It's Good Friday. Around the world today, people claiming the name of Christ will gather to commemorate His death nearly 2000 years ago. Whatever our denominational differences or various traditions, we today proclaim in faith that somehow His death is good news for us. It is one of the Christian faith's distinctive features, this doctrine of the vicarious atonement of Jesus of Nazareth. No other faith system has deity bridging the gap between infinity and humanity through suffering and death. At the cross justice and mercy meet as sin is dealt with as truly abhorrent and mercy makes a way for grace to restore the sinner to life when we deserved death.
In Jesus' own teaching he said repeatedly that there was a connection between receiving forgiveness from God and extending it to others. In one such instance he rebuked Simon (not Peter) for his attitude toward the sinful woman who anointed Jesus' feet, saying "Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven-for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little." (Luke 7:47) Those who are the beneficiaries of the lavish provisions of Christ's death cannot help but deal with the sins of other in the same way, by absorbing them themselves.
With this understanding of forgiveness and the meaning of Christ's death, it would be well of us on this day to reflect on Western evangelicalism's emphasis on individual responsibility where sin and salvation are concerned. There is a tension in Scripture that must be observed between individual responsibility and corporate solidarity and identity. We see both taught clearly whether it is in the OT prophet Ezekiel saying "the soul who sins shall die" (Ezekiel 18:4) alongside the first of the ten commandments in which God says he visits "the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me" (Ex. 20:5), or in the NT Ananias and Sapphira being held to account individually for their sin while the church in Corinth suffered corporately in sickness because of the congregation's sins (1 Cor. 11:30).
We have tended to emphasize individual responsibility and minimize corporate realities that are taught by Scripture. This becomes apparent when we try to distance ourselves from sins of the past by saying that we are not responsible for what went on before us. On one level this is true, but the Psalms give us examples of God's people collectively confessing the sins of their ancestors and Nehemiah acted on that example in leading the people of his day in repentance and confession of the sins of their fathers going back 1000 years (Neh. 9). Indeed, the very need and possibility of the cross is rooted in the idea that one individual can stand in for the actions and fates of others. We stand condemned in Adam, being counted as guilty participants in his sin. Because of the cross we stand justified in Christ, being counted as righteous participants in his death and resurrection. So if anyone has a basis to claim appropriate and meaningful responsibility for historical sins, it is believers. We have a prophetic opportunity furnished by the gospel to lead in confession and repentance of our nation's sins and in so doing, "bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ."
"I Wanna Skip Over This Part..."
That clip is from one of my favorite movies, the 70s screwball comedy "What's Up Doc?" It takes place in the courtroom scene at the end of the film where Ryan O'Neil's hapless character is trying to explain the unbelievable (and hilarious) series of events that have transpired over the previous 90 minutes. The judge's wish to "skip over this part" became a catch phrase in our household growing up whenever we encountered something unpleasant or confounding.
As I continue this series of posts about the spiritual disciplines, this clip reminds me of our approach to Scripture. The Bible, in its two Testaments, 66 books and no fewer than 2 dozen different types (genres) of literature, can be a bewildering read. Many of us, influenced in large part by the preaching we have received, gravitate towards the New Testament and Psalms. Fully 2/3 of our Bibles are darkened to our minds as we rarely (if ever) look at them.
I understand why this is the case. The laws of Moses, especially Leviticus, can be horribly perplexing when they aren't downright boring. They strike us as antiquated and in some cases unjust. The prophets use imagery that is alien to us, speak of nations and kingdoms that no longer exist, and their oracles often seem like unsolvable riddles. The wisdom literature is oftentimes little better and while we know the story of Job, his dialogue with his friends can seem repetitive and inaccessible to us. Even the historical books, which contain narratives that should be easier to grasp, can be challenging with the complicated stories of political intrigue that often seem far removed from having very much to do with God and His plan, to say nothing of the genealogies of Genes and Chronicles and the land distribution registry that takes up 10 chapters of Joshua. All of this leads us to have Bibles that are well-marked where Paul or John is the author, but that have huge sections where the pages have never seen daylight.
When it comes to the discipline of the Word, there are numerous ways to interact with it. I broadly think in terms of contemplative disciplines and cognitive disciplines. Cognitive disciplines seek to fill our minds with the truths of Scripture to inform our thinking. Among these disciplines are reading, study, memorization, preaching and teaching (providing and hearing). Contemplative disciplines seek to fill our hearts with the truths of Scripture to inform our affections and wills. Among these are meditation, prayer and praise, life application, and devotional reading. Simple reading is one of the cognitive disciplines and is, of necessity, our starting point for any of the others.
Paul, in his farewell charge to the Ephesian elders reminded them that as an essential feature of his ministry he "did not shrink from declaring to [them] the whole counsel of God" (Acts 20:27). In other words, God has made known His will, purpose and decrees throughout history and particularly preserved much of that revelation in what we refer to as "The Bible". To expose ourselves primarily to less than 1/3 of it is dangerous as we will certainly miss some things. We will also become prone to be selective in what we choose to hear God say to us. In other words, we reach a point where we want to "skip over this part".
I have taken this charge from Paul directly to heart in how I plan my preaching calendar each year. The Word is always about Jesus in some way, so each year we spend the time between Advent and Resurrection Sunday in a Gospel. The rest of the year we spend time in one Old Testament narrative (going through them chronologically), one non-narrative Old Testament series (Wisdom, Law, Prophet, etc.) and one New Testament epistle. This "balanced diet" is complemented by the fact that, other than the gospels, I will not preach a book twice until I've from every book at least once. This has produced the "12 year plan" for my preaching that we are now four years into. My goal is to remove some of the obstacles to our grasping of certain parts of Scripture and to equip us to be confident to hear God's voice from every part of His book.
So let me encourage you to evaluate your discipline of reading. It is not necessary to understand fully everything you read, that is for the discipline of study. It is not necessary that you immediately make sense of how to obey what you read, that is for the discipline of application. It is not necessary that you feel your heart warmed to God by what you read, that is for the discipline of devotion. It is an act of humility to yield ourselves to His word simply because it is His word. We should expect that it will often not be immediately appealing to us. He had to speak precisely because we are in error. So regard the difficulties as an invitation to look closer rather than looking away. If there are portions of Scripture you have never read, or only read once or twice, consider starting there. Consider a one year plan to read the whole Bible through (there are numerous options for this, and I have created my own if you are interested). Whatever you do, I encourage you to read the Book and don't be surprised if there is something significant in the parts you may have been tempted to skip over before.
May God add to the reading of His Word!
I woke up praying this morning. I do not say that piously, this is not a normal occurrence for me. It's just that this morning as I opened my eyes, I felt my spirit groping towards my heavenly Father with an awareness that I needed to start the day with some acknowledgement of Him. After a few stumbling attempts at formal prayer, the phrase came to mind "This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it." I expressed my heartfelt desire to God that whatever else might come after my feet hit the floor, I would approach it with joy, knowing the day was His and not mine.
My wife is away at the moment and so I am parenting our kids solo for a few days. This means that one of my responsibilities is making my children presentable before taking them to school each morning. Kelsey ensures that their wardrobe is set in advance and Calvin (our 9 year old) takes care of his own grooming. Eva and Zoe, our twin 7 year olds, however, still need someone to do their hair each day, and right now that means me. On my best day there are basically two things I can competently do with my daughter's hair: a pony tail and a half pony tail. Involved in any attempt at styling their hair is the task of brushing it. For whatever reason, it seems that if I am brushing their hair, my girls feel that I am scraping glass shards across their scalps based on their screams and tears. I know about brushing from the bottom and brushing slowly and that I have no baseline for understanding the pain that girls experience since my hair has never reached below my ear lobes. For all that, I think our neighbors have been tempted to call CPS on more than one occasion based on the howls coming from the upstairs bathroom at bedtime when I'm on duty.
So this morning was no different for one of my daughters, who was already in a tender spot because of some unmet expectations in her morning. The tears and cries came which inevitably delayed the whole process of getting everyone ready and out the door for school. Patience is a virtue in such cases, just rarely one of mine, and so I ordinarily would respond with frustration and abrupt words to move things along. This morning, though, the words of my waking prayer came back to me in that moment and so I paused, held my daughter, and prayed aloud over her that she would know that this was God's day and that he had made this day from eternity past and known everything that would happen to her and her brother and sister in it from the beginning. I prayed that she would be able to rejoice in that reality no matter what came her way. She calmed down and our day proceeded as planned.
I just got a call from her school that she had a fall on the playground that resulted in a bloody nose but was nothing serious and that she is OK. It occurred to me that God knew that would happen in this day He had made and I prayed again that my daughter would be able to rejoice in spite of such an unwelcome thing in her day (which I will no doubt hear about when I pick her up). As I said, this is not my normal way of engaging with God or my kids, but it served as a teaching moment for me (more so than for my daughter I think), that I often think of prayer as asking God for things rather than as positioning myself in a posture before His throne. My prayer this morning didn't "fix" anything and was't "answered" in the sense we usually think of. Instead it put me, and I hope my daughter, where we needed to be to face the day. It put us in the care of the Shepherd of our Souls. It made me conscious of His reality as the day unfolded. Like I said, not a normal day. But then I think, why shouldn't this be my normal?
This past Friday, we said good-bye to arguably the most influential follower of Christ of the past century as Billy Graham was laid to rest in North Carolina. In the days between his passing and the services on Friday numerous reflections were offered on his life and ministry and there was a remarkable consistency to them. They all emphasized the integrity of his life and message, his gracious yet consistent presentation of truth, and above all, the simplicity of his message. Many of those who wrote or spoke of his passing would not have agreed with, or believed in the gospel that Rev. Graham preached, but they all articulated what it was clearly, just as he had done.
Such a testimony and life raise the question of how it was achieved. I do not profess to be excessively knowledgable about Billy Graham's life and habits, but it was clear that he was more than a student of the Word, he was a lover of it. The simplicity of the message he presented could easily be dismissed as an unintellectual faith, or as a rote formula. However, to maintain such a simple message so consistently over so many years suggests not a rigid dogma but a deeply planted reality that informed all of who he was.
I posted a couple of weeks ago about the significance of the spiritual disciplines for our growth as the first of a series that would explore the various disciplines as they have worked in my life. So often we approach the disciplines as ends in and of themselves, rather than as a means to achieving our ends. For instance, many of us have inherited the idea of maintaining a regular devotional practice, if we have been steeped in the American evangelical tradition. This regular time spent in God's word is a noble and necessary pursuit for the follower of Christ. Oftentimes, however, the task itself becomes the goal, as though the measure of how spiritual you are is how faithful you are with your "quiet times". This has the effect of producing either crushing guilt or unbearably smug self-righteousness. It's safe to say that if a spiritual discipline has these sorts of results, we are probably doing it wrong. Billy Graham's use of the Word reflected someone whose heart had been captivated by it as a great love, not enslaved by it as a great burden nor elevated by it as a badge of pride.
So how do we imitate that sort of discipline? For me, I have found that it starts with our goal. The goal of Bible reading is not to read the Bible. Jesus said to the religious leaders of His day: "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life." (John 5:39-40) Scripture is a window that reveals God to us. Our goal in approaching any of the disciplines must be to encounter and know the living God so that we too might have life. Any other goal will result in dead religion. Scripture in this approach is the "living and active" word that becomes written on our hearts. It keeps our eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. The result is that the more we know of Scripture, the simpler our message becomes and the surer we are of it.
In order to experience this powerful ministry of the word, we must move beyond simply reading to engage the person of Jesus in the word. In my next post, I will examine the different ways in which we can engage with Scripture that prevent it from being merely a dead letter, but rather the vehicle through which we hear and know the voice of our Shepherd.
"Crime, boy I don't know..."
"If we as followers of Jesus can help make it harder for another human being to take a life, ... should we as followers of Jesus not be in favor of that? I mean, if we are truly pro-life?"
This question was posed by a friend of mine in a Facebook conversation last week surrounding the shooting in Florida. It got me thinking (again) about how we as citizens of heaven might be able to speak into this debate in redemptive ways.
To be sure, the conversation regarding how to address mass shootings, and particularly those occurring in schools, is complex and fraught with challenges. It is not made easier by the fact that deeply held convictions loom large on all sides. As I have observed and engaged in the discussion in the last 5 days, I am concerned by how followers of Christ speak into the discussion. What follows are three types of statements I have seen Christ-followers make both in recent days and in other similar discussions in recent years that I feel in some way betray our responsibility to present grace and truth as ambassadors of the Kingdom of Heaven. My prayer is that we will take these observations to heart such that our conversation "might be always gracious, seasoned with salt, so [we] may know how [we] ought to answer each person" (Col. 4:6).
1) It's a heart problem, bad people will disobey laws. This line of thought is often accompanied by some analogy: vehicle deaths, opioids and illegal drugs, box cutters on 9/11, Hitler's use of cyanide gas and Cain's use of a rock or club to kill Abel (by the way, Genesis is silent about his weapon). There are three problems with this approach. First, it suggests that laws are useless unless they perfectly prevent crime, which is to argue against laws at all. Of course the root problem of crime is the human condition of sin and only the gospel will ever perfectly address that. However, Romans 13, among other passages, establishes laws as means of common grace to restrain sin, albeit imperfectly, in the meantime. Second, in all of the instances I mentioned above, we do have laws to restrain the lethality of the objects by controlling them (we license drivers, register cars and have a legal drinking age; prescriptions are required for legal drugs; we now screen for any sharp objects on airplanes). Third, it ignores the fact that while evil people will find a way to kill someone if they are determined to, not all weapons are equal in their effectiveness. In the case of mass shootings, the weapon used absolutely impacts the number of lives claimed (the Vegas shooting demonstrated that emphatically). Ironically, Hitler turned to cyanide gas after finding that guns were too time consuming and expensive to achieve his purposes. At the end of the day I'd rather face an evil person armed with a rock than with an AR-15.
2) Our culture has abandoned God and that's why these things happen. There is no question that we live in a culture that is distant from God and resistant to His truth, but there are a few problems with this type of statement. First, it implies that God is absent and uninvolved in the affairs of our nation, which misrepresents his sovereignty and grace. More significantly, it implies that there was a time in which our nation and culture were somehow broadly aligned with God's ways. It is beyond dispute that institutional Christianity used to occupy a more central place in our nation's life, but that is not the same thing as a heartfelt commitment to God and His ways. If tolerance of violence or a disregard for life is a barometer of our nation's godliness, it would have to be observed that we have never had a robust moral character. We actively endorsed the wholesale enslavement of Africans and slaughter and dispossession of Native Americans until 100-150 years ago. Following that we endured a century of segregation that was accompanied by a culture of lynching without consequence in which thousands were killed as a spectacle to which children were often brought and of which postcards were made to send to family and friends with pictures of the event (for a detailed history of this check out this link https://eji.org/reports/lynching-in-america). In the midst of that we fought a war against tyranny and genocide but employed the targeting of civilian populations with firebombs as an acceptable strategy. We then legalized abortion and now witness not just homicide (which has always been present) but indiscriminate mass killings. To suggest violence and disregard for human life is new in our country is to ignore our history. All nations have sins for which God will hold them accountable and all nations serve to restrain the worst of our evil by the existence of their cultures and governments. No country is perfectly wicked, none is basically righteous, some nations are worse than others, but all nations are weighed in God's scales of justice and are found wanting. All nations at all times need to hear the gospel call to turn to God, not to return to some mythical moment in their previous history.
3) There's nothing to be done. While I have not seen anyone say this directly, it is often the implied conclusion of the previous two types of statements. This is inexcusable as followers of Jesus. If we have nothing to offer to our neighbors who suffer from these events and fears that benefits in the here and now we deny the truth of the gospel. The gospel is not only a matter of the heart and is not only a matter of hope in eternity. The hearts transformed by eternity give space for God's spirit to break forth in the here and now and produce foretastes of the Kingdom. This line of thinking is denied by our posture towards other things. Those who suggest there is nothing to be done legislatively or practically to mitigate mass shootings would never suggest that we not strive to see abortion restricted (although that is a heart issue as well), or that laws preventing racial discrimination have not improved things and shouldn't have been passed (although there is still work to do), or that while we will always have the poor among us that we should not seek to alleviate their suffering.
In short, the pessimistic fatalism that we often present with these lines of argument is in contrast to our calling to be beacons of joy and hope. People without Christ can be expected to cast shadows but we should be the light of the world.
For the last few years at least, our society has been increasingly discussing the virtues of "organic" products, particularly where food is concerned. We are coming to an increasing awareness that our ability to industrialize, chemically engineer, or genetically modify what we eat does not always produce the healthiest outcomes. At some point in the last couple of decades, the word "organic" became prominent in discussions among Christ-followers in describing authentic expressions of our faith. As terms go, it is a good one to apply to the realm of spirituality. It simply means that things work together harmoniously and produce beneficial results. It is the absence of foreign elements that produce discord and confusion. Like the use of the word associated with food, when used of spirituality, I sometimes feel like Inigo Montoya: "You use that word a lot, I do not think it means what you think it means." The term does bear some reflection if it is to profit us.
We believe that since Christ established His body as a family, He intended for it to be an organic entity that does not exist in hard and fast structures. Just as families are established primarily in a context of relationships rather than rules (although rules are a vital part of any group's life, especially a family's), we reject an institutional and formulaic approach to ministry and community, without rejecting order and organization. We believe that Scripture teaches us to reject man-made religion based on human effort and rules and to pursue the abundant (but often unpredictable) life of the Spirit as we submit to His filling work in our lives.
There is a tension in what I expressed in that statement that is core to Christian spirituality. It is a tension that many Christ-Followers are trying to articulate when they use the word "organic" to describe the Christian life. It is the tension between obligation and grace, law and gospel, flesh and spirit, works and faith. As in any tension, our tendency is to drift towards an extreme and the way of Jesus is found in the balance. So it does not surprise me that the term organic has been increasingly used to emphasize the grace/spirit end of the continuum. This is often a reaction against a previous generation's emphasis of the law/works end of the spectrum. Unfortunately, a debate is now framed between two things that are both essential for true Christian growth. When organic is used to mean "free of effort" the impression is given that spiritual growth happens haphazardly, accidentally, independent of our activity. Such a view, while an understandable reaction to a legalism that seems to formulaically domesticate spirituality, robs the Christian life of its power.
All we need to do to see this is to consider the ways Scripture speaks of spirituality and how growth occurs. Almost every image and metaphor used in Scripture, and especially in the teachings of Jesus, is centered around the growth of living things. The gospel is ultimately a message about how life can be brought to dead things (us). So if we want to understand spirituality we do well to contemplate how living things work. Immediately we are struck by two facts: 1) people do not make things grow and 2) things do not grow without human effort. If that sounds like a paradox, good! Most of the truths in Scripture are mysteries because the God we serve is above and beyond us and following Him requires embracing a level of mystery that appropriately humbles us. But my own limited experience of gardening and my limited knowledge of farming confirms that much work goes into making things possible for which we still can take no credit.
The passage that for me has been the most formative in defining the process of growth in Christ has been 2 Peter 1:3-11. It begins with the stunning statement that God's divine power "has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness". The purpose of this enormous gift of grace, according to Peter, is that we would "become partakers in the divine nature" and so escape the corruption of sin. All of this breathes the grace of God that is necessary and available for the disciple to grow. Then in verse 5 Peter says "For this reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue..." That's astounding! The immense and utterly sufficient grace of God in giving us His power to conquer sin serves as a reason to exert ourselves fully to add virtue to our faith. Talk about holding on to both ends of the tension with both hands!
So over the next few weeks, I'm going to write a series of posts about what have traditionally been called the spiritual disciplines. I will share what Scripture and my own experience have taught me about these valuable tools that we either abuse or fail to use all too often. My prayer is that God will work in us and that we will work in Him to grow and mature...100% organically!
"The Sanctuary Is Not Secure"
A pastor addressing a group of seminary students uttered that phrase Monday afternoon and it has been swirling in my mind ever since as I have tried to distill my feelings and thoughts in the wake of the horrendous events that unfolded this past Sunday in Texas. It has been a challenge for me to give voice to everything in my heart regarding this tragedy, In this post I don't intend to offer a theology of suffering or a recommendation of what a practical "gospel" response to the threat of violence looks like.
When the shooting at Sandy Hook happened I was a school teacher and I couldn't help placing myself in that situation and realized that, given how I knew I would have responded had it been my school, Kelsey would have been a widow that day. That event hit close to home in a way no other tragedy ever has. Until Sunday.
I couldn't help but think of my congregation and to put myself in the place of the Pastor Frank Pomeroy. I can easily imagine the special variety of survivor's guilt he will struggle with. Shepherds always feel that they are responsible to be present with their flock, especially in times of great trial. He is simultaneously mourning the loss of his daughter and 25 members of his church. He is simultaneously juggling his personal grief, the ordinary burden a pastor carries when ministering to a grieving family times 25, and a national spotlight as the country's attention asks him to already render decisions about the future of his facility.
So while there are many thoughts I have regarding many theological and practical matters, none of them are clear because I can't shake the thought of what that pastor is experiencing and what I would be doing if in his place. Because whether we like it or not, what was said to me on Monday is true: the sanctuary is not secure. For centuries it was true that church buildings served as physical sanctuaries from violence because even the most lawless brigand respected the sanctity of the church. That has not been true for some time and Sunday was just the most recent reminder. And yet it is important for all of us to lean in to the other truth I encountered Monday from Isaiah 49:16 - "Yahweh has engraved you on the palm of his hand." In an insecure time, we as his people, sheep and ungdershepherds (aka sheep), are always and ultimately secure, carved into the hand of our heavenly Father. So we can say with another sheep: what can separate us from the love of God? Shall terrorists or madmen, trucks or guns, hurricanes or wildfires? No! In all these things we are more than conquerors through Christ.
See you all Sunday at the sanctuary.
As I drove in to work this morning, I heard on the radio that Gord Downie passed away earlier this week at the age of 53. For those of you, who like me haven't the faintest idea who he was, let me share what I have learned. He was apparently a big deal in Canada as the lead singer of the band The Tragically Hip. A big enough deal that Canadian PM Justin Trudeau spoke about his passing and got fairly emotional doing so. The radio station I was listening to played a portion of his remarks and a phrase stuck out to me. He said that Gord loved Canada and not in a nebulous way but that he loved every corner and story and aspect of the country. He then said that as great as Gord believed Canada was he knew it needed to be better and that he worked towards that end.
Hearing that emotional statement from Canada's leader about a musician's life and impact got me thinking. It reminded me of what Alaina shared with us on Sunday from Jeremiah 29. Most of us know verse 11 in which God assures the exiles that He has good plans for them. We are less familiar with the verses that precede it and are foundational to it and that Alaina reminded us of. Verses 4 through 7 tell the exiles to seek the good of the city that has exiled them. They are instructed to seek its "shalom", its holistic peace, because in that will be found their shalom.
As I connected these two thoughts, I realized what is so distressing at times in this day of deep divisions, strife and protest. So often the voices railing in our culture are one-note voices and that note is anger. It is usually either the anger of protest or the anger of defensiveness. Too often it seems that it is hard to tell whether the angry people love the people or the country they are angry with. And far too often, our voices as followers of Jesus are of that one-note variety. It is not only possible, it is necessary, as ambassadors of the gospel of reconciliation that we seek the shalom of our cities. This means that we are neither complacent about those things that hinder shalom, nor that we approach those hindrances without a deep love for our city. Not an abstract love of a nebulous idea, but the kind of love that Trudeau praised in Gord Downie. Like I said, I don't know anything about the man other than what I heard this morning. I do know that if I died, I'd want someone to be able to say of me that I loved my city that deeply and truly and that that love drove me to seek its shalom.
Some thoughts from yesterday's sermon application. I know many of you were not there and for those that were, I sometimes find that seeing something in writing after hearing it can reinforce it. So here are the three key takeaways from the story of Gideon in Judges 6-8.
Writ large across the story of Scripture, from Genesis 3 until Revelation 20, we see this theme. Adam and Eve are invited to live as image-bearing royal priests and administer God's good world, trusting in the goodness of his grace to give them everything they needed as an unmerited gift. In eternity we will live in constant grateful recognition of that grace, and trust it fully so that our lives will be truly eternal and blessed. In between that beginning and end, we see people struggling with various degrees of faith's dark twin, fear. It is ultimately fear of God, fear that He does not love us or have our best in mind, or that he is not really good or that he is not really powerful enough to save us. That is the root of sin and it replaces godly fear of God (faith) with the cowering fear of man. Our response is to hide from relationship with God and others, to cover our shame and to fill the void that the absence of genuine relationship creates. Gideon demonstrates all of this. He hides from his family, he covers the shame of his weakness in repeated tests of God's goodness and power and he fills the void by tyrannically abusing his position among his fellow Israelites. We must ask ourselves what we fear and replace it with faith in the God who has called us into His service.
In all of Gideon's doubting, God never abandons him and as the God Who Hears, is faithful to respond to all of Gideon's doubts, tests and questions. Part of that is the famous whittling down of Gideon's army of 32,000 that is "too many" for God to save Israel from the countless army of Midian and their allies. The two-stage reduction leaves Gideon with 300 men. These were chosen by God and it occurs to me that they could have left when looking at the odds but they chose to stay. It also occurs to me that God could have used zero people, but chose to use 300. So as I reflect on our church, I hear the call of God for each of us to be committed to His service with our time and treasure. Here are some numbers for you.
Implication: Most of us are here only 2 or three times a month and that's just Sunday worship. The church (that's all of us) exists to "Honor, Grow and Serve". It is not unreasonable to suggest that our commitment to weekly worship attendance be matched by a weekly commitment to serve. On an annual basis this would mean 52 active points of service per member, or roughly 20,000 total commitments per year. Many of our ministries (Gathering, Choirs, Bible Studies) meet only half the year and do not require an every week commitment. Other opportunities (committees, praise team, Treehouse) are monthly commitments. Each of us should examine how much we are currently doing, and candidly, too many of us are not yet doing anything. Gideon needed all 300 and so do we.
Implication: nearly half of our people have not invested any financial resources in the mission of our church. We invest in things we believe are important and our giving should never be out of guilt or obligation but out of an irrepressible enthusiasm for God's mission.
There's a fascinating statement made of Gideon in Judges 6:34. The English translations render it "The Spirit of the LORD clothed Gideon". The Hebrew is fairly clear, if oddly worded, that it should read "The Spirit of Yahweh clothed himself with Gideon." Think about that. God put Gideon on in order to work his salvation for Israel. Now Gideon, inexplicably managed to ignore this powerful reality of God's empowering presence and continued to act in fear, immediately testing God with the double fleece experiment. That's what Paul calls "quenching the Spirit" I think. In New Covenant terms though, the church as the Body of Christ and the dwelling place of the Spirit uses the same language. The Spirit puts on the Church (that is, Jesus) in order to work God's deliverance. And so we are commanded in Romans 13:14 to "put on Christ". While I cannot explain the mystery of why God, from Creation and into eternity, insists on working in and through fallible and finite humans when He could just do it Himself, it is abundantly clear that he does. He wants to put us on and do His work through us. Will we let Him or will we quench the Spirit within us?


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"We participate in a lot of competitions. Why? Because we want to see, where we are in the benchmark. In all these competitions, and especially in this one we see, how we perform in comparison to other companies. Also we get feedback, where can we do more actions, what can we do better, what are possibilities to improve in the operations of the company or in the things we see. We take this award as a base for jumping the next step, we want to be better. We also analyse what feedback we got from you and your comparison and we will take more actions in this direction."
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We found it very exciting to see what sustainability means for a company and what impact it can have in a wide range of disciplines. That was the reason why we took part, to see where we stand and to have the report, what comes out as a result. Where is there potential on our side, where do we have to become active. We had some points in there where we were very bad and where we then say that we were not aware of that. Now, in retrospect, we have to analyze that, but we have to look at where we can make adjustments in the future, where we can do better. That is very important for us.
Manfred Zöllner (co-founder and managing director Quimron GmbH)
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The unbroken chain
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biographical sketches and the genealogy of illustrious Jewish families from the 15th-20th century
by Neil Rosenstein
Published 1990 by CIS Publishers, Computer Center for Jewish Genealogy in New York, Elizabeth, N.J .
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Statement Neil Rosenstein.
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Curfew issues are one of the top things parents ask the parent coaching team about. Parents are frustrated over this issue, and rightly so. An exasperated dad recently said to me, "My kid knows how to tell time, but he can't seem to make it home by curfew. What's going on?" If you're facing this dilemma right now, you are probably angry, irritated and frustrated with your child. You might have tried nagging, lecturing and grounding to no avail. So how can you get your teen to listen and comply with the curfew you've set?
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Ford rolls to better sales, earnings
by Chris Isidore @CNNMoney January 29, 2013: 10:34 AM ET
Despite losing U.S. market share during the fourth quarter, Ford reported much stronger North American earnings in the period.
Ford Motor's strong performance in North America led to improved fourth-quarter earnings and sales, the No. 2 U.S. automaker reported Tuesday.
But the company's European problems continued, with a bigger-than-expected loss in the three months and the warning of a wider shortfall in 2013. The problems outweighed the good news at home in the eyes of investors, who drove shares of Ford (F) down 4% in morning trading.
Ford reported operating income rose 54% in the fourth quarter. Overall revenue rose 5.5% to $36.5 billion, as the number of vehicles sold worldwide jumped 7%.
Despite the quarterly improvement, full-year operating earnings of $5.7 billion were down 5% from 2011.
In North America, pretax automotive earnings more than doubled to $1.87 billion in the quarter. Full-year earnings in the region reached $8.3 billion, up more than a third over 2011 results.
The strong results will also benefit the 45,800 U.S. hourly workers at Ford, who will get profit-sharing checks of about $8,300 in March, up from the $6,200 they received a year ago. Ford has added about 4,000 hourly workers over the last year.
Ford CEO: 'Tremendous demand' for new cars
The strong performance on its home turf countered worse-than-expected weakness in Europe. Ford's operations on the continent lost $732 million in the quarter, bringing full-year losses to $1.75 billion. The figure was wider than the $1.5 billion the company warned about in October.
Ford said Tuesday it expects to lose another $2 billion in Europe this year, a wider loss than previous guidance. The company has announced plant closings and other measures to try to stem its problems.
Related: Tiny cars worth big bucks
Europe is also dogging other automakers as well. The European sovereign debt crisis, which has caused record high unemployment and has plunged the continent into a recession, have cut European car sales to a 20-year low.
Christian Mayes, auto analyst for Edward Jones, said the mounting problems in Europe were the reason for drop in stock price, despite the strong North American results.
"Investors were hoping for a little faster improvement in Europe," he said. "They might have thought Ford was making more progress there than some of its competitors."
Mayes said he's concerned that Ford is counting on North America to be the only profit engine in all of its global operations, especially since he's forecasting even tougher competition in the U.S. market in the year ahead. He has a "hold" recommendation on the stock.
But Adam Jonas, auto analyst with Morgan Stanley, continues with his "overweight" or buy recommendation on Ford, saying the strong North American results should be overshadowed by problems in Europe and elsewhere in the world.
"Ford continues to take its medicine in Europe," he said in a note to clients Tuesday. "We see nothing in these results that make us waiver from Ford as our top pick in U.S. autos."
Ford, behind only General Motors (GM) in U.S. sales, had a more modest sales gain in its home market than it did globally. Ford's 4.7% increase in U.S. vehicle sales was by far the smallest of any major automaker last year, when overall U.S. car sales rebounded 14.5% for the best annual result since 2007.
Related: 10 surprises from Detroit auto show
Despite losing market share, the outlook for earnings at Ford is strong due to the rising demand for cars in North America. There's also optimism about some new models set for release -- notably, a new version of its F-150 pickup truck, the nation's best-selling vehicle, and the Fusion, its midsize sedan.
Ford said Tuesday it forecasts improved market share in the United States and China, with industry-wide sales rising in both countries, the two largest markets for car sales globally. However, it projects continued weakness in European sales.
The company was confident enough in results to double its dividend earlier this month, and announce its biggest hiring plans for white-collar jobs, including engineering positions, in more than a decade. It forecast pretax profit of $8 billion in 2013, about the same as 2012 results.
CNNMoney (New York) First published January 29, 2013: 7:34 AM ET


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Les Mason (born October 11, 1954) is an American politician. He has served as a Republican member for the 73rd district in the Kansas House of Representatives since 2014.

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Redfield è un comune (city) degli Stati Uniti d'America e capoluogo della contea di Spink nello Stato del Dakota del Sud. La popolazione era di 2,333 abitanti al censimento del 2010. La città prende questo nome in onore di J. B. Redfield, un funzionario delle ferrovie.

Geografia fisica
Secondo lo United States Census Bureau, la città ha una superficie totale di 4,95 km², dei quali 4,89 km² di territorio e 0,07 km² di acque interne (1,36% del totale).

A Redfield è stato assegnato lo ZIP code 57469 e lo FIPS place code 53460.

Storia
I primi coloni arrivarono nell'area di Redfield nel 1878 e due anni dopo fu istituito un ufficio postale con il nome di "Stennett Junction". Il nome "Redfield" fu adottato nel 1881. La città divenne il capoluogo della contea di Spink nel 1886, a seguito di una battaglia legale e politica di sei anni tra diverse città della contea di Spink. Redfield divenne rapidamente una delle principali città della regione, in parte a causa del suo status di centro ferroviario: la città era un crocevia di due linee della Chicago and North Western Railway, ed era anche servita dalla Milwaukee Road Railroad. Le ferrovie portavano provviste, persone e animali e fornivano anche il trasporto di raccolti nell'Est.

Il Redfield College fu fondato nella città nel 1887 e rimane aperto fino al 1932. Nel 1902 il "Northern Hospital for the Insane", un'istituzione statale, venne aperto in un campus appena a nord della città. Quella struttura rimane operativa oggi con il nome di South Dakota Developmental Center.

Società

Evoluzione demografica
Secondo il censimento del 2010, c'erano 2,333 abitanti.

Etnie e minoranze straniere
Secondo il censimento del 2010, la composizione etnica della città era formata dal 96,91% di bianchi, lo 0,47% di afroamericani, lo 0,86% di nativi americani, lo 0,13% di asiatici, lo 0% di oceanici, lo 0,51% di altre etnie, e l'1,11% di due o più etnie. Ispanici o latinos di qualunque etnia erano l'1,41% della popolazione.

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Everton and City getting better at drawing conclusions at Arsenal and Liverpool
By Brian Sears 27 February 2015 Sunday's two big games in the Premier League throw up contrasting challenges for the two Merseyside clubs, with Liverpool outsiders at home against a team they have a brilliant home record against (Manchester City), and Everton outsiders away against a team that history says will thump them. The history […]
Spurs and Everton uncannily similar in underdog rivalries with Arsenal and Liverpool
By Brian Sears 6 February 2015 Saturday's matches in the Premier League begin with a major derby (Tottenham v Arsenal at lunchtime) and end with a major derby (Everton v Liverpool at tea-time). Both home sides have found it tough against the neighbours over the course of the Premier League era as a whole. And […]
Everton's failings against Arsenal and Co undermine top-four credentials
By Brian Sears 22 August 2014 Everton are widely and rightly expected to finish in the top seven places in the Premier League this season, as they have done for the past four seasons and in eight of the last 10 seasons. They are stable, consistent, have a talented (and likeable) manager in Roberto Martinez, […]
Four wins in 35: Man City's PL record at Liverpool, Palace and Everton – combined
By Brian Sears 10 April 2014 Manchester City visit Liverpool this weekend in a match that could have massive implications on the Premier League title race, with a victory for either side sure to make them odds-on favourites to win the title. If City are to succeed on Sunday, they will need to overturn their […]
Everton have upper hand in financial mid-table tussle with Hammers
By Brian Sears 28 February 2014 Everton will start the weekend 11 points outside the Champions League qualification spots, albeit with a game in hand on fourth-placed Liverpool, and are now outsiders to reach Europe's top table for 2014-15. But their home form and their historical record against Saturday's opponents West Ham both suggest they […]
Everton punching above financial weight as trip to top-four rivals Tottenham looms
By Brian Sears and Nick Harris 7 February 2014 Everton and Tottenham are both aspiring to play Champions League football next season and along with Liverpool, and perhaps Manchester United, are the only credible challengers for a top-four finish behind the three teams already highly likely to finish inside the top four: Arsenal, Manchester City […]
Fulham travel to Everton in shadow of bleak, defeated record-breaking history
By Brian Sears 13 December 2013 Everton host Fulham at Goodison on Saturday seeking to maintain perhaps the longest 100 per cent winning run against the same opponent at the same venue in English football. Everton have beaten Fulham in 20 straight league games at home now, dating back to 1961. They seek a 21st […]
Liverpool 51 Everton 16. (That's the number of post-war seasons finishing higher)
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caufield & shook (photographer) (7)
ireland, elaine (1)
julien, susan s. (1)
museo montserrat (montserrat, spain) (1)
allen, lafon (collector) (1)
dali, salvador (spanish painter and printmaker, 1904-1989) (1)
filson, john, ca. 1747-1788 (surveyor) (1)
matlack, claude carson, 1878-1944 (1)
jefferson county (ky.) (10)
louisville (ky.) (9)
portland (louisville, ky.) (7)
mycenae (extinct city) (2)
rail shops & yards (7)
railroad facilities (6)
greek (ancient) (3)
safety film negatives (5)
mounds (burials) (2)
nitrate negatives (2)
Description: Roughly
Youngstown rail yard, Louisville, Kentucky, 1928.
Railroads; Railroad tracks; Rail shops & yards
Steam rises from several locomotives parked on the tracks at what is likely the Youngstown rail yard. Roughly a dozen separate tracks are visible in the photograph. One train says "Monon" and the word "Baltimore" is visible on the side of another...
Railroads; Railroad tracks; Rail shops & yards; Railroad cars; Railroad facilities
An elevated view of the Youngstown rail yard that served the Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Rail Road located in the Portland neighborhood. Roughly a dozen separate tracks are visible. Rows of railroad cars are on the tracks and two small buildings...
An elevated view of the Youngstown rail yard that served the Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Rail Road located in the Portland neighborhood. Roughly a dozen separate tracks are visible. Rows of railroad cars are on the tracks and buildings in the...
Railroads; Railroad tracks; Rail shops & yards; Railroad cars; Railroad facilities; Railroad roundhouses
An elevated view of the Youngstown rail yard that served the Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Rail Road located in the Portland neighborhood. Roughly a dozen separate tracks are visible. Rows of railroad cars are on the tracks, including two engines....
An elevated view of the Youngstown rail yard that served the Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Rail Road located in the Portland neighborhood. Roughly a dozen separate tracks are visible. The Portland neighborhood can be seen in the distance.
An elevated view of the Youngstown rail yard that served the Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Rail Road located in the Portland neighborhood. Roughly a dozen separate tracks are visible. On the left is a large structure and railroad cars. Buildings in...
Mine entrance.
Mining; Railroad tracks
Railroad tracks lead into a mine entrance in the woods. The mine entrance, a roughly trapezoidal hole, is in the side of a small hill. At either side of the path are two small piles of logs.
St. Joseph's Hospital gymnasium, Louisville, Kentucky, 1930.
Buildings; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Gymnasiums
A low brick building with a sloping roof and a small wing with a flat roof. Part of St. Joseph's Hospital, also known as St. Joseph's Infirmary. The door is in the center of the wing, which appears at the right side of the photo. "Gymnasium" is...
Lula Follet/Harford/Pennsylvania.
Follet, Lula, 1870-1889
Artist: Elaine Ireland / About the artist: I grew up in roughly the same region of the country (upstate NY and Ohio) as Lula but after receiving my BFA at Kent State University in 1972, I transferred myself to Boston to become more closely involved...
R.I.F.T./Rhode Island/United States.
Rhode Island Feminist Theatre
Susan Julien made the quilt. She was with RIFT til she burned out..but now she does box office and sundry tasks.
Appalachians (People); Appalachian Region--History; Appalachian Region--Social life and customs; Education--Appalachian Region; Education--Kentucky; Kentucky--Social life and customs; Rural schools--Kentucky--History; Oneida Baptist Institute;...
665 items from Louisville native Claude C. Matlack (1878-1944), an amateur photographer who, working as an engineer for his family's plumbing business, happened to capture on film the formative years of a settlement school built by feuding...
Carte de Kentucke d'après les observations actuelles.
Printed below the title in French, "Dedicated to the honorable Congress of the United States of America and his excellency George Washington, Commander in Chief of the army by their very humble servant, John Filson." The map, which is roughly...
Severan forum, Lepcis Magna, Libya, looking toward the basilica.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Imperial (Roman); Severan
"The forum proper was an open area roughly 200 x 300 feet. The portico columns were more than 19 feet tall..." (p.249)
Villa of Good Fortune, Olynthus [Olynthos], Greece, interior view, andron and anteroom, symposion [symposium] scene, reconstruction.
Greek (ancient)
"The andron is roughly 5 by 5.8 metres [meters] (16 1/2 by 19 feet). The raised platform round the edge of the room is 82 centimetres [centimeters] wide, and was painted bright yellow. The platform has space for a maximum of nine couches. There is...
Composition with Three Figures (Neo-Cubist Academy).
Surrealist; Modern (styles and periods); Modernist
"One of Dali's greatest paintings from the mid-1920s, not exhibited since 1927. The influence of Picasso is manifest. It develops the theme of Saint Sebastian that so fascinated Lorca [Federico García Lorca] and Dali." (Caption); "The greatest...
Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, Greece, exterior view, dromos and entrance.
Mycenaean; Greek (ancient); Prehistoric; Bronze Age
"The Lion Gate at Mycenae and the towering fortification wall circuit of which it formed a part were constructed a few generations before the presumed date of the Trojan War. At that time, wealthy Mycenaeans were laid to rest outside the citadel...
Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, Greece, interior view, tholos vault, view toward entrance.


text:
// Headers
#include "lcf/lsd/reader.h"
#include "lcf/lsd/chunks.h"
#include "reader_struct_impl.h"

namespace lcf {

// Read SaveScreen.

template <>
char const* const Struct<rpg::SaveScreen>::name = "SaveScreen";
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_tint_finish_red(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::tint_finish_red,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::tint_finish_red,
	"tint_finish_red",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_tint_finish_green(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::tint_finish_green,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::tint_finish_green,
	"tint_finish_green",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_tint_finish_blue(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::tint_finish_blue,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::tint_finish_blue,
	"tint_finish_blue",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_tint_finish_sat(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::tint_finish_sat,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::tint_finish_sat,
	"tint_finish_sat",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, double> static_tint_current_red(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::tint_current_red,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::tint_current_red,
	"tint_current_red",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, double> static_tint_current_green(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::tint_current_green,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::tint_current_green,
	"tint_current_green",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, double> static_tint_current_blue(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::tint_current_blue,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::tint_current_blue,
	"tint_current_blue",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, double> static_tint_current_sat(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::tint_current_sat,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::tint_current_sat,
	"tint_current_sat",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_tint_time_left(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::tint_time_left,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::tint_time_left,
	"tint_time_left",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, bool> static_flash_continuous(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::flash_continuous,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::flash_continuous,
	"flash_continuous",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_flash_red(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::flash_red,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::flash_red,
	"flash_red",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_flash_green(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::flash_green,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::flash_green,
	"flash_green",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_flash_blue(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::flash_blue,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::flash_blue,
	"flash_blue",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, double> static_flash_current_level(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::flash_current_level,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::flash_current_level,
	"flash_current_level",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_flash_time_left(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::flash_time_left,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::flash_time_left,
	"flash_time_left",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, bool> static_shake_continuous(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::shake_continuous,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::shake_continuous,
	"shake_continuous",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_shake_strength(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::shake_strength,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::shake_strength,
	"shake_strength",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_shake_speed(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::shake_speed,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::shake_speed,
	"shake_speed",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_shake_position(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::shake_position,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::shake_position,
	"shake_position",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_shake_position_y(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::shake_position_y,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::shake_position_y,
	"shake_position_y",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_shake_time_left(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::shake_time_left,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::shake_time_left,
	"shake_time_left",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_pan_x(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::pan_x,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::pan_x,
	"pan_x",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_pan_y(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::pan_y,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::pan_y,
	"pan_y",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_battleanim_id(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::battleanim_id,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::battleanim_id,
	"battleanim_id",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_battleanim_target(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::battleanim_target,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::battleanim_target,
	"battleanim_target",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_battleanim_frame(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::battleanim_frame,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::battleanim_frame,
	"battleanim_frame",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, bool> static_battleanim_active(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::battleanim_active,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::battleanim_active,
	"battleanim_active",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, bool> static_battleanim_global(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::battleanim_global,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::battleanim_global,
	"battleanim_global",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_weather(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::weather,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::weather,
	"weather",
	0,
	0
);
static TypedField<rpg::SaveScreen, int32_t> static_weather_strength(
	&rpg::SaveScreen::weather_strength,
	LSD_Reader::ChunkSaveScreen::weather_strength,
	"weather_strength",
	0,
	0
);

template <>
Field<rpg::SaveScreen> const* Struct<rpg::SaveScreen>::fields[] = {
	&static_tint_finish_red,
	&static_tint_finish_green,
	&static_tint_finish_blue,
	&static_tint_finish_sat,
	&static_tint_current_red,
	&static_tint_current_green,
	&static_tint_current_blue,
	&static_tint_current_sat,
	&static_tint_time_left,
	&static_flash_continuous,
	&static_flash_red,
	&static_flash_green,
	&static_flash_blue,
	&static_flash_current_level,
	&static_flash_time_left,
	&static_shake_continuous,
	&static_shake_strength,
	&static_shake_speed,
	&static_shake_position,
	&static_shake_position_y,
	&static_shake_time_left,
	&static_pan_x,
	&static_pan_y,
	&static_battleanim_id,
	&static_battleanim_target,
	&static_battleanim_frame,
	&static_battleanim_active,
	&static_battleanim_global,
	&static_weather,
	&static_weather_strength,
	NULL
};

template class Struct<rpg::SaveScreen>;

} //namespace lcf


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