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I am grateful for the kind remembrance that this Sunday celebrates 39 years of being at Grace Church. I am often asked, "How has my ministry changed through these years?" There have been many changes in our society. Since I came here in my late twenties in 1969, there have been many changes in the world.
There have been many changes in the culture. Forms of entertainment have changed. Technology has changed. Society has changed. Morality has changed. Education has changed. Philosophy has changed. Everything has changed. The church has changed. The denominations have changed. The interpretation of Scripture has changed. Styles of ministry have changed dramatically.
And...I have not changed. I have not changed. I have been doing the same thing...(Applause)...well, thank you. I didn't say that for you to applaud but I'm grateful. But I have not changed. And one would assume if one listened to those who are the gurus of ministry and church life and growth that not to change is to die. There have been books written that have warned the church...if you do not adapt to the contemporary culture and the way people think and act and respond, and what they expect and what they want, the church will die.
Well, this has proven to be a bogus prophecy. I have changed nothing. When I first came here in February of 1969, I stood behind a pulpit similar to this in the chapel over there and I opened the Bible and explained what it means. And I've done that all these 39 years.I hear a lot today about the necessity to contextualize the message. If I had any sense, I would be wearing a black t-shirt with a skull and crossbones on it and I would have holes in my jeans and there would be no pulpit here. And I would be wandering from pillar to post up here, we would turn the lights down and change this environment because people need contextualization if they're going to respond. I haven't found that necessary, nor am I at all convinced that contextualization means anything or has any value in the church.
I'm particularly uninterested in the society's forms of entertainment. I am widely illiterate about contemporary social literature. I am indifferent to the films and the television programs of our culture. They have no bearing on what I say. I will confess to you tonight that I am largely indifferent to the politics of our day. I understand that we are drowning in a sea of political exposure. For the most part, it has absolutely nothing to do with what I do, what the church does, what the church is, or the advancement of the Kingdom of God.
Now why am I stuck in 1969? Why does nothing change? The answer is, because I function under a divine mandate, not under a cultural one. The culture has never and will never dictate to the faithful preacher what he is to do, or what he is to say. It is irrelevant. We do not operate under a cultural mandate. I'm not ready to change the way I preach and become a story-telling, narrative preacher because we live in a culture where stories and narrative are more acceptable to people, because I have a biblical mandate, a divine mandate. And it all boils down, all summarized in a very straightforward command given in 2 Timothy 4:2. So, open your Bible to 2 Timothy chapter 4 and verse 2.
If you've been here any time, you know this very well because I have referred to it on a number of occasions. Second Timothy 4:2, "Preach the Word....Preach the Word." That defines biblical ministry in one simple command. According to 1 Timothy 3, we are as pastors to have one skill. In 1 Timothy 3, the list of qualifications for those who pastor and those who preach and those who lead the church are given. Only one of them has anything to do with function. They have to do with character. One has to do with function. Pastors are to be didaktikos. That means skilled teachers, skilled preachers. That is our only skill. That is the dominant skill because ministry is about disseminating divine truth. And there's only one source for that and that's the Scripture. And so we are commanded, as was Timothy, to preach the Word.
The time for this is given. "Be ready in season and out of season." What does that mean? Well I perhaps could imagine that Paul had something specific in mind, but since it's not clear what he may have had in mind specifically, generally speaking it's pretty obvious. Whatever he meant by in season and out of season, those are the only two options. You are either in it or out of it, which is another way of saying, "Preach the Word all the time." Whatever the season is, you're either in it or out of it, which means at all times preach the Word. So the time to do this is all the time.
He not only gives the time, but the tone. "Reprove, rebuke, exhort." Reprove, rebuke? That has a tone of authority. That is even negative. It implies that you are preaching the Word of God in such a way as to expose people to their own failures, their own sins, their own disobedience, and the inevitable judgment that falls upon sinners. Reproof and rebuke assume an inviolable truth, a demand, a command which must be obeyed or there are consequences. Positively we exhort with great patience and instruction.
The time to preach? All the time. The tone of preaching? Both negative and positive. Both with reproof for disobedience and with great patience in the event that people are endeavoring to obey. This is what we do. It doesn't matter when. It doesn't matter where, in any age, in any time, in any environment, this is what we're called to do.
Even in the area of evangelism, Paul in Romans 10 says, "How will they hear without a preacher?" God's ordained delivery method is preaching. It was Martin Luther who said, "The highest worship of God is the preaching of the Scripture." The highest worship of God is the preaching of the Scripture.
And last week we talked about Titus 2:15, if you just go to the right one page or so, you'll come to Titus 2 and you'll remember that this was our subject last time. Verse 1, "As for you, speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine." Here is instruction to another young preacher, the first was Timothy, this is Titus. He is told to speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine.
And then in verse 15, "These things regarding sound doctrine, speak and exhort and reprove." There again is that authoritative note, you bind people to these things as being the authoritative Word of God "You speak, you exhort, you reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you."
The preacher is not offering options, not giving suggestions, but proclaiming the Word of God with authority. Our mandate doesn't come from the culture, it comes from God Himself. In one sense it is irrelevant how people in our society entertain themselves, dress themselves. Their felt needs, their personal preferences are irrelevant. They need to hear the Word of the living God in any culture, in any time, in any place. And the only way you can do that is to explain to people what the Bible means by what it says.
This is bound upon every minister from the New Testament, the binding of the conscience of Timothy and Titus to this responsibility, it extends to all who preach and all who lead the church...preach the Word...preach the Word...preach the Word.
Now I'm not trying to be self-serving, but I would be the first one to stand up and say, "This church has not died. This church is not irrelevant." Sunday night after Sunday night after Sunday night you hear these testimonies of people in baptism upon whom the Word of God has come with transforming power.
Now, surrounding this verse are the reasons why we preach the Word. Preach the Word at all times in all places. Preach it with authority so that people are warned as well as exhorted. And there are five reasons why...five compelling reasons why. And I want you to look at these reasons with me because they are so very important, more than that, they're really urgent.
The first one starts in chapter 3. Let's go back to chapter 3. This statement, this command, "Preach the Word," is surrounded by these reasons as we will see. When Paul finally gets to the command in verse 2, he's built up to that by laying the groundwork as to why this is critical. Each of the five reasons is a very, very potent motivation. And I will confess to you that these things drive me. They are very powerful motives in my own heart.
Number one motive, go back to chapter 3, let me read the opening nine verses. "But realize this that in the last days difficult times, actually dangerous seasons...dangerous seasons will come. Men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power and avoid such men as these for among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. And just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected as regards the faith, but they will not make further progress for their folly will be obvious to all as also that of those two, Jannes and Jambres came to be."
Here's reason number one. We preach the Word because of the danger of the seasons, because of the danger of the seasons. Verse 1, "Realize this," and this is for Timothy in that very first century. "In the last days," the last days began when Christ came. The last days had already begun. Christ had come and inaugurated the last days, the messianic era has already begun. That's why John writes, "My little children, it is the last time." That's why the New Testament says, "Christ appeared in the end of the age." It is the last days. We are two thousand years deeper into the last days, but they began with the arrival of Christ.
"In the last days, dangerous seasons will come, perilous times." Not clock time, not chronos... kairos, epochs, seasons. You could even translate difficult, savage...savage seasons come that threaten the church, that threaten the gospel, that threaten the truth. And they increase in severity. Go down to verse 13 for a moment. "Evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived." There is an increase of these dangerous seasons. They go from bad to worse. As time goes on, we accumulate these dangerous epochs.
They began at the very start of the life of the church. They are basically fomented, propagated, distributed by the kind of people who are described in verses 2 and following. Men who are lovers of self, which is always characteristic of false prophets. They are proud, arrogant. Men who are lovers of money, which is always true of false prophets who do what they do for filthy lucre. They are boastful, arrogant, they are revilers, they are disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God who have a form of godliness. They have a religious garb and a religious paradigm and a religious frame of reference in which they operate. But they have no true power. You avoid such men as these. These are the kind of men who, verse 6 says, enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins led on by various impulses. False teachers have always done this, false leaders have always done this. They have found their most ready reception among unprotected women, as Satan found Eve in the garden. They have endless information, always learning, verse 7, never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Verse 8, "They're like Jannes and Jambres," who oppose Moses, the two magicians in Egypt who are only named here, not there. Apparently tradition passed their names down. These are men who oppose the truth, who have useless minds, who are rejected as regards the true faith.
Paul is saying to Timothy, "Look, they're going to be sin-laden, money-hungry, self-loving, arrogant, boastful, false leaders of religion who will manifest every imaginable form of evil, who will propagate dangerous epochs, damnable epochs that the truth must face in these last days.
Now if I were to do a quick historical survey, I'm not going to drag you through every form of false religion, but I think we're pretty well aware of the fact in this culture that there was very soon in the early days of the church a fast developing Gnosticism. Gnosticism, from the Greek gnosis, the people who said they were in the know, they had the secret knowledge. They were the initiated who knew the things that the hoi-polloi know. It was out of that Gnosticism that these false gospels came, the gospel of Judas, the gospel of Thomas, the gospel of Peter, and other false documents that show up in our modern media in things like the DaVinci Code, etc., etc., etc. This is old ancient Gnosticism. It was fraught with feminism. They worshiped the goddess. It is that early Gnosticism that struck very strong blows against the church and incipient Gnosticism is even addressed by the Apostle Paul in his letters.
It did not take long for false religion to develop. And the interesting thing about this is that even ancient Gnosticism which you might say was the first epoch, the first great perilous season that came, still exists. They come and they never go away...they never go away. I suppose historically you could say, and we're looking at very broad...in very broad terms, the second great epoch was Sacramentalism...Sacramentalism. This is that period of time that really starts in the fourth century with Constantine making Christianity the religion of the entire Empire and constituting Christianity as the only two religions and persecuting the people who aren't Christians. Christianity then is not something personal, it is something institutional. It is something kingdom wide. It is something you are born into and baptized as an infant into, this institution called Christianity. This exists until the 1500s, over a thousand years you have a highly developed Sacramentalism. What is Sacramentalism? It is the kind of religion that produces only external, ceremonies, rituals, rites, symbols. The church is a surrogate Christ. You connect to the church, you don't connect to Christ.
Salvation is by automatic ritual. You are saved by a baptism, by the eating of a wafer. You are saved by observing a Mass and having infused grace put into your life. Or by Penance, or by confession, or by buying an Indulgence. This is Sacramentalism. It is one and the same as the Roman Catholic Church that dominated the western world for well over a thousand years. That era is past but Sacramentalism is still with us. Roman Catholicism is still with us. Eastern Orthodoxy, another form of it, is still with us. Greek Orthodoxy is still with us. And other forms of Sacramentalism are still with us in the deadness of Lutheranism and Episcopalian churches, and Anglican churches that are in to symbols. And I will tell you this in general, it is true, the more symbols, the less reality. The more reality, the less symbols.
We are still today dealing with Gnosticism. We are still today dealing with Sacramentalism. We preach the Word because of the danger of these epochs. They are perilous. They damn the souls of people. They derail them from discovering the true gospel and the true God and the true Christ. It was out of the Reformation that the gospel was recovered and a protest against this Sacramentalism was made, that's why we're called Protestants because we were part of the protest. But it wasn't long after the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century that there came another dangerous epoch, Rationalism. It was in great measure the Reformation that freed men up from the great monolithic Roman system that owned their souls and damned them at the same time. It was the Protestant Reformation that freed them from that. And it liberated them to discover what was capable, what man was capable of. And out of that came the Renaissance, out of that came all kinds of new discoveries of what men could do if they were out from under the tyranny of this dark and damning system. But that all gave birth to a love affair of the human mind and it led to Rationalism.
Gnosticism is first. Sacramentalism is second. Rationalism comes rushing in soon after the Reformation. And they abandon...they were so enamored with their own reason that they abandoned faith for reason. They abandoned revelation for reason. They put man above God. The key book was The Age of Reason written by Thomas Paine. The first half, the supremacy of reason; the second half, the debunking of the Bible. Rationalism...Rationalism, still a very dominating force in the philosophies and education institutions of our world. It turned religion on its head. It developed religious liberalism, neo-orthodoxy, critical theory, again assaulting and attacking in a destructive way the Bible. Of course it infested all the mainline denominations and brought them literally to their graves. And we still have it around. We still face Rationalism.
My last time to go to St. Andrew, Scotland, when I was over there about a year ago or so, I was reminded again of the great university at St. Andrews and I went there. And it's a very heart-wrenching experience to go there because the college called St. Mary's College which is a school of theology at the University of St. Andrews, and you can always identify a theological student because they wear a red cape if they're in theology. The school of theology is on one side of the street. Across the street is a pub. In order to walk to the School of Theology to the pub, you have to walk across the initials of one of the martyrs that was slaughtered for the gospel when the Catholic Church ruled England and killed those who affirmed the true faith. So students from the theological school walk across the initials of the martyr, Patrick Hamilton, to go to the bar. The building next door is the St. Salvader's(?) chapel, part of the university, and in that building is the pulpit from which John Knox preached the great Scottish Reformation. Great history.
I was told it is still true, there's not one professor in the School of Theology who believes the Bible is the Word of God. That's the legacy of Rationalism. They worship their own minds. And their reason is above the revelation of God.
In the nineteenth century, another ism came along, Orthodoxism. What happened in the nineteenth century was very, very important. Mass printing came in, I mean really mass printing. There was printing before that from the middle of the fifteenth century. But mass printing came in, in the 1800s, and the first thing that many wanted printed was the Bible. And so Bibles were printed in mass and they were distributed. They had virtually, according to historians, no effect on the churches. The churches were so loaded with liberalism, so loaded with Neo-orthodoxy in Europe that the mass printing of Bibles had no real impact.
In little places here and there, people affirmed the truth of Scripture. They began to read their Bibles, but most historians would say it produced nothing but a kind of dead, cold orthodoxy...shallow spirituality, superficiality and the church in Europe never ever really awoke to a great revival, though the Word of God was made available. A kind of orthodoxism, we have the Bible, we read the Bible, we like the Bible, it just has no effect on our lives.
In the twentieth century, a most interesting thing happened in Europe. I guess you could call this politicism. The church politicized itself. In most cases all throughout Europe, state churches existed. The state church was either the Roman Catholic Church or the Protestant Church. The church therefore was inextricably connected to the government. It was a big mistake in the beginning and now they had to live with the consequences. The church was significantly politicized.
I think the most dramatic illustration of that was Nazi Germany. Do you understand that Hitler did not dismantle the church, did not persecute the church, did not attempt to destroy the church, but simply redefined the church? First of all, rejecting the Old Testament because of its Jewish character, and secondly, extracting from the New Testament all those passages which were in any sense favorable to Jews. Hitler came up with a new kind of Christianity that fit perfectly into his agenda.
It was called The German Christian Faith Movement, and it was one and the same with Naziism.
There were other kinds of politicizings in Europe...the social gospel, reconstruction, liberation theology, that's more modern, that's more common in South America where in the name of Christianity you take guns and knock off the palace and the ruling group, or in America this preoccupation with politics which drives many churches. Very dangerous.
Post Millennialism is a form of politicizing the church which believes that we could somehow make the world a better place on our own and bring in the kingdom and give it to Christ. You notice now that these isms are coming faster because communication is getting better and movements come quicker. In the 1950s you have the development of Ecumenism. Ecumenism, the idea of unity without doctrine, sentimentality, tolerance of error, disdain of doctrine, lack of discernment, let's all embrace, let's all get together, let's have a cooperative campaign, a cooperative evangelistic effort. Let's get the Catholics and everybody together. Let's have all the common ground that we can and we're not going to make anything an issue that divides us. And so all kinds of strange alliances were formed, many of which still exist.
In the 1960s you had a new movement, Experientialism. This is the Charismatic Movement. You move from truth to feeling, from external revelation to internal intuition. You move from the Word of God to visions and prophecies. Dangerous stuff.
I look at my ministry. If you were to ask me, what am I battling when I'm preaching the truth? I could just take you through the list. Look, I'm trying to help people get out of Sacramentalism, superficial ceremonial religion that damns the soul because there's nothing real there. I'm trying to protect people from the Rationalism that calls the Bible into question and puts human reason above revelation. I'm trying to help people get out of dead, cold orthodoxism, some kind of superficial affirmation of Scripture truth that never changes your life. I'm trying to help people understand that the church is not a political organization that...it is a Kingdom that belongs only to God and is ruled only by God and has nothing to do with the kingdoms of this world. Trying to help people know that you can't make alliances that compromise the truth. Trying to protect them from Ecumenism. Trying to protect them from experiencialism which sucks people into the idea that they can intuitively determine what is true and that they ought to be looking for a feeling rather than understanding the revelation of God.
It was the 1980s when subjectivism came in. Subjectivism, everybody got enamored with psychology and everybody wanted to contemplate their navel and see how they felt. And get all their little petty problems solved. Narcissistic navel watching is the bottom line on that movement. Self-esteem, personal needs theology, personal comfort, man-centered subjectivism, these haven't gone away. We're still dealing with the Charismatic Movement and all of its excesses and they get worse and worse and worse and worse. We're still dealing with people who have been psychologized to death so that now while maybe psychology as a counseling method isn't a big deal in a church. Churches define their ministries around what they think people to satisfy their own needs. That's subjectivism.
I don't want to be unkind here, but I really don't care what you think you want. I know what you need. And what you need comes from God through His Word. And I also know that it will do its work and truly satisfy your heart and not in a superficial way.
In the 1990s we had to face a new ism, mysticism, belief in everything. Also in the 1990s, pragmatism, the appropriate means for ministry is whatever is popular, whatever works. Truth is the servant of what works. So whoever has the biggest crowd got it right...right? Wow, look at all the people that go to that place, they've 10 thousand, 11 thousand, 12 thousand. And I've been told you are a pony express horse in a computer age, you're out of touch. I've been told the key to evangelism is image, style, you can't just pound the Word of God into people's minds. Pragmatism is what reigns today, whatever works. Whatever draws the big crowd.
Also in the 1990s we got big doses of syncretism. Hey, Mormons are fine, Christians are fine, Hindus are fine, Ecumenical Jihad, we're all going the same way, we all worship the same God. Let's put our arms around each other and go together. And, of course, now we've got relativism, right? You've got your truth, I've got my truth, he's got his truth, that's the way it ought to be. Just one ism after another, after another, after another, and none of them ever leaves, right? They all stay. So if I gave you twelve, that would only be a smaller number out of the total number. And they're all still here.
I will tell you this. I have no interest in communicating to people on some simplistic, social, cultural level. I really don't...I don't think it's an issue how I dress. I don't think it would make a difference...I don't think it would make one difference in the Kingdom of God if I took off my tie. That doesn't have anything to do with anything. I don't think it has anything to do with the Kingdom of God if I wear one. But I have a certain respect for this. I don't think it has anything to do with anything.
I know that the power is in the Word of God. And you don't want to take the Word of God and simply apply it to the superficial things. You drive the Word of God not at how people play, you drive it at how they think. The Apostle Paul went on Mars Hill and confronted people at the point of their religion, not their life style, not their forms of entertainment. He confronted them at their religious point. And the only way you can do that is with the truth of the Word of God which is the true religion. If you do not preach the Word of God in a pulpit, you have no impact on any of this. You just let it flourish, you become part of the problem. We must preach the Word because of the danger of the seasons.
And understand....you say, "Well, you know, they're nice misguided people." No they're not, they are lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant revilers, they are unloving, irreconcilable, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God who have a form of godliness but no power. You better avoid people like this because they lead captive women weighed down with sins, they're always learning, never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. They're just like Jannes and Jambres who oppose Moses, they oppose the truth. And if you love the truth and the truth is precious, then you understand what you're called to do.
So they are described here, these leaders, according to their character, their immoral character. They are described in verses 5 and following according to their fraudulent ministry. And they are described in verses 6 and 7 according to their danger. They are counterfeit liars, men of corrupt minds, perverted, unfit, disqualified, rejected as regards the true faith. And the progress they appear to have in verse 9, is only apparent not real. Their folly will be obvious, eventually to everyone. We're called then to preach the Word because of the dangers of the seasons.
Let me give you a second point, and I won't finish this, but I'll introduce it. Because of the devotion of the saints...because of the devotion of the saints. There's a transition in verse 10. Paul says, "But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance, persecutions and sufferings, such has happened to me at Antioch and Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all, the Lord delivered me and indeed all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted."
What is this saying? Preach the Word, Timothy, because of the devotion of the saints. In other words, follow in the line of the faithful who went before you. Paul was a strong champion for the truth. He set the standard for ministry. Verse 10, he did his ministry duty. You followed my teaching, and conduct. Those are the two things that are critical to effective ministry that you teach and you live what you teach. This is called integrity. You followed my teaching and my conduct. You walked with me, you talked with me, you traveled with me, you saw me all the time. You know what I taught and you know what I live and you followed it. Ministry duties, personal qualities as well, you followed my purpose, my faithfulness, my patience, my love, my perseverance. This uncompromising resolve to walk with the Lord obediently, faithfully, even when it meant persecution, verse 11, suffering because that's what should be expected by all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus.
You followed. You walked in the pattern that I set. And you got what I got, persecution. You expect it, verse 13, "Evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. But in spite of that, in spite of the work of evil men, you, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them."
From whom? Paul...Paul. Back in chapter 2 verse 2, "The things you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also."
What is it about this New Emerging Church Movement that has such deep-seeded disdain for the previous generation of faithful men? This is not a virtue. You don't mock the faithful preacher of the Word, the faithful pastor. You don't mock him because he's not as cool as you are. But that's the attitude of this Emerging Church Movement...disdain for the faithful in the past. Paul says, "Look, change nothing. Teach what I taught. Act like I acted. Do ministry the way I did ministry."
Lystra was Timothy's home town. Timothy probably heard Paul preach there first. May have witnessed the healing of the crippled man and the stoning of Paul. So he knew from the very outset the uncompromising character of Paul's devotion to Christ and the gospel truth. Paul says, "Follow me no matter what it costs. Follow me no matter what it costs, no matter what it costs."
I look back in my own life to a grandfather who died and on his lips were the words, "I just want to preach one more time, I just want to preach one more time," to a father who died at the age of 91 and had preached into his ninetieth year, never brought a reproach on the church, never brought a scandal on the name of Christ, never accused of anything that would discredit his ministry. Taught faithfully the Word of God. I don't want to change anything. The truth can't change. I can't reinvent what character is. I just want to be faithful to the legacy of the past.
As you know, Paul is my hero. He set the standard. And following him, godly prophets and apostles, preachers and evangelists have been faithful through the centuries. I don't want to do anything...in fact I find more joy reading dead people than living ones. I just can't understand why you have a whole generation of young people who think the cool thing to do is to show disdain toward the faithful of the past.
Paul says to Timothy, "You preach the Word because of the danger of the seasons and because of the devotion of the saints." You don't have a right to reinvent ministry. You don't have a right to determine that the Word of God is no more relevant, that we've got to turn it in for something else. You don't have a right to say preaching is out of vogue. Can't do that anymore, expositional preaching especially out of vogue. We've got to come down out of these pulpits, we've got to have a conversation with people, got to have a sharing of ideas. We've got to stop calling people preachers and start calling them sharers, facilitators. You don't have a right to do that. God only had one Son and He was a preacher. And His forerunner was a preacher. And all His Apostles were preachers and it is still the preaching of the cross that causes the transformed heart to believe.
Well, I'll introduce a third one. I could say a lot more about that one, but that's okay. We preach because of the danger of the seasons, because of the devotion of the saints...what a privilege it is to stand in the long line of faithful men who have done this...faithful to every generation every place in the world, opening and expositing the Word of God.
But there's a third reason we preach the Word, because of the dynamic of the Scripture...because of the dynamic of the Scripture. If I were confronting the dangers of the time, if I were endeavoring to be faithful to the devotion of the saints in the past, I might still deviate from preaching the Word if it didn't have the power. But it does. Look at verse 15, "From childhood, Timothy, 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." That's all I need to know...that's all I need to know.
Does the Scripture give the wisdom that leads to salvation? Answer? Yes. That's all I need to know. I don't have a better message, I don't have a more powerful message. This isn't about me. If you want a clever speech out of me, I could give you one. It would be entertainingly useless. I can't change anybody. I'm not adequate to transform a life. It doesn't come from my ability or my cleverness or my compassion or my sympathy, or my clarity. The power is in the truth. We're begotten again by the Word of truth, Peter says. We're sanctified by the Word. And he says to Timothy, "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."
I don't care who you are, if you're in a church and you call yourself an evangelical and you say you love Christ and you want to be a part of evangelism in building the church of Jesus Christ, if you say that much then I will hold your feet to this verse...if you want to see people saved through faith in Christ, then you must acknowledge that the wisdom which leads to that comes from the sacred writings. That's what the verse says. That's what it says.
The Jews used to claim that their children drank in the Law of God with their mother's milk and it was so imprinted on their hearts and minds that they would sooner forget their names than the Law of God. The law was given to them when they were very small and that was Timothy, he had that experience. He grew up..one of his parents was Jewish and he grew up under that influence of the Law. And from the time he was a brephos, an infant, a baby in arms, that's the Greek term here, he was exposed to the Law of God. And it was the schoolmaster that led him to Christ. It was the tutor that led him to Christ because the Law of God exposed his sin and exposed his need for a Savior and when the gospel of that Savior came along, his heart was ready.
What do you mean "sacred writings" here, verse 15? "You've known the sacred writings." Hiera grammaton, holy writings, that's the name for Scripture. That is actually the name for the Scripture used by Greek speaking Jews. If you read Philo, you read Josephus, that's their normal word for Scripture, holy writings. And it is the holy Scripture that provides the wisdom that leads to salvation. Psalm 19:7, "The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting...what?...the soul." The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.
Failure to preach the Word and to preach the Word with authority comes from a low view of Scripture combined with a high view of yourself. It's unmistakable. If you have a low view of yourself and a high view of Scripture, you preach Scripture. If you have a low view of Scripture and a high view of yourself, you preach yourself. It's that simple.
Now I want to add a footnote and it is this, there are different ways that the Bible can be taught, exposition-verse-by-verse, sometimes a topical message, sometimes a doctrine, theological message using the truth of the Scripture. You can put it together in different ways. So I don't want anybody to assume that if you just don't go verse by verse, letter by letter that you have failed to teach the Bible. The idea is to teach the truths that are contained in Scripture. To do that systematically over the long haul, you go verse by verse. But at any given point in time, you may pull together a number of passages and reflect upon something taught in the Scripture in a number of different places and a different format. So there are lots of ways to get at it, but you're always starting here, right?
There's a lot more to be said about the Scripture, and I have a couple more reasons to give you in this little list, but I'm going to leave you hanging. So I'll come back the week after and we'll pick this up there.
Let's pray.
We have learned, Lord, so much about obedience from Your Word, and yet somehow manifest so little of it. We are to be obedient to this command, this all pervasive and yet simple and direct command to preach Your Word. We are to be held to that, all of us who preach. It's inexhaustible. Its riches are endless. And we must continually mind its powerful transforming, joy-producing truths. I pray, Lord, that You'll raise up many who will be faithful to this. This is the power, this is the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. May we give a voice to the Word in all our preaching and teaching. And may Your people hold their pastors to this standard. We want to be faithful to You, to discharge our responsibility, to do it with joy and humility. We thank You for such a privilege in Christ's name. Amen.
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March 21, 2007
Dear Senator:
On behalf of the National Education Association's (NEA) 3.2 million members, we would like to offer our views on the fiscal year 2008 Senate Budget Resolution. Overall, we are pleased that the proposed budget provides for $6.1 billion more for education programs than requested by the President—a critical step in meeting the needs of underfunded programs and fulfilling every child's basic right to a great public school. We urge you to:
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ESPN color analyst Bob Griese was suspended for saying Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya was not in the NASCAR Sprint Cup top five because he "was out having a Taco." This raises the question: do they eat tacos in Colombia?
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There are seven essential principles that you must practice as an entrepreneur throughout your business life if you are to achieve maximum success. They have been taught and repeated in thousands of books and articles over the years, and here they are.
1. Clarity: You must be absolutely clear on who you are and what you want. You need written goals and plans for every part of your life. As Zig Ziglar would say, you must become a "meaningful specific" rather than a "wandering generality."
Begin with your values. What do you believe in and stand for? What is most important to you in life? What would you pay for, fight for, suffer for and die for? What do you really care about? Someone once wrote, "Until you know exactly what you would do if you only had one hour left to live, you are not prepared to live."
What is your vision for yourself and your future? What is your vision for your family and your finances? What is your vision for your career and your company? Peter Drucker once wrote, "Even if you are starting your business on a kitchen table, you must have a vision of becoming a world leader in your field, or you will probably never be successful."
What is your mission for your business? What is it that you want to accomplish for your customers? What is it that you want to do to improve the lives and work of the people you intend to serve with your products and services? You need a clear vision and an inspiring mission to motivate yourself and others to do the hard work necessary to achieve business success.
What is your purpose for your life and your business? Why do you get up in the morning? What is your reason for being? And here's a great question: What do you really want to do with your life?
Finally, what are your goals? What do you want to accomplish in your financial life? What are your family goals? What are your health goals? What difference do you want to make in the lives of others? And here is the best question: What would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail?
The greater clarity you have regarding each of these issues--values, vision, mission, purpose and goals--the greater the probability that you will accomplish something wonderful with your life.
2. Competence: To be truly successful and happy, you must be very good at what you do. You must resolve to join the top 10 percent in your field. You must make excellent performance of the business task your primary goal and then dedicate all your energies to doing quality work and offering quality products and services.
To be successful in business, according to Jim Collins, author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap . . . and Others Don't, you must find a field that satisfies three requirements. First, it must be something for which you have a passion-something you really believe in and love to do. Second, it must be an area where you have the potential to be the best, to be better than 90 percent of the people in that field. Third, it must involve a product or service that can be profitable and enable you to achieve all your financial goals.
According to the Harvard Business School, the most valuable asset a company can develop is its reputation. Your reputation is defined as "how you are known to your customers." And the most important reputation you can have revolves around the quality of the products and services you offer and the quality of the people who deliver those services and interact with those customers.
3. Constraints: Between you and your goal, whatever it is, there will always be a constraint or limiting factor. Your ability to identify the most important factor that determines the speed at which you achieve your business goals is essential to your success.
The 80/20 rule applies to constraints in your business. Fully 80 percent of the reasons that you are not achieving your goals as quickly as you want will be within yourself. Only 20 percent will be contained in external circumstances or people.
What are your constraints? What holds you back? What sets the speed at which you achieve your goals? And what one thing could you do immedi-ately to begin alleviating your main constraint? This is often the key to rapid progress.
4. Creativity: The essence of successful business is innovation. This is the ability to find faster, better, cheaper, easier ways to produce and deliver your products and services.
Fortunately, almost everyone is a "potential genius." You have more intelligence and ability than you could ever use. Your job is to unleash this creativity and focus it, like a laser beam, on removing obstacles, solving problems and achieving your goals.
The essence of creativity is contained in your ability to solve the inevitable problems and difficulties of business life. Colin Powell said, "Leader-ship is the ability to solve problems." Success is the ability to solve problems. And remember: A goal unachieved is merely a problem unsolved.
The way of the successful entrepreneur is to focus on the solution rather than the problem. Focus on what is to be done rather than what has happened or who is to blame. Concentrate all your attention on finding a solution to any obstacle that is holding you back from the sales and profitability you desire. And the more you think about solutions, the more solutions you will think of. You will actually feel yourself getting smarter by focusing all your energies on what you can do to continually improve your situation.
5. Concentration: Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on the most important thing and stay at it until it is complete is an essential prerequisite for success. No success is possible without the ability to practice sustained concentration on a single goal or task, in a single direction.
The simplest way to learn to concentrate is to make a list for each day before you begin. Then prioritize the list by putting the numbers 1 through 10 next to each item. Once you have determined your most important task, immediately begin to work on that task. Discipline yourself to continue working until that top task is 100 percent complete. When you make a habit of doing this--starting and completing your most important tasks each day--you will double or triple your productivity and put yourself solidly on the way to wealth.
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6. Courage: Winston Churchill once wrote, "Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend." It takes tremendous courage to take the entrepreneurial risks necessary to become wealthy. In study after study, experts have concluded it is the courage to take the "first step" that makes all the difference. This is the courage to launch in the direction of your goals, with no guarantee of success. Most people lack this.
Once you have begun your entrepreneurial journey, you also need the courage to persist. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "All great successes are the triumph of persistence."
The word entrepreneur means "one who undertakes the risks of a new ven-ture in pursuit of profit." Fully 90 percent of the population will never have sufficient courage to launch a new venture, to start a new business, to boldly go where no one has gone before. You need, first of all, the courage to begin, to move out of your comfort zone in the direction of your goals and dreams, even though you know you will experience many problems, difficulties and temporary failures along the way.
Second, you need the courage to endure, to hang in there, to persist in the face of all adversity until you finally win. When you develop these twin qualities--the ability to step out in faith and then to persist resolutely in the face of all difficulties--your success is guaranteed.
7. Continuous Action: Perhaps the most outwardly identifiable quality of a successful person is that he or she is in continuous motion. The entrepreneur is always trying new things and, if they don't work, trying something else. It turns out that most entrepreneurs achieve their success in an area completely different from what they had initially expected. But because they continually reacted and responded constructively to change, trying new methods, abandoning activities that didn't work, picking themselves up after every defeat and trying once more, they eventually won out.
Top people, especially entrepreneurs, seem to have these three qualities. First, they learn more things. Second, they try more things. Third, they persist longer than anyone else. The good news is that, because of the law of probabilities, if you learn more things, try more things and persist longer, you dramatically increase the probability that you will succeed greatly. If you launch toward your goal and resolve in advance to never give up, your success is virtually guaranteed.
The Ultimate Reward
My friend Jim Rohn once said, "The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place."
To have more, you must first be more. For you to set out on the way to wealth and become a self-made entrepreneurial millionaire, you will have to develop many qualities at a higher level than you ever have before. You will have to become an exceptional person. You will have to become more than you ever imagined possible for you.
To realize your full potential and achieve all your financial goals in your own business, you must develop the virtues of integrity, courage and persistence to a much higher level than you have up to now. You will have to practice the qualities of clarity, competence, creativity, concentration and continuous action until they are as natural to you as breathing. You will have to accept complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you, and especially for the way you think in every area.
When you develop these qualities and become a completely different person, you will eventually achieve all your goals in life, including financial success. The best part of becoming an extraordinary person is that, if something happens and you lose it all, it won't really matter. Because you have become a different person, you will be able to make it all back again and more, far faster than the first time.
Welcome to The Way to Wealth. You are about to embark on a grand adventure that may last for the rest of your working lifetime. But if you have the courage to begin and the persistence to endure, nothing can hold you back from achieving all your goals and dreams. If you decide that, no matter what, you will never give up, you will eventually become unstoppable.
Action Plan
Take these steps to get going on your business goals.
- Decide exactly what you want in life in each area, and write it down. Make your goals clear, specific and measurable.
- Specify the most important skill you could develop to move you into the top 10 percent of people in your field. Then do something immediately to begin developing that skill.
- Identify the major constraint or limiting factor inside yourself or in your world that is setting the speed at which you achieve your most important goal, and begin working on removing that constraint today.
- Determine your single biggest problem or obstacle in your business or personal life. Then focus all your time and attention on the possible solutions.
- Make a list of what you would want to be, do and have if you had no limitations and you were absolutely guaranteed success.
- Accept complete responsibility for your life. From this day forward, refuse to make excuses or blame anyone for anything. Instead, take action to make your goals a reality.
- Reaffirm and visualize your goals of financial success, excellent health and personal happiness as a reality. Remember, the person you see is the person you will be.
Reprinted from The Way to Wealth, Part I: The Journey Begins--Success Strategies of the Wealthy Entrepreneur by Brian Tracy (Entrepreneur Press)


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Allow me to introduce myself as well as the very ambitious project I've been working on with 2 friends for over a year now.
Like probably 100% of you guys here, I'm a huge fan of the DeLorean and the legendary "Back To The Future" trilogy which both lit my childhood. I grew up with a strong automotive passion, mixed with art and design awareness... As a kid, I've always dreamed to, one day, be able to draw my own version of the Time Machine...
Today, I've grown up, my passion for cars, art and design hasn't faded. I am now a professional car designer based in Detroit. Guess what, last year, for the anniversary of Marty's arrival in 2015, I finally have created my own DeLorean Time Machine concept after a year of hard work, dedication and humble passion!
Along with 2 extremely talented movie directors based in Los Angeles and San Francisco, we have started crafting a fan-made short video featuring the car. The goal is to offer the fans like us, the eye of a kid we used to be discovering this insane, timeless piece of art that is the DeLorean once again.
As we are gearing-up for production, we would like to invite you in our journey, all the way to the launch of the video in a few months.
This video as well as the car itself are unfortunately not related in any way to DMC nor to the Back To The Future franchise. It is a purely fan-made project. Only passion and hard work are involved ;-)
We contacted a few living legends to get a first fresh feedback of the car and I am proud to say that it has been very rewarding already. Andrew PROBERT, the man behind the original Time Machine design, is very pleased and supportive regarding what he saw... So there's that.
As I am convinced a lot of you are in the same situation as my friends and I are, and we just want to share our excitement with you guys.
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Read Fairfax Regional astrologer, Alison Moroney's daily stars for Friday, December 21, 2012.
ARIES: You are attuned to the harmonics of life, guiding you instinctively to correct solutions during December 21-23. Spiritual interests are stimulated and you find the quietude to appreciate them.
TAURUS: You connect well with others during December 21-23, sharing similar dreams and philosophies with them. Instinctively, you know where you want to take your life and how to get there.
GEMINI: A private communication seems to play a role in your advancement during December 21-23. You may be privy to upcoming opportunities that will improve your standing or career.
CANCER: Your dreams are colourful and vivid during December 21-23, stimulated by your interaction with different cultures and philosophies. This time is an excellent one for study and travel.
LEO: Your instincts for money aid you in its management during December 21-23. Leo is in a commanding position to expand their credit or financial resources during this time.
VIRGO: The spiritual connection between you and another enhances an important relationship during December 21-23. You instinctively know each other's strength and weaknesses but do not feel vulnerable.
LIBRA: Idyllic conditions are operating on the work front, creating the opportunity for productive and creative work during December 21-23. You are skilful in applying yourself to the tasks at hand.
SCORPIO: Romantic encounters seem to find you during December 21-23, adding delight to your life and strengthening a personal relationship. Your compassion of others acts like a magnet.
SAGITTARIUS: During December 21-23 you'll feel a strong connection with people from your past or who have shared similar experiences to you during their lifetime. Home life is soothing.
CAPRICORN: Visionary influences guide your footsteps during December 21-23, enabling you to implement achievable goals. You're inspired by creative influences, romantic interests or those of a child.
AQUARIUS: During December 21-23 you are mesmerised by all the tantalising opportunities that life has to offer in the form of creature comforts. Creativity reaps financial rewards then.
PISCES: You are strongly drawn to spiritual considerations during December 21-23, but more as part of your daily life. Pisces is naturally inclined this way anyway, so you'll find an outlet for your compassion.
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Unprecedented: Behind the '08 ball
This has not been our best decade. The Hook, born only months after 9-11, has grown up in a grimmer time than those giddy, fin de siècle days when the biggest worry for the new year was how Y2K would affect computers. Remember?
It's not like we haven't seen some doozy years already this millennium: war, drought, and Hurricane Katrina. But in a downer decade, 2008 really takes the cake with the three unprecedented Es: economy, energy, and elections.
We're in uncharted territory here, and our heads are still spinning as we watch the economy crumble, taking down venerable institutions like Wachovia and Lehman Brothers– and the UVA endowment– as well as our own retirement funds, if we had them. Haven't we always heard what's good for GM is good for the country?
We don't want to say Depression, but that's what we're thinking.
And gas. Can there be anything crazier than a $2 fluctuation in prices in one year? In three months? Let's recap: A year ago, prices were over $3. Charlottesville hit $4 a gallon in June, and after an expensive summer of cruising for burgers, Hurricane Ike brought fears that gas would go even higher.
Instead prices started to fall– free fall, actually– and by September were around $2.57 a gallon, plunging on to $1.72 at the end of November, and by mid-December, a gallon of regular could be had for $1.48. Unprecedented.
Politics also took us to places many never expected to see in this lifetime. A woman and an African American battled through the hotly contested, grueling Democratic primary season. And 2008 became the year that the United States elected its first black president, a guy named Barack Hussein Obama, and citizens seem hopeful that it's "change we can believe in." Unprecedented.
Two years ago Virginia was officially dubbed a purple state as it shifted from red to blue, but 2008 saw it plop firmly in the blue camp– at least for this year– supporting a Democratic president for the first time since 1964.
Closer to home was the astounding defeat of six-term Congressman Virgil Goode by upstart Ivy Dem Tom Perriello by a mere 745 votes in the ultra-conservative Southside 5th District. Unprecedented.
Is it over yet? Still reeling, the Hook remembers the best– and worst– of crazy '08.
Most controversial public works project: The $200-million-plus expansion of the Ragged Mountain Reservoir to supply water for 50 years by increasing the size of the reservoir and piping water 9.5 miles from the Rivanna Reservoir is questioned, and even as more citizens urge another look at the feasibility and cost of the plan, and City Council calls a halt, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors remains committed to the mega-reservoir. As the estimate for dredging the Rivanna Reservoir soared to Panama Canal-proportions of more than $225 million, dredgers came out of the woodwork seeking to bid on the job many believe will provide plenty of water at a fraction of the dam cost.
Second most controversial public works project: The $7.5 million re-bricking of the Downtown Mall, long sought by downtown merchants and pedestrians tired of their Manolos catching in cracks, sets off a firestorm over brick size and the timing of the project, and prompts a December backlash petition questioning whether it should be done at all.
Most outraged softball players: Charlottesville's decision to rip out two heavily used softball fields at McIntire Park and lease the public land to the YMCA has leagues crying foul.
Most likely to blame the victim, part 1: The year begins with charges dropped against Gerry Mitchell, the wheelchair-bound artist crossing West Main who was struck November 5, 2007, by an Albemarle cop and subsequently ticketed, even though he was in a crosswalk. Officer Gregory Davis was not charged for plowing into Mitchell, and Mitchell never got an apology from the city. The video from the police car of Mitchell getting mown down to the Black-Eyed Peas' "My Humps" becomes a YouTube sensation.
Most likely to blame the victim, part 2: Charges are dropped January 22 against Dorothy Hamlin, who was struck by a dump truck while crossing JPA in her wheelchair and ticketed for failing to obey a pedestrian signal.
Saddest trial: Raelyn Balfour, the JAG School mother who left her nine-month-old son in the car while she went to work, goes to trial January 23. A jury acquits her of involuntary manslaughter.
Saddest end to the school year: Eleven-year-old Aziz Damar Booth had just finished the sixth grade at Walker Upper Elementary School when he's fatally shot in his home June 3.
Saddest legislative loss: Long-time delegate, former mayor, and city councilor Mitch Van Yahres dies February 8 at age 81. Even in death, Van Yahres remains a politician; his obituary urged his mourners to support Barack Obama.
Saddest local ties to Mumbai terror: Alan Scherr and his 13-year-old daughter, Naomi, die November 26 at the Oberoi Trident hotel while on a Synchronicity pilgrimage to India.
Biggest international incident: Charlottesville City Council, never a body to limit itself to city affairs, lends its support to Tibetan independence and flies a Tibetan flag at City Hall March 4, drawing the ire of the People's Republic of China, which expresses "grave concern" at Charlottesville's meddling in its internal affairs. In June Mayor Dave Norris joins 31 other U.S. mayors who sign a petition opposing military action in Iran.
Biggest five-alarm scoop: In the course of reporting on a 2007 fire on Lewis Mountain Road that killed Brett Quarterman, 25, and seriously injured Ashley Mauter, 24, Hook senior editor Courteney Stuart discovers the ineffectiveness during slow-smouldering fires of the standard ionization smoke alarms found in most homes; her story sparks a run on photoelectric alarms in local hardware stores. With local firefighters, the Hook tests three different smoke alarms June 10, confirming that fires can smoulder for a long time before ionization alarms go off, which can be deadly when those depending on them are asleep.
Biggest porn trial: Staunton Commonwealth's Attorney Ray Robertson goes after After Hours Video store, charging owner Rick Krial and clerk Tinsley Embrey with six felony and four misdemeanor obscenity counts. Federal prosecutor Matthew Buzzelli joins Robertson; the defendants bring in Larry Flynt's attorney, Paul Cambria. A jury finds Krial guilty in August of one count of obscenity for City Girls Extreme Gangbangs.
Biggest kiddie porn trial: In a surprise turn, former white supremacist golden boy Kevin Strom pleads guilty to one count of child porn possession January 14 after having had enticement of a minor and witness intimidation charges dropped the previous fall; he's sentenced to 23 months in prison.
Biggest break in an unsolved murder: Two years after Dani Howard was found dead in the street in Gordonsville, a 16-year-old who had stayed in the house she shared with her boyfriend is indicted March 13. The teen, Gary Christopher Johnson, a.k.a. "G-Money," is found guilty December 12 of four counts, including first-degree murder.
Biggest break in a 20-year-old unsolved murder: Albemarle police arrest Alvin "Butch" Morris in May for the 1988 murder of Roger Shifflett, who was found shot five times at the now-razed Southwind Gas and Grocery on Route 20 south he owned with his wife. Morris, now 67, married Shifflett's widow, Stone Robinson Elementary secretary Barbara Shifflett Morris, shortly after the father of five's death. (Butch Morris will go to trial April 13, 2009, for three felonies, including first-degree murder.)
Grimmest unsolved murder: Marion "Buzzy" Ennis' bloated corpse was discovered two years ago in Buckingham, and no arrests have been made.
Biggest public endowment: UVA reports $5.1 billion June 30.
Biggest hit to an endowment: In the year-ending market bloodbath, by October 31 UVA loses nearly $1 billion, while trying to peddle $1.8 billion in private equity investments in a fire-sale environment. All this before the fourth-quarter numbers come out.
Best part-time job: During the early-October Wachovia collapse, it's revealed that UVA President John Casteen earns $220,000 a year for serving on that bank's board.
Best news for rape victims at UVA: The U.S. Department of Education rules in November that the University of Virginia can't punish sex assault victims if they speak about their cases.
Best rescue: A February 21 sexual assault on Grady Avenue is interrupted by a friend (who was talking to the victim by phone when she was attacked) who calls 911, and by a neighbor who hears something in her yard. Arrested is Christopher Allen Noakes, 39, who was charged with attempted rape, forcible sodomy, robbery, and abduction, and sentenced August 26 to 40 years in jail.
Best Buckingham trial: Publicist to the stars/chicken farmer Tommy Garrett cops a plea deal on his 15 felony counts of check forging and uttering April 18, pleading guilty to a Class One misdemeanor charge of entering the property of another with the intention of damaging it.
Worst laid plans: Barracks Road Shopping Center owner Federal Realty Investment Trust creates a springtime fervor when it files plans in May to strip the canopy off the nearly 50-year-old shopping center, riling merchants who argue retail is hard enough without their customers getting wet.
Worst hit businesses: Thirty-five-year-old Ron Martin Appliance goes under in February. The Citgo "We Pump It" on Ivy Road unhooks its pumps September 30 and forces loyal customers to self-serve. Properties owned by Church Hill Homes go into foreclosure in October. Circuit City announces in November it will close its store in Charlottesville, and a week later, that the company is bankrupt. Sage Moon Gallery shuts its doors in early December, soon to be joined by Migration: A Gallery. At least 20 employees at Lexis Nexis get pink slips. Glassner Jewelers in Barracks Road announces plans to close after the holidays.
Best resuscitation: Vinegar Hill Theatre's demise is announced October 28 at the end of the Virginia Film Festival, only to have white knight Visulite-owner Adam Greenbaum swoop in a day later to save the 32-year-old art house.
Most ambitious, despite the economy: Charlottesville House and Home publisher Eric Lund launches The Next50, a magazine targeting aging baby boomers, but suspends both publications with the December-January issues. The Young Men's Shop returns to the Downtown Mall after an 11-year stint at Seminole Square and abandons YMS Clothiers for its original name. Cavalier Films decides to self-distribute its locally made Familiar Strangers, which opens November 14 at the Regal and hangs on through Thanksgiving.
Most anticipated show: Bruce Springsteen returns April 30 for a show at John Paul Jones arena, more than 23 years after the Boss first rocked Charlottesville November 17, 1974, at Mem Gym.
Most anticipated hip-hop show: Jay-Z becomes the first of that genre to play John Paul Jones Arena October 25.
Most difficult show to see: Van Halen cancels shows at JPJ Arena not once, but twice– the first February 22 and the second March 11– before finally showing up May 2.
Most shocking gag order: Longtime Charlottesville Parking Center critic Spencer Connerat clams up and gives up his right to sue CPC with the sale of three shares for $5,000.
Largest city investment in a parking lot it doesn't own: The CPC announces in October that no one has met its minimum $17.5 million price tag for the one-acre lot on Water Street, despite the City of Charlottesville spending over $400,000 to snag the asphalt, including $153K for a design contest in 2007 and $250K for a feasibility study.
Happiest return: Selden Tilden's wedding band had been missing 25 years when it turned up April 2, after a plumber pulled it– and a bunch of rusted cutlery– from a drain in front of Ben & Jerry's at Barracks Road, where the ring had lodged since it slipped off Tilden's finger when he was washing dishes at Ken Johnson's Cafeteria in 1982.
Biggest crime spree: Former Western Albemarle High students Slade Woodson, then 19, and Brandon Dawson, then 16, close down Interstate 64 March 27 when they start firing at occupied vehicles. The pair rack up 15 charges in Albemarle and five in Waynesboro, where they fire into an occupied house. When police burst into Yonder Hills Farm early March 28 to arrest the duo, Dawson's father is shot. Underage Dawson gets 180 days in juvenile detention. Woodson, having been sentenced to two years in Waynesboro, asks for a new lawyer December 3 for his local trial.
Biggest reason to ponder what to drive during a crime spree: Woodson uses an eye-catching '74 orange AMC Gremlin, which is captured on video at the DuPont Community Credit Union in Waynesboro when he's blowing out the window of a parked car there, and later is found abandoned off U.S. 29 north near the Greene County line.
Most violent weekend: Early July 19, Joshua Magruder, 19, is gunned down on Monticello Avenue. Charged in his murder are his cousin, Bobby Wayne Gardner Jr., 25, Trenton Michael Brock, 20, and Theodore Calvin Timberlake, 20. Around 7pm that evening, a shooting on Page Street sends an 18-year-old to the UVA Medical Center; and Calvin Earl Maupin, 18, and Robert Jason Burr, 22, are charged in that incident.
Most national exposure for an unsolved crime: ABC's Primetime Crime focuses on the death of kindergarten teacher Justine Swartz Abshire, 27, who allegedly was run down by a hit-and-run driver on a dark Orange County road November 3, 2006. Her widower, Eric Abshire, whom some suspect of murdering Justine, appears on the hour-long July 30 show, as does Hook senior editor Courteney Stuart, whose coverage brought the story to ABC's attention. By October, the mother of Eric Abshire's children takes out a protective order against him.
Most Olympians: Shot putter Adam Nelson, soccer player Angela Hucles, rowers Wyatt Allen, Melanie Kok, and Lindsay Shoop, softball player Ruby Rojas, and swimmer Vanja Rogulj– all with Charlottesville ties– go to Beijing. Shoop takes the gold.
Most elusive cat: When an alleged sighting of the Crozet cougar is reported in March, the Hook sets up its own cougar cam to capture the mystical beast. Instead, fox, raccoon, and vultures hog the lens.
Worst news for yapping dog owners: Albemarle makes non-stopg barking a misdemeanor.
Worst news for the neighbors of yapping dogs: Barking has to be endured for 30 minutes before complaining to the county. And if the neighbor owns more than five acres, his canine can bark with impunity.
Best news for train riders: Funding miraculously turns up for an additional daily Amtrak passenger train from Charlottesville to New York, allegedly starting next fall.
Biggest dump clean up: Albemarle County declares the 16-acre Cismont dump owned by Cecil and Doris Gardner all tidied up October 17 after taking the couple to court in June and fining them $200. The dump was believed to have been grandfathered in, but after a 2005 conflagration– the second one on the property– the county decided the junkyard wasn't legal after all.
Biggest voice change: Mac McDonald is ousted as "Voice of the Cavaliers" by the Virginia Sports Network, which controls the broadcasting of UVA sports, and is replaced by Dave Koehn. Adam Gottschalk also gets the boot from broadcasting UVA sports at WINA, but a few weeks later turns up with a sports talk show at WKAV.
Biggest art upheaval: Esteemed Second Street director Leah Stoddard abruptly "resigns" May 5. Paramount executive director Ed Rucker also resigns without notice May 2, and management of the Paramount is turned over to John Paul Jones general manager Larry Wilson.
Biggest protest: President George W. Bush's last-minute visit to Monticello for the Fourth of July galvanizes local activists– and Bush fans– and challenges two of Charlottesville's most cherished ideals: freedom of speech and good manners.
Most confounded approach to free speech: Mr. Jefferson's U bans signs at football games, then backs off after protests threaten to detract from the football team's 5-7 losing season.
Biggest immigration brouhaha: Charlottesville resident/Russian native Gennady Denisenko is handcuffed and hauled away from his American wife, Melinda, at the immigration office in Fairfax, where the couple had gone to get their marriage of six years recognized, and sits in federal detention for six months with the threat of imminent deportage to the Soviet Union until he's abruptly released October 15.
Biggest foot in mouth: Syndicated talker Michael Savage strikes a nerve in July when he proclaims autism "over-diagnosed" and describes most victims of autism as "a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out." WINA drops his show in July.
Best sign the honeymoon is over: In March, CNet founder Halsey Minor and developer Lee Danielson break ground on the luxury Landmark Hotel on the Downtown Mall; by November Minor has fired Danielson, but the project limps on.
Windiest: Tornado-monium strikes Charlottesville two weeks after a devastating twister in Suffolk. A May 8 tornado warning has some citizens huddling in their basements all night at the behest of newscasters, while others call the coverage "sensationalized" and "irresponsible."
Worst loss of a local legend: Writer, UVA prof, former Virginia Poet Laureate, and bon vivant George Garrett, 78, dies May 26 at his home.
Worst loss of a Hollywood legend: The UVA alum whose special-effects wizardry made immortal movies such as Aliens, Terminator 2 and Edward Scissorhands– Stan Winston– dies June 15 in his Malibu home at age 62.
Worst loss of a DMB legend: Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore is seriously injured in a June 30 ATV accident at his Albemarle farm, and dies seven weeks later on August 19 in Los Angeles.
Worst loss of a DNA legend: Scientist and civil rights activist Eugene Foster, the man who genetically linked the families of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, dies July 21 at age 81.
Easiest recycling: Charlottesville initiates commingled recycling that allows city residents to toss paper, plastics, glass and cans all into the same bin.
Most salmonella cases: Sixteen reports close the place "where students, tourists and townpeople meet" for almost two weeks this summer. The Tavern had racked up 60 health code violations since 2003 and vowed a cleaner operation.
Most predictable crackdown: City police periodically target pedestrians who cross the railroad tracks at unauthorized spots, and this summer's sting operation yields hundreds of trespassing tickets on the Corner at 15th Street that entail either a $106 fine or 20 hours of community service.
Best expenditure of public funds: Charlottesville buys 55 Automated External Defibrillators– AEDs– to put in all public buildings throughout the city.
Best makeover: Montpelier strips the pink-stuccoed layers of the DuPont years to reveal the home of fourth President James Madison, and celebrates the five-year-long restoration September 17– Constitution Day.
Darkest anniversary: September 19 marks 50 years since massive resistance closed Venable Elementary and Lane High schools to prevent African-American students from studying there.
Best foreshadowing of worse to come: Albemarle real estate assessments, after years of averaging 15 percent increases, climb just 14/100ths of one percent. "It's really unprecedented," says county exec Bob Tucker in February, articulating what would become our theme for the year.


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