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The End of the Search
The search to be loved is common to all of us. When we search for love apart from God it wears us out. In this message, Tyler shares about how God frees us from the relentless search for love, to begin experiencing joy, and enjoying relationships. We can do this because God has brought love to us, He has given us an endless supply, and that fills us with joy and freedom.
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This morning we're going to be talking about love, which is a grand concept we get to dive into. Specifically, how we consistently search for love every moment of every day throughout our lives. I want to start by taking you back a few years into my life when I first got out of college and started my career, a couple of years into it, an interaction I had with one of my bosses. Before I pursued vocational ministry and started on this track, I was involved in the health and fitness industry through college, and even after college I was a personal trainer.
I ended up getting into fitness management, and one of my clients had a good friend who was in commercial real estate, and one of their business models was that they would buy these empty strip centers, place a very large, nice health club in the middle of it to create foot traffic, and then use the foot traffic to fill out the rest of the lease spots. (That was free if you're in commercial real estate, if you want a little tutorial there.)
What happened is these guys hired me, and I went to work for them to help design and manage these health clubs. It was two brothers, and I looked at these guys. They were wildly successful. They were very wealthy. They lived on the best street in the best part of town. They had vacation homes all over the US. They drove nice cars. They knew everybody. They went and did anything they wanted to do anytime they wanted to do it.
I looked at these guys as a 25-year-old and thought, "Man, that's the life! Who wouldn't want to do that? That looks like a ton of fun." As a young man going to work for these guys, I thought, "Okay, here's the deal. I want what they have, so if I could just get them to love me as an employee, like if they truly love me and are blown away by the work I do, if I earn their acceptance and approval, then I can begin to ride on their coattails and start to obtain everything they have." So I desired my bosses to love me more than anything else.
What that led to the first six months I worked for them was me working hour after hour after hour after hour. The name of the game in the health and fitness industry is membership sells, so I was getting after it, and it was wildly successful. We designed and built the health club. We had a couple thousand members signed up before it ever opened. It gets time. We do a soft opening to kind of build some noise, and then three months into the club being opened we had this big grand open celebration. You know, we're cooking food.
It resembled our baptism Sunday except we weren't baptizing people. It was a little less holy. We were selling memberships to a health club. But we have this day. We run a huge special. It goes phenomenally well. We sign up hundreds of people. We have the big ribbon cutting. You know, the chamber of commerce comes out. We dedicate the new business, and I'm like, "This is awesome." I'm making commissions left and right.
The day ends, and my boss, one of the brothers, grabs me and walks me back to the office and sits me down and says, "Hey, Tyler, how do you think today went?" I'm like, "Amazing! It couldn't have gone any better." I explained to him the reasons why. I'm thinking, "Man, I'm in. He's going to love me from the success of this day." He looks across the table at me and says, "Really? I think it was a miserable failure." A punch in the gut. The reasons why is there weren't a few amenities around to offer to people when they came in, but I was a personal trainer. I didn't know how to do one of these things.
The point of it was I had worked incredibly hard to get this guy to love me, and it fell way short. When I realized that he didn't, that put me into a tailspin of disappointment and despair that I stayed in for the next year and a half as I tried everything I could to win this man's love back, to win his approval back. Call it acceptance. Call it approval. Call it love. The root of it is love, and it is what we are all pursuing all the time.
When I didn't have it, I sacrificed a lot to get it. I sacrificed my family. Lindsay and I had been married for three years, and I sacrificed the pursuit of my wife in pursuit of being loved by this man. It's not just me. First Corinthians 10:13 says, "No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man…" This desire in my heart to want to be loved is a common desire that exists for each and every one of us in this room.
I hope you've realized at this point the love I'm talking about is not a romantic love but a love that comes from acceptance and being valued and being deemed as significant and worthy. The root of it is love, and all of us experience this type of longing in our hearts to be loved. You don't have to look very far to see that we're searching for love. To go to the romantic side of it just for a moment, all of us are seeking that at some level.
If you just go online and Google how many dating websites there are, you would see that there are over 900 dating websites in existence. Think whatever you will about that. That's not the point. That just magnifies or highlights the truth that we are all searching for love. You have the eHarmony, Match.com, Watermark Mingle… (Oh, you caught that. Not really, but some of you were excited, and that's okay. That does not exist. That was a joke, but thanks for paying attention. I was just checking you there.)
You don't have to look any further than the enormous amount of time and money people invest in trying to be loved by others, being seen as significant by others, from the time we spend researching and spending money on diets and exercise and cosmetics and clothes to get people to value us. I mean, I bought this shirt just for today so that you would love me. That's how crazy this whole thing is. (If you don't like it, my wife is out of town, so I blame it on her.)
We'll do anything. You don't have to look any further than the epidemic of pornography that is ravaging our culture, as men and women look to this fantasy land where they are the pinnacle of the center of attention to be worshiped and feel loved by this imaginary world that does not really exist, and it is tearing us apart. Our search for love is a problem, and it's not a search that's only unique to one or two of us. It's a search that is common to all of us.
Our relentless search for love wears us out. It hurts our relationships. When a husband tries to prove his value to his boss so that his boss will love him, it fills him with stress and anxiety, because he's constantly gauging his performance. Is he good enough to be loved? A wife is constantly searching for love from her husband, and when her husband doesn't pursue her and make her feel loved in a way that she would desire, she begins to seek affection or love from those outside her marriage. That may lead to something and it may not, but it's still the issue of the heart.
When a person becomes discontent in their singleness because they want to be loved so badly they begin to compromise their purity for the sake of earning love from someone it fills them with guilt, shame, and regret, not satisfaction. When you search to be loved in your Community Group (I spend a lot of my time with Community Groups, so I have to go here this morning), you try to get them to pursue you and make you feel loved. You're trying to look to them to meet all of the needs in your life, and they never can, so you get frustrated at the very people God has placed in your life as a provision for you.
So we get frustrated. Our relentless search for love wears us out and hurts other people. It usually plays out in one of two ways. You have achievers in the room, and then you have other people who are passive or who withdraw, but all of us are a combination of both. In our desire to be loved, we try to achieve. We'll work really hard. We'll put in a lot of time and effort to try to perform well for people, to get a lot of accomplishments stacked up so other people would value us and see us as worthy of their affection.
Others withdraw because they don't want to take any risk of failure, because if they fail people are going to think less of them. In reality, we're all a combination of both of those. We try to achieve in areas when we know we'll succeed and people will think well of us, and then we shy away from those opportunities God may put in our lives to be faithful, but we refuse to take them because we're worried about failing, and we think it may make people love us less.
It's a problem. It affects our church. It affects our families. It affects our ability to love others. But there's hope. This morning what I'm going to talk to you about is how God frees us from the relentless search for love forever. Specifically, three things we're going to look at is how you can stop searching for love because God has brought the greatest love to you, how he has given you an unlimited supply, and through resting in that you can finally begin to start experiencing joy and enjoying relationships.
We're going to do that through looking at a text in the book of Romans. We're going to be in Romans 5:6-11. We're not in a series here, so we're diving right into the middle of the book of Romans. Just a quick bit of context. What is the book of Romans? The book of Romans is the greatest theological explanation of love that has ever been written, and we are diving straight into the heart of this book where God gives the solution of why we no longer have to be bound to this search for love but we can be set free.
These six verses could and probably should be divided into a six-week series. It is rich with biblical truth, but there's one problem with doing a six-week series. I usually get one week a year to preach, so we have today to cover it all. So instead of taking the street tour of this passage and seeing all of the great things in there, we're going to take the flyover of it and look at the main truth that overrides this entire passage. We're going to see how God frees us from the relentless search for love forever. We're going to jump into verses 6-8 to start. The apostle Paul is writing.
"For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
So what's the overriding truth in there I want you to look at? Chapters 1-4 in the book of Romans are talking about the consequences of what happens when we search for love apart from God. Then right here in this verse Paul picks it up and says, "While we were still helpless." While we were helplessly searching for love in places we could never find it, not even knowing where to go to find a love that will satisfy our hearts, something amazing happened. God made a provision for us to stop searching. He didn't ask us to search. He didn't ask us to come to him. He brought his love to us.
While we were helpless, God brought a hero, and that hero is Jesus Christ. So while we were busy making a mess of our lives, looking for love apart from him, God, as a loving Father, steps in and says, "Hey, I can't stand the sight of what's happening to my children as they seek satisfaction and acceptance in places and people where they're never going to find it, so I'm going to bring it to them in a way that they cannot miss it. I myself am going to leave the throne of heaven, the comfort of heaven, and come to them and show them that I value them even more than I value my own life. Surely they will turn to me and receive this love."
That's what he has done. As you've been helplessly searching for love and not finding it, God has brought the greatest love to you. The incarnation, God becoming man, is his pursuit of us when we were not pursuing him. He has come to clean up the mess we made when we were helplessly searching. In all of our searching for love, what we're really doing is crying out with a question. "Do I matter? Do I matter enough for anyone to love me unconditionally?" At the cross, Jesus gives you that answer, and that answer is, "You matter. You are loved. You are loved far more than you can ever imagine, and I love you more than I even love my own life."
1.You can stop searching for love, because the greatest love has come to you. While you were still helpless, couldn't do anything to help yourself, God has brought that love to you. Just as a sidenote, this concept we're talking about this morning is a simple truth of the Scriptures. It is known by most. Hopefully it's new to some today, but what can happen is we begin to take this well-known truth, and it loses its power in our lives.
The truth that God loves you enough to leave heaven and become a man and live the life you never could and die the death you deserved so you may be forgiven of your sins and reconciled back into a relationship with him is not new, but the danger is that it begins to lose its power. So if you're sitting there and you've already thought during the course of this message, "Oh, I've heard this before, and it doesn't help me," I know the reason why it doesn't help you.
It's because you have too low a view of God and too high a view of man. You think God is really not that important and whomever it is you're pursuing love from is ultimately important. We have forgotten who God is and who we are. Who is man? Man is needy. Man gets thrown off when he gets a bad night of sleep, when he has a poor interaction with someone, when something bad happens at work. His ability to give love is limited because he's finite. He's created. He is dependent. He is ever-changing.
But who is God? He is unchanging. His joy and his capacity for love are unlimited and not dependent on any circumstances or any other person. His love for you is unconditional, and it will never change. That's why our hearts will only be satisfied when we receive the greatest love that has ever come to us, something that is never going to come from this world, and that can only come from God.
So if you find yourself having trouble finding rest in this truth, you need to go back and remind yourself who man is and who God is. Man will always let you down, but God will never let you down. His love never fails. Our love always falls short. The solution to us ending that relentless search for love is that God sent the greatest love to us.
I want to introduce you to my daughter. This is Lyla Rose. She is as cute as a bell. I love her to death. She is now 18 months old. Unfortunately, Lindsay and Lila are out of town this weekend, but I love her to death. She's a toddler now. I think after they're a year old they officially become a toddler, but when she was still a baby she was outstanding. I'm about to make a lot of new parents who didn't have this angry. She slept well. She ate well. She didn't fuss a lot.
She didn't get sick until she was 9 months old, which was outstanding, but when that happened it was not so much fun. When she was about 9 months old, we were on our way to a Community Group meeting. We had just loaded Lyla up in her car seat, and we were taking off to go to Community Group. We get no more than two minutes from the house, and the poor thing got sick all over herself, all over the back seat of the car.
But you know what? We had to get to Community Group, because that's what our agenda was, so we left her in her vomit and went about our business. She was crying. She was helpless to do anything for herself, but, by golly, we got to Community Group. I hope you're appalled at that, because that is not what we did. No loving father would leave their child in a mess. No. We canceled our plans. We turned around, went back to the house, and as my baby girl was crying, it hurt me.
I got her out of that car seat, picked her up against me, got sickness all over me, went inside, cleaned her up, held her tight, and rocked her until she fell asleep. I came to her rescue when she was helpless to help herself. That's imperfect. That falls so far short of God's love for you, but that's what God has done in a far greater way when you were helpless. He doesn't leave you there. He comes to you.
As you are helplessly searching for love, he's not letting you stay in that mess. If you're in that mess right now, he doesn't want you to stay there. He has brought his love to you. You can stop searching for love, because the greatest love has come to you. That's the first reason. Paul doesn't stop there. He gives us another reason. He keeps going in verses 9-10. "Much more then…" Much more than what? "Much more than the fact that I left heaven and came and gave my life so you could have life and know that I love you beyond all else. Much more than that."
"…having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life." Paul says the same things back to back. Let me translate that.
He says, "If God saved you while you were his enemy, how much more, then, is he going to keep you saved now that you're his friend?" If God showed you his love while you were hostile to him, how much more will you experience and revel in and remain in his love now that you have been brought back into a relationship with him? There is nothing that separates you anymore. How much more now? "My love is not going to run out." That's what he's declaring.
2.You can stop searching for love, because you have an unlimited supply. It's never going to run out. God is never going to remove it from you. He doesn't change. We often think the cross is all there is to Christianity. There are times when I've been in spiritual conversations with people and get the opportunity to share the gospel with them, and it comes to a point where they receive Christ, and then they ask a very important question. They say, "Now what?"
It's like they know there has to be something more, and there is. It's to enjoy this new relationship. The expression of God's love for you at the cross was not the end but the beginning. It's the beginning of you beginning to experience this unlimited supply God gives you in your life, a supply that's never going to run out and, therefore, never going to leave you in a place where you have to look for it elsewhere.
For those of us in this room who have come to receive the love of Christ and placed our trust in him for our salvation, it is crazy for us to continue this frantic search for love in all of these different places from all of these different people. It doesn't make sense. When we search for love in this world, we must keep searching, because every place that we find it is going to have a limited supply. It's never going to be able to sustain us.
That's why we get frustrated, that's why we get tired, and that's why we begin to hurt other people when we're not feeling loved, because they can never satisfy us. It's similar to snorkeling. This June, Lindsay and I will have been married for 10 years. We're really looking forward to that. Ten years ago, we were just about to graduate from college when we got married. When we did… I had saved for my entire duration of college to afford it.
We went to this all-inclusive resort down in Mexico. I don't know if you've ever been to one of these things. It was paradise. It was unbelievable. All of the food we wanted and amazing pools and the beach and people waiting on us hand and foot. It was incredible. But did you know when you go to one of these all-inclusive resorts they do something really tricky? They talk to you about these excursions.
These excursions are where they try to get you to pay money to leave paradise. It makes no sense at all, but we didn't know. We'd never done this before. This wasn't a part of our upbringings. So we go in and we're like hook, line and sinker. We're like, "We're doing one of these." They have all of these different things lined up. You can go on a Jeep tour, you can go on this hike, or you can go on this fishing trip. I was like, "I want to do that," but that would not be a good way to start my marriage, so we didn't do the fishing trip.
We came down to two options. One was snorkeling, and the other was scuba diving. One was significantly more expensive than the other, and we were just about to graduate college, so we took snorkeling instead of scuba diving. The snorkeling trip… They load you up on this boat and take you out with all of these other people who just got suckered in through the con artist in the excursion room to take you on this trip.
So you get there, and the guy who's in the boat gives you a snorkel and these goggles, and he gives this little safety talk. "It's beautiful down there. You're going to want to spend as much time looking at it as you can." He jumps off and gives you an example. With his little snorkel he'll take a deep breath of air, and then he dives down and stays down there for a long time. He comes up and blows the water out, and he's like, "Oh yeah, it's about to be good."
You jump in the water, and then about two strokes in you have waves crashing over the top of your snorkel. You're choking on sea water, having no fun at all. You kind of get your bearings. You're like, "Okay, I'm going to go deep," so you take a deep breath, try to copy that guy, and you go down, and you realize that he has probably been doing this his whole life and he can hold his breath for a while. I can make it about 15 seconds.
I think I'm about to drown, so I'm frantically going back up to the surface, trying to breathe, getting more water in, and it's like for 10 minutes… This is like a two-hour excursion. After the first 10 minutes of up, down, up, down, search for air, get air, go back, get air, go back, I'm worn out, hanging on the side of the boat with all of my other poor saps who got conned into this, thinking, "This is terrible. Why did we leave paradise?"
Finally, it's over. Lindsay and I load up, go back, and later that day we encountered the group of people who went scuba diving. We're angry and bitter, and they're talking about how amazing their experience was. It was unbelievable. The difference was when they jumped off the boat to go enjoy the beauty of a reef and the fish that surround it, they had all the air they needed. They didn't have to frantically go back up and down and back up and down to try to resupply their air, because they had all the air they needed.
As followers of Christ, we have a choice to make. Do we want to be snorkelers or do we want to be scuba divers? We have all the love we need, but the problem is we act like we don't, and we spend all of our time relentlessly searching for that next breath of love that we're going to receive from somebody, knowing that it's not going to last and we're going to have to keep looking for more. But we don't have to. You don't have to. You have all that you need in Christ. You can stop searching for love, because you have an unlimited supply.
Paul is going to tell us one more thing in this passage. There is only one response to knowing and believing these truths. He continues. "And not only this…""Not only the fact that I brought the greatest love to you, that it's an unlimited supply that's never going to run out. Not only that, but if you truly rest in that, something amazing is going to happen in your life." This is what he says. "…but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation."
I probably need to explain this, because none of you have used the word exult in the past lifetime. What does exult mean? Exult means to revel, to glory, to gloat, to boast, to wallow, to rejoice. What Paul is saying is that the song of the loved is joy. He's saying, "If you know this truth, that God brought his love to you and it's never going to run out, you will start to experience joy for the first time in your life, a joy that's not going to run out, that's not dependent on circumstances or your performance or any other person."
3.You can stop searching for love and start experiencing joy and enjoying relationships. That sounds good, doesn't it? To not be frustrated week in and week out or day in and day out about how your boss responded to you or your spouse responded to you or your peers whose friendship you're desiring have responded to you, to no longer be frustrated with your Community Group because of what they do or don't do.
You have all the love you need in Christ; therefore, your joy is not contingent upon your circumstances, your performance, or any other person and the way they respond to you. When we give our hearts to anyone or anything but God and search to be satisfied by love there, one thing is for certain. You will always end up disappointed, because they have a limited capacity to love. God has an unlimited capacity to love.
Without the gospel we are doomed to the relentless search for love that will never satisfy that's going to continue to wear us out and cause us to hurt other people out of frustration, but with the gospel we are free. God sets us free to experience joy and to enjoy relationships. Augustine, a famous theologian in the fourth century, long before us, put it this way. As he speaks of this topic, he says, "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you."
Until we rest in God's love for us, we will never experience joy. That person who you are hoping will satisfy that desire of your heart will always let you down, but when you find the solution for your restlessness in Christ, you'll find that rest. You'll have that joy. You'll no longer need anything from other people, and therefore you can actually love other people. The only response to this is joy. Another great theologian, Buddy the Elf, put it this way.
Buddy: I'm in love, and I don't care who knows it!
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That's it. It's to celebrate. That's the kind of people other people want to be around. Your greatest opportunity for evangelism, to tell people about this God who you love and who loves you is to revel in joy over his love for you. People are going to say, "What's different? How come this circumstance in your life has not thrown you into a tailspin?"
You can say, "Let me tell you why. Because I know I'm loved, and I'm in love, and I want you to know about it, so let me tell you." It's the only right response. Once we find rest for our hearts in God, in Christ, our searching stops and our joy begins. We stop trying to squeeze love out of other people and start being able to give it to them, because, after all, we have an unlimited supply.
To circle back to what we talked about in the beginning, when you stop searching for love and start actually enjoying the love of Christ, you become free to love your wife even when she's not loving you in return, even when there's not the respect you hope to receive. Therefore, you don't have to seek it in outlets of pornography or approval from your boss at work, and then you can begin to be a source of life in your family and not a source of destruction, because you are satisfied in God's love for you.
When you stop searching for love and are satisfied by God's love, you'll be able to stop getting frustrated with your husband when he prioritizes work over family. You don't need his love because you are full in the love of Christ. Therefore, you can come alongside him, not out of frustration and anger but as a faithful helpmate, to encourage, to support, and even to admonish and point back in a way that reflects God's love for your husband.
When you stop searching for love in your children and are fully supplied by God's love for you, you can stop placing expectations on your children that are going to crush them, that they can never stand up underneath the weight of, and you can start being a father or a mother who reflects God's love for them and is able to give love to them and not take it from them because you are full with the love of Christ.
When you stop searching for love in the acceptance and affection of your friends, you can actually start being a friend because you're not trying to take anything from them. You are free to give of yourself to them. When you stop searching for love in a dating relationship and find contentment in the love of Christ, you can start trusting God with your singleness and basing your value not on whether or not you're being pursued but on the fact that you have been pursued by Jesus Christ, and you don't have to compromise yourself to earn the affection of anyone.
When you stop searching for love in the approval of your boss and are satisfied in the love of God, you can stop feeling worried and anxious about your job and about your performance and can actually start being a faithful employee, to be faithful to work unto the Lord and not to men. When you stop searching for love in the acceptance and pursuit of your Community Group members and are satisfied by the love of God through an abiding relationship with him, you can stop looking to the members of your Community Group to meet all of the needs for love in your life. You can have those met in Christ; therefore, you can start giving love to them and meeting their needs.
When we begin to have Community Groups and a church and people all over the city who love this way because of the way they know they are loved, something amazing happens. Gospel conversations happen all over the place, because people want to know, "How come you can endure this differently?" and you can say, "Let me tell you. Let me tell you about someone who came into my life and brought the greatest love to me that will never be matched anywhere else, who supplies it unlimitedly and, therefore, frees me up to experience joy and enjoy relationships."
When you stop searching for love and are satisfied in the love of Christ, you are set free to experience joy and enjoy relationships. A few months ago, I lost my keys. When I get home every day, my keys always go in one of the same places. So I get home, and it either goes on the entry table or on the bookshelf or on the island in the kitchen or on my nightstand or on my dresser or by my sink. You can tell why my keys get lost.
Well, there was a morning where I couldn't find them anywhere, so I'm searching around the house. "They're not here. Okay, they're not on the entry table. They're not on the bookshelf. They're not here. They're not here." I go through it three or four times, and I'm getting late. I'm a person who struggles with control and the way people perceive me, so I'm thinking, "You know what? If I'm late, this is going to be a problem." Punctuality is a pet peeve of mine.
So the frustration is boiling over, and because they're not in any of the 12 places I normally keep them I think, "The woman. It must have been Lindsay." Because if they're not where I normally put them, she must have been cleaning the house or picking up after my mess and put them somewhere. So I go over. "Lindsay, where are my keys?" As you can guess, that did not go well. In my frustration I'm like, "I don't know where they are. Where did you put them?"
She's like, "I didn't put them anywhere." So at one point I just look up, and I'm like, "Oh gosh, what am I going to do?" Then I think, "Oh man, I'm about to eat my words." They've been in my pocket the whole time. That's silly, right? But what's even more silly is that what our search for love boils down to is we are searching for something we already possess. You need not look elsewhere. We have all that we need in Christ.
So my encouragement for you this morning is to not let a simple but powerful truth pass by without grabbing hold of it tightly and never letting it go but to realize that God has made provision to set you free from your relentless and frantic search to find love apart from him. He brought it to you. It's all that you're ever going to need, and when you choose to rest in that, get ready, because it's the beginning.
It's the beginning of experiencing the abundant life Jesus promised he came to give. So let's rest in that. Let's let our joy overflow, and let's watch people flock toward us to want to know what's the difference and get to see many people come to faith as you share about the way Christ has loved you. Let me pray for you.
Father, you are good. We do not deserve this. In all the ways that we have continued to run and rebel against you, what we deserve is to not experience the love you have for us, but you don't give us what we deserve. You give us something far greater than we could ever imagine, something that is not of this world, something we really can't even miss because the way you've made it known and evident to all men as you left your heavenly throne, a place where there's no pain, no suffering, no sorrow, no loss of fellowship or lacking of love, and set it all aside to come and express your love to us.
So I pray, I ask, Father, that, though I believe these things, you would strengthen me in my unbelief. On the days where I tend to think I need to be satisfied by love apart from you, may I remember it's never going to happen. May we run quickly into your presence to receive love, to be set free from the relentless search, that we may experience the abundant life you came to give us. Father, help us to rest in you.
I pray that if there are any of my friends here in this room who this is new to, that you would change their heart, that you would let this truth sink deeply into them and it would change them forever. I pray if there's somebody who came in this morning, whether it be because they lost their keys or something else going on in their life, and they are frustrated with people, Father, that you would take it from them, that you would not allow their circumstances, their performance, or the way people are responding to them in their lives to derail the love you have come to give them to give them rest.
Help this be true of us. Help us to then love others with the type of love you've given to us. Help us be a city set on a hill, a light in the darkness, proclaiming the good news that you have come to set us free to experience joy and enjoy relationships. Now, Father, let us respond to that truth in song and in worship. We love you, amen.


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The One Question To Ask If You Want To Recruit The Best Talent Globally
It might be hard to hire away, say, Google's best developer, but there's untapped talent waiting overseas–if you know where to look.
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By Jennifer Liberto 4 minute Read
When Iñaki Berenguer started his first company, he followed the advice from his advisor Paul English, founder of Kayak.
It went like this: Wherever you go–cocktail parties, alumni gatherings, conferences, dinners, coffee shops, birthday parties–ask anyone you meet: "Who is the smartest, best person you have ever worked with?"
Iñaki Berenguer
This is what English did to build Kayak, the upstart travel search engine, while competing against giants like Expedia with a workforce of thousands. Today, Berenguer does the same thing as CEO of New York-based data and telecom company Klink, but takes it a step further. He also asks his talent-search question on international trips, and asks friends and colleagues for referrals from around the world.
"Everyone has worked with somebody they know who is outstanding, but usually they say: 'Oh, I know this person, but he or she is very happy and not looking for a job change," Berenguer said.
His advice: Go out and try to recruit them anyway, even if they're not U.S. based. And fear not the U.S. immigration visa system–it's complicated but not insurmountable.
Berenguer knows intimately all about this (more on that soon). He sold his last company, a photo-hunting mobile app called Pixable, in 2012. His new venture, Klink, competes with the likes of Cisco and Microsoft, and Berenguer believes that finding the best talent worldwide is key for companies like his to compete.
"In the United States, there is the big war for talent. There are so many companies trying to change the world. There are 20 other companies in New York, just as ambitious as we are. But those companies are only focusing on the U.S.," says Berenguer. "I'm telling you there are very good people in Argentina, Spain, South Africa, United Kingdom, Singapore."
Most of Berenguer's 20 employees are U.S. citizens. And many were recruited by the asking of friends, colleagues, and strangers for the best or smartest people they've ever worked with. Yet, 40% of his staff are internationals on visas recruited from places like Bulgaria, Argentina, South Africa, and Israel.
Berenguer touts the wonders of the O-1 immigration visa, which is aimed at immigrants with "extraordinary ability or achievement." The O-1 visa allows U.S. companies to hire internationally quickly, if the "individual… possesses extraordinary ability" and has been "recognized nationally or internationally for those achievements."
When recruiting the best and the brightest, it's not difficult to meet those qualifications, Berenguer says. His hires have been university valedictorians, patent holders, PhDs, and have been featured in academic journals and media reports. One recruit was the 2010 winner of Google's Android Developer Challenge.
"You have to prove they are the best," Berenguer says. "You can't game the visa system. But since we're only looking for the best anyway, that has been an easy part for us."
Another tip: It also helps to have a great immigration lawyer.
Berenguer is intimately familiar with the 0-1 visa, because the Spanish-born entrepreneur sponsored himself to work in the U.S. on that visa. He now has a green card. A few of his employees are also on the H1B visa, but Berenguer says getting that visa is a more clunky process that can take as long as 13 months.
Berenguer is on the lookout for global talent because his company seeks to disrupt two different large sectors at once–telecom and big data.
Klink offers digital services for companies looking to instantly access all data available for potential and existing customers, the moment they call or email. The information is drawn from the company's own files and from publicly available data on the web, through social media services like Linkedin. Klink builds "customer relationship management systems" for companies seeking more insight and preparation for customer emails and telephone calls.
It's very normal to pay a head hunter between $20,000 and $30,000 and there's no guarantee the candidate would be outstanding or exceptional.
For example, if you were to call up your financial adviser, Klink would allow him or her to instantly access your portfolio, your employer, your spouse's name, and any pets or kids–all before you say hello.
"When someone is contacting you by email, you have time to check all their information, but unfortunately when somebody calls you by phone, you may be unprepared in the moment," says Berenguer, who has a PhD in engineering from University of Cambridge and his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
So far, his recruiting strategy has worked well for Klink, with recent hires from South Africa and Argentina.
In one case, Berenguer had asked a former MIT classmate who was the best person he's worked with, which led to an engineer in Argentina. Berenguer flew to Argentina to recruit the engineer, brought him to New York for a more in-depth meeting, and then offered him the job and started the visa process.
In total, the process costs Klink about $15,000, which includes the international trips and about $9,000 for the visa process, including attorney's fees.
"It's a significant amount but in the U.S. it's very normal to pay a head hunter between $20,000 and $30,000 and there's no guarantee the candidate would be outstanding or exceptional," Berenguer notes.
"To be successful at anything, the most important thing is to build strong teams, whether it's engineering or sales," Berenguer says. "It's about finding the best talent in the world."
Jennifer Liberto is a freelance writer in Washington D.C. who writes about entrepreneurs, technology, financial policy, small business, health care, politics, and parenthood
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Rules Of Reverence: The Sacred And The Silly
Written By Teo Bishop on June 18, 2011
How do we find a balance between our desire for personal freedom and the legitimate need to have a standard measurement in our community?
My grandma says in Spanish, "¡Jesus!" whenever someone sneezes. Its the cutest thing. The "-soos" part of the word is always pitched just a little bit higher than the "heh-".
"Heh-soos!"
My husband and I were over for dinner recently, and after a sneeze and a 'soos, I said jokingly, and in English:
She laughed a little, and then got a scolding expression on her face.
It was funny, though. Saying "Jesus" after a sneeze is funny. Who does that? I don't think my grandma ever realized that she was saying the first name of the deity she'd been praying to all her life after each sneeze. Not until, that is, I said the word in English.
The irreverence was titillating, even for my 80 year old, Catholic grandmother.
What Are The Rules Of Reverence?
In exploring the idea of using Gods for our own purposes, I wrote that we need to respect the Gods we worship. We need be weary of commodifying them; turning them into an essential oil, or a hair product. They aren't designed to meet our needs. That isn't how it works. They, like us, may have areas of expertise. But who wants to be treated like they're just a resource, and little more? I know I don't, and I wouldn't imagine a Divine Being would either.
I received a number of insightful comments to this post which reminded me of the importance of humor and mirth in ritual. Stodgy religion? Bo-ring. Its important for a community of people (i.e. Pagans) who actively engage with the world as thought it is a magical place, populated by unseen, mythical, fanciful creatures, to keep it light. Don't take yourself so seriously, prancing around in your serape or cloak. Its a little laugh-worthy, what we do, remember.
[An admission: I'm a kilt-wearing, cloak owning, Renaissance festival attending Pagan, myself. I'm all about the dress-up, and I know the difference between a role-play game and religion. I'm just sayin' – we've got to keep things in context.]
But how, then, are we to find an acceptable standard of reverence? What does it mean to be a reverent, devout, polytheist Pagan?
Sometimes I Miss My Dogma
Beware the oncoming Pagan blasphemy: There's something to be said for dogmatic structures. They're kind of useful in holding a group of people to a standard. Dogma ain't always a bad thing.
Unless it is, or course. The universe is expansive in ways we can't even fathom, and our little attempts at packaging it up and labeling it always fall short. Our dogma, right as we may think it, is always, from another perspective, wrong. Its also used to subjugate, alienate, judge, and suppress countless forms of natural, healthy, human expression.
But even when its wrong, it has a purpose.
What I loved about being surrounded by dogma was that I had the option – the inner freedom – to resist it. If I decided, on my own accord, that the dogma was bunk, I could make that known. Sure, that might alienate me from those who accepted it blindly. But at least it was something for me to engage with. I could argue with it, one way or the other.
Now, as I float down this amorphous Pagan river, I have nothing concrete to argue with. No dogma? No dogma to resist. This is, for many Pagans, a point of pride. We're proud that we aren't subject to an oppressive, dogmatic monolith. We're free, right?
But rules will eventually form. They do so organically. Even in an open Wiccan circle there are a whole set of unspoken rules of how to act, how not to act, and those rules are enforced explicitly or implicitly. Either way, they're there. And its natural for them to be there. That's what happens when people form community. They form rules of engagement; standards of practice, and systems of shared belief.
Rules matter for something. I don't accept that in order to be Pagan, to walk a Druid path (for myself), or to take part in any other tradition that we must throw all sense of structure to the wind.
The question is, how do we find a balance between our desire for personal freedom and the legitimate need to have a standard measurement in our community?
Say It In Spanish
"Jesus", for my adorable grandma, means something different in Spanish, post-sneeze, than it does when she's saying the word in her rosary. The context and the usage determine what is appropriate and what isn't. While she has a sneaky sense of humor, and she did appreciate my irreverent act, she was also made a little uncomfortable by it. It came a bit too close to what is, for her, a very sacred idea. I respect that, and after the joke had been made a few times, I dropped it.
Her example, though, is useful for the modern Pagan, seeking to find balance between reverence and irreverence. What does it mean to be a devout Pagan? Know yourself. Know what those lines are for you. Understand the topography of your own inner spiritual world, and hold true to that. Then, when an irreverent joke is lobbed your way, you can see where it lands and you'll have perspective as to how much damage it could actually do.
Mirth, humor, playfulness – these things all work to counter-balance our sense of reverence and serious religious expression. They give light to another side of that expression; a crucial side. They're the bird call and the puppy bark. They are the millions of ways that the Sacred intersects with the Ordinary, imbuing it with magic. Reverence is remembering that both sides serve a purpose; they serve one another. The Ordinary and the Sacred are kin.
Call A God, Then Grab A Tissue
So next time you sneeze, say "¡Heh-soos!," or, "Ganesha!" Then, laugh a little and remind yourself that even the most devout, sincere religious person looks a little silly in their garb and getup. The silliness is a sacred part of the process. Be silly. Be reverent. Then…
If you found this silly post to be entertaining or insightful, please tweet it or Facebook share it with your friends. As always, your comments are welcome here. I'd love to know how you balance the sacred and the silly!


Day three of the Cynefin and Sense-making course focuses on new forms or organisation and the various aspects of cognitive science and anthropology that we have brought into play in both methods and theories. It is the day that tends to go through more flux than the others as it is a growing area of both theoretical understanding and experimentation for me. As it happens I've been more focused on the wider society issues but all things complex in general ending up as fractal in some way or another most things work in most places.
The odd misguided soul has been known to suggest that changing the system is too hard, but changing an individual is easy. I can agree that, the trouble is the effort to change enough individuals in order to achieve a systems change is generally too much, too hard or takes too long. We are not social atoms anyway so it's a lot better to focus on ways to change the interaction between people and objects.
Then again, we are generally working with identities, which are not aggregations of individuals but orientations that impact on many individual behaviours. So we don't have to swing the pendulum between focusing on the system and focusing on the individual, there is a much more nuanced and economical approach. Proximity, informal flow and the like are far more influential on individuals that some implied inner qualities.
We can't change the organisation or the world by idealistic statements about how people should be. You make some aspects of what they do more transparent (more or that tomorrow) within a local context (a sort of localised virtual panopticon); you increase interdependencies between people with little or no previous contact and so on. If you have teams that don't like each other, break them up and throw elements together in some unrelated task.
Remember that tools, humour, art and narrative are all critical aspects of what we are, and what we can become. Few of those are included either in the New Age Fluffy Bunny facilitation and coaching approaches, or the indifference of process reengineering. It is not about formal design, communication and committment.
The cartesian model of the human brain, namely the assumption that mind and body are somehow separate is deeply problematic and in turn had resulted in computer models of the brain (very common in HR departments) and information not human centric design.
There are more, but that is enough to be going on with!
Oh, and remember, humans do well with just a little mess. So those neat and tidy organisational charts rarely conform with reality. With that in line I could not resist the mug that opens this post. So I hope I am not breaching IP terms if (i) I have bought one and (ii) I provide the linkso others interested can also buy one.


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Adopting Rupaul the athletic kitty would be a slam-dunk move
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Apr 6, 2014 | 4:25 pm
Former featured pets Lady, Athena and Little One are still waiting for their forever homes. This week meet Rupaul, a long, lean kitty who has been at the SPCA of Texas since late January.
Could she be the perfect pet playmate? Let's find out.
Breed: Domestic shorthair
Vital stats: Though she can be shy at first, Rupaul warms up to people very quickly, and her sleek physique means she is very athletic. She's used to being the princess of the home, so she would prefer to be the only cat in your family. Because Rupaul has been at the SPCA for more than 30 days, she is considered a VIP, making her adoption fee just $50.
Come meet Rupaul (#126384) today at the SPCA of Texas' Jan Rees-Jones Animal Care Center in Dallas at 2400 Lone Star Dr., near I-30 and Hampton Road. The center is open seven days a week, noon-6 pm.
Regular adoption fees are $95-$125 for puppies 0-6 months, $75-$95 for adult dogs 6 months or older, $50 for senior dogs 7 years or older, $50 for VIP dogs, $95 for kittens, $75 for adult cats, $50 for senior cats 7 years and older, and $50 for VIP cats.
The adoption fee includes spay/neuter surgery, age-appropriate vaccinations, heartworm test for dogs 6 months and older, initial heartworm preventative for dogs, feline leukemia test for cats 4 months and older, microchip, rabies tag, and free leash or cat carrier. Call 214-742-SPCA (7722) or visit the SPCA website for more information.
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WaterTower Theatre in Addison presents The Play That Goes Wrong through February 12.
Welcome to February, when the ice always seems to come to town. This week's storm has already wreaked havoc with early week events, and it's possible weekend events will be affected as well. For now, the ones listed are still scheduled to take place, but check with the event organizer or venue before heading out to be sure.
WaterTower Theatre presents The Play That Goes Wrong
WaterTower Theatre in Addison presents the regional premiere of The Play That Goes Wrong, the Olivier Award-winning comedy that is a hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes. Welcome to opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous, with an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can't play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines). A co-production with Stage West Theatre, it runs through February 12 before moving to Fort Worth.
Emerge Coalition presents Tear Down These Walls
Part of AT&T Performing Arts Center's Elevator Project, Emerge Coalition will presentTear Down These Walls, a one-of-a-kind concert experience that unites the Julius Quartet with an immersive set designed by local visual artists. The interactive walls are "torn down" around the audience in this boldly imagined evening of moving string quartet music and stunning visual art. There will be three performances through Saturday at Wyly Theatre.
Majestic Theatre presents "Miranda Sings" featuring Colleen Ballinger
Colleen Ballinger is an actor, comedian, trained vocalist, writer, and executive producer best known for portraying her character, "Miranda Sings," a personality that is the polar opposite of Ballinger. She can currently be seen as Miranda on the Netflix original series Haters Back Off, which she created. She'll bring herself and her character to Majestic Theatre.
ATP Tour presents Dallas Open
Taking place indoors at the Styslinger/Altec Tennis Complex at SMU, the Dallas Open is an ATP Tour 250 men's tournament that will play its second year in Dallas. It will be the only ATP Tour indoor championship in the United States, and features men's top world tennis players in singles and doubles competition. Taking place through February 12, opening night on Saturday will feature the Women's Tennis Classic exhibition match between former U.S. Open finalist Madison Keys and former U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens.
Parkway Drive in concert
The name of the Australian band Parkway Drive in no way indicates their chosen genre, metalcore, a fusion between extreme metal and hardcore punk. Unsurprisingly huge in their native country, with three straight No. 1 albums there, they've been making inroads on this side of the world, with four of their seven albums reaching the top 40. They'll play at House of Blues Dallas in support of their 2002 album, Darker Still.
Legendz of the Streetz featuring Jeezy, Gucci Mane, and more
American Airlines Center will become hip hop central on Sunday when it hosts the Legendz of the Streetz tour. The concert will feature performances by a variety of well-known rappers, including Jeezy, T.I., Gucci Mane, 2 Chainz, Trina, Jadakiss, and more.
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(a) to (c): Government has not put any mandatory condition on Medical Institutes to generate 30% of the additional financial impact incurred on implementing the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC). Most Medical Institutes have expressed inability to meet 30% of the additional financial impact. Therefore, the Ministry has submitted 23 proposals so far to Ministry of Finance for relaxation in the condition to bear 30% of additional financial impact.


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Le square du Père-Salone est un square du quartier des Chantiers de Versailles, en France.

Situation et accès
Le square du Père-Salone est un square situé à l'angle de l'avenue de Sceaux et de la rue de Limoges. Inauguré en , c'est un square simpliste en terre battue où se trouve quelques bancs et des arbres pour les ombrager. Sans clôture, il est accessible en tout temps.

Origine du nom
Le square du Père-Salone porte le nom d'Henri Salone (1866-1939). Ce prêtre eudiste, né à Versailles, y a passé l'essentiel de son existence. Après avoir été surveillant général des grands élèves à Saint-Jean-de-Béthune où il donnait des cours d'allemand, il reçut la prêtrise le  à Rennes puis revint à Versailles en  et dirigea, de 1903 à sa mort, le cercle catholique d'ouvriers de la rue de Limoges. Ce cercle catholique d'ouvriers a été fondé à Versailles le , en conséquence des événements de la Commune ; l'objectif de ce cercle, comme de tous ses homologues, était d'empêcher que de tels événements se reproduisent, en « rechristianisant le monde ouvrier et en contribuant de cette façon à la défense de ses intérêts matériels et moraux ». Installé au 15, rue de Limoges le , ce cercle possédait une chapelle, des terrains de jeux, un cinéma, et un pensionnat, où étaient logés en 1898 quinze élèves de l'École d'horticulture. Érigé canoniquement par Léon XIII le , il était dirigé par les prêtres eudistes de la rue de Béthune. À la tête de ce cercle, le père Salone, par ailleurs nommé chanoine honoraire le , a laissé un souvenir édifiant, que la municipalité a voulu perpétuer par la dénomination de ce petit square.

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Los documentos árabes del Archivo de la Catedral de Huesca son unos textos escritos en árabe entre 1145 y 1268. Consisten en siete compravendas, tres préstamos y dos permutas.

El lenguaje árabe presenta vulgarismos y palabras romances. El léxico romance consiste en antropónimos, gentilicios y topónimos. El documento 12 presenta los nombres romances vocalizados con especial cuidado.

Tienen un gran valor toponímico puesto que hay nombres de barrios, pueblos, términos y partidas de Huesca que se pueden comparar con los documentos latinos contemporáneos, por ejemplo Hawz al-caskar, término de Alguascar/Alazcar/Alhazc después Algascar y hoy término de  Angáscara. También Rabad al-garbi ("Arrabal de poniente"), Hawna al-Mariy y Al-Mairiy, hoy "Almeriz", Hawna Murillun ("barrio de Morillón"), Rabad al muqaybara ("Arrabal de Almacorella"), Hawna al-Maoida ("barrio de la mesa"). También mencionan algunos pueblos pequeños correspondientes a los actuales Artosilla, Albero, Banariés, Seres, Callén y Almuniente.

Bibliografía
 Jacinto Bosch Vilá. Los documentos árabes del archivo de la catedral de Huesca. Revista del Instituto de Estudios Islámicos de Madrid. Vol V, fasc 1-2. Madrid 1957

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Iron and Wine-An Abilene Experience
January 25, 2010 February 19, 2014 DGrantSmith	0 Comments abilene tx, appetizer artist, award, concert, D Grant Smith, elliott park, event, golden fork, iron & wine, kacu, micah p hinson, paramount theater, series, The Appetizer
This past Saturday, concert goers in Abilene, TX had an experience that doesn't happen very often- Iron & Wine in concert. I was privileged to be a part of the show, in getting to meet Sam (I&W's real name) back stage and present him with the coveted Appetizer Golden Fork award for Best Song 2009. Fans from across the country voted in this contest. We'll name the other winners later on.
Typically what I've done with this award is use it as a way for listeners from all over the place to look at all the great new and emerging talent that's been heard over the course of the year and give everyone a voice to state their choice of who's the best. The turnout has grown tremendously each year. For past year's winners, we've made banners for them for our website and their social network platforms. Never before have we had an official trophy to present. Until 2010.
My good friend and Appetizer artist Elliott Park helped me craft the official Golden Fork Award by welding a large serving fork in a bass cleft shape and molding it to a custom made pedestal. We finally had something to give an icon in folk music that would be worth holding on to. A special thanks to Big Country Trophies for the pedestal.
Before the show, I met Sam backstage for some pictures and to talk a bit. As I opened the box with the trophy, I told him "I have an award for you. It's not a Grammy, but….." and handed him the Golden Fork. He seemed genuinely surprised and intrigued. Congrats to Iron & Wine for the win. Well deserved.
I was also privileged to get to introduce Iron & Wine to the sold out crowd at the Historic Paramount Theater in Abilene. As part of the annual concert series (Live at the Paramount Art Series) from local public radio station KACU and the Historic Paramount Theater, this was the first ever sell-out crowd in the five year history of the concert series. Seeing a new group of fans and concert-goers was a real treat.
Iron & Wine was a unique experience all it's own. Leading up to his performance, local and international indie music star Micah P Hinson opened with some old and new material, including a cover of "The Times They Are A Changin.'" This marked one of the only times Micah has performed in his hometown and proved to be a remarkable performance. When Iron & Wine performed, as when Micah did, it was the artist alone on stage with only their guitar. Yet nothing else was needed to pull the audience into the world of the artist and experience their universe through the stories of their songs. Iron & Wine played fan favorite tracks like "Trapeze Swinger," "Naked As We Came," "Resurrection Fern," and an almost A capella version of "Flightless Bird, American Mouth," made popular in part by the Twilight movie soundtrack.
This concert set the bar for future performances in the concert hall, and invited a new gathering of music fans to partake in a concert series they might not have known about otherwise. The future of the series looks bright as now more great emerging artists have a new platform to perform from. A great experience for me, an unforgettable night for all.
For more information-
Micah P Hinson
The Historic Paramount
The Appetizer
Elliott Park
Big County Trophies- (Email)bctrophies@valornet.com
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It's a battle that has pockmarked the Middle East and North Africa since World War Two, but kicked into high gear with the 2011 popular Arab revolts. Saudi Arabia and Little Sparta, a term used by some US officials to describe the UAE, waged a concerted campaign to roll back achievements of the uprisings.
While Saudi Arabia and the UAE differ in their view of Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism, they agree on defining political Islam as terrorist because it advocates an alternative worldview or form of governance.
Saudi Arabia, struggling with the fact that its four decade-long public diplomacy campaign, the largest in history, has let an ultra-conservative, often militant, inward-looking, intolerant genie out of the bottle that it no longer controls, sees Madkhalism, a strand of ultra-conservatism that advocates absolute obedience to the ruler, as the solution.
In doing so, Saudi Arabia is perpetuating the fallout of its public diplomacy that has been a key factor in Muslim societies such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh becoming more conservative, more intolerant towards Muslim and non-Muslim minorities, less pluralistic and less democratic.
Much of the world's focus on post-revolt Libya, torn apart by armed militias and ruled by rival governments, has focused on the rise of the Islamic State (IS) in the country. Yet, equally devastating for the country has been the proxy war between Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt that depends on handouts from the two Gulf states for its economic survival on the one hand and Qatar on the other. Libya's travails that created opportunity for IS are in many ways the product of battling Gulf states that support groups representing the rival strands of Islam they back.
Madkhalist influence in the region illustrates the kind of society Saudi-backed ultra-conservatives envision. The alliance with General Haftar has allowed them to gain control of the body that governs religion as well as mosques in areas administered by the internationally recognized government of Libya.
Like in Saudi Arabia, Abd al-Razzaq al-Nazury, a military governor in the region associated with General Haftar and the Madkhalists, banned women from travelling without a mail guardian. Mr. Al-Nazury imposed the ban following a visit by Usamah al-Utaybi, a Jordanian-born Saudi Islamic scholar who was a fighter in the US and Saudi-backed jihad in the 1980s against the Soviets in Afghanistan. An outcry on social media forced the governor to cancel the ban.
The long and short of this is that there are no truly good guys in the battle between Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar. Nonetheless, at the core of their high-stakes battle is a struggle over what Islam-inspired worldview will be most prominent in the Muslim world as well as the ability of Muslim nations, especially those in Saudi Arabia's orbit, to chart a course of their own.


Apple has unveiled its newest operating systems, iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 Yosemite. While the newest version of Yosemite promises some exciting new features for loyal Apple hardware users, it is iOS 8 that we would like to discuss here. For the first time ever, it will be easy for iPhone users to control automated features of their home. To learn more about why this is and read about a couple of other exciting iOS 8 features, continue below!
Since smart home technology really took off a few years ago, most iPhone and iPad users have had to control each of their automated devices using a separate app. Not anymore, as users of the iOS beta smart hub app willl soon find out. Dubbed "HomeKit," Apple's iPhone and iPad hub will make controlling your home's automated appliances--an admirable and efficient gesture--an efficient activity in itself.
Even if it guesses correctly what you intend to type 97% of the time--as long as your typing and language settings are in sync, AutoCorrect still upsets iPhone and iPad users. That should change with iOS 8, the first Apple mobile operating system to feature QuickType. Choosing the word you are trying to type will be as easy as tapping one of the predicted options that appears on the screen. If this does not go far enough for your text-generation particular tastes, iOS 8 will also be the first Apple mobile operating system that is compatible with third-party keyboards.
Against all odds, Apple has found a way to make viewing, editing, and storing photos even easier and more user-friendly. Accessing your photos and other apps simultaneously and using them together will not be the only benefit of being able to access an app from within the interface of another app, but it is almost certainly the effect that will make the most waves.
If this topic interests you, keep your eyes peeled for more information about Apple's newest operating system and its compatibility with Control4 and other smart home hubs. As information is released and the latest technologies are reviewed by tech gurus, we will be providing our own commentary and updates. If you are looking to have your home's appliances, fixtures, and energy-dependent systems automated so that you can control them with your iPhone or iPad, call Integrated IO® at (888) 4-Integrated IO®. We proudly serve homes in Fountain Hills, Scottsdale, and throughout the Phoenix area!


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Lack of Remote and Hybrid Work Policies Put Education Industry at Risk for IT Security Issues
Apricorn | July 23, 2021
The leading manufacturer of software-free, 256-bit AES XTS hardware-encrypted USB drives, Apricorn, has announced various findings for the education sector from the Apricorn Global IT Security Survey, 2021. The survey says the education industry lacks concern about security threats from employees and, due to limited IT security policies related to remote work, has a greater risk for cybersecurity breaches and data loss than other industries. For example, 69.4% of respondents say, as targets that attackers can use to access data, employees at their organizations don't think of themselves, compared to 37.5% in information technology (IT).
The survey was to compare cybersecurity policies of various industries about hybrid and remote work. More than 400 respondents completed the survey. Unfortunately, the education industry constantly lags behind many other healthcare, manufacturing, IT, and financial services when executing lost/stolen devices and data security policies. Remarkably, compared to 55% in IT, only 26% of respondents in the education industry agreed that they have policies regarding lost/stolen devices.
Many education institutions, in the Fall, will be returning to in-person instruction; however, in the education sector, most survey respondents (90.77%) said a hybrid work option exists. Organizations in education demonstrated a trend of allowing employee choice when it comes to policy adherence when asked about policies and procedures that have been put in place regarding transporting data and devices. Compared to an average of 52% for other top industries, only 20% of education organizations require encrypted hardware. More than half of EDUCATION organizations permit the use of personal USB devices.
About Apricorn
Founded in 1983, Apricorn is a leading provider of secure storage innovations to prominent companies in education, healthcare, finance, and government throughout North America, EMEA, and Canada. Apricorn products have become the trusted standard for a myriad of data security strategies worldwide. Under the Apricorn brand, numerous award-winning products and patents have been developed.
Four Data Debris Initiatives that Attack ROT at Its Roots
Of the five stages in the Information Governance Maturity Model, the second stage - "Overwhelmed" - is typically the most uncomfortable. Many IT organizations experience a strong temptation to look for quick fixes based on the mechanics of storage. Thin provisioning, to take just one example, enables more efficient utilization of existing storage capacity, so that companies can effectively store more data at a lower cost.
Datadog Announces Integration with Amazon Security Lake
Datadog | November 30, 2022
Datadog, Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today announced a new integration with Amazon Security Lake. The integration, announced during AWS re:Invent, makes it easy for Amazon Security Lake users to send cloud security logs to Datadog in a standard format. Building data pipelines in order to aggregate and route security logs to various security analytics solutions can be a cumbersome and time-consuming process. For Amazon Security Lake customers, Datadog's integration provides an easy way to send security logs to Datadog with minimal configuration required. Once security logs are ingested into Datadog, customers can analyze and identify threats through out-of-the-box detection rules or by writing custom security rules. They can also do deeper investigations using Datadog's log management tools. "Amazon Security Lake makes it easier for teams to manage their cloud security data and analyze it with partner solutions of their choice," said Rod Wallace, General Manager for Amazon Security Lake. "Datadog's integration with Amazon Security Lake will allow customers to collect their security logs to improve their cybersecurity posture and send them to Datadog for analysis leveraging an open source schema." "Security threat detection and investigation is dependent on an effective logging strategy that ensures critical logs are being properly analyzed. However, managing dozens of log integrations from cloud-hosted accounts and entities can be cumbersome and lead to gaps in visibility. "Amazon Security Lake and Datadog are working together to provide an easy way to set up and manage important log integrations for Datadog Cloud SIEM, giving customers deep visibility into their most critical infrastructure." Pierre Betouin, SVP of Security Products at Datadog About Datadog Datadog is the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.
BlueVoyant Research Reveals Defending Digital Supply Chains Remains a Business Challenge
BlueVoyant | November 14, 2022
BlueVoyant, an industry-leading cyber defense company that combines internal and external cybersecurity, today released the findings of its third annual global survey into supply chain cyber risk management. The study reveals that 98% of firms surveyed have been negatively impacted by a cybersecurity breach that occurred in their supply chain. This is up slightly from 97% of respondents last year. Digital supply chains are made of the external vendors and suppliers who have network access that could be compromised. "The survey shows that supply chain cybersecurity risk has not decreased and, in fact, more enterprises than ever have reported being negatively impacted by a cybersecurity disturbance in their supply chain," said Adam Bixler, BlueVoyant's global head of supply chain defense. "The good news is that across industries and regions, organizations are making supply chain defense a priority, but these organizations need to better monitor suppliers and work with them to remediate issues to reduce their supply chain risk." Other key survey findings include: 40% of respondents rely on the third-party vendor or supplier to ensure adequate security. In 2021, 53% of companies said they audited or reported on supplier security more than twice per year; that number has improved to 67% in 2022. These numbers include enterprises monitoring in real time. Budgets from supply chain defense are increasing, with 84% of respondents saying their budget has increased in the past 12 months. The top pain points reported are internal understanding across the enterprise that suppliers are part of their cybersecurity posture, meeting regulatory requirements, and working with suppliers to improve their security. "While supply chain defense is a challenge, there are solutions for enterprises to better defend against this risk," said James Rosenthal, BlueVoyant's CEO and co-founder. "Enterprises should continuously monitor their supply chain to be able to quickly remediate threats. As companies are being negatively impacted by supply chain disturbances, they must prioritize this risk with the appropriate budget." The study was conducted by independent research organization, Opinion Matters, and recorded the views and experiences of 2,100 chief technology officers (CTOs), chief security officers (CSOs), chief operating officers (COOs), chief information officers (CIOs), chief info security officers (CISOs), and chief procurement officers (CPOs) responsible for supply chain and cyber risk management in organizations with more than 1,000 employees across a range of industries. These include: business services, financial services, healthcare and pharmaceutical, manufacturing, utilities and energy, and defense. It covered 11 countries: U.S., Canada, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Philippines, and Singapore. The 2021 research was also conducted by Opinion Matters and recorded the views and experiences of 1,200 CTOs/CSOs/COOs/CIOs/CISOs/CPOs in similar enterprises and the same industries. It covered six countries: U.S., Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K., and Singapore. Analysis of the responses from different commercial sectors revealed considerable variations in their experiences of supply chain risk: While healthcare and pharmaceutical was the third-highest vertical in terms of experiencing greater board scrutiny for supply chain risk at 42%, the sector also indicates the lowest likelihood to increase budget for external resources to bolster supply chain cybersecurity, by a margin of 7% below the next closest vertical. This sector is also the least likely of any vertical (34%) to have no way of knowing if an issue arises with a third party's environment. The energy sector was most likely to report negative impact from at least one supply chain breach in the last year (99%) but 49% are monitoring supply chain cyber risk regularly or in real time, and 44% are updating senior leadership monthly or more frequently. In addition, energy companies say they are increasing their budget for supply chain cyber risk by an average of 60%. In manufacturing, 64% of respondents say that supply chain cyber risk is on their radar and 44% say they have established an integrated enterprise risk management program. About BlueVoyant BlueVoyant combines internal and external cyber defense capabilities into an outcomes-based platform called BlueVoyant Elements™. Elements is cloud-native and continuously monitors your network, endpoints, attack surface, and supply chain plus the clear, deep, and dark web for vulnerabilities, risks, and threats; and takes action to protect your business, leveraging both machine learning-driven automation and human-led expertise. Elements can be deployed as independent solutions or together as a full-spectrum cyber defense platform. BlueVoyant's approach to cyber defense revolves around three key pillars — technology, telemetry, and talent — that deliver industry-leading cybersecurity to more than 700 clients across the globe.
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Phosphorus Launches New xIoT Security Capabilities to Discover and Disable Risky Devices Prohibited by the U.S. Government
Phosphorus | December 13, 2022
Phosphorus, the leading provider of proactive and full-scope security for the extended Internet of Things (xIoT), today announced new security features that will enable organizations to discover and monitor their networks for the presence of xIoT devices that the U.S. government deems a significant security risk. The new features also include the capability to remotely disable and remove the devices from the network. Phosphorus's security update follows the FCC's ban on the sale or importation of devices made by several Chinese manufacturers that it considers to pose "an unacceptable risk to national security of the United States or the security or safety of United States persons." The Covered List includes video surveillance and telecommunications equipment produced by Huawei Technologies, ZTE Corporation, Hytera Communications, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, and Dahua Technology (and their subsidiaries and affiliates). "The Phosphorus xIoT Security Platform is the industry's only solution that can discover the presence of these prohibited devices and remotely render them inert at scale. "These unique capabilities will empower enterprises and government organizations across the U.S. to discover, disable, and remove banned or potentially dangerous devices from their enterprise environments." John Vecchi, Chief Marketing Officer at Phosphorus Advanced Discovery Capability A recent study by Phosphorus's global research division, Phosphorus Labs, found that organizations consistently struggle to identify all of their xIoT devices – this means many companies may not realize they have banned devices lurking inside their networks. According to its research, 80% of enterprise security teams can't identify the majority of their xIoT devices and customer estimates of xIoT inventories are consistently off by 40-60%. Phosphorus's Enterprise xIoT Security Platform has unique capabilities for discovering xIoT assets, and it is the only technology platform able to communicate with these devices (ranging from security cameras to PLCs) in their native languages. This enables a high degree of accuracy, granularity, and speed when discovering and analyzing these devices to create comprehensive inventories of xIoT assets that include device type, brand, model, firmware version, credential status, default/enabled protocols, certificate status, and more. Disabling and Isolating High-Risk Devices Phosphorus empowers organizations by giving them direct control over every single device in their wide-ranging xIoT deployments. Through the platform's Hardening and Remediation capabilities, organizations can update and rotate a device's credentials, manage firmware, disable remote services, turn off unnecessary connectivity features, check for valid certificates, and reboot the device. For organizations that have detected banned xIoT technologies in their networks, specific device-level actions such as changing passwords, disabling services and reducing connectivity will be critical for limiting the potential risks of these devices prior to their removal from the network. World's First and Only Proactive xIoT Security Platform Phosphorus's Enterprise xIoT Security Platform is the industry's only consolidated xIoT security offering, delivering state-of-the-art Attack Surface Management, Hardening and Remediation, and Detection and Response across the full range of IoT, OT, and Network-connected devices – spanning both new and legacy devices. For the first time in industry history, teams in IT, Facilities, and Security are able to collaborate on a single platform to safely discover, assess, remediate, and monitor their xIoT devices. Phosphorus is now the solution of choice for enterprises to secure devices that were previously unknown or overlooked, beginning with fundamental xIoT security hygiene. The company's Enterprise xIoT Security Platform is currently deployed in Fortune 100, Fortune 500, and government networks. ABOUT PHOSPHORUS Phosphorus Cybersecurity® is the leading xTended Security of Things™ platform designed to secure the rapidly growing and often unmonitored Things across the enterprise xIoT landscape. Our Enterprise xIoT Security Platform delivers Attack Surface Management, Hardening & Remediation, and Detection & Response to bring enterprise xIoT security to every cyber-physical Thing in your enterprise environment. With unrivaled xIoT discovery and posture assessment, Phosphorus automates the remediation of the biggest IoT, OT, and Network device vulnerabilities—including unknown and inaccurate asset inventory, out-of-date firmware, default credentials, risky configurations, and out-of-date certificates.