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Drea's Words Of Wisdom: "keep your eyes on the prize! There's nothing like having a plan and seeing it grow right before your very own eyes."
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Leaders That Have Inspired Drea The Most: "The best inspirational leaders to me are, my mother, Oprah, and Jesus Christ."
Drea's Favorite Cars: "See I have this plan by not living beyond my means, so when I turn 21 I will have my first fully loaded White on White Range Rover. I love SUVs and that fits my personality; sexy and sleek. It's a very metro sexual car. When I turn 25; I'll buy a Bentley Gt, that's when I get my grown and sexy on! But I also really like convertible Ferrari's and motorcycles. I'm learning how to ride one; nothing like seeing a sexy woman on a bike."
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could put out a polka album and I'd listen to it; Beyonce's "flaws and all" is really good to me; Lloyd-"Hazel"; J. Holiday's-"Bed"; and, I love a lot of rap music but one of my favorite songs has to be "touch it or not" by Cam'ron."
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Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines
|Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand, and All Oceania
|Diocese type
|Current bishop
|Metr. Abp. Paul
|Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
|Australia, New Zealand, and All Oceania
|Liturgical language(s)
|Arabic, Belarus, Bulgarian, English, Filipino, French, German, Greek (church), Greek (modern), Macedonian, Moldovan, Persian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slavonic (Church), Ukrainian
|Musical tradition
|Bulgarian, Byzantine, Russian & Znamenny Chant; Russian & Western Choral
|Revised Julian and Julian Calendar (depending on parish)
|Population estimate
|7,525 (Defective Federal Census 2001); 37,490 (2005 internal Archdiocesan census of active congregants)
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|Antiochian Archdiocese
The Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand, and All Oceania, with headquarters in Sydney, is an archdiocese of the Church of Antioch. Its current primate is His Eminence Paul (Saliba), Metropolitan Archbishop of Australia, New Zealand, and All Oceania.
The first wave of Syrian (now Lebanese) immigration was in the 1880-1890s, where work was found in hawking and peddling goods in the country areas of the eastern states of Australia. The first place of worship was usually in the state capital cities of Sydney and Melbourne, with a Greek speaking priest who also spoke Arabic and sometimes Russian too. The Antiochian Orthodox faithful took part in the construction of both Surry Hills, Sydney, and Holy Annunciation, Melbourne.
Due to the problems concerning the 1899 election of an Arab Patriarch of Antioch, and the decision of the Church of Constantinople to give jurisdiction of diaspora parishes to the Church of Greece with the sole use of Ecclesiastical Greek, Syrian participation in services halted aside from sacraments.
In Sydney, Fr Nicholas Shehadie was sent as exarch of the Church of Antioch. Under his rectorship, the first Antiochian Orthodox Church was built and dedicated to St George. After his repose from asthma, a number of priests served as rector and exarch, including the V. Rev. Frs Michael Shehadie, Malatius Hussney, Archim. Anthony Woolf, and the V. Rev. Nicolas Mansour.
In Melbourne, Archimandrite Antonious (Mobayed) was sent for by the Syrian community of Melbourne, and sent by the Patriarch. He was priest of St Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church, and since he spoke Russian, there was a significant Russian element to St Nicholas. After his repose, three number of priests served as rector: the V. Rev. Frs George Haydar, Gabraeel Fadel and Malatius (Essam) Hussney.
In 1969, the Church of Antioch sent Archimandrite Gibran (Ramlawey) to Australia as Patriarchal Exarch to find the best way to solve problems caused by two priests having to serve every Antiochian Orthodox in Australia. On his recommendations, the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand was created, and Archimandrite Gibran was elected as Patriarchal Vicar.
Two parishes were created very soon after his arrival - St Nicholas, Punchbowl, NSW was created as a result of Bp Gibran's directive, and St George, Thornbury, Vic. was created as a result of tensions caused by differing waves of immigrants.
The late 1980s saw some growth in parishes. In 1985, a parish was created in Mays Hill, NSW; 1989 saw the first parish committee for a church in Brisbane, Qld.
In 1999, Bp Gibran reposed. The Holy Synod of Antioch, having raised Australia and New Zealand to an Archdiocese, consecrated Archim. Paul (Saliba), the parish priest of Washington, DC, as the Metropolitan Archbishop of the new Archdiocese.
Met. Abp. Paul elected to create more churches. He prompted the building of the church of St Paul, Brisbane and created an English-language parish in Sydney.
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The Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese is a single archdiocese spanning a number of countries. The Archbishop resides in Australia, there is a Deanery for New Zealand, and presences in other countries of the region. There are 25 parishes and missions across Australia, 8 parishes and missions in the Deanery of New Zealand, and approximately 37,500 congregants in the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand, and All Oceania. The Archdiocese also has one female monastery of St Anna in Victoria, and founded the multi-jurisdictional Melbourne Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies.
The Antiochian Orthodox Diocese of Australasia (as it was then called) was a founding member of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Churches in Australia. The Antiochian Archdiocese says that SCCOCA, after being moribund for quite a number of years, finally became defunct in the year 2000.
The Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand, and All Oceania, was a founding member of Eastern Hierarchs. The Antiochian Archdiocese believes this is a friendly, effective organisation, working for the love of God spreading throughout the whole mystery of His Church.
- Metropolitan Archbishop Paul (Saliba) of Australia, New Zealand and All Oceania.
- Dean of New Zealand is Archpriest Jack Witbrock.
- Vicar-General and Dean of the Cathedral is Right Reverend Archimandrite Nabil (Kachab)
- Dean of Clergy for the Archdiocese is Archpriest George Nasr.
Bishops of Australia, New Zealand and All Oceania
- Bishop Gibran (Ramlawey), Patriarchal Vicar of Australia, New Zealand, and All Oceania 1969-1999.
- Metropolitan Archbishop Paul (Saliba), Primate of Australia, New Zealand, and All Oceania, 1999-present.
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Well as we have been very deeply entrenched in the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the eighth chapter of Romans, it occurred to me that we have been talking an awful lot about the work that the Holy Spirit does in us and we really haven't said anything about our part of it, our responsibility. And so I thought for tonight I would direct your attention to the fifth chapter of Ephesians and verse 18…Ephesians chapter 5 and verse 18, it reads, "Do not get drunk with wine for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit…be filled with the Spirit."
Those of you who have been believers for a long period of time can remember when this was a main topic in the life of the church. Speakers spoke about it, preachers talked about it, Bible Study leaders addressed it, books were written about it, but that seems to be in the far-distant past. You very seldom hear any really careful teaching on the filling of the Holy Spirit definitively and faithfully, representing what Scripture intends to communicate.
And again I think that's partly because the Charismatics have redefined this concept, redefined these terms, redefined the ministry of the Holy Spirit and good people shy away from the truth because it exposes their error in many cases. That is not a reason to do that, it's all the more reason to be clear about the truth of what Scripture teaches.
So let me read for the text from verse 18 down to verse 21 and we'll talk about that a little bit tonight. Ephesians 5:18, "And do not get drunk with wine for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ. '
When it comes to the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the work of sanctifying the believer, we have talked in detail about what it is that the Holy Spirit does, conforming us to the person of Jesus Christ from one level of glory to the next as we gaze at the glory of our Lord. We understand that sanctifying ministry of the Holy Spirit. Here is the one verse that I think more than any other, that is verse 18, defines the responsibility that we as believers have. This is a command. First there is a negative statement, don't get drunk with wine. And then a positive command, be filled with the Spirit.
In the construction of the original language, it really could be read this way, "Be being kept continuously filled with the Holy Spirit. And that's very important because what we're talking about when we talk about being filled with the Spirit is not an event. We're not talking about some kind of momentous experience. We're not talking about some kind of euphoria. We're not talking about something that zaps you out of nowhere. We're not talking about quote/unquote being anointed. Rather we're talking about a constant way of life, a constant reality, be being kept continuously filled with the Spirit.
And it is speaking again about the necessity to have the controlling influence in our lives be the Holy Spirit. It speaks about an internal reality, an internal ministry that the Spirit of God sustains in us. And when you talk about filling, without getting technical at all, I can give you a simple way to understand it, even in our own word…the English word…we understand that filling can have a number of meanings. To say you fill something could be static, you filled a box with goods, you filled a glass with water, that's a static kind of filling.
But that is not what is in view here. The word here speaks not of filling up, but filling through. The contrast would be the difference between filling up a glass with water and filling the sails of a sailboat with wind. That is a very different kind of reality. One is static, and the other is not. We're not talking about being filled up with the Holy Spirit, as if that is some kind of momentary experience. But rather living an entire life that is literally carried along, moved along by the Holy Spirit like wind filling a sails to move the ship along.
In fact, the idea of this verb here is permeation, powerful permeation. Put those two words together. Powerful permeation. And I can give you some illustrations of it. In John 16:6 it refers to being filled with sorrow…filled with sorrow. In Luke 5:26 it talks about being filled with fear. In Luke 6:11 it talks about someone who is filled with madness. In Acts 6:5 it refers to someone who is filled with faith. And, do you remember, in Acts 5 it talks about Ananias who was filled with Satan. What is that talking about?
That is talking about a dominating influence. To be filled with sorrow means that you can no longer mitigate that sorrow. Sorrow has taken over and you are filled with sorrow. To be filled with fear means that you can't mitigate that fear with any kind of balancing thoughts, your fears have dominated you. To be filled with madness means that you cannot control your behavior because you are taken over by madness. That's what it means to be filled with the Spirit. It means to be totally controlled by the influence of the Holy Spirit. And we are commanded to be in that condition at all times, under the continual control of the Holy Spirit.
Now again, is this some kind of mystical experience? Is this something that you feel? Is it something that you sense? Is it some kind of euphoria that comes over you, some kind of discernible feeling?
Well the answer to all of that, of course, is no, not in any way. And I will show you that by giving you a comparative passage in Colossians 3:16. Colossians 3:16 says this, "Let the Word of Christ richly dwell within you." That again is a present tense command, let the Word of Christ continually dwell within you in a rich sense.
In other words, the rich, full truth concerning Christ, let it permeate your inner thought life. Your Spirit, your soul, your mind, this is exactly the same thing. To be filled with the Spirit is to be permeated by the truth concerning Christ revealed in Scripture.
How do I know that? Because if you go back to Ephesians, I'll show you a little bit of a contrast. In Ephesians, we just read, "Be filled with the Spirit," and the result of it we'll talk about in a moment, speaking to one another in Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing, making melody with your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks. Verse 21, "Being subject to one another. Verse 22, "The wives demonstrate being Spirit filled in their subjection to their husbands." Husbands demonstrate being Spirit filled in verse 25 by loving their wives. Parents demonstrate being Spirit filled in chapter 6 verse 1, our children rather, by obedience to their parents. And parents in verse 4, by not provoking their children to anger. Spirit-filled slaves are obedient, verse 5. And Spirit-filled masters care properly for their slaves. Everything that we saw there, all the way into the sixth chapter is the effect of a Spirit-filled life.
Now look at Colossians 3 for a moment…Colossians 3, and we see that instead of be being kept filled with the Holy Spirit, it says, "Let the Word of Christ richly dwell in you," and here comes the same results, "With all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your heart to the Lord." And here we go, "Wives that let the Word of Christ dwell in them richly are subject to their husbands. Husbands that are filled with the truth concerning Christ love their wives. Spirit-controlled, Word-controlled children are obedient to their parents and Spirit-controlled Word; controlled parents don't exasperate their children. The same with slaves and masters in verses 22 to the end of the chapter."
So when you have the same effect, you're talking about the same reality. When you have the same effect, you're talking about the same cause, the same cause. So what does it mean then to be filled with the Spirit? It means to be dominated by the truth revealed concerning Christ. The Holy Spirit's work in the believer is indirect response to that believer's exposure to Christ in all the fullness of His glorious revelation. That's why 2 Corinthians 3:18 says that as you gaze at His glory, the Holy Spirit does His work of changing you into His image. Being filled with the Spirit then is being moved along in the progress of sanctification by the power of the Holy Spirit, because you are so focused on the revealed truth concerning Christ contained, of course, in Holy Scripture. That's what we're talking about. That's what it means to be Spirit-filled. It is not an ecstatic experience. Again, I say, it is not an event, it is not some kind of momentary, heavenly anointing. It is simply an ongoing reality that the Spirit of God moves us along under His power insofar as we commit ourselves to focus all our inner attention on the glories of the person of Jesus Christ. This is the work of sanctification, and this is our part in it. Salvation is the work of the Spirit of God, but not apart from our faith. And sanctification is the work of the Spirit of God but not apart from our obedience to all that has been revealed concerning Christ.
And again I remind you that the Charismatics have tortured this concept and associated being filled with the Spirit with falling down, babbling, material prosperity, physical healings, all kinds of external phenomenon and this has nothing whatsoever to do with any of that…with any of that. This is about holiness. And as I told you this morning, ironically the Holiness Movement is far more interested in what is external than it is what is internal. And that is why it is so rife with scandal and sin.
The Holy Spirit's ministry is to conform us to Christ. Christ is the model of perfect humanity. We've been saying that. As we gaze at the perfection of Christ revealed on the pages of Scripture, the Spirit takes that truth and by means of His power shapes us into that very image. The goal is internal transformation.
Now as we look at this passage, we're going to see three things: the contrast, the command and the consequences. Let's look, first of all, at the contrast. And I know this is a familiar passage, but I have something in mind here and it's going to come out under this first point.
The contrast is this, verse 18, "Do not get drunk with wine." Now it seems to people that that's a bizarre kind of contrast, as if those were the two options, either be filled with the Spirit or drunk. Well, of course, there are not stark, isolated options that can be reduced to those two realities. But the truth of the matter is, in ancient pagan religion, the notion was that communion with deities could be induced by drunkenness. They used drunkenness, purposeful drunkenness in Gentile worship in the Roman and Greek world, to take them into a state in which they actually believed they communed with God, with their deities. They carried it even beyond that into orgies. There were temple prostitutes, into gluttony, there were temple feasts where they gorged themselves, induced their own vomiting and then gorged themselves again and indulged in every imaginable and unimaginable carnal stimulation. This, they believed, was how communion with the gods was induced. They're not really too far different from Timothy Leary back in the sixties who thought that a drug high on LSD would catapult you out of this world into the world of the supernatural. That's an age-old deception. Paul says, "In contrast to that, Christians commune with God, worship God, enjoy God, love God, serve God not by being drunk, not by being filled and carried along by the power of alcohol but by the Holy Spirit.
This was so much a part of ancient life that do you remember on the Day of Pentecost when all the 120 disciples were gathered together and the Holy Spirit came and it says they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, you remember that? Acts 2, and they began to speak the wonderful works of God in all the languages of all the pilgrims who had come to Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost? And what did the people say about them? "It's early I the morning and they're already…what?...drunk." They assumed that they were drunk because that's the pagan way. You get drunk, you engage in all kinds of sensual stimulation, all kinds of carnal expression, lose your mind, get out of control, and that's how you attain to some communion with the deities. They were very, very used to seeing these kind of drunken frenzies associated with religion.
But the apostle Paul says, by contrast, "We don't commune with God in that way, we will not be controlled by that, we will rather be controlled in our behavior by another internal force, another internal power, another internal mind dominating influence, namely that of the Holy Spirit by our attention being given to the truth of the Word of God. For us, it's the Holy Spirit.
Now I just want to give you a little bit of a head's up on this. As I was thinking about this, I realized that this is a good place to talk about whether a Christian should drink alcoholic beverages. So I'm going to do that. I'm going to talk about that, not tonight but I think next Sunday night may be communion, I'm not sure, but that's not a problem we use grape juice. But if not next Sunday night, it will be the Sunday night after. I want to do a series on what should be the Christian's position with regard to alcoholic beverages. And I'm not going to give you my personal opinion, I am going to give you a clear path through the Scripture using what the Bible says and what the Bible implies to make a wise decision with regard to that. We don't need that. We don't engage in that religiously, of course. The further question is, should we indulge in it at all?
Just as a kind of a teaser for what's coming up, you might assume that alcohol consumption in America is increasing. You would be wrong. Alcohol consumption in America is decreasing at a very rapid rate. Less than half the population of the United States drinks any alcoholic beverage, less than half. At the same time, the pastors in evangelical Christian churches are telling their people that they should repent for not drinking alcoholic beverages and go have some drinks. What kind of juxtaposition is this? What is causing a national down turn in the secular community in alcohol and a new interest in advocacy for alcohol in the church?
Well it's obvious why drinking is down in America. Alcohol kills people and we're getting it…we're getting it. So how strange a juxtaposition that at a time when the secular world is waking up to the deadly dangers of alcohol, evangelical pastors are making campaigns to increase the drinking the people in their churches. So we're going to talk about that but not tonight.
So that's the contrast. And the contrast is born out of what was going on in the religion of the time. It was unique to say, "Look, we do not indulge ourselves in those kinds of things as some form of elevation, some form of ecstasy that connects us with God. But rather, we yield to the mind-dominating internal influence of the Holy Spirit which means we focus totally on the revelation of Holy Scripture which gives us the majestic picture of Christ to whom the Spirit is consistently conforming us.
You know, sometimes…well, not sometimes, most of the time people think that I overdo the teaching of the Word of God and that I need to lighten up on it and that our church is too obsessed with it. There is no other means for the sanctification of the believer. There is no experience. There is no music. There is no lighting. There is no mood that we can create that has anything to do with the Holy Spirit. Sometimes you hear a preacher say, "I can feel the Spirit of God in this place." No you can't. What does that mean? That just means nothing. You can't feel the Spirit of God. You can feel whatever you feel, whatever feeling has been induced or created or manipulated or generated or whatever, but you can't feel the Spirit of God.
What the Spirit of God is doing is not available to the senses. It is internal. It is a conforming of the believer to the image of Christ as that believer focuses on the Word. So if the Spirit uses the Word to show us the example and to shape us into that example, how important is it that we be in the Word? How important is it that we focus on Christ?
The gospels give us the story of Christ. The book of Acts gives us the spreading of the story of Christ. The epistles explain Christ and the gospel of Christ. The whole of the New Testament focuses on Christ. And as we're going to see, some weeks down the road, even the Old Testament shows us the glory of Christ. We can focus in no other place and see the Word of Christ that will richly dwell in us and yield the sanctifying progress that is the desire of the Holy Spirit.
All right, so enough about the contrast and next time we talk about this, we're going to talk about this whole idea of the Christian and alcoholic beverages. But for now, let's go to the second point, and I'm not going to keep you tonight very long, but I just want to let this kind of settle in your mind. The command is a simple command. We saw the contrast; don't be drunk with wine, because that leads to dissipation. That's a warning. Don't go that direction because it leads to dissipation. It's a very strong word in the Greek and we'll say more about that later.
But the command is, to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Now let me just start with a very basic understanding here. Every believer possesses the Holy Spirit, every believer. We saw that in Romans 8:9, "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he's none of His." Flip that. If you belong to Christ, you have the Holy Spirit.
We head even quoted tonight, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, "Your body is the temple of the Spirit of God. What you have of God, you're not your own, you're bought with a price." We've all been made to drink of the one Spirit. Jesus said, "Whoever believes in Him, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water." That's the mark and the movement of the Spirit of God.
Now listen, there is never anywhere in Scripture a command to be indwelt by the Holy Spirit…Never! Cause that is a fact for every believer. There is never a command in the New Testament to be baptized with the Holy Spirit. Seven times in the New Testament there's a reference to the baptism of the Spirit, none of those seven is an imperative. None of them is a command. You are never commanded to seek the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. You're never commanded to seek the baptism of the Holy Spirit and that is the very defining doctrine of the entire Pentecostal Movement. The baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues, that's the whole Movement. In fact, it's been sort of labeled the BHS Movement, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit Movement. They've even reduced it to three letters. That's what it is. The idea that you are to seek something beyond your salvation, something secondary to your salvation, something after your salvation, something subsequent to your salvation at some point called the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. And when you get it, you speak glossolalia. Glossolalia is the word for gibberish. They tried in the early years of the Movement to define it as Zeno, Zenolalia, which would mean languages. But when they examined it, it was clear it wasn't languages, it was gibberish.
But that in the Movement historically is the sign of the baptism of the Spirit and that's what you seek. And again I say, seven references in the New Testament to the baptism of the Spirit, none of them is a command, we are never told to seek that…never.
Why? Because we have already received the Holy Spirit in His fullness. He lives in us, we are His temple. And we have been baptized by Christ with the Holy Spirit into His body. First Corinthians is crystal clear on that. In fact, it might be worth reminding you about it. First Corinthians 12, these passages are unmistakable. Even as the body is one and has many members and all the members of the body though they're many are one body, so also is Christ for by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. And all have been made to drink of one Spirit. We have all received the Holy Spirit and we've all been baptized with the power of the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ.
The only thing we're ever commanded to do, not commanded to be indwelt as if it were something to pursue, not commanded to be baptized as if it were something to attain, not commanded to seek the sealing of the Holy Spirit. The only thing we're commanded to do is here in Ephesians 5, "Be being continuously filled with the Spirit." Or to borrow the language of the apostle Paul to the Colossians, Be so utterly and completely focused on Christ as revealed in holy Scripture that the image of Christ dominates our thought and by that domination, by that attention given to the honor and glory of Christ, the Holy Spirit is empowered to shape us into His image. That's the Christian life. That's our part.
In Ephesians 4:30 we read, "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God." The Holy Spirit of God wants to sanctify us, desires to sanctify us, wants us to focus on the glory of Christ and be changed into His image by the Spirit's own power. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit.
How would you avoid doing that? What grieves Him? Well, if His goal is to conform us to the person of Christ who is the model of perfect humanity, then anything that would hinder that, retard that, deviate from that would grieve Him. And that's why this statement in verse 30 of Ephesians 4, "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God," is surrounded by things like this. Verse 25, "Laying aside falsehood." Verse 26, "Be angry but don't sin. Don't let the sun go down on your anger. Don't give the devil an opportunity. He who steals must steal no longer."
Verse 29, "Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth." Verse 31, "Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice, all evil. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other just as God in Christ also has forgiven you." Or chapter 5 verse 3, "But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you." Or how about filthiness and silly talk or coarse jesting. These are the things that grieve the Spirit because these are the things that hinder His sanctifying work. These are all contrary to everything that Christ is.
So living the Spirit-filled life is simply dominated by the things that honor Christ. In 1 Thessalonians 5:19 we read, "Do not quench the Spirit. Do not quench the Spirit." That simply means to pour water on the fire. How would we do that? How would we avoid doing that?
Well if you back up in 1 Thessalonians 5 it says, "Encourage one another, build up one another. Appreciate those who are over you in the Lord, esteem them highly, admonish the unruly, encourage the faint-hearted. Don't pay back evil for evil. Seek what is good for one another and for all people. Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks." Don't quench the Spirit. All those things are the things that the Spirit longs to see in our lives. They don't quench Him. They don't stand in the way. They don't hinder. They help the Spirit to achieve His end of our sanctification.
In Galatians 5:25 it says, "Walk by the Spirit. Walk by the Spirit." How would you do that? Verse 24, "Crucify the flesh with its passions and desires." Verse 26, "Don't be boastful. Don't challenge one another. Don't envy one another." In other words, these statements of not quenching, not grieving, all come back to the issue of the Holy Spirit's desire to sanctify us, any sin, any self-indulgence in our lives stands in the way, hinders, halts, grieves, quenches the work of the Holy Spirit.
Now, when a person is filled with the Spirit, the result is not the gifts of the Spirit. Did you get that? When a person is filled with the Spirit, the result is not the gifts of the Spirit. I'll use myself as an illustration. I have been given a certain gift by the Holy Spirit which I exercise in front of you all for your good, I trust, in the ministry of preaching and teaching the Word of God. I can give you what's in my notes, whether or not my heart is right. Correct? I can give you what is in my notes. I can explain the meaning of the Bible because I know what a portion of Scripture means. That says nothing about the condition of my heart. You can exercise the gift that the Lord has given you in any spiritual condition. It goes on, sad to say, all the time.
But where there is the filling of the Spirit, the result is not the gifts because the gifts have been distributed to all of us, haven't they? When a person is filled with the Spirit, the result is not the gifts of the Spirit, the result is the fruit of the Spirit…love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control. Those are evidences of sanctification. That's Galatians 5:22 and 23.
So that's what it means to be filled with the Spirit. It means to be captive to the truth of the Word of God concerning the glorious Christ who is the model of perfect humanity. It is to be lost in wonder, love and praise, looking at Jesus Christ in all His beauty and all His glory. And as we do that, with the focus of our minds and hearts, the Spirit takes that image and by His own power conforms us increasingly to it.
I can never…I can never stop talking about Christ. I can never stop preaching about Christ because I understand this. I hear preachers all the time, I torture myself listening to them, some of them, and I'm always saying this and my dear wife, Patricia, has heard me say it ten thousand times, "Why doesn't he talk about the Lord Jesus Christ? Why does he continue to talk about people and their problems, and give them little formulas and little gimmicks? Why doesn't he talk about Christ?"
Listen to the preacher. Listen. Who do they talk about? Are they helping their listeners to let the Word concerning Christ dwell in them richly, profoundly, deeply? That's what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit. It's not mystical, not experiential, it's to be consumed with Christ.
So, that's the command. Let's look at the consequences and the consequences could drag us, as I showed you earlier, all the way into the sixth chapter, but we won't do that, we'll just take down to verse 21. And this is good. The immediate consequences, the first one, is music. Music…being filled with the Spirit results, first of all, in speaking to one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord." Can I sum that up in one word? People who are filled with the Spirit manifest the fruit of the Spirit and the fruit of the Spirit is love, and what's the next one? Joy…joy. They're not in rank order, it's a bouquet. When you're filled with the Spirit, they all exist concurrently, they all exist simultaneously. It's a packaged deal and joy is an important element. The immediate result of the sanctifying work of the Spirit of God on people, who are focused on the Lord Jesus Christ and thus being shaped into His image from one level of glory to the next, is music…music.
And he says a lot about music here. First of all, he tells us among whom we make music, speaking to one another…speaking to one another. Some translations say speaking to yourselves in the plural. Boy, one of the tragedies of the Roman Catholic Church through all its history has been that it robbed the people of music. There's no music, occasional chanting. I said this in the Christmas concerts, Christians are the only ones that sing, the only religion that sings, sing in a major key. Redemption has given us a song, given us a song. In Psalm 33 he talks about a new song, sing to the Lord a new song. It's always a song of redemption. Psalm 40 talks about singing to the Lord a new song. Psalm 96, Psalm 98, Psalm 144, Psalm 149 and then the Psalms end in Psalm 150 with an orchestra. And when we look into the future in Revelation 5:9 and we look around the throne of God, everyone gathered around His throne, it says, with singing a new song. The word "new" always shows up in all those Psalms. New song, new song, new song, new song, not the old song, not the song of the world, it's a new song, it's a song of redemption, it's a song sung only by the redeemed. This is true in the Old Testament; it was the song of Moses in Exodus 15. It was the song of Deborah and Barak in Judges chapter 5, triumphant song of joy over the salvation of the Lord. In 2 Chronicles 29 it was the song of Hezekiah as he reinstituted worship in the temple and the hearts of the people were full of joy. Music is a very important part of the expression of the Spirit-filled life.
In the temple, the great temple, there were 38,000 people serving. That's the way God designed it, 38,000 serving there, four thousand of them, nearly one in every ten, were in the music department. You'd love that, wouldn't you, Clayton? Four thousand people in the music department. It's in Exodus 15 that when Israel was brought through the Red Sea and delivered on the dry land and the army of Pharaoh was drowned, the song of Moses was sung but it was followed by a woman's chorus led by Moses' sister, Miriam who led all the women in a song of joy.
In 1 Samuel chapter 10 and verse 5, the prophets had a male chorus. We do that. We have…at the Shepherds Conference, we have all the preachers over at seminary come and sing to the men. In 1 Chronicles 13 verse 8, the whole group of people gathered together in worship to the Lord, sang in congregational praise and instruments and it says they sang with all their might. God likes it that way. First Chronicles 16 verses 4 and 5, David had a choir and Ezra too, Zerubbabel who built the second temple had a modest choir, not four thousand musicians, after their return from captivity in the modest temple there were 200. Among the Levites who attended to the needs of the temple and served along with the priests, many Levites were skillful singers, soloists, song leaders, instrumentalists. In the great revival of Nehemiah when the book of God was discovered and read and people repented and returned to God, there was great music and it was loud and it was antiphonal, it was back and forth. In 2 Chronicles 5:13 they sang in unison.
The Old Testament talks about a whole lot of different instruments. There was an azore which is like a harp. A dulcimer, stuck rather than plucked, a harp, a sackbut, a large hand-held harp, drums, timbrel, bells, there were instruments you blew into, trumpets and coronets and flutes, pipe organ ram's horn. God really loves music. And He gave us music as a way to express our joy.
One of the interesting things in the book of Ezekiel, chapters 40 to 48 of Ezekiel give us a picture of the temple that's going to be built in the Millennial Kingdom when Christ comes back and establishes His rule for a thousand years on the earth. He's going to rebuild a temple in Jerusalem. And we get an insight into what's going to go on in that Millennial Temple from Ezekiel 40 to 48. In the fortieth chapter it tells us there will be a choir loft and it gives us the dimensions of the choir loft in the Millennium. And if you work out the math, it's large enough for a three-thousand voice choir.
We should understand this. The Scripture says, "Make a joyful…what?...noise unto the Lord." It's about joy. It's about the song of salvation. New Testament is full of music. When they concluded the Lord's supper, Matthew 26:30 says the last thing they did was sing a hymn and they went out to the Mount of Olives. When Paul and Barnabas were locked in stocks in Philippi in the sixteenth chapter of Acts, what were they doing all night long? Singing hymns. First Corinthians 14:15 which again deals with the false tongues issue in the church at Corinth, the apostle says, "Sing with your mind and with your spirit because you worship in truth and in spirit." First Timothy 3:16 is a hymn and there's a few other places in the New Testament where we have an early church hymn.
Go into the book of Revelation and you'll find music there in chapter 5 in the future in heaven in chapter 14, in chapter 15. We sing a new song. We sing a song of redemption. And listen to this because this is the point I want you to understand. The music of the church is not evangelistic. The music of the church is a gift from God to give wings of expression to our joy by being filled with the Spirit. We sing to ourselves and to God. Let's put it another way, we sing among ourselves to God. The last thing we care about is what unbelievers think of our music. It should be as alien to them as our theology.
The music of the world reflects the world. And, frankly, the more degenerate the world is, the more degenerate society becomes, the more corrupt it becomes the more corrupt and degenerate will become its music because its music is simply an expression of its culture, of its heart. The corruption of a culture is on display in its music. It will descend at the same pace and the same level as the society. The music of the redeemed is different. It's reflective of timeless truth, eternal truth, unchanging truth and an unchanging God and an unchanging revelation. Our music displays features that are consistent with God. It is intelligent, systematic, sequential, orderly, poetic, harmonic, rhythmic. It even possesses, imagine, resolutions. It is beautiful. It is pure. It is virtuous. It is lofty. It is holy.
Music is not worship. It is a means of worship. Music doesn't motivate worship. You talk to people who think that in order to make people worship, you have to crank up the music. That is a Pentecostal, Charismatic deception, manipulation of the external. Music does not motivate worship. Worship motivates music. Worship comes from the heart. Music, the songs of the redeemed, are not designed to appeal to the unsaved. That is the last concern that we have. We are speaking to ourselves and to our God. Music is not an evangelistic tool. The world is at home with its own music. Its fallenness is mirrored in the fallenness of its music. Let them have their music and let us have the songs of the redeemed.
From where does our music come? Among whom? One another, yourselves. From where does it come? Go back to verse 19. "Making melody with your heart." That's why I say it's internal. Music doesn't create worship, music isn't worship. Music doesn't motivate worship, worship motivates music. You make melody first in your heart. The point of origin for the music is the heart. And, you know, I don't know how you are but I sing to myself all the time…all the time. I need music playing all the time, not because I want to drown out the world, or because I want to escape. It's because my heart sings. And I can't go through life going, "La la la la la." So I need somebody to compose volumes of music for me to express my joy.
You know, when the heart has no joy, there's no song. There's no joy, there's no song. Psalm 137, we read, "By the rivers of Babylon," these are the Jews in captivity. "There we sat down by the rivers of Babylon and wept and we hung our harps. For there our captives demanded of us songs and our tormenters were saying 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.'"
No song came out of those beleaguered heartbroken captives. If the heart is not filled with joy, there is no song. If the heart is not filled with the Holy Spirit, there is no song. But where the heart is filled with the Holy Spirit, there is a song to sing, a song of joy, a song of redemption. That is why we love to come together and sing. This is the purest form of expression of Spirit-filled joy.
Oh there are hypocrites. In Amos 5 the prophet Amos said to the people of Israel, "Stop your songs, your hearts aren't right. I don't want to hear your songs." There are hypocritical singers and hypocritical songs. And there are people who are hypocritical singers that make a living as hypocritical singers. But the redeemed have a song, nonetheless, in their hearts.
He further tells us by what means we give expression. Verse 19, "Singing and making melody…singing and making melody." It starts in the heart, singing from ado, the verb ado. The voice is the means with this verb, singing. It means exactly what it says. By the way, the human voice with some exceptions is the most beautiful instrument. There are some who somehow got missed. The human voice is the most universal, most usable, most flexible, most beautiful of all instrument. So we sing and make melody, that's the verb psallo…psallo from which we get Psalms. And what that verb actually means is to twang. To twitch, to pluck, so we sing and we play an instrument to make our music. It literally means in the Kittel Greek dictionary, to play an instrument. So with our voice and with instruments, we make music that starts in our hearts.
Further, there's another word that is used here where he says, "Speaking to one another in songs," I love this word, speaking to one another. What is the word "speaking?" Get this, it's the Greek verb laleo, that's onomatopoetic, la, la, la, la. It's used of birds whistling, it's used of people humming. We hum along, whistle along, sing along, make music on an instrument. The idea is making sounds and those sounds take all kinds of forms. Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs.
Well, are those distinctively different? Can you say this is a Psalm and this is a hymn, and this is a spiritual song, and draw really bold lines? Not so much. But what you get when you get these three words is simply an indication that there is a wide range of expression musically, both vocally and instrumentally. Psalms, psalmos, again the verb and the noun refer to the striking of musical instruments and later came to refer to someone singing along with a musical instrument. Humnos from which we get hymns, hymns basically are a festal song of praise to God. And spiritual songs, odes in English, odes…can be sad, can be joyful, always used in the New Testament of praise to God or to Christ, so we sing psalms. That is we sing to God playing an instrument. Hymns, those particular songs directed directly at praise to God, sung in an upbeat festal way. And we sing spiritual songs which can be upbeat or sad, mournful or joyful, but always directed at the Lord.
You might say that Psalms emphasize history and theology. Hymns look at the glory of God and honor Him for it. And odes or spiritual songs are those songs which give expression to our testimony. And that leaves one final element in this matter of Spirit-filled music, to whom do we sing? Verse 19, "With your heart…to whom?" To whom? To the Lord…to the Lord. It's to the Lord we sing.
I wish I had time to take you all the way through the Old Testament, show you all the places where people sang to the Lord, and sang to the Lord. Second Samuel 6, 1 Chronicles 13, 2 Chronicles 5, all through the Psalms, Isaiah 42 are music…the music of our souls, the music of our hearts, the collective music that we sing among ourselves is directed to the Lord as Bach put it, and he had it right, "The aim of music is the glory of God." To the Lord, kurios, and this indicates the Lord Jesus in particular, especially to Christ. Our song is not the same…listen…as the Old Testament songs. We sing of Christ and we sing to Christ as well as to the Father and the Holy Spirit. So God is the audience to whom we sing. God must be honored by our music. God must be honored by our melodies. God must be honored by our lyrics. God must be honored by our style. And it must be clearly the New Song of the redeemed.
All of this speaks of joy and joy is the first result of a Spirit-filled life. James says this, James 5:13, "Is anyone cheerful? Sing praises." That's the natural immediate response to joy. Music is not an evangelistic tool. It is not offered to non-Christians. It isn't to entertain us. It is offered to the Lord as a form of joyous worship and He is not pleased when the kind of music being offered is a direct reflection of the corruption of a sinful culture at its lowest level.
Well, the first byproduct and result of being Spirit-filled is singing, making music. The second one is saying thanks, quickly look at verse 20. "Always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God even the Father." I can tell a Spirit-filled person in a conversation by this alone, gratitude….gratitude. I can see it in the joy, I can see it in the gratitude. You meet a person who has no thankfulness in their heart, you know, like Thomas Hardy once said, he had a friend who could find the manure pile in every meadow. You know, if you have people like that. You know, I can tell Spirit-filled people because they're always thankful. They're just incessantly thankful. "In everything give thanks for this is the will of God concerning you," and it's true of Spirit-filled people.
And then there's a final result. Verse 21, submission…singing, saying thanks, and submitting, be subject to one another in the fear of Christ. That's just humility. Spirit-filled people are joyful. Spirit-filled people are thankful. And Spirit-filled people are humble. They submit. They don't have their own agenda. They don't want to dominate. They eagerly step aside and give way to others.
This is how we are to live, dear ones. This is the way we are to come alongside the mighty powerful work of the Holy Spirit in sanctifying us, by continually focusing on the glory of Christ revealed in holy Scripture by which the Spirit conforms us to His image and as we continue to be filled with the Spirit, our lives will be dominated by joy, gratitude, and humble submission. It's a beautiful thing.
Father, we do thank You for this wonderful evening together to share in Your Word. This inexhaustible treasure of…treasure house of rich truth. We're so grateful for the grace that has been poured out upon us as individuals and collectively as a church family and we give You thanks and praise for every good gift that You've given to us. We love You and we express that gratitude not only tonight but we express it every day as we walk in obedience to Your holy will, desiring to lift up the one we love and serve, our Lord Jesus Christ, and we pray in His name. Amen.
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UBS announces board nominations and executive appointments
The UBS Board of Directors nominates two candidates for election to the Board at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 19 April 2006. The nominees are Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler and Joerg Wolle. At the same time UBS announces the appointment of Marcel Rohner as Deputy Group CEO and Rory Tapner, Chairman & CEO Asia Pacific, as a member of the Group Executive Board.
The UBS Board of Directors will propose two new members for election and two current members for re-election at the AGM to be held on 19 April 2006 in Basel.
Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, born in 1952, is a partner with Schellenberg Wittmer, the Swiss-based law firm, and a professor of private international law at the University of Geneva. She is a member of both the Geneva Bar and the New York State Bar and is known worldwide for her expertise in international arbitration.
Joerg Wolle, born in 1957, is President and CEO of DKSH Holding Ltd. a Swiss-based services group for Asia that focuses on sourcing, marketing, logistics and distribution for small and medium sized companies as well as multinationals worldwide.
"The nominees will provide us with highly valuable expertise. Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler complements the present composition of the board with her extensive experience in international law and dispute settlement. Joerg Wolle has a strong and successful record in the fast growing markets of the Asia Pacific region," commented Marcel Ospel, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
The Board of Directors will also ask the AGM to re-elect Ernesto Bertarelli and Rolf A. Meyer to the board, as their terms of office will expire in 2006. After having served for 21 years on the Board of Directors of UBS and its predecessor bank Swiss Bank Corporation, Peter A. Boeckli's term will expire at the 2006 AGM. As he has reached the statutory age limit, he will not stand for re-election.
After the 2006 AGM, the Board of Directors should have 12 members, which is the maximum number permitted by the UBS Articles of Association.
Executive appointments
As John Costas is relinquishing his role on the Group Executive Board to manage Dillon Read Capital Management, UBS's new alternative asset management business within UBS Global Asset Management, Marcel Rohner, Chairman & CEO Global Wealth Management & Business Banking, will assume the additional title of Deputy Group CEO.
At the same time, Rory Tapner, Chairman & CEO Asia Pacific, will join the Group Executive Board.
"We are proud to announce these appointments, which reflect the structure of our firm. Marcel Rohner will continue to lead our wealth management and business banking business, and deputise for me when appropriate. Rory Tapner's visible and effective leadership in the strategically important Asia Pacific region, and breadth of experience in Investment Banking will be an important addition to the Group Executive Board," said Peter Wuffli, UBS Group CEO.
There will be no change in any daily operational responsibilities for either Marcel Rohner or Rory Tapner, and the appointments will be effective 1 January 2006.
Board of Directors
Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler (Swiss, 53)
Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler is a practicing attorney and partner with Schellenberg Wittmer as well as a Professor of private international law at University of Geneva Law School. She is admitted to the New York State Bar and the Geneva Bar and holds a doctorate of the University of Basle. Previously she has been a partner of Baker & McKenzie and a legal adviser at UBS in New York. She acts as an international arbitrator in commercial and investment disputes and sports cases and was ranked among the top ten arbitrators worldwide in a 2005 survey by "The American Lawyer".
Joerg Wolle (German, 48)
Joerg Wolle is President & CEO of DKSH Holding Ltd. He earned a MSc in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Engineering from University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany. He started his career with special assignments for the Swedish SKF Group in Russia, China and India. Previous to his appointment as CEO of DKSH he was a Member of the Executive Board of SiberHegner Holding Ltd. in Switzerland and a Director Marketing & Sales of SiberHegner in Hongkong. He is an Honorary Professor for "Intercultural Communication" at the University of Applied Sciences, Zwickau, Germany.
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Marcel Rohner (Swiss, 41)
Marcel Rohner, based in Zurich, is Chairman and CEO of Global Wealth Management & Business Banking and a member of the Group Executive Board. Previously, he was CEO of Wealth Management & Business Banking, Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Head of UBS Private Banking. Marcel has developed UBS Private Banking's new approaches to product development, training, technology and marketing. Previously he was UBS's Chief Risk Officer and held different managing positions at the investment bank (SBC/Warburg Dillon Read).
Rory Tapner (British, 46)
Rory Tapner is Chairman and CEO Asia Pacific and a member of the Group Managing Board. Rory has set the key elements of UBS's strategy and further accelerated growth in Asia Pacific. Previously he was Joint Global Head of Investment Banking, Joint Global Head of Corporate Finance. From 1983 to 1998, he was with S.G. Warburg and Warburg Dillon Read as Global Head of Equity Capital Markets, Head of UK Corporate Finance and the UK Capital Markets Team. He also was a Member of the Warburg Dillon Read Executive Board.


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N.J. throws lifeline to marina owners hurt by Sandy
LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. -- Tom Paxton remembers being in the eye of Superstorm Sandy as Great Bay Marina took the battering assault of the Atlantic Ocean pouring through the Little Egg inlet and across the bay last October.
"We saw the eye wall," Paxton said in the marina yard, where boats and dock equipment still lie where he and his customers rescued them after the storm. "It took all the boats we had blocked up for winter storage, put them in one pile. It took all our docks and shredded them up."
Slowly, he and wife, Ann, and their family have restored docks, using their retirement savings to save the business, he said.
Customers have been slow to return.
"Right now less than a third are back. Some of them went elsewhere, some of them lost their boats," Paxton said. Longer term, the bigger worry is whether waterfront communities like Mystic Island at the southern end of Ocean County will recover.
Ten months after Sandy, as the last of the summer boating season winds down, the government is throwing a life ring to marina owners hit by the superstorm. But marina operators say the application and paperwork requirements are daunting.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's office and the state Economic Development Authority said last week they are developing a policy that will allow marinas that serve the public to apply for small business grants of up to $50,000. The money, which could top $100 million, will come from the federal Community Development Block Grant program. Businesses with more than one location damaged in the storm may qualify for up to $250,000 grants, according to the EDA. Administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, block grants are the vehicle chosen by Congress to deliver long-term Sandy recovery aid to the states.
"I actually applied for that grant when it came out in April," said Kristi Munro Hanselmann, who with her family operates Munro's Marina in Mystic Island. "The holdup was that HUD felt the marina industry is a 'luxury industry.' Are you kidding me? I have 20-foot clammers' boats here."
To meet HUD regulations, the new policy distinguishes between yacht clubs and membership-only marinas, as compared with marinas that offer services to any boater, including launch ramps, dock slips, fuel, ice, fishing bait and tackle, and repairs. That clarification will open eligibility for the Stronger New Jersey Business Grant Program, which is disbursing $260 million in block grant money, Christie administration officials said.
According to Melissa Danko, executive director of the Marine Trades Association of New Jersey, the need for that distinction arose from this language in HUD regulations:
"HUD regulations state that privately owned recreational facilities that serve a predominantly higher-income clientele, where the recreational benefit to users or members clearly outweighs employment or other benefits to low- and moderate-income persons, will not be eligible."
Danko said her trade group and state officials worked to convince HUD "that this does not apply to most of our average marinas in New Jersey."
Hanselmann forwarded thousands of pages of damage estimates, rebuilding plans, tax returns and other business documents to back up Munro's application. (really? thousands of pages?). Finally, there is also a requirement for site inspections to .
Immediately after the storm marina owners appealed for help from the state, calls that grew in urgency over the winter as their customers doubted whether Jersey Shore waters would be safe for boating come spring. That helped drive the campaign by the state and its contractors to remove debris from coastal bays and rivers, and operations to move sand out of bay channels.
Storm surges of 9 feet or more did heavy damage to floating docks and boat slips, which marina owners say are typically uninsured because of the high premiums. A post-storm survey by the Marine Trades Association that got responses from 109 marinas estimated their losses at $54.7 million, with nearly three-quarters of that uninsured. Extrapolating from those numbers, the trade association reckoned total losses at marinas to be more than $100 million.
Following an appeal from New Jersey officials, HUD changed eligibility rules so applicants are no longer precluded from the Stronger New Jersey Business Grants if they have previously applied for a federal Small Business Administration.
"In some cases, businesses may be eligible for reimbursement of repair costs incurred prior to applying for a grant," according to the announcement from the governor's office.
The Economic Development Authority has begun holding workshop meetings for marina owners — the first one was in Toms River last week — to help them understand the grant program and application process. Applications for Stronger NJ Business Grants must be received on or by Oct. 31.


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We're sitting down with our favorite writers and cooks to talk about their upcoming cookbooks, their best food memories, and just about anything else.
Today: We talk to Aran Goyoaga of Cannelle et Vanille about gluten-free living and give away 5 copies of her upcoming cookbook Small Plates and Sweet Treats!
Aran Goyoaga wears many hats -- blogger at Cannelle et Vanille, cookbook author, food stylist, and photographer. We spoke to her about her new cookbook, Small Plates and Sweet Treats, and she was kind enough to provide us with 5 copies to give away! (Find out more about the giveaway below.)
1. Describe your all-time favorite meal.This is so hard! It changes often -- especially with the seasons -- so I am going to go with nostalgia and food that I find comforting. I would start with menestra de verduras (there is a version of it in the book), which is a medley of lightly cooked vegetables served in a light broth with Serrano ham. Then I would follow with really fresh roasted whole fish, like hake or snapper, with lots of herbs, fennel, and lemon. For dessert, arroz con leche (rice pudding), always. (There are two versions of it in the book!)
2. How was the process of creating a book different from blogging?I find that the initial creative process is very similar. I approached the recipes for the book the same way I approach the ones for the blog. But blogging is much more spontaneous and the feedback is immediate, and a book takes a long time to see the light. Also, in a blog post, I can surround a recipe with infinite images, but for the book, I could only select one photo per recipe which was difficult for me. Writing the book forced me to be much more efficient in how I told a story through images and words because of the space constraints.
3. In your opinion, has gluten-free living become more common and accepted over time?I believe so. My best friend's family started living gluten-free 12 years ago and I remember back then they had a hard time finding ingredients and encountering people who understood what gluten was. Things have certainly changed, and now gluten-free products are readily available all over the country. People are also much more aware of what it means to have gluten intolerance and not only celiac. Raising a gluten-free family is not an issue until we go out to eat and then I have to be more careful with our choices.
4. What (or who!) are some of your cooking influences? My Basque upbringing and my family are definitely my biggest influence in my style of cooking. My grandparents owned a pastry shop and someone was always cooking around me when I was growing up. The people I have encountered through the years I have lived away from home have also been a big influence on me, especially during my time at the Ritz-Carlton's pastry kitchen. I also have a cookbook addiction as well and I am always reading for inspiration.
5. What is one dish in the book that you're really proud of, and why? Oh so hard to choose! There are several for sure and each one for a different reason. I personally love the Swiss chard, pear and Gruyere tart and so do many of my friends. It makes me happy to watch them enjoy it and hear them say "I would have never guessed this was gluten-free." That is what the book is all about. And I am also very proud of the coconut doughnuts because they are so moist and my children love them so much. Puts a smile on my face!
The Giveaway!
Want to win a copy of Aran's new cookbook, Small Plates and Sweet Treats? Answer the question below in the comments section of this post by Tuesday, October 16th at 2pm EST:
What's your favorite gluten-free recipe that feeds a crowd?
We'll pick 5 random winners and contact you by email -- best of luck!
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Kinley and Raya have turned 5!
(And yes, I back dated this post so it would be on their actual birthday. Because I'm crazy.)
These sweet girls bless our family more than I can even put into words. They are twins, yet they are so different. Love how they are unique in their own ways. These girls changed our family forever 5 years ago. This second set of twins changed our perspective on our family, we started to realize that our plans were not His plans, and that our family would grow beyond what we had ever planned or imagined :).
Kinley is a free spirit. She is outgoing, vibrant, funny, and always having a good time. She keeps us laughing and she is probably one of our most compassionate kiddos. Her wild curly hair matches her personality, but for her pictures this year she wanted me to straighten it, and she was IN LOVE.
Sigh, she is a treasure.
Raya is my serious girl. She is detailed, smart, and loves to play games. She asks tons of questions, she is by far our most inquisitive child. She is giving, and sweet, and loves to cuddle. She has always loved to be by my side. I carried her in a carrier well into my pregnancy with Lincoln, and she still to this day is a mama's girl.
Oh my heart. How did these baby girls grow so fast??
Love them, and am so excited to see what God has in store for them with each coming year!
Happy Birthday, my little ladies! Your mama loves you more than you could ever imagine :).


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The Slea Head Drive (Slí Cheann Sléibhe) is a circular route, forming part of the Wild Atlantic Way, beginning and ending in Dingle, that takes in a large number of attractions and stunning views on the western end of the peninsula. The route is clearly labelled by road signs throughout its length. To properly enjoy the Drive, a half-day should be set aside for the journey.
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Travellers usually travel clockwise in order to avoid the large tour buses that frequent the route during the summer. The route is suitable for motorists, but is also enjoyed by cyclists: it is possible to hire a bike at a number of locations in Dingle.
On leaving Dingle, the Drive passes over Milltown Bridge, past the woodlands at Burnham to the seaside village of Ventry. The long, curved strand is a blue flag beach and offers a safe venue for bathing and water sports.
On leaving Ventry the Drive continues westward, past Dunbeg Fort, and continuing with a sheer cliff on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. At Fahan the road crosses a ford.
The Drive now reaches Slea Head itself, marked by a stone crucifixion scene, with dramatic views to South Kerry and the Blasket Islands. The Drive now follows the coast north, past Coumenoole Strand, where some of the filming of Ryan's Daughter took place, to Dún Chaoin. It is possible to board a passenger ferry to the Great Blasket / An Blascaod Mór from Dún Chaoin pier.
The Drive continues north and east from Dún Chaoin through wild open countryside, moving inland to the village of Baile an Fheirtéaraigh / Ballyferriter. The village has a number of bars, a shop and is the site of the Corca Dhuibhne Regional Museum.
The Drive now moves eastward, passing close to a number of ancient monuments, such as the excavated early Christian site at Reasc, and Gallarus Oratory.
The traveller will next arrive at the fishing village of Baile na nGall/Ballydavid. On leaving the village the drive again follows a cliff-top route, with a dramatic seascape of crashing waves, rocks and seabirds below.
At An Fheothanach/Feohanagh a bridge is crossed and the route brings you to Cuas an Bhodaigh or Brandon Creek. This inlet was the legendary starting point of the voyage of St Brendan to America, centuries before Columbus.
The Drive now turns south and runs along the base of Mount Brandon, the second highest mountain in Ireland. A pilgrimage route to the mountain's summit begins near here.
The Drive now rejoins the main road south to Dingle, passing over a hill's crest at Ballinlochaigh and arriving back at the entrance to the town.
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Choosing Needles and Yarn for Circular Knitting
Circular knitting is a technique that reduces purling and produces garments with fewer seams. You can choose from differenty types of needles, but some types of yarn are better suited to circular knitting projects than others are.
Needles for circular knitting
You use two types of needles in circular knitting: double-pointed and circular. Although some types of projects are more easily worked using certain needles, the needle you choose is largely a matter of personal preference.
Double-pointed needles: Double-pointed needles, commonly called dpns, are straight needles that are pointed on both ends. They are good for working on projects with a small circumference, such as mittens, socks, or the fingers of gloves. You divide your stitches among the needles (sold in sets of four or five) and work in a continuous spiral from one needle to the next, forming a tube of knitted fabric.
Double-pointed needles are available in all standard needle sizes ranging from tiny 8/0 (pronounced "eight-aught") to very large US 36 (20mm). Sold in lengths ranging from 4 to 16 inches, dpns are most commonly found in 5- to 8-inch lengths. Varieties are made of plastic, aluminum, steel, bamboo, and various types of wood.
Circular Needles: A circular needle consists of two needle tips connected by a thin cable. You typically use circulars to knit projects that have a circumference of 18 or more inches. However, you can use them in creative ways to knit smaller circumferences.
Circular needles are available in all standard sizes. However, they are not easy to find in sizes smaller than US 0 or larger than US 19. Circular needles come in lengths ranging from 9 to 60 inches. This measurement includes the length of the needles, not just the length of the cable.
The length of the needle tip varies with the length of the entire circular needle.
The point where the needle and cable meet is referred to as the join. A smooth join is important, because it means your stitches won't snag as you slide them from the cable onto the needles.
Metal and polished wood needles are slick and smooth, which means that stitches slide faster along the needle. Bamboo, plastic, and unpolished wood needles have more texture and drag to help your stitches stay in place. These can be a better choice for beginning.
Circular needles are very versatile, making them great multipurpose tools. Here are some needles options:
Although Skacel Addi circulars cost more, their quality is well worth the investment. The join on Addi circular needles is barely noticeable, and they have a pliable cable. They come in three types: Addi Natura, Addi Turbo, and Addi Lace. Addi Natura needles are made of bamboo with a moderately blunt needle tip and are excellent beginner needles. Addi Turbos are made of nickel-plated brass and are very smooth and fast. Addi Lace needles are made of polished brass and have a pointy tip that is perfect for working lace or cable projects.
Inox makes two types of circular needles: Inox and Inox Express. Both are affordable.
Clover Takumi bamboo circular needles are affordably priced and, because they are made of bamboo, are excellent needles for a beginning circular knitter.
Choosing yarn for circular knitting projects
You can use any type of yarn for circular knitting, but some types are better than others for learning purposes:
A worsted-weight yarn: Its size makes it perfect for learning new techniques. Thinner yarns can be fiddly and difficult to manipulate; thicker yarns can obscure stitches.
A smooth yarn: It is very important when learning a new technique to be able to see your stitches clearly. Any yarn that obscures your stitches is not a good choice.
A three- or four-ply yarn: This type of yarn has the kind of stability you need when learning.
A wool yarn: Wool is elastic, which makes it forgiving of a beginner's uneven tension. Also, wool's durability allows you to rip it out and reknit it multiple times.
A light-colored yarn: Darker colors absorb the light around them and can make it difficult to see the details of your stitches. Lighter colors reflect light back to your eye. White can be too bright, but a light neutral color, such as natural or tan, is excellent, as are pastels.
Some yarns to consider include Cascade 220, Valley Yarns Northampton, Lion Wool, and Patons Classic Wool. If you have a wool allergy, then consider a good-quality acrylic or acrylic blend, such as Berroco Comfort, Lion Cotton-Ease, or Patons Canadiana.
Other tools you will need
There are some basic knitting tools that every knitter should have on hand:
Scissors and seaming needles
Stitch holders
Stitch markers
Measuring tools such as a retractable and a needle and stitch gauge
Crochet hook
Row counters
Cable needles


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June 16 - 20, 2015
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
Venue: Messe Düsseldorf
Booth number: E20 (Hall 4)
Event website: http://www.metec-tradefair.com/
Short description of event:
METEC has been a taking place in Düsseldorf for 35 years now and is a leading trade show in the industry. As well as providing a presentation platform for exhibitors, it also provides a programme of additional events with excellent speakers.
Short description of SKF's part of the event:
SKF will exhibit at the METEC trade show and will co-present a paper in the associated European Steel Technology And Application Days (ESTAD) conference.
Please go here for more information about the event and on how to obtain your complimentary passes.


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Navy Updates Regulations on Nonconsensual Sharing of Imagery
From the Office of the Chief of Information
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Acting Secretary of the Navy Sean J. Stackley released All Navy Message (ALNAV) 021/17, April 18, which updated Navy regulations, making it unlawful to share an intimate image of someone without his or her permission for personal gain or to humiliate, harm, harass, intimidate, threaten, or coerce the depicted person or with reckless disregard of harm to the victim.
The new regulation "serves to underscore leadership's commitment to eliminating degrading behaviors that erode trust and weaken the Navy and Marine Corps team," Chief of Information Rear Adm. Dawn Cutler said in a statement. "It provides commanders another tool to maintain good order and discipline by holding Sailors and Marines accountable for inappropriate conduct in the nonconsensual sharing of intimate imagery."
This regulation complements Article 120c, "Other Sexual Misconduct" of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), which prohibits the indecent viewing, visual recording or broadcasting of another person.
Anyone found to have violated the new regulation could be subject to court-martial, or adverse administrative actions, such as nonjudicial punishment or administrative separation.
The revised policy stems from a March 2017 Marine Corps investigation into the Facebook group "Marines United," that involved the solicitation and sharing of nude and explicit photos of female service members and veterans by possible members of the Marine Corps. The investigation has expanded to include all of the military services, and has uncovered a culture of toxic behavior among some service members, veterans and civilians with respect to their conduct online.
In a March 14 blog post, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said "In teams, there are no bystanders. We are all in, every one of us. We have high expectations of each other, hold each other accountable, and we treat each other with respect. We build our teammates up to make them stronger. We definitely don't allow anybody to disrespect another teammate - we close ranks and protect."
In response, the Department of Navy has conducted focus groups across the department, is in the process of conducting a comprehensive review of existing policies and training, and continues to actively promote a culture that does not condone toxic behaviors that lead to misconduct in person and online.
The Navy Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS) leads a joint task force investigating the circumstances under which explicit photos were circulated. Anyone with knowledge of the wrongful sharing of intimate images should submit a tip to NCIS via text to 274637, online at www.navy.navy.mil/reportacrime, or via smart phone app.


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Most people know not to respond to an internet personal ad referencing cannibalism, joke or not. One Swiss man responded to such an ad, believing it would be a dark, twisted role play. Oh how wrong he was.
Luckily, the guy only spoke to the Slovakian human eater on the phone, who expressed a desire to kill, cook and eat a potential victim. According to the UK Sun, the Swissman alerted the police when he realized what was going on.
The cops sent in an undercover officer posing as the victim in a sting operation to catch the suspected flesh-eater.
But as officers attempted to arrest the man yesterday, in the north-eastern village of Kysak, a gunfight broke out and the man and a cop were shot.
A Kysak police spokesman said: "It appears this man was genuinely seeking to eat someone.
"His advert said he wanted someone who would agree to be put to sleep then killed, cut up, cooked and eaten.
The first thing my parents taught me growing up: don't talk to cannibals on the internet. [UK Sun]
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By Terri Moon Cronk
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 6, 2011 – The skill and courage of countless American military and intelligence professionals are why Osama bin Laden can never threaten America again, President Barack Obama told a cheering group of 101st Airborne soldiers today at Fort Campbell, Ky.
Obama told them about meeting yesterday with survivors of 9/11 victims in New York and laying a wreath at ground zero where the World Trade Center towers once stood.
"I met with the first responders … who lost so many of their own when they rushed into those burning towers. I promise our nation we will never forget those we lost that dark September day."
Earlier today, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment and the 5th Special Forces Group at Fort Campbell to thank them for their service.
They later met with the full assault force that carried out the operation and awarded them a Presidential Unit Citation, the highest honor that can be given to a unit in recognition of extraordinary service and achievement.
"It was a chance for me to say on behalf of all Americans and people around the world, 'Job well done,'" Obama told the troops gathered inside an aircraft hangar.
Calling the special operations teams "the quiet professionals," Obama said they, like the rest of today's military members, chose to serve in a time of war.
"They trained for years," he said. "They're battle-hardened. They practiced tirelessly for this mission.
"When I gave the order, they were ready," he said. "In recent days, the whole world has learned just how ready they were."
These Americans deserve credit for one of the greatest intelligence and military operations in the nation's history, Obama said, adding "[And] so does every person who wears America's uniform, the finest military the world has ever known."
"Because of your service, because of your sacrifices, we're making progress in Afghanistan," the president said.
"We're making progress in our major goal … [of] disrupting and dismantling -- and we are going to ultimately defeat -- al-Qaida.
"We have cut off their head and we will ultimately defeat them."
U.S. strategy is working, and there is no greater evidence of that, Obama said, "than justice finally being delivered to Osama bin Laden."
The fight against extremists is not over, but in its new phase, U.S. troops are transferring power to the Afghans, and will begin to return home this summer.
"We'll build the long-term partnership with the Afghan people so that al-Qaida can never again threaten America from that country," Obama said.
"As your commander in chief, I am confident that we're going to succeed in this mission … because, in you, I see the strength of America's military, and because in recent days we've all seen the resilience of the American spirit," he said.
"There's nothing we can't do together, 101st, when we remember who we are -- and that is the United States of America. When we remember that no problem is too hard and no challenge is too great," the president said.
"That is why," he added, "I'm so confident that, with your brave service, America's greatest days are still to come."