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Node.js Tools for Visual Studio ( NTVS), is an open-source Visual Studio plugin that transforms Visual Studio into a IDE for developing Node.js apps. Node.js has become extremely popular, as a server-side runtime environment for JavaScript apps; and this plugin brings the possibility for Visual Studio users to take advantage of their knowledge of the IDE to work with Node.js code. It includes IntelliSense, a Node.js interactive window, debugging and profiling, among other features. In this article, I provide an example of the usage of these features.
Writing Node.js code in Visual Studio and Using IntelliSense
You can download the latest version of Node.js Tools for Visual Studio here. At the time of writing, the latest version for Visual Studio 2013 was 1.0 Release Candidate. It is very stable and allows you to use Visual Studio 2013 as your IDE for Node.js projects without major problems. In the event you've worked with the previous versions of the plugin, you should upgrade because this release resolved many bugs and crashes. The project is developed and supported by Microsoft and the community. It is important to note that there is already a version that works with the Visual Studio 2015 preview, so you can expect that the forthcoming Visual Studio version will also allow you to use it as the IDE for Node.js projects.
Node.js Tools works with your existing Node.js installation. In fact, when you execute your Node.js project, the IDE will run the installed node.exe. The Visual Studio debugger uses the node V8 debugger under the hood, but you work with the IDE in the same way and with the same windows you are used to interacting with when coding in C# or other Visual Studio supported languages.
Once you install the tools, the New Project dialog box in Visual Studio provides the following new templates under
Installed | Templates | JavaScript | Node.js:
- Azure Cloud Service
- From Existing Node.js code
- Blank Node.js Console Application
- Blank Node.js Web Application
- Basic Node.js Express 3 Application
- Starter Node.js Express 3 Application
- Basic Node.js Express 4 Application
- Blank Azure Node.js Web Application
- Blank Azure Node.js Express 3 Application
- Starter Azure Node.js Express 3 Application
- Basic Azure Node.js Express 4 Application
Start a new project with the
Blank Node.js Web Application template. You can use IntelliSense to replace the code in
server.js with the following lines. This code uses the HTTP and URL libraries to create a very simple Node.js REST API that is capable of processing an HTTP
status method with some parameters.
Listing One: Creating a simple REST API.
// Require the HTTP library var http = require("http"); // Require the URL library var url = require('url'); var port = process.env.port || 1337; var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) { var parsedUrl = url.parse(request.url, true); var query = parsedUrl.query; if ((request.method == 'GET') && (parsedUrl.pathname == '/status')) { status(query, response); } }); function status(query, response) { var cameraToQuery = 0; var detectedFacesCount = 0; var globalStatus = 'N/A'; var lensStatus = 'N/A'; var environmentScore = 0; if (query.position) { switch (query.position) { case 'front': cameraToQuery = 1; globalStatus = 'OK'; lensStatus = 'OK'; environmentScore = 4; detectedFacesCount = 300; break; case 'back': cameraToQuery = 2; globalStatus = 'OK'; lensStatus = 'OK'; environmentScore = 3; detectedFacesCount = 150; break; case 'left': cameraToQuery = 3; globalStatus = 'OK'; lensStatus = 'OK'; environmentScore = 3; detectedFacesCount = 200; break; case 'right': cameraToQuery = 4; globalStatus = 'OK'; lensStatus = 'OK'; environmentScore = 2; detectedFacesCount = 170; break; } } console.log("Requesting status information for camera #: " + cameraToQuery); // Write the response HEAD response.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "application/json", "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*", "Access-Control-Allow-Headers": "X-Requested-With" }); var obj = { cameraId: cameraToQuery, globalStatus: globalStatus, lensStatus: lensStatus, environmentScore: environmentScore, detectedFacesCount: detectedFacesCount, }; // Write the response body response.write(JSON.stringify(obj)); // End of the response response.end(); } // Start listening at port 1337 or the port number specified in process env port server.listen(port); console.log("Server is listening at port " + port);
As you might expect from your experience with Visual Studio, after you declare a variable, you can take advantage of IntelliSense to check the available methods and properties. For example, after you declare the
http variable on line 2, you can check the methods available for http by typing the dot (
.) after http in the following line (see Figure 1):
Figure 1: IntelliSense provides information about the available methods.
You will see the
createServer function in the displayed list. When you select
createServer, the IDE displays the documentation for the function. After you press
Enter to auto-complete the
http.createServer method and you open parenthesis to specify the arguments, the IDE displays the argument names list, in this case,
The code in Listing One uses the HTTP and URL libraries to create a very simple Node.js REST API that is capable of processing an HTTP
status method with some parameters. The server listens on port 1337 or the port specified in
process.env.port. When the server receives an HTTP GET for the status method, it executes the
status function. This function checks whether a
position parameter value has been specified. The following are the four accepted values for
left and
right. The code converts the specified position value to a camera id (
cameraToQuery) and generates values to simulate status data provided by cameras that detect and count faces in real-time. Then, the code sends the JSON response with values for the following keys:
environmentScore, and
There are simpler ways to achieve the same goal by using other Node.js libraries, such as Express. However, I want to keep the sample code simple to allow you to understand the different features included in Node.js Tools for Visual Studio.
View | Other Windows | Node.js Interactive Window and the IDE will display the Node.js REPL (short for Read-Eval-Print Loop), which allows you to test code snippets. The interactive window supports IntelliSense.


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Perrigo Company plc (PRGO) Stock Price Analysis:
After the giving short look at one day return of Perrigo Company plc it is observed that PRGO reported positive return of 0.71% in last trading session. It is a positive indicator for investor portfolio value — when the price of a stock Investor owns goes up in value. On the other side it is not a negative indicator for Investor portfolio value when the price of a stock Investor owns moves down in value.
Now we move forward to see the historical returns of Perrigo Company plc which is Ireland based stock. The stock is currently showing negative return of -5.17% throughout last week and witnessed bearish return of -1.38% in one month period. The stock price mounted 2.67% in three months and plunged -23.91% for the last six months trading period.
PRGO indicated a yearly downward return of -33.95% while year-to-date (YTD) return printed 28.77% bullish outlook. The stock price moved -5.80% off its 50 Day low and changed 10.79% to its 50 Day high.
Moving average of Perrigo Company plc (PRGO)
Perrigo Company plc (PRGO) stock price traded at a gap of 0.17% from an average price of last twenty days and stands at a distance of 1.69% away from it's an average price of recent fifty days. Take a look at most-well known 200-day moving average which averages prices over the past 200 days. The 200-day moving average is the standby for long-term investors. At present time the stock is moving -14.90% away to its 200-day moving average. It goes without saying that investors should not rely solely on any one technique. However, applying moving-average strategies in conjunction with portfolio diversification and prudent money management may reduce one's risk substantially.
Perrigo Company plc (PRGO) closed the Thursday at final price of $49.9 after traded 1572503 shares. The average volume was noted at 1325.05K shares while its relative volume was seen at 1.19. Volume is a measure of how much of a given financial asset has been traded in a given period of time. It is a very powerful tool but is often overlooked because it is such a simple indicator. Volume information can be found just about anywhere, but few traders or investors know how to use this information to increase their profits and minimize risk.
When analyzing volume, there are guidelines that can be used to determine the strength or weakness of a move. Traders are more interested to join strong moves and take no part in moves that show weakness – or investors may even watch for an entry in the opposite direction of a weak move. These guidelines do not hold true in all situations, but they are a good general aid in trading decisions.
For every buyer, there needs to be someone who sold them the shares they bought, just as there must be a buyer in order for a seller to get rid of his or her shares. This battle between buyers and sellers for the best price in all different time frames creates movement while longer-term technical and fundamental factors play out. Using volume to analyze stocks (or any financial asset) can bolster profits and also reduce risk.
Short Ratio of stock is 4.73. Perrigo Company plc is a part of Healthcare sector and belongs to Drug Related Products industry. The recent session has given its stock price a 37.54% positive lead over its 52-week low and showed lower move of -38.14% over its 52-week high.
The 52 week range is a simple technical indicator that lists the highest and lowest price at which a security was sold over preceding 52 weeks (or one year). Investors, especially technical analysts, may use the 52 week range to gauge whether a stock's current price suggests buying, selling, or taking no-action. Many value investors look for stocks that are at or near their 52 week low, but this metric alone does not indicate whether a stock is under-valued. For example, a stock may near its 52 week low in a price correction after earnings expectations for future quarters were revised. There is no guarantee that when share prices reach a 52 week low, the stock will begin to trade higher – it could break down to an even lower level. However, as 52 Week Range has little to no connection whatsoever with current news or forces affecting companies today, very few investors rely heavily on the metric. Instead, the 52 Week Range is generally used more as a descriptive metric to describe what the stock has done and not what it will do.
The stock price volatility remained at 3.05% in recent month and reaches at 2.94% for the week. Historical statistical volatility is a measure of how much the stock price fluctuated during a given time period. While historical volatility can be indicative of future volatility, it can also differ greatly from future volatility, depending on what was driving the price changes during the past period. Major expected news items are more important drivers of big moves in the stock price in the near future. The Average True Range (ATR) is also a measure of volatility is currently sitting at 1.64
Perrigo Company plc (PRGO) stock is more volatile Stock with beta figure of 1.22
Perrigo Company plc stock waking on thin line between bulls and bears tracks and with several factors it's pulling towards optimistic side to some extend but some take to pessimistic side. So, volatility evaluation is supposed to give some wisdom of how far the stock will fall if the market takes a dive and how high the stock will rise if the bull starts to climb. For this relative risk measurement, PRGO has beta value of 1.22. A stock with a beta less than 1 is considered less volatile than the market; more than 1 means more volatile. If market is up, the stock should outperform by positive momentum and if the market heads lower, the stock should go down by same tendency.
Once the concept of beta is understood, an investor can intuitively determine whether or not a particular stock has a high or low beta. For example, an established blue chip company in a mature industry with stable earnings will most likely have a much lower beta compared to a start up Biotechnology Company.
Perrigo Company plc (PRGO) stock is Overbought or Oversold?
The stock has current RSI value of 49.95. Wilder believed that when prices rose very rapidly and therefore momentum was high enough, that the underlying financial instrument/commodity would have to eventually be considered overbought and a selling opportunity was possibly at hand. Likewise, when prices dropped rapidly and therefore momentum was low enough, the financial instrument would at some point be considered oversold presenting a possible buying opportunity.
There are set number ranges within RSI that Wilder consider useful and noteworthy in this regard. According to Wilder, any number above 70 should be considered overbought and any number below 30 should be considered oversold. An RSI between 30 and 70 was to be considered neutral and an RSI around 50 signified no trend. – Some traders believe that Wilder's overbought/oversold ranges are too wide and choose to alter those ranges. For example, someone might consider any number above 80 as overbought and anything below 20 as undersold. This is entirely at the trader's discretion.

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Jan. 25, 2009
SPRINGFIELD, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's indoor track and field men's and women's teams set a pair of school records while they both finished third in five-team fields at the Springfield Invitational at the New Field House Saturday.
The men scored 78 points. Coast Guard was first with 186 points. The women scored 88 points. Host Springfield won with 219 points.
For the women, sophomore Jermai Harrison (Brockton, MA/Brockton HS) finished first in the shot put and broke the school record with a throw of 39 feet, eight inches. On the men's side, senior Tyler Buck (Valley Center, CA/Valley Center HS) broke the school record at 600 meters when he finished first in 1:24.88.
Other women's highlights included sophomore Linee Mello-Frost (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS) winning the 55 meter hurdles in 9.15 seconds after her time in the trials, 8.99 seconds, qualified her for the ECAC Championships. Junior Jess Carpenter (Rutland, MA/Wachusett HS) was first at 800 meters in 2:33.12, freshman Kristina Lundquist (Yarmouthport, MA/Dennis-Yarmouth HS) was second in the 55 meter hurdles in 9.29 seconds and third in the long jump at 15 feet, 8 ¼ inches. Freshman Alison O'Rourke (Weymouth, MA/Weymouth HS) was fifth in the hurdles in 9.l5 seconds and fourth in the long jump at 15-1 1/2, freshman Patience Noah (Framingham, MA/Keefe Tech) was second in the triple jump at 34-2 ¼, freshman Brittany Cole (Dartmouth, MA/Dartmouth HS) was third in the shot put at 35-7 ¼ and senior Hilary Baker (Middleborough, MA/Middleborough HS) fifth at 35-4 ½, sophomore Briley Morrill (Whitman, MA/Whitman-Hanson HS) was fifth at 55 meters in 8.08 seconds and`freshman Stacey Dybel (Littleton, MA/Notre Dame HS) finished fifth at 3000 meters in 12:26.88.
For the men, sophomore Nick Deininger (North Attleboro, MA/North Attleboro HS) was first in the 55 meter hurdles in 8.30 seconds, sophomore Marcus Williams (Worcester, MA/Doherty HS) was third in 8.33 and sophomore Jeff Beal (Townsend, MA/North Middlesex HS) fourth at 8.34. Graduate student Eric Holmes (Abington, MA/Abington HS) won the 3000 meters in 9:09.19, while junior Derek Stevens (Swampscott, MA/Swampscott HS) was second in 9:11.28 and junior Tim Whelan (Abington, MA/Abington HS) fifth in 9:17.72. Sophomore Kevin Markie (North Attleboro, MA/Nichols) was second in the triple jump at 43 feet, 10 inches, Williams was fifth in the long jump at 20 feet, nine inches, sophomore Eric Nygaard (Medway, MA/Medway HS) was third at 800 meters in 2:02.11 and fifth in the mile at 4:34.23, and the 4 x 200 meter relay team of senior Jimmy Knuuttila (Lunenburg, MA/Lunenburg HS), Markie, junior Corey Sleep (Fall River, MA/Durfee HS) and freshman Gerald Arneaux (Dorchester, MA/Newton South HS) was second in 1:35.51.
"I think we maximized our points," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve Gardiner. "We weren't in every event, but we have some depth in some events and we made a really good showing in those areas, We are continuing to move upwards and compete with some of the better Division III teams in New England."
The Corsairs will return to action when they travel to Wheaton next Saturday.


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After stocks leaped forward in 2013, the hangover in the early going of 2014, not surprisingly, took a toll on retirement savers' risk tolerance.
The Retirement Advisor Confidence Index, a monthly poll of wealth managers, fell 4.2 points, to 52.5, in February, one of the steepest drops since Financial Planning magazine began tracking the measure.
Clients on the whole pulled money from stocks and bonds to put into cash accounts, and they cut back on retirement planning services and retirement-oriented investment products, according to the magazine. Still, readings in excess of 50 are considered expansionary.
Investors notoriously buy and sell at precisely the wrong time. But when they get near or into retirement, something even more alarming seems to occur, according to research in behavioral finance.
The aging process can derail clients' original investment intentions, making their portfolios vulnerable to a counterintuitive mix of overconfidence and loss aversion, according to a new paper in the Retirement Management Journal.
"People change as they get older, and I wanted to investigate how aging changes the way people manage money and work with an adviser," said Helen Simon, a financial adviser who also teaches classes on investments and risk management at Florida International University.
On that front, she says, there is ample room for improvement.
Advisers and clients alike often fail to bring up key issues that will affect the clients' financial futures or focus too heavily on the wrong issues, she said.
Many retirees take lump-sum pension buyouts because they think they can manage the money to better returns than could be had with an annuity and out of fear of giving up control over the money to an insurance company, she said.
"Marketers play havoc with this behavioral flaw, encouraging retirees to take their lump sums and do it themselves; similar to the scenario of lottery winners, who overwhelmingly take the lump sum only to end up broke and often in debt," Simon writes in her paper.
She said she understands how paralyzing all the retirement investing choices can be.
"I'm 57 myself now, and all of my friends are going through this stage of life. I kept feeling that if I'm perplexed about all this, how do they feel?" she said.
"A girlfriend of mine had an adviser who for 15 years just kept saying she'd be OK. Well, she's not."
To be sure, there are plenty of concerns about annuities.
They are complex financial instruments with particularly low returns in the current interest rate environment and have a history of aggressive sales tactics and high fees.
By the same token, the nonannuity investment world has had its own share of misdeeds toward investors, from fraud to fees.
Meanwhile, aging baby boomers are left to grapple with how to devise a spending strategy that keeps them from running out of money but also doesn't force them to live too frugally, all while navigating the cognitive decline that can derail their best-laid plans, she said.
"As advisers we must recognize and acknowledge these flaws in both ourselves and our clients," she writes in the paper.
"We must work to lessen their detrimental effects by actively listening and engaging the client in discussion about their feelings toward their retirement income, education and misconceptions, while sincerely sharing our clients concerns.


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Dr. Fogelson is the best OB/GYN physician!!! He is very knowledge, professional, and very caring about you and the baby health. I have been going to him for over 11 years, and I will follow him where ever he may go!!!! He delivered both of my sons in 2007 and 2008. Dr F always smiling and making you feel comfortable. He is very gentle and compassionate, I would recommend him to anyone I know.
With tears in my eyes he is by far..hands down..one of the very best docs around..he delivered my son at 30 weeks..I was extremely sick with less then 24 hrs to live...thru the grace of God Dr Fogelson help pull me thru..I was in ICU for 2 weeks..
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Dr. Fogelson is the best OB/GYN doctor I have had, he is bright, empathetic, fabulous surgeon and very caring with his care. He is just first class I couldn'r recommend him more I met him via ER at St. Joe's Hospital.
I love Dr. Fogelson. He was my ob/gyn with my first pregnancy. I went into labor 6 days early and he was out of town but his midwifes took amazing care of me all 27 hrs of labor and the 2 days after. Dr Fogelson called while i was in recovery to check up on me and our baby. I highly recomend him. When I have baby # 2, I will be seeing him again!!
this man is a genius. he makes you feel so comfortable. it's so clear that he has your (and your baby, if that's relevant to your situation) best interest at heart. we had an emergency c-section because our daughter was 4 weeks early and stuck in the breech position. all the nurses at the hospital were envious of my incision, and when they asked who our dr was, they ALL responded "aw, i LOVE dr fogelson!!" our daughter was in NICU for pneumonia at birth, and he would check on her before checking on me so he could give us an update. we recently moved to TN, and i will be waiting til we go to MD for visits for my annual check ups.
Dr. Fogelson is AMAZING. He delivered my first baby in 2005 and then our second 2006. We are expection our 3rd in Aug. 2011 and I would NEVER go or be seen by anyone else. He is so very patient, kind, and knowledgeable. I not only see him for OB appts. but my normal yearly appts. as well. I recommend him HIGHLY! =) He's the absolute best doctor. Period!
Omg omg. Hands down dr. Fogelson is the best doctor. He was my obgyn in 2002/2003 when he delivered my baby. When i cried in the office he did too. He is very gentle and compassionate and patient. He talks about his wife and kids with so much love and he listens to how you feel with pregnancy and everything else. He does not rush his time with you, he answers all your questions and he is very thourough. He makes recommendations, reads pamphlets with you etc. Its like his first day at work every time. Like he wants to make the best impression. He is still my gyn, i have recommended him and i will stay with him until he retires. Staff is awesome too.
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text: William 5,878 Staff #1 Posted November 30, 2015 One of the responsibilities that a preacher has is to bring the Word of God to bear upon the church and the world and to give God a voice to clarify and discern issues. So on the one hand we are called to the exposition of Scripture, explaining the Bible verse by verse, book by book. But the other hand, as well, we are called to address the issues of our time that affect us and to bring the truth of God to bear upon our understanding. It falls to me tonight, as it has for a number of weeks, to do the latter, to address an issue. And to begin with, I want to read a portion of Scripture, open your Bible to 2 Corinthians chapter 5, I'm not going to do an exposition of this Scripture but I want to read it because I want it to be set in your mind. Second Corinthians chapter 5 verses 17 to 20. One of the great passages in all the Bible, definitive as to our priorities and responsibilities, duties and mandate as believers, this passage lays out for us the responsibility that Christians have in the world. Beginning in verse 17, "Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." Just a comment, old things pass away and new things come when a person is a new creature in Christ. That is what makes the difference in people's lives. "Now all these things are from God who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." Without argument it is clear that that passage says that newness is related to being in Christ, that God has sought to reconcile sinners to Himself through Christ and in that reconciliation to produce a new creature in which everything is new. That glorious reality is reconciliation to God and God has given to us, according to verse 18, the ministry of reconciliation. In verse 19 He has given to us the Word or the message of reconciliation. We then are ambassadors for Christ and no other and God is begging through us sinners to be reconciled to God through Christ, the very One that He made sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. Without any lack of clarity, without any argument, therein lies the mandate for the Christian in the world, the ministry of reconciliation to God through Christ which brings about righteousness, transformation and a new creation. There is, however, today in Christianity in its evangelical element, an emphasis on another kind of effort. It is an effort to produce morality. And this is growing rapidly. I have through the years addressed the issue on a number of occasions but it seems as though it needs to be addressed again because the interest is only being heightened today. There is a call to Christian to get involved in calling our nation to a higher level of morality, in engaging ourselves with all of our energy and all of our resources, all of our time and money in an effort politically, through the media, through pressure groups to change the moral character of our country. Many Christians are engaging themselves in this effort. In the year 2000 I wrote a book called Why Government Can't Save You, it could have been titled a lot of things, that's the title the publisher picked...Why Government Can't Save You. And what I tempted to say in that perhaps somewhat sarcastic title was if you're dealing with the issue of salvation, the government won't help. But I was really trying to say and did say in the book was that for Christians the mandate is not about some kind of cultural morality, the mandate is about salvation and the government plays no role. Well the book didn't generate much interest, not too many people bought it and even fewer read it even though it carried an important biblical message that the mandate for Christians is what we just read. It's the ministry of reconciliation, it's the word of reconciliation. It's not morality that we preach, it's reconciliation with God through Christ, gospel witness. In that book I expressed concern regarding the morally debauched culture we live in, no question about that. It doesn't please God. It doesn't please believers. It certainly doesn't please me. And I expressed the fact that we should desire virtue and we should desire integrity, and we should desire honesty and morality. And those things do express God's will and God's law. Certainly every way and at every opportunity I support a biblical morality, what Christian could do less? It is our responsibility to address sin, to confront sin, to call it what it is, to expose it and to attack it. What preacher, what Christian could do less? That's really not the issue. It's not about whether we're against immorality, of course we're against immorality. It's about what do we view as the solution, that's the issue. Of course we would desire true and lasting virtue to characterize people. Of course we would desire righteousness rather than unrighteousness. But the issue is...how do we get there? For many in Christian profession today, in politics, in media, lobbying, public intimidation have become the means. Pouring millions of dollars into elections, media events, an almost endless list of political pressure groups, the effort is being made to superficially sanitize America. But the question has to be asked...is this the solution? Is this the Christian mandate? There are people who think that if America becomes moral, God will bless America. There are people who think if America becomes moral and religious, then God will doubly bless America. So, let's put God back in the public discourse, let's put prayer back in the schools, let's put the Ten Commandments up on the wall in public places, in courtrooms. Let's stop abortion. Let's stop rampant homosexuality. Let's stop pornography, etc. And if we can just bring about some kind of morality, and better yet, some kind of commitment to God, then we will be blessed. Well let me make a very clear point at the outset here. Morality and religion will not invite or secure the blessing of God. They never have and they never will. A more moral America, a more moral and religious America does not advance in divine favor one inch. A more moral and a more religious America will not escape divine judgment any more than Pharisaic Judaism in Jesus' time escaped the devastating judgment of God in 70 A.D. when hundreds of thousands of Jews were slaughtered by godless Romans. And Jesus warned about that on several occasions. There's only one thing God blesses, just one and that is He blesses saving faith in and love for His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the only thing He blesses. Anybody who does not believe in and love the Lord Jesus Christ is among the cursed, right? As Christians, of course we are for morality. We're not for immorality. And we can do some topical, some superficial good, we can through political means because we live in a republic and a democracy, we can mitigate public indecency in some ways. We can mitigate public scandal, can use our democratic privileges. But that does not advance us in divine favor either individually or collectively. In fact, in 1 Corinthians 16:22 it is said, unmistakably, "If any man doesn't love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema," cursed, judged, damned, condemned. There's only one thing God will bless and that's faith in and love for His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, that sort of sets the picture for you. And some of those truths are in my book, Why Government Can't Save You. Well, it seems as though, as far as I could tell, hardly anybody read my book, but that's okay. One man read it and wrote a book against it recently. I came under serious attack by a writer who questioned the truth of my book and also apparently questioned my courage because I don't take stands in the political world. And so maybe the book will do a little better now that it's under assault. The new book against it is getting a wide reading and so I've been asked to respond to it. So this is my response. I'm not against those people who hate evil and wickedness, I am among them. It's not about that. It's about the solution. It's sort of like 1 Timothy 4:8, "For bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things since it holds the promise of eternal life, not just this life but the life to come." I mean, so am I going to spend all my time in working people into some level of bodily discipline to sort of restrain themselves from doing what their fallen natures finds very easy to do? Am I going to be concerned about the superficial behavior of people, or am I going to give myself to that godliness which is profitable for all things, that true godliness of the soul which is connected to eternal life? It's a question of...what is our mandate and where should our energy go? But it's more than that and I want to take it beyond that because I am concerned that people are getting caught up in this. And what captures you in it is because you do hate sin and you do hate immorality and wrong and unrighteousness and wretchedness and wickedness and all of that. But when you get swept away by this and this becomes the consuming enterprise of your life in the name of quote/unquote Christianity, you're seriously off target. Many professing Christians are consumed with the public morality issue. There's a new and growing effort of what is now called "The Religious Right." It's a kind of, I guess historically it's a kind of neo-liberalism. It wasn't too many years ago that those of us who are fundamentalists and you can't use that word anymore or somebody will think you're an Islamic terrorist, we have to keep getting new words, but years ago we were...we who were believers in the Word of God, I guess we have to use a phrase, we were condemning the liberals because the liberal denomination, you know, the Methodists, the Presbyterians, and the Episcopalians and the Church of Christ and many others, the liberal denominations who had gone liberal had replaced the saving gospel with the social gospel. And I grew up in an era in my seminary training when the big assault of those who believed the Bible was against the liberals who had replaced the saving gospel with the social gospel. And now what we've got in evangelicalism is a neo-liberalism where people are setting aside the saving gospel again for the social gospel. But morality, I warn you, folks, morality damns just like immorality. And morality does not bring divine blessing. Jesus went head to head with the most superficially moral people in His world, the most religious people in His world, the Pharisees and the scribes. And He used His most scathing, His most searing, His most severe invectives on the religious right of His day. Matthew 23, Jesus addressed the religious leaders of His time, the moral people, the people who were the fastidious keepers of the law of God and human tradition and He says to them in verse 13, "Woe...which means damn, judgment...curse you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites..." verse 14 He repeats that, verse 15 He repeats it, verse 16, "Woe to you, blind guides," verse 17, "You fools and blind men," verse 19, "You blind men," verse 23, "Woe to you again, scribes and Pharisees," verse 24, "You blind guides," twenty-five, "Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites." Verse 26, "You blind, Pharisees," twenty-seven, "Woe to you scribes and Pharisees," and it just keeps going like that all the way along. Then the end of the chapter He says, verse 37, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets, you stone those that are sent to you." Verse 38 He says, "Your house is being left to you desolate...desolate." And He was looking ahead to the destruction of 70 A.D. as well as the profound spiritual judgment. Jesus never used such words as that on the outcasts, the prostitutes, the criminals. In fact, Jesus spent His time with those people, the outcasts of His day, tax collectors. And they said, as we learned this morning, that Jesus was a glutton and a drunkard and a friend of tax collectors and sinners. That was a label put on Jesus by the religious right. Moralism was never the message of the Old Testament prophets, it was never the message of the Messiah, it is never the message of the New Testament apostles and prophets, it has never been God's message to the world because when all is said and done, listen to what Isaiah said, "All your righteousness is filthy rags." Romans chapter 3 is a very important chapter because it describes the condition of human wickedness and in chapter 3 verse 10 it says, "There is none righteous, not even one. There's none that understands. There's none who seeks after God." So whatever imaginary righteousness men have, whatever superficial morality he may exhibit, in the end they're not righteous before God, it gains them nothing...nothing. There's no one good enough, not even one...verse 12 says. Everybody, verse 19 says, everybody under the law, everybody who lives according to the law to some degree or another will find that their mouths are closed, they have no defense and the whole world is accountable and guilty before God because by the works of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight. So I say again, you can become moral, you can change, you know, you can turn over your life and have some kind of as it used to be called "moral rearmament," come through a crisis and decide you're going to turn away from living an immoral life or you're going to start to live a better life, a cleaner life, clean up your act, and that has no bearing on your relationship to God whatsoever. Listen, the biblical message is not that humanity is divided between the moral and the immoral, or that humanity is divided between the good and the bad, or that humanity is divided between the virtuous and the wicked. The message of the Bible is that ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God, that there is no division, they're all immoral, bad and wicked. It's only a question of degree, or kind, or manifestation. Whatever somebody's external degree of morality might be, all are condemned sinners headed to hell. You might be the most moral Pharisee in Israel, you might be the most moral rabbi, you might be the most moral cleric, you can take it from there, the most moral self-righteous, clean-living Mormon, and you're going to hell with the prostitutes. Unless you've been reconciled to God through His Son Jesus Christ, and then if you have been reconciled to God through His Son Jesus Christ, you have become a new creation and the old behaviors are replaced by new ones. So if we want change, what is the means? Morality saves no one. Morality does not command the blessing of God. In Romans 2:11 and 12 it says, "For there is no partiality with God." That sounds like a sort of hopeful statement at first, "There's no partiality with God." But listen to this, "But all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law." You know what that says? It says whatever might be your relationship to the law of God doesn't matter to Him. It doesn't matter to Him because you can't keep the law to His satisfaction because, as we learn in Galatians 3, if you break the law in one point, you've broken the whole law. Romans 10 Paul said that the Jews not understanding the righteousness of God go about to establish their own righteousness. And he says they have a zeal for God but not according to knowledge. So you might get the idea that trying to moralize the country is some noble effort and I will admit a more moral society would make life easier in some ways. But how to get that, how to...how to bring that about? Not through politics, we are not a kingdom of politicians, we are a kingdom of priests. And what is a priest? He's a reconciler. We bring people to God through Christ. Now, so I just have begun to think and talk with some of the people I work with about some of these issues and I wrote down some of the dangers of this cultural morality effort. I'm just going to give you a list and make a few comments. Cultural morality, CM we'll call it, cultural morality, first of all, and I'm going to give you some of these dangers, so just kind of write them down as we go, is not our commission. It's not our commission. We just read 2 Corinthians 5:17 to 20 which is our commission, we could add Matthew 28:19 and 20 or any of the other passages on the great commission, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel." It's not our commission so right at the outset we're doing something that we have not been mandated by God to do. This then becomes a diversionary activity. And who is it that wants to get us off track? Secondly, it wastes immense amounts of precious resources, time, money, human energy. It wastes it. It doesn't matter whether you go to hell as a prostitute or a policeman, it only matters that you go to hell. All this effort to clean up America, can the leopard change his spots? Can the Ethiopian change his skin? So says the prophet, are you able to become something other than you are? It's just a waste of resources. Ephesians 5:16 says, "Make the most of your time because the days are evil and understand what the will of the Lord is and don't be foolish." And I tell you, I know what the will of the Lord is cause it's laid out, it's to preach the message of reconciliation, it's to preach the gospel. That's the will of the Lord. And to do something else is to be foolish, to waste time. I'm not interested in making this country moral, I'm interested in bringing people to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ so that He can recreate them so they will become moral. Thirdly, this effort at cultural morality sets up inevitable failure...it sets up inevitable failure because you can't do it. No one can be truly righteous and moral before God apart from the transformation of his soul by the Holy Spirit through the gospel. "The heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." And if you don't change the heart, all you do is redirect the sin. If some sins become illegal, then people will do other sins, or they'll do the ones they want to do in secret. ???? said(?), "Cultural morality is programmed for failure." Fourthly, cultural morality fails to understand the nature of the Kingdom of God...it fails to understand the nature of the Kingdom of God. Listen to what Jesus said, John 18:36, "My Kingdom is not of this world." There's no connection. "If My Kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting." That's interesting to me. If they're...if My Kingdom was of this world, we'd be engaged in a battle here to prevent you from taking Me captive. Jesus says, "My servants would be fighting that I might not be delivered up to the Jews, but as it is, My Kingdom is not of this realm." To spend all your time and energy and effort fighting for some element of human society misses the point, fails to understand the nature of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is the realm of salvation where God rules over and blesses those who are in Christ. You want to bring blessing to this nation? Then preach the gospel because there is no connection between a national entity and the Kingdom of God. Jesus said it as clearly as He could, "My Kingdom is not of this world." Two completely realities. Why is it that somehow we've gotten this idea that we have to posture America politically for the advancement of the Kingdom of God? They have absolutely no connection. I've heard people say, "If America keeps going the way it's going...if sin is more and more acceptable in our society...if it gets more and more corrupt, it's going to cripple the impact of the gospel...it's going to cause evangelism to be hard to do if not illegal...it's...we have to fight for all these freedoms in order to have them to preach the gospel." There is nothing that can be done, has been done, would be done on the face of the earth by men politically or socially that has any impact whatsoever on the purposes of God in redemption. Fifthly, this effort puts the responsibility on man rather than God, well-intentioned people trying to do the impossible. I'm a pretty realistic person and I don't mind tackling a hard task if I can do it. But I really don't want to spend my life trying to do what I know I can't do and what I know I can't do by my own ingenuity. I do not, in myself, folks, with my persuasive powers of speech, with my intensity, with my self-discipline and my work ethic, I do not have the ability or the capability to make people moral. I can't make this country moral. It's just a battle I can't win because those who are accustomed to doing evil, Jeremiah 13:23 says, can't do good. Number six, this effort at cultural morality creates morality without theology. I don't like anything without theology. I want theology in everything. I don't like anything without theology because I cannot understand anything apart from God's revelation of it. My understanding of the world is completely subject to what Scripture says. But in this cultural morality, this sort of growing religious right effort there is a severe ignorance of theology, some ignorance of God, ignorance of His Word, His holy law so that they're trying to accomplish something that doesn't have the theological underpinnings, it's just a matter of money, persuasive speech, media events, pressure groups forcing people to do things. That is...that is not how you get it done. There is such a severe ignorance of God's truth, such a severe ignorance of God's Word. There was one gentleman who is involved in this being interviewed and asked some very penetrating questions. He replied, "Well, I'm not a theologian, so I don't know about that." Well you ought to be enough a theologian to know about it. I'm very concerned about efforts at morality that are not undergirded with theology because they don't have the right motive. You hear people say all the time, "Well, we've got to protect our children." Well, that's a reasonable thing. That is not the highest motive for what we do. My goal in proclaiming the truth is not to protect my children, that's my responsibility before God. I'll do that. I'm not trying to create a national environment that's going to somehow incubate my kids. It sounds good. But my motive is the glory of God and the honor of God. And sometimes I am so consumed with the honor of God that I feel very comfortable praying like David did, "Kill all the bad people, God, kill them all because they're dishonoring Your name, and they're wicked and they're our enemies and for Your own glory." It's like the people in the sixth chapter of Revelation under the altar, "How long, O Lord, how long are You going to let this go on before You bring a stop to it and be glorified?" If you don't know theology, you really run amuck. This is a movement that could use some pretty serious injections of sound theology. Number seven, it fails to understand this movement in cultural morality, it fails to understand that salt and light as indicated in Matthew 5, we are the salt of the earth, the light of the world, that salt and light are not moral influence, but gospel witness and the power of holy living. They always say, "Well we have to be salt and light...we have to be salt and light...we have to be salt and light." Well, the image of...the imagery of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount with regard to salt and light is the image of the shining forth of truth. That's the light, and the preservative of godly living. We are light when we proclaim the light and manifest our good works, that's what He says, and glorify our Father who is in heaven. And we are salt when we are a preservative because of the virtue and the godliness of our lives. Well, number eight, and I'm just kind of giving you just a quick look at these. Number eight, cultural morality is dangerous because it has no New Testament model to follow except the Pharisees. So if you're going to try and find a New Testament pattern for this effort, you're going to end up with the Pharisees. They were the moral ones. And you know what Jesus said about them? Matthew 23:15, He said, "When you're through making somebody a convert to your morality, you have made him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves." Wow...wow! So if you're looking for a New Testament model for cultural morality, you're going to end up with the Pharisees. They were legalistic, I don't know about you, I don't think I would be rejoicing to live in a Pharisaic dominated society...dominated by the mandates of self-righteous, cruel, merciless legalists who laid heavy burdens of people, right?, and gave them no help to bear them, Jesus said. Jesus said to them one day as they picked up stones to stone an adulterous woman, "Whoever is without sin throw the first stone." The stones started dropping. I don't know if I would like to live in that kind of environment. There is no New Testament model for political action. Jesus didn't try to overthrow slavery, neither did Paul, neither did any in the Old Testament. Both Jesus and Paul, however, did say, "If you're a slave, be a good one, be a faithful one, be an honest one, serve your master well, make wise investments, do it unto the Lord and God will reward you. And if you're in a hard, difficult situation, you'll know His grace." Number nine, this cultural morality, and this is a very important one, creates unholy unions in which the unbelieving and enemies of the gospel are welcomed...are welcomed. You can find a lot of non-Christians to agree that we ought to have a more moral country, right? You could get the Muslims in on that one. You can certainly get the Mormons in, there's a lot of that. Get the Roman Catholics involved. You can get Jewish people involved, those who are orthodox, committed to the Old Testament. So now what you've got, you've got an alliance like ECT, Evangelicals and Catholics Together for the purpose of creating for the purpose of creating a cultural morality. You create these unholy unions, you do exactly what 2 Corinthians 6 says not to do, "Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship has light with darkness, what agreement has Christ with Satan? Come out from among them and be separated." But what happens? You're trying to achieve something through the legal system or through the court system, or through lobbying, or through media intimidation and in order to get your power up to a level where you can make a dent in the society, you embrace people who agree on the issue. You get it with other people who are anti-abortion, anti-homosexual, anti-euthanasia, who are against pornography and you get all together and you're going to accomplish this with these co-belligerents and something immediately happens, and that is this, the gospel is eclipsed because if you proclaim the gospel in that environment, you'd blow up your organization you spent so much time and money to bring together. The gospel then would become destructive. So that leads to number ten, this effort at cultural morality leads to acceptance of inclusivism. And what I mean by that is, it starts to stretch the boundaries of the Kingdom of God to embrace these people who are not in Christ. And we've been through that, haven't we, over the last couple of years. You have people saying, "Oh, you know, certainly there's going to be well-intentioned Jews in heaven and there are going to be people in the Catholic Church in heaven, and there are going to be Mormons in heaven. There are going to be some people," and I've read you quotes from everybody from Billy Graham down through the ranks who, you know, are saying, "Sure, there are people who are going to experience the wider mercy." This is...this is part of why I wrote the little book Why One Way?So important. But if you've spent all your time working on this cultural morality you've dumped all your money in, and you've pulled all these people together to get the money and the power to pull off your enterprise, you can't introduce the gospel because the gospel will undo everything you've done. As soon as you say to these people, "By the way, you're on your way to hell. By the way, we really need your money and we want your energy and we want your power and your political clout, we want this and we want that, but we also want you to know that you're not in the Kingdom of God," as soon as you say that you've just blown your organization up. So, you don't say that and eventually what you do is you just get this inclusive idea and that fits wonderfully well with post-modernism which says there's no such thing as absolute truth anyway, and if there is absolute truth, we can't know it. So, your truth is your truth, my truth is my truth. Create these moral alliances in which you embrace people who don't believe the gospel. And Paul says, "If you meet anybody who gives you any other gospel than the gospel I gave you, let him be cursed." And he said it twice in Galatians 1. You can't do that in that environment. You've got to walk a fine line or you'll blow up your whole organization. You can't preach the gospel. The gospel gets eclipsed. Well, there's a few more things to think about. I have time for a couple more. Number eleven, this effort at cultural morality becomes selective as to the sins it attacks...it becomes very selective as to the sins it attacks. I don't notice that they're really hard against pride, do you? I haven't seen a great effort in the Religious Right against materialism. I haven't seen a great effort even against divorce. In fact, they rarely say anything about adultery. They're really against homosexuality, that's so bizarre and abnormal. They're really against pedophilia, that's sick and abnormal. They're against killing babies, that's safe, who can imagine doing that? They're against filth and pornography. And there's a certain satisfaction in their morality about that but there's a lot of other things they don't talk about. At one point in America, the greatest advocate for the Religious Right, the national spokesman, well-known politician, was while he was developing the contract on America involved with a woman who wasn't his wife. It's a selective thing. And let me put it down where it really needs to be. It doesn't deal with the worse sin in the world, the worse sin in the world. You say, "Do you know what the worse sin in the world is?" Of course, so do you, you know what the worse sin in the world is. You don't think you do? Yes you do. What's the greatest commandment? What is the greatest commandment? "To love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength." Therefore what's the greatest sin? To break that commandment. How you doing? You've committed the greatest sin. You want to talk about morality? Let's talk about that. You want to talk about sin? Let's not pick out five that we can easily assault because it, you know, we don't do those five. Let's talk about the fact that you have broken the greatest commandment, therefore you've committed the greatest sin that any human being can commit and that is the sin that sends you to eternal hell. You have failed to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. And, as R.C. Sproul one time said, "And you know you haven't kept that commandment at any time in your life for five seconds." You can't keep that commandment. It's impossible. Well let's talk about that. If you want to go after America's immorality, then let's indict the whole nation for not loving God. That is not only the first and great commandment, that is the sum of the commandments. And the second commandment is to love your neighbor as...yourself, and you can't keep that one for five seconds. So if we're going to get moral, then let's go where we need to go because that, wrote the apostle Paul, is the sum in Jesus' (????), the sum of all the law. Why do we have to pick these selective ones? If we're going to call America to morality, then let's indict them where they need to be indicted and let's indict our own hearts where we need to be indicted and say we've broken the first and great commandment, and we've broken the second one, and we do it all the time and therefore we are all condemned to hell in desperate need of grace and forgiveness and salvation. That's the message. Well, number twelve, this effort at cultural morality fails to understand the true nature of spiritual warfare. It fails to understand the true nature of spiritual warfare. They talk about this as spiritual warfare, this is spiritual warfare. This is not spiritual warfare...not spiritual warfare to engaged in human efforts, politically to change laws. What is spiritual warfare? Second Corinthians 10, spiritual warfare is smashing down all human ideologies with the truth of God. That's spiritual warfare. And bringing captives out and bringing them into obedience to Christ, submission to the truth of God through the Word of God. The real spiritual war is simply this, you have a whole world of people who think wrong, they're thinking is damning. They think wrong about themselves. They think wrong about God. They think wrong about Christ if they think about Him at all. They need to think differently. They need to know the truth. They need to know the gospel. They need to know the truth about themselves, the truth about God, the truth about Christ, the truth about His work, the truth about salvation, grace, forgiveness. They need to know that truth. And it's when you bring that truth to the person and you engage in the war with their mind so that you can bring the truth to bear upon wrong thinking, that's the real spiritual war. It's an ideological battle. But the real war is bringing the truth of Christ to those in error. So what is the church to be doing? To be preaching the glorious, extensive, complete and whole message of redemption in Jesus Christ and to take that great message to these people who are fortified in these ideological fortresses in which literally they're going to die unless somebody smashes the walls of those lying fortifications with the truth. That's the real spiritual war. It's not a political one, it's for the minds and eternal souls of people and it's about the truth, delivering them from error to truth. This is important, thirteen, I don't think I have too many sermons with this many points. Thirteen, this cultural morality thing is dangerous because it makes those we are commanded to lovingly reach with the gospel into the enemy rather than the mission field. Have you noticed that? The unbelievers, the immoral people, the pornographers and the homosexuals, and the abortionists, and whoever else become vilified and hated. They become the enemies. They aren't the enemies, folks, they're the mission field. They're the mission field. I think again about Jonah. The Ninevites were wretched people. I mean, they were really wretched. They were pagans. They slaughtered their enemies and they piled their skulls in pyramids. They damned up rivers with dead bodies. They would cover pillars in buildings with the flayed skin of a conquered ruler. That's ugly stuff. Wicked, haters of God, enemies of Israel and God tells Jonah, "Jonah, go preach to them." He says, "Ah, no chance." And he heads two thousand miles in the opposite direction. That is a repulsive thought, preach forgiveness to a Ninevite. Eventually after being swallowed and vomited, frankly any fish would have vomited up a bitter prophet like Jonah, he went to Ninevah and he preached, six hundred thousand people, probably, and the whole place repented. And then he was really mad. He was. He was miserable. He was so mad he wanted to die. That's the severe danger in moralism. He was...he was sort of a racist, Jonah was. He was a legalist. He didn't want any of these wretched wicked Gentiles that he had grown to hate horning in on forgiveness. I always want to make sure that the sinners in my world know that I love them enough to offer them forgiveness. I don't ever want them to think that I hate them. There is a holy hatred of sin and the sinner. But Jesus could even weep over them and so must we. Well a couple more, number fourteen, cultural morality brings persecution and hatred of Christians for the wrong reasons. Boy, could I talk about that for a long time. Of course, I could talk about almost anything for a long time. But in particular this. You know, Christians are getting vilified today in the media, they're getting persecuted for the wrong reasons, not because we're preaching the gospel. I remember one time when Georgie Vins was in this pulpit, this was in the days when Russia was still closed to Christianity and Georgie Vins was one of the leaders in the underground church in Russia and he was out and he came here to our church and he spoke and his daughter was his interpreter. And I asked him the question, I said, "Georgie, are you persecuted in Russia? Are you persecuted by the Communist regime?" And he was saying how they were persecuted and in prison, killed and telling the whole story. And I said, "You know, do you ever...do you ever protest this kind of treatment? Do you do anything to bring this to the attention of the people? Do you use any means that typically in America we use to raise the consciousness of people of these injustices, etc.?" And I'll never forget what he said to me. He said, "You know," he said, "we have determined as a church that if we are ever to suffer, it will be always and only because we have proclaimed the gospel of Jesus Christ." And that's right. First Peter 4:14 says, "If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed." People who call themselves Christians today are getting vilified by the world for their political positions and for their animosity and hostility toward the people who are the people we're supposed to reach. Well, two more...this cultural morality reverses the divine order...it reverses the divine order. That is, it makes morality the power for salvation. The idea is if we could get a more moral America, then more people are going to believe the gospel. If we can clean up the country, it will give greater opportunity for the gospel. And that's really a reverse of the divine order. Morality is not the power for salvation, salvation is the power for morality, right? So if we want to change the nation, what do we need to be working on? The gospel. And lastly, and I'm not going to develop this at all because I've done it in the past, this effort at cultural morality fails to understand the wrath of God...it fails to understand the wrath of God. In Romans 1 it tell us that when God is angry with a nation that has turned against Him, when they knew God they glorified Him not as God, remember that? When God is angry at a nation that has had the truth and spurned the truth, it says three times, "He gave them up...He gave them up...He gave them up." That's a form of God's judgment, He gave them up to sexual immorality first, He gave them up to homosexuality second, Romans 1, then He gave them up to a twisted reprobate, useless mind. We look at our nation, we see sexual immorality rampant, we see homosexuality rampant and we see the reprobate mind everywhere. This is evidence of the wrath of God. Can I by my political effort overturn the wrath of God? I don't know what God is doing in the world, but I know what my mandate is. My mandate has to do with the gospel and the gospel alone. Well, in summary, moralism confuses and misses the priority for Christians in the world. It misrepresents the divine message that man, moral or immoral, is damned and must be saved and can be saved only by believing the gospel. And remember this, it was the highly moral, highly religious Jews, fastidious about righteous standards, who joined with the immoral idolatrous Romans, flaunting their sins, and together they killed Christ. It is very moral people who are trying to kill us...flying planes into our buildings. Don't over-estimate morality. By the way, the moral and the immoral combined to kill Jesus and in His dying He provided a salvation that they both desperately needed. So to what are we called? Well, Paul said this, Romans 1, "I'm not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek." I'm not ashamed of the gospel. That's the power of God unto salvation. In conclusion I say, it is admirable to advocate virtue. It is admirable to advocate moral behavior and ethical conduct. It is even admirable to advocate free market economics. I think that's biblical. It is even advocate to...even good to advocate limited government, strong sentences on criminals. And when all of those things are in place in a nation, life is more comfortable and superficially more enjoyable and easy. But that has nothing to do with salvation...nothing to do with soul transformation and therefore nothing to do with divine blessing. One closing passage, Philippians 3, I'll leave this indelibly in your mind, Philippians 3. Paul in verse 4 says, "If anybody has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more." You want to meet a moral man? You want to meet a moral man? Here's a moral man. "I was circumcised the eighth day," cause that's what the law prescribed. "I was of the nation of Israel, the chosen people, I was of the tribe of Benjamin, a notable and very honorable tribe." I..."A Hebrew of Hebrews," what does he mean by that? Kosher, toeing the mark, following every tradition. "And as far as the law, I was a Pharisee." Wow, fastidious. "As to zeal, I was a persecutor of the church." And then this, "As to the righteousness which is in the law, I was found...what?...blameless." Here's an ideal citizen. Now it all sounds good but in verse 7 he said, "Whatever things were gain to me I now have counted them as...what?...as loss." You know why? Those were damning him. His morality gave him the illusion that things were right with God. So in verse 8 he says, "I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but rubbish." The word is manure, that's what morality was, manure compared to Christ. So our calling is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. The transforming power of the gospel will make new creatures and for those new creatures, as we have already experienced, all things become new. That's the way God has designed it to work. Thanks again, Lord, for the Word which speaks to the issues that face all of us. We pray for many dear people, many dear friends who are feverishly engaged in these kinds of efforts. 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But the weakness of allowing anyone to define a segment is there's limited quality control over the segments. Here Strava has a check: a "flag" option whereby users can tag a segment as flawed in various ways. But responding to tags requires human intervention, and human bandwidth is unlikely to keep up with the exponentially user growth model. So at least until they develop a way for automated tag resolution (for example implementing some sort of "thumbs up" versus "thumbs down" voting scheme where segments can be voted off the public database), users rely on segment definers to do a good job in their definition.
Here's some of my ideas in how to define a good segment:
- Start with good data. This is by far the most important suggestion. If data are of poor quality, for example shifted versus the actual roadway ridden, then don't use it. Try again another day to collect segment-worthy data, or use another user's ride data (you can define segments from any ride, not just your own) to define the segment. It's likely your ride data will still match the segment if both you and this "reference" ride rode the same path, as Strava's segment matching algorithm is loose enough to allow for typical GPS errors. But it's important the original data be of the best available quality. I've noticed iPhone data tends to be particularly problematic. With me, the Garmin 500 is decent, but my HTC Incredible phone is regularly in better agreement with the Google map than my Garmin.
- Avoid starting or finishing the segment too close to a congregation point. The starting point and finishing points should be far enough (at least 10 meters, preferably 20 meters or more) where riders would typically pause before starting a climb, or grouping after the climb. It's very frustrating to do a hard effort on a climb only to discover later that your time was padded by time spent at the bottom of the climb preparing to start. It's okay to click the start point a few sample points into the climb: that's unlikely to change the rankings much.
- Avoid starting or finishing a segment on a steep section. Position errors translate into timing errors: GPS is remarkably good, but not good enough for second-resolution timing. The slower riders are going when they start or finish a segment, the greater the timing error resulting from an error in position. So if there's a nasty short climb you want to include, it's actually better to start a segment slightly before, and end it slightly after, the short steep bit. Unfortunately this often conflicts with the "congregation point" suggestion. So sometimes you can't avoid this one.
- Try to clearly differentiate segments from other segments. A classic problem is if a dirt path runs next to a paved road, for example, a segment defined for the dirt path will be dominated by riders who used the road instead. The segment matching isn't picky enough, nor GPS accurate enough, to always determine which a rider was one. So the best segments are cleanly separated from faster nearby routes.
- Avoid tight switchbacks at the start or finish of a segment. If the route passes close to the finish point, Strava may tag a rider as done (or just starting) at the wrong point on the course. It would be better to terminate the segment either well after or before the switchback.
- Avoid segments with obvious short-cuts. Strava has to allow some variation in course along the way, and may well match data for a rider who "shortcutted" a segment. Preferably a segment would be over the shortest distance connecting a few well-differentiated points. For example, for a major climb, the road is likely the fastest way from the bottom point to the top.
- Be more inclusive where it won't compromise the segment. For example, I recently did a good effort up Polhemus Road, a local climb. At the top it's common to cut through a short parking lot to a bike path. The official segment continued on the road to the end of the parking lot. As a result my timing included time spent waiting in the parking lot. Had the segment been terminated at the leading edge of the lot rather than the trailing edge, it would have been more likely to have given good timings to riders turning through the lot rather than just those continuing along the road.


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New boss Gareth Southgate got off to a winning start to life at the England Under-21s helm in a match most memorable for a staggering point-blank miss.
A day after new Football Association chairman Greg Dyke bemoaned the state of the national game, the Young Lions looked technically proficient but lacked a cutting edge as they began their qualifying campaign for the next European Championship.
Moldova were never going to be yardstick with which to measure serious success, but Southgate will be pleased by the way his side retained possession at a sparsely-filled Madejski Stadium.
In truth, it could and should have been more than the 1-0 final scoreline.
Saido Berahino fired home the decisive goal after just 13 minutes but, despite peppering the Moldova goal throughout, England failed to add to that tally.
Wilfried Zaha, Berahino and Will Hughes all missed gilt-edged chances in a second half in which the absence of players like Raheem Sterling and Ross Barkley - both with the senior team - was striking.
It was a frustrating performance from the home side but one that showed promise in their first competitive match since a 1-0 loss to Israel.
That result saw England return from Euro 2013 pointless and cost Stuart Pearce his job, despite having led the Under-21s to four successive championships.
While this performance will hardly have the rest of Europe quaking in their boots, it was certainly an improvement on the summer's display and something on which to build.
Southgate named three debutants for tonight's match, with Southampton duo Luke Shaw and James Ward-Prowse making their first appearances for the Under-21s.
West Brom striker Berahino was the other new boy and quickly made an impression, stinging the palms of Alexei Koshelev from an acute angle.
The Moldova goalkeeper then did well to deny a powerful goalbound header from captain Andre Wisdom, with England scoring their first goal under Southgate moments later.
Tom Carroll, who joined QPR on a season-long loan from Tottenham earlier in the week, played an exquisite through ball to Berahino, who turned his man and drilled a venomous right-footed strike into the roof of the net.
It looked set to open the floodgates, with Shaw forcing Koshelev into a save shortly afterwards with a tremendous 25-yard half-volley.
Zaha had a penalty appeal waved away as England continued in the ascendancy, with Nathan Redmond having several strikes on goal.
Carroll had a strike tipped over after receiving a cute ball by Nathaniel Chalobah, with Zaha seeing another penalty appeal waved away as half-time approached.
England returned for the second half brightly, with Redmond latching onto a superb threaded ball by Chalobah and forcing Koshelev into an early save.
Berahino and Carroll had attempts as the domination continued, with Zaha heading over from close range when it looked easier to score.
Substitute Will Hughes fired over from a John Stones pull-back before Berahino somehow failed to net a second from almost directly beneath the crossbar with little more than 10 minutes remaining.
Sammy Ameobi scooped the ball to the Burundi-born forward, who beat the goalkeeper only for Constantine Bogdan to clear after the West Brom striker missed the ball.
Zaha flashed a strike across the face of goal as England desperately searched for a second, which looked set to finally arrive when Harry Kane backheeled into Hughes' path.
However, another last-ditch clearance from Bogdan denied the Derby midfielder, epitomising a promising but frustrating evening for Southgate.


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The safety net for people with a serious mental illness was at its breaking point in the middle of June.
About 90 people were packed into the psychiatric emergency room at Erie County Medical Center, a space that grows crowded with half that number.
Patients waited for hours to be assessed and admitted. People were sprawled on the floor, and the staff was overwhelmed, said one visitor, who watched 12 hours pass before his daughter was given a bed.
ECMC's psychiatric emergency room is already one of the state's busiest. But its June traffic jumped by some 200 patients over the previous month, in part because Kaleida Health closed what was left of Buffalo General Medical Center's 47-bed "behavioral health" unit June 14.
Kaleida closed off its beds months before its officials unveil the new behavioral health center they will operate with ECMC on the ECMC campus.
Kaleida said it had no choice. Its employees, were transferring out of a unit slated to close, and there were too few people left to provide care.
But the Kaleida decision stripped away one out of every three inpatient psychiatric beds that the two hospitals offered, and an important option for people with a serious mental illness.
Meanwhile, the bedlam at ECMC invited comparisons to jails, which double as psychiatric centers in today's mental health system, though some said jails are typically calmer than ECMC was back in June.
"One of the families said to me, 'At least when you go to the Holding Center, you get a bed and a phone call,' " said Jenny Laney, who supports families through her post with the Mental Health Association of Erie County.
Families in the mental health system have long complained that it is dispersed and inadequate. A mentally ill person who needs help right away often meets a network moving at its own pace, with a shortage of both beds and psychiatrists.
"New York State has a serious mental health epidemic, and unfortunately the state is in full-blown denial," James Seifert of Orchard Park told Erie County's Community Corrections Advisory Board earlier this year. "... It turns out that it is functionally illegal to have certain types of mental disorders. The de facto solution for the current mental health crisis is a park bench or prison.''
Seifert and his family tried for years to have one of his sons, diagnosed with schizophrenia, placed into an institution. Today he is in the Erie County Holding Center.
The state recently announced that it will expand the Buffalo Psychiatric Center starting next year, but there will be no net gain in state-provided beds for Erie County because the Buffalo expansion is part of a statewide consolidation that removes beds from the Children's Psychiatric Center in West Seneca.
New York's Office of Mental Health says it cannot afford to run 24 psychiatric centers. But people who watch the system believe there should be thousands more beds for people who are severely mentally ill.
"New York State is short 4,300 beds for people with serious mental illness, and that assumes we have perfect community services, and we don't," said D.J. Jaffe, who runs a think tank in New York City about the mental health system. "The largest psychiatric facility in New York is Rikers Island, and when they close these centers, they will probably have to make that one bigger."
A shock to the system
Buffalo General's move shocked the system locally. More beds have been added elsewhere to soften the blow. But again, there will be no meaningful local increase.
"We were in a challenging situation even before those beds were taken out of the system," said Kenneth Houseknecht, the Mental Health Association's executive director. "Then you take those beds out of the system and that challenge just becomes exacerbated."
One woman, Gail, was among those affected. Her husband was in Buffalo General after a schizophrenic episode. He was released to her care days or weeks early, in her opinion, when Buffalo General closed its unit and discharged about 25 patients.
Gail, asking to be identified only by her middle name so as not to expose her emotionally fragile husband, said the hospital gave her a discharge plan that didn't work because it directed her husband to agencies that didn't offer the recommended services.
"This county is not prepared to care for its most vulnerable," she said. "Not only do we need places to take our loved ones, we need good care. ... To leave a vulnerable population with no place to go with their sickness, it makes us look like a Third World country."
Fragmented and costly
ECMC and Kaleida Health acknowledged the fractured state of the mental health system in Western New York when they announced back in February 2012 that they would combine their psychiatric care efforts on the ECMC campus. They would build a $25 million center handling 180 psychiatric beds, fewer than they were licensed to offer separately.
"Mental health care in Western New York, like the rest of the state, is fragmented and costly to the state's Medicaid payment system," the entities said in a news release at the time. "In the last 20 years, the Buffalo Psychiatric Center went from 1,200 beds to 160 and the Gowanda Psychiatric and West Seneca Developmental centers closed." It's now 185 beds at Buffalo Psychiatric Center.
The "crisis for mental health patients and their families" stems from a short supply of psychiatrists, downsizings and a lack of coordination among outpatient services, ECMC and Kaleida said.
They said that "mentally ill and chemically dependent patients in crisis are, many times, forced to find care in crowded hospital emergency rooms."
But complications in merging the two hospitals' psychiatric care efforts led to the recent shock to the mental health system and the crowded psychiatric emergency room at ECMC.
Outside Kaleida's control
Aware that the program inside their hospital was winding down, Buffalo General staff members began transferring to other Kaleida jobs. The hospital then announced that it was unable to "retain and attract staff."
After consulting with the state Office of Mental Health, Buffalo General closed the unit in the middle of June. Kaleida also told ambulance services to take people needing inpatient psychiatric care to other hospitals, some as far as Rochester, Olean, Jamestown and Warsaw.
"There are some issues we can't control," said Michael Hughes, a Kaleida vice president and spokesman. "We can control the planning perspective. We can control construction, and things like that. But the things we can't control, such as when a union member is allowed to bump out of that service line and into a different location in the hospital or in the system, you have to adjust. And that's what we've done."
Hughes, however, knew of no similar interruptions in service when Buffalo General collaborated with ECMC to create the Gates Vascular Institute on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus or the Regional Center for Transplantation and Kidney Care at ECMC.
Further, he was unable to say whether Kaleida could have offered bonuses to employees to remain in the mental health unit until the new center could open: "The word 'bonus' in a union environment sometimes doesn't go over well. I don't know the answer to that,'' Hughes said.
"They wouldn't do this with any other disorder," said Marcy Rose, president of the Buffalo and Erie County chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. "They are expanding cancer treatment. They are expanding heart treatment. And these are the very people who are cutting back on psychiatric treatment and saying, 'trust me.' "
Handling the overflow
ECMC saw Buffalo General's decision coming.
"We were included in the decision in terms of knowing that this decision was going to be made," said Richard C. Cleland, ECMC's chief operating officer.
"It's a tough situation for Kaleida," he added. "Employees are starting to look around and saying, 'Hey, there is not going to be a program here.' By rights employees can bid on other jobs in the organization."
ECMC soon added 10 psychiatric beds and the Office of Mental Health added seven at Buffalo Psychiatric Center. ECMC also hired someone to reach out to BryLin, Niagara Falls Memorial and Lake Shore hospitals to help handle overflow as needed, Cleland said.
As expected, the psychiatric emergency room at ECMC got busier.
Year round, it usually receives about one person every hour. In June, it averaged an additional seven people a day when compared with the previous month, he said. Year to date, admissions to psychiatric beds are up 11.7 percent over the prior year.
But Cleland, when asked about the ECMC emergency room being overrun with patients in the wake of the Buffalo General closure, said the emergency room has always had busy days.
"We do see days that are much more busy. But we have always seen that," he said. "I haven't seen anything outside of what we have seen in the past. Not that it is acceptable. We just don't have control with what is going on in the community."
He said days early in the week tend to be busy, and the hospital has a shortage of beds on Saturdays and Sundays because it's more difficult to discharge patients on weekends.
To bolster ECMC's argument that it prepared well for the rush of patients after Buffalo General's closure, Cleland offered a measure showing that patients throughout June averaged shorter waits for a doctor's full assessment than in May. With the hospital's faster triage system, the average wait fell from 7.6 hours to 6 hours, he said.
As part of the new behavioral health effort, ECMC will open 36 psychiatric beds in its existing tower in September and 36 more in late November or early December, Cleland said. He expects the new freestanding building, which will contain a greatly expanded psychiatric emergency room, to open in January.
Following Buffalo General's decision in June, a number of mental health organization have been meeting to strategize.
"In a way, there might be a silver lining to this," said Houseknecht of the Mental Health Association. "And the silver lining might be that because the situation has become even more acute in the short run, I think it is provoking a conversation where we take a more systemic look, and we try to come up with more permanent solutions."
Among the topics: "Can we give families a better level of support? Can we provide more resources to them? Can we reduce the number of times that people are coming back again? Because if you leave someone in a compromised position at the end of a stay, you are enhancing the likelihood that you will see them again ...
''We are only going to do it if we work together,'' he said, ''if we all acknowledge that what we've got right now is not acceptable, and if everybody is willing to cast aside a commitment to always doing things the way they were done.''
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Proycling's Analysis: The Dutch province of Drenthe has the honour of hosting the initial stages of La Vuelta a España this year, starting with this prologue on Assen's motorcycling grand prix circuit. At first glance, the circuit looks flat but there are dips and rises across its length. It will still be fast but this is not a pancake-flat dragstrip-style course. Specialists should thrive, although it's also short enough for an outsider to spring a surprise.
Culture Vulture: Assen is the capital of the Dutch cycling centre of Drenthe. Its main claim to fame is the GP circuit, known to fans as 'The Cathedral', which is where motorbike legend Valentino Rossi won his 100th grand prix in June.
Local hero: The Vuelta will be a key goal for Rabobank as well as for fellow Dutch outfit Vacansoleil. Among those scheduled to be part of the Rabobank team to make his major tour debut is highly rated climber Bauke Mollema, who hails from nearby Groningen. A Tour de l'Avenir winner in 2007, he's continued to impress at the ProTour level and shone in the Tour of California at the start of this year. However, the 22-year-old has been hit by glandular fever this season, so whether he'll actually make it to the start in Assen is still in doubt.
Vuelta Retro: This is only the second time the Vuelta has started outside Spain. In 1997, the tour started in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon.
Neil Stephens says: It's a really good stage for [Fabian] Cancellara [Saxo Bank]. It's non-technical, so the weather won't be much of a problem. I'm at the last stage of the Eneco Tour as I write this, and the weather is the critical aspect because it's a really tricky circuit and rain makes it difficult. On the race circuit in Assen I don't think it's going to be much of a problem. It's a big, open time trial circuit.
A dark horse could be someone like Svein Tuft, although it might be a bit short for him... I think Cancellara will be in a league of his own.


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