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Tonight for just a brief time of meditation on God's Word, I want you to open your Bible to 1 Corinthians chapter 10 and I want to draw your attention to one verse and then to just a brief look at some truth that elucidates the meaning of this verse as we share together in the culmination of this wonderful day. First Corinthians chapter 10 and verse 31, the Apostle Paul says, "Whether therefore you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." He points out eating and drinking because those are the most mundane routine necessary things of life that occupy us whether we desire them to or not, that's just the routine of life. And what Paul is saying is everything, even those very mundane routine normal things in life are to be done to the glory of God. That's the bottom line in all of our living, isn't it. Everything we do we are to do for the glory of God. That is the most important thing in the universe.
Through the years this has been a particular theme in my own heart, one that has in many ways set the tone for my own ministry, the basic principle of glorifying God. In 1 Corinthians a little earlier you'll notice in chapter 6 verse 19 Paul says, "What, know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you whom you have from God...that is the Holy Spirit...and you're not your own, you are bought with a price? Therefore glorify God in your body." In whatever you do, glorify God. Since you are redeemed and bought with a price, glorify God in your body. This is the call in simplicity to Christian living, we are to live to the glory of God.
In fact, that's the key to everything. That's the key to everything that exists. Everything God ever made He made with a purpose of giving Him glory. We find that in Psalm 19 chapter 1 where the Bible says the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth His handiwork. When God made inanimate creation, when He made the heavens and the Earth, they were for His glory. And even when He made the animate creation, you know it says in Isaiah 43 that the beast of the field shall give Me honor or glory. Everything that God ever made was for His glory.
In Colossians 1:16 it says all things were made by Him and...what?...for Him...for Him. Everything that has been made has been made for the purpose of glorifying God. And in Isaiah chapter 48 and verse 11 God says, "My glory I will not give to another." Everything then is to be the glory of God. Everything hen is to bring praise and honor to God. That's why creation was brought into existence, and basically creation cooperates. The stars glorify God, they don't rebel, there has never been a rebellion of the stars. They've never sinned against their creator. The earth itself does not rebel, the flowers don't rebel they just do what flowers are supposed to do..send out their wonderful fragrance, their beautiful color. The animal world does not rebel, does not curse God, does not deny God His rightful place. The animal creation and that which is natural in the world does what it was intended to do, it declares the glory of God.
And in all of the world of God's creation the two highest creatures He ever made were angels and men and they were the only two that rebelled. They were the only two that had a choice and they made the choice against God. Angels chose to rebel against God and were forever cast out of heaven, becoming the demons as we know them, who work for the enemy Satan and will spend eternity in hell. There is no redemption for angels. Those who fell have fallen and it is set that they will forever be wicked. Those who did not fall are forever secured in righteousness. So the story of angels, as it were, begins and ends with that one moment in eternity past when they fell.
But then there is man who fell. And by God's wonderful grace, God has sought to recover man, to bring him back. There is no salvation for angels. That's why angels, it says, desire to look into the things regarding salvation. That is why Paul writing to the Ephesians says that God is doing things in the church to show His wisdom before the angels. The angels do not understand first hand the meaning of redemption or salvation or restoration. But God has set out to recover the rebel man, the man who has set against...set his heart against the God who made him.
And what is God asking of man? God is asking that man give Him glory, that man glorify Him as he was intended to do. It's just that basic. That's the problem of man. Look at Romans chapter 1 for a moment and you'll see what man's problem is. Verse 21, "When they knew God...that is man had the knowledge of God all around him and in his conscience, God has revealed Himself to man in conscience and creation...but when they knew God...here it comes, here is the basic definition of the fallenness of man...they glorified Him not." They glorified Him not. They would not give God His rightful place. They would not offer Him glory. They rather were unthankful and became empty in their own imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened and they thought themselves to be wise without God when in truth they became fools. They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man and birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. In other words, men made gods out of snakes and birds and animals and gods out of their own kind as well.
And then God gave them up to uncleanness. God turned man over to his sin because man refused to give Him glory. That's the basic sin of man. God created the world, God created men that are in the world for the purpose of giving Him glory. Men said no. So God gave man over to his uncleanness...but didn't leave him there for Romans doesn't end there. The rest of the epistle of Paul to the Romans goes on to tell about how God wants to recover man back. Yes, Romans 3 says, all have sinned and...what?...come short of...what?...the glory of God. But God is set to bring man back. And so the whole story of the redemptive process is God desiring to bring man back to the place where he lives to give Him glory in whatever he does even something as mundane as eating and drinking. And our life as Christians can be reduced to that, we live to the glory of God. Everything we do, everything we say, everything we think ought to bring glory, honor and praise to God. That's the qualifying factor in all that we are. I mean, we only need to ask ourselves one basic question at all times: will it glorify God? Is it to the glory of God? That becomes the qualifier for every deed done, every thought thought, every word spoken...will it glorify God? Will it bring Him honor?
And so, because of man's fallenness and refusal to glorify God from the very beginning, God set out to recover man. Let's look at how God did that in the past. Turn in your Bible to the third chapter of Genesis for a moment, we're going to take just a very fast tour to come to a climactic point of practicality in our thought. But in Genesis chapter 3 we are given the instruction of the Fall. Prior to the fall of man it tells us that man walked with God, man knew God, man fellowshipped with God in the cool of the day, enjoying God's presence, fellowshipping in innocence and purity with God. All was well. Man glorified God, gave Him proper worship, praise, adoration, honor.
And then man sinned in chapter 3. And so we come to verse 8. Man has sinned and it says, "Man...that is man and woman, Adam and Eve...they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day." They heard God approaching. And there was some presence, some manifestation of God with which they were familiar, some way to know that it indeed was God. And God is a spirit but He manifested Himself in His presence. We call that the Shekinah, a visible light. God revealed Himself in light moving through the garden, "And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence, from the Shekinah, the light of the Lord God among the trees of the garden."
Now here is God's presence mentioned, the Shekinah. And it was a cloud-like light that represented the presence of God. It was His glory. He is manifesting Himself in light, if you will. He's showing Himself in all of His attributes as manifested in this glorious Shekinah light in which He fellowships with Adam and Eve. But because of their sin they hide from God and the fellowship is broken. In verse 23, "The Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden to till the ground from where he was taken, so He drove out the man and placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubim, angels set to guard the holiness of God, and a flaming sword which turned every way to guard the way of the tree of life." In other words, man was thrown out of the garden. God was saying if you will not recognize My glory, if you will hide from My glory, if you will choose no longer to honor Me but to entertain sin, then you forfeit fellowship. And God always dismisses rebels from His presence. Just like in Romans 1 it tells us that, "When they would not glorify God, He gave them up to uncleanness." He let them go the way they chose to go in sin. But from the beginning God had revealed His glory and asked man and woman to give Him glory. They turned their back on that and God put them out of His presence.
But that wasn't the end, for God wanted to call them back. Turn with me to the thirty-third chapter of Exodus and in the thirty-third chapter of Exodus, God has brought together a people, the people of Israel and through them He desires to call fallen men all over the earth back to Himself, back to giving Him glory. And so He sends His Shekinah back, that from which men hid, that from which they were restrained by holy angels with a flaming sword, that Shekinah glory comes back to call men to a place of giving Him the glory that He is due. And Moses becomes His tool. In verse 11, the Lord spoke to Moses face to face as a man speaks unto his friend. And the Lord says to Moses, in effect, I want you to represent Me, I want you to call the people back to Me. And Moses said to the Lord in verse 12, "You say to me bring up this people and Thou hast not let me know whom Thou will send with me." In other words, God said I want you to bring My people out of Egypt, lead them across the wilderness, lead them into the promise land and Moses said, "You're telling me to do this but You're not telling me who is going with me. Do You realize what a task You're asking? When they finally came out of Egypt, of course, there were probably two million people, are You asking me by myself to do this? Who is going to go with me?"
"Now You said I know thee by name and Thou hast also found grace in my sight." In other words, I know You know me and I know I'm on good terms with you, but this is a very large task, who is going to go with me? "Now therefore...verse 13...I pray Thee if I have found grace in Thy sight, show me now Thy way that I may know Thee, that I may find grace in Thy sight and consider that this nation is Thy people." In other words, God, You're going to have to help me...You're going to have to help me. And in verse 14 God said, "My presence...there's that word again...My glory, My Shekinah will go with you and I'll give you rest." And he said, "If Your presence doesn't go with me, carry us not up from here." In other words, if You're not going, I'm not going either...I'm not going without You. And so God says, "Moses, My glory will go with you...My glory will be your strength and your guide." And Moses who was somewhat weak in faith hadn't heard enough so in verse 18 he goes a step further and he said, "I beseech Thee, show me Thy glory." I appreciate what You're saying but I need to see it to believe it, show it to me so I'll know that I'm really communing with You and that You really mean this.
And He said, "All right, I'll make all My goodness pass before thee and proclaim the name of the Lord before thee." In other words, His glory is all that He is...His goodness, and verse 19 mentions His grace and it mentions His mercy and then it says the name of the Lord and the name of the Lord embodies all that He is. I'll show you all that I am manifest in the Shekinah glow of light. He said I'll reveal My glory...but there's a qualification in verse 20, you can't see My face for no one could see My face and live. In other words, I can't show you all My glory or it would consume you, it would burn you to cinders in an instant. That's why when Jesus comes back in unveiled and full glory, the people on the earth cry for the rocks and the mountains to fall on them, to hide them from the face of the one who comes in glory. So He says, "Moses, you can't see it all, you can't look at all My glory and even survive." The Lord said in verse 21, "There's a place by Me, stand on a rock, it will come to pass while My glory passes by I'll put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand while I pass by and I'll take away My hand and you'll see My back parts but My face shall not be seen."
In other words, God says you get in that rock place there, hide in that little crack and when I come by I'll put My hand, as it were, obviously not a physical hand, I'll veil your view and I won't show you My full glory but I'll let a little of My back part sort of shine on you so you're not consumed. What a marvelous promise. God said, "You want to see My glory, I'll show you My glory because I want men to see My glory, I want men to recognize My glory."
Now go down to verse 5 of chapter 34 and it says, "And the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name of the Lord." In other words, He revealed Himself in all His fullness and the Lord passed by before him and proclaimed the Lord Lord God...and those are all different terms describing the nature of God...merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the children's children unto the third and the fourth generation. In other words, God lets Moses see a little of His attributes manifest in light and glory.
And what was Moses' response? Verse 8, "In a big hurry he made haste and bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped." He worshiped. It's the right response, by the way, when you see the glory of God.
Now what happened? Here was Moses up on the mount and he had this personal vision of the glory of God and God is about to use Moses as a tool to get men to see His glory. And so Moses having met with God comes down out of the mountain and we pick up the narrative in verse 29. "And as he comes down out of the mountain it came to pass when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand." He comes down with the law, the Ten Commandments that God's given him. "When he came down from the mount that Moses knew not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him and when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold the skin of face of his face shone and they were afraid to come near him." What was God doing? Once in the garden God had said, "Here is My glory, will you please receive My glory, adore Me, worship Me, honor Me, give Me the glory that I am due?" Man said no, turned his back on God's glory, hid himself from God's glory. God then separated that glory from man because of man's rejection. Now in great grace God is bringing back His glory. He brings it back on the face of Moses and Moses comes walking into the camp of Israel, a disobedient Israel, by the way, and God is again saying by shining from the face of Moses, "Will you please see My glory?" And God is using a human instrument to convey His glory to the people that they might recognize who He is and give Him the honor that He is due. And so Moses speaks to them with the glory on his face. But when he spoke, verse 33 says, he put a veil on his face. He veiled.
You say, "Why did he veil the glory?" Well they all knew it was there. Sure they knew it was there because they saw it before he veiled it. Why did he veil it? Second Corinthians tells us in chapter 3, he veiled it because it kept fading away and he didn't want to see it fade away. And every time it would fade away he would run back up in the mountain, get back in the crack in the rock and get more glory on his face and come back down again and continue his speech. He didn't want the glory to diminish, he didn't want them to see it diminish. But on the face of Moses, reflecting the glory of God was God giving the message to Israel...please recognize My glory...My glory. In verse 35, "The children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone and Moses put the veil on his face again until he went in to speak with Him," that is with God again. He would repeatedly speak with God, come back and veil himself. The glory would fade, he'd go back and do it again and again. He was a tool to call men to give God glory.
And so, man refused to give God glory in the garden but God came back and said, "Give Me glory." And He used the face of a man as a vehicle. Go with me for a moment to the fortieth chapter of Exodus and here we find that God uses another means to call men to recognize His glory.
In Exodus chapter 40 they were building the tabernacle, the first place of worship. And when the tabernacle was complete, a very incredible and glorious thing happened. At the end of verse 33 of the last chapter of Exodus, chapter 40 it says, "So Moses finished the work." The tabernacle was complete and instantly it says in verse 34, "Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation...that's's the tabernacle...and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle." Now here comes the glory again. First it was in the garden, and man refused it. Then it came on the face of Moses, and you remember what happened ultimately of course when Moses came down from the mount with the tables of testimony initially, the people were worshiping and idol, weren't they? And it didn't take long for them to complain and gripe even wandering in the wilderness. They were very short-lived in their response to glorify God. So once God established the tabernacle, God said, I'll send My glory back again, this time it will dwell in the tabernacle and there in the Holy of Holies and over the Holy of Holies and every time the glory rises out of the Holy of Holies into the sky and moves, the children were to pack up and follow it. And it was a cloud by day and a pillar of...what?...by night? Of fire. And that was the glory of God before them at night, before them in the day, descending on to the Holy of Holies when they camped to worship. They always knew, this is God revealing Himself and calling us to recognize His glory, the shining light which speaks of His goodness and grace and mercy and all that is true about Him. In fact, the glory was so overwhelming, verse 35 says Moses wasn't able to enter the tent of the congregation because the glory cloud abode there on and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. He couldn't even get in it because it was filled with God's glory.
"And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journey, when the cloud was taken up then they journeyed not...not till the day that it was taken up, for the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day and fire was on it by night in the sight of all of the house of Israel throughout all their journeys." And God was saying, would you see My glory...would you see My glory? And all the while they complained and they griped and they paid less attention to the glory of God then they should of and as a result they died...that whole generation died in the wilderness, didn't they?
It really is a sad story. God gives His glory in the garden and they choose to follow Satan. God sends His glory on the face of Moses and the people's response is very short-lived. God sends His glory back in the accomplishing of the building of the tabernacle and they pay little attention to it. And they should have paid more. The tribes, you know, were organized around the tabernacle in proper places, all twelve tribes focusing in on it so they had to look at the glory of God all the time. But even in that they ignored it.
Finally they settled in the land. And when they settled in the land God commanded them to build a building and this is the temple, 1 Kings, please, chapter 8. And they built the temple. And when they had finished building the temple, a glorious venture, a magnificent edifice, upon the finishing of that Solomonic temple, that glorious place, verse 10 of 1 Kings 8 says, "And it came to pass when the priests would come out of the holy place, the cloud filled the house of the Lord so that the priest could not stand to minister because of the cloud for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord."
They finished the tabernacle and the glory came. They ignored that. They finished the temple and the glory came again and God was saying, "Here in a permanent place in your own land, the glory of God will dwell in the Holy of Holies and it will call you to give Me glory." Well you know what happened? By the time you come to 2 Chronicles chapter 9, the Queen of Sheba comes and she looks at this temple and she looks at all the wonders that Solomon had produced and she doesn't at all give glory to God, she gives glory to Solomon. And you read about that in 2 Chronicles chapter 9 verses 3 to 6. She says, "For thou exceedest the fame that I heard." O Solomon, you're more wonderful than I thought. And it doesn't take long before the glory of God is lost and the glory of Solomon is the issue.
It would have been bad enough if it had ended there, but it didn't end there. Go to Ezekiel chapter 8 and in Ezekiel chapter 8 we have an incredible vision of the temple defiled. In Ezekiel chapter 8 we get a glimpse of the temple that is really tragic, verse 9. He said, "Go in, go in." He had seen the glory of God in chapter 8 verse 4, the glory of the God of Israel was there according to the vision that he had in the plain. But when he comes to the temple to see what's there, he's instructed in verse 9, "Go in and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. So he went into the temple where the glory of God was supposed to dwell. And what did he see? Every form of creeping things and abominable beasts and all the idols of the house of Israel portrayed on the wall around about." They had painted all their idols on the walls...snakes, beasts. "There stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan with every man, his censer in his hand." Every man, his censer in his hand means everybody was acting like a priest, they were violating the priesthood, they were violating the single worship of God with all their idols. The place was filled with that. It was loaded with incense. And there was imagery, says verse 12. Verse 13, "And I'll turn, he says, and I'll show you something even worse than this and there were...in verse 14...women weeping for Tammuz." This is Baal worship...Baal worship. Tammuz is the name of the false god, it's identified with all kinds of different names like Isis and Adonis and many others in Greek mythology.
He says, "Look and I'll show you something even further. And he brought me, verse 16, to the inner court of the Lord's house and behold at the door of the temple of the Lord, the door of the holy place and the Holy of Holies there were 25 men with their backs toward the temple." They had their backs to the Holy of Holies, their faces toward the east and they worshiped the sun. No doubt influenced by the Egyptians who worship the sun god Ra. The holy temple has been abominated and desecrated. And Ezekiel sees this in his vision. "Do you see it...verse 17 says...O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? They have filled the land with violence, they have returned to provoke me to anger, I will deal in fury with them, he says." And here God sent His glory in a temple and they didn't accept that any more than they accepted His glory in a tent or His glory on the face of Moses or even His glory in the garden.
And then you have one of the most tragic things in all of Scripture. You have Ichabod written on the people as the glory departs. And if you follow through chapter 10, progressively the glory of God leaves. First verse 3, "The cloud fills the inner court." Verse 4, "Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub and stood over the threshold of the house and the house was filled with the cloud and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory." And progressively, we won't take the time to develop it, as you move through the chapter, the glory of God comes up and finally it moves away and it goes far away. Verse 18, "The glory of the Lord departed," and it progressively goes away until Ichabod, the glory has all together departed is written on that place. And Hosea tells us that vultures circle the temple of God.
Now all through this Old Testament, God is calling men to realize His glory, calling men to give Him glory. His glory came in the garden, His glory came on the face of a man, His glory came in a tent, His glory came in a building and it was more time that He sent His glory and this time He sent it in the form of a man, His only Son, and when Jesus Christ came into the world, do you know who He was? He was the glory of God in a body. In John 1:14 it says, "We beheld His glory." And in Luke chapter 9 He pulled back His flesh and He revealed His glory on the Mount of Transfiguration, He showed that He was none other than the Shekinah, the same glory, the same essential reality of God revealed in light in the Old Testament that dwell in the temple, that dwell in the tabernacle, that shone in the face of Moses, that came in the garden and walked with man. The glory was back and God in Christ was saying, "Will you give Me glory? Will you give Me glory?" And God cried out, "This is My beloved Son, hear Him, hear Him." And man did to Jesus Christ exactly what man had done every other time God sent His glory, rejected it and turned his back on Christ.
You say, "Is God through?" No. No, God's going to send His glory back in the future. Let me talk about the future, I've talked about the past, may I talk about the future for a moment? In Matthew chapter 24 we get a picture of the glory of God coming in the future. In Matthew 24 it says, "Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened...verse 29...the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from heaven, the powers of the heavens shall be shaken." In other words, God turns out all the lights in the heavens. "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven." Now Christ is coming. "Then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and...now for the first time in Scripture...great glory." This is unveiled glory. This is not partial glory, this is great glory. And it is then, I believe, that the people in the world cry for the rocks and the mountains to fall on them to hide them from the face of His glory. All the glory is coming back. Chapter 25 of Matthew verse 31 again repeats the same idea, "The Son of Man comes in His glory and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory."
Listen when that occasion occurs, when Christ comes in full and final glory, there will be no choices. The Bible says His glory will fill the whole earth and He will reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords and He will judge instantly all of those who do not know Him. In that time that He comes in full final glory man will have no choice for His glory will fill all and all then the rebels will be instantly dealt with.
You say, "Well where will we be then?" He's coming with the angels, I think we're going to be there too. Colossians 3:4 says, "When Christ shall appear then shall ye also appear with Him...where?...in glory." I believe when Jesus comes back in His glory with the holy angels, He comes also with the holy redeemed and raptured saints. The glorified saints will come, we'll be a part of that glory cloud that comes to fill the earth.
Listen, in the past God endeavored to reveal His glory to man and man refused it. In the future, God will bring His glory and man will have no choice. That leaves only the present. What about the present? Where's the glory of God now? Is it on the face of a man? Is it in the garden somewhere? Is it in a building or a tent? There is no incarnate God here. And not yet have we seen it blazing out of heaven. Where is the glory of God? Where is it?
Oh, I think the best understanding of that comes from Colossians 1:27, listen to it, just listen to it. Paul says this, "Christ in you the hope of glory." And I think that not only has reference to a future manifestation of glory but a present one as well because he says, "The riches of the glory of the mystery of salvation is Christ in you, the hope of glory." And what he is saying is between God's revelations of glory in the past and God's revelation of glory in the future, God has not left the world without a revelation of His glory, but the only way the world is ever going to see His glory is when you and I live to manifest that glory. Do you see that? That's it. That's where we are all as Christians. That's why whatever we do, whether we eat or drink, we do all...what?...to the glory of God. Because that is His glory revealed. We are the temple the world sees. We are the tabernacle. We are the shining face. We are the presence in the world of Christ. And that's why since we've been bought with a price for that purpose, we must glorify God in our body. That's why according to 2 Corinthians 3:8 which I always put under my name whenever I sign it, as we gaze on the glory of the Lord we are transformed from one level of glory to the next by the Holy Spirit. The focus of the life of a Christian is to gaze on the glory of Jesus Christ. I'll tell you, when you look to the Word of God and you see His glory and you see His glory, you go away like Moses. You don't go away proud but you go away manifesting His glory.
I remember the story of a young man who came to D.L. Moody one time and said, "Oh, Mr. Moody, we've been in an all-night prayer meeting, see how our faces shine." And Mr. Moody said, "Moses didn't know his face shone." Somebody had to tell him.
So we are the revelation of the glory of God and as 2 Corinthians 3:18 says it, as we look gazing, as it were, into the glory of God, focusing on the glory of God it says with an unveiled face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, we are changed into the same image from one level of glory to the next. The longer you gaze at Christ, the more intently you focus on Christ, the more you lose yourself in Him the more you are transformed into His glory from level to the next and when you move through the world you are the Shekinah for this age, and so am I. For the church is called to represent His glory, to be His glory in the world. And if the world is to see the glory of God, if they are to see the God they are to glorify, they need to see in us that glory. That's why in 2 Peter 1:3, listen to this, it says, "God has called us to glory and virtue." And as you live that virtuous, obedient life, you and I manifest the glory of God.
Well I can't think of a higher calling, can you? I can't think of a higher calling. I mean, I've grown up studying the Bible and always had a great sense of awe in thinking of the presence of God in the garden, a great sense of awe in thinking of Moses seeing the glory of God on Mount Sinai, coming down with it on his face, a great sense of awe in imagining the cloud filling the tabernacle and the temple, a great sense of awe about the incarnate Christ who was veiled glory and oh what a marvelous, what a heart-searching thought it is to realize that in this time and for now I am that vehicle to transmit the glory of God to a watching world so that whatever I do, eat or drink or whatever I do, I do it all...what?...to the glory of God. May it be so. Let's bow in prayer.
Our prayer, Father, together tonight is that we would fulfill this high and holy calling to live to Your glory, to seek not for our own but for Thee, to be not concerned with ourselves but Thee, to show the world not us but Thee, to manifest not our abilities and our talents and our skills but the glory that Thou hast planted in us by the indwelling of internal life in Christ. May it be that we shine and that the world when seeing us will give glory to God who shines through us. May we adorn Thee as Paul said to Titus. We thank You for our fellowship today and because Jesus Christ was willing to die and rise for us, we can give Thee glory. For that we rejoice. And we thank You also, Father, that we have committed into Your hands and Your care our dear friend Ron Perez who loved You with all his heart, soul, mind and strength, who lived his life for you. We thank You that he now rejoices in the presence of the one he loved and served and the one in whom he hoped so greatly and hope is now reality for him...we bless You for that. But he being dead yet speaks and shall ever speak of trust and faith and hope and strength and courage to all of us who knew him. We thank You for that lesson. And, Father, we pray tonight for those who may not yet know what it is to reflect Your glory, that ere this day passes they'll seek to know and we are confident that to those who seek there shall come an understanding for that's Your promise, for Christ's sake. Amen.


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'War on coal' no slam dunk for GOP
Republicans have wasted little time jumping on the Environmental Protection Agency's new climate rule, warning that Democrats in coal states will pay dearly at the polls for their ties to President Barack Obama's regulatory machine.
But this might not be a slam-dunk strategy for the GOP. It certainly wasn't in 2012, when Obama handily won reelection while Democrats prevailed in Senate races in West Virginia, Montana, Indiana and Ohio — all coal states where many voters have little love for the EPA.
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And the Democrats most vulnerable in 2014 did all they could Friday to get out in front of the issue by denouncing the new climate rule.
West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall complained that "this callous, ideologically driven agency continues to be numb to the economic pain that their reckless regulations cause." Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Kentucky Democrat trying to unseat Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, not only criticized the agency's proposal but even implied that McConnell shares the blame.
"Kentuckians deserve better than out-of-touch Washington regulation that further devastates an already ravaged region," Grimes said in a statement. "The dysfunction in Sen. McConnell's Washington continues to fail Kentucky families."
( Also on POLITICO: Coal-state Democrats slam EPA)
In West Virginia, Democratic Senate candidate Natalie Tennant promised to "fight any Republican or any Democrat — including President Barack Obama — who tries to kill our energy jobs, whether they are coal, natural gas, wind or water."
Other 2014 Democrats from energy-heavy states, like Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, have long separated themselves from Obama's energy agenda. Landrieu, for example, often berates the administration over the pace of offshore oil and gas drilling permits and has voted with Republicans to hobble EPA regulations.
Of course, next year is a midterm election, not a presidential one, and the previous midterm in 2010 saw Democrats fall in coal states like Virginia and West Virginia as the Republicans flipped the House.
Once again, Republicans say, Democrats can run but can't hide from their president's climate policies.
( Also on POLITICO: Coal in Obama's climate cross hairs)
"Democrat incumbents and challengers are going to be forced to explain this move by the Obama administration," National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Daniel Scarpinato said after the EPA officially unveiled the rule Friday. "This is about jobs and energy costs — and polling shows that voters get it."
"This is a direct assault from the administration on the economic lifeblood on many communities in coal states," said Andy Sere, a Republican strategist and former chief of staff to Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.).
Even before Friday's announcement, the GOP was beating the "war on coal" drumbeat in Senate races in Kentucky, West Virginia, Alaska and Louisiana, while aiming to tie Democrats to the unpopular EPA in House districts in Arizona, Illinois, Western New York, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The general line of attack: Obama's regulations will wipe out jobs and send energy prices soaring. And voters will have both Obama and a particular hometown Democrat to thank.
( Also on POLITICO: West Virginia Senate race: Tennant seeks distance from Obama, coal policy)
Voters should expect that Democrats like Tennant, Grimes, Landrieu and Alaska Sen. Mark Begich "will be held accountable for supporting a liberal administration that has declared a radical war on coal and American energy development," National Republican Senatorial Committee spokeswoman Brook Hougesen said.
The NRSC responded to Friday's announcement by issuing news releases lambasting seven Democratic candidates — including Grimes, Tennant, Landrieu, Begich and Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) — calling each a "foot soldier" in a "radical" Obama EPA agenda.
Republicans have already been hitting Rahall for months on his ties to the administration. They seized on early reports of the details of Friday's proposal to argue that Rahall's efforts to work with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and other administration leaders on West Virginians' behalf haven't worked.
McConnell made a similar attack on Grimes, saying she has spent "exactly zero effort on behalf of Kentucky's coal families while the president she supported waged war on them."
He's also tried to tie her to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is hosting an Oct. 11 fundraiser for Grimes. McConnell put out a video that quotes Reid as saying that "coal makes us sick."
The EPA rule may also come up in attacks on Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick in Arizona and Bill Enyart in Illinois, a series of Democratic House challengers in Western Pennsylvania and challengers in the 6th districts in Kentucky and Ohio, West Virginia's 2nd District and the 23rd District in Western New York.
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The Kings did not merely win the Stanley Cup.
Yes, they hoisted it around the ice at Staples Center after the Game 6 Finals win over New Jersey, and the Cup made its usual caravan to the homes, ancestral grounds and rinks of all the players and team officials, and its saucer certainly was filled with everything from scotch to egg nog.
What the Kings did was share it with the city and its long-suffering fans. If there's a Kings fan in greater Los Angeles who didn't plant a kiss or 200 on the Cup on its grand tour of the city, he or she wouldn't admit it for fear of humiliation.
This city has held parades for the Lakers in front of hundreds of thousands and has championship moments in Dodgers history – "in a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened" – ingrained in its brain forever.
But never has a group of unrequited fans been as ecstatic over a victory. This was Charlie Brown kicking the field goal and getting a kiss from the red-haired girl. It was pure, unadulterated bliss and not a single fan was too proud to wear the team's colors, paint his or her face or act like a 10-year-old when they actually got to cuddle with the Cup.
It's truly one of the most awesome moments in Los Angeles sports history, a kismet moment when a team that has won nothing turns it around so unexpectedly.
We could have expected it. Throughout the playoffs, the Kings were referenced as the last seed (eighth) in its conference, but the truth was there were scant points separating the teams seeded three to eight. The team had played exceedingly well, too, since changing coaches early and hiring Darryl Sutter.
The Kings dominated the Cup like few NHL champions.
They ran off to a 3-0 lead against Vancouver in the first round and clinched in Game 5 in overtime. They swept St. Louis in the second round and allowed just six goals in four games.
They opened a 3-0 lead on Phoenix in the Conference final and then clinched in Game 5, again in overtime.
They opened a 3-0 lead on New Jersey before closing it out at home in Game 6, 6-1, barraging the Devils with three first-period goals which began a celebration that, frankly, hasn't ended in some places.
Goalie Jonathan Quick won the Conn Smythe Trophy as MVP of the Stanley Cup after allowing 30 goals in 20 playoff games. The Kings won three postseason games in overtime and were 10-1 on the road.
The only things the Kings didn't accomplish was no fault of their own; the NHL lockout has postponed the raising of the championship banner.
They were without question the biggest story of 2012.
2. Let's be frank, we're glad you're gone.
Frank McCourt did something more astonishing than the Kings: He bankrupted the Dodgers. He pocketed a lot of money in the process, of course, which is what all megalomaniac sports owners do.
His divorce proceedings with Jamie McCourt, a maniac in her own right, pulled the curtain back on the way he sliced and diced the Dodgers empire into shell pieces and took his profit while pushing the team into debt. MLB eventually had to force him out.
Not without a parting gift, a massive $2.1 billion sale to the Guggenheim Group, one of your basic "investment" companies that had the benefit of Magic Johnson as a front man to ease tensions.
Frank-ly, there are as many reasons to distrust the new owners as the old. They've gone on a dubious Steinbrenner-like trade and free-agent rampage – Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford, Zack Grienke – that sent the payroll beyond $200 million for 2013. If this team falls on its wallet, we'll all be reminded there's no guarantee the new owner is better than the old.
Who knows? Maybe Ryu Hyun-jin will be the new Fernando and the Dodgers will add Korean BBQ to the concession stands.
3. "And you thought the Kardashians were drama queens."
Congrats to Jim Buss. With McCourt and Mike Garrett gone and Donald Sterling's Clippers no longer a joke, you've become the biggest management goof in town. The Lakers always have been a soap opera, but never one so messy since Jerry Buss gave the keys to his son.
Mike Brown wasn't the right coach for this team, but dumping him after five games of season two? Courting Phil Jackson was smart; stiffing him was absurd. Truth is, this is an old team trying to win a quick title, and it remains to be seen if anyone beyond Dwight Howard can handle Mike D'Antoni's pace.
Right now, the Clippers are better, younger and more exciting.
4. "Not even No. 1 in Los Angeles."
One game never should define a coach, but USC's 2011 win over Oregon changed a lot of minds about Lane Kiffin. The publicity was good enough to make the Trojans the No. 1 team in the preseason AP poll and returning senior quarterback Matt Barkley a Heisman candidate.
Quicker than you can say deflated footballs, the Trojans lost to Stanford and went on a 1-4 bender to close the season, including a loss to UCLA for the first time since 2006. Kiffin was combative with the media, found novel ways to embarrass the program and did Barkley no favors with his sketchy game plans. The 2012 season ends in the Sun Bowl; as far as many USC fans are concerned it's sunset, not sunrise, on the Kiffin era.
5. "Big fish, fishy decisions."
On one hand, the Angels proved they have cornerstone, homegrown talents in A.L. Rookie of the Year Mike Trout and Long Beach State alum Jered Weaver, who took a home team discount signing a new contract and also pitched a no-hitter. On the other, they signed Albert Pujols when they needed bullpen help, and it was a second consecutive year of blown saves that ruined the team's postseason changes. Pujols can hit, and so can new signee Josh Hamilton. But Arte Moreno's moves of late seem more like responses to what the Dodgers are doing than finding the right combination – all at the expense of manager Mike Scioscia.
6. "Eighteen years of freedom are at stake!"
Los Angeles has not been infested with the NFL since the Rams and Raiders left after the 1994 season, meaning no lousy teams or blackouts or oddball owners or, most importantly, a new stadium built at taxpayer expense. Alas, the L.A. City Council in 2012 approved a new downtown football stadium. The good politicians swear it won't cost anyone a penny.
Probably not, because like every other football fantasy floated in town this one still lacks all of the tithing the NFL requires, especially now with prime mover-shaker Philip Anschutz putting his company, AEG (Kings, Staples, Galaxy, a little of the Lakers), up for sale. Hey, every list needs a little pulp fiction.
7. "Never redshirt a talented freshman."
There's one bit of advice Rick Neuheisel should have taken from Pete Carroll – play your freshmen, no matter how crowded a position may be. Neuheisel chose to redshirt quarterback Brett Hundley in 2011; the team won a division title but lost 50-0 to USC, finished 6-8 and Neuheisel lost his job. Neuheisel's loss was new coach Jim Mora's gain.
Hundley was the key to a Bruins revival that produced a 9-4 record, Pac-12 South title, all-time rushing title for Johnathan Franklin and Holiday Bowl date. There's no denying the Bruins regained some swagger with the change; now the question is what Mora can do for an encore and how long before he wants to return to the NFL.
8. "Olympic royalty in London."
It's a given that Southern California will reap a large portion of medals for America at every Olympics and 2012 was no different, with three local women taking home a trio of medals – Allyson Felix (three golds), Carmelita Jeter (gold, silver, bronze) and Rebecca Soni (two gold, silver). The gold-medal winning men's and women's basketball teams, women's soccer and women's water polo teams were SoCal strong, too; Long Beach State's Misty May-Treanor won a third gold medal with partner Kerri Walsh-Jennings in beach volleyball; Monrovia sharpshooter Kim Rhode became the first American to medal in five consecutive games and Bryshon Nellum, four years removed from gunshot wounds that threatened to end his career, won a relay medal and carried the American flag in the closing ceremonies.
9. "OK, so maybe this sport is catching on."
It will be eons before American professional soccer can consider itself on par with the best leagues in Europe and South America, but give the MLS credit for survival and, specifically, the Galaxy for taking a costly chance on David Beckham and winning a second consecutive MLS Cup. It ain't Stanley, but it will do for soccer fans.
Beckham and wife Posh now return to the homeland, where they undoubtedly will push the royal pregnancy off the front page.
10. "Oh me oh my! BINGO!!"
At last, vindication for Ralph Lawler. The long-suffering Clippers announcer now has a team worthy of his enthusiasm and hopes. The Clips took a major step in 2011-12 by going 40-26 and reaching the conference semifinals, and might have gone farther if Chauncey Billups hadn't been hurt. In Blake Griffin and Chris Paul, the Clips have two thoroughbreds, and they're currently on a franchise-record 16-game winning streak. If the Kings can win a Stanley Cup, the Clippers can dream just as big.
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UCLA men's basketball: Ben Howland lands star-studded recruiting class, begins season in Top 25, then loses to Cal Poly and two players quit. On a good note, a John Wooden statue is unveiled and a new Pauley Pavilion opens.
Antron Brown: The driver becomes the first African-American to win a major U.S. auto racing title at the Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals in Pomona.
Jamie Bestwick and Bob Burnquist: Skateboarder extraordinaire Bestwick six-peats in the Vert at the X Games to tie a record while Burnquist, competing in his 18 th and perhaps final Games, defeats teen rivals for Skateboard Air title.
Ryan Hunter-Reay: The determined IndyCar driver won the series title by a slender margin over Will Power in the season finale by surviving multiple incidents over a 500-mile night race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. Power won the Long Beach Grand Prix earlier in the season. Also in racing, the IndyCar season ended with its CEO being flushed and Irwindale Speedway filed for bankruptcy and has yet to reopen.
Code of Conduct: L.A. sports teams announce code of conduct for fans.
We're sure Bryan Stow will be pleased to know this.
Breeders' Cup: Horse Racing's best weekend, which is becoming more relevant than the Triple Crown among serious horsemen, returned to Santa Anita in 2012 with Fort Larned taking the Classic (in which favored Game On Dude was seventh).
Sam Querrey: Thousand Oaks tennis star wins the Farmers Classic for third time in four years but L.A. loses the last ATP event, with roots in town dating back to 1927.
Graeme McDowell: Golfer wins Tiger Woods' World Challenge for the second time in three years at Sherwood Country Club. Maybe it's time to rename it the Graeme McDowell World Challenge.
Also, John Huh of Crescenta Valley was named the PGA Tour's Rookie of the Year.


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A Brazilian in Qatar
A Brazilian in Germany is not too unusual in the soccer world. But a Brazilian in Germany becoming an Arab national to fulfill a childhood dream - that certainly is.
In an exclusive interview with DW-WORLD, Ailton, the leading scorer for the top team in the Bundesliga, confirmed that he had accepted Qatar's offer to take on the Arab nation's citizenship and play for its national team.
He said he plans to fly to Qatar next week to wrap up the deal.
Ailton, who has scored 20 goals in 22 matches for Werder Bremen this season, has unsuccessfully attempted to play for his native Brazil, and has repeatedly expressed a desire to play for Germany.
Ailton speaks German and was ready to take on German citizenship. But trainer Rudi Völler turned him down earlier this season, with the argument that Ailton is, after all, Brazilian.
Ailton would not comment media reports alleging he would receive a one-time payment of €1 million ($1.2 million) to take on Qatari citizenship, plus an annual salary of €400,000 ($495,000) for playing.
He said he was not guided by financial motivation. "Of course, money is important to me, but it was more important to fulfill this dream," Ailton said. "The Brazilian team doesn't want me, so that is why I've decided to play for a team which appreciates me."
Qatar will play Jordan on March 31. And Ailton wants to be on the playing field, wearing the sheikdom's jersey.


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HTC shows off ImageSense with sample photos taken by HTC One
It's no secret that the HTC One phones unveiled at Mobile World Congress this week were a step ahead of most the competition. We're all suckers for dual- and quad-core processors, HD displays and Android 4.0, but one key differentiator HTC is focusing on this year is the camera on each of their phones.
To make HTC One phones stand out from the competition, HTC has equipped them all with an f/2.0 aperture and 28mm lens, dedicated HTC ImageChip, BSI sensor and a smart LED flash with five levels of brightness.
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- Superfast Capture: HTC One dramatically reduces the time it takes to take pictures. In just 0.7 seconds you're able to take a shot. A with a new superfast 0.2-seconds autofocus, you can take nearly unlimited continuous shots simply by holding the shutter button.
- Good photos in adverse conditions: improved image quality with low light, no light or bright backlighting. The f/2.0 lens on the HTC One X and HTC One S captures 40 percent more light than the f/2.4 lenses available on other high-end phones. HTC One also includes HDR, which improves pictures when in direct sun light.
- Video Pic: capture a photo and shoot video at the same time. Tap the shutter button while recording HD video to capture a high-resolution still photo while the phone continues to record video. Users can also capture a photo frame from a previously recorded video.
It's certainly nice to have all these new features built right into the HTC One devices, but what does all this technology actually translate to in the real world? HTC was kind enough to share a handful of sample pictures shot with the HTC One.
It would have been nice to have full resolution pictures to look at, but it looks like the focus on the HTC One's camera was worth the time and effort. We can't wait to get out hands on the HTC One devices and compare them to the competition.
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Americans spend a lot of time and money grocery shopping. The average shopper visits the store about 88 times a year, spending upwards of $6,000.
Consumer Reports recently surveyed 27,208 readers to rank 55 supermarket chains around the U.S.
The top three stores — Wegmans, an East Coast chain, Trader Joe's, a Southern California-based specialty food chain, and Publix, a Southern chain — all had high marks for service and cleanliness.
Wal-Mart had a bad reputation among customers, ranking dead last. Customers complained about slow checkout speeds and subpar food quality.
Here are the top 10 supermarkets, according to Consumer Reports:
1. Wegmans (83 stores in the mid-Atlantic region, in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Virginia)
Consumer Reports Reader score: 88. Best service, Best perishables, Good prices, Best cleanliness
2. Trader Joe's (408 stores in 30 states)
Consumer Reports Reader score: 87. Best service, Good perishables, Best prices, Best cleanliness
3. Publix (1,080 stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee)
Consumer Reports Reader score: 85. Best service, Best perishables, Okay prices, Best cleanliness
4. Costco (648 stores worldwide)
Consumer Reports Reader score: 84. Okay service, Best perishables, Best prices, Good cleanliness
5. Sprouts Farmers Market (150 locations in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Utah, Kansas and Georgia)
Consumer reports Reader score: 84. Good Service, Best perishables, Good prices, Good cleanliness
6. Market Basket (71 supermarkets in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine)
Consumer Reports Reader score: 83. Good service, Good perishables, Best prices, Good cleanliness
7. Raley's (85 stores in California and Nevada)
Consumer Reports Reader score: 83. Good service, Best perishables, Bad prices, Best cleanliness
8. Fairway Stores (14 stores in the tri-state area)
Consumer Reports Reader score: 83. Best service, Good perishables, Best prices, Good cleanliness
9. Stater Bros. (167 stores in California)
Consumer Reports Reader score: 82. Good service, Good perishables, Best prices, Good cleanliness
10. WinCo Foods (93 stores in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Texas)
Consumer Reports Reader score: 81. Okay service, Okay perishables, Best prices, Okay cleanliness
And the bottom five on Consumer Reports' ranking:
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Omnibus Federal Lands Bill Immanent?
by sagebrushcoalition on December 29, 2012
I was just forwarded this information from someone on the ALRA mailing list, I havent been able to find any information on this bill beyond what the letter says yet. Ill post updates here if I find more information.
Harry Reid has loaded multiple bills into a new Omnibus Federal Lands Bill
By CHUCK CUSHMAN
American Lands Rights Association
We only know a few of the bills included but it is huge:
It does include the Tester Montana wilderness bill
It does make the Valles Caldera in New Mexico a national park
It does include the Sealaska bill
It does include much more
Reid is trying buy the vote of Senator Murkowski by including the Sealaska bill. She has promised not to support Omnibus bills. So well see how she votes in this bill.
Expansion of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) could be in there. That would mean billions of dollars for land acquisition.
The various staff people are working with Reid now to see if they can run the bill through the Senate before new years.
Action Items Urgent Action Required
Your Senator can stop this bill. All he has to do is file an object or put a hold on the bill. Time will run on Jan. 1.
You must call both your Senators every business day now until Jan. 1. Ask for a commitment to oppose any Omnibus Federal Lands Bill.
This is urgent and critical.
You may call any Senator at (202) 224-3121. That is the Capital Switchboard. Ask for your Senators office. Then ask for the staff person who handles Federal lands. They may be working over the weekend so call Saturday and Sunday also.
Ask for a promise by your senator that he or she will place a hold on the new Omnibus Federal Lands Bill.
This is really the start of a massive Obama Reid Federal lands grab with National Monuments and a whole bunch of other lock ups.
If you are going to have credibility fighting the huge Obama Reid Federal land grab plan that is coming at you, you need to call your Senator now every day until Tuesday. Call Friday. Call Monday. You can even try over the weekend. Many staff will be working. But you must rise up and take action. This is especially true in Alaska.
While theyre working on the Fiscal Cliff, a lot of bad things can happen when Congress is in session and not paying attention to your issues.
The lame duck congress is when all kinds of bad bills slip through Congress because your Senators and Congressman may no longer be responsible to you.
You must call your Congressman and both Senators to urge them to oppose ANY Omnibus Federal Lands bill.
Thats where Harry Reid gives every Senator a bill or two he wants passed that did not pass during the year. The understanding is that the Senator will then look the other way and ignore other parts of the massive Omnibus Federal Lands Bill even if they hurt you and your community.
In 2010 Harry Reid tried to pass Omnibus Federal Lands Bill with over 200 bills in it. Fortunately you fought and defeated it.
Now that the election is passed, American Land Rights has turned our attention to defeating the likely Omnibus Federal Lands Bill and the EPA Corps of Engineers land and water grab in the lame duck Congress.
Heres a reminder list of some of the land grab threats the Obama Administration, Senator Harry Reid and other members of Congress have planned for you:
New National Monuments;
New Wilderness study areas;
Wild Lands land grab;
Treasured Landscapes Initiative;
Americas Great Outdoors Campaign;
New BLM Land Use Planning/Wilderness expansion; and
Eminent domain and Condemnation.
Urgent Action Items
Please tape a copy of this message to your refrigerator door.
Please send this message to at least 10 other people.
Call both your Senators at (202) 224-3121. Urge them to put a hold on any Omnibus Federal lands bill. Ask for a commitment.
Thank you for your support and efforts in 2012. Were looking forward to working with you in 2013.
Chuck Cushman is the founder of the American Land Rights Association. He can be reached at (360) 687-3087 or by email at: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Healing Children of Conflict to host Spring Film Series on Israel/Palestine
The Grand Rapids group Healing Children of Conflict (HCC) is hosting another film series over the next several months on both the GVSU and Calvin campuses.
The three-film series looks at the Middle East, with particular emphasis on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The first film is a documentary entitled, The Iron Wall, which looks at the Israeli settler expansion and the massive wall that is still under construction and is creating tremendous animosity amongst Palestinians.
The second film in the series is the 2008 animated documentary entitled, Waltz with Bashir. Waltz with Bashir looks at the horrors of the 1982 Lebanon War. The third film in the series is the 2006 film, Encounter Point. This film tells the story of an Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a wounded Palestinian bereaved brother who sacrifice their safety, public standing and homes in order to press for a grassroots movement for nonviolence and peace.
The HCC film series is part of the group's mission, which is to do education work around global conflicts that the US is involved and children are being seriously wounded. All 6 film-screening dates are free and open to the public.
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February 15, 7:00PM at GVSU – Manitou Hall Room 102, Allendale Campus
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Swimming pool filters don't often come to mind when thinking of more eco friendly methods of pool operation. Pool filters do however, make quite an impact on your swimming pool's carbon footprint.
In this article, we will cover the features and benefits of each filter type in this regard, but also discuss how filter size can be an important factor, discussing how bigger filters have less of an impact on the environment than smaller, undersized pool filters.
1. Larger filters need to be backwashed less often, saving water and reducing D.E. powder discharge.
2. Larger filters run at lower pressure and higher flow, which means a higher turnover rate.
3. Larger pool filters can prevent poor water conditions, requiring more sanitizing pool chemicals.
4. Larger pool filters may allow you to use a smaller, energy saving pool pump.
5. Larger pool filters operate under less pressure, which creates less work for your pool pump, reducing the amperage usage.
The Trio of Filtration, Sanitation and Circulation are what gives us clean, clear pool water. If one of these variables is more efficient, we can use less of the others. For instance, if we install a 15 horsepower pump on your 10,000 gallon pool, the water would be moving so fast that we would need very little filtration and sanitation - think of a rushing river, or a stagnant pond. Likewise, if we added 5 gallons of 12.5% bleach to the pool every week, we would need less filtration and circulation to keep the water blue. So, it stands to reason that if a larger filter is installed, we can circulate (pump the water) less and use fewer chemicals to treat the water.
Which Pool Filter is Best for the Environment?
Diatomaceous Earth Filters: D.E. filters, as they are known, filter down to the smallest particle size of all 3 types of pool filters, and in this regard, they can be considered green in that using a DE filter can reduce your pump run time and also the amounts of pool chemicals that need to be added. Diatomaceous Earth powder is a natural substance, the exoskeletons of microscopic diatoms, harvested from the ocean floor. Although organic, and useful in gardening for pest removal, and popular now to combat bedbugs, D.E. powder is classified as a mild carcinogen, and can choke small streams and estuaries, if discharged improperly.
Sand Filters: Typically, sand filters require more frequent backwashing, which wastes a lot of treated water. If your pool water is very highly chlorinated or has high levels of algaecide, this can cause environmental issues in your local watershed. See our previous blog post on proper pool filter discharge methods. A sand filter actually operates more efficiently when it is a little dirty, but if a sand filter becomes overly clogged, this raises pressure, reduces flow and creates more of a work load for your pool pump. Sand filters do have the benefit of being made of fewer non-biodegradable components. Fewer internal parts, mostly just natural, graded silica sand.
Cartridge Filters: These are considered to be the greenest of filters, in that they save a lot of water. Cartridge pool filters are not backwashed like other filter types - to clean them, the pleated cartridges are removed and hosed clean. A properly sized cartridge pool filter can operate for 6 months or more between cleanings. Cartridges wil need to be replaced at some point, however, which creates a disposal issue. Made of plastic and spun polyester (Reemay), cartridge filters are not a biodegradable filter media.


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Glenn Bryant added 12 points and J.R. Sims chipped in 11 for seventh-seed Eastern Michigan (20-13), which takes on third-seed Buffalo in the next round.
Jordan Threloff and Aaric Armstead each scored nine points and combined for 19 rebounds for seventh-seed Northern Illinois (15-17).
It was Northern Illinois that led 35-24 at halftime. The Huskies shot 47.8 percent from the field on the opening frame, while the Eagles managed only five field goals.
The tables turned in the second half when Northern Illinois had all of three field goals. Eastern Michigan only hit on 30.8 percent from the floor, but also sank 12-of-15 at the free-throw line to rally for the win.
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America's population is on track to hit 300 million on Tuesday morning, and it's causing a stir among environmentalists.
WASHINGTON -- America's population is on track to hit 300 million on Tuesday morning, and it's causing a stir among environmentalists.
People in the United States are consuming more than ever _ more food, more energy, more natural resources. Open spaces are shrinking and traffic in many areas is dreadful.
But some experts argue that population growth only partly explains America's growing consumption. Just as important, they say, is where people live, what they drive and how far they travel to work.
"The pattern of population growth is really the most crucial thing," said Michael Replogle, transportation director for Environmental Defense, a New York-based advocacy group.
"If the population grows in thriving existing communities, restoring the historic density of older communities, we can easily sustain that growth and create a more efficient economy without sacrificing the environment," Replogle said.
That has not been the American way. Instead, the country has fed its appetite for big houses, big yards, cul-de-sacs and strip malls. In a word: sprawl.
"Because the U.S. has become a suburban nation, sprawl has become the most predominant form of land use," said Vicky Markham, director of the Center for Environment and Population, an advocacy group. "Sprawl is, by definition, more spread out. That of course requires more vehicles and more vehicle miles traveled."
America still has a lot of wide-open spaces, with about 84 people per square mile, compared with about 300 people per square mile in the European Union and almost 900 people per square mile in Japan.
But a little more than half the U.S. population is clustered in counties along the coasts, including those along the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes. Also, much of the population is moving away from large cities to the suburbs and beyond.
The fastest growing county is Flagler County, Fla., north of Daytona Beach; the fastest growing city is Elk Grove, Calif., a suburb of Sacramento; and the fastest growing metropolitan area is Riverside, Calif., about 50 miles east of Los Angeles.
"In New York City, people tend to think of that as an urban jungle, but the environmental impact per capita is quite low," said Carlos Restrepo, a research scientist at New York University. "It tends to be less than it is for someone who lives in the suburbs with a big house where they need more than one car."
The Census Bureau projects that America's population will hit 300 million at 7:46 a.m. EDT Tuesday. The projection is based on estimates for births, deaths and net immigration that add up to one new American every 11 seconds.
The estimated 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. are included in official population estimates, though many demographers believe they are undercounted.
The population reached its last milestone, 200 million, in 1967. That translates into a 50 percent increase in 39 years.
During the same period, the number of households nearly doubled, the number motor vehicles more than doubled and the miles driven in those vehicles nearly tripled.
The average household size has shrunk from 3.3 people to 2.6 people, and the share of households with only one person has jumped from less than 16 percent to about 27 percent.
"The natural resource base that is required to support each person keeps rising," Replogle said. "We're heating and cooling more space, and the housing units are more spread out than ever before."
The U.S. is the third largest country in the world, behind China and India. The U.S. is the fastest growing of the industrialized nations, adding about 2.8 million people a year, or just under 1 percent. India is growing faster but the United Nations considers it to be a less developed country.
About 40 percent of U.S. population growth comes from immigration, both legal and illegal, according to the Census Bureau. The rest comes from births outnumbering deaths.
"It's not the population, it's the consumption that can do us in," said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. "These are the luxuries we have been able to support until now. But we're not going to be able to do it forever."
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Taco Bell President on the Battle for Breakfast
Taco Bell, known for lunch and late, late night dinner, is moving into breakfast. The taco chain has started offering a full breakfast menu at more than 5,000 locations, and in doing so, it is taking aim squarely at its larger rivals. Company president Brian Niccol joins MoneyBeat. Photo: AP.
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Gulf Coast ParaCon 2010, 26-28 Feb
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Special guests: Ericka Boussarhane, Psychic Medium and Shawn Sellers, Paranormal Researcher
Speakers: Chris Debman, Doug Carnahan, Carl Johnson, Patti Starr, Tiffany Johnson, Andy Andrews
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