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I liked seeing Chase and Cord and their support of Clay and Georgie. I also enjoyed seeing their wives and the way that they embraced Georgie, especially during her problems. I'd like to know what is going on with their brother Cash, and can't wait to see him fall. I also loved Clay's Tate cousins and their parts in Clay's life. I hope to see them get stories of their own when the Barrons are done with.


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2 Timothy 3:16-17 | Shaun LePage | April 13, 2008
We Value Applicational Bible Teaching
2 Timothy 3:16-17 | Shaun LePage | April 13, 2008
I. Introduction
A. Spring Vision Weekend: Applicational Bible Teaching—Core Values History (Read CVs); this morning/next few months—Applicational Bible Teaching
B. WTTB yesterday; not here? Enjoy an overview of OT. Were here? Stand up (review)!
C. So inspired yesterday I rewrote my entire sermon after the seminar.
D. Everyone stand: Memorize 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (WTTB style): "All Scripture" open up imaginary Bible "is inspired by God" say inspired very breathy on imaginary Bible "and is profitable" take away right hand, leave left hand ready to receive the profits "for teaching" right index finger pointed at temple to represent knowledge then slap it into profit-receiving hand "for reproof" shake finger—little crude but communicates—then slap into profit-receiving hand "for correction" right hand simulates driving straight down a road then slaps profit-receiving hand "for training in righteousness" right muscle flexed then slap profit-receiving hand "so that the man of God" point left finger at self—man is generic mankind "may be adequate" raise left hand up above head to indicate growing "equipped for every good work" right hand picks up imaginary tool box.
II. Body—Let's take a closer look at 2 Timothy 3:16-17
*A. (16a) The Origin of the Scriptures.
*1. "All"—not insignificant; if "some/most" Scripture would be useless—we wouldn't know what was profitable; sections with pages stuck together are worth your time—why? "All" Scripture is profitable;
*2. "Scripture" usually meant OT; How do we know the 27 books of NT are "Scripture" too? Soon I'll preach: How did we get the Bible? & Can We Trust the Bible?
3. "is inspired by God" lit., "qeo (God) pneustoV (breathed)"; "inspired" is actually not a great word—means "in-breathe"; but our doctrine of the "inspiration" of Scripture comes from such passages;
a) Inspiration: God "moved" human authors so that, using their own individual personalities, they recorded His revelation in the words of the original writings. The words, not just the concepts are inspired (verbal) and all the words, not just some of them are inspired (plenary).
b) Inerrant: God "moved" human authors to record His revelation without error in the original writings". based on both teachings of Christ as well as logical reasoning. Mt 5:18 "smallest letter and stroke" will be fulfilled; Jn 10:35 "the Scripture cannot be broken." Logically, if God "breathed" it and "cannot lie" (Titus 1:2, etc.) then logical to assume He also worked through writing, translation and preservation process so that the Scriptures are without error. Don't believe English translations are inerrant, but trustworthy and reliable (more on this later).
B. (16b) The Value of the Scriptures.
1. "and profitable"; idea of "useful" (NIV); Why? Because it's "God-breathed"! Why CV says "timeless and timely… relevant to the common needs of all people at all times and to the specific problems of today's world"; If God "breathed" it it is timeless/timely/ relevant/infinitely valuable. How so? could talk endlessly, but stick to 4 ways given;
2. "for teaching" διδασκαλία (teaching/doctrine) what is right—simply put: the Bible teaches us what is right/true; we are to rightly understand it then apply it to our lives;
3. "for reproof" ἐλεγμός (rebuke); what is not right; The Bible is useful for refuting error; without it we are hopelessly lost in sea of relativity—no opinion is better than another; but since we have the "God-breathed" Scriptures, we can know truth and error; our responsibility is to agree with God and turn from what is false; great reason to consume it—faced with temptation, you recognize error/lies of enemy
4. "for correction" ἐπανόρθωσις (reformation; helping someone back to feet); not only told what is right/not right but also how to get right—how to be reformed/make our lives straight; our responsibility is not only to turn from error, but to confess sin and get on the correct path—and use Scriptures to help others; 2 Tim 2:24-26
5. "for training in righteousness"; also told how to stay right; παιδεία (child-training; patient nurture and instruction) in ; Closely connected to process of maturing; δικαιοσύνη is right thinking/feeling and acting; integrity/purity
6. Big picture: "teaching" is gaining necessary knowledge; next 3 about life change—one of the primary purposes of the Scriptures; CV: "Therefore, we are committed to equipping Christians, through the accurate teaching and application of God's Word…"
C. (17) The Purpose of the Scriptures
1. "so that the man of God may be adequate"; general/not just males; "adequate" is not at all mediocre, ἄρτιος ("complete" NKJV) idea of fulfilling one's purpose; what is right/proper; there's a purpose in all this introspection! James 1:22-25
2. "equipped for every good work"; Eph 4:11-16—Church not just a classroom but an equipping command post! CV: "Therefore, we are committed to equipping Christians, through the accurate teaching and application of God's Word to follow Christ and become more like Him in every aspect of life.
3. One of the great proofs that this book is "God-breathed" is that it changes lives! Don't let people get away with the lie that people who believe the Bible are delusional and dangerous! Illus: Dennis Prager debating atheist Jonathan Glover, "…would it or would it not make a difference to you to know they were coming from a Bible study?"
III. Closing: Challenges:
A. Connect with God by developing a Bible-reading plan—entire Bible this year? Some type of Bible-reading plan (Bible Reading Guides all over internet) Remember "Teach-Test" Principle (What's God teaching you? Are you translating that to life change?); Illus: Dr. Congdon asked Dr. R.A. Torrey "Please tell me how to study (the Bible) so that it will mean something to me." "Read it." said Dr. Torrey. "I do read it." "Read it some more." "How?" "Take some book and read it twelve times a day for a month." "What book could I read that many times a day, working as many hours as I do?" "Try 2nd Peter." The man later said, "My wife and I read 2nd Peter three or four times in the morning, two or three times at noon, and two or three times at dinner. Soon I was talking 2nd Peter to everyone I met. It seemed as though the stars in the heavens were singing the story of 2nd Peter."
B. Grow in your faith by consuming CBC's Applicational Bible Teaching. CGs studying First Principles—study leading to wisdom and life change; Next several months (after GC): Can We Trust the Bible? Then, The Big Picture of the Bible—opportunity to grow
C. Serve the Biblically illiterate by inviting them to read/study/come with you. Here's a great way to help skeptic/unbeliever/confused friend to connect with God—invite them just to read the Bible (or Gospel of John) then get together to discuss; also next several months a great time to serve unbelievers/skeptics/confused by inviting them to CBC (or listen to podcast); Illus: The Bible in 90 Days Introduction
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Saturday, May 3, 2008
Spring Cleaning, House and Head
Serious cleaning is difficult for me. Not because I hate cleaning - which I do, but I hate living like a pig even more so it works out. Clutter is one thing, grime another. Anyway... difficult. right. Why? Because I'm AD freaking D. I started by doing dishes and as I started to wipe down the counter, I realized a drip of coffee had run down the front of the dishwasher. And as I cleaned that up, the floor attracted my attention. While I hunted for the lemon cleanser, the dining room table caught my eye....
it always works this eay. I end up trying to clean three rooms at the same time and at one point? I found myself ironing a tablecloth while remembering that there was a laundry mangle in the Williams Sonoma catalog that could zip this baby through in about a minute and...
Whoa. What the ripe hell... what is WRONG with me? Its a KITCHEN TABLECLOTH. Nobody cares. NOBODY CARES.
And lets face it, Williams Sonoma is very very very bad for me. Its shiny, glossy, heavyweight pages of expensive crack. Even if its really well-made crack. I need this catalog like a hole in the head. I've managed to wean myself from all other catalogs but not this one.... when I see a "new" one (they just shift the stuff around and put a new cover on and throw in a few seasonal items but really... its the same stuff every month) in the mailbox each month, I practically salivate. I am a kitchen-crap marketer's dream, I really am.
Is there a 12 step program for Donna Reed poseurs? I might need an intervention sometime soon. Or at least an extended session with power tools. Yeah. That's it, somebody hand me the nail gun, I need to FIX stuff instead of y'know, go to that Stepford place in my head.
Also? Forgot to mention that I got the best Secretary's Day (you can call me an Administrative Professional all you want. I is what I is.) gift EVAH. They gave me a gift certificate.
to GAMESTOP.
Bwah-hahahahahahahahaha!!!!! Awesome. I was most pleased.
Last, Short Stuff is at times too smart for his mommy. He was happily playing with his toy kitchen, and he fell silent for about 30 seconds. Not unusal when he's concentrating on something and then he dashed across the room, so everything was business as usual.
Except he's standing on tiptoes, trying to reach across the gate to the chair where his overnight bag is sitting. Huh? I walk over and realize he has stripped himself naked from the waist down. And he succeeds in snagging the bag and pulls out a diaper. And I look for the other diaper, the one he'd been wearing. It is crammed into the toy trashcan of his toy kitchen and it is freshly wet.
Oh boy! He's using the toilet if he has to go when we put him on it, but he has yet to fully grasp what the feeling of needing to go is and giving us warning. So he peed, and was apparently planning on changing his diaper by himself.
10 comments:
- Heather J. said...
When you find that 12 step program, let me know. I NEED it, desperately.
I once ironed my sheets.
WTF was I thinking....sheets?
- May 4, 2008 at 10:59 AM
- a Tonggu Momma said...
I am cracking up at your post today. Before the Tongginator, while in serious adoption wait mode with NO job, I ironed my husband's undershirts. WHAT was I thinking? Except that I wasn't. I should have started a hobby instead.
- May 4, 2008 at 7:11 PM
- Lone Grey Squirrel said...
Maybe you could come over to my house and work off those house cleaning tendencies? Congrats with Short Stuff. Surely his daiper changing habit is a good one.
- May 4, 2008 at 9:30 PM
- queenrandom said...
A self-changing baby? Brilliant! How can I get one in that model?
- May 4, 2008 at 10:22 PM
- Suzie said...
That totally sounds like a toilet triaing que to me. At least he puts his diapers away and does not feed it to the dog or his sybling.
- May 5, 2008 at 8:29 AM
- We are THAT Family said...
I laughed out loud at this. I hate ironing so much, I use the wrinkle free spray on EVERYTHING! But tablecloths? Yes, that is very bad.
- May 5, 2008 at 9:43 AM
- JoeinVegas said...
Change his own diaper - you are training him well.
- May 5, 2008 at 10:50 AM
- MadWomanMeg said...
William Sonoma? Wassat?
Good for him for trying to change his own diaper. Do his future wife a favour and make sure he knows how to pick up his own socks.
- May 5, 2008 at 12:05 PM
- my4kids said...
I am so ADD it's terrible. I can't get things done because the next thing I notice usually has me out the door somewhere. It just goes on and on and on...
Love that he put his diaper in the toy garbage can, at least he has the idea instead of hiding somewhere else like the toy oven or something.
- May 9, 2008 at 4:07 AM
- Reluctant Housewife said...
He's changing his own diapers? I'm impressed.
- May 13, 2008 at 8:44 AM


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There are several pictures on the wall of my home study. I guess in some ways they are there for inspiration for when I work the late hours, but they are all heroes. Some are fictional from Marvel and DC comics, some more personal, but the one that takes pride of place is a real life hero, Muhammad Ali.
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Star Trek: Beyond Review
I am an old-time star Trek fan. My childhood was filled with re-runs of the original series (Kirk, Spock, Bones and the ever-expendableEnsign Ricky Redshirt), and I grew up "Star Trek: The Next Generation". So I decided to pay out good money to see "Star Trek Beyond" (shouldn't there be a semi-colon in there somewhere?) in the theater.
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Description: • Asset no:44100001331002
• Please note: Engine reconditioned 1 Unit to be sold as a lot
• Please note: Engine reconditioned 1 Unit to be sold as a lot
Quantity: Lot of 1
Serial number: 7814594
Location: Dwarsrivier Mine, Steelpoort, Limpopo, South Afric
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Hello my bento pals,
I hope you are all having a great weekend.
We went to Anacortes today and stopped by the farmers market on the way home, I got some rainbow carrots, cauliflower, sweet corn, blue berries and so on and so on, what FUN!
For tomorrow's bento I prepared some leftovers roasted chicken, some sauted potatoes and sweet peppers, sweet corn, rainbow carrots (too bad the color isn't showing :( ...) but they are orange, yellow and purple.
I realized everything was too pale in colors so I put some Italian parsley. Was thinking on steaming some broccoli but I do not want to waste, so it is what it is :P
I also made a star, moon, space ship and some other galaxy stuff from cheese, I hope it won't be melted by lunch time :D
There are also some blue berries packed separately, and some yoghurt for snack time.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
(# 232) Roasted Chicken, galaxy bento
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Unarmed Alabama student shot dead by campus cop 'had taken LSD' as officer who killed him is pictured for the first time
- Gil Collar shot once in the chest on Saturday at University of South Alabama
- Authorities: 'He had taken LSD at music festival and stripped off his clothes'
- He 'assaulted two people in their vehicles and tried to bite a woman'
- Footage shows 'he knocked on campus police HQ and chased after officer'
- Officer, named as Trevis Austin, did not have his baton or pepper spray
- Sheriff: 'Even if he did have these, he might have had to shoot him anyway'
The unarmed college student fatally shot by a campus police officer in the early hours of Saturday morning had taken LSD and assaulted three people before chasing him, authorities have revealed.
Gil Collar, 18, took the drug at an outdoor music festival before assaulting two people in vehicles and trying to bite a woman's arm, Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran said at a news conference on Tuesday.
The University of South Alabama freshman then went to the campus police headquarters, where he was shot by the officer, who has been identified as 27-year-old Trevis Austin.
Austin, who has been an officer for four years, is on leave while investigators look into the death.
Gunned down: College freshman Gil Collar (left) was shot dead by a campus police officer, identified as Trevis Austin (right), after taking LSD and acting erratically, authorities have revealed
He had come outside the police headquarters when he heard Collar, a 5-foot-7, 135-pound former high school
wrestler, banging on its door, Cochran said.
Surveillance footage showed Collar naked and covered in sweat as he chased the officer for more than 50 feet, Fox News reported.
When the student got within five feet of the officer, Austin, who was not armed with pepper spray or a baton, as is required of campus officers, shot once and struck him in the chest.
'Had the officer had a Taser or some other less lethal instrument I don't know if that officer would have had an opportunity to shoulder his pistol and to use something else because the events were evolving so rapidly and he was approaching so close,' Cochran said.
He added that he had been extremely concerned when first hearing about the shooting, but understood why the officer had chosen to open fire after watching the video.
The authorities will not be releasing the footage publicly, he added.
Loss: Gilbert with his mother Bonnie, who said footage of the killing showed he had not touched the officer
Loss: Friends and family, including Collar's mother, right, said that the police officer should have been better equipped to deal with the intoxicated teenager. He was not carrying his baton or pepper spray
Investigators are now looking into who gave Collar the LSD and could charged them with murder. Cochran revealed that people at the concert with the teenager had told them about his drug use.
LSD, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug also known as acid. It is usually added to absorbent paper, such as blotter paper, divided into small squares and taken orally.
The effects of LSD are unpredictable and depend on the amount taken, the user's personality and mood, and the surroundings in which the drug is used.
It can cause anxiety, panic, paranoia, psychotic behavior and an inability to recognize danger. If taken in a large enough dose, the drug produces delusions and visual hallucinations.
Physical effects include dilated pupils, higher body temperature, increased heart rate and blood pressure, sweating, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, dry mouth, and tremors.
The effects of LSD last for hours, typically clearly after 12 hours.
LSD, which is also known as acid, can cause anxiety, paranoia, psychotic behavior and an inability to recognise danger, effects which typically last for around 12 hours.
The revelations come after Collar's mother, Bonnie Smith Collar, said the surveillance video shows that her son never came into physical contact with the officer.
Acquaintances had said that Collar appeared to be intoxicated as he took his clothes off, ran through the streets, screamed obscenities and claimed he was on a 'spiritual quest' before he was killed.
'Whatever caused the incident was something that made him act not in his normal personality,' she said.
Mrs Collar said she had no idea why her son would be acting erratically as described and that the slight yet strong boy had never posed a threat before.
'The first thing on my mind is, freshman kids do stupid things,' she said. 'Campus police should be equipped to handle activity like that without having to use lethal force.'
An attorney for the family, former Alabama Lt. Gov. Jere Beasley, said his firm's review of the shooting would include whether the officer followed department rules and regulations.
Probe: Austin, an officer for four years, has been placed on leave while an investigation continues
The case has been handed over to Mobile County authorities and could take weeks to resolve. Meanwhile, friends and relatives are trying to figure out what could have happened to the quiet kid who showed so much promise.
Collar grew up in the rural outskirts of Wetumpka, about 20 miles north of Montgomery. Brandon Ross, a sophomore at Jacksonville State University, said Collar moved to the neighborhood as an eight-year-old.
'I was the first person he met on the bus, and we've been friends ever since,' he said. 'He was the kid everybody liked.'
'It's completely opposite of the way he was,' said South Alabama student Chandler Wescovich of Long Beach, Miss., who became friends with Collar during his short time on campus.
Others agreed the actions were out of character for the normally quiet and reserved Collar, whom friends described as a popular and good-looking high school wrestler.
Family: Collar is pictured with his older sister Doris Elisabeth Collar in this undated family photo
Grown Up: Collar's family is struggling to understand the events that lead to his death. He is pictured with his older sister in an undated family photo
Collar wasn't known as a troublemaker and had only two minor scrapes with the law, according to court records: a speeding ticket and a citation for being a minor in possession of three cigarettes in March. He paid a $25 fine for the tobacco possession.
He was also so good-looking that his teammates didn't like standing next to him in team photos.
'The girls thought he was the best thing they had ever seen, and they may have been right,' Glass said.
A candlelight vigil is planned for 6 p.m. Tuesday at Wetumpka High School. Collar's mother said funeral arrangements have not yet been made yet.
On the Facebook page for the Vanguard, the school's student newspaper, Collar's friends and classmates expressed confusion that the officer felt the need to use deadly force on the young man.
Scene: The University of South Alabama campus, where Gilbert Thomas Collar was shot dead
went to my high school' wrote Melissa Mims, who said she was a good
friend of Collar's sister Elisabeth and the rest of his family.
'Gil was the kind of guy who could put a smile on anyone's face, he never had any enemies and a lot of students and younger kids looked up to him. He really was a great guy and had very many friends.'
Friend Lucas Self described Collar as an easy going person, small enough deadly force should not have been required.
'Gil made a mistake but it is still an officers duty to resolve a situation as peacefully as he can' Self wrote. 'I think this situation was handled wrong by the officer but they aren't going to let any one believe that.'
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Race and Perceptions of Police (with Kevin Mullinix)
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Behavioral Ethics and Wrongful Convictions (with Catherine Bonventre)
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