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Let's return in our study to the 12th chapter of Luke, Luke chapter 12, and we are looking at verses 22 through 34 under the title, "Anxiety-Free Living."
There is in chapter 12 a very long discourse given by Jesus. It actually starts in chapter 12, verse 1 and runs all the way to chapter 13 verse 9. That is one event, one place, one discourse with a couple of interruptions to answer some questions, but nonetheless this is one long teaching time with the Lord Jesus. And here in His teaching in verses 22 to 34 the issue is in the kingdom of God we can have anxiety-free living. Our Lord told people they should not be anxious. They should not worry. And they should not be afraid. Anxiety-free living, worry-free living, fear-free living is part of what the Lord offered those who put their trust in Him. It is not just heavenly bliss and heavenly peace and heavenly joy, but here and now there is peace and joy to be found.
If you will notice the emphasis of this passage comes in three particular commands. Verse 22: "Do not be anxious." Verse 29: "Do not keep worrying." Verse 32: "Do not be afraid." They could all be translated with the word "stop." Stop being anxious! Stop worrying. Stop being afraid! This passage, by the way, parallels our Lord's teaching in the Sermon on the Mount back in Matthew chapter 6 verses 19 through 34 where He said essentially these very same things on another occasion much earlier in His ministry in a different place. This is in Judea. That was up in Galilee. And I simply say that to remind you that these are truths that our Lord taught many, many times, not just the few times they're recorded in Scripture, but these are the things that He taught day after day after day through His ministry.
Now He is calling here for worry-free, anxiety-free and fear-free living. He is saying that it is possible to rise above all the troubles of this life to have what the apostle Paul called the peace that passes understanding. That is the peace for which there is no human explanation. It calls for an end to anxiety and fear and worry and panic, and all those things that can be so debilitating, so disturbing and so depressing and distracting in life.
There really are only two categories in which you can direct your worry, your fear and your anxiety, either into the material side, or the spiritual side, right? You're either going to be concerned about something physical, material, earthly, or you're going to be concerned about something spiritual, immaterial and heavenly. Those are the only two categories. You are a physical being and a spiritual being. In that sense you're two, an inner man and an outer man. And worry can be attached to both, but in the case of one who belongs to the kingdom of God, worry in either sense is unnecessary. In regard to our material needs, verse 30 says, "Your Father knows that you need these things." In regard to our spiritual needs, verse 32 says, "Your Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom." He will give you whatever you need to sustain your life in this world and He will give you all that you need to sustain your life in His kingdom. Worry then is unnecessary. Worry is a result really of...of two things. It is a result, first of all, of ignorance and-or unbelief. There are, I'm sure, people who worry not because they don't believe what God has promised, but because they don't know what God has promised. And the greatest way you can cheat a believer, the greatest way you can cheat anybody is to limit God or to teach them things about God that are not true or to give them a diminished view of God. In fact, this is a form of idolatry. Any misrepresentation of God is an idol. And worshiping and giving homage to a misrepresented God is a form of idolatry. It is incumbent upon all who teach the Scriptures and all who possess the Scriptures, meaning both us and you as well, to come to a true understanding of God so that we worship Him not just in spirit, that is not just with our emotion and all of our faculties, mind and soul as well as every physical part of us, but to worship Him in truth. It is critical that we understand who our God really is. And so it is possible to worry your way through your Christian life simply because you're ignorant, and that, unfortunately, is the legacy of many, many people where ministries do not weigh heavily in on the nature of God, the character of God, the promises of God, and the purposes of God. There people are cheated very often, don't understand the greatness of God, the glory of God, the commitment of God, the compassion of God, the power of God, the omniscience of God, the wisdom of God and all the rest in which we rest in the promises of God. There are many people, Christian people, who have no idea what their God is really like and the level of commitment He's made to them, and so they live in fear; fear of circumstances, fear of Satan, fear of failure, fear of you name it.
So it is possible that your life is full of fear and anxiety and worry because of ignorance. That can be dispelled simply by reading the Psalms. If you think it's a long course, if you have to go to seminary to get to know God, you're wrong. Just start in Psalm 1 and 150 days later finish Psalm 150 and you will have come to know your God. And, of course, all the rest can be filled in but that's why we read the Psalms because we come to worship God and we need to know the God we worship.
If you do know your God and you worry anyway, this is not about ignorance, this is about distrust. This is a sin. To be needlessly ignorant is sinful. But to be willfully distrusting of the God who has revealed Himself is serious sin. So when you look at your life and you see anxieties and fears and worries, the question then is, am I ignorant of my God or do I just not trust Him? So let's go back to some basic things, OK?
In this passage our Lord unfolds this whole issue of why we are not to worry and be anxious and be afraid either in the material or the immaterial, the physical or the spiritual, the earthly or the heavenly realms.
Number one, worry is a failure to understand God's priority. Worry is a failure to understand God's priority, verses 22 and 23. "He said to His disciples, 'For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious for your life as to what you shall eat nor for your body as to what you shall put on, for life is more than food and the body more than clothing.'" Now here's the point here. God didn't create you just to survive. God didn't create you just to have you eat and wear clothes so that you could make it. God did not create you to fulfill some physical goal, or objective, or purpose or design. Your life is far more than eating. Your life is far more than clothing. You must understand the divine priority. And what we said a couple of weeks ago is this. If you belong to God and you are in His Kingdom, He has a plan and a purpose for your life. That's the reason you live. And as long as God has a plan for your life, He will feed you and clothe you until the plan is complete. So what is there to worry about? There is really no place for worry and no place for fear, and no place for anxiety if you understand that the priority with God is far more than just surviving, it's far more than making it through the winter, it's far more than getting at least one or two meals a day, far more than that. God's purpose in giving you life, God's purpose in giving you a body is not material. It's not physical and it's not earthly. It is immaterial, spiritual and heavenly. We were made for His glory. We were made to serve His glory, to serve His purpose, to honor Him, to bring attention to Him, to proclaim the gospel, to live out Christ and the power of the Spirit in the world. And as long as that's the divine priority, that's God's priority or purpose for us, He will sustain us to the end of His purpose.
In fact, you can work hard and save and the Bible says you should save and you should work hard and you should be a good steward and you should make good investments, and all of that. But in the end it wouldn't matter whether you did that or gave it all away as far as the divine priority is concerned because whatever you wear and whatever you eat isn't the reason God put you here. There is a completely different reason you're here and it's a spiritual one. So you could give it all up and you're not going to heaven till God wants you to, and He will provide whatever it is that you need to get you to the place where it's your time. On the other hand, you could save a fortune, you could amass a huge estate, you could build bigger barns everywhere and you're not going to live one day past when God determines that your ministry is over. That kind of thinking tends to make you rich toward God and put your treasure in heaven rather than here.
So worry, anxiety and fear fails to understand the divine priority: that God has a purpose for your life and He's going to make sure that you live to fulfill that purpose. Second, we said, worry is a failure to understand God's provision. That is to say that everything you have comes from God. It may come through your work and through your savings and through your diligence and through your talents and your training and all of that, but in the end it really is God's pledge to you that sustains you. And the point is made in verse 24, "Consider the ravens. They neither sow nor reap." They have no storeroom or barn, and yet God feeds them. Here's the point, how much more valuable you are than the birds. He feeds birds and birds have no spiritual value. Oh they give God glory. They manifest His creative power and His immense love of beauty and design. But they have no spiritual value. They hatch and fly around a little while and disappear. And yet God feeds them. They can't sow. They can't reap. They can't store. You are so much more valuable than they are and if God has a priority for your life, then He'll make the provision to make sure that the priority is met. He'll sustain you to the point where you accomplish His purpose. So worrying about life's necessities is a failure to understand God's priority for you and God's provision to make sure that that priority is completed.
And that leads to the third point, which I just introduced last time, worry is a failure to understand God's privilege. Worry is a failure to understand God's privilege. Verse 25, "And which of you by being anxious can add a single cubit to his life span? If then," verse 26, "you cannot do even a very little thing, why are you anxious about other matters?"
What is this about? This is about the idea that somehow you control the length of your life. OK? Which of you by being anxious is going to add a single cubit to his life span? Now you have to see that cubit is used here sort of metaphorically or analogically. A cubit is a measurement from the elbow to the end of the fingers, about 18 inches. They use this as a unit, a unit of measure. One cubit would be a unit of measure in ancient times. And so it's not the idea of adding to your physical stature. I mean, nobody particularly wants to go from 5'10" to 7'6". And if you did, it wouldn't be a small thing, verse 26, "If you cannot even do a very little thing." That wouldn't be a little thing; that would be a huge thing. That's not what it's about. It's using a cubit metaphorically or analogically. You can't add a unit to your life. You can't add to the years of your life that God has determined for you. You can't do it. So if you can't do it, if you can't add a single unit to your life, if you can't even do that very little thing by all your worry and fear; then what are you doing worrying and being anxious about all these matters like your body and your clothing and your food? People in our world today are consumed with this idea of health. We all get sold on this. It's not how long a person lives but how they live, right? But we have literally made a god out of health and longevity in our sterile modern world where we manage to conquer bacteria and virus and things like that, where we've created a sort of an antiseptic, antibiotic environment. We're very concerned about being able to prolong life. And everything we eat, you know, has this graph of percentages and amounts of all these things. You decode everything you eat. You know, you've got to get the code on what you're eating so you can check out all these ingredients.
Who cares whether you add life to your pre-determined plan by God? You can't do that. You're not going to be able to do that. This is just the sign of the time that's infiltrated the evangelical world. This generation's engaged in health mania. It's not wrong to be disciplined, it's not wrong to be moderate, it's not wrong to avoid the sin of gluttony, it's not wrong to be wise. It's wrong to be foolish about what you eat, you want to take care of yourself. God created a wonderful, wonderful food world for us so that we can make good choices. I'm not going to add to my life, but I would like to live my life with a measure of strength so that I can serve the Lord the way He should be served. And I don't want to fall into sin by being gluttonous, and overindulging, and lacking discipline. But I'm not going to add one day to my life. The optimum of my life has been determined by God. And with certain reasonableness, I just want to maintain my strength, but I'm not going to add to my life. It makes me want to eat a big plate of cheese fries.
I mean, you get the point. Worry doesn't help. If you worry about how long you're going to live and you spend all your money on that and you waste all your money, really waste all your money being unable to add anything to your life, that's not good stewardship. And I'm not talking about being healthy. You need to be healthy. You need to beat your body into subjection. You need to be reasonable in how you conduct your life and how you use the resources that God gives you and not be dissipated and gluttonous and all of that kind of stuff that steals your energy and robs you of the strength that the Lord desires to use. But you're not going to do anything to add to your life. In fact, if you worry about it, you're going to contribute to your disability. You know, worry, anxiety and fear affects the heart, the circulation, nervous system, the glands, everything else. We are...here's the point... We are not the determiners of the span of our lives, this is divine privilege. So you don't want to be ignorant of God's privilege. It is His privilege to determine where we're born, to whom we're born, when we're born, and how long we're here. God has given us life. He will sustain that life until our service is done. Worry makes no contribution. The Lord gives, the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. If we live obediently to His Word, He will sustain our life to the end. You can't lengthen it beyond the purposes of God.
So verse 26 says, "If you cannot do even a very little thing, like add a unit to your life, why are you worrying about what you're going to eat and what you're going to wear?" This is a failure to understand God's priority and that is, that your life matter spiritually and achieve a spiritual end; God's provision, that He will sustain that life to fulfill that end; and God's privilege. It is God's to determine when we live and when we die and how we fit into the redemptive scheme for the advancement of His glory and His kingdom.
Number four, worry is a failure to understand divine preference. It's a failure to understand divine preference. I know we live in a society that teaches evolution, and, you know, we're just supposed to be the latest form of an ape, we're just the last monkey, at least the newest monkey at this particular point in the evolutionary process. And we're no different than anything else. We're just animals and these environmentalists and these lovers of animals get all caught up in this. But look, we're Christians and you can look at the...at the world of God's creation and you will see a massive gap between everything He created and man created in His image, and we bear the divine preference. Look at verse 27, here's an illustration. "Consider the lilies, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin, but I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory didn't clothe himself like one of these. If God so arrays the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, oh men of little faith?" Now we get to the sin part here.
Our Lord turns from the issue of food to the issue of clothing here. In the physical world, those are the two things people are concerned about. They're concerned about nourishing their body and protecting it. And He makes a comparison that reveals His preference for people, especially, of course, His own children. And He says, "Consider the lilies." The word "lilies" is not something to be understood in a technical sense because in verse 28 He says, consid..."God so arrays the grass." The word "lilies" is broad enough; the word "grass" is definitive enough to let us know that He's talking about the wild grasses that grew all through the Middle East and the land of Israel that flowered in various ways. In 1 Peter 1:24 Peter, quoting from Isaiah, "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers and the flower falls off." So this is just Jesus saying, and He may have pointed as He may have to the birds. I mean, consider...look at the wild flowers growing all over at the end of these stems of grass. There were so many different kinds of them in Israel. There were... You see terms in the land of Israel, even in ancient times like Iris and nasturtium and gladioli, those are more modern terms, Latin derivative terms to describe various kinds of flowering plants. They even had certain kinds of daisies and poppies, such as we have in California, and cap lilies. It's just the general grasses that flower. Look at them how they grow. They don't toil. They don't spin. They don't labor over their clothes. They don't labor over their beauty. And yet if you take a petal off of a flower, even a wild flower, and you look under a microscope at its intricate texture, color, design, form, it's staggering. You can take the most beautifully manufactured garment out of wool or out of cotton or out of some synthetic and look at it under a microscope and it looks rough, and you look at a flower petal and there's a refinement there that only God can make. And so He says, "Look, they don't work to get their clothing. I tell you even Solomon in all his glory didn't clothe himself like one of these."
Now the best dressed man in the history of Israel was Solomon. If you read 1 Kings 10 and 2 Chronicles 9, you read about the lavish attire and the lavish life of Solomon. And as the best-dressed man, he had the finest garments, but even Solomon in all his glory didn't wear things like the petals of a flower. And, you know, if you love flowers and Patricia keeps such a beautiful garden at our house, we...we love those flowers. I never walk through our garden in the front or the back or the side without thinking about the amazing creativity of God and His obvious love for beauty because they're here and they're gone. They live and they die. And they serve no spiritual purpose other than to give this little brief testimony to a God of beauty and a God of order and a God of design and a God of infinite variety. And the point is this, if God, verse 28, so arrays the grass in the field which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, oh men of little faith? Come on, do you understand God's preference?
By the way, if you're wondering why it talks about throwing the grass into the fire, there's a very good reason for that. People cooked everything in those days, of course. The staple was bread. But they cooked everything in a clay oven. And the way that they regulated the temperature of that clay oven was with dry grass. And so they would go out into the hillsides and they would collect all of the dead, dry grass, bring it together, keep it in a storage place and whenever they wanted to get the fire hotter, they put more in. And if they wanted it hotter yet, they put more in and they could regulate the...the oven that way. You regulate yours with a little dial, right? You want 250, 350, 450, whatever. Well they knew pretty well how much dried grass it took to raise the temperature of a fire. And so He's saying, "Look, this stuff has short life and look how God clothes it." He's made a commitment to the delicate beauty of things that perish, sometimes in a day. How much more will He clothe you? This is again the typical Hebrew argument from the lesser to the greater. God prefers you. You don't really think He's going to put that kind of a garment on a flower and not cover you when He wants you to accomplish His purpose and you're His own beloved children. If He made such lavish beauty to clothe plants that die in days and have no spiritual value, how much more will He take care to clothe the crown of His creation, the bride of His beloved Son whom He has elected and redeemed? No wonder Peter said, "Casting all your care on Him for He cares for you." And if you still live in fear, doubt and worry, then you fall into the category of the end of verse 28, "Oh men of little faith."
This is the issue, folks. Fear, worry, anxiety is about a lack of faith, a lack of faith. And Jesus used this a lot, Matthew 6:30, Matthew 8:26, Matthew 14:31, Matthew 16:8, even refer to it back in Luke 8 when He said to the disciples who were worrying about drowning, you know, "Where's your faith?" Do you think the God of the universe who is calling you to be His apostles and preachers is just going to let you drown? What are you being anxious about? What are you fearing? What are you worrying? Why the panic? If you know My promise and you know My power, then it's a question of trust. If you don't trust Me, now you've got a sin problem. Do you not trust my knowledge? Do you not trust My wisdom? Do you not trust my compassion? What is it about Me you don't trust? Do you not trust My power? Do you not trust My care? Well what is it about Me you don't trust? Or maybe you think the devil is stronger than Me. There's a blasphemous thought.
Now He's not saying these people didn't have any faith. He called them "men of (what?) little faith." They are the ones who believe in Him. He's directing this, it says in verse 22, to His disciples, those who are true believers and those who are becoming true believers and He says it's possible for you, He says, to worry and fear and be anxious, but understand this, if that is the case, you have a problem with trusting Me. That's a serious problem because would you agree with this, He's worthy of our trust, right? You can trust Him.
So, in verse 29 He says, "Do not seek what you shall eat, what you shall drink." Don't make that the pursuit of your life, that's what He is saying. And don't keep worrying. You know, in those days, I mean, they had to make it every single day. They had to find a way to get food every day, every single day. It was the preoccupation of their whole life. He said, "Stop, stop, that should not be the pursuit." He doesn't mean in a reasonable sense, don't prepare your meals, don't work to earn your living, you know. Like Paul says, if you don't work, you don't eat. He is saying, "Do not make that the pursuit of your life, that's not what you live for. Don't live as if there were no caring God. Don't live as if that God had no promises or no power or no knowledge of your situation. And don't keep worrying." And if you do, you don't understand God's priority, God's provision, God's privilege to determine the end of your life and God's preference, His personal preference for you over anything else He's created.
And there's a fifth principle, and we'll close with this one today. Worry is a failure to understand God's paternity. Paternity is a wonderful world from Latin, pater, father, God's fatherhood. Don't you understand that God is your Father, verse 30 and 31, "For all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek but your Father knows that you need these things." God has a priority for us. He will make provision to see that priority fulfilled. He is the one who has the privilege to determine how long we live. He prefers us because He is our Father. It all works together. It all hangs together. It's all sequential.
Here for the first time in the discourse Jesus speaks of God as Father, "your Father." We know He's talking to those who believe and all the way down to us who believe, these apply, these truths. Those whose Father is God. And it's in contrast to all these things being eagerly sought by the nations of the world. For all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek. Eagerly seeks, very strong verb, zte, means to strive or seek. Epizte is the word here. It's compounded, they strongly strive for. I mean, hey, this is human life. If you don't have God as your Father, who's your father? The devil, John 8:44, OK? If the devil's your father, he makes no promises, provides no benefits. He's not about doing good in your life. He's about doing evil so you're on your own. The only good that does come into your life is basically common grace. It is God letting the rain fall on the just and the unjust, and it's very temporary. But no unbelieving person can make any claim on God. The unbelieving world has no promises from God, no commitments from God, no pledges from God, no guarantees from God for anything. So, according to verse 30, eating, drinking, clothing, all these things the nations of the world strongly pursue. That...that... That describes life among the unregenerate. It's a battle for bread. It's a battle for survival. It's a dog-eat-dog world. The world lives to acquire material things, they're all about survival. Why? They're dead to God. They're dead to spiritual life. So being spiritually dead, all there is is the physical world, not being children of God, having a father, the devil, who provides no good thing ever, they are therefore left to themselves only to sort of reap what little they can from the common grace of God. Being ignorant of God, ignorant of God's provision and being unable to lay any claim on God's promise or God's power, they live to survive. Those people in spiritual darkness without the life of God may create religion and they may create a god that they hope will help them, but the deities they create are only a reflection of evil men and demons. That's why the gods of the world are wicked, devious, selfish, violent, untrustworthy, indifferent, capricious, evil, and merciless. So people are left to the gods that they believe in only in the sense that they...not that they think those gods may benefit them, but that they just hope those gods won't harm them. There are little benefits, you know, that they think those gods deliver, like when they get a good harvest, and they thank the moon god, or the mountain god, or whatever. But they're just really reaping common grace that God has built into the world. Their gods don't help them, because their gods are demons impersonating the gods they think they worship. They're on their own. Unbelievers feel the full weight of survival.
But verse 30 says, "Your Father," in contrast, "knows that you need these things." He knows that you need them. It's not a question of power. It's not a question of resources. It's not a question of love. It's not a question of compassion, not a question of sympathy. It's not a question of mercy. It's just a question of knowledge. If God knows that you need it, that's the big issue, isn't it? I mean, you could say, "Well, God has the power to give you those things but that still leaves you with the idea of well, I wonder if He knows I need them." We know He has the power and the resources, so the most comforting reality is that He has the knowledge. Your Father, in contrast to all the lifeless gods of the pagans, is your Father. And He acts as a father acts and a father is a provider and a protector, and your Father knows what you need. All that you need is available to you from God. What are you worried about? What are you afraid of? What are you anxious about?
How do you tap into that? How can I be assured that I'm going to get all that my Father has for me? Verse 31: Here is the key, very important principle, "But seek for His kingdom and these things shall be added to you." You want these things? Do you want food? Drink? Clothing? Do you want to live a full life? You want to be free from worry? Free from anxiety? Free from fear? Don't focus on those things, don't focus on food, don't focus on the body, don't focus on drink, don't focus on health, don't focus on those things, focus on this: the kingdom of God, and you seek His kingdom and, believe Me, these things will be added to you. And in Matthew 6 verse 33, Jesus put it this way, "But seek ye first His kingdom...the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to you."
Instead of worrying about your bank accounts, instead of worrying about your length of life, instead of worrying about your food, and worrying about your clothes, instead of focusing on all that, let the dominant enterprise of your life, unlike the world... The dominant enterprise of the world is food, clothing, money, a future, health, that's their...that's all they have, that's all they have to live for and they're on their own. But the dominant enterprise of my life and your life is the kingdom of God, the sphere of salvation, the gospel, Christ. The focus of our life is to worship and to serve and to proclaim Christ and to live obediently to the Word of God, to pursue truth and holiness and love. Colossians chapter 3 says it in straightforward language, "If then," verse 1, "you have been raised up with Christ" and you have, it could be read, "Since you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above." Stop seeking the things here, seek the things above, live your life for the kingdom and all the others will be added." And God may add a lot more than you need in many cases. He certainly has in most of our lives. You can take whatever God gives if you're seeking His kingdom with all your heart, and then be a good steward of it. But He says, "Keep seeking the things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Seek Christ's honor, Christ's exaltation, Christ's glory, seek to proclaim Christ as Lord and Savior and King and ruler, submit to His will, submit to His Word, submit to His authority." Verse 2 he says it this way, "Set your mind on the things above not on the things that are on the earth. For you have died to this life and your life is hidden with Christ in God."
Your whole life has to be directed at the kingdom, at the sphere of salvation, the sphere where God rules as King and Lord. Everything you do is for His honor and His glory. First...The first seeking is to seek to enter the kingdom. In Luke 16:16, entering the kingdom is described as seizing the kingdom. It says, "Everyone is forcing his way into it." That's the first thing you have to do is you have to come to the kingdom and understand that it's difficult, it's hard because it requires repentance, self-denial, self-sacrifice, humility, meekness, mourning, hunger, thirst. Start by entering the kingdom. Start by believing the gospel. Start by self-denial and embracing Jesus Christ and hungering after righteousness and turning from sin. Start that way, enter the kingdom. Once you've come in, seek only those things that exalt Christ and honor Christ. Give your life for salvation, for righteousness, for obedience, for truth, for service, for worship, for witness. Back to that parable, the little duet of parables in Matthew 13: Sell all to buy the pearl, sell all to buy the treasure hidden in the field. It's self-abandonment. Give yourself away to the kingdom. Live only to honor Christ, only to exalt Christ, to advance His name, advance His gospel. Be devoted to what is eternal, not what is temporal. And by the way, this is not an isolated principle. I mean, Jesus says here if you do this, everything else is going to be added. And everything else means you're going to live out the full years of your life, you're going to have enough food and drink to survive and be clothed and all that if you just seek the kingdom.
And that's not new to these Jewish people, listening to that. I want to show you, they would know this because they would know the Psalms very well. Psalm 34, for example, and in Psalm 34 there is a number of verses, we'll start in verse 8, Psalm 34 verse 8, "Oh taste and see that the Lord is good. How blest is the man who takes refuge in Him." How blest is the man who takes refuge in Him. Verse 9, "Oh fear the Lord, you His saints, for to those who fear Him," who worship Him, who honor Him, "there is no want." Verse 10, "The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they who seek the Lord shall not be in want of any good thing." That's...That's what the psalmist says from God. Verse 15: "The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and His ears are open to their cry." God knows, God hears. Verse 19, "Many are the afflictions of the righteous. The Lord delivers him out of them all." God takes care of His own.
Psalm 37 is very similar. This is great. Evildoers... What happens to the world? What happens to the nations of the world? Well they wither quickly like grass, verse 2, they fade like the green plant. But on the other hand, what about God's children? "Trust in the Lord, do good, dwell in the land, cultivate faithfulness, delight yourself in the Lord, and He'll give you the desires of your heart." You delight in Him and He'll take care of all the rest. Verse 5, "Commit your way to the Lord. Trust also in Him." Just trust Him, and He'll deliver. He'll do it. Verse 7, "Rest in the Lord, wait patiently for Him, and He will provide." In fact, verse 9 says, "Evildoers will be cut off and those who wait for the Lord will inherit the land." Verse 11 says, "The humble will inherit the land and will delight themselves in abundant prosperity." In other words, the psalmist again understands the provision of God. If He is honored and trusted, He provides.
And then down to verse 25, we'll skip a few of the others. "I have been young," says David, "and now I'm old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or His descendants begging bread." God takes care of the righteous. Seek the kingdom, seek righteousness, and everything else comes from God.
Isaiah 33 is another Old Testament text on this. Verse 14 talks about sinners being terrified and trembling and it talks about the consuming fire of God's judgment and the continual burning of His judgment. And the question is asked: Who can survive this? Who can survive God's judgment? Sinners in Zion are terrified. You know, God's going to come, He's going to bring a judgment, Isaiah was predicting the judgment which ultimately was the Babylonian captivity. And they're all wondering who is going to survive, and verse 15, "He who walks righteously, speaks with sincerity, who rejects unjust gain, shakes his hand so that they hold no bribe, he who stops his ear from hearing about bloodshed, shuts his eyes from looking upon evil." In other words, righteous people. "He will dwell on the heights." You'll escape. "His refuge will be the impregnable rock, his bread will be given him; his water will be sure."
Now there are many others, but you get the picture. This is an old principle. Same promise, God takes care of those who belong to Him and are faithful to Him. Seek the kingdom, His kingdom and all that that means, the whole of the rule of Christ, and let Him take care of everything else. And you know what? He will not supply in a meager way. You'll inherit the land. You'll have an abundance. God will give you more than enough in many cases because He knows you can be trusted to be a faithful steward of it because you are rich toward God and you seek treasure in heaven. And that's where you'll invest what He gives you. Don't be a part of that association in verse 28, the little faith association. Don't get involved in the sin of doubt, fear, worry. God's priority, God's provision, God's privilege, God's preference, God's paternity as our Father, indicates that we do not need to worry. And as long as we passionately pursue the kingdom, He promises that He will sustain us to the very end of His plan. And I don't know about you but I don't want to be here one day beyond that. That's His promise.
There's one more point. Worry is a failure to understand divine pleasure, pleasure. Verse 32, "Don't be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen..." What's the next word? "Gladly," "gladly" in the NAS, "to give you the kingdom." It's not as if God is reluctant. This is His delight. What delights God? The same thing that delights a father, to provide for the children He loves.
Father, we do thank You that You are our Father, that You have given us life in order that we might accomplish a divine priority, and that You will, as You have promised, provide for us to live that life in its full. It is Your privilege to end it when You desire and take us to that glory prepared for us. Father, we thank You that You prefer us over the rest of Your creation and if You beautify and care for flowers, how will you not care for us? We know You will. We thank You for being our loving Father. We don't want to belong to that little faith association. We want to trust You with everything. Set us free from worry and fear and anxiety because we trust You completely. And may we seek Your kingdom and know that we'll have all that we need and an abundance. Thank You for this rich, rich pledge of which we are not worthy but for which we are grateful. Father, we thank You now for Your truth. It's so rich to us. Seal it to our hearts, we pray in Christ's name.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Serco Kanoo Training Solutions Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Serco Kanoo Training Solutions Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Bahrain View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Middle East BeastJoined: 05 Mar 2008Posts: 836Location: Up a tree Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:47 pm Post subject: Serco Kanoo Training Solutions This outfit just posted a job at another TEFL website. Anyone have any information on them? The salary seems reasonable, and they advertise single accommodation. Thanks in advance. MEB Back to top the ministerJoined: 01 Jun 2009Posts: 8 Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:04 pm Post subject: Serco Kanoo More anon, but for now, and with the benefit of first hand experience, Serco Kanoo - do not do! Back to top deadly_puggerJoined: 13 Jan 2012Posts: 2 Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:53 pm Post subject: Re: Serco Kanoo the minister wrote: More anon, but for now, and with the benefit of first hand experience, Serco Kanoo - do not do! Why is that, Minister? Back to top Christian St.BaconJoined: 26 Oct 2011Posts: 54 Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:45 pm Post subject: Bah bah bahrain...!!! Eight months ago maybe they were advertising - certainly aren't now.. shukran very much Back to top the ministerJoined: 01 Jun 2009Posts: 8 Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:47 am Post subject: Serco Kanoo You might choose to go elsewhere on the internet to find out about Serco and Kanoo. Serco is a services contractor whose main work is in defence and security. The company's prison vans could be seen transporting London rioters to and from court last year. Kanoo is a long-established industrial giant which enjoys considerable prestige in Bahrain for its philanthropic work. Both companies are FTSE100 companies and blue chip investments. Together, as Serco Kanoo Training Solutions, they thought they had identified a specific need in ELT in Bahrain. They hadn't, and their proposed Foundation English programme ground to a halt over a difficult period late last year. People were laid off and teachers who thought they had secured a position with the company were left waiting for months - to no avail; there were no jobs for them. The company is run by a group of managers who have been drawn from the Serco and Kanoo branches. Most are ex-military and none has any experience in education. Some of them have shown little respect for teachers or for education or for academic processes generally. They employed a Head of Studies whose CV showed 20+ teaching jobs over the last 18 years and who arrived with only one reference - from a friend who used to work alongside him. He had a diploma in computing but demonstrated few skills even in word processing. He was despatched to the UK to interview teachers and set out to find people who had fewer qualifications than the one which he possessed. Getting wind of this, a manager was sent quickly to join him and 6 teachers with good backgrounds were hired. Then they waited. Not at all nice. At the time, when Serco Kanoo was 'do not do' - the company had no licence to teach, no students, and, because of the Head of Studies' inability to do the job, failed to supply even a curriculum to the various ministries which were requiring evidence of fitness to operate. Eventually, our hero was removed from his post and another teacher was put in place. This chap seems to know what he is doing; the company now has teaching licences and has won contracts. Most remain within the company's general and previous experience - education for personnel involved in aviation and security - but further contracts look likely to be secured and the Kanoo organisation is impressed enough with the new man to have committed to further investment for the long term. If Serco Kanoo advertise again, it will be because they actually have work. So, the usual considerations will apply. More anon.... Back to top deadly_puggerJoined: 13 Jan 2012Posts: 2 Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:10 am Post subject: Never again Thanks for the info minister, that's certainly more than I was told as one of the teachers who was 'hired' and waited (and waited and waited...) for a position. I even handed in my notice at a good job in London on the strength of their offer: "Thank you for attending the interview in London last week. We have completed the interview process and are pleased to inform you that we would like to offer you employment with SKTS in Bahrain. We will send you a formal Letter of Offer, including a start date of employment, within the next 7 days." Obviously that letter never came, but I had the foresight to apply for multiple positions as I already had a bad feeling about this company; remember, I applied for this position in July and this message came in December! Anyway, as it turns out I made the right choice and took a different position (in the middle east) for more money and better conditions than SKTS were offering. you said "If Serco Kanoo advertise again, it will be because they actually have work" but after my experience I wouldn't work for those clowns if they opened the last language centre on earth. so my message to them is "Serco Kanoo - you can lick my shoe!" Back to top the ministerJoined: 01 Jun 2009Posts: 8 Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 6:33 am Post subject: Serco Kanoo - do not do While Serco Kanoo is, perhaps, not of a size which draws in huge numbers of teachers at the start of each academic year (they currently have none) and might not, therefore, be worth the effort of a posting, things have happened at the company which certainly makes it worth posting a word of advice to avoid any of their recruiting afforts which might appear in the near future. As before, it's 'more anon' but, for now, it is 'as you were' on this company: Serco Kanoo - Do Not Do! Trust me on this. Even if you're broke and stuck for work, this company will leave you worse off than before you arrived. There will always be an alternative to this. Take care! Back soon. 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Based on a novel by Horace McCoy (They Shoot Horses, Don't They), Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye offers James Cagney at his nastiest. The star plays career criminal Ralph Cotter, who gets things started by violently busting out of jail, then murdering his partner in crime.
Seeking out female companionship, he courts his ex-partner's sister Holiday (Barbara Payton) by beating her black and blue. After committing a robbery, he is approached by two crooked cops who want a piece of the action. Blackmailing the cops, Cotter gains control of the situation. Is there any way to stop this fascinating creep?
Filmgoers in Ohio never found out, because Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye was banned in that state as a sordid, sadistic presentation of brutality and an extreme presentation of crime with explicit steps in commission.
Supporting Cagney are Luther Adler as his equally crooked lawyer, Ward Bond and Barton MacLane as the dishonest cops, and Cagney's brother William (who produced the film) as Ralph Cotter's brother.


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Who knew chaos could be so dull?
The concept behind Chaos Legion sounds sweet: a 3D hack'n'slash
ala Devil May Cry, but with big, summonable allies
for crazy attacks and tactics and tons of monsters to kill. I imagined it as a
DMC/strategy hybrid, having you constantly evading swarms of
enemies while destroying, crushing and hacking everything in your path.
that's sort of how the game has turned out. You definitely do a lot of dodging
and countering with your allies. Unfortunately, the levels and enemies are too
thin on variety, the game is too short in general and the awkward camera/targeting
system gets in the way of most of the fun.
The story is about a trio of holy knights: Sieg, Siela and Victor. While the
three are foiling a wicked cult's plot to open the gates of hell and unleash
the apocalypse, Siela gets killed by a mysterious dark power, which promptly
returns to its alternate plane of existence. So Victor goes nuts and begins
the dark incantations all over again, releasing scores of dumb monsters which
you, Sieg, must chop up on your way to kicking your newly twisted friend's ass.
Along the way you find Legion seals. There are seven in all (with silly names like Guilt, Hatred, Flawed and Blasphemy) and two can be equipped at once, although you can't change Legions in the middle of a level. For the most part, your Legions execute attacks that are very damaging to some enemies and barely damaging to others. With two legions equipped, though, covering your bases isn't too difficult.
I've found Malice to be the most effective, a Legion armed with a crossbow that circles around you and blasts enemies. As Sieg you command the Legions and can have them either attack enemies at will, attack specific enemies or execute special Legion power attacks.
Granting autonomy to your Legions is usually the most useful tactic as you're
commonly swamped by tons of worthless enemies. Every once in a while you'll
have to kill a specific bad guy, and in those cases its smarter to sic your
Legions on that one enemy, but for the most part you can just let your Legions
run amuck and go about slashing things yourself.
Which brings us to one of Chaos Legion's two main flaws:
running around and slashing stuff gets boring. Imagine your worst Final
Fight nightmare, then take away the punch button and you've got Chaos
Legion. You can do a combo, but it only requires you to push Square
over and over again.
shallow action gameplay is compounded by an awful camera and worthless targeting
system. Chaos Legion is viewed from an isometric viewpoint
(the same as in Devil May Cry), and pressing the R1 button
centers your view or locks you on to a target. The real killer here is the fact
that you're constantly being attacked from all sides while the isometric view
favors one direction, which leads to a blind side and unavoidable hits; GOD
FORBID you ever get stuck next to a wall. The game loses a lot of its splendor
when all you can see is your character's head, a wall, and your rapidly diminishing
life-bar as unseen assailants kick the crap out of you.
A targeting reticule would be really nice, too, as well as more varied attacks.
Letting your monsters do the dirty work while you scramble around trying to
keep track of your large blind spot while dodging enemy attacks just isn't empowering
However, the character models look good and the combat has lots of neat flashes
and flourishes. When it all gets going, it's pretty frantic thanks to a steady
framerate. But the monsters are a monotonous lot, as is the level design. Expect
lots of gray castle courtyards and brown battlefields.
The game doesn't sound like much either, with the constant "K-sh! K-sh! Clash!" of Sieg's sword drowning out the music and other sound effects.
I have no doubt that the developers could have done a much better job with
Chaos Legion. The idea of kicking ass as a gothic swordsman
and his seven closest unholy friends sounds mighty appealing. However, a crummy
targeting system and ultra-repetitive gameplay relegate Chaos Legion
to the status of a good idea gone bad.


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Minority Microbiology Mentor Newsletter - March 2012
- ASMCUE: New Initiatives, Opportunities in 2012
- Professional Development Opportunities
- ABMM Certification
- ASM PRESS: Recently Published Titles
- asm2012
- ASM Conferences
- Eradication of HIV-1 from CNS Reservoirs: Implications for Therapeutics (R01, RFA-MH-13-030)
- NIMHD Basic and Applied Biomedical Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01, RFA-MD-12-004)
- Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER, NSF 12-524)
- Assembling the Tree of Life (ATOL, NSF 10-513)
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2012 (NSF 12-528)
- Clinical Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
- Deputy Director, Division of Extramural Activities (NIAID)
- Postdoc position in FDA Division of Viral Products
- Minorities in Scientific Ocean Drilling Fellowship
- Keystone Symposia provides Early Career Investigator Travel Awards (ECITA)
- Lydia V. Rump, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Maryland
ASMCUE: New Initiatives, Opportunities in 2012
As the only national meeting that gathers faculty to learn and share best practices for teaching in the microbiological sciences, the Annual ASM Conference for Undergraduate Educators (ASMCUE) is a must-attend event for more than 300 educators each year. This year marks the 19th occurrence of conference, which is planned for June 14-17 at the San Mateo Marriott, San Mateo, Calif.
ASMCUE attendees can look forward to numerous plenary sessions by scientists at the forefront of research and education; concurrent sessions that highlight effective classroom solutions and topics in science education; and short Microbrew sessions, i.e., "chalk-talks," on successful teaching strategies. In addition, special initiatives in place this year include a joint program with asm2012 (the ASM General Meeting), a new collaboration with the American Academy of Microbiology, and two opportunities to affect the future of science education.
Joint Program: ASMCUE and asm2012
This year's ASMCUE will be held in conjunction with the nearby asm2012 meeting in San Francisco, Calif. The resulting joint program features two complimentary benefits for ASMCUE registrants. The first is a field trip to the opening asm2012 keynote session and reception on June 16, and the second is a registration pass for asm2012 sessions held on June 17.
Special Academy Presentations
On Friday, June 15, the American Academy of Microbiology, in partnership with ASMCUE and the ASM Education Board, will offer presentations on two topics from the Academy's new FAQ report series, which takes a nontechnical approach to reporting on emerging news topics that involve microbes. The presentations will highlight information from the first two reports in the series: FAQ: Microbes and Oil Spills and FAQ: The Good, Bad, and Deadly. Published in February 2011, the reports are excellent supporting materials for faculty to use to supplement texts and deepen student understanding about current topics in microbiology. Copies of both reports will be available at the session.
Opportunities to Contribute to Future Directions in Science Education
On Friday, June 15, the ASMCUE community will receive an opportunity to provide input on a newly compiled set of biosafety guidelines for instructors of microbiology laboratories. Covering six topical areas that relate to the two biosafety levels most used by educators, the guidelines will reviewed and discussed in breakout working groups.
On Saturday, June 16, conferee feedback will be requested by editors of the MicrobeLibrary Laboratory Protocol Collection, a repository of peer-reviewed information on standard microbiology protocols. Needed feedback centers on ways educators incorporate the library's newest protocols (carbohydrate fermentation, decarboxylase test, gelatin agar, and starch agar) in their teaching. Especially sought are tips and tools that can enhance use of the protocols or provide advice for first-time users. Outcomes of the session will be reviewed and published at Microbelibrary.org, and participants will be recognized as contributors to the publication.
Register Today
With such a packed lineup of events to choose from, attendees are sure to come away with numerous new tools for teaching, new collaborations, and reconnections with old friends. April 20 is the last day to register, so don't delay. For more information, visit http://www.asmcue.org.
Professional Development Opportunities
ASM Education Board programs support student and faculty development through numerous fellowships, conferences, institutes, and workshops. Please share the following program opportunities with your students and colleagues in the microbiological sciences:
ASM Kadner Institute. The ASM Committee on Graduate and Postdoctoral Education invites senior-level graduate students and early-career postdoctoral scientists to apply for the 2012 ASM Kadner Institute for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scientists in Preparation for Careers in Microbiology. The Kadner Institute, which is sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, will be held on July 21-25 at Michigan State University. Institute participants receive careful guidance and mentoring in key topics important for choosing and succeeding in microbiology careers: (i) career opportunities and preparation; (ii) preparation, review, and critique of research proposals; (iii) scientific presentations and communication; (iv) effective teaching methods; and (v) professional standards development. The application deadline is May 15, 2012. Learn more at http://www.asmgap.org.
ASM Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship. The ASM Committee on Minority Education invites senior-level graduate students to apply for the 2012 ASM Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship. The Watkins fellowship (i) seeks to increase the number of students from underrepresented minority groups who complete doctoral degrees and (ii) provides students with support to complete and present their microbiological-sciences-based research. Watkins fellows attend the ASM Kadner Institute for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scientists in Preparation for Careers in Microbiology (see above) or the ASM Scientific Writing and Publishing Institute (http://www.asmgap.org/swpi) and, dependent on abstract submission and acceptance, are supported to present their research at the ASM General Meeting. Interested students should apply by May 1, 2012. Learn more at:ASM Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship.
ABMM Certification
Certification is a voluntary process in which individuals are recognized for demonstrating required skills and knowledge. It is achieved by demonstrating education and experience requirements and by passing a multiple-choice question exam. Many seek it to obtain a tangible and coveted credential that will set them apart from others who have similar education and experience. It gives employers a tool to help them make the right hire--a microbiologist who has been "tested" and "certified."
The American Board of Medical Microbiology (ABMM) certifies the expertise of doctoral-level microbiologists seeking to direct public health or clinical microbiology laboratories. It is recognized by federal and state governmental agencies as a significant component toward meeting licensure requirements to direct laboratories engaged in the microbiological diagnosis of human disease. It is recognized under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 final rule and in all 12 states that require licensure.
ABMM certification is achieved by passing an online multiple-choice exam that is offered daily in the month of June at testing centers worldwide. Visit http://www.microbiologycert.org/ to learn more and apply online.
Deadline: April 1, 2012
ASM PRESS: Recently Published Titles
Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases
Author: Robert P. Gaynes
List Price: $29.95
Member Price: $24.95
From Hippocrates to Lillian Wald - the stories of scientists whose work changed the way we think about and treat infection.
- Describes the genesis of the germ theory of disease by a dozen seminal thinkers such as Jenner, Lister, and Ehrlich.
- Presents the "inside stories" of these pioneers' struggles to have their work accepted, which can inform strategies for tackling current crises in infectious diseases and motivate and support today's scientists.
- Relevant to anyone interested in microbiology, infectious disease, or how medical discoveries shape our modern understanding.
Recommended for anyone with an interest in microbiology, infectious diseases, or medical history.
Medically Important Fungi: A Guide to Identification, Fifth Edition
Author: Davise H. Larone
List Price: $109.95
Member Price: $99.95
The tool you need to confidently and accurately identify clinically relevant fungi.
- Conceived and perfected by world-renowned microbiologist Dr. Davise Larone, a classic reference that enables both novice and experienced lab technologists to confidently identify medically important fungi.
- Presents straightforward step-by-step guidance and textual descriptions that allow users to distinguish between fungi that display similar characteristics.
- Provides detailed descriptions of the major fungal pathologies and hundreds of the most critical clinically observed fungi.
Recommended for novice and experienced lab technologists and mycology students.
Oral Microbial Communities: Genomic Inquiry and Interspecies Communication
Editor: Paul E. Kolenbrander
List Price: $179.95
Member Price: $169.95
Understand how the intricacies of multispecies community life are related to human oral health.
- Explores the immense opportunities presented by readily accessible, genetically tractable, genome-sequenced oral species that naturally form multispecies communities.
- Highlights model systems that study oral bacterial interactions, including biofilm growth using saliva as the source of nutrition.
- Emphasizes the use of genomic inquiry to probe the human oral microbiome.
Recommended for anyone interested in the role of oral microbiome in health, oral disease and systemic disease.
Microbial Metal and Metalloid Metabolism: Advances and Applications
Editors: John F. Stolz and Ronald S. Oremland
List Price: $159.95
Member Price: $149.95
The ideal reference for novice and experienced investigators interested in environmental biogeochemistry and bioremediation.
- Offers a broad range of current topics and approaches in microbe-metal research, including microbial fuel cells, unique microbial physiology.
- Reviews the current state of the science in the field, and examines emerging developments and applications and forecasts future research directions.
- The book is also recommended as a text for graduate courses in microbial physiology, microbial ecology, and applied and environmental microbiology.
Recommended for advanced students, researchers, and professionals in microbial physiology, microbial ecology, and applied and environmental microbiology.
Find all of these titles and more at http://estore.asm.org/press
112th General Meeting | June 16-19, 2012 | San Francisco, CA
Late-Breakers Diagnostic Microbiology and Epidemiology Site Closes: March 23, 2012
Advance Registration Deadline: April 30, 2012
Join more than 8,000 microbiologists from around the world to learn about the latest advances in the field of microbiology at the asm2012 meeting. asm2012 promises to deliver a unique learning and networking opportunity where ideas and approaches can be shared across the various fields of microbiology. With over 3,500 abstracts submitted, you are guaranteed exposure to the field's latest discoveries and the broad range of scientific disciplines represented by the scientific program will address the needs of all attendees.
Scientific Sessions
- 13 Plenary Sessions on Interdisciplinary Topics of Broad Interest
- 36 Symposia on Specialized Topics of General Microbiology
- 26 Sessions on Diagnostic Microbiology and Epidemiology
- Opening Keynote and ASM President's Forum Sessions
For more information about asm2012 go to: http://www.asm.org/asm2012
52nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
September 9-12, 2012 | San Francisco, CA
Registration, Housing, and Website Open: March 5, 2012
Abstract Submission Closes: May 7, 2012
Late-Breaker Abstract Submission Opens: June 1, 2012
Travel Grant Application Submission Closes: June 29, 2012
Late-Breaker Abstract Submission Closes: July 30, 2012
ICAAC, the premier conference on antimicrobial agents and infectious diseases, showcases the latest-breaking science and lectures from top researchers from around the world. With over 60% of its attendees living outside of the United States, ICAAC provides a rare opportunity to bring together the field's foremost leaders to discuss the state of infection control and prevention on a global scale.
Through oral and poster presentations, 10,000 physicians, clinical microbiologists, researchers, and pharmacists will come together to share their research, discover the latest breakthroughs, and work towards fostering global solutions to the problems of infectious diseases and antimicrobial agents.
For more information about ICAAC go to http://www.icaac.org
ASM Conferences
11th ASM Conference on Candida and Candidiasis
March 29 – April 2, 2012 | San Francisco, CA
Last Day to Register Online: March 12, 2012
Hotel Reservation Deadline (subject to availability): March 14, 2012
Candida is the major cause of invasive fungal infections, affecting AIDS patients, hospitalized patients, premature infants, and many others. The 11th ASM Conference on Candida and Candidiasis will provide a forum for the Candida research community to present the most recent advances and ideas, covering a broad spectrum of subjects from clinical issues to molecular mechanisms, from growth of the fungus to response of the host. The conference will help chart the course of future research and facilitate the urgent need to understand, treat, and prevent candidiasis.
4th ASM Conference on Prokaryotic Cell Biology and Development
May 6 - 10, 2012 | Montreal, Canada
Discounted Pre-registration Deadline: March 23, 2012
Housing Deadline (subject to availability): April 16, 2012
Last Day to Register Online: April 19, 2012
The central goals of this conference are to bring together researchers using the most sophisticated approaches to address the most important questions in the field of prokaryotic cell and developmental biology, and provide a forum for them to share ideas.
3rd ASM Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance in Zoonotic Bacteria and Foodborne Pathogens in Animals, Humans and the Environment
June 26 – 29, 2012 | Aix-en-Provence, France
Abstract Deadline: April 4, 2012
Discounted Pre-registration Deadline: May 15, 2012
Last Day to Register Online: June 8, 2012
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains a major public health concern despite significant progress in understanding the epidemiology of resistance, sources for selection, and the genetic mechanisms involved in both human and animal antimicrobial resistance. The 3rd ASM Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance in Zoonotic Bacteria and Foodborne Pathogens offers scientists from both backgrounds a unique, integrated platform to discuss these issues.
For more information about ASM Conferences go to: hhttp://conferences.asm.org/
Eradication of HIV-1 from CNS Reservoirs: Implications for Therapeutics (R01, RFA-MH-13-030)
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) invite research grant applications to address the problem of HIV-1 persistence focused solely on the central nervous system (CNS) of HIV-infected persons treated with Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART). This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will support innovative research in five areas: (1) basic research to identify and characterize CNS-based cellular reservoirs of HIV-1 for individuals on HAART; (2) basic research to determine the mechanisms involved in the temporal establishment, maintenance, and resurgence of CNS-based HIV-1 reservoirs in relationship to the effects and timing of HAART, viral expression, and viral evolution within the brain; (3) development of physiologically relevant animal models and CNS-based cellular assays that recapitulate HIV-1 persistence and latency in the presence of effective HAART; (4) drug screening of potential agents which traverse the blood-brain barrier and eliminate latent or other sources of residual virus in the CNS; and (5) design of therapeutic strategies aimed at eradication of HIV-1 from the CNS. Applications ranging from basic to translational research in domestic and international settings are of interest. Multidisciplinary research teams are encouraged but not required. More information is available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-13-030.html, and letters of intent are due August 12, 2012.
NIMHD Basic and Applied Biomedical Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01, RFA-MD-12-004)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is issued by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) to solicit innovative grant applications on:
1. Biological and genetic research to explore disease mechanisms or pathways that influence health outcomes in minority and health disparity populations.
2. Clinical and translational research linking basic science discovery with effective treatment or clinical practice.
The overall goal of this initiative is to enhance our understanding of fundamental biological mechanisms involved in disease conditions and develop therapies or interventions that can directly or demonstrably contribute to the elimination of health disparities.
Biological, genetic, clinical and translational research projects investigating the etiology, physiology, genetic risk factors, molecular pathways, gene-environmental interactions, pharmacogenomic and personalized medicine in health disparity populations are particularly encouraged. More information is available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MD-12-004.html, and letters of intent are due May 11, 2012.
Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER, NSF 12-524)
To address ecological questions that cannot be resolved with short-term observations or experiments, NSF established the Long Term Ecological Research Program (LTER) in 1980.Three unique components differentiate LTER research from projects supported by other NSF programs: 1) the research is located at specific sites chosen to represent major ecosystem types or natural biomes; 2) it emphasizes the study of phenomena over long periods of time, based upon data collection in five core areas; and 3) projects include significant integrative, cross-site, network-wide research. Research at LTER sites provides experiments, databases, and research programs for use by other scientists. It must test important ecological or ecosystem theories including, but not limited to, ecosystem stability, biodiversity, community structure, and energy flow. Recognizing that the value of long-term data extends beyond use at any individual site, NSF requires that data collected by all LTER sites be made broadly accessible. More information is available at http://nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12524/nsf12524.htm, and deadline is March 21, 2012.
Assembling the Tree of Life (ATOL, NSF 10-513)
A flood of new information, from whole-genome sequences to detailed structural information to inventories of earth's biota to greater appreciation of the importance of lateral gene transfer in shaping evolutionary history, is transforming 21st century biology. Along with comparative data on morphology, fossils, development, behavior, and interactions of all forms of life on earth, these new data streams make even more critical the need for an organizing evolutionary context. Phylogeny, the genealogical map for all lineages of life on earth, provides an overall framework to facilitate biological information retrieval, prediction and analysis. Currently, single investigators or small teams of researchers are studying the evolutionary pathways of heredity usually concentrating on taxonomic groups of modest size. Assembly of a framework phylogeny, or Tree of Life, for all major lineages of life requires a greatly magnified effort, often involving large teams working across institutions and disciplines. This is the overall goal of the Assembling the Tree of Life activity. The National Science Foundation announces its intention to continue support of creative and innovative research that will resolve evolutionary relationships for large groups of organisms throughout the history of life. Investigators also will be supported for projects in data acquisition, analysis, algorithm development and dissemination in computational phylogenetics and phyloinformatics. More information is available at http://nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10513/nsf10513.htm, and deadline is March 26, 2012.
Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2012 (NSF 12-528)
Despite centuries of discovery, most of our planet's biodiversity remains unknown. The scale of the unknown diversity on Earth is especially troubling given the rapid and permanent loss of biodiversity across the globe. With this loss, humanity is losing links in the web of life that provide ecosystem services, forfeiting an understanding of the history and future of the living world, and losing opportunities for future beneficial discoveries in the domains of food, fiber, fuel, pharmaceuticals, and bio-inspired innovation. More information is available at http://nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12528/nsf12528.htm, and deadline is April 10, 2012.
Clinical Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health is searching for a Clinical Director/Senior Investigator qualified for tenured appointment to direct its clinical research program. Additionally, the Clinical Director is expected to conduct her/his own independent research as a Senior Investigator. As Clinical Director/Senior Investigator, the incumbent is responsible for the leadership of the intramural NIMHD clinical program located at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The Director of the clinical research program/Senior Investigator position is administratively within the Office of the Scientific Director, NIMHD. The successful candidate will oversee a combination of studies, including outpatient, inpatient, epidemiological, clinical protocols, and laboratory studies. Emphasis will be placed upon investigators with a primary research interest in clinical research; however, the selected candidate must adopt the NIMHD strategies in utilizing an interdisciplinary approach toward the science of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of chronic diseases that disproportionately affect the underserved populations in the U.S.
QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates must have an established and nationally or internationally recognized record in the conduct and supervision of clinical research in a discipline relevant to the field of minority health and health disparities research. Candidates should also have an established record of experience with clinical training, institutional review boards, and compliance with current clinical safety and regulatory issues. Candidates must have a Doctor of Medicine degree from a school in the United States or Canada accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) in the year of the applicant's graduation, or a Doctor of Medicine or equivalent degree from a non-LCME accredited medical school that is certified by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) or hold a Fifth Pathway certificate issued prior to December 31, 2009. Candidates must be board certified or board-eligible in a medical specialty approved by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), and have the ability to obtain medical licensure in the U.S.
SALARY/BENEFITS: The Clinical Director, NIMHD, will be appointed at a salary commensurate with his/her qualifications and experience. Full Federal benefits, including leave, health and life insurance, retirement and savings plan (401K equivalent) will be provided. This position is subject to public financial disclosure requirements.
HOW TO APPLY: Interested candidates should send a letter of interest, including a brief description of research and administrative experience; curriculum vitae and bibliography; and full contact information for three to five individuals who may be contacted to provide letters of reference. Application packages should be sent to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, c/o Dr. Richard Cannon, Chair, Search Committee, 6707 Democracy Blvd., Suite 800, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, or electronically: email@example.com ; Subject Line: NIMHD Clinical Director Search. For further information about the position, please contact Ms. Keta Lawson at 301-594-3986 or firstname.lastname@example.com. ALL information provided by the candidates will remain confidential and will not be released outside the NIMHD search process without a signed release from candidate. The NIH encourages the application and nomination of qualified women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities. Applications must be received by Monday, March 19, 2012. DHHS and NIH are Equal Opportunity Employers. Deadline is March 19, 2012.
Deputy Director, Division of Extramural Activities (NIAID)
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is one of the largest Institutes of the world-renowned National Institutes of Health (NIH). With a budget approaching $4.5 billion annually, NIAID supports and conducts basic, applied, and clinical research to better understand, treat, and prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases. The Division of Extramural Activities (DEA) oversees grants, contracts, peer review, and extramural policy and information dissemination for NIAID. DEA also directly supports extramural research through research training and career development programs, small business research awards, and international extramural activities in the areas of allergy, immunology, transplantation, and infectious diseases.
The selected candidate will serve as deputy to the DEA director and fully share responsibility for managing DEA's grants, contracts, peer review, and policy functions. In collaboration with the director, the deputy participates in the planning, administration, development, and evaluation of DEA's research management programs and in directing, overseeing, and evaluating DEA's ongoing activities through subordinate supervisors, project leaders, program specialists, and contract employees. The deputy also has full responsibility to manage the DEA units and staff responsible for coordination of training and career development programs, small business innovative research, and international extramural research policies. The deputy represents the division at NIAID, NIH, national, and international meetings and conferences; makes scientific policy presentations at scientific/medical meetings; and serves as a key advisor to the directors of DEA and NIAID. The chosen candidate must have the ability to encourage participation and partnering with public and private/commercial entities to transition basic research knowledge into the development of products that will improve human health in the United States and globally.
Applicants must have an M.D., Ph.D., or equivalent degree, be a U.S. citizen, and exhibit a broad scientific management vision; an ability to lead staff; an outstanding ability to communicate with diverse audiences; flexibility in responding to multiple and rapidly emerging issues; and a demonstrated expertise in supervision and management of a broad and complex biomedical research program encompassing one or more of the following areas: biomedical research relevant to the NIAID mission, research training and career development, international research collaborations, or small business biotechnology research development. The chosen candidate will possess the supervisory, project management, interpersonal, and oral and written communication skills required to interact effectively with staff, representatives of academia, private industry, national and international research and health organizations, other units of NIH, the media, and the general public.
Candidates must be familiar with both standard university grantee processes as well as private laboratory and small business organizations with regard to conduct and management of complex biomedical research projects and training programs. They must have a clear understanding of regulatory requirements pertaining to such things as use of animals, human subjects, infectious agents, and other biohazards. Familiarity with research program initiative development, clinical regulatory affairs, and intellectual property issues, either as an NIH grantee or program director, would be a plus.
Salary is commensurate with experience, and a full package of benefits is available including retirement, health and life insurance, long term care insurance, leave, and savings plan (401K equivalent). Provide curriculum vitae, bibliography, and a three-page summary explaining 1) your vision of extramural research, 2) your reasons for being interested in the position, and 3) the specific leadership skills and experience you would bring to NIAID to Ms. Theresa D. Shrader, 6700B Rockledge Drive, Room 2145, Bethesda, MD 20892-7610 (FedEx: Bethesda, MD 20817). The application review process will begin April 14, 2012. Direct inquiries to Ms. Shrader at 301-496-3795 or email@example.com.
Learn more about NIAID and how you can play a role in this exciting and dynamic research organization: Visit us on the Web: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/careers/dda22; Follow us on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/NIAIDCareers; Like us on Facebook: www.Facebook.com/niaid.nih. HHS, NIH, and NIAID are proud to be equal opportunity employers. Deadline is April 14, 2012.
Postdoc position in FDA Division of Viral Products
A postdoctoral position in immunology is available in the Laboratory of Dr. Hana Golding, Division of Viral Products, CBER, FDA located on the main NIH campus. Our laboratory is a vibrant community with several important projects: development of the assays to evaluate efficacy and mechanisms of influenza vaccines, mode of action/safety of adjuvants and bioimaging of vaccinia virus infection in live mice. The position is now available to study the effects of anti-viral drugs and vaccines on dissemination of recombinant vaccinia virus in live mice using whole body bioimaging (relevant papers: M. Zaitseva et al. 2009 "Application of bioluminescence imaging to the prediction of lethality in vaccinia virus-infected mice" J Virology. 83:10437-10447 and M. Zaitseva et al., 2011 "Passive immunotherapies protect WRvFire and IHD-J-Luc vaccinia virus infected mice from lethality by reducing viral loads in the upper respiratory tract and internal organs" J. Virology 85:9147-9158). We are especially interested in studying the mechanisms of protection conferred by anti-virals administered post-challenge as a surrogate model of post-exposure treatments in humans. This is an opportunity to pursue a combination of research interests in immunology and virology with applied work on vaccine/anti-viral drug development. The initial position is for two years (starting May-June 2012) with possible extension.
Qualifications: Highly motivated individual with a bachelor's degree in biological sciences or with an MPH degree. Experience/Skills: animal work (mice), cell biology/immunology lab. To apply for this position, please email CV, a statement of past research experience, and contact information of three potential references to Dr. Hana Golding email@example.com
Minorities in Scientific Ocean Drilling Fellowship
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program - U.S. Implementing Organization (IODP-USIO) is currently accepting applications for the Minorities in Scientific Ocean Drilling Fellowship. The Fellowship will award $30,000 to an outstanding minority student whose research is using data and/or materials obtained from scientific ocean drilling, or who is developing technology that will help advance science or engineering in scientific ocean drilling research. The fellowship is open to graduate students that are a member of a racial or ethnic minority group and who are enrolled in a geoscience or engineering program at any U.S. university or college. The deadline to apply is April 30, 2012. For additional details, visit: http://www.oceanleadership.org/education/diversity/minorities-in-scientific-ocean-drilling-fellowship/
Keystone Symposia provides Early Career Investigator Travel Awards (ECITA)
Keystone Symposia is funding Early Career Investigator Travel Awards (ECITA). These awards are for Assistant Professors from designated underrepresented minority backgrounds in the U.S. who are "bench" researchers. The purpose is to support their research success by providing funds for them to attend one of the Keystone Symposia research meetings (Up to $1800). The application process opened March 1, 2012 for all meetings between through Feb 28, 2013. However, the awards will be made upon review. The application may be found on-line at http://www.keystonesymposia.org/diversity (see ECITA).
Lydia V. Rump, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Maryland
Various Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) serotypes have been implicated in foodborne illness worldwide. Although enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) serotype O157 is most commonly associated with severe consequences like the life threatening hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), many other "non-O157 STEC" serogroups are gaining importance as foodborne pathogens. In May 2011 an unusual serotype O104:H4 caused a major outbreak in Europe (mostly Germany). The severity of the recent O104:H4 outbreak, the uncommon vehicle of infection (seeds of fenugreek) and the unsuspected characteristics of the outbreak strain indicates the need for a detailed investigation on this type of organisms in the United States. E. coli O104 from different sources in the United States were examined for virulence genes typical for enterohemorrhagic E. coli and those identified in the O104:H4 isolate associated with the 2011 German outbreak ("Genetic Characterization of Escherichia coli O104 Isolates from Different Sources in the United States." Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2012, March; 78, 1615-1618). Isolates were characterized by several molecular and phenotypic assays. We further looked for selected virulence loci specific for the E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strain other EHECs markers (stx1, stx2, eae, ehxA, terD, ipAfO26, irp2, fyuA, iha, aatA, aggR, set1, and pic) and to establish their genetic relationship. The strains analyzed in this study carried some of the typical O104:H4 virulence associated loci and showed distinct PFGE profiles grouping strains in two clusters. Some markers (irp2, lpfAO26) were shared by most strains, although hemolysis-activity was limited to one cluster. Unexpected presence of virulence markers in these isolates highlights the importance of screening unusual and potentially pathogenic Shiga toxin-producing E. coli serotypes.
Dr. Lydia Rump's (http://agnr.umd.edu/directory/Bio.cfm?ID=lvrump) research interests include food safety and the identification of foodborne bacteria including unknown organisms, Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and Salmonella sp. She is currently a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Rump earned her Ph. D. in Food Chemistry/Microbiology at the University of Hamburg, Germany where she investigated the genetic cause for the lack of O157 expression in an atypical Escherichia coli O rough: H7 strain (MA6) which carries all characteristic O157:H7 virulence traits. Dr. Rump has been the recipient of an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) fellowship at the Food and Drug Administration and is currently a member of the International Association of Food Protection, The American Society for Microbiology, the Association of Analytical Communities International and the American Chemical Society.
In July 2006, the Committee on Microbiological Issues Impacting Minorities (CMIIM) of the American Society for Microbiology Public and Scientific Affairs Board developed a monthly e-newsletter which contains information pertinent to minority microbiologists. Currently, there are very few minority-based newsletters for scientists, and there are none for microbiologists.
This e-newsletter provides a central means of distributing pertinent information to underrepresented minorities in the field of microbiology. Some examples include career advice, networking tips, relevant news articles, unique funding and career opportunities, microbiological issues affecting minorities (e.g., HIV), minority issues affecting microbiologists (e.g., minority retention), and scientific articles published by minorities or by minority-serving institutions (MSIs).
The target populations are African-Americans, Latino-Americans, Native Americans, Alaska natives, and Pacific Islanders; however, all ASM members are invited to sign up and to share this information with others who may find this e-newsletter beneficial.
Signing up to receive The Minority Microbiology Mentor is very easy and is open to ASM members and non-members: simply go to: Subscribe to Listserv enter your email address, and select "MinorityMicroMentor" then submit, and you will receive confirmation of your subscription by email. If you are an ASM member, you will be prompted to Log In before signing up.
The Committee on Microbiological Issues Impacting Minorities is chaired by Marian Johnson-Thompson, Ph.D., retired Director of Education and Biomedical Research Development at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, in Research Triangle Park, NC. The Minority Microbiology Mentor Editor-in-Chief is Dwayne W. Boucaud, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Quinnipiac University Department of Biomedical Sciences in Hamden, CT and the Associate Editor is Crystal N. Johnson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA.