She had no idea she was sitting next to the very man who had penned those words years earlier.
Upon remembering the song and the man he once was, Robinson broke down. With tears he replied, "Madam, I am the poor, unhappy man who composed that hymn many years ago. I would give a thousand worlds, if I had them, to enjoy the feelings I had then." Through this encounter, Robinson was brought back into the outstretched arms of his loving God.
This story of restoration at the end of sin's winding road is neither the first, nor will it be the last. From the beginning of time, history has demonstrated that there is hope for the one who has fallen.
The fact that you picked up this booklet shows that you too are seeking for that reassuring hope. I want you to know there is hope. Our failures are no surprise to God. He knows, with greater understanding than we, the creation He made. And this One, who sees our sins, also knows His purposes for us.
In the Bible, God left us the complete stories of spiritual giants through whom He worked—Moses, Elijah, David and many more—just as they were, flaws and all. He did not touch up the negatives or use Photoshop to present them in a better light. There was no cover-up.
Look at Moses. What an incredible life story is his—forsaken at birth and then rescued by Pharaoh's daughter. He was raised in a powerful family of influence. As an adult, Moses' heart was burdened for his people, and he spoke out against the cruel slavery inflicted upon the children of Israel. Unfortunately, he "ruined" what he felt God had called him to do by killing a man and subsequently spent 40 years hiding in the desert.
Remember that Moses was a real human being with the same feelings as you and I. Forty years is a long time to contemplate failure. When the Lord eventually came to offer him hope and unfold His rescue plan, Moses responded that God was making a mistake and that He should look for someone else (see Exodus 4:10, 13).
Elijah—the great prophet of God—was one who, in a time of terrible discouragement, simply said, "I want to die" (see 1 Kings 19:4). Talk about singing the blues!
David is another classic example. This shepherd boy turned king seemed to take the worst fall of them all. This national hero who began so well, anointed by God and considered a man after His own heart, fell into adultery and then murdered the woman's husband to cover it up (see 2 Samuel 11). Does it get much worse than that?
Why does God show us the failures of these great leaders? Could it be He wants us to know that in spite of our fiascoes, He can still make something glorious out of our lives?
The list of names in Hebrews 11 underscores this truth. In this passage, men and women of great faith are noted—ones whom God Almighty approved. One might be shocked, however, to discover how many of them were restored spiritually following failures such as deception, drunkenness, adultery, idolatry and murder.
Consider Jacob. What a saga his life story is. From birth, God gave him a remarkable promise that he would be blessed and his older brother would serve him. With this kind of divine assurance, it would seem like Jacob would turn out to be the perfect saint. Instead, he became a crook who lied to his own father, stole his blessing and lived a life full of deceit. Jacob ended up wasting 20 precious years of his life.
Toward the end of Jacob's journey, God changed his name, which means "deceiver," to Israel, meaning "Prince of God." So, why doesn't He say, "I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and . . . Israel"? How strange! How come He associates His name with a cheat who wasted two decades trying to do things his own way?
The nation of Israel was betrothed to God. Yet she cast her beauty before every possible lover she could find, forsaking her true suitor. As we read through Psalm 78, we see time and again God's faithfulness displayed in contrast to Israel's unfaithfulness. In spite of her vulgar idolatry and the terrible offering of human sacrifices, God did not cut Israel off forever.
What does God say about her? " 'You have played the harlot with many lovers; Yet return to Me,' says the LORD" (Jeremiah 3:1, NKJV). Instead of deserting Israel because of her countless sins, He declares that there is hope, saying, "I will win her back once again. I will lead her out into the desert and speak tenderly to her there. I will return her vineyards to her and transform the Valley of Trouble into a gateway of hope" (Hosea 2:14–15, NLT). These are gracious words from the living God about His adulterous people.
Today there is a gateway of hope. God is the original and ultimate rescuer. And for all who want to be rescued, He is able.
to stop His love and mercy for you.
The thief on the cross confessed that he failed miserably and admitted he deserved the horrible death he was dying. It was all over for him—hell waited, its mouth open to devour him. At least that was what he believed. Yet because of his confession and the marvelous grace of God, he made it into paradise that very day with the Son of God (see Luke 23:43).
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, . . . to comfort all who mourn, . . . to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor (Isaiah 61:1–3, emphasis mine).
Maybe you are like Robert Robinson who wandered away from the God he once loved. Perhaps you revisited a sin from the past you thought you were through with. You may be living with painful memories of what once was or simply shaking your head at a sin that seems to surface too regularly.
Is that your hope? Then let today mark a new beginning for you.
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A Life of Balance © 2006 by KP Yohannan, the president and founder of Gospel for Asia. It was written with the intention of encouraging and edifying the Body of Christ. To learn more about Gospel for Asia or to receive additional free resources, visit Gospel for Asia's website.
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Our opportunities are unlimited. Beyond the challenge to spread the Gospel into developing nations, something else is far more pressing: We are totally dependent on God. If we do not look to Him but rather to ourselves to meet our needs, only disaster can result.
Something wonderful happens, on the other hand, when we regard ourselves as helplessly dependent on the Lord. In our hearts and attitudes, we must remain as children before Him. If we are enabled to accomplish anything, it is because of the Lord and His grace. The secret of His blessing on any work, large or small, is that all the glory goes to Him.
But we are self-willed individuals who live in flesh-and-blood bodies and strive naturally for personal praise. How can we regard ourselves as helplessly dependent on the Lord and give Him all the glory? Look at Psalm 103:14: "He knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust." This verse assures me that the Lord knows the stuff I am made of. The question is, Am I able to remember it? Will I daily recognize that all I am made of is a little handful of dust?
The Lord rescues us repeatedly from our tendency to stop depending on Him and start depending on ourselves. He often keeps us from doing things in our own flesh instead of in His strength. Sometimes, in His mercy, He even causes those things to fail.
Because when all is said and done, when history is sealed up and time runs out, God will make sure that nothing that is a product of the flesh will last for eternity. He has never accepted a work of our flesh and He never will, however good it might look to us. Nothing, not preaching thousands of sermons, not even seeming to turn the world upside-down, will enter eternity if it has been a product of our flesh. Anything lasting for eternity will have been done by Him and Him alone.
We are no different than the children of Israel. Take a look around you at the people and ministries you know God has called to do His heart's desire. Often flesh gets in the way. People become arrogant and take the glory for themselves. When the Lord uses people for His purposes, He often has to strip away dependence on intelligence, education, abilities, strengths. He has to make them nothing before He can build them back up again for His service.
It is refreshing to see how God carries along a person or ministry that acknowledges dependence on Him. Some things we plan never take place. Other things we never expect may happen in a mighty way. This helps us know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God has accomplished these things.
Excerpt from Chapter 12 of Living in the Light of Eternity (ISBN 9781595891402) © 2014 by KP Yohannan, the president and founder of Gospel for Asia.
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Jesus compared the kingdom of heaven to "a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it" (Matthew 13:45–46).
What does it mean to give up everything for the pearl of great price?
I want to convey that your choice to live for Jesus is not just a means to escape hell. It is not just to have your sins forgiven or to have a nice, comfortable life here on earth with good fellowship and a free ride to heaven.
Life for Jesus is a spiritual battleground. Like it or not, we are in the enemy's territory. Jesus Himself was harassed continually by the powers of darkness and the enemies of the Gospel. He had no nice place to lay His head. He was misunderstood and rejected. He was often left alone, particularly at the hour of His greatest need. He died daily, and on the cross in great agony.
Paul and the other apostles followed in His footsteps.
Am I saying you are more spiritual if you walk around in rags and alienate yourself from society? No. And I do not want you to assume from what I am writing that giving up "rights" or comforts is all there is to life in Christ. Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine. But when you commit yourself to live for Jesus, you cannot live just like everyone else. You must follow the Lord closely day by day. Only He can provide the balance you need. This is why we are told in the Word of God that "those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God" (Romans 8:14).
As we walk through this life, we can choose to be led by the Spirit, or we can choose to be led by our own logic, by other people's opinions or by our own flesh.
Our flesh will do a lot of good-looking things—a lot of praying, a lot of fasting, a lot of giving up. But the Word of God says, "If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing" (1 Corinthians 13:3).
If we are not controlled and led by love for God, all the "right" outward behavior amounts to nothing. Since love is a fruit of the Holy Spirit, we must be filled continually with the Holy Spirit and led daily by Him.
Since your life is short, what will you leave behind? A few pieces of jewelry, a house, some cars, land, investments, money in the bank? Or will you leave more than that?
What about a son or daughter who is serving the Lord somewhere in the world? What about the memory that you lived for Jesus with all your heart—that you gave Him all you had and all you were to gain His kingdom? What about the knowledge that you gave all you could to reach the lost and dying souls of the world?
Jesus told His disciples the cost of the pearl of great price: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me" (Matthew 16:24). May you find the willingness in your heart to sell all you have for the pearl.
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There are times in our lives when we have more questions than answers. Our emotions are dry and cold. Nothing gives us reason to get excited or happy about serving God. What do we do?
Times like these are part of the battle. They are when "the righteous will live by his faith" (Habakkuk 2:4). In every battle we face, we need to keep in mind that faith is the key that helps us overcome the world and the enemy. "This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith" (1 John 5:4).
After spying out the land of Canaan, Joshua and Caleb said, "Let's go!" Caleb in particular was a radical revolutionary who told Moses and the people of Israel, "We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it" (Numbers 13:30).
What did the other 10 spies say? "This is impossible! We can't do it. We saw giants in the land, and we ourselves are grasshoppers in comparison" (see Numbers 13:33).
Caleb lived his whole life following the Lord. When he saw the land of Canaan, he had no doubt that the children of Israel could possess it—not because he was confident in their might, but because he was confident in God's ability to go beyond any weakness or frailty. God honored Caleb's faith and gave him a special inheritance in the Promised Land because, as Moses told him, "You have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly" (Joshua 14:9).
If you know anything about faith, you know there is something innate in us that works against faith, even in the most knowledgeable theologian or the most powerful preacher. "The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him" (1 Corinthians 2:14). No matter how much we read and memorize the Bible, our natural mind always comes up with some argument against God's way of doing things. This is why exercising faith is so important.
When you pray for an unsaved loved one, for revival in your church, for the unsaved to be reached with the Gospel, remember what Jesus said: "Believe that you have received it." When God told Abraham he would have a son, Abraham not only believed it but began to thank God. Later on he received his son.
I encourage you to exercise your faith actively in what God is able to do. Go beyond your natural thoughts and reactions. Trust Him, in obedience to what His Word says, for miracles far greater than what your mind could ever imagine.
Excerpt from Chapter 8 of Living in the Light of Eternity (ISBN 9781595891402) © 2014 by KP Yohannan, the president and founder of Gospel for Asia.
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Throughout the Bible human beings are compared to sheep. Do you remember what one of the predominant characteristics of sheep is? They stray quite a bit. If left to our own devices and if we do not watch our hearts diligently, we, too, will always head the wrong way. It may take months or even years, but eventually our actions will follow the direction of our hearts. We will find every reason under the sun to justify our actions and choices until finally we are out of the battle, no longer serving or even following the Lord.
It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how self-controlled or holy you consider yourself—your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.
I have seen this principle played out too often in individuals' lives and in the Church at large. Many churches have drifted from the heart of the One they call Lord and Master. Now, instead of making it a priority to rescue the lost millions of the world from a Christless eternity, their programs revolve around themselves. They put their own agenda—whether buildings or staff or special programs—as first priority in their budgets. Missions falls somewhere down the list.
Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, "But we knew nothing about this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each person according to what he has done?
Our tendency as horizontally oriented humans is to forget the war going on behind the scenes and interpret everything in our lives through the filter of our five senses—what we see, hear, smell, touch and taste. Anything that has to do with these senses is our first approach to solving problems. Circumstances dictate how we feel and what we do. And we think in terms of ourselves rather than in terms of the purpose God has given us as believers. We have strayed from the focus of our hearts.
But we are not created for time. We are created for eternity. Our lives right now are little classrooms in which we are learning to be conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 8:29). And why did Jesus come into this world? What did He live for? "To seek and to save what was lost" (Luke 19:10).
Everything else in life becomes incidental when we gain this focus. Clothes, food, hairstyle, makeup, bank account, education, degrees, plans, ambition, spouse, children—none of these can possibly be the most important thing in life. The more we become like Christ, the more we, like Him, will make world evangelism the top priority in our lives.
I urge you to examine your own heart. Look at the things you do and the activities you are involved in for the sake of the Lord. Ask yourself honestly, Why am I doing this? Search your heart. Be real with yourself. In the normal course of human nature, things never improve. We begin to take the things of the Lord casually. We find all sorts of reasons why our thinking is correct and why we should justify ourselves and our behavior. And unless we allow the Holy Spirit to renew our hearts and minds continually, deterioration will set in. It is like putting sand into the gears of a machine. They still crank, but the grinding noise is constant, and the machine must work harder for anything to happen.
With the many needs and opportunities on the mission field, please do not let your involvement stop with "I'm doing the best I can." As followers of Jesus, the things we do—whether praying, giving, sending or going—determine to a great extent what happens on the other side of the world. So I encourage you to search your heart. Is the passion still there? Is your heart broken?
No one can restore that freshness or passion for you. You must come before the Lord and allow Him to renew the focus of your heart.
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It is easy to get out of touch with God and try to live the Christian life on our own. We all fall into it. But when we realize what has gone wrong, how do we go about mending it?
In Revelation we read Jesus' message to the church in Ephesus—an incredible passage that can turn your stomach inside-out! If you remember the story of the Ephesians from Acts 19, you know that when Paul preached the Gospel to them, a great number believed. They brought their sorcery books, worth 50,000 pieces of silver, and burned them publicly. They took a stand against darkness and committed themselves to Christ, separating themselves from their former ways of living.
I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.
Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.
At first it sounds confusing, doesn't it? But Jesus was saying something was missing in the Ephesians' lives. They were laboring the same as always, but their inner motivation had changed. It was no longer "labor prompted by love" (1 Thessalonians 1:3). They had forsaken their first love.
I encourage you to take this first step of repentance.
Excerpt from Chapter 6 of Living in the Light of Eternity (ISBN 9781595891402) © 2014 by KP Yohannan, the president and founder of Gospel for Asia.
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Strangely enough, the person who has lost authentic vertical motivation from the Lord falls into legalism. The love of Christ no longer constrains him. He works for the sake of the work alone, whereas true motivation in working for the kingdom of God is love.
Love is the oil that keeps the machinery running smoothly. With this motivation there is no murmuring, no complaining, no grouchiness. People motivated by the love of God can serve Him 24 hours a day and be the happiest people in the world. They cannot do enough for the Lord because they love Him so much. When you lose that vertical motivation, you are doing things for the Lord because you have to.
When a person loses the love motive of his heart, he sees the Father as mean and unfair. He begins to compare service records. In the story of the prodigal son, the older brother compared his work with that of his younger brother, who wasted and destroyed everything his father had given him.
The father, weeping and rejoicing over his younger son, pleaded with his elder son to come in. But the son refused. His unyielding, headstrong disposition is a clear indication that he was not motivated by love for his father. He refused to go in because he felt sorry for himself. He was bitter about his situation. And he was discouraged.
But self-pity, bitterness and discouragement have nothing to do with genuine vertical motivation. The older brother had little feeling for his father or brother. His feelings had festered so long that he could think only about himself.
A person not motivated by love for the Lord will experience jealousy over others' blessings and the desire for honor and position. He may want to be noticed by others, looking for opportunities to tell them what he has done. He may be dissatisfied with second place. Or he may secretly expect appreciation or approval. When our hearts are not motivated by love, our relationships with others are strained.
The older brother had apparently been content working in the fields day after day. But when his brother came home, he became jealous.
Now that this brother of mine has returned, he thought, look at the hugs, the ring, the shoes, the new clothes. Look at the feast, the dancing, the celebration. All the attention I've gotten, all the benefits I've received, all my father's love, will now be turned to him.
It is a sign of true godliness to desire nothing but the Lord Himself. It is no simple thing to take second place and let someone else get the honor. It can be done only by someone who loves God.
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The man stopped hoeing and straightened up, wiping sweat and grime from his forehead. He thought he had heard unusual sounds coming from the house. Strains of music drifted across the field and, he thought, shouts and laughter as well. What was going on?
Well, it was way past quitting time anyway. He swung the hoe over his shoulder and trudged over the freshly turned-up field toward the house.
As he drew nearer, the music grew louder. He could tell the wine must be flowing freely; the dancing and merriment were in full swing.
Father must have a real reason for celebration, he thought.
Just then a servant came scurrying out.
The man's face darkened. So this was what they were celebrating—his brother's return? His irresponsible, wild, loose-living, inheritance-wasting brother? How dare he return after all the years of grief and uncertainty he had caused! A storehouse of angry memories flooded him.
And he turned on his heel.
We are all familiar with the story in Luke 15 of the man and his two sons. We know the younger brother as the Prodigal Son, but the story is really about the love of his father.
It is plain to see that the younger son represents the sinner, the outcast. But let's take a closer look at the older son.
The older son is a picture of the believer, someone who knows the Lord and is within the fold of believers. What was he doing when the younger son finally returned? Working out in the fields. He was committed to his father and to his work. In appearance, anyhow, he loved his father more than his brother did. He never left home or gambled his money away.
The older brother is a classic illustration of the individual who seems to be doing a lot of good and whose life is full of activity but who may be motivated horizontally, not vertically. The motivation keeping the older brother going was not genuine love for his father. When his brother returned and adverse circumstances bore down on him, the truth came out.
The older brother was "perfect." He sacrificed and worked long hours. He gave money faithfully for missions every month. He cut back on his lifestyle and lived more simply. He prayed an hour every day. He was active in his church. He always went the extra mile.
Am I talking about you and me? I am. But as we are in the midst of good activity, sometimes things begin to go wrong. Wow! we say to ourselves. I didn't realize I would ever face rejection for doing the right thing. I thought everyone would appreciate my hard work. I thought I'd get a few rewards, a little recognition . . .
When external pressures bear upon us and jolt the jar, whatever is inside comes out. This jolting is orchestrated by the Lord, who wants us to see what is really in our hearts.
Why did the older son act the way he did? He felt taken for granted, and was angry with his father for receiving his younger brother back, who had done wrong while he had done right.
If we look carefully at Luke 15, we can see signs that something was missing in the older brother. He had lost the genuine motivation of his heart—his love for his father.
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We can prove our faith by our committal to it, and in no other way. Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living. Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. So wide is the gulf that separates theory from practice in the church that an inquiring stranger who chances upon both would scarcely dream that there was any relation between them. An intelligent observer of our human scene who heard the Sunday morning sermon, and later watched the Sunday afternoon conduct of those who had heard it, would conclude that he had been examining two distinct and contrary religions.
Christians habitually weep and pray over beautiful truth, only to draw back from that same truth when it comes to the difficult job of putting it in practice.
When we hear the New Testament with willing, open hearts, the Gospel will penetrate our very lives and break them open, energizing our eyes, our ears, our hands, our legs—every part of us. And when we allow the Gospel to energize us, we become vessels in the Lord's hands, pouring out our prayers, finances, reputation, lifestyle—and ultimately our very lives.
Do we have to be "somebody" to hear the call of God and make a difference? In my own life I have seen time and again how God uses "nobodies." Sometimes I feel insecure. At other times I feel overwhelmed with all that I know needs to be done. Again and again I struggle and fail.
Perhaps you feel you are useless to the Lord, that you are not good enough, or that you have already wasted your life. But you are still in His hand. Don't you know that every day with Jesus is a new beginning? The Lord never condemns you or says, "Sorry, you didn't make it." His mercies, He tells us, are new every morning (see Lamentations 3:22–23). Whether you have lost 7 days or 70 years, the Lord says to you, "Return to me with all your heart. . . . I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten" (Joel 2:12, 25).
The Lord does not ask you to be a success or a superstar. In fact, if you truly desire to be a world-changer give your weaknesses to God so He can use you. All He requires is a weak, brokenhearted child who will surrender at the foot of the cross.
Excerpt from Chapter 3 of Living in the Light of Eternity (ISBN 9781595891402) © 2014 by KP Yohannan, the president and founder of Gospel for Asia.
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Once your life is given over completely to the Lord, you will no longer be intimidated by circumstances or swayed by what others think. Paul said, "All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God" (1 Corinthians 3:21–23).
Paul also said, "No matter how many promises God has made, they are 'Yes' in Christ" (2 Corinthians 1:20).
When the Lord calls you to consecrate your life to Him, He is looking for a living, breathing, moving sacrifice. He wants a total surrender of your will, your intellect, your mind, your five senses, your emotions, your actions.
I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—which is your spiritual worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self—whether you deny it, obliterate it, annihilate it, accept it or express it—believe me, it is still alive and kicking.
Jesus tells us what to do with the self: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23). But questions remain: How do we follow Him? How do we hear God and implement the power of the Gospel in our lives?
This can happen only through an all-out surrender of ourselves to the Lord Jesus Christ. It means acknowledging the Lordship of Christ in our lives, not just in theory but in practice. Jesus asks us to love Him supremely, more than anything or anyone else, and to let Him live in us and through us. Paul expressed it beautifully: "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me" (Galatians 2:20).
When I let Jesus live in and through me, my self is no longer the one that directs and dictates to me. Now it is Christ, His will and desires, living and acting through me. This is why the habit of compartmentalizing our lives must end. All of me, all that I am, belongs to Christ.
It is a daily practice to learn this principle and live it out in our lives. The choices we make are ultimately not collective ones that we make as a church, a family or even a couple. They are choices we make as individuals.
I pray that you will take a closer look at who you are. From now on you can live your life for a different purpose than for this world alone. I pray that you will hear the call of God and begin to consider eternity as your perspective.
But I must also warn you: If this is your decision, know that you have chosen to walk a narrow road. When Jesus called His disciples to follow Him, He set some conditions before them. The choice you make to follow Christ involves a cost. There will be inconveniences, difficulties, pain and counterattack by Satan.
But praise the Lord, whether you are standing or have fallen, you can rejoice because you have surrendered your self to Him. When everything has been said and done, and the earth as we know it is only a memory, Jesus will say to you, "Well done, good and faithful servant." And His approval is all that matters.
Excerpt from Chapter 4 of Living in the Light of Eternity (ISBN 9781595891402) © 2014 by KP Yohannan, the president and founder of Gospel for Asia.
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Берсон Александр Семенович (Alex Berson)
Dr. Alex Berson, Ph.D. is an Advisory Editor for McGraw-Hill Professional Books division. Dr. Berson served as the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of enCommerce, Inc. Dr. Berson came to enCommerce from Merrill Lynch, Smith Barney, Sony, and Dunn & Bradstreet and served as Director of Technology & Integration for the Management Consulting practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is an active Member of IEEE Computer Society, ACM and XML International Digital Enterprise Alliance. Dr. Berson has earned an MS in Applied Mathematics from the University ITMO of St. Petersburg (1972).
Dr. Alex Berson, ALIR Systems, Inc. Founder - Alex Berson is an internationally recognized expert, author and educator in various areas of information technologies. For the last three years he has been employed by BearingPoint (NYSE:BE), a leading global management and technology consulting company, where he is a BearingPoint Fellow and the Director leading Customer Identity Management practice. Prior to joining BearingPoint Alex Berson held key technology and management positions in companies like Entrust, Merrill Lynch, enCommerce, Dun & Bradstreet, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Solomon Smith Barney and other, including executive roles of co-CTO for Entrust Inc.(NASD: ENTU), CTO of enCommerce (Internet Security company), and CTO of TechPar Group – a boutique strategic business and technology advisory company.Mr. Berson holds graduate and post-graduate degrees in Computer Sciences and Applied Math, and focuses his professional activities on Identity Management and Information Security; Master Data Management (MDM), Customer Data Integration (CDI), CRM and BI; Risk and Compliance; data warehousing and data mining; Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA); transaction processing; enterprise application integration (EAI), messaging and middleware; distributed computing; and object technologies.
Mr. Berson is member of Standard & Poor's Vista Research Society of Industrial Leaders (SIL). He is also an active member of industry professional associations like IEEE Computer Society, ACM and Aberdeen Group's Technology Forecasting Consortium; standards organizations including OMG, OASIS, Open Group, and various industry consortia including Securities Industry Middleware Council (SIMC) and the Data Warehousing Institute. As Entrust' Chief Technology Officer for Portal Technologies and Applications, Alex Berson was the initiator and a founding member of several standards activities including OASIS Technical Committees on Security Services (SAML), XML Access Control (XACML), and Business Transaction Processing (BTP).
Alex Berson sits on the advisory boards of several technology and financial services companies. He has published numerous technical articles in trade magazines, and is a best-selling author and co-author of a number of professional best selling books including "Master Data Management and Customer Data Integration for a Global Enterprise", "Building Data Mining Applications for CRM", "Data Warehousing, Data Mining and OLAP"; "Client/Server Architecture"; "SYBASE and Client/Server Computing"; and "APPC: Introduction to LU6.2". He is the editor of the prestigious BearingPoint Financial Services Technology Journal and a frequent contributor to this and other professional publications where he authored a number of direction-setting white papers including articles on cross-disciplined convergence strategies, customer identity management, enterprise entitlements, enterprise data management, data security, and digitization.
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A farmer's market stand accepts EBT tokens in exchange for produce, Aug. 21. The stimulus increase in food stamps expires Oct. 31, meaning for millions of Americans, the benefits that help them put food on the table every month won't stretch as far as they have for the past four years.
Food stamps will shrink Nov. 1: Recipients worry about food, heat
Food stamps go to 47 million Americans a month, almost half of them children and teenagers. A two-year stimulus bump in food stamp benefits will expire Oct. 31, prompting new worries for families.
By Rik Stevens Associated Press
October 10, 2013 | CONCORD, N.H.
A temporary increase in food stamps expires Oct. 31, meaning for millions of Americans, the benefits that help put food on the table won't stretch as far as they have for the past four years.
Food stamps — actually the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — go to 47 million Americans a month, almost half of them children and teenagers.
"Every week is a struggle as it is," said Heidi Leno, 43, who lives in Concord with her husband, 9-year-old daughter and 5-year-old twins. "We hate living paycheck to paycheck and you have to decide what gets paid."
Starting in 2009, the federal stimulus pumped $45.2 billion into SNAP, increasing what would have been a monthly benefit of $588 a month to $668 for an average household of four. In November, that same family will start getting $632 a month, about a 5 percent cut.
The benefits, which go to 1 in 7 Americans, fluctuate based on factors including food prices, inflation and income.
Families and providers worry the expiration of the stimulus bump comes at a particularly bad time:
— Though Census figures from September show poverty remains stuck at around 22 percent, in some states, including New Hampshire, the number of children living in poverty is climbing.
— The House voted to cut almost $4 billion a year from the roughly $80 billion-a-year program in an effort to find savings in the budget. A Senate bill would cut around $400 million a year.
— In cold weather states, even a slight decrease in the benefit can trigger a decision between heating and eating. Heating fuel prices are expected to increase this year too, the government warned this week.
And the program could face another shortfall if the government is shuttered past Nov. 1.
Danielle Walker, 37, was shopping at a discount Aldi store in Morgantown, W.Va., with what little cash she had, the end of September still three days away. Her food stamps had run out because of a previous cut from $500 to $61 a month that came about when the father of her 12-year-old son died, giving the boy survivor benefits that changed the family's income level.
With two disabled sons, 12 and 16, each with different dietary requirements, she can barely imagine how she'll absorb another cut. So, she'll visit food pantries, clip coupons and shop at the least expensive stores she can find. She also explains her situation to manufacturers, who send coupons.
"I'm a mom who does outside-of-the-box things," she said, adding, "I have to feed my boys."
But the stimulus was never intended to be a permanent source of money, said former New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg. He opposed the stimulus, calling it at the time "a great deal of money not well spent."
"All stimulus funding was to be temporary," Gregg, now the CEO of a banking industry group, said Wednesday.
John Cochrane, a professor of finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, also opposed the stimulus, saying it advanced the false assumption that "completely wasted federal spending helps the economy."
He said that worries about people who need help were a legitimate concern but that food stamps create a disincentive to move to find a better job because recipients are worried they'll lose the benefit.
"At some point," he said, "you have to be a little bit heartless."
One recipient, Jennifer Donald, a 31-year-old mother of three in Philadelphia, said she counts on the family's $460 monthly benefit to put food on the table. Her husband has a job sanitizing machines at meat-packing plants but it doesn't pay enough. She'll have to reduce the quality of the food she buys to stretch the benefits, then turn to food pantries once the money runs out.
"I was mad and devastated and a little bit confused because we need our benefits," Donald said in an interview at her row house, where she was preparing ground-beef tacos, a family favorite, while her 10-year-old daughter and two sons, 6 and 4, played and did homework. "This is the way we eat right now. Live a day in our life before you can cut our benefits."
In Concord, the New Hampshire Food Bank has seen demand grow steadily even as donations have fallen. The bank distributed 8.5 million pounds of food last year, compared with 4.5 million pounds at the start of the recession in 2007. Executive Director Mel Gosselin said the added pressure from expiration of the supplement will hurt.
"That's going to mean more reliance on emergency food systems that are already stretched to the max," she said during a tour of the bank's 60,000-square-foot warehouse. Three racks stretched to the ceiling but many shelves were bare as workers scooted around on pallet lifts loaded with food.
Edlyn Contee, 61, of Oakland, Calif., will lose $11 from the $200 she gets every month in food stamps.
"That's three days' worth of food for me," Contee said. "The people who say $11 a month is hardly anything have money in the bank. A $5 Starbucks coffee is nothing to them."
Associated Press writers Vicki Smith in Morgantown, W.Va., Greg Risling in Los Angeles and Michael Rubinkam in Philadelphia contributed to this report.
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St. Andrew United Church of Christ – Sarasota
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Rev. Paul Werner
Prior to coming to St. Andrew UCC, Paul served as the designated pastor of Trinity Congregational UCC in Winter Haven and an assistant pastor at First United Church of Tampa. He is originally from the New York metro area.
Paul taught Spanish and ESL (English as a Second Language) to middle school, high school, and college students for 19 years. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, a Master of Arts in Foreign Language Education (Spanish), and a graduate certificate in Applied Linguistics from the University of South Florida, and he earned his Master of Divinity from the Florida Center for Theological Studies (which has since merged into St. Thomas University in Miami). While in seminary, he was twice awarded the UCC's William R. Johnson Scholarship, which is a competitive seminary scholarship for openly LGBT ministerial candidates in the UCC. He was ordained at First United Church of Tampa in 2013.
One thing that makes Paul "tick" is his passion for social and economic justice. He believes that the poor, oppressed, marginalized, and vulnerable are especially loved by God, and that we are to emulate the actions and teachings of Jesus to work for justice and peace for all people and end the sin of systemic injustice. Paul is interested in how churches can express a progressive Christian faith with prophetic voices and actions to promote justice, peace, equality, and liberation for all.
Paul lives with two cats who know they are in charge.
Bru ce Ensinger
Director of Music Ministry
Bruce has lived in the Sarasota area for three years. He started playing for his home church, Sardis United Methodist Church, when he was in the 7th grade. As a sophomore in high school, he accepted a position at First Christian Church in New Martinsville, West Virginia, and his father had to drive him to rehearsal and services.
Music and music ministry are a big part of Bruce's life. He taught music in New Martinsville, West Virginia, for 38 years. Bruce also served as an organist and director of music at Sisterville Presbyterian Church for 35 years and director of music at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in New Martinsville for 22 years.
Bruce has been very active in the Sarasota area as an accompanist and is the Interim Artistic Director of Diversity: The Voices of Sarasota. He enjoys swimming and cooking and is learning to quilt.
Peggy Pancake
Peggy is the Moderator of our Church Council for the 2018-2019 church year. She has a long family history with St. Andrew UCC, as her father, mother, and aunt joined the church in the early 1970s. Peggy's father was active on the Board of Finance, Chair of the Building Committee for the present sanctuary, and Moderator in 1984-1985. They all sang in the choir and joined in the active social life of the church. Visiting Florida often, Peggy and her three sisters would also sing in the choir. After moving to Florida from New York in 1996, she worked at Venice Regional Bayfront Health for 20 years and attended St. Andrew UCC with her mother and aunt, all singing in the choir. Peggy served as Clerk from 2015 to 2018.
Nancy Goethe
Nancy previously served as the Moderator of our Church Council for the 2017-2018 church year, and currently she serves as our Past Moderator on our Council. Nancy's mission is to keep the St. Andrew UCC community involved in important peace and justice issues. She is married to George, who serves on our Board of Trustees and our Board of Missions and Outreach. Nancy and George grew up in the Sarasota area, and they retired in Sarasota after a career in the United States Air Force. They have been married for 42 years and have a large family in the local area as well as throughout Florida. Nancy and George love the St. Andrew UCC family because of its generous and welcoming spirit.
Shelly Kalinovich
As our Church Administrator, Shelly sees many faces of members, friends, and visitors to the church.
Shelly publishes our weekly worship bulletins, schedules the master calendar, assists with bookkeeping duties, does data entry for our financial intake, and performs various other tasks in the church office. Her main task is to support the Pastor in his ministry at St. Andrew UCC.
Shelly joined our staff in 2019, and she is excited about St. Andrew UCC's sense of community. She calls herself a people person who enjoys helping others to the best of her ability. –
Sexton
Bob has been our sexton since leaving his job as a cook at Plymouth Harbor in 2014. He is married to Bob Langlais (our previous Moderator) and they live in Marbella with their two dogs, Baxter (a cocker spaniel) and Bailey (a westie).
Bob and Bob keep busy by riding their bikes along the Legacy Trail, kayaking on the Intracoastal Waterway, working out at the local gym, and simply walking their two dogs.
The Bobs found their way to St. Andrew UCC after they moved to Sarasota from Massachusetts in 2011. It was while they were buying their home that they met Claudia, a member of the church who was the seller's agent. She suggested that they look into St. Andrew UCC. The rest is history!
Gary Remmen
Gary has been part of the St. Andrew UCC financial team for the past 15 years. After receiving an electronic engineering degree from the University of Minnesota and an Army tour in Hawaii, he spent a career in the semiconductor/microchip business. This provided an opportunity to live in Egypt, Spain, Malaysia, and the Philippines. After his wife died, he drove from Silicon Valley, California, to Sarasota with his two cats, Cleo and Neffie.
Rev. Paul Binder – in loving memory
Pastor Emeritus
Paul grew up in Seattle. With his wife, Peg, Paul moved to Sarasota in 1982. He was called to be the Pastor of St. Andrew UCC and he retired in 1996 as Pastor Emeritus. Paul graduated from Purdue with a degree in electrical engineering and he worked for General Electric for 14 years. He resigned to enter Eden Seminary in St. Louis, accompanied by Peg and their 3 children, ages 2, 4, and 6. He was ordained in Indiana in 1967 and earned his Doctorate in Ministry in 1989 from Eden. Paul served as co-chair of our Board of Missions and Outreach. He found St. Andrew UCC an inviting, caring people, particularly because it is Open and Affirming, strong in social justice and compassion ministries, and committed to more fully living the faith in all of life. Paul was an active member of the Academy of Parish Clergy.
St. Andrew United Church of Christ
6908 Beneva Road
Sarasota, Florida 34238
DONALD HENDERSON MEMORIAL FUND
This website is made possible by the Donald Henderson Memorial Fund and is lovingly dedicated to Pastor Henderson, who loved God and all of God's creation with grace, gentility, and peace.
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Летящият старт (, известен още като Старт Индианаполис) е вид старт в автомобилните спортове, който автомобилите правят една или няколко подгряващи обиколки, водени от колата за сигурност. Когато всичко е готово, колата за сигурност напуска пистата и малко след това развяването на зелен флаг дава начало на състезанието. Чак тогава на състезателите е позволено да ускорят. С летящ старт започват състезанията в НАСКАР, Индикар (през сезон 2007 състезанията на улични трасета започват със старт от място), 24-те часа на Льо ман и др. Във Формула 1 летящ старт се използва при подновяване на надпреварата след излизане на колата за сигурност и много рядко при началото на състезанието, когато атмосферните условия са лоши (например през 2009 г. в Китай, 2008 г. в Италия, 1997 и 2000 г. в Белгия и др.)

Има различни правила, които не позволяват на състезателите да печелят предимство при летящ старт. В НАСКАР пилотите, намиращи се от вътрешната страна на овала нямат право да изпреварват коли, намиращи се от външната страна, докато не пресекат стартовата линия. Пилотът на пол-позиция няма право рязко да намалява скоростта и по този начин да принуди останалите зад него да се скупчат на едно място.

Противоположност на летящия старт е стартът от място, при който болидите или мотоциклетите се намират в състояние на покой, подредени на стартовата решетка, непосредствено преди сигнала (най-често светлинен) за начало на състезанието.

Автомобилен спорт

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Sunday Celebrations are the time when we as a congregation join together for mutual support and inspiration. Carefully planned Celebrations are essential to the wellbeing of our community and support the many other activities that are an important part of our congregational life.
Celebration Associates work with the minister and director of music to design Sunday services. Together we consider how we can assist the minister to produce services that are stimulating, inspiring, and spiritually uplifting.
The Associates meet monthly with the minister and director of music to evaluate recent services, assign an Associate to upcoming services, and consider ways to enhance those services.
Each Sunday one Associate assists the minister in delivering the service, typically opening with announcements and a chalice lighting, doing a reading, and sometimes sharing a personal reflection.
Assist the minister and director of music to design Sunday services that are stimulating, inspiring, and spiritually uplifting. Design and carry out Sunday Celebrations in collaboration with our minister or invited speaker.
The Membership team is composed of lay leaders, Hospitality Team Coordinator and the Minister. We provide support for the Membership Coordinator, welcome newcomers— including get acquainted newcomers brunch, coordinate a Hospitality Team to cover Sunday morning support—e.g. greeting, ushering, kitchen prep and cleanup and after service snacks, and work with other teams to provide publicity for events of interest to the broader Ithaca community. The Outreach efforts promote the congregation's mission within the larger Ithaca community.
Engage newcomers and guide them toward a path to membership and promote the congregation to the broader Ithaca community.
The Buildings and Grounds Committee of the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca is responsible for the care, preservation, and protection of all real property of the Society.
We work to provide our congregation with an attractive and well-cared for environment. Working together to achieve that goal builds fellowship and community.
We keep the physical church in good condition, we save the congregation money, and by working together we build community.
The Endowment Team manages the FUSIT endowment funds, discusses investment strategies, makes investments, and discusses support of operating. We work to ensure the preservation of endowment principal for future use of the society. We invest in socially responsible investments without jeopardizing return. and monitor our investment with the UU Common Endowment Fund.
The endowment team preserves the principal and grows the funds with minimum risk. Support to operating is decided by the team, discussed with the board of trustees without reducing principal.
The Stewardship Team is dedicated to ensuring the financial health of the congregation. It is also dedicated to having fun! We meet over pizza and beer (that we pay for ourselves!) to devise and develop out the annual pledge drive. During the pledge season we meet regularly, often once a week, to create the various documents and events used to solicit and collect pledges.
We work with other teams to establish the pledge goal for the year; create a theme for the pledge drive; generate the written and graphic materials that are sent out to our members to solicit their pledges; organize an event or events during the pledge season to celebrate our community's generosity; analyze pledge data and trends.
The Stewardship Team is dedicated to ensuring the financial health of the congregation.


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Avengers: Iconic Edinburgh landmarks in film revealed
Director Joe Russo told STV the capital city captured the 'right tone' for the action scenes.
Published 12th April 2018 at 12:01 am
Viewers will recognise a number of iconic Edinburgh landmarks during scenes in Avengers: Infinity War, one of its directors has revealed.
Joe Russo confirmed Waverley Station, the Royal Mile and St Giles Cathedral would all feature heavily in a ten-minute action sequence near the start of the Marvel blockbuster.
Filmed during night shoots, the director said the Gothic backdrop of the Scottish capital's Old Town created the "right tone" for the scenes.
He also warned fans the film would be "intense", describing it as the "culmination" of the 18 films in the Marvel cinematic universe to date which began with Iron Man in 2008.
The hotly-anticipated superhero crossover, which spent weeks filming key scenes in Edinburgh and St Abbs in the Scottish Borders, is due out on April 26.
Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Chris Evans (Captain America), Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch), Paul Bettany (Vision), Chris Hemsworth (Thor) and Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk) are all believed to have filmed scenes in Scotland.
Avengers: Infinity War will see intergalactic warlord Thanos attempt to collect the powerful infinity stones in order to wipe out half of all life in the universe.
Earth's heroes will team up with the Guardians of the Galaxy on-screen for the first time in the Marvel series in an effort to defeat the villain.
Marvel's latest film follows off the back of the box office-smashing Black Panther.
Speaking to STV News, Mr Russo told fans to "expect a lot" from the new Avengers film, the third after Avengers: Age of Ultron in 2015 and the original Avengers film in 2012.
"It's a very, very big film and if you've been following along with the Marvel universe for the last ten years and you've been emotionally invested in the storytelling, this is the culmination film," he said.
"This is it. This is the ending. This is the final chapter of the book so we pulled out all the stops and we went all-out."
Of the blockbuster's scenes in Edinburgh, he said: "You can expect to see about ten minutes of it the film. You'll recognise quite a lot of it.
"Waverley Station plays a big part in it. The Royal Mile takes a big part in it, underneath the colonnades (where City Chambers is located) and back into (Parliament) Square.
"So if you're from Edinburgh, you'll see it – you'll know it."
He also revealed they filmed shots of the roof of St Giles Cathedral.
The film crew then created a replica of the roof in a warehouse where they recorded a fight scene, meaning in the final cut of the blockbuster it will look like the heroes are battling on top of the historic structure.
While he has a longstanding love of the city, Mr Russo and his fellow director, brother Anthony, chose Edinburgh as a location for the aesthetic qualities it could bring to the film.
"The city fit a sequence my brother and I dreamt of," he explained.
"It had the right tone for what we were looking for.
"We wanted to create a little bit of tension in the sequence in that when you light these buildings at night in the correct way they do take on a Gothic appeal."
Director: 'Thanos does not mess around. He's a very scary villain.' Marvel Entertainment / YouTube
Security around the film's plot in order to protect against spoilers went to extreme lengths, Mr Russo revealed, with measures taken including the distribution of fake drafts of the script to cast and crew.
It is because the blockbuster is one of the most-hyped films in recent years, bringing an untold number of Marvel heroes together for the first time.
The threat posed by the film's villain, who has been built up as a force in the shadows since the first Avengers film, is such that speculation of the fate of fan favourites is rampant.
"It is a crazy amount of characters," the director admitted.
"But you're taking all these disparate, really successful franchises and putting them into one film, and that's exciting, that's a challenge and it's a challenge we were up for.
"You work throughout the script process and as you're shooting the movie just to make sure that each character has their moments."
He added: "The movie does get intense. Thanos does not mess around. He's a very scary villain."
But the movie will also have Marvel's trademark levity, particularly with so many much-loved characters meeting for the first time.
"Obviously there's going to be humour when these personalities clash," Mr Russo said.
"Doctor Steven Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) meets Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr): these are two very egotistical individuals and they're going to clash over who is in charge.
"One is a man of science, the other is a man of magic, so there's a lot of differences there that they need to overcome while also trying to stop Thanos."
The director also discussed Scotland's distinctive qualities that make it such a viable location for Hollywood studios.
Avengers: Infinity War's use of Scottish locations follows in the wake of a number of blockbusters which filmed scenes in Scotland, including World War Z and Fast and Furious 6.
"Scotland has an incredible topography which is easily accessible and accessible quickly, which is very important for film crews," Mr Russo said.
"You can go an hour that way and be on the coast, you can go hour that way and be at the lochs, an hour that way and you're up in the mountains, an hour that way and you're in Glasgow.
"It really is an accessible location to shoot with incredible infrastructure."
He added: "I really believe that if some sound stages are built here in the proper place and managed properly, that I think Scotland could attract a Star Wars film or a Marvel movie very easily for the duration of their shoot."


There aren't a lot of shopping opportunities in Inuvik, as we have no malls and very few stores, so it's easy to avoid the temptation to spend money. However, our downfall is that there are so many amazing handicrafts to buy- mukluks, carvings, muskox wool scarves, fur mitts (rabbit, seal, wolf, beaver), you name it. And because these items are unique, hand-crafted, and use very expensive materials, you have to be prepared to dish out $hundreds or $thousands for a one-of-a-kind item. Sticker shock is just part of the experience!
Case in point -- my new moccasins (generally just called "slippers" by the Inuit). After a year of looking for the perfect pair, I was thrilled to see these beauties below in our craft shop for the bargain price of $250 including tax. The reason they are not in the $300+ range is because the bottoms are cowhide rather than moosehide. But as I will only use them indoors at the office most of the time, I didn't mind that they weren't made of moosehide.
The slippers are made of sealskin, trimmed with Arctic hare, with embroidered uppers. They were made by Martha Kudlak of Sachs Harbour, a community of about 100 people in an area even more remote than Inuvik!
One aspect of living in a "remote" community (I put that in quotes because Inuvik doesn't feel remote any more!) is that you quickily discover the joys of online shopping. With the few clicks of a button, you can buy almost anything you need and it will show up a few days later. A lot of online shopping sites provide free shipping, even to Inuvik, especially if you order a certain minimum amount.
My most recent success story was ordering some products from well.ca -- "Canada's largest health, beauty and skin care store". I had never heard of the site before (because I'm old-fashioned and would rather go to a store), but a lot of people up here use it. I decided to order a couple of bottles of dry shampoo, for those days when I don't have time to wash and dry my hair!
The box showed up at the post office, and I was a bit surprised how big it was, considering I only ordered two bottles of shampoo.
I found this slightly ironic, as well.ca markets itself as "the largest green and natural and health and beauty store online in Canada" and this flyer came with the box. They're trying, but they have a way to go!


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Jack Wilshere predicts Arsenal will win Premier League in next two years if Arteta is backed in transfer market
12/31/2021 Comments Off on Jack Wilshere predicts Arsenal will win Premier League in next two years if Arteta is backed in transfer market
JACK WILSHERE has backed Mikel Arteta to lead Arsenal to their first Premier League title since 2004 within the next few years.
However the 29-year-old has insisted the Gunners could only compete at the top of the table should the Spaniard be given cash to splash in the transfer market.
Arsenal currently sit fourth in the top-flight after racking up four consecutive wins, while they are also in the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup.
The North Londoners were Europe's biggest spenders in the summer having forked out £150million on Ben White, Martin Odegaard, Albert Sambi Lokonga, Nuno Tavares, Aaron Ramsdale and Takehiro Tomiyasu.
And free agent Wilshere, who has been training back at London Colney to maintain his fitness, believes more recruits are needed to turn the club into title challengers.
Speaking on talkSPORT, the former West Ham midfielder was asked whether he can see Arteta guiding Arsenal to Premier League glory.
To which Wilshere, who has been linked with a move to Brazilian outfit Fortaleza, said: "I think with the right backing and bringing the right players in.
"He definitely has a clear structure and philosophy of the way he sees football and how he wants it to be played.
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"Listen, they're not going to win the league this year.
"But in the next two or three years, if they can get into the top four, get a few big signings in, give them time to settle and see how the manager wants them to play.
"I'm going to put it out there – I think they can, yeah."
Invincibles legend Sol Campbell echoed Wilshere's views, as he hailed Arteta for Arsenal's upturn in form following their disastrous start to the season.
He told the talkSPORT Breakfast: "I saw Jack talking… in the next two or three years if they bring the right players in, there's a possibility, yes of course there is.
"They are that close. At the moment Man City are just steamrolling it, they're unbelievable the way they're putting teams away, in both tight games and with big scores.
"It shows they've got that fantastic winning mentality that they can hold their nerve in tight games and also blow teams away. But Arsenal, I think yeah, if they get the right players in, why not?
"They're going really well, Arteta has got them firing, they've had big results as well – 5-0 against Norwich and 4-1 away at Leeds – if you want to show purpose you've got to beat teams like that at the bottom, sweep them aside and carry on.
"They're going really, really well. A couple of the results have not gone their way, and they started the season poorly, but they've recovered.
"It's a great test for them, but I think they can go all the way.
"They've got fantastic players who are in great form. [Gabriel] Martinelli, Odegaard, [Emile] Smith Rowe, all these players are playing well, Ramsdale has brought so much life to the team.
"So why not [win the league] – go for it!"
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Tucked away in the suburbs of Chicago, Saint Viator High School is a Catholic secondary school with approximately 1,000 students. The building, originally established in 1961, remained virtually untouched over the years until the 1990s when a series of building upgrades took place.
In recent years, another round of upgrades took place. As part of the upgrade, Saint Viator High School wanted to improve the acoustics of both their choir and band room. While the rooms were functional and provided the needed resources for the choir and band, the sound quality needed a slight adjustment.
In order to accomplish this, Flyhouse installed three manual acoustical drapes on the walls of the rooms. Also as part of the acoustic assistance, a manual bi-part, 25oz thick Charisma Rose Brand acoustical curtain was installed. The curtains hang roughly 10' above the finished floor and had to be adjusted during installation due to an already installed HVAC system in the room.
While Flyhouse wasn't around for the first rehearsal after the installation, we are certain the sound quality was impressive.


With the number of fintech companies setting up base in China increasing with each passing day, many business analysts have started to become worried about how the financial landscape of the eastern powerhouse will continue to evolve as time passes on.
In this regard, Vince Zhang, the President of Chinese financial investment platform 'Phoenix Finance', believes that if the number of fintech companies in China continue to grow, the country might be placed under a big risk of complete economic collapse.
While talking at CNBC's East Tech West conference recently, Zhang said that the many of the financial technology firms that are cropping up in China right now do not possess the necessary tools to make them "sound conduit mediums, either for consumers or the wider economy".
Over the past couple of years, China has been witnessing a massive increase in the number of businesses that are trying to harness the power of blockchain technology in order to gain a foothold over the nation's large unbanked population.
While such a tech revolution is quite remarkable, Zhang says that since many of these companies deal with a lot of money on a day-to-day basis, things could turn quite dangerous, quite quickly (if left unsupervised).
In order to combat the aforementioned problem, Zhang believes that the Chinese government needs place more regulations within niche areas such as consumer protection rights and risk control.
"I would predict in 2019 it's becoming more regulated. There will be less and less players in this field.", Zhang finished off by saying.


Acer rubrum (Red Maple) is a deciduous tree native to northeastern North America and commonly found near pastures.
The leaves of A. rubrum, especially when wilted in the fall, cause severe oxidative damage to equine erythrocytes, leading to potentially fatal methemoglobinemia.
Gallic acid and tannins from A. rubrum leaves have been implicated as the toxic compounds responsible for Red Maple Toxicosis (Boyer et al, 2002), but this study found that pyrogallol is a more potent inducer of methemoglobinemia.
The Toxicology Section strives to be the most competent and responsive toxicology laboratory in the country by providing complete analytical toxicology services to private practitioners, commercial agricultural businesses, cooperative extension agencies and universities. The Toxicology Section utilizes modern state-of-the-art analytical instruments and techniques for the detection, identification, and quantification of organic, inorganic and toxic compounds of interest to the food, feed, and animal industries.
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Equine pre-purchase drug screening and horse pull drug screening.
Red Maple Syndrome in Horses: This year we took on an undergraduate student researcher who is investigating the cause of Red Maple Poisoning in Horses with us, hoping to identify the causative toxic compounds.
Wheat/DON Study: A Collaborative Wheat/Deoxynivalenol (DON) study with Dr. Gary Bergstrom of Plant Pathology at Cornell. This study is a continuation of work done in 2009 where we quantified the mycotoxin DON in various portions/fractions of the wheat from a field previously inoculated with Fusarium graminearum. This fungus is the causal agent of head blight of wheat and also produces two major mycotoxins, Zearalenone and Deoxynivalenol (DON), both having potential health consequences to livestock and people. Our findings and detection of DON in the straw portions have not been documented previously, to our knowledge. Currently, we are comparing inoculated wheat to wheat not inoculated with Fusarium graminearum and analyzed for the presence of DON in the fractions as above. Another on-going study is on the effect of ensiling on DON concentrations in corn.
CUAES Hatch Project, Assessing the fate of drugs in livestock mortality and manures, J. Bonhotal, K. Bischoff. $90,000/year, Project Period 09/01/2009-09/01/2012. This study will determine the environmental fate of veterinary drugs in composed animals and manure.
Cornell 4-Poster Deer Permethrin Project on Shelter Island: This project is collaborative study with Cornell wildlife biologists and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) involving the assessment of Permethrin residue concentrations in edible tissues of deer harvested on Shelter Island. This has been an ongoing study since 2006.
Deer Selenium Study: Assessment of Selenium concentrations in livers from wild deer in the Ithaca N.Y. area in conjunction with the Earn-A-Buck Hunter Program at Cornell University and deer from Shelter Island in NYC area.
Sulfur in Bovine Study: RAC Seed Grant, Evaluation of Sulfur Concentrations in Bovine Urine, Kidney, and Liver, C.G. Lamm, S.E. Morgan, J.D. Taylor, K. Bischoff. $3,413, Project Period 01/01/2010-12/31/2010. This study will determine if tissue and urine sulfur concentrations are different in cattle with sulfur-induced polioencephalomalacia.
Memorandum of Understanding with National Research and Quarantine Service, Anyang, Republic of Korea: For joint projects including mycotoxin detection, biomarkers for lead and other heavy metals, and phytotoxin detection, K. Bischoff, H.G. Kang. $60,000/year, Project Period: 7/01/08-6/30/11. Funding for this project has been used to determine the use of aminolevulinic acid (ALA) for lead in cattle, the DON and red maple studies above, and will be used to develop a method for detection of Amanita spp mushroom toxins in the future.
H.G. Kang, K. Bischoff, J.G. Ebel, S.H. Cha, J. McCardle. Comparison of blood lead and blood and plasma δ-aminolevulinic acid concentrations as biomarkers for lead poisoning in cattle (2010). JVDI November issue.
T. McComb ,* K. Bischoff, B. Thompson, M.C. Smith, H.O. Mohammed, J.G. Ebel, J.R. Hillebrandt. An investigation of blood selenium concentrations of goats in New York State (2010). JVDI 22: 696-701.
K. Bischoff, C. Gaskill, H.N. Erb, J.G. Ebel, J.R. Hillebrandt. Comparison of 2 methods for blood lead analysis in cattle: graphite-furnace atomic absorption spectrometry and LeadCare® II system (2010). JVDI 22: 729-733.
C. Lamm,* K. Bischoff, H.N. Erb, C.L. Guard, J.R. Hillebrandt, B. Thompson, B.L. Njaa. Trace-mineral concentrations in dairy cattle with rupture of abdominal-artery aneurysm (2010). Bovine Practitioner: 44: 36-41.
K. Bischoff, H. Priest,* A. Mount-Long. Animals as sentinels in lead poisoning: a case report (2010). J Med Toxicol 6: 185-189.
C. L. Miller, K.L. Bischoff, B. Hoff. Polyacrylamide ingestion leading to fatal intestinal obstruction in two birds in a zoo collection (2009). J Avian Med Surg 23(4):286-289.
H.G. Kang, S.H. Jeong, M.R. Cho, J.H. Cho, K. Bischoff. Time dependent changes in lead and delta-aminolevulinic acid after subchronic lead exposure in rats (2009). Human and Exper Toxicol. 28: 647-654.


This past month at the Mothership we have been engaged in a variety of creative pursuits, from making art to trying out inventive new recipes with some of our abundant fresh produce. I've hammered steel to create sound sculptures, and Donna, Joanie Solaini and Max have been welding metal bars together and cutting steel for a new art installation that will represent Hexagram 8 of the I-Ching: Bi, to unite or hold together with our own inner truth, unity, union, community, intimacy and closeness. This hexagram also relates to uniting the disparate parts within us. Bi is an expression of community and the bond between people. In this hexagram, we have Water above and Earth Below, envision the way in which water nourishes the Earth and the Earth provides sustenance. This is also a reminder of the importance of loving and caring in any union. In our lives, nothing is more destructive than successive conflict and more auspicious than building harmonious relationships between people, recognizing that we are all one.


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Leading up to the 2021 US Open, long-term sponsor Wilson Sporting Goods opens its New York City Tennis Experience with a pop-up museum and store. In fact, this is more than "just" another pop-up.
For more than forty years, Wilson has been at the center of New York tennis as the official ball and racket stringer of the US Open.
For me, as a Slazenger fan, this is of course nothing compare to the commercial relationship between "my" brand and Wimbledon, dating back to 1902. But hey, forty years are more than most sponsorships these days, so let's go ahead with todays topic.
Love All: A Wilson Tennis Experience
Located in SoHo, the new Wilson Pop-Up Museum is opening its doors at 594 Broadway, with legendary tennis star Billie Jean King. The pop-up opening precedes the 2021 US Open, which will take place in Flushing, N.Y. from Monday, Aug. 30 to Sunday, Sept. 12.
Titled "Love All: A Wilson Tennis Experience", the pop-up will pay homage to Wilson's long-standing history in the sport of tennis, highlighting groundbreaking athletes and Wilson Advisory Staff members, and the extraordinary milestones in tennis innovation throughout.
While walking through the museum-like location, guests will be able to experience the brand's legacy firsthand.
The pop-up will also serve as a retail location, where Wilson Sportswear, including its latest tennis-inspired apparel collection for men and women, will be available for purchase along with a curated assortment of footwear, balls, accessories, and tennis rackets
And if this were not enough, Wilson presents some limited edition and exclusive items, such as the Kith x Wilson Pro Staff 97, US Open Clash, and the Blade V8. (If you are a tennis nerd, you know this is some serious stuff.)
Personalization is the kicker
Another thing which really makes this a potential flagship in sponsorship activation, the store will feature a "racket maestro". The maestro will be offering racket customization, as well as interactive experiences, including tennis ball art and apparel personalization.
Careful readers thus note the well-thought-out combination of 1) timeless content and 2) personalized content. These are certainly two keys to increase the chances of success.
Once passing through the museum, the location will also feature a ball room and gallery, featuring select Wilson hard goods and a unique display outlining the "Making of a Modern Racket".
The second floor is an exclusive Sky Box lounge, that will host events and offer tournament viewing. And yes, guests, groups and corporations can schedule special events and appearances.
Digital focus creates more than ever need for physical experiences?
The Wilson Pop-Up Museum is just the beginning for the long-standing leader in sporting goods in New York. At the museum, Wilson will exhibit the stories of additional sports ventures in the coming months, all leading up to the grand opening of the NYC Wilson Flagship Store later this year.
Wilson opened its first-ever retail location, a "Wilson Heritage Store," in their hometown of Chicago in July 2021. And while the brand is new to brick-and-mortar, Wilson is not new to retail, having executed dynamic pop-up stores at sporting events like the Super Bowl, College World Series, and the US Open, for decades.
In a world were more and more brands goes digital, with Direct-To-Consumer distribution, I am convinced that the "physical memories", driven by passion and social experiences, created within live visits at events will be increasingly more important. In short, smart and genuine event marketing will be a cornerstone to a successful sponsorship activation.
I am of course biased with my own thoughts, but in a statement leading up to the grand opening of the Wilson Pop-Up Museum, the brand says just this. So it is really easy to be on the right side of the trend in this case.
Wilson states that they will "continue its direct-to-consumer expansion, opening flagship stores in New York, Los Angeles, Beijing and Shanghai in the coming months".
If (when) corporate marketing departments connect the dots, event marketeers will flourish within the sports industry, as more business models goes digital.
Historical milestones featured in the Wilson Pop-Up Museum
Here follows some of the milestones and stories that are told in the Wilson Pop-Up Museum.
Jimmy McDaniel Breaks Tennis' Color Barrier
On July 29, 1940, McDaniel played in the first interracial tennis match against Don Budge. The event, set up by Wilson Sporting Goods, was held at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club in Harlem.
Jack Kramer: Pioneer of Open Era Tennis
With a presence more powerful than his fierce forehand, Kramer's impact on the game was enormous. The multiple Grand Slam® winner championed the serve-and-volley style of play and is considered one of the game's great promoters, strongly advocating for open tennis between pros and amateurs.
Billie Jean King Fights for Equal Rights
The guest of honor's historic 'Battle of the Sexes' match viewed by an estimated ninety million people worldwide ignited the feminist movement for women's sports. The BJK autograph racket came to symbolize King's role as an equal rights advocate and ambassador.
Serena Williams Becomes Best of the Open Era
On Jan. 28, 2017, Williams added to her storied career by winning her 23rd Grand Slam® singles title at the Australian Open, the most by any player in the Open Era.
20 Slams, Only One Roger
Amassing an incredible 20 men's major singles titles since turning pro in 1998, Federer is one of the most prolific men's champions the game has seen. His career excellence in singles is led by dominance on grass and hardcourt where he's won an Open-era record eighth men's Wimbledon titles, five US Opens, six Australian Opens, and six ATP World Tour Finals. He's done it all with a Wilson racket in hand, including his current Pro Staff RF97 Autograph.
Kith for Wilson
Wilson's rich history with New York City and love for working with barrier breakers extends beyond the sport of tennis. In an homage to the zeitgeist of the beloved game, Wilson embarks on a landmark collaboration with Kith, an NYC-based global lifestyle brand known for creating premium products that capture passion and evoke nostalgia. Through Kith's discerning perspective and uncompromising standard, the partnership inspires future stories to be told, by a new generation of players and fans alike.
Fore more information about the museum, please visit this article at wilson.com.
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Home Personal Should I leave my inheritance to my unconverted children or give it to the Lord?
Should I leave my inheritance to my unconverted children or give it to the Lord?
"Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself'" (Matthew 22:37-39). Love for God and man is the goal of the Christian life.
In regards to inheritance, parents should show their love to God by contributing to His cause and not preferring their children above God "He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me" (Matthew 10:37).
King David arranged to leave a great amount of his assets to the building up of God's house "Indeed I have taken much trouble to prepare for the house of the Lord one hundred thousand talents of gold and one million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond measure, for it is so abundant. I have prepared timber and stone also, and you may add to them" (1 Chronicles 22:14). But he also left a good inheritance for Solemn and all his children.
And likewise, good parents should consider giving to their children "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous" (Proverbs 13:22). Even if the children are not Christian, parents should communicate their love to them thus exemplifying the love of Christ who gave His life to save the sinners (John 3:16).
But much thought and prayer should be given to the arrangement of leaving an inheritance because the Lord will hold His children accountable on how they spend the talents He has given them (Matthew 18). A good counsel would be leaving children non-cash assets such as education funds and property.
The most important inheritance that parents can leave their children is the knowledge of the truth. Parents are to teach their children about God's love (Ephesians 6:4) and lead them to the Lord by example (Mark 10:14). Investing in spirituality is the only thing that will have eternal rewards. All other material riches will be destroyed at Christ's coming.


According to Variety, Rachel Weisz (My Cousin Rachel) has just signed onto a new indie movie. Called Cloud One, the Goran Dukic-directed film will place Weisz into the middle of a "grounded" story in a world of science fiction. Dukic will also be pulling double duty on the movie, as he also created the screenplay, an adaptation of Israeli writer Etgar Keret's short story.
Weisz and the rest of the cast will be on set in just a few months, but those excited for the film in the interim can soon get a taste of Dukic's next project, American Dream, a psychological neo-noir thriller that has entered the post-production stage.
Weisz fans can also look forward to her upcoming untitled movie about James Miranda Barry, which is underway for 2018. In the movie, Weisz is set to play Barry, who lived as a male in order to obtain entrance in the field of healing, which was the only way to achieve the desired role of a physician. It looks like the talented Weisz will continue to offer up plenty of substantial roles in the next few years!