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AIKEN, S.C. - The Peach Belt Conference (PBC) had its end of season awards banquet Friday night, with two Georgia College & State University men's basketball (22-5) players earning spots on the three-team All-PBC list. Senior guards Graham Martin (Marietta, Ga.) and Ty Rowland (Lilburn, Ga.) were chosen to the first and third teams, respectively.
Martin earned one of the five spots on the first team, the second-straight first team selection the Bobcats have had after Shaun Keaton pulled down that spot a year ago. Martin was the fifth leading scorer in the league this year at 15.6 points per game. He had seven 20-point games and scored in double digits for 12 of the first 13 games of the year.
The NCAA-era career assists leader for Georgia College, Rowland has averaged 11.5 points and 5.2 assists per contest so far this year, the latter number ranking fourth in the league. Rowland also owns the fourth slot in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.06).
All-time, the Bobcats have had 26 All-PBC picks since joining the league in 1990-91. This is the first such honor for both Martin and Rowland.
As the No. 2 team in the most recent region poll, Georgia College awaits the selection announcement for the NCAA Tournament on NCAA.com Sunday, March 7 at 9:30 p.m.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.

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An Early Look at Firefox 4?
Didn't Firefox 3.5 just go gold? Well, that hasn't stopped the eager beavers at Mozilla from already showing vehemently non-final mockup screenshots of Firefox 4. Of the two design candidates, one bears a striking resemblance to new competitor Google's Chrome browser, with the tab controls way up above everything else. It's a design that Apple tried for Safari 4 beta and then ditched in that browser's final release.
Notably, both designs remove the standard menu bar from from the top, following Internet Explorer's lead in this by several years. (Funny how everyone notices what's borrowed from Google Chrome, but not a possibly more drastic UI change pioneered by Microsoft back in IE7.) The new proposed Firefox design instead places Page and Tools icons at the top right--not very far from IE's Page and Tools choices, also on the right.
One thing I noticed missing from the design, which has as one of its aims giving more space for Web pages, is the bookmark link bar, which I can't imagine living without, and which would take back space from the Web page. Internet forum commenters have already decried the pared-down new look, claiming that the rich, customizable interface was why they chose Firefox in the first place. The new Bookmarks button is meant to take the place of the buttons, but that adds an extra click to get to your favorite sites.
One minor touch I rather like is that the "Go" button is proposed to being on a green background, and the "Stop" X on a red. This will call out commonly needed functions. In the end, I wouldn't be surprized if the Mozilla team went back to a more familiar look for the actual release. Or, considering that the screens are prefaced with "THEY ARE ONLY FOR BRAINSTORMING/EXPLORATION!" the final design may look completely different from these first stabs.


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MARTIN, Tenn. - Even trailing for the first time in five games couldn't break the focus that has consumed the Tennessee Tech baseball team (18-6, 8-1), as the Golden Eagles used big hits and a fantastic relief appearance to win a rain-shortened Ohio Valley Conference game over UT Martin (8-16, 1-8) for their 11th consecutive victory Sunday afternoon. The streak, which is the second longest in program history, is currently tied for the longest in the nation with the Big Ten's Indiana Hoosiers.
With the win over the Skyhawks, Tech earned its second consecutive series sweep over an OVC opponent, improving its league-best record to 8-1.
Sunday's contest was a very back-and-forth affair, featuring three lead changes and two ties before the Golden Eagles finally pulled away in the sixth inning for an 8-5 win.
UTM first baseman Wade Collins and designated hitter Luis Paublini each recorded two RBI in the contest, combining for three hits and a run scored. But as the Golden Eagles offense has proven many times during their winning streak, it just wasn't enough.
Zach Zarzour and Zach Stephens paced the Tech bats in the contest, jumping the Golden Eagles out to an early 2-0 lead. Zarzour launched his first home run of the season on the second pitch of the game, driving the ball over the right field wall. Two batters later, Stephens followed suit, blasting a bomb to right field for his sixth dinger of the year.
The Skyhawks answered quickly, evening things at 2-2 in the bottom half of the first. The score remained that way for the next two and half innings, as both starting pitchers, Jacob Honea for TTU and Dalton Potts for UTM, cruised. Martin then managed to grab its first lead of the series off an RBI single by Ben Brewer.
It didn't last long as Zarzour and Stephens combined for greatness again. After a quick out in the top of the fifth, Zarzour singled to center field, one of his three hits in three at-bats in the contest. Austin Wulf reached on a error by the Skyhawk second baseman moving Zarzour to third and bringing Stephens to the plate with a chance for greatness.
The slugger delivered, mashing his second long ball of the contest over the right-center field wall and giving the Golden Eagles a 5-3 advantage. It marked the third time in the junior's career that he had multiple home runs in a contest.
Once again UT Martin would not give in, tying the contest with two runs in the bottom of the fifth with a two-run single by Collins.
Resiliant as ever, Tech answered back, using an RBI double by Zephan Guyear in the top of the sixth to take the lead for good. They tallied two more runs in the inning for good measure, taking an 8-5 lead into the bottom of the sixth.
Junior Stanton Taylor, who entered the contest with one out in the bottom of the fifth, was lights out in relief for the Golden Eagles. after forcing the first batter he faced to fly out, he forced the next Skyhawk player to go down swinging. Things just got sweeter in the sixth, as the right hander struck out the side, all swinging, to ice what would turn out to be his first career win as a Golden Eagle.
Due to poor weather conditions, the contest was called in the top of the 7th inning, giving Tech its 11th straight win.
The Golden Eagles continue their road trip on Tuesday, March 26 when they travel to Knoxville to take on the University of Tennessee. Tech will look to repeat last year's result in the 6 p.m. CDT contest, a 5-1 victory over the SEC foe.


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About FERC Office of External Affairs
The Division of Government Affairs is the Commission's liaison with the Congress and Federal government departments and agencies. It is responsible for developing and maintaining an effective working relationship with the Senate, the House of Representatives, Congressional committees and Committee staff, and Federal government departments and agencies.
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Palo Alto Networks has announced enhancements to its enterprise security and Wildfire threat analysis systems that speed up the discovery and elimination of malware, zero-day exploits and advanced persistent threats, according the firm.
The upgrades are designed to address new methods criminals are now using to evade more traditional security measures, including firewalls, intrusion detection and anti-virus systems. Such legacy tools often address only a single type of threat across a limited range of network traffic, says Palo Alto, resulting in high rates of attack and costly damage control measures.
To meet more sophisticated enterprise threats, Palo Alto says a highly automated and scalable "closed loop" approach is required. This includes positive security controls to minimize the attack surface, inspection of traffic to block all known threats and the use of new protections to block all new or previously unknown threats.
The firm says its enhanced enterprise security system is pioneering this approach, starting with a new firewall as the core defense within the network and including advanced detection and analysis features from its WildFire service.
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Phil Cummings, security administrator for the Health Information Services – Nova Scotia, said the Palo Alto platform gives the agency an extra layer of security.
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Zoning & Planning Committee Agenda
Standing Committee of the City Council, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Regular Meeting
April 3, 2014 – 9:30 a.m.
Room 317, City Hall
Members Present: Lisa Bender (Chair), Lisa Goodman, Andrew Johnson, Barbara Johnson, Kevin Reich, Abdi Warsame
Public Hearing
Referred by City Council (03/07/14)
1. Linden Hills, Fulton, Armatage, Kenny, and Lynnhurst Neighborhoods Moratorium (Interim Ordinance):
Ordinance amending Title 21 of the Minneapolis Code of Ordinances relating to Interim Ordinance, by adding a new Chapter 590, providing for a moratorium on the demolition, new construction, or establishment of single and two-family residential dwellings in the R1, R1A, R2, and R2B Zoning Districts in the neighborhoods of Linden Hills, Fulton, Armatage, Kenny, and Lynnhurst.
Staff Reports: Moratorium RCA, REVISED Moratorium ORD; Moratorium Maps, Moratorium PowerPoint, Moratorium Addendum, Construction Mgmt Agreement
Action Taken: Cancelled Moratorium Ordinance; and Approved the following staff directions:
a) Direct staff to implement and enforce the use of Construction Management Agreements for all un-occupied construction projects involving the wrecking, new build, or major remodeling of 1 and 2 unit dwelling structures.
b) Direct staff to identify additional resources to meet staffing needs relating to the implementation and oversight of construction management and planning related activities, and refer the matter to the Ways & Means Committee for further consideration.
c) Direct staff to continue to study the growth in construction of 1 to 4 unit dwellings for the purposes of informing future development and to make recommendations on the zoning code of ordinances and planning process based on the study findings.
Referred by Department of Community Planning and Economic Development
2. 4205 Xerxes Ave S Moratorium Waiver:
Moratorium waiver to allow for the demolition of an existing single-family dwelling and the construction of a new single-family dwelling located at 4205 Xerxes Ave S in the R1 Single-family district located within the Linden Hills, Fulton, Armatage, Kenny, and Lynnhurst neighborhoods moratorium area. (Ward 13)
Staff Reports: 4205 Xerxes Waiver RCA, 4205 Xerxes Waiver RPT, 4205 Xerxes Waiver Attachments
Action Taken: Waiver Granted.
Next Committee Meeting: Thursday, April 17, 2014
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A number of years ago, 1981, February, I had the opportunity to speak for a week at Dallas Seminary. At that time I studied and prepared a week series on the chapter I read earlier - Colossians chapter 1. And that has become a very important part of the fabric of my life and perception of ministry. As I was sort of asking the Lord what I might share with you tonight, I was drawn again to this great rich passage. So open your Bible to the text that I read earlier - Colossians chapter 1, and I would like us to look together even if ever so briefly in a cursory fashion at verses 23 to 29.
I fear that for many the ministry has become more a profession and less a passion. Men seem more committed goals than to God, more interested in success than sanctification. Comfort has a way of softening the hardness of commitment. And we get caught in the method that sort of overpowers the message. And I want us to go back to this passage to just focus again on what I believe to be a very realistic view of ministry. It has a way of sort of stripping off the baggage, the useless baggage and turning Walter Mitty into a realist.
Verses 23 to 29 have so much rich insight into the life and ministry of the apostle Paul that we can't deal with, but I think we can uncover the reality of what is here. In reading the chapter as I did earlier, at least the larger portion of it, I read through that monumental passage from verses 13 to 23 which is a presentation of the majesty and saving dynamic of Jesus Christ the Son of God. It's an exalted look at the glorious Christ.
Coming out of that section in verse 23 at the very end there is a transitional statement. The transitional statement is, "Of which I, Paul, was made a minister." In other words, I was made a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ. That transitional statement triggers Paul into verses 24 to 29 in which he further defines the nature of his ministry. The message has been clearly articulated in the prior text and now, with that transitional statement, he moves into discussing the nature of his ministry. What it does is give us a perspective on how he viewed his own ministry.
And why is this section here? Well, as frequently was the case with the Apostle Paul, he was under attack as to the validity of his ministry by those who thought they were superior through philosophy, legalism, mysticism, asceticism, which he deals directly with in chapter 2. They felt that they had reached some higher level of spiritual knowledge and he was down on the low ground somewhere. And so in sort of a self defense of his own ministry, he takes some care to offer some details about the validity and integrity of his own ministry in these verses.
It should me marked as an initial starting point that we look at the word minister which is the last word in verse 23. That term is the term deaconia from which we get the word deacon, which basically means a busboy or a table-waiter, a common servant. It emphasizes the simplicity, the meanness or the commonness of the task. He often uses the word servant in the English but doulas in the Greek which means a bond slave, which emphasizes the totality of submissiveness. Sometimes he uses the work hooperatace, which means under-rower which emphasizes the utter base lowliness.
And so whether he sees himself as a common servant, as a submissive servant, or as a lowly servant, he ever and always is a servant. That's a basic identification mark of the Apostle Paul. He says in 1 Corinthians chapter 4, when you write my epitaph, when you lay out your account, when you put down something about me to leave to posterity, may it be said of me that I was a steward, that I was a minister, a servant, a steward of the mysteries of God.
In 1 Corinthians chapter 9 he says, "When you write my epitaph, don't pronounce any great benedictions on my life. Just let people know woe is unto me if I preached not the gospel. I'm not worthy of any credit, I just did what I had to do or I would have been under the curse of God. I was ever and always a servant." He would have pleaded with us, "Don't name churches after me. Don't name colleges after me. Don't name cities in Minnesota after me. Just say, woe was unto him if he didn't preach the gospel." And so he says, "I'm not worthy of any commendation whatsoever. I did what I was under compulsion to do and serious, serious chastening if I failed to do it. I am a servant of the least rank."
I am convinced that the deeper the selfless attitude of unworthy servanthood, the greater the potential for usefulness. William Taylor, writing in that old volume, The Preacher and his Model has given us an interesting illustration. He tells a story about Pusa the Chinese potter being ordered by the Emperor to produce some great work for the Emperor. He tried long in vain to make a pot that would fit the Emperor and he couldn't do it. And at length, he was driven to absolute despair, he threw himself into the furnace in an act of self immolation and he was consumed in his own clay, as it were. And as the Chinese story goes, out came the most beautiful porcelain piece that had ever been produced. And so the Chinese tell the story that self-sacrifice is what makes the most beautiful work. I thought that was a strange story. I was in Hong Kong two years ago. I told it and a man came up to me and said, "That is a very familiar Chinese story." Familiar or not, it illustrates the simple thought that when we get lost in the act of self-sacrifice, the ministry has a sweet savor to it and a beauty.
And Paul saw himself as a servant. And that was the key to everything. Some years ago, John Stott wrote, "I cannot help wondering if this may not be why there are so few preachers whom God is using mightily today. There are plenty of popular preachers, but not many powerful ones who preach in the power of the Spirit. Is it because the cost of such preaching is too great? It seems that the only preaching God honors through which his wisdom and power are expressed is the preaching of a man who is willing in himself to be both a weakling and a fool. God not only chooses weak and foolish people to save, but weak and foolish preachers through whom to save them, or at least preachers who are content to be weak and seem foolish in the eyes of the world. We're not always willing to pay this price. We are constantly tempted to covet a reputation as men of learning or men of influence, to seek honor in academic circles and compromise our old fashioned message in order to do so and to cultivate personal charm or forcefulness so as to sway the people committed to our care."
But where there is the heart of a servant, there is the beginning of an effective and powerful ministry. As we flow out of that word, minister, into the next few verses, verses 24 to 29, there are eight key features that fill up Paul's servant ministry. And I just lay them before you. Eight elements of ministry that he identifies for us.
The first is the source of ministry. He is saying, "Now I'm gonna talk about my ministry. First I want to talk about the source of it." I love this. I just love this. What is the source of it? Well back up into verse 23 for a moment. And you read the phrase, "Of which I, Paul, was made a minister. I was made a minister."
Go down to verse 25. "Of this church," he says, "I was made a minister." There is that interesting phrase that, "I was made a minister." Somebody acted on him to make him a minister. He didn't make himself a minister. Somebody made him a minister. And that's obviously the work of God. Somebody might say, "Well what made him a minister?" And the answer might come that it was his training or his education or his abilities or his grades or his professors or his desires or his view of the need or his church or his denomination or his mother or whatever. That answer is, it was God.
If you go back into the history of the Apostle Paul and hear his testimony, you hear him say, "At midday, oh king, I saw on the way a light from heaven brighter than the sun shining all around me and those who were journeying with me. And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew dialect, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.' And I said, 'Who art thou Lord?' And the Lord said, 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting, but arise and stand on your feet for this purpose I have appeared to you to make you a minister.'" Acts 26:16. Who made him a minister? Jesus Christ made him a minister. And so he says in verse 25, "I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God. The oechenomeion, the stewardship. What does that mean? It speaks about management. According to a God's plan and purpose and the scheme of things, he put me into ministry. It is a God given responsibility. It is a divine appointment. I love what he says in Galatians 2:7, he says in chapter 7 and 8 that it wasn't any man. "It was God and flowing down from there, it was God who put me into the ministry." In fact, he says, "What I learned, I didn't even learn from any man. When the Lord had put me in the ministry, there I was on my way to Damascus, minding my own business, preparing to kill some more Christians, the next thing I knew I was ordained by Christ himself, sent into the ministry." The Lord took him into Navitae and Arabia for a period of three years and there is discipled and taught him as you well know.
Do we need to be reminded that in any ministry it is God who calls, it is God who equips, it is God who gifts, it is God who assigns? Not as dramatically as the Apostle Paul, but just as truly even if only through strong, compelling desires such as is indicated in 1 Timothy chapter 3. That takes us back, doesn't it again to 1 Corinthians chapter 9 as I mentioned it earlier, where the Apostle Paul acknowledges that he is worthy of no commendation whatsoever. He said, "If I did it voluntarily," verse 17, "then I have a reward. But if I'm in the ministry against my will, I have a stewardship that has been entrusted to me." And believe me, he was in the ministry against his will.
When John Knox was called to preach in Scotland, little did the world know what great impact he would have. To this day, if you have the privilege of preaching in Scotland as I have had, when you walk into the pulpit of the Scottish Presbyterian church they will tell you it is the John Knox pulpit. That's what they call it. A man left an indelible mark on the land only could we wish that his theology remained. "But then John Knox was called to preach," his biographer writes, "he burst forth in most abundant tears and withdrew himself to his chamber. His countenance and behavior from that day until he was compelled to set himself in the public place of preaching did sufficiently declare the grief and trouble of his soul."
He was absolutely overwhelmed by the immensity of the responsibility of being called by God. And he fought it. Martin Lloyd Jones writes, "The man who is called by God is a man who realizes what he is called to do. And he also realizes the awfulness of the task that he so much so that he shrink from it. Nothing but this overflowing sense of being called and compulsion should ever lead anyone to preach."
That's so important. That's so important to have that confidence of the call of God. And somebody's going to say, "Well where do you get that confidence?" I believe that if you follow the patter of 1 Timothy 3, it comes to a strong compelling desire that eliminates everything else.
Often I'm asked the question, "If you weren't a preacher what would you be?" And the answer is, "Dead." I don't know. There's nothing else I can do. Ask my wife. My son Mark said to me, when he was young, "Dad, in the pulpit you're something, but other that that you're nothing special." He was exactly right. And he was serious when he said that. And it was very insightful.
If I am called of God, then I have a holy calling, right? And I have a calling to be holy if I'm to represent God. That's why I'm so burdened to emphasize the matter of holiness in the life of the minister. If God called me, he called me to be a holy vessel. For only through a holy vessel can an unadulterated truth pass.
J.W. Alexander put it this way. "The great reason we have so little good preaching is that we have so little true holiness. And I guess we have to be often grieved at the modern shallow superficial, faddish, flippant treatment of God that comes out of the pulpit, but what it is is the reflection of a life that could be defined in the same way. But if you understand the majesty and the holiness and the awesomeness of a wonder-working almighty sovereign God, and you understand that he has ordained and called you and made you a minister to represent him, that is a compelling thing.
When you look at Isaiah 66:2, you're reminded that God says he's looking for a man who trembles at his word, a man who has a broken and a contrite heart and who trembles at his word, who has a healthy awe and fear of God like Isaiah who was broken in the vision of God in chapter 6 as we remember.
And so when you realize that this is a call of God, the implications are absolutely far reaching. Wish we had time to go into them. But I would commend to you a careful study of the concept of the fear of God in the Old Testament that drove those who were the true representatives of God.
And I'll tell you this, gentlemen, you will never rise above, you will never rise above your view of God in your preaching or your living. You will never rise above your view of God. So the first and foremost enterprise of your ministerial life is to know as much about God as you can possibly know. Because the greater your comprehension of God, the greater becomes the capacity that you have to live within the framework of that knowledge. And that becomes the breadth and depth and height of your ministry.
We then can easily understand the prayer of a Puritan who prayed, "There is yet so much unconquered territory in my nature. Scourge out the buyers and sellers of my soul's temple and give me in return, pure desires and longings after your perfect holiness."
God has called us into this ministry to represent him. We have a stewardship from God to be God's representatives. Paul says, "I didn't ask for this. I'm not in it because it was a lucrative profession. I didn't do this because I thought my talent was in this area. I am compelled, I am commanded, I am mandated, I cannot do anything else. I am under a curse if I don't do this. And in trying to accomplish it, I have to beat my body into submission because it is forever trying to run away. And if I happen to fall in that area, I will become useless." And so there was this overwhelming sense of the source of the ministry being God.
I have to confess to you that there are times in my life when it is the fact that I've been called of God that keeps me in the ministry because there are times when there's nothing else to do it.
Second point, just suggesting these things, is the spirit of the ministry. The source is God, clearly. What is the spirit of the ministry? I love this. Verse 24, "Now I rejoice." Stop right there. Many in the ministry admittedly are hesitant, reluctant, discouraged, disappointed, resentful, bitter, disheartened, lonely, angry. And we may go, at some point in out lives, through those kinds of things and I'm sure that none of us is exempt from those experiences, but with some people that's just kind of a settled attitude.
But Paul here tells us about the right spirit of the ministry. He says, "Now I rejoice." What does he mean by that? Well joy is the deep down confidence that God is in control of everything and it's all going for my benefit and his glory. It's not some circumstantial happiness. It's the deep down confidence that God is in control of everything and it's all moving for my ultimate good and his glory.
You look at the Apostle Paul and he had this tremendous joy. And he had it in so many ways, in so many circumstances. He could rejoice in the love of the Thessalonians and they were his joy and his glory. He said in chapter 2 of 1 Thessalonians. But he could also rejoice as he does here in his sufferings. You see, there was nothing that happened, be it positive or negative that could get deep enough to steal that deep down trust. That the relationship he had with God was forever and that God was controlling everything for his good and God's glory.
Never forget reading about the evangelical free pastor in Vancouver who jumped in a river and drowned himself. I knew a pastor of a church in Mississippi who was under such pressure from his congregation he had a nervous breakdown, they sent him into the city, put him in a hospital in Jackson and he jumped out of the fourth floor window the second day he was there and killed himself.
Those are very extreme illustrations of despair in the ministry. There are a lot of people, of course, who don't do that, but live in a kind of quiet desperation. Some of you would fit into that. I'm sure there are some pastors who might agree with Voltaire who said men are tormented atoms in a bit of mud, sick fools who only talk of happiness. Sad way to live your life.
But Paul rejoiced. Paul rejoiced even in a difficult situation. His joy was incessant, and his joy was independent. That joy, now mark this, was bound up in the depth of his relationship to God. Most people sadly devise their joy from material gain or human love or thrills or imagination or fantasy or the absence of pain or whatever, but our joy is in the Lord. And that's so obvious.
There's a wonderful hymn that sometimes you hear a choir sing, "Jesus, my Joy". That's the spirit of the ministry. No matter what happens in the church, no matter what happens to steal my pain, to bring me tears, to break my heart, and I've been there. I've been there just like you've been there. I've been there with tears. I've been there when people have put the knife in and turned it. I've been there when there was nothing to hold on to, but that relationship, but it never varies.
I've even learned to embrace my pain. I've even learned to love adversity. Why? Because it drives me to the depth of my relationship with the Lord. And if I don't have the pain, I tend to stay on the surface. And when people have disappointed me at every turn, the Lord never does and that's not a clich. You run to that relationship and you rehearse in your mind all of the realities of that relationship.
Told the people recently a couple places where I preached, I'll never forget sitting in a staff meeting and saying, "I'm so thankful that you guys are my friends. You'll never know how much I love you." And one of them said to me, "If you think we're your friends, buddy, you got another thing coming." Just absolutely devastated me. Before it was over there was a mutiny. You know, those kinds of things are deep pain. Sometimes people say things to you that cut very deeply. Sometimes you work so very hard and people walk away from the effort you've made in their lives and they break your heart. But when your joy is related to the fact that you, unworthy as you are, are redeemed by Jesus Christ, and that heaven is your promised future and that God has privileged you to spend your life cultivating an intimate, deep relationship with him out of the overflow of which you can talk to other people, you've got to be thankful. Even if nobody shows up.
The very heart, believe me, of your joy is that relationship. And let me tell you something. At the very heart of your joy is a true assessment of your own unworthiness. Do you know why men lose their joy in ministry? I'll tell you in one word. Pride. You lose your joy because you believe you deserve better treatment. And the truth is, you don't. And neither do I. The worst treatment that you could possibly get from men doesn't come close to what you deserve because what you deserve and what I deserve is eternal hell.
And so, if I get anything other than that, I have a reason to be a happy man. And I can't expect any more than that. And I also know that the God who knows me best loves me most. Moses at the burning bush saw only his imperfections. Gideon at the threshing floor, only his weakness. Isaiah and the temple, only is filthiness. Peter, when Christ was there and he knew he was the living God because he controlled the fish, said, "Depart from me for I am a sinful man." And it was in the sense of humbleness and unworthiness and inadequacy that they deserve nothing, that everything they got from Christ became the source of their permanent joy.
There's old Jeremiah and they're about to throw him in a pit. They don't listen to anything he says and he weeps his way through his whole ministry. And all alone, he says, "Thy words were found and I did eat them. If nobody listened, God, I listened. And your word in me was the joy and rejoicing of my heart."
And I can tell you that men, that there are plenty of times when you wonder whether anybody listens. And you know, the most frightening thing in the world is to meet somebody from your service on Monday and ask them what you preached about on Sunday. If you really want to inflict flagellation, do that. And you wonder whether anybody listens or anybody knows. But you say to yourself, "If nobody heard and nobody knows, your words were found and I did eat them and I feasted on them and they were in my heart the joy and rejoicing."
See, unhappy people in the ministry think they're not getting what they deserve. That's a pride issue. Where pride is present, joy is gone. And joy is the right spirit in the ministry. I'll tell you something. If you can rise above the pain and demonstrate the joy, you'll capture the congregation in that joy. It has to be joy in spite of very often.
Thirdly, the source of the ministry is God, the spirit of the ministry's joy, the suffering of the ministry, the suffering of the ministry - verse 24 he says, "I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake. And in the flesh I do my share on behalf of his body, which Is the church and filling up that which is lacking in Christ's affliction."
Now suffering in no way diminishes the joy. In fact, suffering ought to enhance the joy because suffering drives you deeper into the communion that you need with the Lord and the deeper you go into that communion, the greater should be your joy. Right? So, the greater the pain, the sweeter the joy.
And Paul is saying, "Look. I rejoice in my suffering." That sounds exactly like 2 Corinthians 12 doesn't it? I'm content with all that pain. I'm content with it all because of what happens as a result of it. He was not only suffering, of course, at the hands of the world in a physical sense, and all of the abuse and hatred for preaching the gospel, but there was a positive side to his suffering because he didn't view it that way. He didn't view the negative, "Look what's happening to me." He viewed the positive, "Look what I'm accomplishing through the suffering." He had plenty of suffering.
And he knew it was inevitable even in the future he said, you know, to Timothy, "Evil men will get worse and worse, and Timothy get ready, you're going to suffer. That's the name of it. That's just the way it is. And a godly life confronting an ungodly culture is going to get some reaction. You can expect that." But he says, "My sufferings are so purposeful." He says, "I'm suffering for your sake. I'm suffering for your sake." "Well what do you mean by that?" "Well, I do my share of suffering," he says, "on behalf of his body which is the church." "What do you mean?" "Well I'm suffering like this to get the gospel to you so you can be saved and to feed you the Word of God so you can grow up. It's for you. It's for you."
But there's even another element. It's so beautiful at the end of verse 24. He says, "I'm filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions." Boy that is a strange statement. "I'm filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions, what do you mean by that?" First of all to say I'm filling up means that the afflictions given to Christ were not complete. Well what does me mean that the cross was not enough? No, he's not talking about the cross. He's talking about the hatred and the animosity and the persecution and the suffering that Christ endured at the hands of the people who rejected what he said. But he said, "The world isn't through persecuting Jesus. The world is not through persecuting Jesus. The problem is he's not here, so they're getting me. The persecution of Jesus is not over. So I'm filling up what he's not here to take. You say is that positive, you bet. You bet. I receive the blows intended for the one who received the blows that were intended for me. He took the blows that I should have received on Calvary. I will gladly take the blows meant for him."
When they persecute you, they're not persecuting you, they're persecuting Christ. He's not here. You have the privilege of receiving those for him. Paul says, Galatians, he says, "I bear in my body what? The marks of Jesus Christ." I don't know if they had a piece of metal he could use like a mirror. I don't know if he could hold his back to a pond, but I'll tell you what. If you had as many lacerations as that man had, five times he was whipped by the Jews, three times he was beaten with rods which would have laid his back bare to the bone. And he was stoned to the degree that - you remember they left him for dead and I believe that's when he was transported to the third heaven in 2Corinthians 10. This man was one battered human being. He must have been as ugly as sin, physically. They said his bodily presence was really weak.
I mean this man had it all over his body, you can see him at night as he takes off his clothes and he looks all over his body and he sees all this stuff - scar upon scar. And you know what his response is? "This was meant for Jesus, but I got to take it for him. See this big scar on my head? Well that was meant for Jesus, but I got to take that blister when the crushed my head with that rock." Those are the trophies of his ministry. He was standing in the gap and whatever the world would have done to Christ, it couldn't do it. They were doing to him.
See, that's what grieves me so much about this kind of preaching that wants to sneak up on everybody and offer them some kind of non-descript synthetic seed that is utterly inoffensive to make sure that they sort of sneak into the kingdom and they hardly even know what they're doing. To remove the offense of the gospel is not an act of subtle technique that is going to be effective. It is an act of cowardice. Says, "I'm not willing to preach the truth boldly. I will not bear the offense of men." Paul says, "I'll take it." Believe me, there wasn't one subtle thing about him. Not one.
We bear the blows meant for him. And we're not talking about suffering for stupidity's sake. We're talking about suffering for righteousness' sake. There's a difference. If you suffer for stupidity's sake, those are your own scars.
Where the church is built, Satan's going to react, right? The world system is gonna rebel. Disobedient Christians are gonna criticize. Jealous people are gonna condemn and you'll be falsely accused and false teachers will arise and people will misunderstand and you'll labor long and hard with a sense of inadequacy and some guilt for your failures. But through it all, a church will grow and the scars are the scars you took in the process that would have been Jesus' scars if he'd been there doing it.
Suffering then is the suffering that comes to the one who is bold and faithful. And if you're not willing to do that, you're going to compromise. If you're going to spend your life trying to avoid the suffering, you're going to start to preach what Nicholas Von Hoffman called the Mush God. The Mush God is the God of the Rotarians and the ribbon cutters, whose laws aren't chiseled in stone, but scratched in sand amenable to amendment and erasure. He calls it the Cream of Wheat divinity. But if you're gonna preach the true God, it's different. If you're gonna gird up your loins, you're gonna go into a battle.
A young guy said to me not long ago, he said, "I'm gonna go and pastor a church, but I want to find one with no problems." I said, "If you do, don't go there or they'll have a lot of problems." Source of our ministry is God, the spirit of our ministry is joy, the suffering of our ministry is on behalf of the church first and on behalf of Christ second. Is that worthy? Oh, Paul says, "If I be offered on the sacrifice of your faith, I rejoice. If I die, getting you saved, sweet death. And if bear in my body the marks of Christ, what a reward."
Fourthly the scope of the ministry. Verse 25 he says, "I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed upon me for your benefit. That, I might fully carry out, literally, the Word of God." This is a very difficult passage to translate. Let me give you some of the translations. Authorized version says, "To give full scope to the Word of God." Then NAS says, "To fully carry out the preaching of the Word of God." The NIV says, "To present to you the Word of God in its fullness." And the Greek says, "To fulfill the Word of God." That's hard to pin the precise meaning down. You read commentaries and some will say it means to fulfill God's word to Paul by carrying out an obedient ministry. Another one will say, "To manifest God's truth in his living." Another says, "To declare God's word in his preaching." Another says, "To teach the whole council of God." And another says, "To teach the whole council of God to the whole world." So which one's right. Well, they're all right, I think. I think when God wants to say something that covers a lot of ground, he says it in a way that you can't pin down. What are you saying? Give full scope to the word. I mean, he says that. In fulfilling your calling, living the message, preaching the message, preaching it to everybody, preaching it to the whole world. Same root word is used in 2 Timothy 4:5 where Paul said to Timothy, "Fulfill your ministry. Do it to the full. Do it to the max. Do it do the max. And it does involve your life. If your people are going to watch your life, they're going to watch your family, they're gonna watch your attitudes, they're gonna watch your compassion, your zeal, your purity, or lack of it. They're gonna watch your consistency. They're gonna watch all that. It involves your life.
But the essence of what he is saying here has to do with that statement, "The Word of God." And he's saying, "You've got to give full scope to the Word of God," which I say simply means you preach the whole Word of God to as many people as you can. As faithfully as you can. Now you can get carried away with that. Some people think they have to be the pastor of the whole world. I remember one fellow said that. He wanted to be the pastor for the whole world. There are some people who want to stretch as far as they possibly can.
David McKenna wrote these interesting words. He said, "Self styled Messiahs are always megalomaniacs. Their sense of mission has no limitations short of conquering the world, and conquering it now and at the slightest signal that their efforts are being frustrated, they usually respond with rage and madness."
You know, self styled Messiahs always want to cover the whole world. There should be some boundaries. I look at Jesus and I see some boundaries. He said in John 5:30, "I only do the father's will. Only do what the father tells me to do, I don't do anything else." Secondly, he said in the Gospel of John five times, "My time is" - what? "Not yet come. I only do God's will in God's time." And then he only did God's will in God's time to God's people. He said, "I have only come to the sinners, not the righteous, not the self-righteous. And I haven't come but to the lost sheep for the House of Israel." He had an economy of effort that was really frightening. "I only do God's will in God's time to the people God directs me to." And then he said, "I only preach God's message." He never preached anything but the kingdom. That's all he ever preached and even after he rose from the dead, came back for 40 days, he spoke of things pertaining to the kingdom, didn't he? That's all he ever talked about. He constantly talked about the kingdom. Never got into social issues, political issues, any of that stuff. He just talked about the kingdom. He only did God's will in God's time with God's people and God's message. And then he spent the great bulk of his time with 12 guys. God's priority people, God's priority men. He had amazing limits on his ministry.
And such precision is frightening to people who feel no such limitation and want to win the whole world. What does that say to me? It says to me, "Look, God has called me to preach the Word of God. That' what I want to do. There might be some other things I could do, but that's what he called me to do. I want to do it in the time he give me to do it, to the people he gives me to do it to, that's Christ Community Church, and I want to give the message that is the only word that I can bring from God and that's the word of the kingdom. And then I want to invest my lie in a smaller group of people like Jesus did so that I can multiply my ministry. And if I do that faithfully, then I can let God take care of the breadth of that."
This is the scope of the ministry - to give full scope to the Word of God then means that I know God is the source of my ministry. Joy is the spirit of my ministry. Suffering is gonna be in my ministry for the sake of the church and to bear in my body the marks of Christ. But I'm willing to do all of that and I recognize that the reason for all of that is so that I can live and preach the whole word to the world, that God sovereignly gives me. That's the scope of my ministry. That's the scope.
And I really do believe, men, that - and women, I say this for you as well, but particularly to pastors, I really do believe that the more profound and powerful the ministry to the people that God gives you, the greater will be its impact beyond that. And we said this the other day, you take care of the depth of your ministry, God will take care of the breadth of it. If you have something to say that rightly represents God and you can say it through a godly life and in the power of the Holy Spirit, then God will take it wherever he wants it to go.
The subject of the ministry - and we're hurrying - the subject of the ministry - verse 26, he says, "That is the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations but has now been manifested to his saints to whom God will to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." Simply say this. The mystery is that which was hidden in the past. The mystery is simply another term for New Testament truth, for New Testament truth. Something hidden from the past time and the past people, but now made manifest. Once sacred secrets, now made available. Whether you're talking about the mystery of the incarnate God in Colossians 1, the mystery of Israel's unbelief in Romans 11, the mystery Babylon in Revelations 17, the mystery of the church in Ephesians 1, the mystery of the rapture, 1 Corinthians 15, the mystery of the bride, Ephesians 5, whatever element of it or the mystery of the indwelling Christ in the church who is our hope. Whatever it is, it simply refers to New Testament revelation. We are ministers of the mysteries of God. We are primarily new covenant ministers.
People ask me why I spend so much time in the New Testament. Because I'm a minister of the new covenant - the revealed mysteries. It's what I'm to do. I'm to unfold the Word of God and the new covenant. You say, "Well do you pay no attention to the Old Testament?" No, because you can't even understand the depth and the breadth and the height of the New Covenant unless you understand the Old Testament. It comes alongside.
And so the subject of our ministry is the mysteries. Where you gonna find the mysteries? In the word. And no wonder Paul said to Timothy, "Preach the word, preach the word, in season, out of season, that is so clear. I don't understand how anybody can go on a pulpit and do anything else. I don't understand how anybody can do anything other than be an expository preacher because if you're gonna preach the word, you gotta preach the word. Paul said in Acts 20, "I have not failed to declare unto you the whole council of God."
Most people who pastor churches, most people will go their whole lifetime and never be able to say that because they haven't done that. Because they haven't done that - preach the word. Bring them under the authority of Scripture. I'll tell you, I see my goal is to bring my people under the authority of Scripture so that they consciously submit to its authority and then to take them through the Word of God and whatever it says, if they're consciously submissive to its authority, they're going to respond to.
The Word of God, we don't even need to beg the issue to say it, but the Word of God is the subject of our ministry and the primary emphasis is on the New Testament. Paul even told the Corinthians that the things that happened in the Old Testament were as examples to those now living, upon whom the end of the ages have come. But the primary text and context of our ministry is to unfold the mysteries revealed in the New Testament which concern Christ, the Messiah, who lives in you, now, by faith and gives you the hope of glory.
Number six - the style of the ministry - verse 28. "We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom that we may present every man complete in Christ. What is the style of the ministry? Just quickly, we proclaim, we admonish, we teach. Proclaim there is catungello, herald, announcement, preaching if you will. We preach.
Just a footnote on that, when you go into the pulpit, how do you view yourself? What is the role of the preacher? There are kind of five little images you might stick in your mind. First would be the ritualist, where you see your role as part of the liturgy. Well, we did this, we stood up, sat down, sang this hymn, did this, waved our arms over here, went through the liturgy, now it's my turn. I stand up, do my piece, sit down and then the next thing goes. Some people would see the sermon as nothing more than a piece of the liturgy.
Some people see themselves in the pulpit as a pitch man or a con man in some ways, I guess. That the whole idea of the pulpit is to get everybody to buy into your program. Whatever you're selling, whatever it is, you use it to expose them to your cause whether you want to get them to march on city hall or whatever it is.
There are some who see themselves in the pulpit as what I call the drill sergeant. You're up there to bash everybody.
There are some who see themselves in the pulpit as the lecturer. They see themselves as an information dump. It's sort of an academic trash truck. They just turn around backwards and dump a whole lot of - data.
How are you to view yourself? I think you're to view yourself as a persuader. You know, you never preach without preaching for decisions, verdicts, every message I preach should be so clear and so penetrating and so direct that people are gonna say, "I understand what he said and I'm gonna do that." Or, "I understand what he said and I'm not gonna do that." But they don't walk out of here saying, "I don't understand what he said." Or, "I understand what he said, but I don't know what to do about it." You gotta understand what I say and you've got to understand that you have some choices. You can do it or not do it. And your problem isn't with me because I used the Word of God. Your problem is with God. You force them, you pin their ears back. You force them to a decision.
I'm telling you tonight, you're gonna walk out of here and you're gonna understand there are some elements that make a proper ministry. And you're gonna go out of here and you're either gonna say to yourself, "I understand that and I'm not about to change." Or you're gonna say, "I understand that and there's some areas of my life I need to change." Or you're gonna say, "I examined my heart and I think I'm on target, but God help me to refine these things." Or you're gonna go out of here and say, "I've heard him and he's better on other occasions than he was tonight." And just be plain old analytical. God have mercy on your sin-sick shriveled up soul if you do that.
You're to be preaching and you preach for a verdict. And then you admonish, which means you warn people. And then you teach that positive doctrine, so you're proclaiming. And in your proclaiming, there is an element of warning. And there is an element of teaching. There is never courigma without didicae. There is never proclamation without content. Can't be like the guy who jumped on his horse and rode off madly in all directions. People didn't come to see you fight a swarm of bumblebees in the pulpit. They came to hear some truth. Right?
Number seven, the sum of the ministry. What are we after? What's the sum of it? Verse 28, "That we may present every man perfect or complete in Christ." Boy what a task. That we may present every man perfect or complete in Christ. You saw your guy say, "Well, you know, I really feel that I'm going to be looking for a new church because my ministry is done." You just go, "Done? You mean you're done. Your ministry is not done." Oh, if I - could we take out a list and say, well, you know, I've only got so many folks and, you know, they're, 84 percent of them are perfect in Christ. Oh. Your ministry isn't done. You may be done and God may be moving you. The ministry isn't going to be done.
You know, we're for the perfecting of the saints and I'll tell you right now, that's a hard job for me to do 'cause I'm not perfect and so it's a little hard to lift them above me. But the goal of my ministry is to work toward that. The goal of my ministry's not to get a crowd. That's easy. Easy to get a crowd. Simple, just give away money. Easy. You want to have a crowd at your church, just tell everybody comes is gonna get a twenty dollar bill. Yeah. They'll come. Put on the elephants in the parking lot deal or whatever you want to do. You can get a crowd. It's easy. Very difficult to make mature people. Very difficult. Takes your whole life, pouring it into them, but that's your goal.
You just say the problem with many churches is that the pastor's worried more about the empty seats than he is the occupied ones. And if you're not concentrating on the occupied ones, the empty ones are gonna stay empty. Because sheep have sheep, shepherds don't. And if your people involved in the reproduction process, you're gonna be very frustrated trying to accomplish spiritual goals.
The sum of the ministry is completeness in Christ. I'll tell you, that's a lifetime challenge. People look at me and they say, "You've been there 22 years. Don't you think it's time to leave?" And I say to myself, "You know, I'm trying to do what the Lord has called me to do with the people he's called me to do it with and we're not there yet. We're not there yet."
But I'll tell you, I don't get too frustrated about it. I have to confess. I really don't. I'm happy. I go home, kiss my wife, have a great time, love my kids, relax, because I - they're all gonna be perfect someday anyway - all of them. All of you dear people in our church, you're gonna be perfect someday. I'm not gonna go crazy trying to get you there when you're gonna get there anyway. Why should I lose my sanity over that? I can only do so much and I know you're all eternally secure - you're all gonna get there. So I'm gonna do the best I can, but I'm not gonna wind up in the funny farm. I'm not gonna be under any illusion that I'm supposed to destroy myself and my family and everything around me in the process.
There's a point at which I had this wonderful confidence that all the imperfect people are someday going to be perfect in glory. Now we may not recognize all of them because the change will be so dramatic. But anyway - I gotta close.
The strength of the ministry - the strength of the ministry - the strength of the ministry - we've seen the source, the spirit, the suffering, the scope, the subject, the style, the sum of the ministry, you say "That's so grandiose, who can do it?" The strength of the ministry, verse 29, "For this purpose also I labor." He says I work hard, I agonize, but I do it according to what? His power, which mightily works within me. When Henry Martin said, "Now let me burn out for God," he wasn't kidding. I mean, it's hard work. I don't think any job in the world is as hard as this job. People have no idea how hard this job is. And it's an agonizing thing.
But we're back to that apparent paradox again aren't we? We're working our heads off and if anything good happens, God did it. Anything bad happens, it's my fault. That's a hard paradox to live with, but that's it. Somewhere along the line you yield to that, don't you? I'll do everything I can to be faithful to what God calls me to, but when it's all done, it's all him. I want to walk in the spirit, be filled with the spirit, I want all the things that happen to be a result of the power of God.
Charles Spurgin, wonderfully gifted by God is a powerful preacher, used to say to himself over and over again every time he slowly mounted the pulpit, "I believe in the Holy Ghost, I believe in the Holy Ghost, I believe in the Holy Ghost." Just a reminder of his own frailty. Spurgin wrote, "The gospel is preached in the ears of all. It only comes with power to some. The power that is in the gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher, otherwise men would be converters of souls. Nor does it lie in the preacher's learning, otherwise it would consist in the wisdom of men. We might preach 'til our tongues rotted, 'til we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with in the Holy Ghost changing the will of men. Oh sirs, we might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word to give it power to convert the soul." That's the strength of the ministry. If you want to be that kind of minister, may God help us to be.
Lord Jesus, thank you for our time tonight. Just refreshing to think these things through. Be reminded again of the duty you've called us to. We love you. We thank you for laying out for us a perspective in this wonderful passage that can give us direction as we endeavor to serve you. With all our different gifts and all our different locations and people and needs, Lord, you're more concerned that we be the kind of men you want us to be than anything else. For if we're what you want us to be, doing your ministry in the way you want us to do it, then you can build your church to the glory of your name. To that end we pray that you might receive all the glory. Amen.
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Large move-in ready furnished 1 bdrm condo on the quiet side of Oro Grande Lodge. Enjoy sunsets over the Gore & 10-Mile Ranges from living room & deck. Spacious living area with gas fireplace, dining area & kitchen with breakfast bar. Large bathroom with double vanities. Common amenities including elevator, htd pkg gar, indoor pool, hot tub, fitness room, Lounge, lockers & bike racks. Stroll to slopes or ride bus to & from. Low HOA Dues. No Transfer Tax. Laundry next door. Pets allowed.
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- Adjacent to Natl Forest
- Bus Route
- In Town
- Walk to Slopes
- Meadow
- Mountains
- Elevator
- Fitness Room
- Hot Tub - Common
- Pool
- BBQ Area
- Ski Storage
- On Bus Line
- Cable Available
- Deck
- Elevator
- Fireplace - Gas
- Handicapped
- Cross Country Trails
- Golf - Public
- Hiking / Pedestrian Trails
- Cable Tv
- City Sewer
- City Water
- Electricity
- Gas
- Snow Removal
- Trash Pickup
- Baseboard
- Common
- Common
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About Keystone
In the winter Keystone offers three challenging mountains on over 3,148 skiable acres, an 11.5-hour ski day and A51, one of the largest night terrain parks in North America. In the summer, visitors and locals enjoy two 18-hole championship golf courses, fly-fishing, horseback riding and countless other mountain activities. Year-round, Keystone features award-winning dining, and shops in River Run and Lakeside Village. Ski under the stars and lights, enjoy the Wine Jazz and Art Festival or relax along the seven miles of the Snake River that runs through town. Enjoy award-winning dining at the Ski Tip lodge, the Keystone Ranch, or the Alpen Stube.
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24 Input Ch 8 Buss Live Console. Designed for use in any live sound application, including theatres, music venues, houses of worship, festivals, corporate AV and stadiums. A dual-function mixer derived from the classic GL Series, the most popular mixers in the world for mid-range mixing applications. One glance at this design will confirm that all of Allen & Heath's design experience and knowledge has been distilled into one amazingly capable console.
Uniquely at this level, GL2800 is equipped with 10 auxiliary sends - including a dedicated stereo aux - and using the 12x4 matrix, provides the ideal solution for IEM and stereo recording. 8 audio groups and L,R and M busses are also provided, allowing for full dual functionality with 10 mixes with faders, inserts and XLR drive. And at the heart of this design is the gain structure allowing a whopping 34dBu maximum input capability and a new ultra-quiet mix head amp section, delivering excellent audio performance. GL 2800 is designed for use in any live sound application, including theatres, music venues, houses of worship, festivals, corporate AV, stadiums, etc. With its neat, intuitive layout and straightforward analogue technology, clean audio and high dynamic range, its performance easily rivals that of the best digital consoles.
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Aganetha Dyck
Canadian, b. 1937
Wedding Guest, from the series The Extended Wedding Party, 1994–1995
shoes, hat, queen bee excluder, bee blanket
124.5 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of Peter Dyck
Sculpture, Canadian Contemporary (1980-present)
Since 1991 Aganetha Dyck has become recognized for her collaborative work with live honeybees. Working with several beehives located at the St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Dyck places her gifts of common ordinary objects inside each hive to be embellished with wax by her artistic partners. Relying on chance, Dyck does not intercede with her bees but rather responds to their creative embellishments. One of the most significant installations Dyck has created working with her bees is The Extended Wedding Party. This spectacular installation conflates the cult of the bride with that of the queen bee and the hive. Simultaneously macabre and beautiful, the work calls into question the feminine and masculine roles prescribed in rituals such as marriage, in contrast to innate biological impulses such as procreation.
Gallery Hours
- Tuesday 11am-5pm
- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
- Saturday 11am-5pm
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● Prepare overnight home sleep study for select course attendees
● Hands on with Pharyngometer / Rhinometer for airway testing
● Working with Sleep Physicians and Building relationships with local MD's
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● Download previous night's Home Sleep Tests study and review study data and sleep report with class
● Dental Sleep Medicine step-by-step protocol flow chart
● Oral Appliance Pro's & Con's: Dorsal, Herbst, EMA, TAP, Panthera, and SomnoMed
● Case presentations and How to Market a Sleep Practice
● Review of the latest codes, fees, procedures with medical billing and Medicare.
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Dr. Marty Lipsey, received his DDS degree from UCLA and a Master of Science from Northwestern University Dental School. Dr. Lipsey is the founder of Dental Sleep Med Systems, offering dental teams assistance in implementing and/or improving their dental sleep medicine practices, including electronic medical billing and successful insurance coding and processing. Dr. Lipsey is also a Sleep Group Solutions Instructor, and teaches Dental Sleep Medicine regularly.


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Game warden stories from East Texas, beyond
Being a Texas game warden is not always a walk in the park. But on the other hand, it can be downright comical on some days. The following situations are just of a few of the highlights from a day in the life of Texas game wardens.
Pineywoods hog hunters get locked out
Trinity County Game Warden Randy Watts received a call from a landowner on Jan. 22 about hog hunters trespassing on his high fenced ranch. The landowner found a dog with a GPS collar and a few minutes later the hog hunters showed up to get the dog. The landowner asked the hunters how they got in the ranch. They stated the gate was open and they would leave it like they found it. After the hunters left, the landowner checked his gate. His lock was missing and a new lock was on the gate. The landowner knew the identity of one of the hunters. Game Warden Watts called the hunter and met with all the individuals on the neighboring property. Citations were issued to five hunters for trespassing.
Trespasser attacks game warden
Jan. 21, Dallas County Game Warden David Bosecker was patrolling for night hunters in Hunt County when he spotted a subject trespassing at a barn and corral area. When Warden Bosecker approached the subject and told him he was under arrest, the man became belligerent and attacked him. Warden Bosecker arrested the subject, and several cases are pending.
Newton county outlaws can't outfox
East Texas game wardens
Facebook helps tag illegal hunters: Newton County wardens Ellis Powell, Brian Srba, Landon Spacek and Bradley Smith, and Jasper County Warden Morgan Inman executed a search warrant on a Louisiana resident living in Newton County on Jan. 21. The warrant came after a four-month investigation, with warrants also being served on the subject's Facebook account for e-mails and photos. As the interview was taking place, Louisiana game wardens were interviewing other subjects implicated by the man's Facebook account. The subject admitted killing eight deer in the last few months and named several other subjects with numerous deer kills. None of the four main subjects have had a hunting license since 2004, with no deer taken in daylight hours during that time. Numerous charges filed with more interviews of other subjects pending.Outlaw crabbers, shrimpers in Chambers, Galveston counties
During coastal operations Jan. 23-27, Galveston and Chambers county wardens filed cases that included a crew boat that was in possession of five bags of fish fillets, a commercial crabbing boat that was caught in possession of oysters, illegal stone crabs and no commercial licenses, and a commercial gulf shrimp boat caught in possession of head-and-tailed fish, exceeding the limit of flounder and shark fins.
Spotlighting arrest 'illuminates' outstanding warrants
While conducting a nighttime patrol Jan. 22, Game Warden Harry Rakosky observed a vehicle intermittently shining a spotlight into area farm fields. A citation was subsequently issued. The next day, the court called the game warden to report that the subject had outstanding warrants. In response, the game warden went to the offender's residence, arresting him for third-degree felony intoxication assault and first-degree felony intoxication manslaughter.
Outlaw red snapper and grouper fishermen get busted big time
Cameron County Game Wardens Libby Balusek and Santana Torres were patrolling the Gulf of Mexico aboard the TPWD patrol vessel Whatley on Jan. 5 looking for incoming gulf shrimp and recreational fishing boats. Capt. Melinda Dunks (Game Warden Sgt. James Dunks' wife) of TPWD's Coastal Fisheries Division was aboard the resource vessel Kemp and reported that she had seen a bay boat heading toward an oil rig just outside state waters. After making contact with the recreational boat as it entered the jetties heading to port, the wardens determined that the three individuals on board had indeed been fishing in federal waters. They had 19 red snapper on board (14 of which were undersize), as well as two undersize gag grouper. The game wardens issued a total of eight tickets for over bag limit of red snapper, possession of undersize red snapper, and possession of undersize gag grouper. Cases and civil restitution pending.
Wardens seize 98 sacks of illegal oysters
Game Wardens Raul "Pinky" Gonzales, Danny Kelso, Scott McLeod, and Derek Reeder checked numerous commercial oyster boats in Hynes and San Antonio bays on Jan. 27. Four captains were cited for undersize oyster loads. Approximately 98 sacks of oysters were returned to their reefs.
Game warden sinks boat theft plans
Fayette County Game Warden Calvin Harbaugh apprehended an adult and two juveniles in the act of stealing a 14-foot aluminum boat on Jan. 24. The boat had been chained to a tree on the edge of the Colorado River. The defendants had broken the lock, loaded the boat into the bed of a truck, and were about to drive off with it when caught.
Greedy angler catches too many rainbows
Game Warden Cynde Aguilar received a call on Jan. 19 about a fisherman keeping too many fish. Aguilar made contact with the man and found him with 14 rainbow trout over the daily bag limit of five. Tickets were issued for fishing without a license, exceeding the daily bag limit and restitution to the state.
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I said Zero changed the subject on my criticism of (c). He claims the subject was actually whether something(!) was wrong with the APA policy. Correct, and there is something wrong with it.At least we're finally in agreement about what the topic is. I hope that in what follows, Nunley will let us in on what he thinks is wrong with the policy. I also hope that his point is something more consequential than how it uses the word 'integral' to describe the relationship between classes of people it aims to protect and the patterns of behavior characteristic of those classes that have been used to identify them (not by name but by description) in discriminatory hiring practices.
Zero changed the subject to whether everything(!) was wrong with the policy including its attack on bans on interracial marriage, etc.I am baffled. The way Nunley claims that I changed the subject to whether "everything" is wrong with the policy, and then the way he puts a parenthetical exclamation mark after the word 'everything, strongly suggests that I said something about whether or not "everything" is wrong with the APA's policy, and that Nunley was surprised by this. But that's not what happened. I never said anything like that. I don't know what the hell he's talking about.
Nunley brought up interracial marriage, not me. He claimed that the APA's attack on bans on interracial marriage was problematic somehow, not me. I didn't put those words in his mouth. I just pointed out that if the policy contains an attack on bans on interracial marriage, that would be a point in its favor. I don't know what his problem is.
That's cheating. And your talk about whether your new topic is "germane" is an attempt to slight over that explicit cheat; you ought to stick to whether what I clearly said was in fact false.My topic all along has been whether there is something wrong with the APA's anti-discrimination policy. Nunley's original post contained a claim that interracial marriage was not "integral" to racial identity, and that this was a problem for the policy. I pointed out that his claim was false. I don't see how I was cheating.
And if you wish to speak of "germane" points or topics, make sure not to implicate me for taking a contradictory view.I clearly did not accuse Nunley of being opposed to interracial marriage at any time. There's a certain delicious irony here: Nunley is saying that I have accused him of saying something that he did not say; in so doing, he accuses me of saying something I did not say. I think he should take a couple of deep breaths, and then learn to read.
Second, the attempt to find sex with white people "integral" to black racial identity by psychologizing those who forbid it is ridiculous.I don't think I "psychologized" anyone; I said what I thought the racist motive behind anti-miscegenation policies was and pointed out that such policies are genuinely discriminatory. I also didn't say anything about interracial sex acts. I said that policies that forbid interracial marriage are discriminatory, because they are based on the false premise that non-white people are morally unfit to enter into such relationships with white people. Such policies fail to respect non-white people. Am I wrong? I am not wrong, and in just a second, Nunley is going to say so.
Even if those persons oppose equity for blacks (and I'll allow that that is their likely motive)...Duh.
...and even if permitting sex with whites is essential to that equity it does not follow that such sex is "integral" to being black. It follow only that being allowed (not actually having) such sex is integral to properly respecting (not being) blacks.So, I am right.
Thirdly, with respect to whether you change the subject Zero, yes you do and do repeatedly. My arguments are simple Modus Tollens arguments. (1) The APA policy is committed to the view that X is integrally connected to Y. (2) It is not the case that X is integrally connected to Y. Therefore, the policy is incorrect in its claims about what is integrally connected to what.Suppose I said several times that I granted the semantic point about the word 'integral.' Suppose I then devoted way, way too many words to explaining why this point was irrelevant. Suppose I thoroughly demonstrated that each of Nunley's objections to the applicability of the word 'integral' fails to demonstrate an actual defect in the policy: the policy does not prohibit behaviors it should permit; it does not permit behaviors it should prohibit; it does not do so for the wrong reasons. Then suppose Nunley came back a month later and ignored all those words and insisted that the semantic point about the word 'integral' was the only thing that mattered, because of modus tollens. Wouldn't you make fun of him? That's what I would do.
In the first sentence of the comment I am demolishing (which you can find reprinted at the top of this post), Nunley claims that "there is something wrong with [the APA's anti-discrimination policy]." But that is not the conclusion of his nifty modus tollens arguments. The actual conclusion of his actual argument is this bit about the word 'integral.' And I think we can all admit that Nunley has a point there. The problem with this point is that it is literally as insignificant as anything could possibly be.
AT NO POINT have you challenged a premise in any of my three arguments against a-c.I can't wait to find out what the next sentence is going to say.
Well, OK, I have to grant that the points in which you desperately, desperately tried to make sex with white integral to being black were a challenge to my second premise against APA policy point c.I see. So, IN CAPITAL LETTERS, at no point do I challenge any premise. Except, okay, where I do challenge the central premise. And where I challenge the idea that the argument is relevant to any important topic whatsoever. But when I did that, I did it desperately, desperately. So it probably doesn't count.
Also, my point was not about the integrality of sex with white people to black identity. My point was that having the freedom to do so is integral to it.
But that was a disaster. Not as disastrous as missing the arguments altogether though.Oh. He must have forgotten about how he admitted that I did not miss the arguments. Slipped his mind. I mean, it was a whole sentence ago. I often forget what I write from one sentence to the next. What did I just say? Where am I.
Again, until you are prepared to challenge a premise in arguments of this sort, you have no legitimate reply to my arguments at all, only a lengthy commentary concerning arguments I never made.Another delicious irony. In all this, Nunley has completely failed to address my criticisms, or even to demonstrate that he has understood them. In order to connect his modus tollens to the APA's policy, a further, suppressed premise is necessary: "if the policy is incorrect in its claims about what is integrally connected to what, then there is something wrong with the policy." I have demonstrated that this premise is false.
The problem with Nunley's criticism is that it is superficial and shallow. It is not deep or penetrating or revealing of an important flaw in the policy. Nunley continues to claim victory in a verbal dispute without realizing that it doesn't touch any deeper issue.
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Disney is buddying up with Burton—the maker of those lovely looking boots—as well as Oakley, Adidas and Hurley for a bunch of Tron: Legacy stuff "designed for the active male." Adidas, no stranger to making Tron-style clothing and shoes, will offer up glow in the dark apparel. Oakley will churn out its "Elite Collection" brand of high end sunglasses and a Tron: Legacy backpack. Hurley will provide active males with "casual sportswear and surfwear inspired by movie characters Sam Flynn and Rinzler."
All of that stuff should start hitting in December with the theatrical release, a chance to bedeck yourself in Tron gear head to toe.
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