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In these days we are studying together 2 Timothy chapter 3 and we're looking at verses 15 to 17. We have been going through 2 Timothy for a number of months and we've stopped to rest a while, if you will, at verses 15 to 17 and dig a bit more deeply into their truths. And I thought this morning that it would be fitting again for us to continue our study and try as we can in the brief time we have to dig a little bit deeply into the elements that we are calling the work of the Word.
Let me read our text to you, beginning in verse 15. "And that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work."
There is no other place in the New Testament where the work of the Word is so concisely spoken of. And we have been noting that there are five things that the Word of God does. It provides salvation, according to verse 15...in verse 16, teaching, reproof, correction and training. And we're looking at these things which we have titled the work of the Word.
Now let me just say by way of introduction that this text more than any other New Testament text and paralleled probably only by Psalm 19 and Psalm 119 in the Old Testament affirms the absolute sufficiency of Scripture...the absolute sufficiency of Scripture when it comes to making provision for all spiritual needs. I have affirmed in our study some years ago now on Psalm 19 that the Word of God is absolutely sufficient for everything pertaining to spiritual life. And that is in essence what this text says. Scripture is able to make the man of God perfect, thoroughly furnished, as the Authorized said, unto all good works. Scripture is sufficient. It does not need any help. That is why Jude tells us to earnestly contend for the once for all delivered to the saints faith. That Scripture which was once at one point in time delivered to the saints, the once for all delivered to the saints faith, Jude 3. We must fight for that. We must contend for that because anyone who comes along with a false belief system will do one of two things, twist, pervert, attack the Scripture or...and sometimes they do both...add to the Scripture. You can usually tell a false religious system by the fact that it comes up with new and novel interpretations of Scripture and also adds to Scripture, as if the Scripture in itself was not adequate, was not sufficient.
For example, the Mormons have decided that the Scripture is not able to stand on its own and they want to add the Book of Mormon and the Doctrines and Covenants and things like that. Christian Science wants to add Science and Health and Key to the Scriptures. And all the various cults add to Scripture the writings of the leaders of the various cults. Even the contemporary Charismatic Movement today is basically built on additional revelation. Jesus is speaking to people, you hear folks say that the Lord told them this, the Lord told them that, God told them this, the Lord spoke to them and said such and such. False systems of belief and cults usually have writings and revelations in addition to Scripture. And the underlying assumption is that Scripture in and of itself is not adequate, is not adequate.
There are, however, even within the mainstream of traditional and historical Christianity those people who question the truthfulness of Scripture. For example, a poll of Protestant clergymen recently was conducted by sociologist Jeffrey Hayden. He surveyed 10,000 clergymen of whom 7,441 replied. The questions he asked them were questions like this, for example:
Do you accept Jesus' physical resurrection as a fact? Fiftyone percent of Methodists said no. Thirtyfive percent of United Presbyterian said no. Thirty percent of Episcopalians said no. Thirtythree percent of American Baptist said no. Thirteen percent of American Lutheran said no. And seven percent of Missouri Synod Lutheran said no.
When asked if they believed that the Scriptures are the inspired and inerrant Word of God, 87 percent of Methodists said no. Ninetyfive percent of Episcopalians said no. Eightytwo percent of Presbyterians said no. Sixtyseven percent of American Baptists said no. Seventyseven percent of American Lutherans said no. And 24 percent of the Missouri Synod Lutherans said no.
Now if you have within the traditional mainstream of American Protestantism such disbelief in the authority of Scripture, is it any wonder why people are so susceptible to other cults and other systems of belief who add to the Bible, who twist and pervert the Bible or, I suppose, who in some cases ignore it all together? The Bible always has been under attack and that's why Jude says to earnestly contend for it. We have to contend against the cults that want to add their own revelation to it. We have to contend, in a sense, against even the Charismatics who want to add new revelation. We have to contend against those liberal people within the framework of Christian tradition who want to deny the authenticity of Scripture. We're ever and always fighting to hold on to the authority of the Word of God. And Jude says we have to earnestly fight for it. It isn't going to be an easy thing because the faith once for all delivered to the saints is under attack. The enemy ever and always attacks the Word of God. And so here we are again time after time after time defending the Word of God, showing why it is to be believed.
Now here in this text before us we have one of the great defenses of scriptural authority. The statement in verse 16, "All Scripture is Godbreathed" is a tremendously profound statement. It is not the word of man, it is the Word of God. It was breathed out by God.
But then we're looking at this second statement, "All Scripture is useful...useful, profitable," to produces these five things. According to verse 15 it can make you wise unto salvation and according to verse 16 it is profitable, or useful for doctrine, reproof, correction and training and is the only thing needed and the only thing able to make the man of God perfect, equipped for every good work.
Now, beloved, that's another statement like Psalm 19 on the sufficiency of Scripture. What this says to us is the Scripture is comprehensively sufficient to produce men of God for every good work. It knows no limitation. It has no weakness. Nothing is left out. Nothing can be added to it. Such an attempt, by the way, according to Revelation 22 winds up with a warning, if you add anything to this, so shall be added to you the plagues that are written in it. The Bible is not to be tampered with, it is not to be distorted, it is not to be corrupted, it is not to be manhandled for your own purposes and it is not to be added to.
Now let me say it as simply as I can. When it comes to spiritual life, when it comes to a person's relationship to God, the Bible is all that is necessary for proper instruction to make the man of God complete and capable of every good work. It is not the Bible plus anything. And that is why we are so committed to the systematic ongoing teaching of God's Word, because of what it does.
Now we've entitled these five things "the work of the Word." What does the Word do? First of all, remember in verse 15, it is able to make you wise unto salvation. The Word has the power to save. The Word of Christ is that which is necessary for salvation, Romans 10 says. It is the Word of God, 1 Peter 1, by which you are begotten again. It is the Word which brings the gospel. It is the Word which in the power of the Holy Spirit brings new life. It is the Word which saves. And so last time we said above all things we must be committed to the proclamation of God's Word to the lost, for the Word is able to make them wise unto salvation.
Secondly, and coming in to verse 16, he says it is useful for doctrine or for teaching. And I pointed out to you that here he has in mind not the process of teaching but the content. It is profitable to give you the necessary body of divine truth to live a godly life. That's what he's saying. The Bible provides for you what Paul calls to Timothy the deposit. It gives you the truth, the deposit of truth to be guarded, 1 Timothy 6:20 and 21, 2 Timothy 1:13. It is God's revelation of truth. And it provides for you the substance to be believed...doctrine, the body of content upon which...mark this carefully...every thought and every action is to be built. Did you get that? The Bible provides for us the body of truth upon which every thought and every action is to be built. So it is profitable for content. It gives us the truth. John 17:17, "Thy Word is truth." If you're looking for a foundation to build your life on, it is this book. It provides the principles that are to operate in the life of every individual at every point of need and demand, thought and action. It's comprehensive. Every single thing you will ever deal with in your spiritual existence is covered one way or another in the Scripture, probably many more than just one time. It is replete with instruction for life...life in the way that God has designed it.
So, it is profitable and useful to provide for you the body of divine doctrine. And as I said last time, as you study the Word of God and begin to accumulate its principles, you begin to build that strong foundation which then becomes the foundation on which every thought and every action is built. Biblical ignorance is the grave tragedy of all tragedies in the church because what you don't know you can't build your life on. So it ought to be then the pursuit of every believer to know the Word of God, to as much as is possible master the Word of God.
I remember when I was a student in seminary I came across a little book written by James M. Grey(?) who at that time was the president of the Moody Bible Institute at the time he wrote the book, long since with the Lord. The title of the little book was "How to Master the Bible." He titled it "How to Master the English Bible." And I got that little book and I devoured that little book because I had a desire in my heart to master as much as was humanly possible the Bible, not so that I could walk around saying I have all the facts, but so that I could have a foundation on which to build my life, so that there would never come in my life any issue, any circumstance that I wouldn't be ready to handle because if the foundation was down and if all the principles were there, I could draw on those principles. And in another metaphor it's like...it's like banking all the truth of God, putting it in the bank and at any given point you can draw out what you need because it's banked, it's deposited, it's in your account, in your heart and your soul and your mind. And the Scripture then is profitable as that body of doctrine on which every action and every thought is to be built.
Now let's come to the third thing and we'll go through those that remain this morning. The third work of the Word in verse 16 is mentioned reproof...reproof. The word literally means to rebuke, to confront someone with a view toward convicting them of misbehavior. It's to rebuke someone's misconduct or to rebuke false teaching, error, whatever. The Word that has such a positive ministry, building foundation, also has a negative ministry of tearing things down. The Word is not just a builder, it is something that rips and tears and shreds what deserves to be torn. The Bible has a rebuking ministry, a rebuking effect.
In chapter 4 of 2 Timothy, just a few verses after the text we're in, it says preach the Word, be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort. And that's a negative ministry in a sense. That's calling people back from error. And the Word of God has that effect, it has that ministry. In fact, Archbishop Trench(?) writing about this particular word here, elegmos says it is to rebuke another with such effectual wielding of the victorious arm of the truth so as to bring him not always to a confession, yet at least to a conviction of his sin. And the idea here is that the Word convicts of sin. Yes, the Word builds a foundation of truth but that also is accompanied by the work of conviction. As you listen to the Word of God, as you read the Word of God, as you study deeply the things of God it begins to cut away the sin in your life. The first rebuking work of the Word then is toward the sin in the life of a person, of a believer. It will work on you that way.
Let me show you a text to support that thought. Hebrews 4, a familiar verse but perhaps not fully understood. Hebrews 4:12 and here the writer refers to the Word of God in terms that we're used to, the Word of God is alive and powerful and sharper than any twoedged sword. Most Sunday school kids memorize Hebrews 4:12 and rightly so. But let's look a little more deeply into it. The Word of God is alive, it is living and it is powerful, or active, sharper than any twoedged sword.
Now we're going to see the Word as a weapon. It's definitely pictured as a weapon. It then says piercing deep down into a person's soul, spirit, joints, marrow. Now the picture here is very vivid. The Word is like a huge sword which is just driven to the core of a person's being, slices right through and judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart. The Word of God then is like a sword that cuts. It cuts deeply. And most every one of us as Christians have been cut by the Word, haven't we? We've been ripped open by the Word. We came to church on a given Sunday feeling pretty good about ourselves and went away feeling terrible about ourselves. We were laid bare. We were cut open by the Word. We came thinking everything was in order and we heard a message that showed everything wasn't in order. And when we were confronted with the Word of God that morning we realized we came short of that and our sin was exposed and we were cut up. That's why, you see, a Bible preaching, Bible teaching church will never be a haven for sinners. They're not going to pile in because they don't want to get split open every week. They don't want to get cut up. Why? John 3, those who want to hold on to their sins stay away because they don't come to the light, He says in verse 20, lest their deeds should be reproved, rebuked. They don't want to be exposed to the cutting power of the Word of God.
And by the way, that's a good indicator in your life. Even if you're a believer you find yourself wanting to stay away from the Lord's people, wanting to stay away from the services of the church, wanting to stay away from the teaching of the Word. It may be because you don't want to get cut open. You're harboring some sin in your heart.
Now let's follow along in verse 12, the Word is alive, it's active, it's sharp, it cuts deeply and reveals the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Verse 13, "And there is no creature hidden from His sight but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do." God takes His Word, cuts deep into your heart, lays you open, you're flayed, as it were, right before God's eyes. And nothing is hidden, He sees every single thing about you. We are open to the eyes of Him.
He uses a most interesting term in the Greek which was also used among the soldiers. Let me give you a little idea of how it was used. It was used to describe a criminal who had to lift his face and face the crowd as he was marched to his punishment. And the way they did that was quite interesting. A soldier held a dagger right at the chin with it just barely piercing the skin. The point of that dagger was held to force the criminal to hold his head high and his face so that every one could see him as he was paraded to his punishment.
Now you see when you turn on the television set some criminal going like this...and holding his hands over his head and ducking under his coat because he doesn't want to be seen by the television cameras. There's a certain amount of shame and guilt. They knew that but they wanted the criminal to have to face the whole wide world and the whole community to see his face so they rammed a little dagger up under his chin and made him walk with his chin up and were he to lower his chin, he would have pierced himself right through. And in a very real sense he is saying that's exactly what the Word of God does, it jams its pierced point right up under your chin and it makes you face the reality and it makes God able to see exactly what you look like. It reveals you to Him. You are open before Him. You can't hide a thing. That's what the Word will do. The Word is a reprover. The Word is a rebuker. The Word is a convicter of sin. It sifts, it analyzes, it reveals emotions, attitudes and thoughts.
And you've experienced that. As you sit down and read through God's Word and you read about something...you may be reading about love and saying to yourself, "I don't love enough, I have such a lack of love." You may be reading about bitterness and say, "That's me, I have such bitterness in my heart." You may be reading about hatred and you realize your heart is filled with that. You may be reading about pride and you say to yourself that's me, that's me, that's cutting me wide open and that's right obvious before God and now even before my own eyes. That's the Word, that's the work of the Word.
Let me tell you something, beloved, you ought to thank God just as much for the reproving work of the Word as for the doctrinal part of it, right? You ought to be just as eager to be reproved by the Word as you are to be instructed by the Word. You ought to be just as eager to have your sin exposed as you are to have some great truth and principle taught to you that you can apply. Why? Because if you're truly God's child, you hunger after what is right and you hunger after righteousness. An exposure of sin should be a welcome process, it's a bitter sweet experience. We can rejoice then that in the perfecting of the man of God the Word will save, the Word will teach the principles of truth and then the Word will convict and reprove and confute the sinner.
Let me take it a second step, that point. Not only does the Word reprove sin but it reproves error...it reproves error. And it would be unfair to deal with this without expressing that thought. The Word not only reproves sin in the life of an individual but it also reproves false teaching and error. If I know the Scripture, then I can recognize error. Is that not so? Because the Scripture is the test, it's the standard, it's the measure by which all teaching must be measured. And whatever it is that comes down the path and claims to be the truth needs only to be compared with the Word of God. That's why, and I say this again, beloved, that is why inevitably cults twist the Scripture and add to the Scripture because they have to mess with the standard to justify what they do. The Word of God is the standard...it is the standard. It is the plumb line against which the straightness or crookedness of anything is measured. And so those who come along with lies, with deceit and false teaching inevitably must twist the Scripture and/or add to the Scripture to justify what they purport to be the truth. They are, says Paul, guilty of peddling the Word of God, 2 Corinthians 2:17 and 2 Corinthians 4:2 of adulterating the Word of God. They peddle it, they adulterate it. They do not properly explain it wand affirm it.
So, the Bible exposes error. Let me show you this just briefly from the Old Testament. Go back to that Psalm a part of which we read earlier, Psalm 119. And Psalm 119 has so much to say about the Scripture, 176 verses and every single one of them is about the Scripture. But let me just draw to your attention a couple of them. Psalm 119 verse 99, this is a wonderful verse. I just love what this says. Psalm 119:99 says, listen to this, "I have more insight than all my teachers." What a statement. I have more insight than all my teachers. Why? "For Thy testimonies are my meditation." Verse 100, "I understand more than the aged because I have observed Thy precepts." I know more than anybody because I know Your Word. I'm way ahead of my teachers, I'm way ahead of the aged because I know Your Word.
Notice verse 104, "From Thy precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way." Hey, I can recognize a false way. I know Your Word. I have understanding from Your Word. So as you build up the knowledge of the Word of God it will reprove your sin and it will expose error, that is its reproving work. It reproves sin, it reproves error.
Now those works of the Word have to do with content. They basically have to do with content. The Word builds foundation principles by which you can live and it also cuts you open to show you your sin and to expose false teaching. Vital, vital works of the Word. Let me give you another Old Testament passage, I don't want to skip this. Isaiah chapter 8, it's just a rich statement by the prophet...
In verses 19 and 20, listen to what Isaiah writes. And, of course, he's writing to a people who have really been unfaithful to God and gotten themselves into all kinds of sin. Verse 19, "And when they say to you, Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shall not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?"
There's a lot of that going on today. A lot of people running around consulting mediums and spiritists and people who supposedly contact the dead and contact spirits and all of that. And that was not new...that is not new, that was old stuff going on in the Old Testament time even among the children of Israel. And he says why would you consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter? Should not a people consult their God? If you want to know an answer go to God. There's no medium and no spiritist and nothing in the realm of the dead that's got anything to say to you. Go to your God.
Notice verse 20, I love this phrase, "To the law and to the testimony." That's marching orders. To the law and to the testimony. "And if they don't speak according to this Word, it's because they have no dawn...no light, they're in darkness." Go to the Word, don't go to any of these people. You know more than all your teachers. You could be in the most erudite university in America, secular university, and if you know the Word of God you know vastly more than all your teachers. And whatever they tell you, you can discern and you can know every false way that they articulate because you know the truth. Beloved, it's a marvelous thing that God has done in reducing everything to this book. And to master this book is to master life in every dimension. And why were the Bereans in Acts 17:11 more noble than anyone else? Because they searched the Scriptures...how often...daily to see if these things were so. They didn't just buy anything coming down the pike, they searched the Scriptures. They didn't want to be carried about by the cunning craftiness of those who lie in wait to deceive. The Word of God was their standard, and it is ours as well. And we must affirm its truthfulness and we must know its truth...we must know its truth. Stay away from the people who distort the Scriptures to their own destruction, 2 Peter 3:16.
So, the Word of God then has the positive content ministry of imparting to us truth, the negative content ministry in the sense that it exposes sin and exposes error.
Now let's go from content to conduct in the last two. Paul says to Timothy it is also profitable not only for salvation, not only for teaching, doctrine, not only for reproof but for correction...verse 16, correction. Now we're going to move from content to conduct.
The Scripture not only exposes sin as to its reality, not only exposes error, but it has the ability to correct both. It has a corrective capability. The word here, epanorthosis, means literally...it's only used here, nowhere else in the Scripture so it's hard to compare its use. So taking it at its face value, exactly what the word means, it literally means to straighten up upon...to lift you up and straighten you up. What happens? The Word of God comes along, it cuts you to ribbons, it slays you, it exposes false belief, false teaching and then the Word of God picks you up and straightens you up and sets you back on your feet. It has the ability to straighten up your conduct, to thoroughly restore to an upright position, is what the word means. It doesn't just split you up and let you lie there, it puts you back together again. It imparts truth, exposes error. That basically has to do with content, but it also has the power to change your behavior, to correct the sin, to correct the wrong belief. And then it says in the end to train you in righteousness. Both those last two have to do with conduct...conduct.
That's a wonderful work of the Word, beloved. You know that's true. You go to the Word of God, what happens? You go to the Word of God and you read it and you feel conviction. I know I do. I rarely ever read the Scripture without feeling conviction in my heart. It always seems to pierce somehow into my heart. But then as I read it also gives me instruction to build me back up again. If I read in the Word of God about pride and I feel convicted about pride, I also read in the Scripture the way that I can humble myself before God and how the Spirit of God will work with my will to bring humility into my life. And as I continue to study the Word of God, where I was torn apart I start to be built back together again. David said, "Thy Word have I hid in my heart that I might not...what?...sin." It's the Word that begins to build and strengthen and strengthen.
In fact, I can honestly say to you that through the years of spiritual growth, some of the areas of greatest weakness in my early life where the Word of God pierced most deeply and reproved me most greatly are the strongest areas now because those areas of grave weakness which the Word of God revealed to me have been the areas where I've spent the most effort trying to build strength in the power of the Spirit of God. And I believe with all my heart that there's every reason for a Christian to hope that areas of great weakness become areas of great strength. We apply ourselves to those areas. The Word of God is the tool of building. That's why we are to let the Word of Christ dwell in us richly, Colossians 3:16, because it begins to build us up. Paul writing says we are to take in the Word of God, Acts 20:32, which is able to build you up. It puts the pieces back together. You don't just come and have the Word of God fracture you and run away, you stay and the Word will rebuild you. It has that capability.
In John 15 our Lord was teaching on the vine and the branches and He made a point that I think connects to this thought. He said, "I am the true vine and My Father is the vine dresser, every branch in Me that doesn't bear fruit, He takes away and every branch that bears fruit He prunes it that it may bear more fruit." Verse 3, "You are already clean, that is pruned, because of the Word which I have spoken to you." You're a branch. In your life come a lot of these little sucker branches that zap your energy, they don't produce anything at all, they just drain the energy from the fruitful part. And the Lord comes along with a knife like any good vine dresser and whacks off those sucker branches out of your life. That's the pruning of the Word. The Word lays you bare and then the Word has a way of straightening you back up again. It will show you your sin and it will show you the path of obedience. It will show you what's wrong and it will teach you how to do what's right. It will put you back together again.
I think of Humpty Dumpty, all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together again. That's a comment on life. That's a pretty profound fairy tale saying that once you've destroyed it, it's gone. But in God's terms, once you've fallen and crumbled, God's Word is able to pick you up and put you back together again. That's the tremendous truth of God's promise. That's the restoring ministry of God's Word. And don't we rejoice in that? "He that is taken in a fault, you that are spiritual do...what?...restore him in love." The Word has the ability to do that...the Word as I imbibe it privately, or the Word as it comes to me from a brother who comes alongside to help in that restoration process. And we all experience the rebuilding of the Word of God. Everything we need is here, the doctrine, the foundation, all the principles of life, the reproof, the rebuking that comes to us against our sin and against false teaching. And then the Scripture has the ability to correct and to put us back together and build us thoroughly restoring us to an upright position which is what that word means.
What a tremendous tremendous promise that is. We don't need to despair. We don't need to say, "Well, I'm gone, I'm done, that's the end of me." The Word of God can rebuild and restore and God is committed to that ministry by His Spirit. As you stay in the Word the first thing it does, it gives you truth. Then it begins to expose your sin. Then as you're crushed under your sin it begins to rebuild you and it rebuilds you stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger as you go along. In fact, I think it's Job, is it chapter 17? Where we read about that? Yes, "Nevertheless the righteous shall hold to his way and he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger." What a wonderful thought. He who has clean hands gets stronger and stronger. As your sin is exposed and confessed and you're rebuilt, you get stronger and stronger in the process. And that's all the work of the Word. That's the work of the Word.
So, from a content standpoint, the Word provides teaching and reproof of that which is false. From a conduct standpoint, it provides correction. It starts to rebuild you after you've been reproven. And then finally, the Word works in training in righteousness...training in righteousness. What a marvelous thought...training in righteousness.
This is the positive side of correction. It corrects you, that's dealing with your sin. It trains you, that's beginning to input righteousness. So in those four there's a little bit of a flipflop. The Word deposits the truth that trains you in righteousness, the first and fourth. The Word reproves you, the second and then begins to rebuild you in the correcting process, that's the third term. So in those four terms you have the work of the Word...its content and its work on your conduct.
Now what does training in righteousness mean? Well, it's a vital concept and a simple one to understand. Training is the word paidion from which the Greek word paideia which is child is also...or to which that word is also connected. It means to train a child, that's exactly what it means. It's having to do with educating children. The Word is able to bring you up, that's what it means, to nurture you, to raise you, to grow you, to bring you up to maturity. This is the positive side. It's not only correcting you but it's bringing you up, it's building you up. Dealing with your faults is half of it, instructing you in what is right is the other half. So the Word takes its reproving power and uses that to correct you, and the Word takes its doctrinal content and uses that to train you. And the process is complete.
Now the word paidion is used a number of times in the New Testament and always has to do with the idea of training up somebody, building up someone, growing a child. It does imply some times chastening. In fact, most of its uses are in Hebrews chapter 12 verses 5 to 11, let's look at those for a moment and include the idea of some chastening. Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 5, "Have you forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, My son, do not regard lightly the discipline, the training process of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by Him." So reproof is a part of that training. "For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, He trains and He scourges." There again, scourging is a part of the training. So correction is implied in the training but the term training emphasizes the positive side.
Verse 7, "It is for training that you endure, God deals with you as with sons, for what son is there whom his father doesn't train? And if you're without training of which all have become partakers, then you're legitimate children and not sons. Furthermore we had earthly fathers to train us. We respected them. Shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For theythat is our earthly fatherstrained us for a short time as seemed best to them, He trains us for our good that we may share His holiness." That's it, training unto holiness, training in righteousness, same idea. "And all training," verse 11, "for the moment seems not to be joyful but sorrowful, yet to those who are being trained, or have been trained by it, it yields the peaceable fruit...there it is...of righteousness."
So, the writer of Hebrews is saying God puts every one of his children through a training process. Paul here says the training process is basically the work of the Word. It is the Word that does the training. It is the Word that builds you up, the Word that trains you properly. And that's why Paul in Acts 20:32 said, "I commend you to the Word which is able to build you up...to build you up." That's why Paul said in 1 Timothy 4:6 that Timothy was to be being nourished up in the words of the faith and good doctrine. It's the Word that builds you up. It's your food. "Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." It's our food. We feed it, we eat on it.
Notice 1 Peter, a very familiar passage, really puts it into very clear terms. He says in verses 23 to 25 of 1 Peter 1, we went into this in our last study, that we have been begotten again through the living and abiding Word of God. We're saved through the Word. There's no question about that. Then in verse 2 he says, verse 2 of chapter 2, "Like newborn babes long for the pure milk of the Word that by it you may grow." So our growth, our training, our maturing is based on the Word. Like a baby grows because it eats, you grow because you eat. Like a baby needs milk, you need the Word.
Now this verse is very simple. What it's saying is in the way that babies long for milk, you should long for the Word. And you know that is the strongest, in fact that's the single desire a baby has, they want milk. They scream for milk. That's basically it. They live for that. As I've said before, babies have two things in mind, they want milk and they want you to deal with the consequences of the milk and that's about it. They live to drink the milk. And that's exactly what he's saying. In the same way that a baby is so singularly focused on the need for milk should you be singularly focused on the need for the Word so that you like that baby may...what?...may grow. It's the source of growth.
And I'll tell you something. That's not mystical. I can say it's as simple as this, folks. The time you spend every day, that time you spend every single day of your life reading God's Word is making you a stronger believer. You may not perceive it. You may not even recognize it. But it's food and it's nourishment and it's finding a place in your mind and it's nourishing your spirit.
Go with me for just a moment to Psalm 19. We have studied in detail this tremendous Psalm, but please notice what the Word of God will do. He calls it by six different titles, Psalm 19, starting in verse 7 and then going to verse 8 and 9. He calls it the law of the Lord, the testimony of the Lord, the precepts of the Lord, the commandment of the Lord, the fear of the Lord referring to worship, the judgments of the Lord...six titles for Scripture. You can look at Scripture as God's law, as His testimony of Himself, as precepts for living, as commandments to be obeyed, as instruction on worship, or as verdicts from the divine bench, but it's all His Word. And what is its character? It is perfect, it is sure, it is right, it is pure, it is clean, it is true. And what will it do for you? It will restore your soul, it will make you wise, it will rejoice your heart, it will enlighten your eyes, it will endure forever, that means it will be relevant in every age and it will produce comprehensive righteousness, the end of verse 9. That's the sufficiency of the Word of God. That's what it will do in your life as you feed on it. And that's why the Psalmist said, Psalm 42:1, "As the deer pants after the waterbrook, so pants my soul after Thee, O God." That hunger for God's Word, fellowship with Him through His Word.
And the Word then trains us in righteousness, in holiness. And what does that mean? Right things, right behavior, right conduct, right thinking, right action, right words. It's the food that makes us grow. In James 1:21 you remember when we studied James this familiar verse, "Therefore putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness," sounds a lot like 1 Peter 2:1, "in humility receive the Word...receive the Word." Basic...basic.
Well, let's go back to 2 Timothy and just kind of wrap our thoughts up. The power and the effect of the Word is tremendous. The Word is able to make you wise unto salvation. The Word is able to give you doctrine, that is to give you all the principles necessary for living a godly life and serving God to the maximum. The Word is able to reprove, that is to cut deeply into your life and reveal your sin, and also to reveal false teaching, to protect you from it. The Word then is able to pick up the pieces that it has torn apart, in a sense, and rebuild your life and also train you to Christ's likeness and holiness and righteousness. That's the power of the Word. And how successful is it? Look at verse 17, so successful that the man of God in whom the Word works may be perfect...complete, adequate, equipped for everynot most but everygood work.
So, beloved, when I say the Scripture is comprehensively sufficient, that's exactly what I mean. It's exactly what I mean. What else can you be but perfect and what else can you do but every good work. There's nothing left out. When someone comes along and tells you that the Bible is not adequate, the Bible is insufficient, the Bible doesn't tell us all we need to know, we need some further revelations, some further writings of some spiritual gurus, or we need the insights of the world or sociology or psychology or philosophy in order to complete our Christian pilgrimage...don't you believe it. It's all here in the book and, beloved, more than anything else, if we are to be spiritually noble we must search the Scriptures daily for therein lies our food and therein lies the tool with which God refines us to the place of maximum usefulness. The truth is we should be like Mary in Luke 10:39, it says "Who sat at Jesus' feet and heard His word." If there's anything you need to commit your heart to as we begin a new year, it would be that no day would pass that you didn't spend time feeding your souls in the Word of the living God, that you might be all that He wants you to be.
Some of you need the Word for salvation. You've not yet come to know Christ. Read that New Testament until it becomes clear to you what it means to be saved. Some of you need doctrine. You don't have the principles. You don't know how to live the Christian life to its fullest. You haven't learned the Word of God so you know what true doctrine is. And some of you need to have the piercing sword of the Word reprove your sin and then begin to do its work of correcting that sin and instructing you so that you become mature in Christ, able to be all that He wants you to be.
Beloved, let me just say in closing that this again rehearses in my own mind and reaffirms why we do what we do at Grace Church. We will continue to study this book because there's really nothing else for us to do that can come anywhere close to this. We live in a day, I know it, we live in a day of overindulgence. We live in a day when you, for example, have literally been blasted and bombarded with so much information...in fact, Megatrend says it's the day of information, not intimacy. People want to know stuff, they don't really care about relationships. And I think that might even be true somewhat in the spiritual dimension. We have accumulated tremendous amount of knowledge and maybe in so many of us that accumulation of information has substituted with intimacy with God. I do know this, that many many Christians aren't hungry. And I have the feeling that what we've been doing is feeding on junk food. We've nourished ourselves on the cornhusks of the world and we're not hungry for the meal that God sets for us in His book. That's tragic.
Someone said to me...the other day we were talking on the phone and he said, "What are you going to do about what? What are you going to do about the apathy and the indifference in the church? What can we do about it?" And I said we can wait till it goes away, I guess, hope for a better day because it's obvious that people have so much information in their computers, so much junk, so much spiritual garbage coming in from the world around them, they have fed themselves on junk food that they've lost their appetite for the Word of God. And now when you say you're going to teach the Word of God, people sort of yawn and hohum. It wasn't always that way and it won't always be that way because the Lord somehow in some way by His grace, if Jesus tarries, I believe, will restore the appetite of God's people for God's truth. But nonetheless, we continue to do what's right. I mean, there are lots of ways to get a crowd, the primary one is not to teach the Bible. But we defy that in a way, don't we, this morning? God bless you for your appetite for His book. I hope it goes beyond today. I hope you still have it this evening at six and tomorrow when you're day begins and the hunger of your heart wants to reach out for the book and spend some time in it. Let's pray together.
Thank You, Father, for clear truth. Thank You for Your expression of love to us in the treasure of Your book. May we say with David, "O how I love Thy law." May it be our delight. May we meditate on it day and night so that our way may be prosperous and we may have good success. Father, make us aware that we need every day to feed on the living Word, to nourish the soul. Help us to stay away from the junk and not feed ourselves on that which is no food at all, but takes away our appetite for what is. Keep our minds pure and devoted to you and your truth for Christ's sake. Amen.
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It seems to be a rite of college these days to walk across campus and be inundated with credit card offers. Companies shamelessly offer everything from free T-shirts and water bottles to sandwiches and pizzas to entice college students to fill out a credit card application.
U.S. PIRG has been working on campuses across the country to counter such aggressive marketing schemes. The group recently released a survey of 1,500 students at 40 campuses. It found that:
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It doesn't help when alumni associations at some universities strike deals with banks to offer credit cards to students, as the Des Moines Register reported in this story. Following that report, U.S. PIRG has posted documents showing the relationships between the University of Iowa and Iowa State University and their alumni associations for exclusive on-campus marketing arrangements with Bank of America.
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CALL statement invokes a stored
procedure that was defined previously with
As of MySQL 5.1.13, stored procedures that take no arguments can
be invoked without parentheses. That is,
p() and
CALL p are equivalent.
CALL can pass back values to its
caller using parameters that are declared as
OUT or
INOUT parameters.
When the procedure returns, a client program can also obtain the
number of rows affected for the final statement executed within
the routine: At the SQL level, call the
ROW_COUNT() function; from the C
API, call the
mysql_affected_rows() function.
To get back a value from a procedure using an
OUT or
INOUT parameter, pass
the parameter by means of a user variable, and then check the
value of the variable after the procedure returns. (If you are
calling the procedure from within another stored procedure or
function, you can also pass a routine parameter or local routine
variable as an
IN or
parameter.) For an
INOUT parameter, initialize
its value before passing it to the procedure. The following
procedure has an
OUT parameter that the
procedure sets to the current server version, and an
INOUT value that the procedure increments by
one from its current value:
CREATE PROCEDURE p (OUT ver_param VARCHAR(25), INOUT incr_param INT) BEGIN # Set value of OUT parameter SELECT VERSION() INTO ver_param; # Increment value of INOUT parameter SET incr_param = incr_param + 1; END;
Before calling the procedure, initialize the variable to be passed
as the
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SET @increment = 10;mysql>
CALL p(@version, @increment);mysql>
SELECT @version, @increment;+------------+------------+ | @version | @increment | +------------+------------+ | 5.1.32-log | 11 | +------------+------------+
In prepared
CALL statements used
PREPARE and
EXECUTE, placeholder support is
available in MySQL 5.1 for
parameters, but not for
OUT or
INOUT parameters. To work around this
limitation for
OUT and
parameters, forego the use of placeholders; instead, refer to user
variables in the
CALL statement
itself and do not specify them in the
EXECUTE statement:
SET @increment = 10;mysql>
PREPARE s FROM 'CALL p(@version, @increment)';mysql>
EXECUTE s;mysql>
SELECT @version, @increment;+------------+------------+ | @version | @increment | +------------+------------+ | 5.1.32-log | 11 | +------------+------------+
To write C programs that use the
CALL SQL statement to execute
stored procedures that produce result sets, the
CLIENT_MULTI_RESULTS flag must be enabled. This
is because each
CALL returns a
result to indicate the call status, in addition to any result sets
that might be returned by statements executed within the
CLIENT_MULTI_RESULTS must also be
enabled if
CALL is used to execute
any stored procedure that contains prepared statements. It cannot
be determined when such a procedure is loaded whether those
statements will produce result sets, so it is necessary to assume
that they will.
CLIENT_MULTI_RESULTS can be enabled when you
mysql_real_connect(), either
explicitly by passing the
flag itself, or implicitly by passing
CLIENT_MULTI_STATEMENTS (which also enables
To process the result of a
statement executed using
mysql_query() or
mysql_real_query(), use a loop
that calls
mysql_next_result() to
determine whether there are more results. For an example, see
Section 21.8.16, "C API Support for Multiple Statement Execution".
For programs written in a language that provides a MySQL
interface, there is no native method for directly retrieving the
results of
OUT or
parameters from
CALL statements. To
get the parameter values, pass user-defined variables to the
procedure in the
CALL statement and
then execute a
SELECT statement to
produce a result set containing the variable values. To handle an
INOUT parameter, execute a statement prior to
CALL that sets the
corresponding user variable to the value to be passed to the
The following example illustrates the technique (without error
checking) for the stored procedure
p described
earlier that has an
OUT parameter and an
INOUT parameter:
mysql_query(mysql, "SET @increment = 10"); mysql_query(mysql, "CALL p(@version, @increment)"); mysql_query(mysql, "SELECT @version, @increment"); result = mysql_store_result(mysql); row = mysql_fetch_row(result); mysql_free_result(result);
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row[0] and
row[1] contain the values of
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Everyone has hopes and dreams for their families. I thought I'd planned everything out perfectly. Up until recently, I thought I'd played by the rules. So how did this middle-class, college-educated, gracious woman go from a comfortable life in a cozy two-story house to a stressful, paycheck-to-paycheck life in an apartment? It didn't seem fair. I know — life isn't always fair. But I fancied that statement more when it didn't apply to my life.
Don't get me wrong, I understand the mechanics of it. My husband and I went from two incomes to one when we went from one child to two in less than two years. Then a sudden job transfer left us scrambling to find a renter for our home in an economy we couldn't possibly sell in. Though we were delighted to be back in the South, we were still two hours away from the other home we rented. We found ourselves struggling to support the difference between what we owe on our mortgages and what our renters were willing to pay. We sold most of what we owned and moved into a two-bedroom apartment.
With December here, I cannot bring myself to believe that I'm not going to be able to provide my two young sons with the most extravagant Christmas imagined. For the second year, they won't be dressed in dapper holiday outfits from The Children's Place, complete with new loafers from Stride Right. They won't be waking up Christmas morning to a train table with Thomas and all of his friends choo-chooing by, next to a battery-powered police car big enough for them both to ride in the grassy backyard we don't have. My family won't be lounging on a leather sectional, sipping cocktails at the bar in the corner of our family room or watching the game on our 73-inch plasma TV. I won't be cooking a feast of turkey, stuffing and sweet potatoes with an array of delectable desserts on the side table smartly lined with holly.
Thankfully, after weeks of soul searching and dutifully tuning in to Oprah's Lifeclass, I've come to the realization that it's OK. I know things will get better. I believe it. We are just going through a tough time, as so many families are. Some worse; some better. What I keep reminding myself is the importance of making sure our boys are happy and feel secure in our home — no matter where it may be right now or how much stuff we have.
I'm now able to see this fanciful Christmas is all in my mind; it's just my expectation of what would make the best holiday season. And that is what is so beautiful: I can still make their experience magical. With a little creativity, I can make our little home a winter wonderland. My boys will buzz with anticipation as we leave cookies and milk out for Santa on Christmas Eve. Christmas morning they will awake to an enchanting site of wrapped gifts piled under the tree.
They don't need to have the most expensive or fastest or biggest toys; they'll only play with half of them anyway! Chocolate from their stocking will stain their brand-new twenty-one dollar button-down, and they'll keep their new shoes on for maybe an hour. My parents can really bond with their grandchildren as they cozy up in our humble living room. Maybe we mix it up this year and have a scrumptious lasagna; hey, fewer dishes to wash means more time to drink wine.
What I am going to remember this holiday season is that it isn't how much money I have or what I buy for them; it's what I do with each moment of each day. You can believe this too. We can turn simple moments into special holiday memories. If we keep a positive outlook and take what we've got and make it good, our children will hold on to the good times. If we can find the happiness and really enjoy these moments, our children will feel it. They will have that special place in their hearts of what Christmas means to them.
Years from now, when we are all in a better place in life, we will be so proud knowing we cowboyed up and delivered a special Christmas — no matter how little we had at the time. Ultimately, that $40 Rock Star Mickey will be fun for our kiddo for about three days before you are ready to toss the mouse out the window. But memories last forever.
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LINDSAY LOHAN had an impromptu reunion with her MEAN GIRLS co-star TINA FEY in New York City on Tuesday (19Aug14).
The actresses' cult high school comedy hit cinemas a decade ago, and when Lohan had a chance meeting with the film's co-star and writer she insisted on taking a 'selfie' of the get together and posted the shot on Instagram.com.
She added the caption, "Lovely running into an inspiring, funny, beautiful old friend!!!!"
The meeting comes days after their fellow co-stars Amy Poehler, Lizzy Caplan and Daniel Franzese had their own mini-reunion at Los Angeles hotspot Chateau Marmont, where Caplan was celebrating her Emmy nomination for Masters of Sex.
Franzese posted their own selfies on Instagram, and wrote, "Celebrating a bday and an Emmy nom last night for one of the greatest people you will ever meet #LizzyCaplan with our girl #AmyPoehler last night at the Chateau Marmont."


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The Rolling Stones would not have reunited for a 50th anniversary tour if Keith Richards hadn't apologised for poking fun at bandmate Mick Jagger in his memoirs.
The guitar great took aim at the size of his longtime songwriting partner's manhood, his relationships and his musical talents in the bestseller "Life," driving a wedge between himself and the frontman, and Jagger admits an apology was an unspoken "prerequisite" before the group could start talking about working together again.
The singer tells Rolling Stone magazine, "I think it was a good thing he got together with me and said that (apologized). I don't really want to talk about it apart from that, but I think it's good that he said it, and yes, it was a prerequisite, really.
"You have to put those things to one side; you can't leave them unspoken. It's very tempting. English people like to do that quite a lot. They don't like to face up to these things. Sometimes it's easy to push them out of the way, but I think it's good that we had that conversation."
But it's clear that Richards' memoirs still irk Jagger – when the rocker was pressed to comment on the accuracy of his bandmate's book, he said, "I don't really want to talk about Keith's book."
Richards confesses he apologized to Jagger, but he still wishes his bandmate had read the book properly.
He tells the publication, "I told Mick, 'You should have seen what I left out.' I did also say to Mick, 'I know exactly what you did. You got the book, you went straight to the index – Jagger, M – and that's what you read. You didn't take it in context. You didn't.'
"So, yeah, we had a bit of a doo-dah about that, but I was expecting it. We resolved it, in our own way, you know… I said that I regret if I caused you any, you know, inconvenience or pain, or something… I'd say anything to get the band together, you know? I'd lie to my mother."
Jagger and Richards officially launched the 50 & Counting tour with the Stones in Los Angeles last Friday after playing five arena shows at the end of 2012.


text: Webber, in his third season with the Yale squash program, holds the England Squash Level IV Elite Coach award which is the premier coaching qualification held within the world of squash. In addition, he holds the Squash Wales Level IV National Coach award. Webber, former director for Guernsey Squash and the Wales and England national squads, has produced British and world ranked champion Chris Simpson and many junior national players. Webber played for Wales at junior national events and other international level competitions, while he represented Guernsey as a player, manager and coach at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Webber holds a degree in leisure management/sports development from the University of Wales Institute Cardiff, where he also captained the university squash team to four wins at the British Universities Competition.


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The day after Thanksgiving has created an ugly tradition of guerilla shopping. Dubbed Black Friday years ago by retail workers who dreaded the experience and now spun by management types to mean that it helps honest businesses get "in the black," it's the one day that in the minds of many represents everything that is wrong with the holiday season.
We've developed our own Black Friday tradition in these parts. For the third straight year, I'll spend the first three hours of the morning guest hosting The Dan Patrick Show.
Joining me on the journey for the third straight time will be producer Jonas Knox, and we'll be ready to talk about the three NFL games played on Thanksgiving and the remaining 13 games that will be played on Sunday and Monday.
We'll also touch on other sports news, because you never know which high-profile athlete is going to be chased around the house on Thanksgiving night with a rolling pin, or a nine iron.
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Will Anyone Actually Give Up Cigarettes for 'Snus'?
New York's War on Smoking has now won the battle of the public parks, sending thousands of grumpy nature-and-cigarette lovers into the packed, hazy city streets. In this shrinking smoke-friendly world, the next big thing is clear: "Snus." Really?
Reynolds Tobacco, makers of Camel (and Camel Snus!), is launching a new ad campaign in New York, to take advantage of how everyone out there is like, "Smoking is such a hassle now, I might as well just put a package of tobacco in my lip and let its juices seep into my gums:"
"Smokers, switch to smoke-free Camel Snus and reclaim the world's greatest city," says one of the ads, which will run in various forms all week in a handful of newspapers.
No built-in excuse to escape an awkward situation in order to step outside for a smoke. No sexy exhalations. Is anyone actually doing this? Make yourself known, weirdos. [WSJ]


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Well known high end Apple accessory manufacturer Twelvesouth has announced its latest accessory for the iPhone and it is something just that little bit different. Say hello to the "SurfacePad" which Twelvesouth is calling an ultra-slimluxury leather cover for the iPhone. Yep, it is not a case according to Twelvesouth, it's a cover for those that like to keep their iPhone safe from life's daily dangers while still allowing its beautiful design to shine through.
Made from luxury Napa leather, SurfacePad dresses up iPhone unlike any other cover. At less than 1/10th an inch thick and weighing less than one ounce, this thin leather jacket does not interfere with the buttons, ports or camera on iPhone. Since the cover wraps around and protects the front and back surfaces, the tell-tale profile of the iPhone remains on display. At a glance there's never any doubt what phone you've chosen to run your world.
SurfacePad is thin, light and shows off your iPhone - but it also makes a design statement all its own. It adds a pop of color to your iPhone. It makes your phone distinctive and sophisticated in a sea of silly plastic. With its razor thin profile and supple touch, SurfacePad is the first cover worthy of your iPhone, and shares the same design sensibilities as well. Sleek, modern, minimal - both device and cover are cut from the same cloth
The SurfacePad for iPhone is available for the iPhone 4, 4s and 5 and comes in three different colors too. You can have it in Jet Black, Modern White or Red Pop. The SurfacePad also has a built in stand sewn into the back cover which lets you watch videos or even set your iPhone down in a position suitable for use as a bedside clock radio. If you fancy getting your hands on one of these rather innovative covers for your iPhone they are available right now from Twelvesouth and will cost you $34.99.
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Beatle-mania week in New Orleans capstones with your VIP back-stage access and front row seat to the really, really big show… The Fab Four, The Ultimate Tribute.
Ed Sullivan was there. "They are simply the best ladies and gentlemen. The Fab Four!"
The Fab Four rocked Tad Gormley Stadium Tuesday celebrating when John, Paul, George and Ringo did the same fifty years to the night (when it was called City Park Stadium).
Click screen above to experience the Magical Wingin' It Tour… Step right this way!
On this journey through time we play along with the most authentic looking and sounding Beatles act that, "will make you feel all right."
"I worked all summer to get the $5 for the ticket," says a Beatle fan who was at the first show.
The Beatles are widely regarded as the greatest rock and roll band of all time.
The original Fab Four spent the entire 1960's making Rock n Roll music.
And in one turbulent decade, evolved from cute rebellious British mop-tops, thru a psychedelic Sgt. Pepper era, leading to a counter culture revolution defining an entire generation.
Leaving future generations' one simple message!
"Peace and love," says the musician playing Paul. "Or love and peace, I don't know."


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ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria has one more confirmed Ebola case, a nurse who was treating the Liberian-American who flew into the country with the disease and died of it last month, the health minister announced Monday.
The nurse tested positive for the Ebola virus over the weekend, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told reporters in Abuja, the capital. That brings the total number of confirmed Ebola cases in Nigeria to 10, including two who have already died, the Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer and another nurse. The other eight cases are being treated in isolation in Lagos. All nine Nigerians were infected through direct contact with Sawyer, said Chukwu.
Nigerian health officials are working to prevent Ebola from spreading beyond those who had contact with Sawyer. Nigerian authorities have 177 primary and secondary contacts of Sawyer under surveillance, said Chukwu.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – After a strong start to the season with a win at Springfield, the gymnastics team will host reigning Ivy Classic champions Penn at home on Saturday. The competition will mark Yale's first meeting of the season with an Ivy opponent, as well as the first home meet for the Bulldogs.
Yale is already off to a strong start, having scored 189.475 in the first meet of the season despite various team members dealing with injury and illness. Yale's roster of 13 is small in comparison to Penn's 23, but the Bulldogs have seen strong performances from freshmen, including Joyce Li and Morgan Traina, who grabbed the top two all-around spots last weekend.
Saturday will mark Penn's third meet of the season, and the second against an Ivy opponent. The Quakers beat Rutgers last weekend 191.975-191.925 and placed third at the Lindsey Ferris Invitational two weekends ago, beating out Ivy rival Cornell with a team total of 189.025.
Last year, Yale fell to Penn at a dual meet hosted by the Quakers, 187.2-181.0. Penn also bested Yale at the Ivy Classic, which the Quakers hosted and won, and at the ECAC Championships, in which Penn was the runner-up with a 191.175 and Yale finished seventh.
Competition is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. in Yale's John J. Lee Amphitheater.
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Really now. Considering the history these two have, you didn't think there was any way Flash was going to lose to
Captain Marvel Shazam in the latest hype video from Injustice: Gods Among Us, did you?
Let's recap. Captain Marvel began life as "Captain Thunder" in Flash Comics, an ashcan edition published by Fawcett more than 70 years ago, and meant to secure advertisers and copyrights to the character name and title. It failed at the latter two. Thus "Captain Marvel" debuted in late 1939 in Whiz Comics No. 2, with The Flash (Jay Garrick) hitting newsstands in Flash Comics a month earlier.
So, these two have been blood enemies since birth.
So maybe that's why you see the Big Red Cheese getting (in order): hit by a Dumpster; hit by the gas tank from a big rig; kicked into a helicopter; hit by an around-the-world (and we mean around-the-world) punch at supersonic speed; smashed by a wrecking ball and then the Gotham 315 local. The worst Flash gets is a movie theater marquee to the kisser.
In the undercard of two bouts the Injustice gang staged yesterday, The Joker brings a knife and a squirt-flower to an armored battle-suit fight and somehow beats Lex Luthor by stabbing him in the balls.
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USPS employee pleads guilty to lying about on-the-job injury.
A U.S. Postal Service employee has pleaded guilty to committing workers' compensation fraud after an appearance on The Price is Right demonstrated inconsistencies with her alleged work-related injuries, according to court documents.
Cathy Wrench Cashwell indicated in her paperwork in 2011 that she was not capable of "standing, sitting, walking, kneeling, squatting, climbing, bending, reaching, grasping and driving," documents show. Cashwell claimed the injuries, which occurred on the job in 2004, prevented her from lifting mail trays into her truck, as first reported by local North Carolina television station WRAL.
In 2009, however, she twice spun the "big wheel" on the classic game show. Federal investigators said Cashwell "raised both arms above her head and gripped the same handle with both hands."
The investigators also found Cashwell and her husband went zip lining while on a Carnival Cruise in August 2010, and she later posted pictures of the activity on her Facebook page. One year later, she knowingly lied on her worker's compensation forms, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberly Moore wrote in the indictment.
Cashwell began receiving worker's compensation in May, 2005. The postal carrier pleaded guilty to fraud in Monday in an agreement with federal prosecutors.
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Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre has confirmed the club have money to spend in the January transfer window.
Despite being linked with the likes of Darren Bent, The Reds are yet to confirm any additions to their top four chasing squad.
Kenny Dalglish spent in excess of £50 million last winter on striking pair Luis Suarez and Andy Carroll, and brought in seven new faces during the summer, and Ayre says the club aren't scared to add further.
"Money is not an issue," Ayre told Sky Sports News.
"If we need somebody and there's a player I think our owners have shown the level of commitment you would expect from a good ownership group that the manager will get supported whatever he needs.
"But that's not the same as saying we will just go spend money because we have got it or just because we can.
"It is about the long-term plan of where they want the squad and where they want the team to be, that's not about any particular transfer window it's about continuing to improve.
"If an opportunity presents itself I am sure we will look at it, but right now it's about keeping going and improving and getting the best out of what we have got.
"We have got some great players in a great squad of players and they are focused on pushing that forward."
With the club seventh in the Premier League, six points off fourth place Chelsea, who currently occupy the final Champions League qualifying spot, reinforcements would assist the club's fight for the top four.
However, with Dirk Kuyt without a Premier League goal this season, and Andy Carroll showing few signs of improving his form, Liverpool fans have demanded the club make an addition to their forward line.
Having now reached the Carling Cup final, Dalglish's know they're just one game away not only from ending their six-year trophy drought but also confirm a place in next season's Europa League, which their sixth place finish failed to yield last term.


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Reasons for Perry not to pull the trigger — just yet
AUSTIN — A presidential announcement by Gov. Rick Perry looks a lot more like "when" than "if" as every day goes by, but there's more than one good reason for him to hold off on making a race official.
As Perry touts support from around the country and meets with people skilled in raising big money within federal contribution constraints, chief consultant Dave Carney said last week that his team is still gathering the information Perry will need to make a final decision.
Some candidates spend years building the networks that Perry would need to raise money and reach voters in key states. Perry said this wasn't on his radar a couple of months ago.
A presidential race with a late start would be complicated by the need to campaign in early-voting states while mining donations in other states generous to Republicans.
And while Perry's team sees a lot of enthusiasm, you can't escape human nature. Carney calls it the "80 percent rule": 80 percent of people will do 80 percent of what they say they will do.
A presidential race is a "massive undertaking" that must be decided upon intelligently, Carney said. He doesn't want Perry to be embarrassed if he runs or have regrets if he doesn't. Carney sees two worst-case scenarios.
"There's nothing worse than running a disastrous campaign and tarnishing your reputation," he said. Except maybe: "There's nothing worse than wishing you had done it."
As long as he's unannounced, Perry's in a good place. He's talked up by the national media, courted by party enthusiasts and most often left alone by announced candidates who don't want to give a challenger either heft or reason to run. While there's been some criticism and analysis, he's getting all of the spotlight's glow and little of the burn.
If Perry announces, that goes out the window. His Texas record and background will be freshly dissected, his campaign style put to the test and his every stumble documented in detail.
"Any time people are telling you that you're the salvation of the country ... it's the high water mark," said lobbyist and consultant Bill Miller, noting that campaigns "are imperfect at best."
"Before you get in, it's a perfect moment," Miller said. "Enjoy it, because it's fleeting."
Carney said part of Perry's consideration is the scrutiny that will be on not only him but his family, friends, anyone who's worked with him and on Texas itself. "It's not pretty to watch people denigrate the state when you've served it as he has," Carney said.
Satirists have found the religious overtones of Perry's pronouncements irresistible after the governor expounded on his remarks that he's been "called" and as his prayer rally looms Aug. 6. Stephen Colbert lofted a Perry-God ticket, suggesting that Perry would get the top spot: "I'm thinking Yahweh for vice president." And The Onion reported that God had urged Perry not to run, finding the governor "grossly unqualified for the position."
Perry's press office now has a bigger buffer zone now. A new door encloses a short hall outside the office, allowing people to exit through a nearby reception room without venturing into public view. Press secretary Katherine Cesinger said, "There were some incidents in the past that have raised some concerns about security issues. For instance, us being blockaded in here." She said a protest by people with disabilities over budget cuts was "one example" and that the staff needs "ease of access to be able to do our jobs." Cesinger said the new door will be open to media but will allow for "that additional security measure if needed in the future."


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Social Investment Package: taking stock of achievements one year on
A series of steps have been taken by the European Commission and EU Member States in the 12 months following the Commission's adoption of a comprehensive strategy for structural reforms in social policy to help Member States better protect and invest in people: the Social Investment Package (SIP).
The Social Investment Package gives guidance to Member States on adopting more efficient and effective social policies in response to the significant challenges they currently face. These include high levels of financial distress, growing inequality, increasing poverty and social exclusion, and record unemployment, especially among young people. These are combined with the challenge of ageing societies and smaller working age populations, which test the sustainability and adequacy of national social systems.
The SIP has offered Member States extensive guidance on investing in children, active inclusion, health and long term care, homelessness and social policy innovation.
Achievements in the past year
The Commission has worked together with Member States on a methodology to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of social policies. The concept is introduced in detail in the report on Employment and Social Developments in Europe 2013, published on 21 January 2014. The methodology can spot key social challenges in the European Semester, the EU's yearly cycle for coordinating economic, employment and social policies.
The Commission has also started work on so-called "reference budgets", that help Member States to design efficient and adequate minimum income support. It has also delivered on its commitment to propose new rules to make bank accounts cheaper, more transparent and accessible to all.
To step up investment in children, the Commission has created a European Platform for Investing in Children which collects and disseminates evidence-based innovative good practices in such areas as early childhood education and care or parenting support. It is also organising capacity-building seminars in particular in Member States which have received Country Specific Recommendations on fighting child poverty.
New rules setting out an EU Social Entrepreneurship Fund were adopted, and the Commission organised a high-level conference to disseminate good practise in supporting social entrepreneurship.
Additionally, from 2014 onwards, the Employment and Innovation (EaSI) programme brings together three EU programmes managed separately between 2007 and 2013: PROGRESS, EURES and Progress Microfinance. Its objectives are amongst others to support development of adequate social protection systems, and increase access to financial means to social entrepreneurs.
The new programming period of the European Social Fund has allocated at least 20% in each Member State to be used for social inclusion and this will help to support social investment in line with the priorities set through Country Specific Recommendations. Furthermore, the European Fund for Aid to the Most Deprived will, in the same time period, provide material assistance in the form of food or basic consumer goods or social inclusion measures to the most deprived and children.
Building upon the European Year 2012 on active ageing, the Commission has also published the Guiding principles for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations and the Active Ageing index.
The Commission is also working in partnership with stakeholders, policy-makers and the civil society in the framework of the European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion. The 3rd Annual Convention of the Platform debated how the Social Investment Package is implemented at country level and fostered shared ownership and commitment for action. In addition, the Commission signed 14 partnership agreements with organisations active in the field of social inclusion. Furthermore, the European Code of Conduct on Partnership allows national Stakeholders to be better involved in forthcoming programmes co-funded by the EU funds which address social investment issues.
All measures undertaken and planned are published in a roadmap available on the Commission website.
Member State response
In line with the SIP, Member States have already taken steps to modernise their welfare systems by adopting integrated strategies to fight poverty and social exclusion and structural reforms. Some Member States have adopted a social investment approach by refocusing spending on children in a targeted and efficient way in order to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty.
For example, on 10 June 2013 Belgium presented a national child poverty action plan which explicitly refers to the Commission Recommendation 'Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage' and contains 140 concrete actions aimed at improving access to adequate resources and affordable quality services. Germany, France, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and the UK also took initiatives to extend child enrolment in early childhood education and care as part of their strategies to improve opportunities for children.
Many Member States also took measures for reducing poverty and supporting inclusion in the labour market, such as:
- Belgium, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Spain and Poland focussed on an active inclusion approach and adopted national strategies which combine initiatives on income support, access to services and active labour market measures.
- Cyprus, Ireland, Croatia, Poland and Sweden increased resources allocated to active labour market policy measures for 2013
- Bulgaria, Hungary; The Netherlands and Portugal adopted measures to improve the labour market situation of unemployed and disadvantaged people.
- Hungary, Estonia, Belgium, the UK and Spain took steps towards administrative simplification.
- Spain, The Netherlands, UK, Hungary, Slovakia, Latvia adopted measures to tackle homelessness and improve access to housing.


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Hey there, I have emailed basenotes about this issue and have not yet received a response. I am making a case that I should be allowed into this section of the forum because I am a fragrance reviewer on youtube. Whenever I do a swap or anything, I post a public video about it. I put myself out there and I am an active member of the fragrance community online. Is there anyone I could talk to or to help me with this issue. I would like to become more active on this forum and basenote community, but since no one ever answers my emails, I got discouraged. I just believe people who do reviews on youtube should be allowed in because they are showing their faces, their collections, etc. they are putting themselves out there more than most others.
The Marketplace is really a 'Thank You' for the people that support the forum, either by regularly posting; sticking around for a while or becoming a Supporting member. While I'm sure you are an active and admirable member of the fragrance community, where does one draw the line.
However, we will soon have a way to announce your swaps etc via the wardrobes, which anyone will be able to do.