Having reminded Christians of how great a salvation God has given them in Christ (verses 21-22), and pointing them to their need to persevere in the faith until they are presented before the Lord (verse 22b-23), Paul now steps back and reviews the great sovereign, redemptive plan of God that is revealed from heaven in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
In the book of Isaiah, we read of the Lord reproving negligent spiritual leaders in Israel. They indulge themselves while the nation is serving idols rather than the living God. The Lord says they are like happy drunkards who think tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure. However, when disaster inevitably comes and they cry out, the Lord says let their collection of idols deliver them.
Turn to Genesis 26:1-17. Chapter 26 of Genesis tells us more about Isaac than any other of the sections which speak of this son of Abraham. In this passage, we have three distinct scenes set before us.
Turn in your Bible to Genesis 10:1-32. This passage is an expansion of those passing comments that we saw last week about Shem, Ham, and Japheth: "From these the whole world was populated." Here we have this long catalog of the nations descended from Noah's sons.
Turn in your Bible to Luke 24:13-27. If you'll remember verses 1-12, when the angels encountered the women who had come to the tomb to complete the preparation of Jesus' body, the angels said to them, "Remember what He said," and we talked about how Luke was emphasizing the centrality of the words of Christ for His disciples. It's central to their faith. Well, in the passage we're going to study this time, Jesus elaborates on that very point.
Turn in your Bible to Luke 24:1-12. This passage is about the battle of faith. Are we going to trust God's Word, or are we going to succumb to unbelief? Jesus Himself does not appear to anyone in the story that Luke has recorded here. This is significant because Luke is pointing our attention to something else that is faith producing, and that is the Word of God, the words of Christ.
Turn in your Bible to Luke 23:39-43. In the last passage that we read in Luke, Jesus prayed, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." In this passage, Jesus forgives a criminal and assures him of everlasting life. Even on the cross, Jesus is ministering His saving work. Even as He dies for the sins of the world, He is concerned about the heart of a convicted criminal who is dying the same awful death that He is dying. And in this wonderful exchange, this unique exchange recorded for us only by Luke, I want us to see three things. We will look at two of them this week, and we'll look at the last one next week.
DUNCAN/Are You the King of the Jews?
Turn to Luke 23:1-5. Remember that Jesus is before the Sanhedrin, the council of the elders. The Sanhedrin did not have the right of the death penalty. If the death penalty was going to be administered to Jesus, they would have to go to Pilate, the Roman authority. As you read there are three things that I want you to be on the lookout for.
Turn to Luke 22:24-27 as we continue looking at the events of the last night before Jesus' crucifixion. In this passage we find the disciples arguing about who is the greatest, and Jesus rebukes them for it. This is a pretty humiliating story about the disciples, but Luke doesn't tell it to shame them. He tells it to teach us a lesson. You see, Jesus is getting at one main thing in his rebuke: our attitude, our ambition. He's exhorting us to a life of other-centered, Gospel-motivated service. As we look at what Jesus says, I want you to see four ways Luke gets this point across: the blindness of the disciples, the blindness of the world, the nature of the kingdom, and the motivation for our service.
Turn to Luke 21:25-38 as we continue to make our way through a passage in which Jesus has been addressing His disciples about future events. There is a criticism of the Christian teaching on the end times that goes something like this. Because the Bible teaches that Jesus is coming again and that this earth will pass away, this keeps Christians from being involved in this world. Jesus' teaching shows that that criticism misunderstands what the Bible's teaching on the last things is for. Jesus' teaching about the last things is designed to equip us for today, and He shows us this specifically in this passage in several ways. Let me just give you four words as we work through the passage together: confidence, trust, watch, and pray.
Turn to Luke 19:28-44. This passage takes place on the Sunday before the Friday of Jesus' crucifixion. Jesus does things here that He does nowhere else prior to this point. So often in the gospel story, when someone comes to Jesus and says, "You're the Messiah," Jesus says, "Do not tell anyone this." That doesn't happen here. Here He is acclaimed as the Messiah, and He says, "That's right. I am." Why is that different here? Luke wants you to pay attention to that question. In this passage Luke is saying, "Behold, this is your King. This is what He's coming to do." He's directing our attention to Jesus' person and work.
Turn in your Bible to Luke 17:1-6. I want to remind you that throughout Luke 16 Jesus has been dealing with both the Pharisees' lives and their teaching. Their sin is leading the people of God astray, so here Jesus is concerned to say to His disciples, "Do not live and teach like the Pharisees." In many ways it's a contrast; it's a positive exhortation in light of His negative criticism of the Pharisees in Luke 16.
This week we will look at Luke 13:18-21. In this passage Jesus tells two parables describing the kingdom of God. 'Kingdom of God' refers to the reign of God in this world and especially in the hearts of men and women and boys and girls. Jesus talks about it all the time. His gospel is bringing in the kingdom, and the kingdom creates the people of the kingdom, the church of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Turn to Luke 12:49-59. As you look through this passage, let me give you a few clues along the way to help you follow the train of argument. There are at least three parts to this passage. First, in verses 49 and 50, and especially in verse 50, Jesus makes a powerful declaration. He'll follow it up in verses 51 to 53 with a penetrating question. Then, in verses 54 to 59, He turns to the multitudes and gives them an admonition, warning them because they lack spiritual discernment.
Turn in your Bible to Luke 12:35-48. Jesus turns His attention here to the issue of how we live daily as His disciples. He's especially concerned that His disciples would live in such a way that they are ready for His return. And He is particularly interested that His disciples would be good shepherds of His sheep and that His people would live lives of mutual service.
Turn to Luke chapter 12:22-34 as we continue our way through this gospel. In the previous passage we saw a diagnosis of covetousness. The passage that we're going to study now has to do with the cure of covetousness. Jesus, having diagnosed the illness and held up the royal mirror of His Word that we might look into it and see our own sin, is now giving us direction on how we fight against that sin of covetousness.
This week we'll be looking at Luke 12:8-12. The whole passage has to do with how we testify with our tongues to the Lord Jesus Christ. It begins by talking about our testimony to Jesus with our lips. In verse 10 it talks about those who oppose Jesus with their lips and with their words, and in verses 11 and 12 it talks about giving testimony to Jesus when we're called to give an account for the hope that is in us.
This week we'll be looking at Luke 12:1-3. As you turn there you may want to allow your eyes to roam back over Luke 11 to remember what has occurred right before this discourse. A Pharisee had judged Jesus for failing to wash his hands before eating, and Jesus responded with a rebuke for the Pharisees. He later turned to his disciples and pronounced woes upon the Pharisees for their fundamental problem of hypocrisy.
DUNCAN/"A Very Awkward Dinner Conversation"
We continue our way through Luke's Gospel today by looking at Luke 11:37-54, which contains the outline of a very awkward dinner conversation. Jesus has been invited into the home of a Pharisee, a respected leader.
DUNCAN/Jesus: How Are Your Eyes?
We're in Luke 11:29-36 today. How are your eyes? I'm talking about your spiritual eyes. How clearly are you seeing things in life? How clearly are you seeing yourself? Are you able to see your sin and your need? Are you locked in on the true wisdom? When you hear true, heavenly wisdom does it resonate with you? And how about Jesus and the Gospel? Are the eyes of your heart fixed on Him?
As we continue our way through the Gospel of Luke, we come to an extraordinary passage in which Jesus casts a demon out of a man who has been made mute by the activity of that demon and it evokes varying responses from the multitude that were observing this. Some marveled but others ascribed Jesus' activities to the power of Satan while still others demanded that that sign of casting out a demon was not enough. And of course in this passage He identifies Himself as the One who is able to plunder the strong man and so He shows Himself to be the Ruler of the ruler of the demons.
In this article we continue in our series on the Gospel of Luke by taking a look at Luke 11:5-13. Following up on our study of the Lord's Prayer, we started to see last week how Jesus isn't done with prayer. He has given an outline, a pattern of prayer to His disciples to pray in response to their request, "Lord, teach us to pray," but now He wants to urge them as to the importance of prayer.
In this article we continue in our series on the Gospel of Luke by taking a look at Luke 11:5-13. Over the past few weeks we have look at how, in the Lord's prayer, Jesus has given an outline, a pattern of prayer to His disciples to pray in response to their request, "Lord, teach us to pray," but now He wants to urge them as to the importance of prayer.
We've been slowly looking at the Lord's Prayer for the past few weeks found in Luke 11:1-4. And last week we came to the fifth and final request, "Lead us not into temptation." We looked at how this phrase teaches us that we are to pray for deliverance from sin, we are to fear sin, as well as fear the devil.
DUNCAN/He called. He gave. He sent.
Do you want to be king or do you want to be in the kingdom? Those are your options. They're the only two options there are. Let me ask that question another way. Do you want to be free to do as you please, what you please, when you please, where you please, or do you want the freedom that only God can give, a freedom that comes at the price of renouncing the pursuit of doing what you please, when you please, where you please? Or I could ask the question still another way. Do you want to be independent?
In our last few articles we've stopped and parked on the Lord's Prayer and the five petitions that Luke gives in his rendition of Jesus' prayer, the prayer that He taught the disciples to pray, in Luke 11:1-4. And we're on a very important petition today.
In our last few articles we've stopped and parked on the Lord's Prayer and the five petitions that Luke gives in his rendition of Jesus' prayer, the prayer that He taught the disciples to pray, in Luke 11:1-4. And we're picking up where we left off last week on a very important petition today. It's the petition for the Lord to forgive us as we forgive those who have sinned against us.
In this article we continue working our way through the gospel of Luke and specifically the Lord's Prayer found in Luke 11:1-4. And we pick up where we left off last week on third verse in Luke's version of our Lord's Prayer concerning the petition, "Give us each day our daily bread."
In this article we continue working our way through the gospel of Luke and specifically the Lord's Prayer found in Luke 11:1-4. We come today to the third verse in Luke's version of our Lord's Prayer. We'll concentrate on it. We've seen already several things.
In today's article, we continue to look at Luke 11:1-4 and the Lord's Prayer. Two weeks ago we saw how Jesus is simply teaching the disciples how to pray the Bible. And then last week we made a few preliminary observations about the priority and pattern of prayer. This week we are going to zero in on the second petition, "Your kingdom come."
In today's article, we'll be looking again at Luke 11:1-4 and making our way through the Lord's Prayer, the prayer that Jesus taught His disciples in response to their request that He teach them how to pray.
We continue to make our way through Luke's Gospel in this article as we look at Luke 11:1-4. We come today to the passage in which one of Jesus' disciples asks Him to teach them to pray, not an uncommon thing amongst disciples. But the very question and the answer that Jesus gives prompts us to ask the Lord in prayer to help us to pray.
It's not about Martha. It's about you.
We continue today in our study in the Gospel of Luke by looking at Luke 10:38-42. This is one of the great passages in the Bible about discipleship. And it's important for us to understand that in the end, this passage is really not about Martha, it's about you and me.
BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVES/What shall I do to inherit eternal life?
As we continue our way through the Gospel of Luke we come to a passage today that contains one of the most well-known stories of Jesus, the story of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37.
We continue our study in the Gospel of Luke this week by looking at Luke 10:17-24. The passage comes in three parts. Verses 17 to 20 recounts the report of the disciples and then Jesus' response to them in which He explicitly tells them what it is that they ought to rejoice in.
Today we continue in our journey through the Gospel of Luke by looking at Luke 10:1-16 where Jesus sends His disciples out again on a mission.
BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE/Who is the greatest?
We continue our study in the Gospel of Luke in this article by looking at Luke 9:46-56. It was the twenty-fifth of February, 1964, a twenty-two year old boxer had just defeated the world heavyweight champion and a microphone was thrust into his face as he left the ring. And he declared, "I am the greatest!" His name then was Cassius Clay. He later became Muhammad Ali and I think that the whole of the United States was shaken up by his braggadocio.
We continue our walk through the Gospel of Luke by looking at Luke 9:37-45 today. This is the one time in Jesus' earthly ministry that something of the full glory of who He was shone through and only three people saw it, three human beings that lived and ministered with Him, His inner circle - Peter, James, and John.
This week we continue to work our way through the Gospel of Luke by picking back up from our examination of Luke 9:28-36 from last week.
This week we continue to work our way through the Gospel of Luke by taking a look at Luke 9:28-36.
In this article we'll be looking at Luke 9:23-27 in this great Gospel of Luke together. The subject of this passage is self denial. But of course I'm not just talking about self denial in general.
We continue our way through the Gospel of Luke together in this article by looking at Luke 9:18-22. In the Gospel of Luke we have been confronted with the question, "Who is this Jesus?" Luke wants to get at this question with you and me because that question is a dividing question. There are two types of people in this world - those who have the right answer to that question and those who don't - those who have responded rightly and have identified correctly who Jesus is and thus have embraced Him and those who haven't, and so this question is of vital importance.
As we continue our way through this great Gospel of Luke, we come to a passage which deals with the feeding of the five thousand in Luke 9:10-17. It's a passage in which Jesus' compassion is on vivid display, especially in contrast to His disciples, who are not so much uncompassionate as they were practical. It's a passage in which the power of Jesus is on display. Quite deliberately, the disciples are powerless to do anything about the situation that confronts them. Jesus lacks no such power and displays it vividly. And of course finally, the provision of Jesus is on display in this passage.
BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE/He called. He gave. He sent.
In this article we continue our series on the Gospel of Luke by looking at Luke 9:1-9.
BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVES/Are you laughing or amazed?
We continue our series in the Gospel of Luke today by looking at Luke 8:40-56.
We continue in this article in our series on the Gospel of Luke from Luke 8:26-39. And if you'll remember we are looking at these four miracle stories, which show Jesus reaching out to Gentiles, either in Galilee or even in even more Gentile territory across the river. It's a picture of His great commission outreach, not just to Jews but to Gentiles also.
As we continue in our study of the Gospel of Luke we will look at Luke 8:22-25 in this article. Where is your faith when the unexpected comes? How do you react? What do you think? To the thousand potential situations and questions that are in our hearts in the midst of them Jesus has a question for you - "Where is your faith?" - because in this passage He is teaching His disciples something very important about Himself and about how they're supposed to live the Christian life in just those unexpected situations.
We are continuing in our study of the Gospel of Luke in this article by looking at Luke 8:16-21. How do you know if someone is listening to you? The only way you know is whether what you've said has been executed.
BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVES/Have you heard the word?
We are continuing in our series in the Gospel of Luke in this article by looking at Luke 8:1-15.
We continue in this article in our study of the gospel of Luke by looking at Luke 7:36-50.
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BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVES/Are you sure about Jesus?
We're going to be looking at Luke 7:18-35 in this article as we continue to make our way through the gospel of Luke together.
As we continue our way through this great Gospel we'll be in Luke 7:1-17 in this article. In this passage, Luke is telling us two stories that are designed to help us and his original readers appreciate more fully who Jesus is.
In this article, we're going to be reading from Luke 6:37-38 and the well-known verse stating: "Judge not, and you will not be judged" or its King James' equivalent, "Judge not, lest ye be judged. This is among the most misunderstood and misapplied passages in all of the gospels.
We're going to look at Luke 6:20-26 today as we continue to work our way through this Gospel together. In the last article, we looked at Luke 6:12-23 as Jesus introduced the Beatitudes. Now today, we are going to go back to those Beatitudes again, but this time we're going to couple them with the woes. It's interesting that Luke is the only one, who in the Sermon on the Mount, records both Jesus' woes and Jesus' words of blessing.
In Luke 6:1-11, Luke recounts the hostile encounter between Jesus and the Pharisees, and points us to something very significant about our hearts and about the Lord's Day.
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What would it be like if you encountered Jesus? If you could hear Him with your own ears explain, proclaim, and apply the word of God? What would it be like to encounter Jesus in one of His mighty miracles? What would it be like to be right in the middle of one of those like the disciples were that day? How would you respond? What would it be like to encounter Jesus in one of His amazing calls, where He gives this direct call to action to the people that are hearing Him?
Remember, the last time we looked at the Gospel of Luke, we saw Jesus having come out of the wilderness and the temptation by Satan and into Galilee preaching.
What would happen if Jesus came to preach at your church? How would you respond? Well, Jesus has come to preach there through His word, and His word is for us just as surely as it was for this synagogue in Galilee 2,000 years ago.
Jesus, and He is being tempted by Satan. I want to draw your attention to a number of things to look for and a few things to bear in mind in this great passage.
Luke's insertion of this genealogy after Jesus' baptism and prior to His temptation is designed to help us understand the right answer to the question: "What do you need to know about Jesus in order to fully appreciate the gospel?" You see, in this genealogy Luke manages to do five things all at once.
I want to ask you three questions. First, do you think that it would be a help to you in your Christian life to know how much Jesus is for you in your struggle against sin? To know just how closely He has identified himself to you and with you in your struggle against sin? Well, then this passage is for you today, because the baptism of Jesus is about His identification with you in the struggle against sin.
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We're at a very special passage when we come to Luke 2:40-52. It is the only story that we have of Jesus between the time of His infancy and the beginning of His ministry as an adult of around thirty years old.
Shakespeare puts into the mouth of Hamlet in his famous play the words, "To be, or not to be? That is the question." If Luke had been around, I suspect he would have said, "Actually, Hamlet, that is not the question. The question is Who is Jesus? Who do you believe that Jesus is? That's the question?"
Let me ask you a set of three questions. What do you think of yourself? And, do you see yourself as a sinner? Is that part of how you assess who you are?
Have you ever had one of those moments in life where you ask yourself, "Why now? I'm trying to do the best I can to serve you, Lord. Why is this happening now? The timing just doesn't make sense to me."
Were we in Zechariah's shoes, what would we say had the announcement been given to us that our child had been chosen in the providence of God to be the Elijah that would go before the Messiah, to be the one who would prepare His people for the coming of the long awaited one?
Luke, throughout this portion of his Gospel, having investigated with eyewitnesses, first-hand players in the unfolding events that led up to the birth of Jesus the Messiah, is bringing us into that story.
Quick! You've just been told by an angel that you're going to be the mother of the Messiah. What do you say? How do you respond?
This passage is about Jesus first and foremost. And it's about God's redeeming purposes first and foremost. But even as we exalt God and Christ, as we see the redeeming purposes of the Lord and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ unfolded in this passage, we also learn some things about how to live to Christ and die to self and the world in this passage. Five words, I think, sum up some of these lessons that we learn: Humility, Privilege, Mystery, Sovereignty, and, Submission. Let me look at these five things with you briefly in this passage this morning.
So how would you react if you met an angel? You're on your way into church, preparing to worship, and you encounter an angel. Zechariah was scared stiff by his encounter with this angel, and struck dumb by his unbelief, but in this story there are many things for us to learn, and I want to think with you about five things we learn in this great passage.
We begin today a study through this great Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, we call it the Gospel of Luke. When we refer to the Gospels, we're not talking about when we use the word gospel to refer to the message of salvation through Jesus Christ. We're talking about the four books that give you the context for appreciating that message.
After a year together in this glorious letter, we have come to our final exposition of Paul's word to the Philippians. In this article we are bidding farewell to the letter of the Apostle Paul to the Philippians in this series.
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Today we're in a section of the letter to the Philippians in which the Apostle Paul is pressing home to Christians how to live the Christian life. He's saying, having been saved by grace through faith, this is how you live.
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Last week, we look at the question from this passage, "What is Paul's treasure?" He makes it very clear that Jesus is his treasure. He wants to glorify Christ. He wants to fellowship with Christ. He wants to see Christ face to face. This is Paul's great desire. Jesus isn't a ticket to get Paul something better than Jesus. Jesus is the means to being brought into eternal, everlasting, glorious, joyous, overflowing fellowship with God.
As we look at this passage, which speaks to us about the triple gain of Christians you'll notice especially in verses 7-11 that Paul outlines for us what that triple gain is. In the language of the Westminster Shorter Catechism it is justification, sanctification, and glorification.
We've been looking at Philippians 3:1-11 for a few weeks now. And it's very appropriate that we think for a moment about the gospel that Paul preaches in Philippians 3:7-10 where Paul describes, or even defines, Christians in this passage.
In our passage, it appears that Paul is getting ready to conclude this letter, and then, by the guidance of the Holy Spirit, God burdens him to give yet another word of truth to the people of God so that they will understand more fully and live out more really the exhortation that he was about to end this letter with.
We've been looking at this great letter of the apostle to the Philippians for many weeks now, and now as we come to Philippians 3:1-11, we are coming to the final teaching portion of the book.
We've spent a lot of time looking at the center section of this letter to the Philippians (v. 1:27-2:18) where Paul is pressing home two realities at the same time. One is he wants us to grow in grace and to be disciples who live with one another, together, as a body in humble service of one another and obedience to God. On the other hand, he wants us to experience real joy. For the Apostle Paul those two things go together.
Recently, we've been looking at an extended section in Philippians in which the Apostle Paul is encouraging us and exhorting us to live the Christian life.
As we continue to make our way through this great letter of the apostle Paul. Paul, in this passage is reiterating an exhortation that he has been making since Philippians chapter 1, verse 27. He is exhorting us to obedience in the Christian life. Now he relates this to our purpose in life.
Last week as we looked at Philippians 2:12-13, we said that this was the main point that the Apostle Paul wanted us to appreciate about sanctification: that because God accepts us freely, change is possible.
We have come to a new part of the middle section of Philippians today, and it begins with the word "Therefore". And you know that when you come across the word "therefore" in the Bible, you're supposed to ask the question, "What's the therefore there for?"
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Over the last number of weeks we have been working through this letter to pay very close attention to what some theologians and New Testament scholars call the "hymn to Christ" recorded in Philippians 2:5-11. Now, we'll be looking at verses 9-11, in which Paul sets out the exaltation of Christ.
We've been studying this section of this great letter from Philippians 2:5-11: this great hymn to Christ, which celebrates His humiliation and His exaltation.
Last week we looked at what Paul said about Jesus' self-emptying in Philippians 2:7.
The Bible is the written word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit and without error in the original manuscripts. The Bible is the revelation of God's truth and is infallible and authoritative in all matters of faith and practice.
You will remember that the apostle's exhortation to us to live a life that fits the gospel comes in a context where the Apostle Paul very plainly acknowledges that this life is filled with all kinds of trouble, trials, and opposition.
How do you go about counting others as more significant than yourself? How do you go about counting someone ahead of you, above you, in preference to you, as more significant than you, when you think you are every bit their equal-if not their superior? Do you do it through false humility?
For eleven chapters in the book of Romans Paul has been pressing an argument to us, making points about sin and judgment and atonement and justification and union with Christ and sanctification and the law and the work of the Holy Spirit and predestination and the place of Israel and more. Today we come to the culminating point of those first eleven chapters of teaching.
We're going to look at the third goal that the Apostle Paul sets out in Philippians 2:1-4. There are four things that we can learn from the Apostle Paul about helping one another from this passage.
The Apostle Paul teaches us in Philippians 2:1-3 that if we are to experience the joy and spiritual oneness that God intends for His people, and if we are to thereby witness to the reality of gospel grace in the world, we are going to have to pursue humility, because humility is the key to unity. The Apostle Paul gives two arguments or motivations to our humility.
There are things that rob us of joy and cause us to fall short of the purposes that God has for us in living a life worthy of the gospel. The foremost among them are pride, self-centeredness, and selfishness.
What encourages you to live the Christian life? What motivations do you reflect upon when it comes to you living out the truth in the hardest places that God asks you to live out His truth? Where do you go to look for help, aid, motivation, incentive, assistance, and encouragement to live the Christian life? The Apostle Paul is giving the Philippians and us incentives, motivations, and encouragements in order to deal with what are fairly common problems in the Christian church in Philippians 2:1-2.
This week we're going to focus on the first part of what Paul intends to be an encouragement to the Philippians and to you and me: that is, faith is a gift from God.
Philippians 1:27-28 contain the first major exhortation in the main section of this letter. Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the Apostle Paul is exhorting the Philippians, as well as you and me, to live lives that are worthy of the gospel.
We enter the main section of the book in Philippians 1:27 where he starts with an ethical exhortation.
Today, in our study of Philippians 1:21-26, we will learn three things. First, we will see Paul's theme statement in Philippians 1:21.
The comfort that we all look for ,especially in the hour of death , and the comfort that we get in the second half of Philippians 1:21 in Paul's affirmation that to die is gain is reserved for those who know the truth of the first half of this verse. In other words, the second half of this verse makes no sense and holds no hope out to those who have not realized the grace in their experience of the first half of this verse. It is for those who "to live is Christ" that "to die is gain."
We continue in our study of Philippians: particularly, chapter 1 verse 21: to live is Christ. Today, we will answer the question, "If those, for whom it is true that to live is Christ, want to know, be like, make known, and delight in Christ as much as possible, what does that look like and involve?
We are in Philippians 1:21, which is virtually a "life verse" for the Apostle Paul.
BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE/Life = Christ. Death = Gain.
In Philippians 1:19-20, Paul tells you the purpose of his life: 'My hope,' he says, 'is that Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.' Paul, in other words, is saying 'The reason I am able to have hope and be confident even though I am in prison awaiting sentencing, is because my meaning and purpose in life is to exalt Christ in my body; whether it means me living or dying.' Now it is this that ramps him up to the statement that we find in Philippians 1:21; and that passage is virtually a life motto for the Apostle Paul.
The Philippians are concerned about the Apostle Paul's imprisonment and its ramification on the spread of the gospel. They are also concerned to know how they ought to respond to others who are preaching the gospel but are not in prison, while Paul, their evangelist, is imprisoned. They're wondering where Paul's heart is. The Apostle Paul writes verses 12-20 of chapter 1 to answer these questions. In the course of his answer, he teaches us something about the providence of God, our concern for the promotion of the gospel, and our purpose in life.


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Grattan on Friday: Labor loses skin on border issue, but Turnbull will pay a price too
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Anticipation is core business for political strategists. Last year Bill Shorten and those around him correctly judged Labor was electorally exposed on border protection, and they had the ALP national conference change party policy to allow turnbacks.
What they didn't anticipate was how vulnerable Labor would remain on the issue. They thought the "unity ticket" they were presenting between government and opposition on borders would minimise the trouble. They also believed the moderate Malcolm Turnbull would not want to go really hard on the issue. These assumptions turned out to be flawed.
The Coalition's scare on border protection, which has run strongly in the campaign's first two weeks, is multi-pronged. It includes tallying Labor MPs and candidates who've expressed strong or mild concern about the official line; fanning fears about boats restarting under Shorten; attacking other parties' advocacy of a bigger refugee intake; and whipping up resentment over how much asylum seekers cost the taxpayer.
In an interview with 2GB's Ray Hadley on Thursday, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton constructed a cluster bomb to make his point that Shorten would be weak on border security.
"The Australian public supports us in kicking out people that have committed crimes here, of cancelling visas to paedophiles, drug dealers, murderers … That's the work that I've been doing over the course of the last couple of years and I very strongly believe that the threat coming across our borders, when you look at what's happened in Brussels and Paris, the United States, United Kingdom and elsewhere, this is a bigger issue at this election than it's ever been," Dutton said.
"And that's why I think the prime minister has demonstrated leadership and I think Mr Shorten cannot even get to first base … he wouldn't be able to stop people smugglers because of the division within his own party."
After Hadley told Dutton that his dinner companions had said "more Peter Duttons" were needed, Dutton assured his audience Turnbull was "rock solid" on the border issue. One might have idly wondered who was running whom in the relationship between prime minister and minister.
Turnbull has tweaked the message into something more sophisticated, but he is on board. As well as describing his minister as "outstanding", Turnbull accused Shorten of "demonising" Dutton – who is a pretty deft hand at the demonising game himself, especially when he mentions the Greens' Sarah Hanson-Young.
In Dutton's Queensland seat of Dickson, GetUp is launching a campaign against him, with door-knocking, phone banks, and media messages. On a comfortable 6.7% margin Dutton won't be too worried, unlike a few years ago when he unsuccessfully tried to flee to another seat because he feared Dickson would fall (it didn't). Indeed, his macho performances as immigration minister may bring him votes.
Turnbull's Howard-not-so-lite approach will upset many in the migrant community, and in the so-called "doctors' wives" areas. It would be interesting to know what they think of it in his Wentworth electorate. Those on the progressive centre-right who invested such hope in him, thinking he was different, will be further dismayed.
But Turnbull's "rock solid" stand is likely to play well in Queensland and Western Australia in particular. One Liberal MP, a moderate, says of border protection: "It's a massive issue across Australia".
Some Labor sources, however, say it has slipped down the ranks of people's concerns and voters recognise there's bipartisanship. So to stir the old feelings the government has to go really hard, as Dutton is doing.
As the Coalition ramps up the scare it is worth considering how similar or different are the positions of the two sides.
The government turns back boats, and Labor says it would do so.
The Coalition claims Shorten wouldn't be able to sustain a policy of turnbacks because of internal division. Labor can point to the conference decision, the authority Shorten would have as prime minister, and the fact that opponents of the policy would be in a minority in caucus.
Both sides back offshore processing. The ALP promises a more transparent approach and says it would find third countries to resettle refugees from Manus and Nauru. The government has been highly secretive about the offshore centres, suppressing as much information as it can. Its search for third countries has produced only a farcical deal with Cambodia. But Labor has not been convincing in arguing it would be more successful.
On refugees, Labor wants the annual humanitarian number to be 27,000 by 2025; the government is committed to 18,750 by 2018-19.
There are some differences between government and opposition on asylum seeker/refugee policy, however they are nowhere near as great as Turnbull would have people believe, and to assert Shorten couldn't deliver a strong border protection policy doesn't make it true.
But the fact remains that while Labor has gone into this campaign on the front foot in a range of policy areas, on border control it finds itself in its customary default position – on the defensive.
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  module Helper
    class DotenvHelper
      # @param env_cl_param [String] an optional list of dotenv environment names separated by commas, without space
      def self.load_dot_env(env_cl_param)
        base_path = find_dotenv_directory

        return unless base_path

        load_dot_envs_from(env_cl_param, base_path)
      end

      # finds the first directory of [fastlane, its parent] containing dotenv files
      def self.find_dotenv_directory
        path = FastlaneCore::FastlaneFolder.path
        search_paths = [path]
        search_paths << path + "/.." unless path.nil?
        search_paths.compact!
        search_paths.find do |dir|
          Dir.glob(File.join(dir, '*.env*'), File::FNM_DOTMATCH).count > 0
        end
      end

      # loads the dotenvs. First the .env and .env.default and
      # then override with all speficied extra environments
      def self.load_dot_envs_from(env_cl_param, base_path)
        require 'dotenv'

        # Making sure the default '.env' and '.env.default' get loaded
        env_file = File.join(base_path, '.env')
        env_default_file = File.join(base_path, '.env.default')
        Dotenv.load(env_file, env_default_file)

        return unless env_cl_param

        Fastlane::Actions.lane_context[Fastlane::Actions::SharedValues::ENVIRONMENT] = env_cl_param

        # multiple envs?
        envs = env_cl_param.split(",")

        # Loads .env file for the environment(s) passed in through options
        envs.each do |env|
          env_file = File.join(base_path, ".env.#{env}")
          UI.success("Loading from '#{env_file}'")
          Dotenv.overload(env_file)
        end
      end
    end
  end
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Q: Velocity of a ball bounced off by a train I saw this question Velocity of a ball rebounding off a moving train, but I would like to emphasize a different case, which is quite close though:
A bouncy ball is at rest on the railroad, and a train will hit it at $200 \ \text{mph}$ mph. What is the final velocity of the ball?
I'd have said it's also $200 \ \text{mph}$, but in my exercise book, it is given with $400 \ \text{mph}$ which, for me, doesn't make sense.

A: The speed is $200 \ \text{mph}$ relative to the train, and since the train is travelling at $200 \ \text{mph}$, the speed relative to the tracks is $400 \ \text{mph}$.
If the speed of the ball were $200 \ \text{mph}$ relative to the tracks, then it would have to be stuck to the front of the train.

A: In a collision which conserves energy, in the center of mass system, the two masses must leave the center of mass with the same speed that they had while approaching.  Assuming the center of mass pretty much moves with the train, then the ball approaches with a relative speed of (v) and must leave with the same relative speed.  Add that to the speed of the center of mass and you get a speed of (2v) relative to the ground.

A: The collision between the ball and the train can be considered to be a one-dimensional elastic collision. In an elastic collision, both the momentum and the kinetic energy are conserved.
Let $m$, $u$ and $v$ represent the mass, initial velocity and final velocity.
For an elastic collision, the final velocity of the body is given by:
$$v_1 = \frac{(m_1 - m_2) \ u_1}{m_1+m_2}+\frac{2m_2 u_2}{m_1+m_2}$$
Where subscripts 1 and 2 are for body 1 and body 2.
Now using the same equation for determining the velocity of the ball.
$$v_b = \frac{(m_b - m_t) \ u_b}{m_b+m_t}+\frac{2m_t u_t}{m_b+m_t}$$
Where the subscripts $b$ and $t$ are for the ball and train, respectively.
After collision, the velocity of the train remains almost the same. The initial velocity of the ball was zero. $m_b$ can be ignored compared to $m_t$.
$$v_b = 0 + \frac{2m_t u_t}{m_t}$$
$$v_b = {2 u_t}$$

A: Throw an idealized ball at 200 mph at a stationary train and it will bounce off at 200 mph. Of course this assumes the balls mass is insignificant when compared to the trains mass.1
If you can accept that then understand that it's no different if you throw the train at the ball. Why? Because neither the train nor the ball care what the ground is doing since the ground isn't hitting either of them.
The problem is requiring you to change your perspective. We tend to root our minds in what the ground is doing. And indeed the velocities given here are measured against the ground. The truth is all that matters here is how fast the ball and the train are coming together. So long as that is happening at 200 mph it doesn't matter how fast anything is moving relative to the ground.
The only reason the ground becomes part of the problem is the inputs and outputs are measured against it. You don't need it while working out the collision. You only need it when expressing your answer in the same form as the question: velocity relative to the ground.
1 If you wish to consider toy trains or wrecking balls see Wikipedia's Elastic Collision.

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Check out what Jacques did with the cover and the characters in my new novel Who Wacked Roger Rabbit? And while your there, contribute to the arts. Buy the book. Jacques gets a royalty on every copy sold. It's your way of saying thanks for all the many chuckles animators have given you through the years.


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A new numerical method for simulating cavitating flows is developed. The cavitation is modeled with the dynamics of bubbles which radii change with Rayleigh-Plesset equation. The pressure inside of a bubble is modeled from the results of very precise direct simulation of single bubble motion. The bubbles are also allowed to have slip velocities so that the bubble accumulation could be simulated. Pseudocompressibility concept for incompressible flow simulation is extended for the present systems of equations for efficient and robust computations. Computations of two- and three-dimensional cavitating flows verify the present method and show its capability to the practical applications of cavitating flows.


Our 2017 Showcase took place Friday 13 October at Salisbury Arts Centre.
"Just a quick note to say thank you for a great showcase on Friday. It was a well organised and really fun day" Cathy Valentine Circus Scene.
We put together a wonderful programme for friends and clients from across the UK and Europe.
There was comedy genius from the likes of Jones and Barnard, Felicity Footloose, Fairly Famous Family, MarkMark, Reckless Invention and Swank. Plus stand out shows by The Valentino Street Band, Mr and Mrs Burn and Norvil and Josephine.
Think Glitter Miners meet Grandma, Hungry Chefs meet Hot Potatoes. We had it covered from top to toe.
There was storytelling aplenty from Circo Rum Ba and their brand new show The Crow House. Discovery of the The Shed of Stories and plenty of tales were told when everyone met our lovable mule with the Kit and Caboodle walkabout.
Imaginations ran wild when we encountered the beautiful Sea Sphere and Snow Lion for the first time.
The Art centre was surrounded by a host of amazing birds, beasts and animated characters brought to life by our extraordinary puppet and mask makers that are Vamos Theatre, Cirq Delight, Creature Encounter, Megabeasts and Surreal McCoy.
Thanks to you and your team for a superb day on Friday. I don't think the showcase could be bettered. The setting, variety of acts, hospitality and food and drinks were all great. Made a nice change for me from sitting in the office.
I just wanted to confirm that Fool's Paradise are a really good agency to work with. In the 16 years I have been working with them, they have never let me down, the artists have always been excellent quality, arrived well before their start time, have been really easy to look after and the team at Fool's Paradise are super-efficient. Their showcase event they hold each year is a great day out and good way to see a few of their acts in action.


I love how I can always count on my Mom to have the latest cool and fun trick for playing with fibre, dyes or yarns. She and I often get together to dye silk as I mentioned in my past post. We also are always trading the latest tricks we learn and her most recent one is using silk men's ties.
You have to start with a real 100% silk tie that has a pattern. Mom scored some great scarves by digging through a couple of second hand shops in our area. Luckily she can tell a silk fabric from acrylic or polyester simply by feel. There are burn tests you can do to threads pulled off of a fabric but obviously this would probably upset the owners of a second hand shop if you were walking around with a lighter burning things! Hee hee! The burn test works more by the way a fibre smells when it is burned. Of course if the fabric is a blend of natural and man made you won't get anything but weird mixed results.
Back to the silk tie, assuming you found some 100% silk ties, The dye on a silk tie in the pattern actually comes off and will adhere to other fabric like the silk we were dying and apparently is neat trick to make decorative easter eggs!! This blog post shows you all the steps she did to make her silk tie dyed eggs.
My Mom just laid the silk she had cut into pieces from the ties, pattern side down, onto the silk and then carefully folded and wrapped it up into a small bundle. We then wrapped it up in cellophane and put it into the steamer for an hour. The different colours and dyes will bleed out differently from each different fabric so be prepared to be surprised by what the end result is. We had fun with it and the black dyes seemed to be the colour that took the best on the silk though one of the materials had a dot of red and that ended up being the strongest colour to come through.
Mom actually sold one of her scarves to a friend and she left me some of the tie fabric so I can play around with it the next time I am dying stuff. I was too focused and just getting some basic dying done that day so I didn't try the silk tie technique this last time. You can bet I will be checking for the ties the next time I am at the 2nd hand shop for sure!! Do you ever wonder if the 2nd hand shop employees wonder what the hell is going on when there is a sudden run on one specific item like silk ties???


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Nickelodeon has announced that it is developing a TV movie that will revive the late '90s/early 2000's series Hey Arnold!
Hey Arnold! focused on the misadventures of the football-headed titular protagonist and his friends. Nickelodeon tells Variety that the movie will pick up where the series let off, and will resolve unanswered questions like the whereabouts of Arnold's parents.
Chris Viscardi, creator of Hey Arnold! and other classic Nickelodeon series like The Adventures of Pete & Pete, is now the network's senior vice president of content development for franchise properties. This role is brand new, and is specifically aimed at reviving classic Nickelodeon properties. Hey Arnold! is among the first, but more are sure to come.
"Kids who grew up on these characters are now of the age that they are having kids and families themselves," said Russell Hicks, president, content development and production, for Nickelodeon Group, in an interview with Variety. "Our library has come to fruition and it's time for it to start coming back to life."
Nickelodeon decline to pinpoint a specific window for the Hey Arnold! movie revival.
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The gas particles in the air surrounding us are whizzing about at velocities near the speed of sound and colliding with their surroundings and with each other thousands of times per second. This is a very messy system for physicists to try and understand the internal workings of the particles, so we would much rather the particles sit still while we prod them. Ultracold atoms are our solution to this problem by slowing the atoms (and thus cooling) them to a near-standstill using laser cooling and magnetic trapping (see MOT page for how this works). These atoms, or ions, are cooled to millionths of a degree above absolute zero temperature (-273.16C or 0K), and even lower. This all occurs in an ultra high vacuum chamber so that the atoms are not affected by collisions with other particles, and this produces argueabley the purest quantum systems available. The best example of this is the production of 'degenerate quantum gases', most notably Bose-Einstein Condensates, in which one can see (with your own eyes) the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle at work.
The extraordinary properties of the quantum mechanical wavefunction allow a variety of quantum-enabled measurement and processing techniques with the potential to surpass the precision, sensitivity and compactness of conventional, classical systems. Using the wave-like nature of carefully controlled beams of atoms or ions in place of optical waves, atomic interferometers bring the precision of the short de Broglie wavelength, and a sensitivity to mass and charge, that allow the precision of laser gyroscopes to be beaten and extended: quantum coherence is exploited to yield tiny but precise accelerometers, gravimeters, gyroscopes and magnetometers with a wealth of applications from navigation to geodesy and prospecting, and from seismology to medical imaging. The small size, sharp resonances and indistinguishability of atoms of a given element allow tiny atomic clocks with absolute accuracy, for applications from time-keeping to communication frequency standards to global position-finding. The fundamentally quantum process of entanglement allows intrinsically secure communication, massively parallel processing and resolution-beating quantum imaging, while squeezing can be used to extract the ultimate sensitivity.
The heart of many such quantum-enabled techniques is a sample of ultracold, vapour-phase atoms or ions, whose thermal motion has been slowed until the atoms are all but stationary and can be caught and manipulated by gentle optical or electromagnetic potentials.
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PHILADELPHIA -- The Eagles signed offensive tackle Todd Herremans Tuesday to a three-year contract extension through 2016.
Herremans, 29, started all 16 games in 2011 at tackle, after primarily playing guard during his first six seasons in Philadelphia. A fourth-round selection in 2005 out of Saginaw Valley State, Herremans is the second longest-tenured member of the Philadelphia offense, having played in 95 games.
"It doesn't really make a difference whether it is at tackle or guard. I'm pretty open to the idea that if they need me, they may need me at guard and then move over to tackle again. It really doesn't matter," Herremans said. "It's been weird my entire career, with not ever reaching free agency. The deals have all been taken care of in house, and that's pretty interesting in today's sports world. Being able to spend your whole career in one city, it's pretty special and you don't see that anymore."
Herremans was part of an Eagles offense that set a franchise record in 2011 with 6,386 total yards, a season after it set a team record with 439 total points. He has also scored two touchdowns in his career, the first from Donovan McNabb at Seattle in 2008 and the other from Michael Vick at Dallas in 2010.
"I keep seeing veteran tackles around the league getting cut from trying to make (salary) cap space," Herremans said. "There are good players being released, and with the free-agent market being so flooded, I just feel really excited that the Eagles are willing to make this move with me."
Last season, as Philadelphia finished 8-8, the offensive line paved the way for LeSean McCoy's career year. The running back scored a team-record 20 touchdowns, including 17 on the ground. The line also allowed only 32 sacks in 2011.
"We are excited to be able to sign Todd to a new contract," Eagles coach Andy Reid said. "Todd's intelligence, toughness, durability, and leadership are second to none. Very few players in the NFL can play at an extremely high level at both the guard and tackle positions, and Todd has done that for us.
"He has been a big part of the success of our offense over the last several years."
Though it was too late to make the postseason, the Eagles recovered from a puzzling 4-8 start last season, and closed with four consecutive victories: 26-10 over the Dolphins, 45-19 over the Jets, 20-7 over the Cowboys, and 34-10 over the Redskins.
"I don't think that the team that we fielded last year was missing anything talent-wise. I don't think our coaching staff was missing anything and I don't think the players on the field were missing anything," Herremans said. "I just think it's like the first day of school, when you don't know anybody in the class and you just have to figure out who you're going to sit by, who will let you cheat off of them and that kind of stuff."
The Eagles actually finished just one game behind the New York Giants, who not only won the NFC East, but also the Super Bowl.
"As the season went on, we started coming together a lot more and it showed by us winning our (last four) games," he said. "We really feel that we don't need any extra pieces brought to us in free agency. We feel that the team we have in the locker room can make a great run and go to the Super Bowl next year."


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Discussion in 'Personal' started by decj, Feb 13, 2011.
How do you pronounce this please? Is it PEN - HALE (as in icy rain) or PEN-HALLY (rhymes with ballet).
In Doc Martin the policeman was P.C. Penhale as in icy rain.
You're OK, it is not like Fowey or Mousehole. It is said as you'd expect PEN HAIL.
Or so my sister says and she has been in Helston for about 20 years.


Audified (formerly Audiffex) have been putting out great products for some time now. This plugin in particular is one of my favorite bass amp plugins ever developed. It's a few years old at this point but I still use it all the time.
For some reason, this is software that I just don't see mentioned enough. It's a truthfully useful and high quality plugin that can really help bass players of all styles reach for good tones and achieve them.
GK Amplicikation 2 Pro includes three amps (MB150, 800RB and 2001 RB), a cabinet section with a small but reliable selection and a few other tools. The amps included in the suite have been used extensively by Flea, Dave Ellefson, Duff McKagan, Krist Novoselic, Colin Greenwood, Justin Chancellor, Jeff Hughell and many other accomplished bass players.
I have been reviewing plugins both new and old. The older plugins can look really dated next to the newer plugins at times which makes it easy to notice things for the review. Even after reviewing some really nice looking plugins, GK Amplification 2 pro or GKA as we will call it, still looks pretty good. The amps still look crisp, the GUI is detailed but still easy to navigate and overall, the cosmetics of the plugin have held up well. On a subtle note, I really like the grill logo on the bottom left of the GUI, it's a nice touch.
From the discussions I have been a part of that concerned GKA, I gather the authenticity is in check. While I can't speak to the authenticity of the plugin's featured amps, I can attest to the realism of the tone. The attack and response sound and feel nice. This plugin has always had a nice punch to it and Gallien Krueger amps really do have a signature tone that seems to take shape in one way or another in the majority of their products.
Each amp in GKA has a different set of controls as well as a different set of capabilities so I will go over them separately. I ran through them all with nothing else in the chain and then again with just a little compression and EQ.
The 800RB is a solid state amp head has been around for a good while. It's smooth while having a natural sounding presence to it. I fell in love with this amp's jazz and funk tones from day one. I used GKA for a number of jazz and jazz/fusion type demos that I still listen to with admiration for the bass tones I used on them.
You can set one tone with this amp and if you have a pickup blend, watch the tone go from fat and round to tight and focused without even needing to touch the amp sim's controls. I also love the mid cut button in the controls, I use it every time I use the plugin.
I tried driving the 800RB and it just seemed to push things in the wrong direction though it really responded well to a tightly compressed signal. With two amps in this suite better suited for more driven bass tones, it makes no sense to push it.
This one is actually a combo amp but don't let that fool you because it's got a giant tone. The plugin version however obviously doesn't have a hardwired, built in speaker so you can either use the onboard matched impulse, the other onboard impulses or any number of your own.
The MB150 amp sim is punchy and more driven than the 800RB. It has always been my favorite of the three when it comes to the plugin versions. If you are playing on your bridge pickup, watch the highs and high mids on the amp. Things can tend to get a little shrill on this amp if you push it too hard.
The semi-driven tones you get with the MB150 are warm and full of life. I managed to get a ton of great results without putting in too much work. The MB150 had tones for punk, thrash, hard rock, indie, funk and a long list of playing styles readily available.
The most popular amp of the bunch as far as accomplished users goes. The 2001RB is one of Gallien Krueger's finest and most versatile products. I have seen bass players use the real deal for so many genres in both live and studio settings. Every user that I have talked to about the 2001RB had nothing but constant and detailed praise for it so when this suite came out, it was a big selling feature for me.
This amp sounds really good. It does a lot of things convincing with realism and authenticity in mind. Personally, I don't care for the driven channel because the gain just seems to thin out the tone. With the gain up, the tone starts to sound like a plugin rather than a real amp but that's really the only fault for this plugin.
The impulse section features a matched cabinet impulse for each amp plus versions of the same cabinets that isolate the woofer or tweeter. You also have a nice selection of mics and other tools to shape things further. The cabs included are pretty nice but they are older impulses so when I bypassed for my impulses, there was a noticeable jump in quality. Not a huge bump but you notice it for sure.
The BI-Amp / Crossover section in a couple of the amps is really handy and it can really help you enhance and utilize the right frequencies to sit in a mix without overpowering anything. It's a useful and nicely modeled feature for sure.
GK Amplification 2 Pro is a really good bass amp suite. You get three amps that cover a lot of ground and create the potential for a huge variety of high quality bass tones.
With the age of the plugin, I think GKA could benefit from a slight drop in price but even at it's current MSRP, it's worth it. You really do get your money's worth and then some.
I am not sure what the plans are for GKA with Audified upping their game. I hope they keep it around because it's a pretty decent plugin that has some shelf life and effectiveness left to offer the bass community.


"It puts us in the dark about how [workplace] violations are affecting LGBT people," said Laura Durso, the vice-president of the LGBT Research and Communications Project at the left-leaning Center for American Progress.
Republicans who led efforts to overturn Obama's action deemed it unnecessarily burdensome on businesses.
But David Stacy, HRC's government affairs director, said the action would render it more difficult for the Department of Labor to hold accountable federal contractors for prior violations of civil rights laws, including those against LGBT employees.
"It signals that the administration could continue to repeal Obama-era policies aimed at protecting LGBTQ people," Stacy said.
On the surface, Trump has taken credit for being the first Republican presidential nominee to profess his support for LGBT Americans. The White House touted his position earlier this year, when it issued a statement confirming he would not rescind Obama's executive order banning LGBT discrimination in the workplace.
But that pledge was born from draft executive orders leaked to the media indicating the administration had, in fact, weighed not simply reversing Obama's protections but also unraveling other LGBT rights at the federal level.
Advocates thus remain skeptical of the Trump administration's posturing on the issue and saw some of their fears realized when the president lifted Obama-era guidance protecting the use of bathrooms by transgender students.
Since then, gay rights supporters argue, the Trump administration has taken active measures behind the scenes that undermine the LGBT community.
Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) eliminated questions that were designed to compile information about LGBT seniors. Roger Severino, the Trump-appointed chief of the HHS Office of Civil Rights, has been a forceful opponent of transgender rights in particular and other Obama efforts to protect LGBT people.
Earlier this month, the Department of Housing and Urban Development declared it would withdraw two agency notices geared toward protecting LGBT people experiencing homelessness. And on 13 March, the state department included in its official US delegation to the United Nations' 61st annual Commission on the Status of Women conference two anti-LGBT human rights activists.
Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, joined the criticism on Wednesday in a statement decrying the Census Bureau's decision.
"Today, the Trump administration has decided that LGBT Americans shouldn't count," she said, while noting the trend across agencies with respect to gathering information about LGBT people.
By excluding LGBT-specific data collection in the 2020 Census, the Trump administration showed it did not even want to have the information needed to act in the best interest of countless American families, she said.
McGowan said the collective consequences of the Trump administration's actions would be felt for years. The Census Bureau's decision on Wednesday, she said, would have especially dramatic consequences for identifying communities that were at risk and in need of health funding or social services protection.
"We are seeing this broader trend of erasing and eliminating any consideration of the needs of LGBT people in this administration," she said.


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J Mascis & Spencer Radcliffe played Subterranean (pics)
After his Do Division set was said and done, Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis also played a festival aftershow at Subterranean on Sunday night (6/1)...
High on Fire add second Empty Bottle show
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Do Division 2014 initial lineup: High on Fire, J Mascis, Screaming Females, more
Do Division 2013 (more by Kirstie Shanley) As discussed, Do Division 2014 is slated to take place from May 30 - June 1 on Division Street (between Damen Ave...
J Mascis playing Subterranean in June; Dinosaur Jr. releasing limited edition book
J Mascis @ BV-SXSW 2011 (more by Chris Gersbeck) Neither Dinosaur Jr. or leader J Mascis have many upcoming tour dates, but J has at least announced a few solo gigs happening this summer...
Do Division 2013 – Day 3 Pics (JEFF, Joan of Arc, Ex-Cops +)
Do Division 2013 wrapped on Sunday (6/2) with performances, The Gaslamp Killer, Indians, Joan of Arc, Ex-Cops, and more acts. Pictures from Day 1 are HERE, Day 2 HERE, and shots from the final day of the festival are in this post...
Do Division 2013 – Day 1 Pics (Disappears, Torche)
The 2013 Do Division Street Festival took place this past weekend (from 5/31 - 6/02) in the Ukrainian Village. Friday (5/31) featured Disappears, Torche, Planetsexploder, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, and a few other bands, as well as some light rain (which continued throughout the weekend)...
Disappears played Lincoln Hall (pics), playing Do Division 2013 (check out the full lineup)
Chicago's Disappears welcomed their new Kone EP earlier this month, and celebrated its release with a hometown show at Lincoln Hall on April 18 with Pinebender and The Cairo Gang...
Torche, Gaslamp Killer, JEFF the Brotherhood & more to play Do Division 2013
Torche @ Metro, October 2012 (more by Jimmy Farabi) As discussed, Do Division 2013 is set to take place from May 31 - June 2 (on Division St...
Ariel Pink playing Do Division & the Empty Bottle in June
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti @ Metro, September 2012 (more by Rachel Angres) Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti have announced that they'll be embarking on a large spring North American tour...
Do Division 2013 dates announced
Do Division 2012 (more by Sarah Frankie Linder) It's a little hard to think about the sweltering Chicago summers when there are snow showers and 20-ish ºF temperatures in the five-day forecast...


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'They bury it as deep under the ice as it can go': on belonging to a minority in a sport that hates troublemakers, by Jashvina Shah
Barely a month after I was sexually assaulted, I stood in the ice hockey rink at a small prep school in New England. The holiday tournaments were taking place and I'd foolishly agreed to go. It was too soon for me to be there, that much I knew.
I hadn't wanted to go because I knew hockey was the last place I would be welcome.
It's funny, in a sad way, because the welcoming culture around hockey was the reason why I fell in love with the sport in the first place. When I was a 15-year-old sneaking five minutes of a New Jersey Devils game, the speed drew me in, but the community is what kept me. Especially when I became a freshman at Boston University and began following the hockey team there. From my first day at Agganis Arena – the school's rink – I knew it was home. Everyone loved the team. Everyone was so kind and helpful. For the first time in my life, I felt like I belonged somewhere. So I stayed. By junior year I was a beat reporter. I've been covering college hockey for eight years.
In that time the sport – especially BU hockey – became the most grounding part of my life. BU hockey taught me I could be happy again after coming out of a long, vicious battle with depression. Princeton hockey is what got me out of bed every morning after my friend passed away. Hockey rinks were the places I went when I felt truly broken, and the only place where I was sure I could find happiness.
Hockey has the tightest community among all major North American sports. It's the smallest of the main four, the little brother, with tiny teams and incredibly passionate fans. Hockey claims many virtues: leadership, being coachable, following the rules, adhering to a complex code of honor, putting the good of the team above oneself and, in general, being nice: smiling at fans, attending Pride Week, playing in charity hockey games to support cures for diseases like ALS.
The National Hockey League likes to claim that 'hockey is for everyone' and for a while, it was easy to believe. For a while, I felt I belonged.
I'm not sure when exactly that changed. Maybe it was my own experiences: the racist microagressions. The white reporter who told me people are too sensitive about racism. The white male reporter – a friend, or supposed friend – who blocked me when I asked him to examine his privilege. Maybe it was the first time I was sexually harassed at the rink while trying to do my job. Or maybe it was the 100th time. Maybe it was all the times I saw players use homophobic slurs. Or maybe it was the way I watched, and even talked about, how hockey treated victims of sexual assault: from the players who commit acts of violence to the general managers and coaches who continue to let them play, down to the fans who blindly support and defend them.
There are so many instances that I can't remember all of them anymore. They flit through my brain, occupying temporary space until the latest disappointment takes hold. There are the players who have been accused of sexual misdemeanors, harassment, assault, or domestic violence – Joe Corvo in Boston, Seymon Varlamov in Colorado, Mike Ribeiro in Nashville, Garrett Ross in Chicago – who were re-signed by teams despite their record.
And of course there's Patrick Kane, the face of the NHL and the face of American hockey, accused of rape in 2016. When Kane was accused, his teammates and the Chicago Blackhawks stood by him. His fans supported him while chasing after the victim. When the NHL finally did its own 'investigation', they decided Kane would not face any disciplinary action. Who cares if he hurts people, as long as he can score, right? The people in power – general managers, coaches, the commissioner of the league – don't believe that Kane, or players like him, can do any wrong. To hockey, victims of sexual assault are liars and gold-diggers. There's no understanding or empathy.
Fines and punishments, when they have been handed out, have been sparse at best. And no matter what, there will always be fans, teammates and team members who will defend the players who've done wrong. Or they ignore it. They bury it as deep under the ice as it can go.
As all of these experiences piled up, I realized I wasn't happy around the rink anymore. I realized that it wasn't just me – it was hockey. It's the way hockey is structured. All those virtues, that community – it only applies to a very specific group of people. It's a sport that consists mostly of straight, white men. And I'm not one of them. I'm a brown woman. So I'll never belong in hockey.
For a long time, I had tried to bury what I saw. I never spoke about that time I was sexually harassed. Or about the time a player I covered said something racist. Or that time a player's father tried to kiss me on the cheek.
I didn't say anything because I didn't want to be pushed out. As a brown woman, I'm only welcome if I can deal with the racist and sexist jokes, laugh along and pretend that there's nothing wrong with saying people should only speak English in the locker room, that there's nothing wrong with objectifying women. The fear of being unwelcome is real; it turns us into people we don't want to be. It makes us complicit in the culture that hockey cultivates. Never, ever rock the boat here. Because if you do, you will be ostracized.
I reached breaking point the day the Pittsburgh Penguins, the 2017 National Hockey League champions, decided they would visit the White House and Donald Trump. The team said they wanted to respect 'tradition' and not pick a side. Sidney Crosby, the captain, a Canadian hockey superstar, called it an honor. The media praised the Penguins for doing what hockey players are supposed to do – not cause trouble. Once again hockey, the whitest of all major North American sports, was also the one trying hardest to appear non-political. That day all my anger came out. So I said things. Man things. And the next day I cried because I knew it would hurt my chances of getting a job covering hockey.
By the time I got to that prep rink in New England, I felt alone. As I cried and texted a friend at BU, I took a deep breath. I walked around the metal railing and down to ice level. I faked a smile and interviewed a coach. And then I did the same thing the next day. And the day after that.
A while ago, the NHL issued a 'Declaration of Principles': nothing more than a bland PR statement claiming that hockey is dedicated to inclusion, that hockey really is for everyone. Several other hockey institutions signed on, including the National Women's Hockey League, college hockey and USA Hockey. Recently the NHL issued a press release declaring that the initiative is working.
Working? Within the past year, USA hockey hired a new general manager: a man who had called one of his former players the n-word. The head coach of the gold-medal winning women's USA Olympic team spoke at a pro-Trump rally. The reality is that hockey is not for everyone. It has harmed many people who've loved the sport. It has made them leave. But I also know that if we leave it will never change.
Jashvina Shah is a freelance journalist who currently covers Big Ten hockey for College Hockey News and talks extensively about the intersection of sports and politics through her podcast, Stick to Sports. She's been covering the conference since its inception and has covered the CWHL, Princeton hockey and Boston University hockey. The 2013 BU graduate's work has appeared in a variety of outlets, including espnW. Born in Boston, Shah has been following sports since she was a child — especially football and Formula 1 — but has been engrossed by hockey since 2006.
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