A correct understanding of how your property is classified is an important part of an effective estate plan. The term property includes not only real estate but all assets (movable and immovable). Assuming property will be classified as separate when, in actuality, it is community property, or assuming property will automatically transfer by joint tenancy can cause havoc in an estate plan. The following information is from John's book, Louisiana Retirement and Estate Planning. To order a copy of his book, click here.
An example of how misconceptions of property ownership may cause problems is illustrated in the following hypothetical: Boudreaux and Clotile were married and had two children. Boudreaux inherited a large amount of rental properties from his parents that remained his separate property. Each month the rental income proceeds were deposited into a separate savings account that he left to his daughter in his will along with the rental properties he inherited. Clotile had several large CDs in her name which were acquired during their marriage. Their son was also named on the account, but none of the funds in the CDs were put into the account by their son. Upon Boudreaux's death, the rental properties will belong to their daughter according to Boudreaux's will, but only one-half of the rental income savings account will belong to their daughter. The rental properties are Boudreaux's separate property, and he may leave all of it to his daughter. The rental payments from this separate property, is community property. One half of the rental payment account belongs to Clotile. Boudreaux should have filed a Declaration of Separateness to classify the rental payments as separate property. Only then could all of the rental payments savings account be left to his daughter. Clotile died without a will two years after Boudreaux's death. Upon Clotile's death, the CDs with her and her son's name on the registration will not automatically transfer to him. Her son did not contribute any of the funds to the account. Merely placing his name on the account does not transfer ownership. The CDs will be transferred according to the intestacy laws of Louisiana and will be split between their son and daughter.
The previous example describes two very common property ownership misconceptions in Louisiana namely: income from separate property is community property and adding a name to a CD or other account does not change or transfer ownership. These problems can be easily avoided with proper planning, and with a correct understanding of property ownership law in Louisiana.
In Louisiana, property in possession of a spouse during a community regime is presumed to be community property. Each spouse owns an undivided one-half interest in the community property. The community regime is in effect during marriage unless altered by marriage contract (pre-nuptial agreement). Spouses who move to Louisiana may opt out of the default community property rules without the court's approval if elected within one year of moving to Louisiana. After one year elapses, spouses who elect to opt out of the community property regime must petition the court for approval.
Property acquired during the existence of the community regime through the effort, skill or industry of either spouse. Thus wages, earnings or other compensation earned during marriage is community property.
Property acquired with community assets.
Property acquired with both community and separate property, unless the community property is inconsequential in comparison. Because there is a presumption that all property acquired during the community regime is community property, the person claiming the property is separate property bears the burden of proving the property is separate. Determining if the community property used to purchase the asset was "inconsequential" in comparison to the separate property depends on the facts of a given situation. If the property is community, the spouse whose separate funds were used to acquire the community assets would be entitled to reimbursement for the value of the separate property upon the termination of the community. Property donated to both spouses jointly is community property.
Natural and civil fruits of community property. For example, dividends, interest, mineral royalties, rents and other "fruits" derived from community property are community property.
Fruits and revenues of separate property. Rental income, dividends, interest income, and royalty payments from separate rental property are community property absent a recorded declaration of separateness.
Damages awarded for loss or injury to community property.
All other property not classified as separate property.
Separate property brought into Louisiana by a married couple remains separate property when the couple moves to Louisiana; however, the property is presumed to be community property. The spouse claiming that the property is separate property bears the burden of proving the property is separate property. Immovable property located in Louisiana is governed by Louisiana community property law regardless of the acquiring party's domicile.
The fruits and products of separate property are community property; however, the owner of the separate property may execute a declaration of separateness reserving such fruits and products as separate property. For immovable property, the declaration must be filed in the parish of the immovable property's locale. For movable property, the declaration must be filed in the parish of residence. Without reserving fruits and products (rents, interest, dividends, etc.) of separate property as separate, heirs with a claim to a portion of the community property have a claim to a portion of these fruits and products.
Further confusion arises when spouses donate property to each other. When a spouse donates community property to the other spouse (making the property the separate property of the donee spouse), the fruits and products are the separate property of the donee (receiving) spouse. When a spouse donates separate property to the other spouse (making it community property), the fruits and products will be community property. A declaration of separateness is required to reserve the fruits and products as separate property.
Community property receives a step-up in basis for the surviving spouse upon the death of the first spouse. For example, Boudreaux and Clotile own a tract of land worth $100,000 with a cost basis of $10,000. If, upon Boudreaux's death the land is presumed to be community property, half of the value of property is included in Boudreaux's estate; however, the entire tract of land receives a step up in basis to the value of the land on the date of Boudreaux's death. The land may now be sold by Clotile without paying capital gain taxes on the land due to the step up in basis to fair market value. If the property were the separate property of Clotile, there would be no step up in basis upon Boudreaux's death and the sale would cause a capital gain of $90,000.
Property acquired by a spouse prior to the start of a community regime. All property owned prior to a community regime is separate property, unless the spouse converts the property to community property.
Property acquired by a spouse with separate property.
Property acquired with separate and community property when the value of the community property is "inconsequential" in comparison to the separate property. The non-owner spouse is entitled to reimbursement for one-half of the value of the community property used to acquire the separate property.
Property acquired by a spouse by donation or inheritance to her individually.
Property acquired by a spouse as a result of a voluntary partition of the community during the community's existence.
Separate property may be converted to community property by donation between the spouses. Likewise, community property may be converted to separate property by donation of a spouse's community half to the other spouse. No gift taxes result due to the unlimited marital deduction. This strategy may be used to help equalize the value of each spouse's estate to ensure that the lifetime federal estate tax exemption is not wasted if the first spouse to die has too few assets to utilize their entire exemption.
Many people have the belief that if community property and separate property are commingled or mixed into one account, all of the separate property is converted to community property. The mere commingling of separate property and community property does not automatically convert separate property into community property. For example, commingling separate funds with a checking account containing community funds does not automatically convert the separate funds into community property. However, the spouse claiming that the property is separate must rebut the presumption that the funds are community property with "strict, clear, positive and legally certain" evidence. Clear documentation tracking the source of funds as separate property would provide such evidence.
For example, if Thibodaux deposits inherited investments into a community property account owned by him and his wife, Marie, the presumption is that the entire account is community property. If Thibodaux can document with sufficient proof which assets are his separate property, he (or his separate property heirs) can prove these assets are Thibodaux's separate property. Account statements clearly showing the deposits of the investment funds into the account should provide sufficient proof. To avoid having to prove the assets are separate property, Thibodaux should place the assets into a separate account registered solely in his name.
Although dividends and interest of separate property are community property, capital appreciation of separate property is generally not community property. Thus the increase in value of a separate property stock investment is separate property, but dividends from this investment are community property unless a declaration of separateness is filed.
It is important to know how your property is classified. A bequest in a will leaving half of the testator's separate property to a child or all of the community property to the surviving spouse may cause unnecessary problems if there is a dispute over whether certain property of the testator is classified as community or separate. Proper planning and documentation of the status of assets is essential to ensure a smooth transfer of assets from your estate.
A third type of property ownership is recognized in Louisiana, namely, tenancy in common. Louisiana law allows two or more individuals to own property "in indivision", with each having undivided fractional shares. Co-ownership occurs when two or more people own the same thing. Unless proven otherwise, there is a presumption that the co-owners have equal shares of the co-owned property; however, co-ownership may be split amongst the owners in numerous fractional share combinations: 60/40, 75/25, 99/1, 20/30/50, etc.
Each co-owner may transfer, lease or burden with usufruct her share of the property held as tenants in common. The consent of all co-owners is required to transfer, encumber or lease the entire co-owned property.
The consideration furnished test looks to the property that each "owner" contributed. For example, if a parent and child each contribute $5,000 to open a bank or investment account, each will have a 50% ownership interest in the account. If the parent dies, 50% of the account value at the date of death (assuming no withdrawals or additional contributions) will be included in the parent's probate estate and gross estate. If the parent contributes $7,000 and the child contributes $3,000 to open the account, the parent will have a 70% ownership interest and the child a 30% ownership interest. If the parent dies, 70% of the account value at the date of death will be included in the parent's probate estate and gross estate. The most common example is where the parent contributes 100% of the account value and the child contributes nothing. In this case, 100% of the account value at the date of death is included in the parent's probate estate and gross estate. None of the account would transfer to the child unless the child inherits by will or through intestacy.
If two or more people inherit the same tract of real estate and neither is given a specific section of land, it is owned in indivision as co-owners. A co-owner may decide to end their co-ownership in several ways. They may agree to sell the entire tract and split the proceeds or to be bought out by other co-owners. In addition, one co-owner may decide to sell his or her undivided interest to a third party. Another option is a partition "in kind" whereby the property is divided into separate tracts of land where each co-owner will be the sole owner of their respective tract of land. If all of the co-owners agree as to how to partition the property, it may be divided without judicial intervention. If they are unable to agree, a co-owner may petition the court to determine how to partition the property. If the property cannot be split into parcels of equal value, the property may be sold by sheriff sale (partition by licitation).
Property that is inherited by two or more people is owned in co-ownership. There can be problems if the heirs cannot agree on how the property is to be used or if they cannot agree on how to split the property. This type of situation can easily lead to judicial intervention through a sheriff's sale or partition-in-kind with the court determining how to split the property.
Upon the death of one or more co-owners, the undivided share of the deceased co-owner will be transferred to the decedent's heirs by will or intestacy. The surviving co-owners do not automatically become the owners of the deceased co-owner's share, unless they inherit by will or through intestacy.
Louisiana does not recognize Joint Tenancy With Rights of Survivorship (JTWOS); therefore, property titled JTWOS will remain community property or owned as tenants in common. A common pitfall is illustrated in the following example involving out of state immovable property, typically real estate. Immovable property is governed by the laws of the state in which it is located. Care must be taken when titling property located out of Louisiana to ensure the property title does not frustrate your estate plan. For example: a brother and sister own immovable property in Mississippi as JTWOS. The brother's will bequeaths to his children his one-half interest in this property after his death. The brother predeceases the sister. The sister is now the full owner of this immovable property and the brother's children receive none of the property he owned as JTWOS in Mississippi. Because the immovable was located in Mississippi which recognizes JTWOS, the surviving joint tenant, the sister, is the full owner of the property after the brother's death regardless of the provisions in the brother's will.
Contact lawyer John E. Sirois in Metairie at 985-580-2520 if you have questions about community property or planning your estate. Click on the Estate Planning Checklist to begin planning your estate. You may also e-mail him for a consultation.


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Hands On a Hardbody: The Documentary
Documentary 1998 1 hr 37 min iTunes
In S.R. Bindler's 1997 cult classic, Hands On a Hardbody, two-dozen small-town Texans compete for a brand-new "hardbody" pickup truck at a local car dealership. The event is a contest of endurance and sleep-deprivation. Whoever can remain standing the longest with one hand on the truck will get to drive it home. Capturing several days of lunacy, laughter, struggle and heartbreak, Hands On a Hardbody is more than a documentary about winning a truck. It is a remarkable study of competition, camaraderie, faith and determination. It is the ultimate human drama. Available for the first time in ten years, this new edition of Hands On a Hardbody has been digitally re-mastered from the original Hi8 analog tapes. Hands On a Hardbody continues to be a cult hit a decade after its initial release. It won AFI's Best Documentary Award, numerous film festival and critics' honors and was a smash hit to sold-out audiences from coast to coast during its theatrical run.
Starring David Sullivan, Janis Curtis, J.C. Crum
Director S.R. Bindler
David Sullivan
Contest Judge
Janis Curtis
Herself (contestant)
J.C. Crum
Himself (Jack Long Nissan)
Greg Cox
Himself (contestant)
Sid Allen
Himself (Longview Partnership)
Average 7.5
HOHB LLC
© 2013 HOHB LLC.
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"Primetime" Paul Roberts...Take a look at Greatness!
Won National Championship at first PPV in only 7 professional matches; World Championship in only 11.
Defeated Hall of Fame wrestler Mike "DDay" Carnage in first World Title defense.
Match with Carnage was voted Match of the Year by peers.
Recruited and created the group WCF: Revolution to feud with the DSW roster.
Forfeited WCF World Title to become an active member of WCF Management as Vice President of Opperations.
Won the UWF Universal Championship in only four matches.
Won the ASW X-Championship in only three matches, in ASW's first ever Ultimate X match.
The Official Web site of the greatest of all time!
Just so no one is confused I am the one on the right. The beautiful girl in the picture is none other than my bride Bridget. We were high school sweethearts since sophomore year and we got married September 4th 2004 after we both graduated from high school. But I want to get to the mind behind "Primetime".
Born on June 28th 1986, as Paul Robert Huber in Tulsa Oklahoma, grew up most of my years in Ellendale, ND graduated and got married in 2004, I'm happily married with three girls, Aundrea, Trinity, and Zequira. I got into fedding near the end of my high school career, when I was introduced to it by my brother and close friend Trev.
"Primetime" Paul Roberts was not the first character that I used although he was the first I ever actually was officially booked as. My first character was the underachieving Apple Bob. A character spawned from the then major push of the WWE star Eugene. I however designed Apple Bob to be an underachieving star who did not need to be successful to work; seeing as how my role-playing skills were that of an early novice. However, I dropped out of the NEWF before Apple Bob was ever booked in a match because of disputes with the owner over how the character was to be handled.
From there I backed away from E-feding for a while; not being able to find a fed that suited me very well. Eventually I came across the E-Fed Global Championship Wrestling (GCW), but I had since stepped away from the Apple Bob character deciding that I wanted to build a legacy in E-Feding. "Primetime" Paul Roberts was created to be a character more based towards me to give me something to build on. However like the NEWF before it I left the GCW before ever being officially booked in a match, due to moving complications that would leave me without internet for a while. When I returned to the GCW I found it closed.
"Primetime" Paul Roberts got his official start in the WCF, the World Championship Federation, and he became my release from real world problems and temporary escape from life that we all need. His cocky and arrogant attitude was originally started as a mix of Triple H, JBL, and Randy Orton, but eventually spawned an attitude all his own and began to pull away from the characters he was patterned after and became his own character.
Originally Paul Roberts was more of a comic relief character, as I have always used him in real time, but regardless of the fact that Roberts had no proven track record in wrestling, heck he had never even wrestled a match. Nevertheless, he was still as cocky and arrogant as if he had been undefeated for years and years. After a few victories it became apparent to me that if "Primetime" continued to be successful he could be a major influence regardless of the fed I was in. So as Roberts grew as a character I grew as a writer and the role plays got better right along with him. Adding more color, a banner, and eventually his own site, as opposed to just posting in red on the role play boards.
I am a true believer that your role-plays are the life of your character so your role-plays should reflect who and what your character is. So the bigger and better Roberts became so did the role-plays he was included in. So when looking in the role-play archive all of the role-plays from his run as WCF National and World Champion can not be found there as I did not start archiving the role-plays until after the WCF has hit its first hiatus.
Eventually the character became a mix of all pieces of me, every bit a part of me as the real me. He just happens to be a little over exaggerated and over the top, but that is what wrestling is right? Now don't get me wrong I don't walk around talking about how great I am or everything I have accomplished. In fact I am probably the exact opposite of that which is why it flows so well as "Primetime" because it gives me that outlet to do things that I normally would not do in real life. But rest assured anything that I say as "Primetime" is strictly in character and is by no means how I feel as a handler toward anyone. This has been a problem in the past, I can recall a few times where handlers thought I was taking Out of Character pot shots at there characters in role-plays, when all I was doing was merely trying to be the best heel I could possibly be.
Which brings me to my next point, some people would argue that "Primetime" Paul Roberts is a heel and not a neutral character as I always say he is when joining a fed. I would argue that Roberts' attitude does not change at all no matter who he is facing, if he is facing the most beloved character in the fed then yes he would come off as very heel. But think about it this way, if the most hated and cocky character in your fed who had been dominated everyone for a long time was about to face "Primetime" Paul Roberts, and I came out talking about how this guy was not even in my league and how I am going to beat him from pillar to post in our match would you not cheer for "Primetime" to beat the hated heel? I know I would.
I love the character "Primetime" Paul Roberts and if I have it my way his legacy is just beginning.
For those of you who are interested in knowing more about me, here is the link to my Facebook Page.


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\section*{Supplemental Material}
In the supplemental materia, in order to see clearly the localization properties of the in-gap boundary states, we display their density distributions for systems with different $\lambda$. The distributions are calculated via $n_i=\langle \psi_{bs}|\hat{n}_i|\psi_{bs}\rangle$ with $\hat{n}_i=\hat{c}_i^{\dagger}\hat{c}_i$ the number operator and $\psi_{bs}$ the eigenvector of the boundary state. Since the two degenerate boundary states are related by the symmetry protecting the topological phase, only one of them is shown. The distribution of the boundary state at $1/3$ filling and $\phi=0$ corresponding to the one in Fig.\ref{fig1}(e) with $\lambda=0.6$ is shown in Sfig.1. Its distribution localizes near the boundaries with a tail extending into the bulk, whose extent depends on the bulk gap. As a comparison, we also study the case of $\lambda=0.3$ with a smaller gap. Since the bulk gap is smaller, the boundary state becomes less localized. The situations are the same for the boundary states of the $T=4$ case at $1/4$ and $1/2$ fillings. The case at $1/4$ filling with the same parameters as those of $T=3$ case is shown in Sfig.1 (b). Compared to the $T=3$ case at $1/3$ filling, since the bulk gaps only have small difference, the localizations are similar though the details differ. At $1/2$ filling and with the parameters used in Fig.\ref{fig1}(f), the in-gap states also distribute near the boundaries and more components extend into the bulk when the bulk gap becomes smaller [see Sfig.1 (c)]. The results for the model with periodically modulated potentials are similar and are not shown here and thereafter.

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering \includegraphics[width=8.5cm]{sfig1.pdf} \caption{Sfig.1: (Color online) The distribution of the boundary state: (a) $T=3$ at $1/3$ filling; (b) $T=4$ at $1/4$ filling; (c) $T=4$ at $1/2$ filling. The size of the open chain is $L=60$.}
\label{sfig1}
\end{figure}

In the main text the total size $L$ is taken as $L=NT$ with $N$ the number of unit cells. One can also take the lattice size as $L=NT+q$ with $q=1,...,T-1$. On an open chain with the size $L=NT+q$, there appear a pair of degenerate boundary states at $\varphi=-\frac{q\pi}{T}$ for $1/T$ and $(T-1)/T$ fillings, when the hopping amplitudes $t_{j,j+1}$ are inversion symmetric and the 1D topological phase protected by the inversion symmetry is realized. Though the system is lack of the periodicity, it can be viewed as a supercell of an infinite system and the Berry phase is defined using the twisted boundary phase: $\gamma=\oint i\langle \psi_{\theta}|\frac{d}{d\theta}|\psi_{\theta}\rangle$, where $\theta$ is the twisted boundary phase which takes values from $0$ to $2\pi$ and $\psi_{\theta}$ is the corresponding ground-state wave function.

In Sfig.2, we show the results of the $T=3$ case with the parameters used in Fig.\ref{fig1} (e) except that the length is $L=61$ $(q=1)$.
The degenerate boundary states appear at $\varphi=-\pi/3$, at which the hopping amplitudes are inversion symmetric and the Berry phase defined using the twisted boundary phase has the nontrivial value $\pi$. The in-gap state, which is due to the nontrivial topological property, is localized near the boundaries. The results of $q=2$ are similar.

We also show the results of the $T=4$ case with the parameters used in Fig.\ref{fig1} (f) except the length of the system. We consider two typical lengthes, i.e., $L=61$ $(q=1)$ and $L=62$ $(q=2)$. The results at $1/4$ and $3/4$ fillings are similar with those of the $T=3$ case. The chiral symmetry is broken (or not) when the length is odd (or even). The topological phases protected by the chiral symmetry at half filling remain on chains with even number of sites [see Sfig.3(b)] and the in-gap states distribute near the boundaries [see Sfig.3(d)]. It is noted in Sfig.3(a) that there appears a in-gap state on the $L=61$ chain. However it is not degenerate due to the breaking of the chiral symmetry for the odd lattice.

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering \includegraphics[width=8.5cm]{sfig2.pdf} \caption{Sfig.2: (Color online) (a) The energy spectrum on an open chain with the period $T=3$ and the length $L=61$. (b) The hopping amplitudes at inversion symmetric point $\varphi=-\pi/3$. (c) The Berry phase corresponding to the above figure at $1/3$ filling. (d) The distribution of the boundary state denoted by the red arrow in (a). The parameter $\lambda=0.6$, which is the same as the one used in Fig.1(e).}
\label{sfig2}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering \includegraphics[width=8.5cm]{sfig3.pdf} \caption{Sfig.3: (Color online) The energy spectrum on an open chain with the period $T=4$ and the length (a) $L=61$; (b) $L=62$. (c) and (d): the distribution of the boundary state denoted by the red arrow in the corresponding above figure. The parameter $\lambda=3$, which is the same as the one used in Fig.1(f).}
\label{sfig3}
\end{figure}

In Eq.(\ref{eq2}) of the main text, the Hamiltonian in the momentum space of the $T=4$ system is given. It is derived in the basis $(\hat{c}_{1,k},\hat{c}_{2,k},\hat{c}_{3,k},\hat{c}_{4,k})^{T}$ and is the following $4\times 4$ matrix:
\begin{eqnarray*}\label{mrt}
\hat{H}_1(k)=\left(
  \begin{array}{cccc}
    0 & t_1 & 0 & t_4 e^{-i k} \\
    t_1 & 0 & t_2 & 0 \\
    0 & t_2 & 0 & t_3 \\
    t_4 e^{i k} & 0 & t_3 & 0 \\
  \end{array}
\right)
\end{eqnarray*}
In terms of the Dirac matrices, which are the Kronecker product of two Pauli matrices, it can be wrote compactly as the one in Eq.(\ref{eq2}). The derivation of Eq.(\ref{eq4}) is similar.
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HomeNewsOrganising a student party? Give it a theme!
Do you want to organise a student party this year together with your student association? Then of course you want this to be a success with every student. You may have spent weeks working on a theme, designing flyers and posters and looking for a location. It can definitely build stress, especially since you also have to balance the event planning with your studies.
It's fun to celebrate your hard work and studies with a great student party. But how do you organise this year's best party that everyone talking? We'll give you some ideas.
A student party is always better with a theme to get everybody involved and in the mood for a great time. There are many themes that fit perfectly with a student party, such as Oktoberfest, an Après ski party, or a Hippie party.
A party with the Oktoberfest theme reflects the true German beer festival and celebrates German culture. During this party the best schlagerhits can be played which will lead to a huge sing-a-long party amongst guests. This undoubtedly leads to a full dance floor and a great time. The Oktoberfest party is an evening-filling program with four hours of non-stop entertainment and an interactive music quiz. Which student will be the music expert? The evening is perfected by an all-round entertainer and a DJ.
Après-ski party: Imagine yourself in a real après-ski hut!
During an Après ski party, everyone goes out and expects a great party. It's a successful show where you imagine yourself in an Austrian or Swiss après ski hut. It'll feel like you have just stepped out of your skis and are going to enjoy the night with all of your friends. All known hits come on, bringing everybody together. Of course, mulled wine and snaps are also served at the party. The party location will be transformed into great ski decor. The après-ski party consists of a singer-entertainer and a DJ.
Everyone goes crazy at a Hippie Party. The flower power theme will suit everybody for your student party, bringing out all of the fun. During the Hippie Party you will hear the best flower power hits from then and now, from the Flowerpot Men to the Vengaboys. At the party there is an all-round singer and a DJ who also plays requests. The location will be transformed into a true hippie club. By having a true hippie dress code, everyone can be in a flower power outfit and enjoy the cheerful hippie hits throughout the night!
Still looking for a DJ?
Have you already thought of a theme? And has the location already been confirmed? But are you still looking for a DJ? Even then you are at the right place at Evenses. We have a wide range of well-known and local, upcoming DJs . Our DJs ensure that all of your fellow students are dancing and partying on the dance floor. Depending on the theme you can choose an all-round DJ, disco DJ, house DJ or nineties DJ. Do you want something more than just a DJ? Then book a DJ with a musician which can be special addition to your student party.
Would you prefer a band at your student party?
Would you prefer a band at the student party? Live bands can also fit in well with your theme. Evenses has a large number of bands in various music genres. A party band at your student party can leave an evening unforgettable. Check out our bands page or get in contact for our very own recommendations specifically for your event!


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An Evangelical Methodist Church of Believers
The EMC Doctrine
With a firm conviction that the large gulf which separates true historic and conservative Christianity from modernistic and liberal Christianity is an ever-widening chasm which can never be healed; the Evangelical Methodist came into being as a conservative, evangelical church, orthodox in belief, pre-millennial regarding the second coming, missionary in outlook, evangelistic in endeavor, cooperative in spirit, and Wesleyan in doctrine.
We accept and believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God. We receive it as the revealed will and way of God for our daily life.
We believe in the Godhead, the Holy Trinity, in which there are three Persons of one substance, power, and eternity – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
We believe in God the Father Almighty, revealed to mankind as an awesome God of Grace, love, might, mercy, justice and holiness.
We believe in Jesus Christ, who is both God and man; His virgin birth, His sinless life, His substitutionary and redeeming death, and His physical resurrection.
We believe in the Holy Spirit who illuminates the Word of God, reveals Christ to the world and empowers believers to serve God.
We believe each person must acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus Christ and be born again before he/she is a true Christian.
We believe in entire sanctification following regeneration, whereby the believer is cleansed from the pollution of sin, saved from its power, and enabled through grace, to love God with all his/her heart.
A Holy Life
We believe that every Christian is expected to live a holy life, one that is truly Christian.
We believe in two sacraments, Baptism and Holy Communion. The mode of baptism is left to the conscience of the individual.
We believe in the resurrection of all men to be judged and receive their due rewards; eternal life for the redeemed and eternal punishment for the unbelievers.
We believe in the local and universal church, which is the body of Christ on earth.
The Lord's Return
We believe in the blessed hope, the impending, literal return of Jesus Christ to receive His church unto Himself.
What's the Difference in EMC and UMC?
Many times in casual conversations we are asked, "What's the difference between the Evangelical Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church?" This question comes from the merely curious as well as those who are sincerely seeking to learn more about the EMC and want to know if we are "really" Methodist. History shows us that both denominations share roots in the 18th century English Methodist movement of John Wesley's day, as well as in the later U.S. Methodism of Francis Asbury, Thomas Coke and the tireless circuit riders of the 1800's. The "old fashioned" Methodism grew rapidly, largely because of its Bible based emphasis on "free will" and on individual personal responsibility before God for everyone. Camp meetings and missions' emphasis gave it a lively vitality and inspired adherents to share their faith to the lost of the whole world. Methodism was on the march and became a true worldwide divine blessing.
In the 20th century, things began to change. Slowly the revival fire that had driven the robust expansion of U. S. Methodism began to die out. Methodist leadership, literature and educational institutions became increasingly liberal and humanistic. The message being declared was no longer a consistent church-wide declaration of the infallible authority of the Bible nor of the deity of Christ, His virgin birth, sinless life, bodily resurrection and second coming. The imperative of a personal religious experience, including the "new birth" and "sanctification" [the spirit filled life], was quietly dropped as a requisite for church membership or even leadership. Methodism in the USA stagnated and no longer grew as a church.
In such a dismal spiritual climate the Evangelical Methodist Church, an authentic Methodist movement, was born in 1946. Most of our early leaders were from the Methodist Church and for their insistence that true Methodism be proclaimed; they paid with their pulpits, pensions and church property. The EMC preaches the Biblical imperatives of true Methodism, including the beliefs summarized above and more.
The Evangelical Methodist Church's distinctive includes a congregational and connectional system of church government, although hierarchical, affords a great degree of freedom for the local church. Each church sets its own budget, makes the final decision to call an EMC credentialed pastor from the recommendation(s) of the Conference Superintendent and operates its own local ministries free from any coercive hierarchical pressure. Churches are expected to participate and support missional priorities set by the General Conferences.
The denomination is hierarchical meaning we are connectional in government by a Discipline, which brings order to the function and vision of the local Evangelical Methodist Church and ministry of the clergy. Standards of professional ministry are carefully maintained and jealously guarded so that every EMC pastor or conference official can be counted on to believe and preach the timeless Bible based truths believed and lived out by Rev. John Wesley and early American Methodism. The heresy of liberalism and the unscriptural excesses and practices of spiritual phenomena in churches today are rejected in favor of a Bible-based view of God, man, sin and salvation. People who consider themselves true to historic Methodism and who find the gospel message central to life and eternity, who are tired of the Bible being relegated to second place in church life, who weary of a singular diet of social action issues, who believe in Jesus, His sinless birth and life, atoning death, literal resurrection and return, and who have a passion and heart for world evangelization and participation in the harvest will find a welcome home in their local Evangelical Methodist Church.
The words of our Methodist founder John Wesley reverberate into the 21st century and ring in the ears of the Evangelical Methodist Church:
"I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out."
John Wesley, Evangelist


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Magnificent Ms. Marvel #15 Review
Writer: Saladin Ahmed
Penciller: Minkyu Jung
Inker: Juan Vlasco
Colourist: Ian Herring
Ms. Marvel is back! And things are weird in Jersey City. Kamala's Law has made nobody happy, Dum Dum Dugan is actively hunting Ms. Marvel, and Kamala and Bruno have to Have A Talk.
Unpleasant times for our favourite polymorphic teen hero! But struggles for the protagonist often translate into delight for the reader, and that's largely the case here. Kamala's challenges make for fascinating reading.
Saladin Ahmed's script sketches an adroit portrait of a young woman in conflict. Her first day back at school includes intrusive press and a simmering argument with Zoe. Then she has to hash out her relationship status with Bruno.
When storm floods threaten Jersey City, Ms. Marvel has an excuse to suit up and help out. That, in turn, puts her on Dugan's radar and leads to a confrontation with his C.R.A.D.L.E. agents.
Mr. Ahmed's script does just as well with its antagonist as its protagonist. Dugan bookends the issue in the opening and closing scenes. The author paints him as an honourable man struggling to enforce a contentious law. To Dugan's credit, he eschews questionable methods of hunting down Ms. Marvel. One of his underlings suggests rounding up everyone who matches Ms. Marvel's demographic ("South Asian female, age 15 to 20") and Dugan shoots it down flat.
It's also great to see Jersey City bucking the usual trend of the Marvel universe and standing firmly behind its hero. Civilians on the street refuse to cooperate with Dugan and don't hesitate to label him a fascist.
This storyline is exceptionally timely, and Mr. Ahmed digs in deep, showing exactly how an urge for "law and order" can rapidly turn into witch-hunting and discrimination.
On the visual side, I'm sad to report that Minkyu Jung isn't firing on all cylinders in this issue. He brings his usual level of imagination and polish to the rescue and fight scenes, realistically portraying more new uses of Kamala's powers.
Things are rougher at the start of the book, though. Character proportions are questionable and there are too many regrettable panels.
Ian Herring does a capable job with the colours, but he may be succeeding to excess. The storm calls for a gloomy palette and Mr. Herring is all too good at conjuring up a dark mood.
These are dark days for Ms. Marvel, and in this issue, her art team manages to make her story look ugly. Unfortunately, this isn't entirely intentional and the results aren't entirely positive. But it's worth bearing in mind that the action scenes are excellent. Mr. Jung also does a sterling job with facial closeups, shining a light on the feelings of the characters.
On balance, though, this is still a fun issue to read. The deep ideas and strong characterization in the script shine through any artistic foibles. Kamala's story is still an incredibly engaging one, even though things are looking dark for the character at the moment.
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//  License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations.
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using System;

namespace GSF.IO.Checksums
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Generates an Adler-32 checksum calculation.
    /// </summary>
    public sealed class Adler32
    {
        #region [ Members ]

        // Constants
        private const uint AdlerMod = 65521u;
        private const int MaxLoops = 5552;

        // Fields
        private uint m_a;
        private uint m_b;

        private int m_loopCount;

        #endregion

        #region [ Constructors ]

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new instance of the <see cref="Adler32"/> class.
        /// </summary>
        public Adler32()
        {
            Reset();
        }

        #endregion

        #region [ Properties ]

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the Adler-32 data checksum computed so far.
        /// </summary>
        public uint Value
        {
            get
            {
                ApplyMod();
                return m_a | (m_b << 16);
            }
            set
            {
                m_a = value & 0xFFFF;
                m_b = value >> 16;
                ApplyMod();
            }
        }

        #endregion

        #region [ Methods ]

        /// <summary>
        /// Resets the Adler-32 data checksum as if no update was ever called.
        /// </summary>
        public void Reset()
        {
            m_a = 1;
            m_b = 0;
            m_loopCount = 0;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Updates the checksum with the byte value.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value">The <see cref="byte"/> value to use for the update.</param>
        public void Update(byte value)
        {
            if (m_loopCount >= MaxLoops)
                ApplyMod();

            m_a += value;
            m_b += m_a;
            m_loopCount++;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Updates the checksum with the bytes taken from the array.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="buffer">buffer an array of bytes</param>
        public void Update(byte[] buffer)
        {
            Update(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Adds the byte array to the data checksum.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="buffer">The buffer which contains the data</param>
        /// <param name="offset">The offset in the buffer where the data starts</param>
        /// <param name="count">The number of data bytes to update the checksum with.</param>
        public void Update(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
        {
            int remainingLoops;
            int numLoops;
            int i = 0;

            while (i < count)
            {
                if (m_loopCount >= MaxLoops)
                    ApplyMod();

                remainingLoops = MaxLoops - m_loopCount;
                numLoops = Math.Min(remainingLoops, count - i);

                for (int loopCtr = 0; loopCtr < numLoops; loopCtr++)
                {
                    m_a += buffer[offset + i];
                    m_b += m_a;
                    i++;
                }

                m_loopCount += numLoops;
            }
        }

        // Applies the modulus operation
        // to the checksum components.
        private void ApplyMod()
        {
            m_a %= AdlerMod;
            m_b %= AdlerMod;
            m_loopCount = 0;
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

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"The word contra means 'against or in opposition to' and so is conflictual by definition," explains George Brodie, co-founder of Contra Journal, a new publication exploring the interactions between visual culture and conflict. With strong social and political motivations, it informs on the subject in a new fashion, beyond traditional newspaper headlines or academic essays.
Contra was born out of a conversation between George and co-founder Ben Bohm-Duchen back in 2015. Having both studied and written about representations of conflict extensively as part of their university degrees, they felt compelled to create accessible material (outside the world of academia) that reflected how important and engaging the topic of conflict is.
Three years later and the pair has built up a team of six, all based in London and working across the fields of publishing, museums, cooking and filmmaking. With content pulled from various corners of the creative world, Contra is a publication dedicated to "shining a light on the artists and voices that are not often seen or heard when engaging with conflict," in turn, creating something which considers an alternative narrative to that found in mainstream media.
In its first issue, Contra will thematically explore displacement. "Over the last few years, there has been a dramatic increase in images related to migration in the mainstream media as a result of what's commonly termed as 'the refugee crisis," explains George, "it's arguable that single images swayed policies and voters." Despite being a topic which initiates debate and engagement, there are few opportunities to consider the visual elements related to displacement outside of traditional media. In its debut issue, Contra is, therefore, able to support the effort to re-engage the public whilst widening the narrative, as the press moves on to other headlines.
Featuring a clean, clear and minimal design, Contra explores the subject of displacement through a plethora of voices and sources. "We did this by considering traditional mediums such as photojournalism and fine art, but we also looked to visual practitioners in fields such as architecture and dance, which have heavily explored this topic but may not be as easily accessed in everyday encounters with media," say Ben and George.
With an emphasis on the visual responses to current and past migration, the publication sports two covers – one shot by Seba Kurtis and the other by Harley Weir. A further selection of Harley's photos can be found within the journal's covers, providing an insight into the Calais Jungle through the homes of some of its residents. These visual responses manifest themselves beyond photography and imagery, however. In an interview with Akram Khan, Ben and George present a conversation on displacement, xenophobia and identity and how they have influenced the esteemed choreographer's work.
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As the Church today marks the beginning of Lent, Pope Francis noted that St. Paul does not merely advise or suggest being reconciled with God. Rather, he pleas for it.
God knows "that we must feel loved to do good," Francis added.
"The Apostle does not tell us to do something, but to allow ourselves to be reconciled by God, to permit Him to forgive us, with trust, because 'God is greater than our hearts,'" the Pontiff explained.
One is minimizing our sin and justifying it with an attitude of, I'm no worse than anyone else.
Another is being too ashamed to open the door: "In reality, shame is a good symptom, because it indicates that we want to detach ourselves from evil; however, it must never be transformed into dread or fear," the Pope cautioned.


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The completed mast will eventually be 125-feet tall.
Cables will be attached to the angled mast to support the bridge platform
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Leaning tower marks the spot of new L.A. River bridge
Atwater Village -- Construction crews on Friday installed an angled white tower in the L.A. River channel that will form a key element of the North Atwater Bridge.
The 60-foot-high tower -- referred to as a "mast" in this case -- stands atop a large concrete base and is located about a half-mile north of Los Feliz Boulevard, rising above the channel and visible to motorists on the nearby 5 Freeway.
Numerous metal cables will eventually be strung from the angled mast to support the 300-foot-long, cable-stayed bridge that will carry pedestrians, cyclists and equestrians over the L.A. River.
When the remaining section is installed, the mast will reach a height of 125-feet, said Mary Nemick with the city's Bureau of Engineering.
The $16 million bridge is expected to be completed by the end of the year, according to current estimates.
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Chuck Christian, VP of Technology & Engagement, Indiana Health Information Exchange
At Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE), Chuck Christian has found what could possibly be a dream situation. Not just because he gets to catch up with the many "old friends" he made while serving as CIO at Good Samaritan for 20-plus years, but also because he's at an organization with an outsourced data center — something he's been looking for throughout his career. In this installment of our quarterly chat, Christian talks about what he hopes to bring to the table as VP of technology and engagement, how IHIE is working to achieve a long-term plan without losing sight of its main priority, what he thinks of the 21st Century Cures Act, and the importance of sharing best practices.
Tackling pop health — "There's really not a one size fits all."
IHIE's joint replacement program
Exchanging data with MHIN & HealthBridge
Illinois' foggy HIE landscape
Creating a patient-centered data home — "Healthcare happens regionally."
The Indy 500 care challenge
Heartland pilot — "We're going to stress-test the standards."
ONC grant funding
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What we've found in having a lot of conversations with our members around population health is there's really not a one size fits all. It depends on their care models, the size of the organization, and if they've decided to go at-risk for certain parts of their business.
You read about all these very complex and complicated ways of moving data around, but I think we've found that healthcare happens regionally. You're always going to have patients who are going to go to Mayo, Cleveland, or MD Anderson or some large health center — you're always going to have those patients, but that's not the norm. The norm is going to be around regional referral centers.
The treating physician only has the benefit of the information that the patient has with them in their head, or that their family member has. Wouldn't it be great if that physician had access to the information that's sitting wherever their HIE is?
That's why we call it the patient centered data home; the data actually follows the patient in a pretty simple manner and it uses all the standard protocols.
We really appreciate them giving us that funding to move this forward. It'll take some of the pressure off these very small, non-profit organizations.
Christian: That was one of the components of the strategic plan. The other one was around population health. We have several ACOs in the area that we are working with and several clinically integrated networks as well where we're helping them manage their patient population. They're responsible for the care of that patient if they're in one of the Medicare/Medicaid advantage plans, so they need to know pretty quickly where that patient is getting service — particularly if the patient is getting care outside of their network — so they can bring them back in and control those costs. And so what we've found in having a lot of conversations with our members around this thing called population health is there's really not a one size fits all. It depends on their care models, the size of the organization, and if they've decided to go at-risk for certain parts of their business. Many have, and I think others will as well.
The other topic we're having some conversations about is the joint replacement program, which actually started in April of this year. It was one of the CMMI demonstration projects. They call them voluntary, but you don't get a chance to volunteer — you're 'volun-told.' Indianapolis was one of those demonstration areas, and so if the patient has a joint replacement, that facility is responsible for all the patient's care and cost of their care, because they're going to get paid in a bundle for 90 days post-surgery, and so they need to know where that patient goes. We haven't done a lot of work with this because I think everybody's still trying to get up to speed on what is the impact? How are we going to do this? And then there's another one that's supposed to start after the first of the year around cardiac care; we're still waiting for details on that. So because we have access to the information of wherever that patient may have care within Indiana, we can provide good information to help manage that cost.
The third one was around what we call interstate HIE connectivity. We've had a great relationship with the other HIEs in this area. We have one in South Bend called MHIN, which is the Michiana HIE. We've been exchanging certain data with them for some time. We have another relationship with a health collaborative called HealthBridge, which is one of their business units. We've been exchanging lots of data with them between the Indiana and Ohio markets that they cover for some time now, and we'll continue to do that.
The other thing we wanted to do is, the hospital where I was in southwest Indiana is what I call a border facility. It was right on the border of Illinois, and we had quite a few patients who would come from Illinois for care at Good Samaritan. Unfortunately, because of the way the SHIECAP (State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program) grants were done, a lot of the money was spent on the exchange of data within the state's borders. The state was going to spend the money on itself, even though a percentage of that money was around exchanging data with a nearby state. But if you take Illinois, they don't have a state-wide health information exchange. They had one a Chicago metro HIE. It just shut down because their vendor, which is Sandlot Solutions, went bankrupt. And then ILHIEA, which was the Illinois HIE, could not find a sustainable business model, and so they went out of business as well. So there's nobody in Illinois for us to exchange data with. There is one over in Champaign-Urbana, but it's only about six facilities. It's very regionalized and it's a pretty good distance from the Indiana border, so it's rare that a patient would come to Indiana to do that.
And so we're working with SHIEC, which stands for the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative. It's about 50-some-odd HIEs in the country that are working together for common things and one of these things is what we've called the patient centered data home. The concept of this thing is so simple it's kind of silly. You read about all these very complex and complicated ways of moving data around, but I think we've found that healthcare happens regionally. You're always going to have patients who are going to go to Mayo or Cleveland or MD Anderson or some large health center because they have something that's extremely rare or critical or can't be diagnosed or defies diagnosis in the usual, customary way. You're always going to have those patients, but that's not really the norm. The norm is going to be around regional referral centers.
I'll use IU Health as an exchange. Since it was where they cured Lance Armstrong of testicular cancer, we have a lot of people that come up to IU Health from all over the state for their cancer treatment, to their transplant center, and for a variety of other things. Moving that data with the patients is not that difficult in the state of Indiana, but we have this little thing called The Indianapolis 500 every year. So we've got 400,000 to 500,000 of our closest friends descend upon Indianapolis for about 30 days. They're not all here for 30 days, but there's a large contingent of folks that come in with the racing teams, and then you have the fans on the carburetion days, and of course race day. Inevitably you're going to have one of those patients show up at an emergency room somewhere in Indianapolis. And so the ER physician or the treating physician only has the benefit of the information that the patient has with them in their head, or that their family member has. Wouldn't it be great if that physician had access to the information that's sitting wherever their HIE is? I'll use Michigan as an example. You have a patient that comes down from Michigan to Indianapolis and winds up in the emergency room of Eskenazi Health. So what we're doing with the patient centered data home is when we get the registration transaction into our HIE, we're going to look at it and notice that patient's zip code is in Michigan, and so we're going to fire off a transaction to Michigan and say, do you know this patient? They'll say yes, and then they'll send us back a clinical summary out of their repository. And then we'll present that to the ER physician, and all that happens in real time. So in theory, the physician could actually have that clinical summary before he ever saw the patient, and have a lot of information about the patient — past medical history, allergies, medications, and a whole bunch of other stuff depending on how it's crafted. And then when the patient's treatment is finished in Indianapolis, we'll bundle up a clinical summary of that visit and send it home so that when that patient gets back home, their attending physician will have access of this care down here. And so that's kind of why we call it the patient centered data home; the data actually follows the patient in a pretty simple manner and it uses all the standard protocols.
We've stood up what we call the Heartland pilot. We have seven different health information exchanges that run on five different technology platforms using national standards to transmit data and hopefully by the middle of December, if everything stays on schedule, three or four of those HIA's will have started to exchange data in that manner. And the reason the others aren't participating yet is they're changing out their technology or their vendor stacks right now for how they manage and the technology they use for their exchange.
The really interesting thing is SHIEC put together a grant application to ONC for this and two other pilots: one in Oklahoma and Arkansas, and the other in Utah, Arizona, and Colorado. The one in Oklahoma is using the same technology, and the one in Utah, Arizona, and Colorado are all using the same technology. The Heartland project is using different technology, so we're going to stress-test the standards a little bit more than the others are. And so ONC actually awarded Heartland a grant. It wasn't a whole lot of money, but it sure beats nothing, and we really appreciate them giving us that funding to move this forward. It'll take some of the pressure off these very small, non-profit organizations. ONC is also very interested in what we're going to be able to discover in this pilot project that we're going to kick off here very shortly.
So those are the three tenants of our strategic plan, but the other thing is we continue to have conversations with our members. They're going to national conferences; they're smart people and they're coming up with really great ways of utilizing the technology.
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This was the result of my personal reading this morning. A little different but something for you to consider.
What prepares me to be ready for every good work? The next verse tells me to flee youthful lusts and to follow after righteousness, faith, love and peace.
Looking for Christ's second coming prepares me to be ready.
A Christ focus, dying to the flesh makes me ready.
Submitting constantly to Christ's lordship makes me ready.
Fighting the good fight of faith, 2 Timothy 4:7 makes me ready.
The greatest challenge in this life to always being ready for every good work is the constant temptation to sins of the flesh, eyes, and mind. I really need to keep before me that God, the God of heaven and earth, the Savior of my life, the indwelling Holy Spirit, wants me to always be ready for His leading, His opportunity, His immediate placement of me into a situation of doing a good work for Him and His kingdom. If my focus is wrong, if sin has led me astray, if I am at all distracted, then I am not ready for every good work.
While being busy for God, I cannot say that I have always been ready for every good work that He has placed before me. From this point on, I want to follow this admonition of Paul to Timothy and I want to be ready for every good work that God has for me. This is not about what I might get to do so I can become someone for my pride has also caused me not to be ready at times. No, this is about being ready to quietly do what God places before me as His good work.
Thank you for your prayers for my trip. The memorial service went well and I was glad to be able to support my friend and his family. Death is always a reminder that one day all of us will succumb to it. It is a reminder that I never want to be far from as it keeps my focus where it needs to be, that is, on the eternal.
This entry was posted in Devotionals and tagged 2 Timothy.
1Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified, just as it is with you, 2 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for not all have faith.
3 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
Have you noticed how often Paul ask for and prays for the spread of the gospel? Here he prays that the word of the Lord may swiftly run to the glory of God. I have read about times when the Word of God seemed to run through families and towns bringing conviction of sin and revival of salvations. In my childhood, the church my dad pastored had a season of time when the good news of the gospel seemed to be running through it with people being saved every week and baptisms happening often. What a great time that was and through it God grew a great church with fruit being brought forth even to this day.
Will you pray with me that in 2017 we would see the word of the Lord run swiftly in Naperville and Aurora and Warrenville and Lisle and Bolingbrook, and Downers Grove and Sugar Grove and more? We must present ourselves as clean vessels that God can sanctify and use as channels of His gospel. As we live lives to His glory God will use us to spread His gospel.
According to verse 3, we need God to establish us and to guard our hearts from the evil one. Satan is our enemy. Our own fleshly lusts and desires are our enemy. The world around us is our enemy. But the Lord is faithful and will guard us from the enemies of this life. In the meantime, I pray for those enemies of the gospel to be brought under conviction by the swiftly running gospel of Jesus Christ so that they may repent, be saved, and become my brothers and sisters forever.
I will be at Sunrise Assisted Living today at 10:30 for our weekly service there. If any of you would like to come and bring your children they will be well received by the residents there. The service last a half hour. It is located on Chicago Ave east of Washington Street, just before the fire department on the south side of the road.
I am going to Iowa tonight for a friend's dad's memorial service tomorrow. Tomorrow night will be our regular Wednesday night of prayer, Bible study, youth group and kids club.
This entry was posted in Devotionals and tagged 2 Thessalonians.
In the fullness of God's time, He sent forth His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. When God began the world His clock began to tick. Over the next four thousand years many events took place by the sovereign plan of God. He promised a son to Eve who would crush the serpent's head. He promised Noah that He would dwell in the tents of Shem, He promised Abraham that through him all of the nations of the world would be blessed, and God promised David that his throne would be established forever. In the fullness of time Jesus came and fulfilled all of the promises of God.
But why did Jesus come? We all know this and Paul makes it clear in Galatians 4:5. God sent His Son to redeem us from our sin, to redeem us who under the law were kept apart from God by the continual breaking of His holy law. Jesus came to redeem us! Before the Christmas week ends and before the decorations come down and before the Spirit of Christmas gives way to the regular actions and attitudes of life, remind all of the people you can that Jesus came to redeem us. We, unable to keep God's law, needed to redeemed from our sin. Jesus came to redeem us so that we could be adopted as sons into God's eternal family.
Yesterday was a wonderful Christmas Day in every way. Our service was filled with Scripture and song exalting the coming of Christ. The people read the Scriptures together. Our message was a reminder of why Christ came and that He is coming again. The world that wasn't ready for the first coming of Christ won't be ready for His second coming, but we who know Him are anxiously looking for the Savior's return.
Enjoy your week with the kids home from school.
6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
I don't believe in Ying-Yang. Ying-Yang is the idea that good and evil are equal, thus the equal fields of black and white in the symbol. I don't believe that good and evil in an equal state balance the universe because our good God is greater than our evil enemy, Satan. So much greater is God than Satan that God has told us how in His time Satan will be both fully exposed for who he deceptively is and he will be fully consumed by God's breath and fully destroyed by God's brightness.
But when King Jesus comes that mystery will be exposed in all of its deceptive evil when all of Satan's lying darkness will be exposed by the pure light of Jesus Christ. Nothing will be hidden and all mankind will understand the full truth from the full lie. Then, once Satan has been fully exposed he will be fully consumed and utterly destroyed. John tells us in Revelation 19 and 20 that Satan will be bound by God for a thousand years, released for a short time, and then cast into the eternal lake of fire where God has already condemned the anti-christ and his false prophet.
Don't you love telling people, "Merry Christmas!" When they hold the corporate line and tell me "Happy Holidays" I shoot back with a joyous and happy "Merry Christmas to you!" Pray with me that this Christmas the lines of Christmas songs and the truths of the incarnation will be used by the Holy Spirit to bring conviction of sin and repentance to salvation. Those around us are so lost and Christ is so able to save.
Why did God bring His Son through the line of King David?
To the Jews at the time of Jesus, genealogy was important. In this message we find that Jesus fit both the legal line of King David through Joseph, His adopted father, and the blood line of King David through Mary, His mother. All of this matters because one day King Jesus will reign on the throne of David and will do so forever. But today, King Jesus, who is the rightful king by birth, wants to reign on the throne of our hearts.
This entry was posted in Sermons and tagged Christmas.
1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
Before the Lord Jesus came the first time there was much written about it and so there was much anticipation at the wrong times. When He did come the people wanted a King instead of a Savior and so rejected Christ for not being what they wanted.
When Jesus ascended into heaven the angels told the followers that Jesus would come again in like manner as they saw Him go. He went in the clouds; He will come in the clouds. Those who saw Jesus ascend truly thought that He would return in their lifetimes. They anticipated His coming and they taught that He was coming. When Jesus did not come and some of them began to die off the teaching of the second coming became distorted. Some thought that Jesus had come and that they missed it. As you can imagine, this was a troubling teaching.
2000 years have now passed and the Lord still has not returned. In His longsuffering, God desires that more people receive His grace and be saved from their sin. So God waits. We are the ones who are to still anticipate Christ's return for indeed, He could come back even today. What a joy it would be that on the day we celebrate the Savior's first coming if He were return for His second coming. The true worshippers would be thrilled to see Him. Those living for themselves would not even know that the Savior, as King, had come. Let us be among those who are anticipating the return of the Lord Jesus. Let us be among those who are inviting others to anticipate His return with us. Let us be ready in every way so that when God's time has fully come and Christ comes again we will be more ready than the world was at the first coming.
We will enjoy our regular Wednesday evening prayer and Bible study tonight. We will have youth group and kids club. See you then.
Saturday night, Christmas Eve, we are doing something a little bit different. Instead of having a formal service at the church, Bobbi and I are inviting those who are free to come join us at our home for a time of singing and rejoicing in the Savior's birth and life. We will begin around 6:00.
Sunday morning we will have one service at 10:30 celebrating Christmas together in Christmas Day.
I am so grieved over the people who are suffering in Syria today. To watch an entire city reduced to rubble while its innocent inhabitants are trapped and suffering drives me to prayer. As an American, I wonder why our country has sat and watched this suffering happen without helping. Pray with me for people there to be saved both physically and spiritually.
Paul's desires for those whom he had led to Christ were very specific. Along with their salvation came a calling to fulfill the good pleasures of God's goodness and God's work of faith with power. We have seen a cheapening of salvation leading people to get saved without any consideration of how receiving Christ changes the whole life. In fact, I have never known a genuine Christian whose whole life did not change. I have known many who professed Christ but never showed real life change; their lack of life change eventually was the demonstration of the lack of Christ in their lives thus the lack of genuine salvation.
When God saves people God changes them and gives them a whole new purpose for life. Instead of living for one's own goals and dreams that new creature because of Christ within wants to walk worthy of the God who has saved them desiring to fulfill the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with His power. True conversion equals true change of life.
But Paul wasn't done yet. His thought continues into verse 12 telling us why we life differently: we live differently so that the name of our new Lord, Jesus Christ, may be glorified in us and us in Him according to the grace of God and the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. My friends, we do not live the Christian life to gain any points with God or with man. No, a thousand times no! God changes us so that He and His Son, the Lord Jesus, will be glorified in us. The Christian life is never about us, you see, it is all about God who works in us for His glory to show off His grace. For when others see the grace of God in us they glorify God.
If your salvation has changed you, embrace the change and thank God for it. Live the change so that others can and will see God's glory and grace in you. When they do, point them to the same Savior who has worked so mightily in you.
Many thanks to those who worked to present our Christmas program last Sunday morning. It was a blessed time together on a very cold morning. Our children were wonderful, as they always are. We rejoiced together in the coming of Christ through Mary and His humble birth as He was laid in the manger. Thanks to the youth who worked to prepare us two songs to exalt the Lord. It was a great day for our church.
Sunday night, nine of us went to Sunrise Assisted Living to sing for the residents there. What a joy it was to us to see the joy on these dear people's faces. We sang together, we talked about Christmas traditions, we rejoiced in our Savior's birth and His coming as our Lord. One woman cried as we sang, Oh Little Town of Bethlehem. All of us left quite fulfilled to have been tools of God's grace and love.


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15 September 2019 on Travel, Technology, Stationery, Gadgets, Books, News
Editorial: Juggling work part 2: Solutions 1.
Travel: Airport trains.
Technology: Bugatti Chiron breaks production speed barrier.
Stationery: Octaevo's A Year of Sun Agenda keeps you on track.
Gadgets & Gear: B-2 Dog Tag is the must have gadget.
Books & Writing: The Correspondent - Unbreaking News.
Misc.: Speaking of Bugatti...
NOTE: The next issue of PD: Cool Things will be released on September 29th.
EDITORIAL: Juggling work part 2: Solutions 1
How do you cope with multiple projects, deadlines and only 24 hours in a day? In part 2 PD discusses some solutions.
The first thing to remember is that you have to look after your health and find time for family and friends, otherwise things will not work out in the long term.
In his pioneering seminars Steven Covey spoke about "sharpening the saw", using the example of a lumbar jack who was struggling with a blunt saw. When asked why he does not sharpen the saw, he answered that he did not have time because he was too busy cutting wood. This holds true. If you do not get enough sleep, quiet time and do not look after your health your efficiency at work will plummet. We perform best when physically fit and rested. That is why top managers and entrepreneurs spend time at the gym and get adequate rest.
So, paradoxically, your first aim is to spend less time at work and to look after yourself before looking at the mountain of work that you have.
In part 3 PD will look at ways to help sort out your projects.
TRAVEL: Airport trains
When flying somewhere do you head straight out of the terminal to the taxi stand?
Apart from the cost, you can get stuck in peak hour traffic. Most airports are serviced by trains that take you quickly and quietly to the city centre. Check on line. Costs of trains are usually much cheaper than taking a taxi however some, like London, are pricey. The best airport train service has to be in Hong Kong, where you can check your bags in and collect boarding passes at the city's train station, and then arrive at the airport ready to fly. Most airport train services have websites so that you can plan your trip.
[Above image: Airport Authority Hong Kong]
TECHNOLOGY: Bugatti Chiron breaks production speed barrier
When Bugatti released its Veyron, it was a stunning car. Obviously not happy to rest on its laurels, Bugatti keeps pushing the technology envelope, now producing the first production car to exceed the magic 300 mph.
The Bugatti achieved a speed of 304.773 mph (approximately 490 km/h). This is not an easy feat, requiring more than just a powerful engine. For example, the tyres have to withstand great G-forces. At that speed they rotate at 4.100 times a minute. The car uses specially reinforced Michelin tyres, which were bench tested up to 511 km/h, and X-rayed to look for any problems. The track itself must be perfect and well prepared; special mats were used to remove all stone and grit. Any little thing can end in disaster at these speeds. Lastly, things such as wind, and air temperature and pressure are critical.
https://www.bugatti.com/chiron/
STATIONERY: Octaevo's A Year of Sun Agenda keeps you on track
PD has featured Octaevo before, the company from Barcelona which produces bright stationery inspired by the Mediterranean. As it is that time of year, you may like to consider a diary for the next year.
This agenda has PD's favoured vertical layout and is undated.
The advantage of an undated diary is that you can start at any time of year, and you can skip weeks that you do not need a diary for, such as when you are on holidays.
If yellow is too bright for you, the agenda also comes in blue and orange.
https://www.octaevo.com/shop/index.php/a-year-of-sun-agenda-yellow.html
GADGETS & GEAR: B-2 Dog Tag is the must have gadget
Bomber & Company has had amazing success, based on design flair and a focus on quality. The company's products include the B-2 Nano, the small but useful pocket knife, and its larger brother, the B-2 Blitz.
[Above: B-2 Nano]
Bomber & Company is back with the ultimate clandestine knife, the B-2 Dog Tag.
This has to be one of the most concealable knives available. The blade is separate to the handle/sheath. A butterfly mechanism unlocks the blade, which pulls out and is placed in reverse to create the knife.
The blade part can be stored separately for clandestine carry.
The knife measures only 3.7" (about 94mm) when fully assembled. The blade is 1" long (about 25.4 mm). The blade is made from 440 black stainless steel.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bomber/b-2-dog-tag-fully-concealed-nano-blade-pocket-knife
BOOKS & WRITING: The Correspondent - Unbreaking News
The Correspondent started as an alternative Dutch news site that was free from sensationalism and bias. It has been very successful, allowing the launch of an English language version.
Instead of feeding you sensational headlines about the latest hype or scare, we will provide you with smart coverage of structural, long term developments that shape the world around us.
You can find answers to all of your questions in the comprehensive FAQ page of The Correspondent's web page.
The Correspondent is free from ads, instead relying on an interesting subscription model - you pay what you think that you can afford; no matter what you pay, you will get the full service. Just remember that the folk bringing you the service rely on subscribers to fund it, so PD asks you to pay a fair price for your income.
You can sign up now. The news goes live on September 30th.
https://thecorrespondent.com/
Speaking of Bugatti, the company has just released its latest car, the Centodieci, which celebrates the 110th anniversary of Bugatti. This is a thoroughly modern car, but has its top speed limited to 236 mph.
https://www.bugatti.com/one-off/centodieci/
Now that you have done the prep work, in part 3 of Juggling Work PD finally gets to the nitty gritty of actually getting stuck into your projects.
And there will be...
CONTENTS Editorial: Juggling work part 3: Solutions 2. Travel: A touch of Lisbon. Technology: Land Rover finally replaces the…
CONTENTS Editorial: Juggling work part 1: is it magic? Travel: Slow train. Technology: No more blood pressure cuffs! Stationery:…


German: habitational name for someone from Gamme, near Hamburg, or from a Germanic personal name based on Old High German gaman 'joy', 'fun', 'game'. Compare Gammel.
Where is the Gamm family from?
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In 1880, Retail Grocer, Carpenter and Farmer were the top 3 reported jobs worked by Gamm. The most common Gamm occupation in the USA was Retail Grocer. 23% of Gamm's were Retail Grocers. A less common occupation for the Gamm family was Butcher.
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What is the average Gamm lifespan?
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your Gamm ancestors lived in harsh conditions. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family. The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. You can find birthdates, death dates, addresses and more.