. You're the Bible scholar; and here you are literally reclining at the table in the idol's temple. You're just flaked out there, leisurely enjoying your meat. You're having a feast. Maybe your sister's getting married, and you're at the wedding, and they had the wedding in the temple. It's a pagan temple, a pagan ceremony. You're a Christian; but you felt you should be there with your family; and you're just reclining, eating away; and here comes your weak brother, brand new Christian saved out of paganism. Hates everything about it. He sees you, and he says to himself, "Well, look, the conscience of him who is weak will be emboldened."
In other words, all of a sudden, his conscience is gonna get real bold. "Hey, look over there. There's Mac, and he's eating, see. Look, he's lying down there. Oh, he's stuffing it in. Ooh, that looks good. He can do that, and this is a nice - hey, I...I could do that," and he goes against his conscience. What happens? "He's emboldened to eat the things offered to idols...verse 10. Now watch 11...and through your knowledge...shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?" The word perish doesn't mean die and go to hell, incidentally. It translates ruined. You're gonna ruin him, and ruin isn't even a good English word, because it has such a finality to it. But at this point in time, you're gonna bring him down. You're gonna crush him. You're gonna smash him down. You're gonna force him into sin. Here he comes.
He says, "Hey, he's doing it," and he does it. He doesn't get that meat in his mouth and swallowed down until he begins to feel guilty. "Hey, what am I doing at this orgy? I just got saved outta this. I can't take it. This is tempting. I mean..." And all of a sudden guilt, and he begins to resent you for setting the pattern, and he can't resist the full temptation of the pagan thing that he's seeing around him, and he falls further way from his liberty, and you haven't helped him at all. You've just pushed him into sin; and he begins to resent. "God, why'd You allow this to happen to me?" And all these things that come out of the fact that he's violated conscience.
Now, I'm gonna give you something that's very critical, and I want you to listen to this, because it's a principle. Don't ever violate your conscience. Whatever that voice is saying in you, listen to that. It is never a good habit to start violating conscience. It's not smart to say to a weaker brother, "I know it bothers you, but take my word, keep doing it. Keep doing it, and you'll feel better about it." He'll feel worse about it. You'll teach him to violate his conscience, and God will lose one very important way to guide the man. Don't ever start out violating conscience. Teach people to obey conscience, because that's the voice of the Spirit of God leading them into areas that He feels they can handle.
Now, listen. Conscience is God's doorkeeper, to keep us out of the areas we don't belong in yet...As we mature, conscience gradually opens more and more doors; and we can go in without stumbling, without falling, without being defiled. It's like a little baby comes into your house, and, first of all, you become the conscience of the baby, and you say, "This is how much room you've got, kid. You can't go out of it." The kid can walk through the house, just can't touch anything. "It might break. Don't pick that up. Put that down. Get a way from there. Don't touch that. It's hot. It'll break. That's new. Leave it alone." You know, all of that. "Drop the Crayola." That's the...that's the thing you gotta watch in our house. Walls, Crayolas, stuff.
You give little limits; and, as the child gets older, you expand the limits. "You can touch that, because you won't break it. I think she's all right. Can she hold the milk without spilling it? I think she's at the age." Plop, she's not at the age. And on and on you go, you know, see. You begin...you begin to expand. You begin to expand the liberty. You become the conscience, and you determine what can be handled and what can't. You expand it. You expand it. Finally, at 18 years old, you throw the kid outta the house and say, "Here you are. There's the world. Now you oughta know what to do with it."
And the same thing is true spiritually. God takes a spiritual baby and confines that baby by conscience; and little by little, as maturity comes, God begins to expand what conscience will allow as instruction and growth takes place. If you run ahead of God and force things, you're only gonna make the person more legalistic. You're gonna crush the person. You're gonna push them backwards. Don't force people against conscience.
In fact, brother and sister, if you're mature, limit your conscience for their sake. Have you ever thought of this? You know, there are some things as parents that we wouldn't do, because we wouldn't offend our children. That we might have the liberty to do, but wouldn't do because they wouldn't have the liberty to understand us doing them? Now, that's true in all dimensions of the Christian community...You say, "Man, you mean I'm supposed to govern my life about how it affects somebody else?" Yeah. You say, "Why?" I'll tell you why. Verse 11. What a zapper this is. "Through your knowledge shall the weaker brother ruin...be ruined...listen...for whom...what?...Christ died?"...
How would you...how would you treat somebody?...How would you treat somebody that Jesus died to save? How should you treat them? That's a interesting thought. Always remember the story my dad used to tell about a guy who fell off a seven-story building, and a man caught him. Saved his life; and it killed the man that caught him, just telescoped his body. And the father of the man who caught the falling man spent the rest of his life giving money and everything that the man that he caught needed; and he said the reason he did it was simply because if that man meant enough for his son to give his life to save him, then he felt he oughta honor his son's love by giving that man everything he could.
Now, that's the mentality that we have to have toward a Christian. Listen, you may not agree with his view of life. You may not agree with what he does or doesn't do; but he is one for whom Christ paid a penalty on the cross, for whom He shed His blood; and you oughta treat him as such. There is a beautiful dignity, beloved, in every Christian; and I am thrilled. I am thrilled to limit my liberty by love for the brother, if Jesus loved him, I wanna love him, right? If Jesus gave his life for him and died for him, at least I could live conscious of him.
Take it a step further in verse 12. This will knock you right out. "When you sin so against the brother, when you disregard him and just go ahead and do what you want, just anything that's on your mind, and you wound his conscience, you sin...what?...against Christ." What a statement. Why? Because that believer is one with Jesus Christ; and when you do something to ruin him, you have sinned against Christ. Jesus said, "Listen, it's better for somebody to hang a millstone around his neck and be drowned in the sea than it is to harm or offend one of these little ones that belong to Me."
In Matthew chapter 25, Jesus said this. "Inasmuch as you have done it unto the least of these, my brother, you have... what?...done it unto Me." Be careful, beloved, not to beat up your brother. That's what the word there means, tupto, wound; not to strike him, 'cause in so doing, you sin against Christ. Beloved, let us love one another how? By limiting our liberty for the sake of each other...
Having all that said, Paul concludes, here's the principle. Are you ready for this? Here's the principle to govern the area of gray, the doubtful thing. "Wherefore, if food makes my brother to offend, I will...what?...eat no meat as long as the world stands, lest I make my brother offend." What's the principle, beloved, in deciding whether to do something or not do it? The principle is love. How will it affect my weaker brother? Not, "Well, I don't care. He's weak. He doesn't understand. He's got his own problems." No, no. Christ died for him. You sin against Him, you sin against Christ.
Would to God we had that kind of love in the church so that we weren't scandalizing our weaker brothers, but rather holding them up, building 'em up. No Christian has the right to indulge in anything that offends another Christian, for that's an offense against Christ...
Father, thank You again this morning for clear word. We cannot misunderstand...We pray in Christ's name. Amen.
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The Future is Unwritten: Adam Morgan
Since we're lite on content right now because there's so little happening in the world of Phillies baseball, I'll keep churning out my notes on Phillies prospects from this past season. Today I want to bring your attention to someone you may not know much about, the player who raised his stock more than anyone else in the organization this season, left handed pitcher Adam Morgan.
Adam Morgan didn't come into the 2012 season with much heat on him at all. He wasn't on Keith Law's organizational top ten, he wasn't on Kevin Goldstein's Future Shock top twenty and he barely made it on to Baseball America's top thirty, sneaking onto the Phillies' list at number twenty nine, seven spots behind his Crimson Tide rotation mate, Austin Hyatt. Something changed. No longer is Morgan, a third rounder from the 2011 draft, being described as a "soft tossing, command and control guy." He started missing bats, more than one per inning, and forced his way up from Clearwater into a really fun, prospect laden rotation at Double-A Reading where he was just 45 minutes away from me for 2012's home stretch.
What was cool about the first scouting trip I took to see Morgan was the clean slate on which I could conduct my analysis. I didn't accidentally stumble upon any opinions or reports on Morgan because there just weren't any yet, and I didn't actively seek any out before I saw him because I wanted to be surprised, uncontaminated by anyone else's ideas. I hopped in the car not knowing if Adam Morgan was right handed, short, fat, black, handsome, blonde or cross eyed. It made me all the more excited to see him and drink everything in from scratch.
The twenty two year old Morgan is not a jaw dropping physical specimen. He's in fine shape, but his 6'1" frame offers no positive projection. What you see is what you're going to get for several years. If Morgan's physique is going to change, it will change horizontally. Let's hope it does not because sometimes guys who gain weight have a hard time maintain the athleticism in their delivery, which right now for Morgan is just fine. Morgan lands hard on a stiff front leg and there's a little bit of effort as he fires but nothing is so violent that I'm concerned about repeatability or sustainable health. You can see the torque Morgan generates with his hips during delivery when you observe him from the side. It's beautiful. These sound mechanics help produce above average control and average command of a slightly above average fastball (I'll put a 55 on it, 89-92mph) that plays up thanks to terrific movement. That movement, however, is inconsistent and Morgan's heater will get flat and straight at times while it dances at others. His somewhat diminutive stature prevents him from getting natural downhill plane on his fastball which he leaves up more than you'd like. He got away with it while I was in attendance because, hey, it's Double-A, but that won't fly in the big leagues and Morgan will have to continue to hone in on the lower third of the zone to avoid becoming homer prone.
The fastball is complimented by a plus changeup (60 but flashed even better three or four times), a true swing and miss pitch which made Double-A hitters look both uncomfortable and ridiculous. It is clear this is where Morgan has made strides this year as his changeup was previously just a footnote on his scouting report. The pitch sits in the upper 70s with lots of fade and action and, most importantly, Morgan maintains his fastball's arm speed when he throws it. It's a weapon that I think will miss some bats in the big leagues one day.
Morgan has two breaking balls, a slider and a curve. The two can overlap a little (both in shape and velocity) but the hook (30) will usually sit mid to upper 70s while the slider (45), which I like much better, hangs out in the low 80s. Further development of one of these pitches is crucial to Morgan's future. He has an idea what to do with the slider, getting some swings and misses with some back foot work against righties, but it needs refining and I'd like to see him pitch backwards with it later in his starts to get ahead of hitters with something new.
I think the Phillies have stumbled upon a nice backend starter who has a chance to be a solid mid-rotation guy if he improves on his current deficiencies. Stick a feather in the cap of the Phillies' player development staff.


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I might as well pick up my gloves and join in the garden for a while.
Well folks, been here about a month but may be leaving. Emailed Chase Executive offices a while back and heard from them today about my Freedom limit (my lowest limit card by far) and she said she would look into it and get back to me, but it would likely be a hard pull :-( We'll see....
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Well folks, been here about a month but may be leaving. Emailed Chase Executive offices a while back and heard from them today about my Freedom limit (my lowest limit card by far) and she said she would look into it and get back to me, but it would likely be a hard pull :-( We'll see....
thats what im worried about.
i will be asking after my one year mark. (july)
not my lowest card but equal to it.(2 cards at 500)
kohls is my lowest at 400. will only be a year in jan though.
62 days strong.
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Came out of the garden a few weeks ago for instant approval on the Citi AA Visa/AmEx (with 1 pull) and decided to take one more hit in October. Refinanced my auto loan through my credit union from 5.99% to 2.39% and also grabbed a low interest CC (for an emergency). All instnat approvals after gardening since May. Now back to the Garden for another few months. My house is on the maket so guessing a mortgage will be the next thing I apply for when it's time for a new house. Having the instant approvals this month were great. Nice to not have to recon or anything.
well, i stepped out today. CLI'd my BOA from 3K to 6K today via luv button, instantly. I last asked for an increase on july 7th, from 1.2K to 3K. A Bit surprised it was an instant decision online since that makes it my highest limit now, and ive opened a couple accounts that are only about to turn 3 months in november, and not even 4 months between increases.
Originally i was going to wait until jan or feb 2013 but i know eventually i want to go for that US Bank Cash+, and i probably won't have the profile get approved for it within the next 6-9 months, escpecially without many 5K lines. so i might as well take the inquiry on TU-least likely to be pulled for me anyways-so i dont have too much activity going on within 6 months of apping for the Cash+.
I still plan on going for an AMEX revolver early next year though, MY only thing is what to do about Discover. I passed 6 months and 6 statements in september, but they wanted to HP without a counter offer(trying for 3K increase, 2K increase, 1.5K increase) but i was dead set on staying inq free at least until january. Last attempt was a few weeks ago in this month. I think will wait a bit for the BOA cli to report, then ill try with discover once more, hoping they will match the paypal now that its only my 3rd highest. I think discover will pull TU too-if so then i will not be too broken up about taking another inq.
EIther way, besides the AMEX, I wont be chasing any new cards before springtime-thats something i know i can stick to. and with the 61-day soft pull cli, i think i can position myself for the cash+ better, so even if i only get approved the regular us bank cash rewards, i should have a credit limit high enough that i wont need a big CLI to PC to the cash+ later on.
Well, I posted a few days ago that my app for Chase Freedom was my last hurrah before the garden. The denied me, even after a recon. I had a BK discharged last year and have only had one credit card since then, so she said that they needed to see the two cards I have now handled well and then I should reapply. I did however recieve a tiny $150 Lany Bryant card, so I am now officially done apping and into the garden. I really want to buy a home next year, so I am so grateful to find the support here to make good credit decisions.
Another question is I wonder why I can't see my seedling in my signature?
Well i went ahead and took the HP from Discover-i tried seeing if it was possible to get a lower offer with a soft but they said not an option. CLid from 1K to 3.5K. Also hit Transunion like my BOA cli yesterday. MY plans over the next year as far as credit involve mostly AMEX and US Bank, neither of which are likely to pull TU around here so i'm not too broken up. And with this, i think i will actually wait until February instead of January before i go for an AMEX revolver and perhaps May or June for US Bank depending on what my score looks like when all those inqs from spring 2012 pass 1 year.
I just started a new thread, so I'm closing out this one. Please post in the November Garden Club thread. Thanks!


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"Punishment" is not in your cat's vocabulary. Positive reinforcement of good behavior -- with treats, attention and verbal praise -- solves most kitty behavioral problems.
If you have cats, chances are you also have a shredded piece of furniture -- or two. The edge of the couch, the corner of your bed, the side of your favorite chair -- they're all fair game as far as your cat and its claws are concerned.
You've probably tried to lure your cat's claws away from your nice furniture with various kinds of scratching posts or cardboard scratch boxes, only to find out your cat would rather sleep on its new scratcher than scratch it, and your couch is still suffering.
If this is you and you're at your wits' end, I'm about to change your world: Get a microfiber couch.
My oldest cat has personally retired three couches in his 12 years of living with me. It's his claim to fame, and I figured I'd just be resigned to shredded furniture. Part of having a cat, right? Until someone told me about microfiber.
Microfiber fabric is soft and smooth, which is the exact opposite of the type of fabric cats like to scratch. Cats scratch to file their nails, and this fabric won't help them there -- and they know it. I've had my microfiber couch for almost two years, and it doesn't have a single snag, tear, hole or pull. Any of my other couches would have looked like a bird's nest by now.
Besides being scratch-resistant, microfiber is a fairly tough fabric. I've heard claws go in, and the occasional crazy cat will fling himself off the side, but I never notice a claw mark or poke. All in all, it's a great couch fabric for people who have cats that like to scratch.
Dorian Wagner is the founder of YourDailyCute.com and a blogger at The Cat's Meow. She is the proud mom of two cats. Her blogs have previously appeared on The Daily Cat.
jennifer says: My cats shredded all my microfiber furniture, so your statement is false.
Kim says: I have 2 microfiber couches, and my kitten has taken to both of them. Its not really noticable at first, but I can tell.
Suzanne says: I don't remember who told me about microfiber, but it has been a life (couch?) saver! I have a Mission style microfiber-cushion couch & chair, and both stay in decent shape. However, my little furry darlings do like gnawing the wood. :/ I also have microfiber curtains, which are great. This stuff is by far the best fabric choice for multi-cat households like mine! Now, if they'd only make rugs out of it...
Alison Anne says: My current two cats don't scratch on our microfiber furniture... though an old cat who has now passed, shredded one piece. But since the current darling are anti microfiber, that will be my next sectional purchase for sure!
CB says: My Georgia loves to scratch the corners of our microfiber couch. No matter what I do, she finds a way to the corners.
Cindy says: I also purchased a microfiber couch and have a microfiber quilt. Since our cats sleep with us they kind of tear up the quilts and bedspreads.
Joyce says: My kitty Missy who is my problem scratcher initially left my microfiber couch alone. Now after two years, she has decided it is wonderful for scratching. She hits it up every evening to get my attention. I am working on rechanneling and distractions.
Barb says: It might be true that some cats won't scratch microfiber, but it's not so for all. My cat has successfully shredded a couch and a chair. :-)
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It's late! I'm hungry!
How do I cook this!!!!!?????
I can only read the red parts. There are six parts to this thing and "around 4 times as much", "around 2-3 times as much", and "300c.c." isn't enough help!
I'm such a struggler. Outsmarted by Japanese instant noodles! :(
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1. Bring 1 L of water to a boil. Add noodles. Mix so they don't stick. Bring to boil again. Reduce heat and cook for 4 minutes.
- January 2, 2011 at 12:02 PM
(cont...) Then strain noodles and rinse with cold water.
That's it...the rest talks about the 2 ways to eat the noodles (soba??) Cold or hot so it tells you how to prepare the noodles for the different dishes. You'll need to make or buy a soup for the noodles though to make the dish complete...enjoy.
- January 2, 2011 at 12:08 PM
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Thanks! I messed up the first time and will try again!
- January 2, 2011 at 6:48 PM
- awildermode said...
sounds complicated. usually the more complicated instructions yield tastier meals.
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"How do you feel when you make a mistake?"
Many learners and teachers do their best in avoiding mistakes, when in fact we should like and welcome them. By analysing students´ mistakes teachers can observe how learning is taking place and this way through feedback help students reformulate their trials.
These are sentences taken from the book "Language Hungry" by Tim Murphey which can make us think about this topic:
"Mistakes are actually wonderful things; they can even help the learning process."
"If we´re not making mistakes, we´re not going anywhere" Gordon Forward
"Many people dream of success. To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection" Soichiro Honda
"If I make a mistake, it´s okay - I don´t have to be perfect."
If we want to learn English well, we have to see our mistakes as a necessary part of learning.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A judge's closed-door dismissal of an indecency charge against an Illinois sheriff who was accused of a sex act with a man outside a tavern may have violated the constitutional rights of openness to reporters, an Illinois Press Association attorney said Wednesday.
Associate St. Clair County (Ill.) Judge Julie Katz dropped the alleged Caseyville ordinance violation against Perry County Sheriff Keith Kellerman on Tuesday after discussing the matter in her chambers with attorneys for both sides.
With at least two reporters waiting for what would have been an open hearing, Katz dismissed the case at the request of Kellerman attorney Thomas Mansfield, who argued that the ordinance didn't specify what constituted indecent conduct, the Belleville News-Democrat reported.
Afterward, Al Paulson—Caseyville's village attorney—told reporters "the court granted that motion, and the case was dismissed," the newspaper said. He added that many of the village's ordinances need to be rewritten, including that relating to indecent conduct.
Efforts by The Associated Press to clarify the matter Wednesday were unsuccessful. Katz, Mansfield, Paulson and the sheriff didn't respond to telephone messages.
Kellerman, 49, and another man, 32-year-old J. Ian Stennett, were arrested in December 2011 after a Caseyville officer alleged he saw them engaging in a sex act in a station wagon outside of an Irish pub in the village, which is near St. Louis.
Stennett, of Collinsville, Ill., later pleaded guilty to the indecency charge and was sentenced to 90 days of court supervision and a $100 fine. Kellerman, who has been sheriff since 1998 and faces re-election next year, has repeatedly ignored requests to comment about the case.
While judges can forbid reporters from covering certain hearings, including cases involving sexually molested children, Tuesday's secrecy appeared unjustified and may amount to an illegal subversion of constitutional rights by the media and the public to witness court proceedings, an Illinois Press Association attorney said.
"Courts have to operate openly, and if you close proceedings you can do so only in limited circumstances and if a judge makes a specific finding in a particular case to justify it," Esther Seitz said. "Here, the judge did not make that type of finding."
Seitz called Kellerman's case "a run-of-the-mill ordinance violation" that didn't warrant excluding the public or reporters, even if the allegations were particularly embarrassing to the sheriff, who has opted to stay in office.
"Obviously, the media would like to report on matters of public significance," Seitz said. "There are a lot of cases that are embarrassing to the defendant. But that's part of going to court, part of being a defendant."


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Dorothy- (from her "Facebook" Profile)I arrived early, so that I could take photos of the restaurant...
Ocean & San Carlos, Carmel California
This building was once "The Mediterranean Market". I miss all the cheeses and important sausages. Now, it's some sort of interior design place. Such a shame...
This was once "Kip's Market". I used to walk here, during lunch, to buy their sandwiches. Now, it's another big chain clothing store. How I miss "Kip's".
How many tourists know that the arched window was once "The Carmel Creamery" where I'd hang out (from high school) to eat ice cream and enjoy my teen years. Now, it's a high-end fashion store where I can't even afford to buy a pair of socks! I'm standing right by "Tiffany's". I think it was once a shoe store. The times have changed...
I know Carmel very well-- all of the alleys and out of the way places to shop.
11:30 rolled around, so I walked back to the restaurant. Dot made her entrance, looking lovely in a chic black outfit and her hair so nicely coiffed. She was clutching fliers for her latest project, The Harvest Farm-to-Table to be held at Quail Lodge in Carmel Valley on September 26 & 27, 2009. I listened to her speak to one of the kitchen staff members about the event, making a mental note that I wanted to help out. I do not want to miss an opportunity to rub elbows with celebrity chefs-- and that's is Dot's forte'. (Psssssssst, she knows Tyler Florence and he knows her. ) She's very much involved with the presigious "Pebble Beach Food & Wine Event"-- and I plan to be one of "gophers" for next year's event. I won't pass up a chance to ogle all the world famous chefs in such a beautiful setting. Plan to come, next year, if you want to experience a spectacular event.
I will let these photos speak of our wonderful lunch. Prices are very reasonable. You can view the menu here:
The bread was, literally, steaming hot. This basil sauce is another signature dish, that comes with each meal. It's not quite a pesto-- I tasted a hint of mint and garlic. I could have eaten a lot more of this, but I figured we had more dishes to come.
Dot's batted her eyes, and the chef prepared this just for her. It's a salad of grilled white peaches with an orange-vanilla vinaigrette and candied pecans with feta cheese. Hold on...
Dot, being a bonified "Foodie" had to "style" the salad for the "ta-da" shot. See the difference? It was light, flavorful and refreshing.
These are sliders that Dot ordered-- they look big, but they were miniature burgers, and very tasty looking.
I decided to try their Signature Dish --Thai BBQ Short Ribs braised boneless short ribs in a sweet and spicy BBQ sauce over scallion mashed potatofor $12.75. They were tender and I ate every single bite. I forgot to ask the name of the Italian white wine she ordered. It was crisp and complimented our lunch perfectly.
Fudgy cake, which we think was flourless. Do I need to explain how decadent this was? We shared it, and I ate the last two bites without any embarrassment. It was good. Period. I can swim more tomorrow!
After lunch, I took a familiar drive along Scenic Drive, in Carmel. This is where I'd take off in my mom's 1965 Mustang to cruise along and watch the surfers.
This is my future home... as soon as I win the lottery. I think it's called "Fantasy Tudor". It's probably a weekend home. Nice, huh?
After enjoying my drive along the Carmel Beach (which was chilly and overcast, today), I decided to take a scenic drive back to where I live. I stopped at Earthbound Farms/Farmstand, where the sun always shines. This is where it all began-- two people who decided to grown organic vegetables that has grown into a mega-million business. I'm sure you've purchased these products wherever you live.
I decided to stop and buy some fresh figs, a loaf of baguette bread and to enjoy the sunflowers.
I don't know why I don't come to Carmel more often! I'm so used to dining in Salinas or Monterey. I guess I have an aversion to dodging so many tourists on a busy weekend in Carmel. I'll have to readjust my attitude, because there are so many wonderful restaurants to choose from.
After lunch, Dorothy had me accompany her while she paid a visit to a few restaurateurs to deliver more fliers, and to ask them to participate in the Harvest Event. She chatted with the new owners of Andre's Bouchee and I took a peek around. I definitely see a "Date Night" here, soon! I'll have to sneak in my camera and report back to those of you-- strictly for research.
If you come to Carmel, I highly recommend Basil Carmel. It's a very small place, but the food is excellent. Just be sure to make reservations, or you might be turned away. I'd hate to have you miss out!
I'll be back, tomorrow, posting a new recipe. My Staycation is coming to an end on Friday. I hope that you enjoyed my personal tour of my stomping grounds-- Carmel, California. Please come and visit and support our local restaurant proprietors. Most likely, they're friends of Dorothy's... or mine!
Oh, and Dorothy... I'd love to have you be a guest blogger here! Seriously. I want that recipe for fig jam, with toasted blanched almonds, port and something else. What was it?! Help me out, here!


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LONDON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - A British man infected with a new virus from the same family as SARS has died, health officials said on Tuesday, bringing the worldwide death toll from the previously unknown disease to six.
The virus, called novel coronavirus or NCoV, was unknown in humans until it emerged in the Middle East last year. There have been 12 confirmed cases worldwide - including in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Britain - and so far six patients have died.
"This patient had an underlying condition that may have made them more susceptible to respiratory infections," the Health Protection Agency said in a statement announcing the death of one of four people in Britain with the NCoV infection.
NCoV was identified when the World Health Organisation issued an international alert in September 2012, saying a completely new virus had infected a Qatari man in Britain who had recently been in Saudi Arabia.
Since then 12 cases have been identified, including a cluster of cases reported last week in a family in Britain.
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Gilmanton library searching for funds after ballot defeatBy DAN SEUFERT
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March 18. 2013 8:20PM
GILMANTON - After getting town funding for the past three years as requested, the privately owned and run Gilmanton Year-Round Library was left without more than half of its 2013 budget last week when voters defeated its funding article at town elections.
As a result, the library is not going to stay open past November unless it can find other sources of funding.
On the library's web page, its board of directors announced that thanks to "prior fundraising efforts, the doors will remain open until Nov. 1, 2013."
"Of course, the library will graciously continue to accept any contributions that may allow it to extend operations beyond that date," it said.
The library, one of three in town but the only one running year-round, was opened in 2009 and was denied its first official funding request that year. But each year since, residents at town meetings approved articles for its funding of $45,000, which support its yearly $70,500 budget.
Last week, voters defeated Article 37 at town elections 401-322 at the town's first elections in the SB-2 format.
"For whatever reason, the people didn't feel they needed to support it," said Selectman Ralph Lavin.
The library's treasurer, Fred Buchholz, thinks the economy played a role in the vote.
"There's a general feeling that we shouldn't spend our money on things we don't absolutely need right now," he said.
But he thinks the SB-2 format was a factor, too. "There weren't a lot of people at a meeting discussing it, and we only had a 30 percent turnout at the elections, so 70 percent of the people didn't express themselves," Buchholz said.
The library's board of directors invites patrons and other community members to join them March 28 at 7 p.m. "to brainstorm fundraising options."
"We welcome all your support and ideas," the board said on the library's website.


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Enjoy the comfort of Whale One with good friends and family. Cruise the Mooloolah River taking in the sights of the beautiful homes up and down the canals then head out to the Mooloolaba Bay (weather permitting) for some of the best views the Sunshine Coast has to offer. As the soft late afternoon light falls in over the Glasshouse Mountains the spectacular sunset makes photography easy.
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