As you consider this first series of questions, ask yourself, (a) why is this a hard lesson; and (b) do you even consider this to be an actual demand upon you [would you actually do this].
1. What is the first lesson?
2. Why does Burroughs write that you must learn this "or you can never be a Christian"?
How does a self-denying heart respond to the "stroke" of God?
4. What does yielding produce (page 87)?
Burroughs writes, "this may seem strange." What is the paradox and difficulty with Burroughs' statement?
Does this mean that a man who has God no longer needs to eat? Matthew 44:1-4; Deuteronomy 8:1-3.
Restate the ninth element of Christian contentment in your own words.
Remember that "grace" involves every good which one receives from God – not merely the initial moment of salvation. Burroughs says that the grace gives to see something even trial and affliction.
The tenth element tells us to perform an action. When we consider an affliction, how must we think of this in light of Jesus' life?
On the top of page 61, Burroughs writes that poverty cannot afflict if what is true?
Read Romans 8:28-29: What is the point of God doing us good? What is God's goal?
If Jesus Christ has done something or suffered something, who are we to think that we are above it?
Read Hebrews 13:11-15 & Matthew 16:24-25. How should we understand the nature of life in light of the way in which Jesus lived?
What is the 11th element of contentment?
Read Hebrews 2:14-18, 4:14-16 & 8:1.
How does understanding the nature of Jesus' life affect us? How can we obtain help from Jesus?
Read Colossians 1:11 & the top paragraph on page 64. What is available to us from Jesus? How do we usually settle to live? Why do you think that is so?
What is the 12 element of contentment?
What does it mean that one "has God" in some circumstance? From whom do all blessings come? Matthew 5:45. Who gives the ability to enjoy a blessing? Ecclesiastes 6:1-3.
Read the top of page 66: What is the creature (anything in all creation) as to the blessing of God? What is that truly satisfies a human being in some-thing or some circumstance?
Augustine wrote, "For he loves You too little who loves anything with You, which he loves not for You" (Confessions 10.29). If we love anything for any reason other than it came from God, then we do not love it rightly. How does this understanding affect your contentment?
On the top of page 69, Burroughs refers to a bird. What does this image mean?
What is the 13th element of contentment?
What is the procedure which Burroughs lays out on the bottom of page 69 to achieve contentment?
Consider a trial or difficulty which currently faces you. Do you know of any promise from God which applies to your situation?
Burroughs then considers some objections: What is the first object and the general answer to the problem?
What three liberties does God have (page 71)?
Burroughs then responds to the question: What if I do have to suffer some ill. He gives two answers. What does he mean by there is no true evil in our sorrows? What must we do when we are faced with a trial?
What good of God does grace permit me to see in the trial?
How must we consider our trial in light of Jesus' life?
Have you/how have you sought strength from God in the midst of trial? What would strength look like (the ability to change the circumstance or to change your heart)?
Have you considered "the happiness of heaven" in light of your trial?
Have you loved any-thing for its own sake and not for the sake of Jesus Christ?
What promises apply to your trial?
Have you considered God's liberties with respect to your circumstance?
Have you mistakenly seen some evil in the trial?
Have you sought out God's purpose in the trial?
Summary: Sin brought about a breach between God and humanity, which led to all our sorrows. All good for us comes from our Creator. To be severed from our Creator is to sever us from all hope and life. As a result of that breach, all of creation has become disordered, and we are left in conflict and isolation on all sides.
Two principle consequences of sin are (1) disruption of the relationship between God and human beings; and (2) disruption of the relationship between human and human.
The loss caused by sin creates a coveting, a desire for something we do not have (which is ultimately God). That loss and desire attach to all sorts of different things in the creation (often good things which are misused) in an effort to feel better. However, coveting and obtaining anything in all creation will be insufficient to solve our ultimate craving for God.
If physical objects please you, praise God for them, but turn back your love to their Creator, lest, in those things which please you, you displease him. If souls please you, let them be loved in God; for in themselves they are mutable, but in him firmly established–without him they would simply cease to exist. In him, then, let them be loved; and bring along to him with yourself as many souls as you can, and say to them: "Let us love him, for he himself created all these, and he is not far away from them. For he did not create them, and then go away. They are of him and in him. Behold, there he is, wherever truth is known. He is within the inmost heart, yet the heart has wandered away from him. Return to your heart, O you transgressors, and hold fast to him who made you. Stand with him and you shall stand fast. Rest in him and you shall be at rest. Where do you go along these rugged paths? Where are you going? The good that you love is from him, and insofar as it is also for him, it is both good and pleasant. But it will rightly be turned to bitterness if whatever comes from him is not rightly loved and if he is deserted for the love of the creature. Why then will you wander farther and farther in these difficult and toilsome ways? There is no rest where you seek it. Seek what you seek; but remember that it is not where you seek it. You seek for a blessed life in the land of death. It is not there. For how can there be a blessed life where life itself is not?
Non-biblical understandings of the human heart and life will focus behavior and sometimes the desire. But only a biblical understanding can bring us to understand that the unhappiness in the human being is ultimately caused due to sin and our loss of God. Anything which stops short of Godward change merely seeks to affect the outflow of sin with addressing the source of sin. Therefore, the solution must ultimately focus on the Godward relationship of the heart.
We must further understand that the troubles which come from the results of sin (sin against, sin generally in the world), likewise find their resolution only in God. Sin causes injury which only God can ultimately heal (Matthew 11:25-30; Luke 12:22-34; John 14:1-7; 2 Corinthians 1:3-10; Hebrews 2:14-18, 4:14-16).
In all these things we must see that sin has caused a separation from God and disorder in the universe. We have become guilty and polluted by sin. Yet, we must remember that is the foreigner, the invader. We must detest sin because we love God and love our neighbor.
A. The dependency of human beings upon God.
1. Our very existence hangs upon God.
Moreover this life may either include inanimate creations in general, which do live in their own way though they lack feeling, or life may just refer to living creatures. It is of little consequence which you choose, for the simple meaning is that the Word of God was not only the source of life for all creatures, so that those which had not yet existed began to be, but that his life-giving power makes them remain in their state. For if his continuing inspiration did not give life to the world, everything that lives would immediately decay and reduce to nothing.
3. Believers have a peculiar dependency upon God for life.
B. Before the Fall, human beings had all things necessary for our life.
3. Created with the potential for life without death. Genesis 2:16-17.
4. Created in a proper relationship with God.
C. Created as a worshiper. This is a topic we will address in a separate lesson. For this lesson it is necessary to understand that human beings "naturally" were able to glorify and enjoy God in their normal pattern of life.
D. Before the Fall, human beings lived in a right standing with God such that the life of God was given to us without hindrance and we received without rebellion.
A. All of the trouble we see in this world and in our lives came about as the result of sin; for sin cut us off from life in God. God makes this point clear when he explains to Adam that eating from the Tree of Knowledge will result in death, "in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die" (Genesis 2:17).
B. The damage done by the Fall exists and permeates all that we are and do. Every human being knows this world is not right. I just read yet another human being complain of the faults and wickedness of the world and then complain that God must be wrong; therefore, God does not exist. Why do human beings all know that the world is wrong? Who has ever experienced a different world? I remember an anthropology professor try to explain this sensation (we evolved for some other world that none of us have ever lived in). The trouble that we will experience in this life and the problems we will meet in counseling all flow out of the Fall. Therefore, we must understand what happened so that we can rightly understand what to do about it.
1. Guilt is the objective status of having violated a standard. Shame is the subjective awareness of being guilty.
a. The first response of the humans was to see themselves as naked.
They knew that they were in some sense naked; before they had not been naked. What is this? I do not know, but I am inclined to agree with those who suggest, as an exposition of this, that man at the beginning, as he was made perfect by God, had a kind of glory about his body even as there was about his soul. Man, when he fell, not only fell in his spirit, but he also fell in his body. The apostle Paul tells us that at the end, when our Lord comes again, "[He] shall change our vile body"—the body of our humiliation—"that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body"—the body of his glorification (Philippians 3:21).
Man, let us remember, was made in the image of God in every respect. He was not only upright with a righteousness that was spiritual, but there was, I believe, a glory pertaining to the body. And when Adam and Eve sinned, they lost that glory and were left with bodies as we now know them, and they were aware that they had been deprived of something. There was immediate consciousness of a nakedness, a loss, an incompleteness. Something had gone. A glory had departed" (47).
Consider a second possibility for why they are naked and not ashamed. My suggestion is that the emphasis falls not on their freedom from physical imperfection, but on the fullness of covenant love. In other words, I can be free from shame for two conceivable reasons: One conceivable (but unreal) reason is that I am perfect and have nothing to be ashamed of. The other reason I could be free from shame is that even though I am imperfect, I have no fear of being disapproved by my spouse.
The first way to be shame-free is to be perfect; the second way to be shame-free is based on the gracious nature of covenant love. In the first case, there is no shame because we're flawless. In the second case, there is no shame because covenant love covers a multitude of flaws (1 Peter 4:8; 1 Cor. 13:6). (This Momentary Marriage, 33).
i. I think both understandings are correct. First, we were corrupted – not merely spiritually but also physically (Genesis 3:19). When we see human beings in glory, they are glorious (Mark 9:3). Our current bodies lack glory and yet we will gain glory at the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:43). We bare the marks of our sin in our physical bodies. Second, we do not live in perfect covenant love with any human beings. Even before God we are prone to feel guilty and ashamed.
ii. Since we are imperfect, since we are by nature guilty and corrupt, we spend our lives trying to gather glory and protection for ourselves. Think of all the things human beings do to become "glorious" and honorable. Think of how human beings abuse and oppress other humans to gain honor and status from them.
iii. Since we are corrupt, the accusations and abuse of others cause actual pain. E.g. of hidden versus false accusations.
iv. The extraordinary pain of abuse of our bodies, such as physical and sexual abuse which cause damage and shame far beyond any mere physical aspect.
d. Physical universe cursed/subjected to futility: Genesis 3:17-18; Romans 8:20; Ecclesiastes 1:2.
f. One's own body: Genesis 3:19.
i. Our own sin: guilt, shame.
ii. The sin of others against us.
iii. The effects of sin generally.
b. Explanations for human trouble which do not address sin and its affects will be insufficient.
i. Example of psychological conditioning. Children of alcoholics. Physical and sexual abuse.
ii. Physical troubles: Alzheimer's Disease.
1. Sin has damaged the ability of human beings to think correctly. This is called the "noetic effect" of sin.
2. The key passage on this doctrine is Romans 1:18-32. As one works through the passage we see that a distortion in our understanding of God leads to "all manner of unrighteousness" (v. 29).
3. Total depravity (we have said) means not that a person is as bad as he might be (God's common grace restrains sinners from fully manifesting their sinful potential), but, rather, that in every aspect every person is affected by sin. That means (of course) that, among other things, his thought processes have been affected. At every point in the process of thought, breakdowns may—and do—occur. Because of Adam's sin—and their own—human beings do not think straight! That is an altogether important fact for the counselor to keep in view.
These truths have great consequences for counseling. I shall mention one or two basic ways in which this is so.
Again and again, in the Scriptures, we are confronted with the fact that sinful human thought reverses God's thought.
4. Dr. Zemek writes in "The Noetic Malady", "The noetic effects of the Fall are attested on nearly every page of the Holy Scriptures. If one fails to take seriously God's infallible diagnosis of this malady, attempts at treatment will be at best directed only to symptoms and the result will be fatal…" (Grace Theological Journal 5, p. 205 (1984)). Fortunately for us, "God specializes in bending man's perverted noetic inclinations" (p. 221).
a. The effect of sin upon our own thinking.
b. The effect of sin upon the other.
c. The need for Scripture to correct our corrupted thinking.
A. The basis of temptation to sin: We want something we do not have. There is a manner in which the things we ultimately want (honor, security, love, life) are what we had prior to the Fall.
c. Covetousness. Strong desire to have that which belongs to another. It is considered to be a very grievous offense in Scripture. The tenth commandment forbids coveting anything that belongs to a neighbor, including his house, his wife, his servants, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to him (Exod. 20:17). Jesus listed covetousness or greed along with many of the sins from within, including adultery, theft, and murder, which make a person unclean (Mark 7:22). Paul reminded the Ephesians that greed or covetousness is equated with immorality and impurity, so that these must be put away (5:3). A covetous or greedy person is an idolator (5:5) and covetousness is idolatry (Col. 3:5). James warns that people kill and covet because they cannot have what they want (4:2).
Covetousness, therefore, is basic to the commandments against murder, adultery, stealing, and lying. Those who accept bribes are coveting, leading to murder (Ezek. 22:12). Coveting a neighbor's wife is a form of adultery (Exod. 20:17). Achan admitted to coveting a robe and silver and gold, so he stole them, which was a sin against the Lord (Josh. 7:20–22). Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, coveted the property of Naaman so much that he lied to get what he wanted from Naaman the leper (2 Kings 5:19–25) and was struck with leprosy. Proverbs warns that a covetous person brings trouble to his family (15:27). Thus covetousness is the root of all kinds of sins, so that Jesus gave the warning, "Be on your guard against all kinds of greed" (Luke 12:15).
1. Our original creation status.
What is shame? Shame is the deep sense that you are unacceptable because of something you did, something done to you, or something associated with you. You feel exposed and humiliated. Or, to strengthen the language, You are disgraced because you acted less than human, you were treated as if you were less than human, or you were associated with something less than human, and there are witnesses. These definitions can get us started. There isn't one mandatory definition or description for shame, but any definition will include certain elements. For example, you can expect images of being an outsider, naked, and unclean. And don't forget shame's public nature. Guilt can be hidden; shame feels like it is always exposed. Once you identify shame, you can find it everywhere.
3. Our desire for honor.
ii. Tower of Babel: Genesis 11:1-9.
iii. Saul: 1 Samuel 18:6-9.
iv. Absalom: 2 Samuel 13-15.
ii. Hannah: 1 Samuel 1.
iii. Psalm 3 (et cetera).
c. Pride is the false attempt to make up for the honor lost through sin.
b. 1 Peter 1:6-7; 4:14.
C. The attempt to make up for what was lost in the Fall. It is interesting matter that human beings attempt to remedy the damage caused by the Fall by selecting some good thing and reveling and distorting the use of that good: such as food, work/rest/, relationship, et cetera.
b. Deuteronomy 21:20; Proverbs 23:20-21.
b. Proverbs 6:6-9; 10:26, 13:4, 15:19, 19:24, et cetera.
b. Leviticus 19:13, 20:6, 20:27; 1 Samuel 28; 2 Kings 21:6.
d. Contention: Proverbs 19:13, 21:9, 25:24.
One of the main features of the Song is the persistence of alienation between the man and the woman. This alienation is the result of the judgment announced in Genesis 3:16. The intimacy lost in the fall (judgment) is renewed (salvation), and the beauty of God's intention is celebrated (glory)….
His [the king's] efforts toward the renewal of the intimacy lost at the fall culminate in the bride's statement in 7:10, "I am my beloved's and his desire is for me." The use of this term "desire" in Genesis 3:16 was noted above [the desire in that instance was an aspect of the judgment on sin]. Yahweh cursed the woman with "desire" for her husband, which meant that she would inappropriately seek to take the initiative in the relationship. The Song sings of the righting of the reversed relationship. Overcoming the judgment of the curse on gender relations, the man and the woman find reconciliation and intimacy.
A. This is not an exhaustive discussion of sin. Included on the website are additional documents/studies on the doctrine of sin.
B. D.A. Carson has mentioned that a great difficulty in discussing Christianity in the contemporary culture, particularly on college campuses, is that many people have no category of thought for sin. If the word is used at all, it is commonly used to refer to something which we like a lot but probably shouldn't. Candies are sinfully delicious. A great pleasure is a sinful pleasure et cetera.
This thinking is not absent from the Christian church. The ideas of our culture easily make their way into our personal thinking, because it is very difficult to maintain a consistently biblical frame of reference in light of a world which is constantly screaming a very different worldview.
Incidentally, this is often a fruitful area of investigation in any counseling situation. Since continued habitual sin receives support and protection from non-biblical thinking [the various excuses, rationalizations, expectations which drive continued sin], and since popular culture even Christian culture is often decidedly nonbiblical in its presentation, it is often useful to explore what the counselee reads, watches, listens to, et cetera.
C. When presented with a counseling situation, it can be useful to think through the issue of sin: whether the counselee's own sin or the sin of some other person against them. Be careful to avoid psychological labels. For example, someone does not have "an inferiority complex", but they may have "fear of man".
D. Notice that sin is very catchy. Sin against a person often results in them sinning in return. Therefore, you have the matter of the damage done by being the recipient of sin and then in turn sinning against someone else (as you will in the attached documents, particularly in the documents "Sin is the Worst of Evils") it is worse for one to sin than to be sinned against.
Be thoroughly convinced of the greatness and sinfulness of this sin.—How that it is a sin of the greatest magnitude, a first-rate sin, greater than theft, intemperance, or uncleanness, or any other fleshly wickedness. It is, indeed, the strength and heart of the old man; it lives in us, when other sins are dead; yea, it will help to kill other sins, that it may boastingly show their heads, and blow the sinner up with a conceit of his own strength and holiness. It is a sin that will take sanctuary in the holiest duties, and hide itself under their skirts; yea, it will pollute our holy things, and turn remedies themselves into diseases. I prefer this direction, and shall be the longer upon it, because when men are convinced of the sinfulness of this sin, that it hath more evil in it than other disgraceful sins, they will then set themselves in good earnest to mortify and subdue it. Then they will put it far away from them, and deal with it as they do with those sins that argue them, in the judgment of all men, to be graceless and ungodly persons. Remember, therefore, what hath been already hinted concerning the odiousness of this sin. It is hateful indeed to men, when it is discerned; but it is most hateful unto God. His nature and his honour both engage him against it; he doth severely punish it, both in this world and in the next. Pride is the forerunner not only of temporal, but of eternal, destruction. (Prov. 16:18.) This one sin, unless it be pardoned and subdued, is sufficient to turn us all into hell; it was the sin and the condemnation of the devil and his angels.
1. The antiquity of it.—It was the first enemy that God ever had. This was the sin of the fallen angels, and also of our first parents; this was the original of original sin. Some have disputed whether pride or unbelief had the precedency in man's fall; ("a question," as one says, "much like that,—whether repentance or faith hath the precedency in his rising;") but all are of opinion that man's pride, if it was not antecedaneous, yet at least it was contemporary with his unbelief; and that pride was the great cause of his apostasy. He proudly affected to be as God, to have known good and evil. (Gen. 3:5.) He fell from what he was, by a proud desire of being what he was not.
Again: it causeth ambition.—Proud persons have aspiring thoughts, and think themselves the fittest persons to preside in church or state. Haman said, "Whom should the king honour but myself?" (Esther 6:6.) A proud person takes it for an injury if any be preferred before him, though never so deserving; and he bears a secret grudge to any that had a hand in it, though they did it with the greatest sincerity and impartiality. None are friends to proud persons, but those that humour and honour them.
Again: pride causeth boasting.—Hence it is that, in two places of scripture, "proud" persons and "boasters" are put together. (Rom. 1:30; 2 Tim. 3:2.) A proud person is ever praising and commending himself; and when he is ashamed to do it by open ostentation, then he doeth it by secret insinuation and circumlocution.
Again: it causeth scorning.—Disdain of others comes from men's overvaluing of themselves. Compare two scriptures: you read, James 4:6, how God hath said, that he "resisteth the proud, but he giveth grace unto the humble." Now where hath God said this? You will find it, Prov. 3:34: there it is said, "Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly." You see, the same persons that are called "scorners" in the Old Testament, are called "proud" in the New; so that scorning is the immediate fruit and effect of pride.
Again: it causeth lying.—Proud persons are great liars. Most of the lies and falsehoods that are told in the world, are to avoid disgrace and shame, or to purchase applause and esteem.
Again: it causeth contention.—The scripture is express in this: "Only by pride cometh contention." (Prov. 13:10.) Ay, that is the greatest makebate in the world: "He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife:" (Prov. 28:25:) he is a very firebrand in the place where he lives; he is like an unpolished stone, that will never lie even in any building.
Again: pride causeth unthankfulness.—Hezekiah's pride and ingratitude are coupled together in scripture. (Isai. 39.) Proud persons,—instead of prizing, they despise, the mercies of God, and think diminutively of them; they look upon God's gifts as due debts, and, instead of being thankful for what they have, they are ready to think [that] they have not what they do deserve.
Again: it causeth selfishness.—Pride makes men prefer themselves, not only before others, but before God himself. Proud persons idolize themselves, and make self their principal end. They love themselves more than God, and they live to themselves more than to God; they are not so zealous for his honour as for their own. Their estates and parts are more at the command of their pride, than at the command of God.
Again: it causeth carnal confidence.—Proud persons are fearless persons; they are so persuaded of their own strength and the goodness of their hearts, that they can walk in the midst of snares, and venture upon temptation, and fear no harm. "The fool rageth," says Solomon, "and is confident." (Prov. 14:16.) Pride makes men insensible of their danger, till it be too late.
Again: pride causeth self-deceit.—Proud persons "think themselves something, when they are nothing;" and so "deceive themselves." (Gal. 6:3.) They take gifts for grace, and the common, for the saving, works of the Spirit. Presumption goes with them for faith, and a little sorrow for sin is repentance. They do not distinguish between the form and power of godliness, betwixt a blockish stupidity and true peace of conscience.
Thus I have told you many, but not one half, of the evil effects of pride. Let me proceed a little farther in this discovery.
Pride makes men censorious and uncharitable.—Proud persons are very prone to judge and censure others, especially if they differ from them in opinion; a little matter will make a proud person to count and call such "hypocrites," or "heretics." He no sooner espies a mote in their eyes, but he thinks it a beam; he would have others to think the best of him, but he himself will think the worst of others.
Again: it makes men whisperers and backbiters.—Such are joined by the apostle Paul with "proud" persons. (Rom. 1:30.) Those who are proud do not only censure others in their hearts, but they reproach and defame them with their tongues: they hope [that], by speaking evil of others, they shall be the better thought-of themselves; they endeavour to build their own praise upon the ruins of others' reputation.
Again: it makes men separatists and schismatical.—There are such persons amongst the professing people of God, though all are not such that go by that name. "These be they," says Jude, "who separate themselves." (Jude 19.) "They went out from us," says the apostle John, because "they were not of us." (1 John 2:19.) Proud, conceited Christians are not contented to come out and separate from the unbelieving, idolatrous world, but they will separate also from the true church of Christ, and cast off all communion with them who hold communion with Him. They will say to those that are holier than themselves, "Stand off; for we are holier than you." (Isai. 65:5.) O, it is pride that is the chief cause of all churchrents and divisions. We may thank pride for all the factions and fractions that are in the churches of Christ at this very day.
Again: pride makes men hypocrites.—It prompts them to put on a vizard and mask of religion, and to be in appearance what they are not in reality. Proud persons "love the praise of men more than the praise of God;" (John 12:43;) and therefore they are more careful to seem religious, than to be so indeed; they more study to approve their ways to men, than they do their hearts to God.
Again: pride makes men malicious and wrongful.—Proud persons are forward to do wrong, but backward to bear or endure it. They expect that others should forgive and bear with them, but they will not forgive or bear with others: they require "an eye for an eye," and "render evil for evil," nay, sometimes evil for good. A proud person careth not whom he wrongs or betrays, so he may accomplish his own ends. He makes no bones of falsehood, slander, oppression, or injustice, if he apprehend it necessary to his own honour or ambition.
Again: it makes men murmurers and complainers, μεμψιμοιροι.—Proud persons "find fault with their lot," and are "discontented with their condition." They think themselves wiser than God himself,—that in some things they could mend what he doeth or hath done. They suppose they could guide God's hand, and "teach him knowledge;" (Job 21:22;) if they were of his council, they could give him direction for the better governing of the world in general, and for the better ordering of their own conditions and concernments in particular.
Again: it maketh persons to establish their own righteousness, and to set that up in the room of Christ's righteousness.—Proud persons will "not submit themselves unto the righteousness of God;" so it is expressed in the epistle to the Romans. (Chap. 10:3.) God hath provided a righteousness for sinners of the children of men, such as is every way sufficient to justify and save them; and that is the righteousness of his Son. What he did and suffered, may by faith be imputed and made over to them, as if they themselves had done and suffered it; so that, "as by the disobedience of" Adam they "were made sinners, by the obedience of" Christ they might "be made righteous;" (Rom. 5:19;) and as Christ was "made sin for" them, so they may "be made the righteousness of God in him." (2 Cor. 5:21.) But such is the pride of man's heart, that he will not submit to this way of justification and salvation; he will not be beholden to another for that which he thinks he hath in himself; he will not go abroad for that which he thinks he hath at home. A proud sinner sees no need of a Saviour, and thinks he can do well enough without him. Thus I have set before you two decades of the evil effects of pride; I might have given you as many more. May all serve to show you the sinfulness of this sin!
It is interesting to see that this disruption is matched by the essential commands of the law: (1) To love God with one's whole heart, soul, mind and strength; and (2) to love one's neighbor as oneself. Where sin has separated, God commands a law to restore fellowship. The work of restoring fellowship with God takes place by means of the Word and Spirit (love of God) in the congregation of worshipping (love of neighbor). We will examine these aspects in future lessons.
 "Now, let me say one thing at the outset and be done with it. The notion that is so widely spread abroad (sometimes by those who ought to know better), that nouthetic counseling considers all human problems the direct result of actual sins of particular counselees, is a gross misrepresentation of the facts. From the beginning (cf. Competent to Counsel, 1970, pp. 108, 109), I have stated clearly that not all problems of counselees are due to their own sins. In Competent, I cited the cases of Job and the man born blind (John 9:1ff.).2 Those who persist in attributing to me views that I do not hold are culpable. Either they ought to know better before they speak and write (by reading the material available—nouthetic counseling has not been done in a corner!), or they should have investigated on their own what they accepted as fact (but was actually only gossip).
"While all human misery—disability, sickness, etc.—does go back to Adam's sin (and I would be quick to assert that biblical truth), that is not the same as saying that a quid pro quo relationship between each counselee's misery and his own personal sins exists. That I as quickly deny. It may be true in one given instance, but not in another. Neither is it true that all the suffering that some deserve they get in this life. Nor is it true that all the suffering that others receive in this life they bring upon themselves. Suffering, in a world of sin, comes to all in one way or another in the providence of God,3 but before investigating each case, that is all that may be said about it. Apparent inequities (not really so from the perspective of eternity) can be resolved only in the purposes of God, who hasn't yet been pleased to reveal to us everything we'd like to know. We have all that we need to know—which is quite sufficient." Jay Edward Adams, A Theology of Christian Counseling: More Than Redemption (Grand Rapids, MI: Ministry Resource Library, 1986), 139–140.
 Jay Edward Adams, A Theology of Christian Counseling: More Than Redemption (Grand Rapids, MI: Ministry Resource Library, 1986), 165–166.
Welch, Edward T. (2012-04-30). Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection (Kindle Locations 142-148). New Growth Press. Kindle Edition.
James Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment, 307-308.
 "What must we do to prevent and cure spiritual pride" by Rev. Richard Mayo, A.M, in James Nichols, Puritan Sermons, vol. 3 (Wheaton, IL: Richard Owen Roberts, Publishers, 1981), 382–387.
It is interesting that in seeking to confess his own life, Augustine begins with a confession of the Lord's greatness. This is praise draws heavily upon Scripture, as noted below.
Et laudabilis valde: and praiseworthy intensely so.
non est numerous: not is numbered (cannot be numbered, infinite, exceedingly great).
Great are you Lord, and worthy of praise. Great is your strength, and your wisdom has no end.
Pusey: Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite.
et sapientiæ ejus non est numerus.
and of his wisdom there is no number.
OUR wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other. For, in the first place, no man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone. In the second place, those blessings which unceasingly distil to us from heaven, are like streams conducting us to the fountain. Here, again, the infinitude of good which resides in God becomes more apparent from our poverty. In particular, the miserable ruin into which the revolt of the first man has plunged us, compels us to turn our eyes upwards; not only that while hungry and famishing we may thence ask what we want, but being aroused by fear may learn humility. For as there exists in man something like a world of misery, and ever since we were stript of the divine attire our naked shame discloses an immense series of disgraceful properties every man, being stung by the consciousness of his own unhappiness, in this way necessarily obtains at least some knowledge of God. Thus, our feeling of ignorance, vanity, want, weakness, in short, depravity and corruption, reminds us (see Calvin on John 4:10), that in the Lord, and none but He, dwell the true light of wisdom, solid virtue, exuberant goodness. We are accordingly urged by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves. For what man is not disposed to rest in himself? Who, in fact, does not thus rest, so long as he is unknown to himself; that is, so long as he is contented with his own endowments, and unconscious or unmindful of his misery? Every person, therefore, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find him.
2. On the other hand, it is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he have previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself. For (such is our innate pride) we always seem to ourselves just, and upright, and wise, and holy, until we are convinced, by clear evidence, of our injustice, vileness, folly, and impurity. Convinced, however, we are not, if we look to ourselves only, and not to the Lord alsoD2—He being the only standard by the application of which this conviction can be produced. For, since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself. And since nothing appears within us or around us that is not tainted with very great impurity, so long as we keep our mind within the confines of human pollution, anything which is in some small degree less defiled delights us as if it were most pure just as an eye, to which nothing but black had been previously presented, deems an object of a whitish, or even of a brownish hue, to be perfectly white. Nay, the bodily sense may furnish a still stronger illustration of the extent to which we are deluded in estimating the powers of the mind. If, at mid-day, we either look down to the ground, or on the surrounding objects which lie open to our view, we think ourselves endued with a very strong and piercing eyesight; but when we look up to the sun, and gaze at it unveiled, the sight which did excellently well for the earth is instantly so dazzled and confounded by the refulgence, as to oblige us to confess that our acuteness in discerning terrestrial objects is mere dimness when applied to the sun. Thus too, it happens in estimating our spiritual qualities. So long as we do not look beyond the earth, we are quite pleased with our own righteousness, wisdom, and virtue; we address ourselves in the most flattering terms, and seem only less than demigods. But should we once begin to raise our thoughts to God, and reflect what kind of Being he is, and how absolute the perfection of that righteousness, and wisdom, and virtue, to which, as a standard, we are bound to be conformed, what formerly delighted us by its false show of righteousness will become polluted with the greatest iniquity; what strangely imposed upon us under the name of wisdom will disgust by its extreme folly; and what presented the appearance of virtuous energy will be condemned as the most miserable impotence. So far are those qualities in us, which seem most perfect, from corresponding to the divine purity.
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 1997).
I have been reading a lot of history and biography in recent weeks, from books on the history of Mormonism to books portraying characters as diverse as Abraham Lincoln and Queen Elizabeth II. One thing that has stood out to me in my reading is how seldom unbelieving authors accurately portray the beliefs of Christians.
Mr. Challies then provides an astoundingly incoherent example of error. I won't spoil the example by quoting it, go to his site and read it yourself: http://www.challies.com/quotes/an-error-packed-paragraph .
Creeds played a prominent part in the daily worship and life of early Christians. To a degree that is hard for twentieth-century people to grasp, the early church believed that it was absolutely vital to know and accept some very specific statements about the nature and attributes of God and his Son Jesus Christ. It was so important that all Christians were required to repeat them frequently, to learn them by heart.
Harold O.J. Brown, Heresies: Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the Church (1988; repr., Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1998), 21. Unlike the later Gnostics, there is no secret teaching, no secret ritual or hidden book for Christianity. From the very start, Christians have strived to make our belief known and understood (Luke 1:1-2). For example, 1 Corinthians 15:3-5 (7) (a creed which was likely from an Aramaic original).
15:3–7 Paul probably received this confessional statement 20 years earlier at his baptism in Damascus and later handed it over to the Corinthians when he established the church there. This vital summary of Christian belief was formed during the period between Christ's resurrection and Paul's Damascus call and baptism. This formula was carried by fugitives from Paul's persecutions to Damascus, where it was handed over to the new convert at his baptism. This statement may be the earliest formulation of NT Christianity, predating Paul's earliest letters by 15 years.
SINCE I see, most excellent Diognetus, that thou art exceedingly anxious to understand the religion of the Christians, and that thy enquiries respecting them are distinctly and carefully made, as to what God they trust and how they worship Him, that they all disregard the world and despise death, and take no account of those who are regarded as gods by the Greeks, neither observe the superstition of the Jews, and as to the nature of the affection which they entertain one to another, and of this new development or interest, which has entered into men's lives now and not before: I gladly welcome this zeal in thee, and I ask of God, Who supplieth both the speaking and the hearing to us, that it may be granted to myself to speak in such a way that thou mayest be made better by the hearing, and to thee that thou mayest so listen that I the speaker may not be disappointed.
Christians have made plain and seek to explain what it is that we believe. To make this plain, we have routinely used creeds and confessions to set out position and to distinguish orthodoxy from heresy. The history of the Church can be sketched by the Creeds, Apostolic, Nicene, et cetera. There are entire volumes of the history of creeds and confessions (see, e.g., Schaff's Creeds of Christendom).
One may disagree with the confession or beliefs of Christians – that is one issue. However, to simply misstate and misquote demonstrates at best a lack of curiosity.
REB's first and foremost well captures the logical rather than temporal force of ἐν πρώτοις in this context, i.e., of first importance (as NRSV, NIV).78 NJB's handed on to you in the first place too readily suggests sequence, but does have the advantage of retaining the double meaning which the word first can convey in both Greek and English, depending on its context. REB explicates the relative pronoun ὅ by Eng. the tradition, which was indeed implied by the two verbs (see above and on 11:23), but in view of the mistakenly negative overtones generated by the notion of tradition by those who have not yet been liberated from the worst aspects of Enlightenment rationalism it may be better not to import the word unnecessarily here. Paul does, however, refer to a continuity of handing on and receiving which constitutes, in effect, an early creed which declares the absolute fundamentals of Christian faith and on which Christian identity (and the experience of salvation) is built.
The number of studies on Paul and tradition are too many to list. Among influential works in the earlier part of the second half of the twentieth century, Oscar Cullmann (French 1953, English 1956) states in relation to this verse, "The very essence of tradition is that it forms a chain.… It is sometimes Paul, sometimes the Church which 'received'. The word καί must be particularly noticed, for it certainly belongs to the formula derived from the paradosis terminology … in 11:23 and … in 15:3, but also in 1 Cor 15:1.… 'I received the tradition in the same way as I handed it on to you — by mediation' " (Cullmann's italics, last quotation cited from E.-B. Allo).79 The relation between "fragments of Creeds" in 1 Corinthians 15 and elsewhere in Paul and the steady development of early Christian creeds is traced by Hans von Campenhausen and also by J. N. D. Kelly. Kelly argues that 1 Cor 15:3–6 is "manifestly a summary drawn up for catechetical purposes or for preaching: it gives the gist of the Christian message in a concentrated form."80 As Kelly observes, we should not assume that 1 Cor 11:23–25 and 15:3–5 provide the only such examples from Paul. From 1 Corinthians, we noted Eriksson's identification of pre-Pauline tradition in 8:6; 8:11b; 10:16; 12:3; 13 (and also 16:22); Kelly also compares Rom 1:3–4; 4:24; 8:34; Gal 1:4; 1 Thess 4:14; 5:9; and from later material 1 Pet 3:18–20 and 1 Tim 2:5–6, 8 and 6:13–14. The juxtaposition of confession in the saving efficacy of the cross and the divine vindication or glorification of Christ in the resurrection feature in virtually all of these passages as an emergent core pattern of the earliest Christian confessions or creeds within the pages of the New Testament. (Emphasis in original and added).
Anthony C. Thiselton, The First Epistle to the Corinthians: A Commentary on the Greek Text, New International Greek Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 2000), 1186-87.


This pair of bookends is made of agate and hand-polished aluminum. We love that each one is a little different, and that agate was used, because in ancient times it was said to ward off danger. Perfect for the professional who wants to impress partners, clients and investors during meetings.


Motion corrected water/fat whole-heart coronary MR angiography with 100% respiratory efficiency.
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Summary of "Motion corrected water/fat whole-heart coronary MR angiography with 100% respiratory efficiency."
To develop a framework for respiratory motion-corrected 3D whole-heart water/fat coronary MR angiography (CMRA) at 3T with reduced and predictable scan time.
Respiratory- and cardiac motion-corrected simultaneous whole-heart PET and dual phase coronary MR angiography.
Coronary computed tomography angiography for heart team decision-making in multivessel coronary artery disease.
Diagnostic performance of free-breathing coronary computed tomography angiography without heart rate control using 16-cm z-coverage CT with motion-correction algorithm.
To evaluate the feasibility of coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) in patients with free-breathing using 16-cm z-coverage CT with motion correction algorithm.
Adaptive Spatiotemporal Filtering for Coronary Ultrafast Doppler Angiography.
Radiography of the vascular system of the heart muscle after injection of a contrast medium.


Nancy Hubbard is a multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Brooklyn, NY. In her work, she repurposes ancient, traditional, and rarely used materials and techniques ranging from Renaissance-era gessoes to gilders materials to photogravure. She is a member of the artist's collective gallery ELL based in New York City and London and was a resident artist at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn from 2011-2015.
Nancy has had extensive experience as a restorer and master patineur, collaborating on several of the area's high-profile restoration and architectural projects, including work at the Hispanic Society of America, the Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Columbia University, and the New York State Capital Building, to name a few. She holds a B.A. in Art History from Rutgers University and a B.F.A. in Restoration from the State University of New York.


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Secret Theatre is back with Project Mayhem – and Hong Kong wants more!
Attention Space Monkeys! The popular immersive theatre company "Secret Theatre" have returned to Hong Kong for their third year, and they are back, with Project Mayhem.
They are half way through their run, having begun on November 3rd and finishing Dec 10th. Though reviews from the media are sparse, this has not stopped Hong Kongers, who have bared witness to the Mayhem, from taking to Time Out Hong Kong's review section and sharing their love for the show!
Some loved it after taking a while to find it…it is "secret theatre" after all!
Secret Theatre is the brain child of Richard Crawford and he is certainly one of the pioneers of Immersive Theatre. Daring to produce shows that many would think would be impossible to execute. Project Mayhem: Hong Kong, taking place over 3 floors, is no exception.
"I was living in New York, where putting on a play is really expensive. I was living in a 20,000 sq ft loft with nine other people in Williamsburg – before it became cool – and we thought, 'Why don't we start putting on plays here?' It immediately became secret and site-specific, and we couldn't afford chairs, so it became immersive.
A group of space monkeys, ready for the immersive experience.
Some rank this experience on par to any immersive theater experience in the world.
Not all the reviewers are fans though – and at $950 HKD a ticket, it can be understood that many attendees would have high expectations.
Director Richard Crawford always welcomes criticism however. Stating that if a viewer of one of his shows was so affected by it that they would take the time to write a comment – then the show is making an impression and doing its job.
Others may not be fans of the violence and the madness, of which Project Mayhem champions. Without giving away too much of the story, Project Mayhem, like all of Secret Theater's productions, is an adaptation of a well known book and film. Whether you are a fan of the original work or not, most have walked away appreciating this fresh and innovative adaptation.
Despite the high ticket price, most are more than satisfied with the experience.
Certain show days also offer a dining experience as well. Coupled with the show, this indeed could be made into a special night out.
Most of the cast are from England. However Crawford has always been keen to work more with Hong Kong's local talent. Among them are Lorraine Tai, Rosemary Vandenbroucke and our own Third Culture founder and director, Harry Oram.
Many have responded favorably in seeing local talent taking the lead.
Lorraine Tai, is a Hong Kong born actress, who, like many talented Hong Kong performers, left to pursue a career overseas due to a lack of opportunity here in Hong Kong. Now a veteran of Secret Theater, she has returned to Hong Kong with the company for a second time. Hopefully with more productions such as these, Hong Kong might be able to retain some of its more talented actors.
Leading this group of space monkeys is Harry Oram. He has not been seen on the Hong Kong stage since 2013 when he performed as Judas in "The Last days of Judas Iscariot", winning him a Best Actor award for Hong Kong's HKELD Awards. As an actor, he has been more focused on his career in film, but more recently, hosting for Fox Movies Asia as well.
Despite not appearing on stage for several years, Harry has always supported Hong Kong theater. He set up Third Culture Theatricals with co-founders Joms Ortega and Ralion Alonso, who are also currently in a production, Urinetown. Though all three actors said that they did not yet want to perform in their own productions, in order to give opportunities to other actors; it is great to see all three of them back on stage.
There is often talk that Hong Kong's arts scene is in desperate need for a revamp. Hong Kong is a financial, commercial city, and its art scene has fallen far behind. That local talent is not utilized and is often forced to leave. That quality shows are expensive, because they are imported rather than supported locally.
Project Mayhem might just be the show for you. It takes that frustration that we often have all had with commercial city life, and it puts that frustration and energy into one wild night.
Suit up Space Monkeys! Do not miss this show, get your tickets while they still last!


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26 U.S.C. § 1392 - Eligibility criteria
26 USC 1392 - Eligibility criteria
(a) In general
A nominated area shall be eligible for designation under section 1391 only if it meets the following criteria:
(1) Population
The nominated area has a maximum population of
(A) in the case of an urban area, the lesser of
(i) 200,000, or
(ii) the greater of 50,000 or 10 percent of the population of the most populous city located within the nominated area, and
(B) in the case of a rural area, 30,000.
(2) Distress
The nominated area is one of pervasive poverty, unemployment, and general distress.
(3) Size
The nominated area
(A) does not exceed 20 square miles if an urban area or 1,000 square miles if a rural area,
(B) has a boundary which is continuous, or, except in the case of a rural area located in more than 1 State, consists of not more than 3 noncontiguous parcels,
(i) in the case of an urban area, is located entirely within no more than 2 contiguous States, and
(ii) in the case of a rural area, is located entirely within no more than 3 contiguous States, and
(D) does not include any portion of a central business district (as such term is used for purposes of the most recent Census of Retail Trade) unless the poverty rate for each population census tract in such district is not less than 35 percent (30 percent in the case of an enterprise community).
(4) Poverty rate
The poverty rate
(A) for each population census tract within the nominated area is not less than 20 percent,
(B) for at least 90 percent of the population census tracts within the nominated area is not less than 25 percent, and
(C) for at least 50 percent of the population census tracts within the nominated area is not less than 35 percent.
(b) Special rules relating to determination of poverty rate
For purposes of subsection (a)(4)
(1) Treatment of census tracts with small populations
(A) Tracts with no population
In the case of a population census tract with no population
(i) such tract shall be treated as having a poverty rate which meets the requirements of subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (a)(4), but
(ii) such tract shall be treated as having a zero poverty rate for purposes of applying subparagraph (C) thereof.
(B) Tracts with populations of less than 2,000
A population census tract with a population of less than 2,000 shall be treated as having a poverty rate which meets the requirements of subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (a)(4) if more than 75 percent of such tract is zoned for commercial or industrial use.
(2) Discretion to adjust requirements for enterprise communities
In determining whether a nominated area is eligible for designation as an enterprise community, the appropriate Secretary may, where necessary to carry out the purposes of this subchapter, reduce by 5 percentage points one of the following thresholds for not more than 10 percent of the population census tracts (or, if fewer, 5 population census tracts) in the nominated area:
(A) The 20 percent threshold in subsection (a)(4)(A).
(B) The 25 percent threshold in subsection (a)(4)(B).
(C) The 35 percent threshold in subsection (a)(4)(C).
If the appropriate Secretary elects to reduce the threshold under subparagraph (C), such Secretary may (in lieu of applying the preceding sentence) reduce by 10 percentage points the threshold under subparagraph (C) for 3 population census tracts.
(3) Each noncontiguous area must satisfy poverty rate rule
A nominated area may not include a noncontiguous parcel unless such parcel separately meets (subject to paragraphs (1) and (2)) the criteria set forth in subsection (a)(4).
(4) Areas not within census tracts
In the case of an area which is not tracted for population census tracts, the equivalent county divisions (as defined by the Bureau of the Census for purposes of defining poverty areas) shall be used for purposes of determining poverty rates.
(c) Factors to consider
From among the nominated areas eligible for designation under section 1391 by the appropriate Secretary, such appropriate Secretary shall make designations of empowerment zones and enterprise communities on the basis of
(1) the effectiveness of the strategic plan submitted pursuant to section 1391 (f)(2) and the assurances made pursuant to section 1391 (e)(3), and
(2) criteria specified by the appropriate Secretary.
(d) Special eligibility for nominated areas located in Alaska or Hawaii
A nominated area in Alaska or Hawaii shall be treated as meeting the requirements of paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of subsection (a) if for each census tract or block group within such area 20 percent or more of the families have income which is 50 percent or less of the statewide median family income (as determined under section 143).
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Story of small DevOps team consisting of 4 on-call people and 2 newbies. How did we manage to go on-call and manage backlog. Talk is about the experiments we did that lead to be effective. Concepts such as deploy train, driver, navigator and tracks running real life DevOps.


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2. Scott, Rachel. "Factsheet No. 8 Inclusive Play." National Children's Bureau. Children's Play Information Service. < http://www.ncb.org.uk/cpis/cpis_factsheet8_inclusiveplay_20090824.pdf > 7 July 2011.
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***We will be running an academy in half term at Hill House EC on Tuesday 27th October.
There will be warm up/ flatwork sessions with Liz Pears, jumping with Joanne Burns Firth and a talk by 'The Horse Bit Shop' with the opportunity to book a private session with your horse with them.
Work can be done on the 5* Booklets throughout the day.
This is £30 for BS Members and £35 for non members.
Planning focus on 5* booklets, flat work and possibly grids.
Area Training has been organised with British Showjumping Coach Lianne Smith on the 9th May at Horse World EC. Lianne trained Beth Vernon who was double gold medallist at the European Championships and also trains Kerry Brennan who has recently started to compete at international level. Lianne is based in Chesterfield at Spire Town Stud and regularly competes herself. Sessions will be held in the afternoon and evening to accommodate those coming after work/school and will be in small groups (Max 4) All ages and abilities will be catered for. These sessions will be subsidised by British Showjumping - £20/members, £25/non members.
If you would like to book on contact Ruth Tyler on 07584 706461 or email ruth.tyler@britishshowjumping.co.uk. Please note that payment will be required in advance and that British Showjumping cancellation policy will apply.
The next Notts/Lincs academy session has been booked for the 20 February at Milton EC (Worksop). Ridden sessions will be with British Showjumping Coach Selina Cawkwell. Joanne Burns (UKCC level 2) will also be there to sign off your 5* booklets. We are also hoping to have a physio/sports fitness session during the day.
New saddle cloths are now available from British Showjumping (please see link below). We will be getting some embroidered with 'Notts/Lincs Academy Team'. If you would like to order one, please let Ruth know whether you would prefer white or navy, full or pony. The cost of these will be £30 including embroidery.
Please note that payment will be required in advance and the British Showjumping cancellation policy will apply.
vel 2 coach, Joanne Burns on 23, 30 Jan, 6, 13, 20, 27 Feb 2013. This is a fantastic opportunity to access coaching at a very discounted rate (£90 for 6 sessions). If you would like to join in, please call Ruth Tyler (East Midlands Development Officer) on 07584 706461 or e-mail: ruth.tyler@britishshowjumping.co.uk . There are only 10 spaces available for each course and bookings will be taken on a first come, first served basis.
Area Training on the 5 September at Horse World with accredited and Pony Team Coach, Alan Fazakerley! Juniors, seniors, members and non-members are welcome! £35/members, £40 non-members. For more information and to book a place, please contact Ruth Tyler on ruth.tyler@britishshowjumping.co.uk. Please note that payments will be required to secure your booking and the British Showjumping cancellation policy will apply.
As a result of your feedback and some regional sponsorship it is planned that some subsidised training will take place across the East Midlands this summer for British Showjumping members. There will be four sessions (1 hour per week) for £60.
If you would like to book a space please contact me on ruth.tyler@britishshowjumping.co.uk or call 07584 706461. Please note that payment in advance will be required and the British Showjumping cancellation policy will apply.
We are delighted to announce that the Junior Academy in your area is being re-launched! We are writing to invite you to The Council Chamber at Newark and Notts Showground on the 10 May to welcome you to the Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire academy! There will be the opportunity to meet your lead Coach (Selina Cawkwell) and the chance to give suggestions about what you would like from your academy!
We will have academy folders at the meeting for all junior riders wanting to be part of the academy!
Training has been arranged with Selina Cawkwell on Tuesday 24 April at Horse World EC. Sessions will be in the afternoon/evening to accommodate those wanting to come along after work and school.
Sessions will be in small groups and all ages and abilities will be catered for. £25/members and £35/non-members.


ANZ today confirmed it has entered into an enforceable undertaking with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) following an industry-wide review of Spot Foreign Exchange trading between January 2008 and June 2013.
ANZ Chief Risk Officer Nigel Williams said: "ANZ has cooperated fully with ASIC's investigation on this matter and we accept that during this period aspects of our supervision and monitoring of the Spot FX business were not good enough. We have taken responsibility and we apologise.
"There has been a cultural and compliance step change in our Markets business since 2013. While we are always looking at ways to strengthen our compliance environment, there have been major improvements to compliance, training and monitoring systems in recent years which will go a long way toward ensuring this does not happen again," Mr Williams said.
As part of the enforceable undertaking, an independent expert will be appointed to assess and review relevant systems and controls within ANZ's Markets business and ANZ will make a $3 million contribution to Financial Literacy Australia.


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Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, First, Middle): Huang, Jian Signaling pathways regulated by GSK3 in hematopoietic stem cells Abstract Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) possess two distinct features: the ability to self-renew and to differentiate into mature blood cells. The signaling pathways that regulate HSC self-renewal and differentiation are not well understood. Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3), a negative regulator of canonical Wnt signaling and a downstream target of hematopoietic growth factor signaling pathways that signal through Jak/Stat and PI3 kinase/Akt dependent pathways, has been implicated in the regulation of HSC activity. Canonical Wnt signaling has been implicated in HSC self-renewal, but the role of this pathway remains controversial. Recently, the PTEN-PI3K-mTOR pathway has been demonstrated to play an essential role in HSC maintenance. Our hypothesis is that GSK3 is a critical effector downstream of Wnt and PI3K within HSCs that regulates the HSC population. In support of this hypothesis, our preliminary data show that: 1) lithium and other selective GSK3 inhibitors significantly increase the number of HSCs in mice, 2) RNAi mediated depletion of Gsk3 in murine HSCs initially expands the HSC population in bone marrow transplants, but long-term inhibition of GSK3 exhausts HSC. 3) The expansion of HSCs by inhibition of GSK3 is mediated through 2-catenin while the depletion of HSCs is largely dependent on mTOR signaling. These observations support the hypothesis that GSK3 is an important regulator of hematopoiesis. In this proposal, we will extend our study to explore the functional role of GSK3 phosphorylation in HSCs. We will also address the isoform specific functions of Gsk3a vs. Gsk3b in hematopoietic cells with newly constructed conditional knockouts in mice. The non cell- autonomous effect of GSK3 inhibition on HSCs will also be explored with the conditional knockout of Gsk3 in the osteoblast niche. Furthermore, we will test whether modulating the activity of GSK3 and mTOR can expand HSCs in ex vivo culture. A functional screen to identify new regulators of HSCs self-renewal in ex vivo culture will be carried out. The overall goal of this project is to examine the respective contributions of Wnt and PTEN-PI3K-mTOR signaling in the response to GSK3 inhibition and to define the role of GSK3 in regulating these pathways within the hematopoietic system. The knowledge learned from these studies will provide new insights into the mechanisms of the regulation of HSC self-renewal and differentiation and may improve the therapy of hematopoietic disorders. 1
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Blood cells arise from a common precursor called the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC), which is able to differentiate into mature blood cells and is also able to replenish the pool of HSCs. Clinically, HSCs are required for bone marrow transplantation to treat leukemia and other diseases of the blood. The long-term goals of this project are to extend our understanding of HSC biology and to improve HSC/bone marrow transplantation. )
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O'Neil does have an extensive history of tension within the FMPD. Including losing his job twice and two lawsuits against the department as well.
It started in March of 2011, when the now-former officer Kerr was arrested for domestic violence. Those charges were later dropped, Kerr was not reinstated.
In 2012, Kerr filed a discrimination lawsuit against then FMPD Police Chief Doug Baker. He was reinstated later that year. Taxpayers had to pay him $18,000 in back pay and foot the bill for his arbitration.
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Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3
During august will be released brand new car racing game Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune. It's the third one. Namco prepared some novelties: decorate your car as you like it, enter hundreds of races, play a new "ghost car" mode. Saving cards are still in but cards and card readers used on Maximum Tune 2 cannot be used on Maximum Tune 3 (level up fans will have it hard). New players weren't forgotten since a new concept appeared, gradual learning curve, which will turn casual gamers into hardcore fans! Maximum Tune 3 runs on Namco new N2 hardware, which is said to bring "unprecedented speed and realism"... Multiplayer mode will let 4 drivers face each others. You can contact your Namco distributor for further information knowing that an converting MT 2 into MT3 upgrade kit will be available 2 months after the complete version.
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Spider-Man hits Belgium
Good news for all pinball lovers: the latest Stern will hit Belgium tomorrow. While playing Spider-Man, you must fight enemies from the 3 movies: Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Sandman and Venom. The playfield is loaded full of interesting features such as a magnet holding the ball, motorized targets, a moving character and multiball modes. The movie staff was involved in the machine design, it includes over 800 voice effects and dot matrix animations showing key scenes of the motion picture. From tomorrow on, Spider-Man will be available from Namusco. About Namusco, M. Bernard Leroy recently left the company, he leaves his Managing Director position to M. Urbain Théwissen (who has been a manager for 6 years). M. Stefaan Michels becomes the new Sales and Export Manager. We wish a lot of success to this new team.
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The end of arcade KOF?
Ben Herman (SNK Playmore's american branch president) recently said the company would develop more arcade games. But on the japanese side, people are not that optimistic. Indeed, the platform switch from Atomiswave to Taito Type X² proved to be harder than tought as problems were encountered, notably regarding products international distribution by Taito. Two games are being developed on this hardware: a new Samurai Shodown and The King of Fighters Maximum Impact Regulation "A" which last test phase is planned for August with a showcase at September's AM Show. However, any delay could mean the end of any further amusement activity for SNK Playmore. Everything will depend on reactions to this KOF. Talking about KOF, the filming of a live motion picture based on King of Fighters will begin in 2008 in Asia. It will be an american/japanese coproduction played in english and directed by Hong-Kong director Gordon Chan (Fist of Legend). The screenplay is signed Chris Chow (Fearless).
Free upgrade and lower price for UltraPin
After a price drop for Need for Speed Underground (for which Carbon upgrade will be released in 2008), Global VR just announced lower prices for some titles including UltraPin. In addition, the base version of this "pinball simulator" now includes 12 tables. Operators owning the old version can obtain an upgrade CD free of charge containing the 6 new tables as well as a software update by simply contacting their local Global VR distributor. These new tables are: Funhouse, Firepower, Eight Ball Champ, Pin•Bot, Fathom and Black Knight. These price drops were made possible thanks to initiatives taken recently by the company to lower operational costs and to the manufacturing optimizations due to large ordered quantities. Next titles will also be affected.
Arcade games on TV
Seen in TF1's one o'clock news (the biggest french private TV channel) is a 2 minutes report on arcade games. The action was shot in Tokyo where we could see people playing Taiko no Tatsujin, DrumMania V3, beatmania, GuitarFreaks, Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA, Pop'n Music and Mah-jong Fight Club. Reporters even briefly explained the operation of Gundam - Senjou no Kizuna, Sangokushi Taisen and Star Horse 2. The news presenter then concludes the report by these words: "Japan will always astonish us that much with their video games.". This report can be seen on the show's website. It's very uncommon for mainstream medias to talk about arcade games and it's worth greeting them for that. Unfortunately, they were once more showed as a "japanese curiosity" even though some of these games stand in our european arcades (those nobody talks about). The time when we were updated with the latest arcade news through the consoles magazines is far behind. Nevertheless, the trend is slowly changing. For instance, english gaming magazine GamesTM recently published a preview of Silent Hill - The Arcade and an After Burner Climax review while american Hardcore Gamer Magazine presented an Aliens Extermination review. Television is also concerned as last friday, US TV channel Spike broadcast a report on Big Buck Hunter Pro developers Play Mechanix in its Game Head show. Air time was 1am, but it's a good start. Hopefully these weren't single shots. Now the door is opening again, it's up to sector actors to better communicate with the external world.
WCCF - World champion 2007
Here's a short report of the World Club Champion Football World Cup that took place on May 19th at Woking's Big Apple (in England). After a 100% italian final, AC3 won against AC West Bromwich by 2 goals to 1 and a tie (1-1). Teams who reached the knockouts were the Japanese Bambi Lion Heart and RC Blue Eagle, Spanish Hidalgos Team V and Allastors, English Plattie and Goal Architect and of course Italian AC3 and AC Bromwich. AC3 eliminated the japanese champion Bambi (1-1, 2-1) then Plattie beat Hidalgos Team V (3-1, 1-2). Goal Architect gave a hard time before losing versus AC West Bromwich (1-0, 0-1, 1-2) and RC Blue Eagle beat the Allastors (2-2, 2-1). Semi-finals were full of suspense; AC3 started by crushing Plattie (2-0), this one took his revenge (3-1) before losing the third match (1-4). All meetings of AC West Bromwich and RC Blue Eagle concluded by ties (1-1, 0-0, 1-1) and Italians reched the final thanks to penalties. So congratulations to Francesco (AC3) from Brescia for his beautiful victory. The competition occured in a good atmosphere and was improved by Kitcarson's lively commentaries. Find all results on the official website.
World Club Champion Football International Cup 2007
Soon comes the football world cup finals! I mean the WCCF ones of course! After Italy in 2006; England is chosen to host the second WCCF International Cup. The event will take place on Saturday May 19Th on 10:00am at Woking's Big Apple. it will be a gathering of the best players from England and Scotland but also those from Spain, Italy, Japan and event United Arab Emirates. In addition to the cup, many other prizes will be offered such as signed football shirts and exclusive memorabilia. Of course, we'll keep you informed of this major tournament's results. More than 100 WCCF machines are in operation throughout Europe. They spread between the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Austria and Greece. For more information about this title, check out its dedicated page.
Top of the tops
Those who love charts will be pleased. As a reply to a request on the forum, we drawn up a ranking of country's 20 biggest arcades and mobile lunaparks. These charts are statistics based only. The following data were used to build it (in this order): the number of different games, the multiplayer setups and the modernity of the titles in operation. Therefore, this is not a quality measurement. This ranking will be updated in real time so remember to report any change happening in your favourite location. Logically, the biggest arcades are found on the coast but not only. For instance, behind Blankenberge's Sportland and Oostende's Reflex, you find the Family Games Center in Charleroi and Westouter's Las Vegas. Look at our map to locate them. Even if video games have become scarcer in our funfairs, lunaparks like the New Casino, the Coney-Island and the Bonanza still have a nice bunch of titles. Check out the charts for the remaining big locations. On the other hand, Tops 5 of the most profitable games in Japan (both upright and dedicated cabinets) covering the period of march to april were just published. At the top, you still find Virtua Fighter 5 and Mah-jong Fight Club 5 respectively. These charts didn't changed much, except for the return of Virtua Tennis 3 in fifth position (upright side) and the arrival of Initial D - Arcade Stage 4 (that should soon be out there) taking the place of Taiko no Tatsujin 9 in second position of the dedicated cabinets ranking. After this mini trip to east asia, let's get back home. As no official belgian "Top 10 best arcade games" charts exist anymore, it's up to you to draw up the ranking. All you have to do is to vote for your favourite game among the last ten titles released in this country. It happens on the forum. You must be registered in order to vote (this is to avoid having multiple entries by the same individual) but it's an opportunity to join us! Nobody forces you to take part in the talks anyway. The important thing is that you vote. If you were on holiday in a galaxy far, far away during the last couple of years and you never tried any of these games, don't worry; where to play them is written below the poll form. Deadline is June 30th 2007. On this date, the ranking will be published on our website. We rely on your contribution! Last but not least, Namco recently put on line the international version of Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 worldwide ranking. From now on, you can enter this ranking using the password written under "Time Attack Password" on your game card.
Area 51 to hit the big screen in 2009
We all remember Area 51, Atari's lightgun shooting game released in 1995. Developed by Mesa Logic, this smash hit got a sequel three years later poetically named Site 4. Paramount Pictures bought the rights in 2004 to make a movie version (one's find his inspiration where he can). And then... nothing. That's what we thought until well-known scottish comic books author Grant Morrison, who notably published his work through DC Comics and Marvel, joined the team earlier this month. His job is to enhance the current screenplay written by Dean Georgaris (writer for Paycheck and Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life). Good point; creatures will be designed by Stan Winston. In addition to these two men, producers board also includes Christine Forsyth-Peters (How to lose a guy in 10 days) and Michael Aguilar (The Departed). The story is about a hazardous materials specialist called to Area 51 to investigate a viral outbreak that could be of an extra-terrestrial origin. The film should be released in 2009. Hopefully they'll do better than the awful movie adaptation of The House of the Dead!
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The Fast and the Furious Drift
Raw Thrills's new racer is out! Launched at ASI 2007 show in Las Vegas, The Fast and the Furious Drift, that's the name, is an upgrade to the popular Fast and the Furious released in 2004. Still so fun, this brand new version offers 12 new cars and 7 additional tracks taking place in and around Tokyo (for a grand total of 19 courses!). The goal is still to earn money while racing in order to upgrade and tune your car (which is kept in the machine thanks to a PIN code). New feature: the player can purchase spare parts faster by adding credits. Thus like in real life, richest people will have the best cars. The cabinet features a 27" monitor and is available as sitdown and upright versions. Up to 8 machines can be linked-up for furious multiplayer races. The Fast and the Furious Drift will hit Europe in the next few weeks. You can already place an order at your local Namco distributor. For more information, check the game's page.
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