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Vampire Academy Chapter 5
OR RATHER, THEY HAD BEEN Strigoi.A regiment of guardians had hunted them down and killed them.If rumors were true, Christian had witnessed it all when he was very young.
And although he wasn't Strigoi himself, some people thought he wasn't far off, with the way he always wore black and kept to himself.
Strigoi or not, I didn't trust him. He was a jerk, and I silently screamed at Lissa to get out of there – not that my screaming did much good. Stupid one-way bond.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
"Taking in the sights, of course. That chair with the tarp on it is particularly lovely this time of year. Over there, we have an old box full of the writings of the blessed and crazy St. Vladimir. And let's not forget that beautiful table with no legs in the corner."
"Whatever." She rolled her eyes and moved toward the door, wanting to leave, but he blocked her way.
"Well, what about you?" he taunted. "Why are you up here? Don't you have parties to go to or lives to destroy?"
Some of Lissa's old spark returned. "Wow, that's hilarious. Am I like a rite of passage now? Go and see if you can piss off Lissa to prove how cool you are? Some girl I don't even know yelled at me today, and now I've got to deal with you? What does it take to be left alone?"
"Oh. So that's why you're up here. For a pity party."
"This isn't a joke. I'm serious." I could tell Lissa was getting angry. It was trumping her earlier distress.
He shrugged and leaned casually against the sloping wall. "So am I. I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought the hats. What do you want to mope about first? How it's going to take you a whole day to be popular and loved again? How you'll have to wait a couple weeks before Hollister can ship out some new clothes? If you spring for rush shipping, it might not be so long."
"Let me leave," she said angrily, this time pushing him aside.
"Wait," he said, as she reached the door. The sarcasm disappeared from his voice. "What?um, what was it like?"
"What was what like?" she snapped.
"Being out there. Away from the Academy."
She hesitated for a moment before answering, caught off guard by what seemed like a genuine attempt at conversation. "It was great. No one knew who I was. I was just another face. Not Moroi. Not royal. Not anything." She looked down at the floor. "Everyone here thinks they know who I am."
"Yeah. It's kind of hard to outlive your past," he said bitterly.
It occurred to Lissa at that moment – and me to by default – just how hard it might be to be Christian. Most of the time, people treated him like he didn't exist. Like he was a ghost. They didn't talk to or about him. They just didn't notice him. The stigma of his parents' crime was too strong, casting its shadow onto the entire Ozera family.
Still, he'd pissed her off, and she wasn't about to feel sorry for him.
"Wait – is this your pity party now?"
He laughed, almost approvingly. "This room has been my pity party for a year now."
"Sorry," said Lissa snarkily. "I was coming here before I left. I've got a longer claim."
"Squatters' rights. Besides, I have to make sure I stay near the chapel as much as possible so people know I haven't gone Strigoi?yet." Again, the bitter tone rang out.
"I used to always see you at mass. Is that the only reason you go? To look good?" Strigoi couldn't enter holy ground. More of that sinning-against-the-world thing.
"Sure," he said. "Why else go? For the good of your soul?"
"Whatever," said Lissa, who clearly had a different opinion. "I'll leave you alone then."
"Wait," he said again. He didn't seem to want her to go. "I'll make you a deal. You can hang out here too if you tell me one thing."
"What?" She glanced back at him.
He leaned forward. "Of all the rumors I heard about you today – and believe me, I heard plenty, even if no one actually told them to me – there was one that didn't come up very much. They dissected everything else: why you left, what you did out there, why you came back, the specialization, what Rose said to Mia, blah, blah, blah. And in all of that, no one, no one ever questioned that stupid story that Rose told about there being all sorts of fringe humans who let you take blood."
She looked away, and I could feel her cheeks starting to burn. "It's not stupid. Or a story."
He laughed softly. "I've lived with humans. My aunt and I stayed away after my parents?died. It's not that easy to find blood." When she didn't answer, he laughed again. "It was Rose, wasn't it? She fed you."
A renewed fear shot through both her and me. No one at school could know about that. Kirova and the guardians on the scene knew, but they'd kept that knowledge to themselves.
"Well. If that's not friendship, I don't know what it is," he said.
"You can't tell anyone," she blurted out.
This was all we needed. As I'd just been reminded, feeders were vampire-bite addicts. We accepted that as part of life but still looked down on them for it. For anyone else – especially a dhampir – letting a Moroi take blood from you was almost, well, dirty. In fact, one of the kinkiest, practically pornographic things a dhampir could do was let a Moroi drink blood during sex.
Lissa and I hadn't had sex, of course, but we'd both known what others would think of me feeding her.
"Don't tell anyone," Lissa repeated.
He stuffed his hands in his coat pockets and sat down on one of the crates. "Who am I going to tell? Look, go grab the window seat. You can have it today and hang out for a while. If you're not still afraid of me."
She hesitated, studying him. He looked dark and surly, lips curled in a sort of I'm-such-a-rebel smirk.
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But he didn't look too dangerous. He didn't look Strigoi. Gingerly, she sat back down in the window seat, unconsciously rubbing her arms against the cold.
Christian watched her, and a moment later, the air warmed up considerably.
Lissa met Christian's eyes and smiled, surprised she'd never noticed how icy blue they were before. "You specialized in fire?"
He nodded and pulled up a broken chair. "Now we have luxury accommodations."
I snapped out of the vision.
"Rose? Rose?"
Blinking, I focused on Dimitri's face. He was leaning toward me, his hands gripping my shoulders. I'd stopped walking; we stood in the middle of the quad separating the upper school buildings.
"Are you all right?"
"I?yeah. I was?I was with Lissa?" I put a hand to my forehead. I'd never had such a long or clear experience like that. "I was in her head."
"Her?head?"
"Yeah. It's part of the bond." I didn't really feel like elaborating.
"Is she all right?"
"Yeah, she's?" I hesitated. Was she all right? Christian Ozera had just invited her to hang out with him. Not good. There was "coasting through the middle," and then there was turning to the dark side. But the feelings humming through our bond were no longer scared or upset. She was almost content, though still a little nervous. "She's not in danger," I finally said. I hoped.
"Can you keep going?"
The hard, stoic warrior I'd met earlier was gone – just for a moment – and he actually looked concerned. Truly concerned. Feeling his eyes on me like that made something flutter inside of me – which was stupid, of course. I had no reason to get all goofy, just because the man was too good-looking for his own good. After all, he was an antisocial god, according to Mason. One who was supposedly going to leave me in all sorts of pain.
"Yeah. I'm fine."
I went into the gym's dressing room and changed into the workout clothes someone had finally thought to give me after a day of practicing in jeans and a T-shirt. Gross. Lissa hanging out with Christian troubled me, but I shoved that thought away for later as my muscles informed me they did not want to go through any more exercise today.
So I suggested to Dimitri that maybe he should let me off this time.
He laughed, and I was pretty sure it was at me and not with me.
"Why is that funny?"
"Oh," he said, his smile dropping. "You were serious."
"Of course I was! Look, I've technically been awake for two days. Why do we have to start this training now? Let me go to bed," I whined. "It's just one hour."
He crossed his arms and looked down at me. His earlier concern was gone. He was all business now. Tough love. "How do you feel right now? After the training you've done so far?"
"I hurt like hell."
"You'll feel worse tomorrow."
"So, better to jump in now while you still feel?not as bad."
"What kind of logic is that?" I retorted.
But I didn't argue anymore as he led me into the weight room. He showed me the weights and reps he wanted me to do, then sprawled in a corner with a battered Western novel. Some god.
When I finished, he stood beside me and demonstrated a few cool-down stretches.
"How'd you end up as Lissa's guardian?" I asked. "You weren't here a few years ago. Were you even trained at this school?"
He didn't answer right away. I got the feeling he didn't talk about himself very often. "No. I attended the one in Siberia."
"Whoa. That's got to be the only place worse than Montana."
A glint of something – maybe amusement – sparked in his eyes, but he didn't acknowledge the joke. "After I graduated, I was a guardian for a Zeklos lord. He was killed recently." His smile dropped, his face grew dark. "They sent me here because they needed extras on campus. When the princess turned up, they assigned me to her, since I'd already be around. Not that it matters until she leaves campus."
I thought about what he'd said before. Some Strigoi killed the guy he was supposed to have been guarding? "Did this lord die on your watch?"
"No. He was with his other guardian. I was away."
He fell silent, his mind obviously somewhere else. The Moroi expected a lot from us, but they did recognize that the guardians were – more or less – only human. So, guardians got pay and time off like you'd get in any other job. Some hard-core guardians – like my mom – refused vacations, vowing never to leave their Moroi's sides. Looking at Dimitri now, I had a feeling he might very well turn into one of those. If he'd been away on legitimate leave, he could hardly blame himself for what happened to that guy. Still, he probably did anyway. I'd blame myself too if something happened to Lissa.
"Hey," I said, suddenly wanting to cheer him up, "did you help come up with the plan to get us back? Because it was pretty good. Brute force and all that."
He arched an eyebrow curiously. Cool. I'd always wished I could do that. "You're complimenting me on that?"
"Well, it was a hell of a lot better than the last one they tried."
"Last one?"
"Yeah. In Chicago. With the pack of psi-hounds."
"This was the first time we found you. In Portland."
I sat up from my stretches and crossed my legs. "Um, I don't think I imagined psi-hounds. Who else could have sent them? They only answer to Moroi. Maybe no one told you about it."
"Maybe," he said dismissively. I could tell by his face he didn't believe that.
I returned to the novices' dorm after that. The Moroi students lived on the other side of the quad, closer to the commons. The living arrangements were partly based on convenience. Being here kept us novices closer to the gym and training grounds. But we also lived separately to accommodate the differences in Moroi and dhampir lifestyles. Their dorm had almost no windows, aside from tinted ones that dimmed sunlight. They also had a special section where feeders always stayed on hand. The novices' dorm was built in a more open way, allowing for more light.
I had my own room because there were so few novices, let alone girls. The room they'd given me was small and plain, with a twin bed and a desk with a computer. My few belongings had been spirited out of Portland and now sat in boxes around the room. I rummaged through them, pulling out a T-shirt to sleep in. I found a couple of pictures as I did, one of Lissa and me at a football game in Portland and another taken when I'd gone on vacation with her family, a year before the accident.
I set them on my desk and booted up the computer. Someone from tech support had helpfully given me a sheet with instructions for renewing my e-mail account and setting up a password. I did both, happy to discover no one had realized that this would serve as a way for me to communicate with Lissa. Too tired to write to her now, I was about to turn everything off when I noticed I already had a message. From Janine Hathaway. It was short:
I'm glad you're back. What you did was inexcusable.
"Love you too, Mom," I muttered, shutting it all down.
When I went to bed afterward, I passed out before even hitting the pillow, and just as Dimitri had predicted, I felt ten times worse when I woke up the next morning. Lying there in bed, I reconsidered the perks of running away. Then I remembered getting my ass kicked and figured the only way to prevent that from happening again was to go endure some more of it this morning.
My soreness made it all that much worse, but I survived the before-school practice with Dimitri and my subsequent classes without passing out or fainting.
At lunch, I dragged Lissa away from Natalie's table early and gave her a Kirova-worthy lecture about Christian – particularly chastising her for letting him know about our blood arrangement. If that got out, it'd kill both of us socially and I didn't trust him not to tell.
Lissa had other concerns.
"You were in my head again?" she exclaimed. "For that long?"
"I didn't do it on purpose," I argued. "It just happened. And that's not the point. How long did you hang out with him afterward?"
"Not that long. It was kind of?fun."
"Well, you can't do it again. If people find out you're hanging out with him, they'll crucify you." I eyed her warily. "You aren't, like, into him, are you?"
She scoffed. "No. Of course not.
"Good. Because if you're going to go after a guy, steal Aaron back." He was boring, yes, but safe. Just like Natalie. How come all the harmless people were so lame? Maybe that was the definition of safe.
She laughed. "Mia would claw my eyes out."
"We can take her. Besides, he deserves someone who doesn't shop at Gap Kids."
"Rose, you've got to stop saying things like that."
"I'm just saying what you won't."
"She's only a year younger," said Lissa. She laughed. "I can't believe you think I'm the one who's going to get us in trouble."
Smiling as we strolled toward class, I gave her a sidelong glance. "Aaron does look pretty good though, huh?"
She smiled back and avoided my eyes. "Yeah. Pretty good."
"Ooh. You see? You should go after him."
"Whatever. I'm fine being friends now."
"Friends who used to stick their tongues down each other's throats."
She rolled her eyes.
"Fine." I let my teasing go. "Let Aaron stay in the nursery school. Just so long as you stay away from Christian. He's dangerous."
"You're overreacting. He's not going Strigoi."
"He's a bad influence."
She laughed. "You think I'm in danger of going Strigoi?"
She didn't wait for my answer, instead pushing ahead to open the door to our science class. Standing there, I uneasily replayed her words and then followed a moment later. When I did, I got to see royal power in action. A few guys – with giggling, watching girls – were messing with a gangly-looking Moroi. I didn't know him very well, but I knew he was poor and certainly not royal. A couple of his tormentors were air-magic users, and they'd blown the papers off his desk and were pushing them around the room on currents of air while the guy tried to catch them.
My instincts urged me to do something, maybe go smack one of the air users. But I couldn't pick a fight with everyone who annoyed me, and certainly not a group of royals – especially when Lissa needed to stay off their radar. So I could only give them a look of disgust as I walked to my desk. As I did, a hand caught my arm. Jesse.
"Hey," I said jokingly. Fortunately, he didn't appear to be participating in the torture session. "Hands off the merchandise."
He flashed me a smile but kept his hand on me. "Rose, tell Paul about the time you started the fight in Ms. Karp's class."
I cocked my head toward him, giving him a playful smile. "I started a lot of fights in her class."
"The one with the hermit crab. And the gerbil."
I laughed, recalling it. "Oh yeah. It was a hamster, I think. I just dropped it into the crab's tank, and they were both worked up from being so close to me, so they went at it."
Paul, a guy sitting nearby whom I didn't really know, chuckled too. He'd transferred last year, apparently, and hadn't heard of this. "Who won?"
I looked at Jesse quizzically. "I don't remember. Do you?"
"No. I just remember Karp freaking out." He turned toward Paul. "Man, you should have seen this messed-up teacher we used to have. Used to think people were after her and would go off on stuff that didn't make any sense. She was nuts. Used to wander campus while everyone was asleep."
I smiled tightly, like I thought it was funny. Instead, I thought back to Ms. Karp again, surprised to be thinking about her for the second time in two days. Jesse was right – she had wandered campus a lot when she still worked here. It was pretty creepy. I'd run into her once – unexpectedly.
I'd been climbing out of my dorm window to go hang out with some people. It was after hours, and we were all supposed to be in our rooms, fast asleep. Such escape tactics were a regular practice for me. I was good at them.
But I fell that time. I had a second-floor room, and I lost my grip about halfway down. Sensing the ground rush up toward me, I tried desperately to grab hold of something and slow my fall. The building's rough stone tore into my skin, causing cuts I was too preoccupied to feel. I slammed into the grassy earth, back first, getting the wind knocked out of me.
"Bad form, Rosemarie. You should be more careful. Your instructors would be disappointed."
Peering through the tangle of my hair, I saw Ms. Karp looking down at me, a bemused look on her face. Pain, in the meantime, shot through every part of my body.
Ignoring it as best I could, I clambered to my feet. Being in class with Crazy Karp while surrounded by other students was one thing. Standing outside alone with her was an entirely different matter. She always had an eerie, distracted gleam in her eye that made my skin break out in goose bumps.
There was also now a high likelihood she'd drag me off to Kirova for a detention. Scarier still.
Instead, she just smiled and reached for my hands. I flinched but let her take them. She tsked when she saw the scrapes. Tightening her grip on them, she frowned slightly. A tingle burned my skin, laced with a sort of pleasant buzz, and then the wounds closed up. I had a brief sense of dizziness. My temperature spiked. The blood disappeared, as did the pain in my hip and leg.
Gasping, I jerked my hands away. I'd seen a lot of Moroi magic, but never anything like that.
"What?what did you do?"
She gave me that weird smile again. "Go back to your dorm, Rose. There are bad things out here. You never know what's following you."
I was still staring at my hands. "But?"
I looked back up at her and for the first time noticed scars on the sides of her forehead. Like nails had dug into them. She winked. "I won't tell on you if you don't tell on me."
I jumped back to the present, unsettled by the memory of that bizarre night. Jesse, in the meantime, was telling me about a party.
"You've got to slip your leash tonight. We're going up to that spot in the woods around eight thirty. Mark got some weed."
I sighed wistfully, regret replacing the chill I'd felt over the memory of Ms. Karp. "Can't slip that leash. I'm with my Russian jailer."
He let go of my arm, looking disappointed, and ran a hand through his bronze-colored hair. Yeah. Not being able to hang out with him was a damned shame. I really would have to fix that someday. "Can't you ever get off for good behavior?" he joked.
I gave him what I hoped was a seductive smile as I found my seat. "Sure," I called over my shoulder. "If I was ever good."


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Liverpool 64
Liverpool 64 is our SATB choir for adults 18+. It is for adults who love to sing, can sing in tune and have at least a basic understanding of reading music.
Liverpool64 was formed in 2018. It has grown quickly and as of May 2021 has over 100 members registered to sing across its soprano, alto, tenor and bass sections. The choir rehearses weekly on Monday evenings 6.30-8pm in the cathedral.
What Music Does the Choir Sing?
Liverpool64 learns and performs a wide range of music from across multiple genres. The choir also focusses on learning one full-work each year. In 2019, members performed Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. The full-work for 2020 was Faure's Requiem, but this will instead be performed in October 2021. The pace of learning is relatively fast, and that is why we ask that members have a basic understanding of reading music.
Is There a Cost to Join?
Yes. Membership is £50 per year or £25 for students (payable each September) . It is £25 for January-September (again being half price for students).
How Do I Join Liverpool64?
There is no audition for this choir. We ask that the adult can sing in tune and has at least a basic understanding of reading music. Membership of the choir spans right across the Liverpool City Region and further afield into Wigan. It was originally called '64' as this was the maximum number of members we originally envisaged. We have now far exceeded this number but the name will remain the same. To enquire about joining please email the departmental administrator at christopher.newton@liverpoolcathedral.org.uk.
Examples of Previous and Forthcoming Concerts and Services
Feb 2019 - St Valentine's Concert at St Margaret of Antioch CE Church, Toxteth
May 2019 - All Ages Sing concert at Liverpool Cathedral
June 2019 - National Make Music Day Performance at Liverpool World Museum
Dec 2019 - Action for Children Christmas Concert at Liverpool Cathedral
Dec 2019 - ECHO Carol Concert at Liverpool Cathedral
April, May, July, December 2020 - Various virtual recordings
Dec 2020 - Pre-recorded carol concerts for Alder Hey and the Liverpool Clatterbridge Cancer Centre
Dec 2020 - Christmas Eve carol services at Liverpool Cathedral
May 2021 - Return to in-person rehearsals
Jul 2021 - Choral Matins with the Liverpool Cathedral Choir
Jul 2021 - Promenade concert for the launch day of the Liturgy and Music Foundation
Oct 2021 - Faure Requiem at Liverpool Cathedral (Covid-19 Memorial Concert)
Dec 2021 - Family Christmas Concert at Liverpool Cathedral
Dec 2021 - Christmas Eve family carol service at Liverpool Cathedral
Rehearsals And Services
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Junior Choir
The Gilbert Scott Singers
The Big Sing

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Joe DeGuardia,longtime fight promoter and head of STAR Boxing hopes to turn the Paradise Theater located on the Grand Concourse and E. 187th St. into a boxing venue. He claims that the Bronx has all the elements for a big-time fight scene: homegrown talent, a splendid venue in the Paradise, and a built-in fan base.
87 year old Nancy Lynch spoke today at Lehman College about her experience in the Navy during World War II. Lynch enlisted WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service)and attending service training at what is now the campus of Lehman College.
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Represent a bank in a loan modification for a Miami Beach hotel in connection with a government-mandated closure of the hotel and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Represent a senior-housing borrower in connection with a Fannie Mae loan extension and modification related to a project-wide renovation and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Represent mezzanine lender in financing the renovation of the former Cook County Hospital building in Chicago.
Represent a bank in its construction loan for a mixed-use retail and multifamily building in Chicago's Logan Square.
Represent three ground landlords as borrower in fee financings for properties in Washington, DC, and Nashville, Tennessee.
Represent a REIT as borrower in its mezzanine loan for the Ace Hotel in Brooklyn.
Represent mezzanine lender in financing the construction of multifamily project in San Gabriel, California.
Ground leasing transactions
Represent public company client in its first acquisition, following its initial public offering, of two new, Class A multifamily projects on Los Angeles' Hollywood Boulevard.
Represent public company client in the acquisition, and simultaneous origination of a 99-year ground lease, of 13 acres of vacant land for construction of medical office buildings in Forsyth, Georgia.
Represent institutional investor in its acquisition of a long-term lease for a hotel in San Antonio, Texas, and the creation of a second long-term lease for the street retail on the first floor underneath the hotel.
Represent ground landlord in the acquisition, and simultaneous origination of a 99-year ground lease, of a 7-story office building on 1.83 acres on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta. Also represent in related joint venture agreement.
Represent public company in the acquisition, and simultaneous origination of a 99-year ground lease, of two office buildings in Cary, North Carolina.
Represent client in the sale of the leasehold interests, and simultaneous origination of a 99-year ground lease, of two properties originally leased to a food supplier and distributor in Miami, Florida.
Acquisitions and dispositions
Represent seller of a marina, operating business and real estate in Naples, Florida.
Represent real estate client in the sale of a multifamily apartment building near Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.
Represent investment advisory services firm in its disposition of a multifamily apartment complex in the Chicago suburbs for approximately $80 million.
Represent corporate client in acquisition and construction of a manufacturing facility in Lockport, Illinois.
Represent seller of land in downtown Nashville business district.


Mr. Brad Hatcher started his Martial Arts training in 1977. Brad trained for seven years when he was promoted to Black Belt in Isshin-ryu Karate. He also holds ranks in several other styles of Martial Arts. Brad trained under Master Harold Long, Master Allen Wheeler, Master James Ogle and Master Phil Little.
Brad was the first American in the state of TN to achieve a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He trained under Master Rickson Gracie for 10 yrs, and now trains under 7th degree black belt Luiz Palhares, Master Palhares is a black belt under Helio & Rickson Gracie. Mr Hatcher was promoted to Black belt in BJJ (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu) in June 2003 after over 9 yrs of study. Too date Mr. Hatcher is the only Isshinryu black belt to hold the rank of black belt in BJJ. In April 2006 he won the Pan American Jiu-Jitsu Championship in the Black belt Divison. In 2007 He became of the director of the Tennessee Brailian Jiu-Jitsu Federation .
Mr. Hatcher has won over 500 awards in Karate competition, as well as being the Tennessee Karate Circuit Champion in Fighting,Forms and Weapons. He is known for his fighting and Weapons( BO Staff) during competition. Brad has won over 40 grandchampionships in tournament competition, many times winning both fighting and forms grandchampionships during the same tournament. He also won the state championship tournament 7 times and was ranked number one in the NBL in the super heavy wt fighting.
Mr Hatcher has instructed Police, SWAT, and Military.
Mr. Hatcher is active in competing in Jiu-Jitsu and Karate tournaments and teaching and attending seminars.


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"Dude, your mom has the best playlist!" – Wellesley College Student
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Song of the Day – "Be More Kind" by Frank Turner July 29, 2018
Song of the Day – "Oh Darling" by Plug In Stereo, featuring Cady Groves February 9, 2018
Song of the Day – "Feels Great" by Cheat Codes, featuring Fetty Wap February 7, 2018
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SONG OF THE DAY – "SONG FOR MY FATHER" by Sarah McLachlan
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to all the dads out there!
I feel so blessed today as we celebrate Father's Day. I have the most incredible father, and I have an amazing husband who is a wonderful father to our children. As far as Father's Day goes … I have a lot to celebrate.
My dad has always been my biggest fan. He always believed that I could be anything I wanted to become and he has supported me in all my crazy endeavors. I have so many memories of my dad that make me smile. Probably one of the most touching memories was on my wedding day. I remember being at the altar and glancing over at my dad (who by the way was sick as a dog!) and seeing him look at me with tears rolling down his face. It was at that moment that I realized how difficult it is to be a father and realize you are letting go of your little girl.
My dad was the father of four girls and we all thought he could do anything. He lived on a pedestal so high that it must have been overwhelming sometimes. Another favorite memory is when we had a puppy die and my sister said, "Don't worry … dad will fix it when he gets home." We honestly believed my dad could fix anything and make it all better. My dad can fix just about anything – maybe not a dead dog – but just about everything else. He can build, repair, and create anything.
When I was in charge of house decorations for my sorority during Greek Week one year in college, I told him that what I really wanted to create were two 30-foot wine glasses that could move and clink each other. I just remember my dad looking at me and saying, "30 feet?! Do you know how tall 30 feet is?" Obviously I didn't, but my dad figured out a way to make two 15-foot wine glasses from wood. I don't even know how he did it, but he did – and they even moved back and forth to clink! Needless to say, we won the award for best House Decorations that year thanks to my dad. He has always been able to do things like that. Even today, if any of us need something fixed, created or figured out, my dad is the man to call.
My dad turns 80 years old this summer! He still is as sharp as a tack and moves like a man half his age. I admire him so much! My dad taught me about hard work, integrity, and commitment to family. His family means everything to him and has always come first. He is opinionated, smart, funny, sarcastic, genuine, and selfless. He has been such an incredible example to me and I love him more than I could ever express.
My dad with "his Girls" on his 70th Birthday!
Then I have my husband. He is such an amazing father to our two kids. He, like my dad, considers his little family the most important thing in his life and he would do anything for his children. He just beams with pride about both of his kids. He loves to spend time with them and is their biggest fan. I know how lucky my two children are to have him as their father and I feel very lucky to have him be my partner in parenthood. I love him and the great example of love, strength, and support he is for my kids.
My husband as father with his two little children.
This song today is from Sarah McLachlan's new album, Shine On and is a tribute to her father. The album, which is her seventh full length album, was released just last month in May 2014. Sarah McLachlan is from Canada and made her debut in 1988. She is an incredibly talented artist with a beautifully unique voice and incredible staying power. I love this song and the emotion that is expressed when she sings it.
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Oxo has revived its family concept with two new TV ads aimed at reflecting the positive side of contemporary family life.
The ads, created by J Walter Thompson, introduce a new family – a mother, father, three children and their pet rabbit, Mr Jefferson.
They mark Oxo's first TV work since the death of 'Oxo mum' Lynda Bellingham in 2014, who starred in the ads in the 80s and 90s.
In the first spot for the Premier Foods-owned brand teenage daughter Lucy brings home Tiana, "the coolest girl in school", for dinner. However, when she sees meatballs on the menu Lucy is mortified – until her mother adds Oxo. Tiana gives her seal of approval by sharing a picture of the dish on social media.
The second ad features a rush to get dinner ready for Jan and Rob, two friends of the family who they forgot were coming.
The strategy behind the ads was informed by work from JWT Intelligence. This found that while modern family life is often viewed negatively due to technology, broken homes and longer working hours, informal parenting styles and more chaotic schedules mean that parents are more involved in their childrens' lives than ever before.
James Whitehead, JWT London's executive partner, said: "It's great to be able to modernise the Oxo family for today's Britain. Our new family are a real team: chaotic and imperfect, there's teasing and the occasional strop, but there's also a lot of life, energy, love and getting things done as a real family."
The ads were created by Bill Hartley and Giles Hepworth at JWT London and directed by Declan Lowney through Another Film Company. Media was handled by Carat.
Helen Touchais, brand director flavourings and seasonings at Premier Foods, added: "As an ingredient intrinsic to British households, Oxo has historically portrayed the ins and outs of family life – evolving from Katie's family in the 1960s through to Lynda Bellingham's family reign through the 1980s and 1990s," Touchais said.


We all know that eating habits formed in childhood can last a lifetime. The challenge is to know what foods are appropriate to feed our children. Recently there has been a dramatic increase on the number of obese children and adolescents. This had lead to an alarming increase in the number of young people with Type 2 Diabetes. Are we doing something wrong in the way we are feeding our families?
When you walk into any food market you can get a hint of what is happening to our children. The shelves are full of packaged processed snack foods. These have become a major factor in the diets of our children. Potato chips, Nachos, candy and cookies have become standard fare.
1) They are full of saturated and hydrogenated oil.
2) They are mostly based on refined white starches.
3) They have corn sweeteners.
4) They have too much salt.
The fact is that they are not at all satisfying because these ingredients make the consumer desire to eat more. The oil is tasty and feels good in the mouth, inducing a craving for more. The low fiber white starches, such as white flour and white potato cause a rebound hunger when they are digested. The corn sweeteners or high fructose corn syrup has the ability to be consumed in large quantities without satisfying hunger. The salty taste triggers the desire for more.
High fructose corn syrup, a cheap and powerfully sweet natural substance is present in nearly every package of food produced, including cakes, cookies, cereals, crackers, sodas and flavored drinks and candies. It has been implicated in the Diabetes problem since it is metabolized differently than other sugars. Check the labels! It is amazing how much of it we eat every day.
Many experts have said that if we could go back to baking our own snack foods our kids would be healthier, since the ingredients we use at home are more wholesome than those used in the factories. Using canola oil or other low saturated fat oil instead of solid oils like shortening, and table sugar instead of corn sweetener, would be a major difference. Of course, fresh fruits and vegetables, out of the refrigerator and dried fruits and nuts also make great snack foods.
Besides snacks, we must be thoughtful about what our children eat at meals. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are all important in establishing good eating habits.
Many studies have shown that eating breakfast is very important to school children and adults. Their ability to learn and concentrate is greatly impaired by skipping breakfast. People who skip breakfast tend to eat more in the course of the day than those who eat breakfast.
Breakfast cereals can be good source of nutrition especially when eaten with milk. The sweetened cereals are up to 50% sugar so they should be limited to special occasions or just used to flavor other cereals that are high in fiber. Whole grain bread and butter or cream cheese (moderate amounts) is fine for breakfast. All yogurts are good breakfast foods. Plain yogurt that has fresh fruit and table sugar added is best.
Some children are not hungry or are too concerned about vomiting on the bus, or even too rushed to eat before leaving the house. For these kids a "take along meal" like fruit, string cheese and whole wheat crackers will help get the day started.
It is very important that parents be aware of what their kids are being served at school. No matter how careful we are about food at home, our kids are consuming unacceptable diets at school. This is a battle that can only be won by parental involvement in planning school lunch menus.
Lunches and dinners should be made of high quality food. The most satisfying foods that keep a child comfortable until the next scheduled meal or snack are the ones that have high protein content, starches that are full of fiber and some fat, preferably "healthy" oils. This list of course includes fish, poultry, and meats, low fat milk products, brown rice and whole wheat bread, cereal and crackers. In addition there is a whole category of food that fit this description…legumes.
These include all beans, lentils, peanuts, soybeans and chickpeas. Legumes are high in fiber and protein and they have high quality oils, and vitamins and minerals. Chickpeas make a great snack food that is really food. Green beans, Snap peas, pea soup, baked beans, bean soups and lentil soup are all good legume foods.
Besides legumes, olives and avocados are full of a very healthy nourishing type of oil. Corn in any form is a tasty food that has oil and starch and a small amount of fiber. All nuts and seeds in all forms are very nourishing for kids age 4 and up.
Refined white flour found in most breads and pasta and white potatoes are OK, but they tend to cause the child to be hungry much sooner than the high fiber starches such as whole wheat, brown rice, sweet potatoes and squash. There is new pasta called Barilla Plus that contains legume flour and is much more nourishing and filling than regular pasta. Of course most meals and snack should have fruits and vegetables added.
Drinks are very important. Most calories consumed as liquid are not noticed by the brain's satisfaction center. For this reason juices, which are full of sugar, should be limited to one glass a day, and the rest of the day the child should drink milk (about three glasses a day) and lots of water or seltzer. Sodas and box drinks along with candy and other treats are only for weekend parties or special occasions.
Our children grow up eating what we give them. We do not have to be completely at the mercy of what is fashionable. Just because processed and packaged foods are available and convenient does not compel us to buy them. Let's go back to plain old basics. We can reverse the obesity epidemic in our community. Shopping, eating, snacking and drinking habits can be changed. We must think about it. It is our responsibility as parents to be aware of the long range health consequences of consuming the foods we are offering to our families.


Can A Dispensary Claim Immunity to Avoid Future Criminal Prosecution?
A Colorado medical marijuana company has refused to turn over documents to the IRS, citing fears that the records could be used against the company in a criminal proceeding. Standing Akimbo's lawyer has said the Denver firm will claim the Fifth Amendment if it does not receive "absolute immunity" from federal drug crimes prosecution. So this case begs the question, What Are Your Fifth Amendment Rights in a Marijuana Dispensary Audit?
The IRS wants to view seed-to-sale records for tax years 2014 and 2015. But according to the company's lawyer, the requested documents "would be the same evidence that would 'convict overwhelmingly' under federal criminal drug laws should this information be shared with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and prosecution ensue." That's a very big "if," as the IRS has denied that it works with the DOJ to prosecute marijuana dispensaries. In response, government lawyer Charles Butler said the company's actions are "part of an ongoing campaign" to hamstring IRS auditors.
A similar case, Green Solution Retail v. United States, is currently pending before the Supreme Court. The Justices should rule on the link between marijuana audits and criminal prosecutions sometime in 2018.
Why Do Marijuana Businesses Get Audited?
Other than the sentence length, there's basically no difference between selling marijuana in a medical dispensary and selling crack cocaine to schoolchildren under federal law. As a result, highly-regulated banks do not work with marijuana businesses, so almost all their sales are cash-only. This arrangement invites the unwelcome attention of the IRS.
Moreover, at the end of 2014, the Service limited the cost of goods sold deduction for marijuana dispensaries. It eliminated things like employee time in preparing product for display, which it had allowed for years. The short-staffed and Bitcoin-obsessed IRS is just now scrutinizing many 2014 and 2015 returns, which is why many marijuana businesses are now being audited.
If the IRS Comes Knocking, Can I Plead the Fifth?
The Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination is one of the bedrock principles of American criminal law. Ever since Congress re-adopted the income tax in 1916 (the Supreme Court found the first one unconstitutional in 1895), the interplay between the Fifth Amendment and tax law has been hotly debated. After all, it's not just marijuana businesses who face jail time for income tax indiscretions. Does the name Al Capone ring a bell?
Long ago, the Supreme Court declared that the Fifth applies to criminal cases, pseudo-criminal cases (e.g. lying to Congress), and documentary production. That third privilege is the one that applies to the link between marijuana audits and criminal prosecutions.
In Fisher v. United States (1976), taxpayers refused to give the IRS documents, claiming their "legitimate privacy interest" allowed them to invoke the Fifth Amendment. The Supreme Court disregarded that argument, but did hold that if the requested documents are critical to the government's prosecution, the privilege may attach.
The test case came fourteen years later, in United States v. Hubbell. Whitewater lawyer "Webb" Hubbell refused to comply with a subpoena duces tecum. In a majority opinion from John Paul Stevens, the Supremes backed up Mr. Hubbell's Fifth Amendment claim. Justice Stevens compared turning over documents to a prisoner trying on a bloody shirt. Both are testimonial. Furthermore, special prosecutor Kenneth Starr's entire case rested on the disputed documents. Therefore, the Fifth Amendment applied.
Note that, in the above case, Standing Akimbo's lawyer pointed out that the requested documents would almost certainly convict his client in a federal criminal prosecution. But it remains to be seen how a court would rule on the link between marijuana audits and criminal prosecutions, especially since the IRS has pinky-swore that it only uses this information for civil audits. Most likely, the Supreme Court will require the company to turn over the documents but bar their use in a future criminal proceeding.


I AM a child of God therefore I AM worthy of God's total abundant love and generosity.
-Helps dismantle a scarcity mindset.
-Helps to remove blockages from our energy system that might try and tell us it is not spiritual to have abundance flow into our lives.


On Saturday November 3rd, 2018, from 1pm to 2.30pm, with my colleagues Elizabeth MacKenzie and Cindy Mochizuki, I partook in Archives Week at the Belkin Art Gallery at UBC. My presentation Letters To (N)on Com, included working with typewriters, projecting photographic slides, inspired by the fonds of the (N)on Commercial Gallery that live in the Belkin Art Gallery Archives, and where public participation engaged playful letter writing back to the future.
Thanks to Carol J Williams and Don Gill for correspondences about the (N)on Com, along with Kati Campbell and Warren Murfitt for starting the gallery at 1011 Commercial Drive in 1984.
Additional appreciations to staff at the Belkin for their invaluable help preparing and setting up — Owen Sopotiuk, Naomi Sawada, Christine D'Onofrio, David Steele, Anna Tidlund, Erin Watkins, Shaunna Moore, Karen Zalamea, and Makiko Hamaguchi.
As part of Independent Archives Week, we ask the question, how do we respond to archives both public and private? In this come-and-go event, artists Laiwan, Elizabeth MacKenzie and Cindy Mochizuki contribute three individual responses to the Belkin Gallery Archives and in relation to artist Christine D'Onofrio's online project, Intuition Commons. The responses are open for viewing, listening and conversations throughout the event. Light refreshments will be served.
Intuition Commons is a growing, interactive database of female influences that destabilizes the bias to individualism in art. Projected in a gallery installation, contributors nominate their influencers with visual connections, overlapping stories, keywords, and links, creating a rhizomatic archive. It is part of the exhibition Beginning with the Seventies: Collective Acts (September 4-December 2, 2018) curated by Lorna Brown.
221A, grunt gallery, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Rungh Magazine, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Western Front, & Artspeak present Recollective: Vancouver Independent Archives Week from November 2 – 13, 2018.
Recollective: Vancouver Independent Archives Week 2018 is a series of free public events, panels, conversations, and screenings that highlight artist-run centre archives, artists working with archives, and the intersections between contemporary art practices and social movements in Vancouver.


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Who Remembers Earl Buie?
By all accounts, Earl Buie was a newspaperman's newspaperman, and his unique writing and editorial styles were ingrained in the pages of The Sun for nearly 50 years.
He was born in Whitlock, Tennessee, on Jan. 21, 1897, Buie moved to San Bernardino with his family in 1910.
Earl Buie began his writing career in 1914 as a high school junior, covering sporting events at his school for a salary of $2.50 a month. In June 1916, Buie started working full time at the Sun in the Court Street office, directly across from the courthouse and near the jail.
Buie's salary for his new full-time position skyrocketed to $4.50 per week. That was the inadequate compensation a newsman received for long work weeks — sometimes working as many as 80 hours in a week. The newsman of this era had to physically gather information from nearly any imaginable source, rush back to meet a deadline, and pound out a story on a manual typewriter.
Earl Buie (Courtesy)
In a 1958 column, Buie affectionately described the hardened, experienced reporters at the paper who helped guide him through his cub reporter years as "prolific, distinguished, and lightning fast on a typewriter."
The most notable of these practiced reporters was James A. Guthrie, who later gained fame as the longtime editor and president of the Sun, which was known as The Daily Sun at the time and was then The Sun-Telegram. It is now known as The Sun.
One of Buie's first columns appeared in February 1918, as a first-hand report on the sights, sounds, and activities at the Orange Show. He covered a variety of topics in short, separate, descriptive sentences. This style became a precursor for his later columns. Buie's observations in the column included a sarcastic reference to the curse of frequent rainy days during the Orange Show: "Some of the many of the thousands present were disappointed because it did not rain."
In June of 1918, Buie joined the Navy and became a radio operator. The war ended shortly after his service began, and Buie returned to San Bernardino in March 1919.
Buie quickly became the type of reporter who was never without a notepad and a 2-inch pencil stub used to scribble out a slice of news, and sometimes a bit of humor from even the dreariest subject.
On June 8, 1921, Earl Buie married his high school sweetheart, Lillian Cross, in a simple ceremony at the home of the bride's parents in San Bernardino. The couple drove off for a 10-day motoring honeymoon to San Francisco.
Lillian gave birth to Charles Edward, the Buie's only child, years later on Nov. 20, 1926.
Proving his worth as a reporter, Buie rose to the position of city editor, leading the Sun's news team.
In a brief diversion from the Sun, Buie moved to Riverside and became managing editor at The Daily Enterprise in Riverside in December 1930, which is The Press-Enterprise today. The Great Depression forced staffing cutbacks, and by July 1932, Buie was back in position as city editor at the Sun.
With his name splashed across the pages of the largest newspaper in the city daily, Buie became a local celebrity. He was frequently asked to emcee events, serve as a contest judge, and give speeches at regional meetings.
Buie seemed to be at his best when writing about events where people were enjoying themselves.
His graphic style brought the printed stories to life, like this description of the evening celebrations at the 1937 amateur rodeo in Victorville:
"Perhaps never before in Victorville's colorful history was there such a night of entertainment. Nobody, it seemed wanted to sleep. Nor could they sleep, so noisy was the town."
In 1947, Buie left the Sun to become the press relations man, and later the manager for the National Orange Show. He retired from the Orange Show in April 1957 and went idle for a few short months before being lured back to the Sun by Jim Guthrie to write a column created to match his talents.
On Jan. 21, 1958, Buie's newsprint photo began gracing the upper corner of his renowned "They Tell Me" columns.
In the first column, Buie explained, "They Tell Me will follow no set format or pattern." Instead, it would contain tidbits of information that didn't fit in any of the paper's regular sections.
Cover of "The Best of Buie," a compilation of 75 of Earl Buie's best "They Tell Me" columns from 1958 to 1963. (Author's collection)
"They Tell Me" became one of the paper's most beloved pieces, and Buie extended the range of his musings. The subjects of his column ranged from humorous to inciteful, to introspective, to storytelling. The columns often drifted into nostalgic ramblings that he titled "Do You Remember?"
The title of the column was the tease that drew readers in.
Titles like "Dig That Crazy French Teacher" featured Buie's visit with a Barstow resident who owned a parrot that spoke French. Another column titled "The Man Who Didn't Come to Dinner" was about Buie's granddaughter, who didn't understand why Santa Claus came to her house, but wouldn't stay for dinner.
In 1963, the Sun-Telegram put out a booklet of Buie's selected "They Tell Me" columns: "The Best of Buie."
Sun reporter Bob Geggie wrote a wonderfully inciteful forward in the booklet, explaining the process of creating a Buie column:
"Six days a week we in the newsroom of The Sun-Telegram are witnesses to an agonizing drama – the birth of an Earl Buie column.
"The columns are not gaily bounced off the keys of Earl's typewriter; they are wrung out.
"The torturing process of creating tomorrow's 'They Tell Me' finds Earl chain-smoking his unfiltered cigarettes, pacing circles around his desk, making trips to the drinking fountain, staring blankly into the opposite wall.
Mark Landis, San Bernadino Sun


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The Examiner is reporting that a prototype drone crashed into a Texas Montgomery County police vehicle, causing little damage. No doubt this event will touch off a firestorm of concern over the safety of domestic unmanned aerial vehicles. Much like the Google driverless car crash, it would appear that a human being was in control of the drone when it went down. But unlike the Google car, which was reportedly in manual mode at the time of the accident, the drone should have landed safely and autonomously when it lost contact with the operator. Instead, it plowed into a (thankfully armored) SWAT vehicle.
You might think that this event has little or nothing to do with the other controversy around the domestic use of drones: privacy. Here are three ways I think they interact:
As drones increasingly fly overhead, it will be hard to separate concerns over safety and privacy in the mind of the public. These factors will mingle to create a general sense of unease. This is one reason why the Federal Aviation Administration should take seriously the recent petition by the Electronic Privacy Information Center to initiate a rulemaking around the domestic use of drones that considers public interest factors beyond safety.
Glitches can down drones, but so could intentional hacks. Drones must be vetted against the sorts of security vulnerabilities that allowed militants to see drone footage and permitted the capture of a U.S. military drone in Iran.
Finally, crashes might be a canary in the coal mine of privacy (and vice versa). In this particular case, it turns out the operator was a drone provider doing a demo. But to the extent crashes point to operator carelessness, they may raise questions of adequacy of training generally. Will a hypothetical police officer that is incapable of keeping a drone within his physical control adequately safeguard privacy?
The preceding is re-published on TAP with permission by its author, Ryan Calo, Director, Privacy and Robotics, Stanford Center for Internet & Society (CIS). "Drone Crash" was originally published on Ryan Calo's CIS Blog on March 5, 2012.
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Did the Vikings trade with China? On a controversial passage in Ibn Khordahbeh's Book of Itineraries and Kingdoms
Romgard, Jan
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies.
Number of Authors: 12016 (English)In: Fornvännen, ISSN 0015-7813, E-ISSN 1404-9430, Vol. 111, no 4, p. 229-242Article in journal (Refereed) Published
This paper discusses a 9th century Arabic source, Ibn Khordadhbeh's Kitab al-Masalik wal-Mamalik, The Book of Itineraries and Kingdoms, in which it is claimed that the Rus travelled to China. I look into previous interpretations of the text and present new studies of the two oldest extant copies of the original source. Several translators from the late 19th century on have claimed that this passage is misplaced. I argue that they have adapted their interpretations to fit their preconceptions rather than follow what is actually written in the original source. The text does state that the Rus traded with China. Whether Ibn Khordadhbeh's belief in the extent of Rus' eastern trade journeys was correct or not is another matter. But I point out that Ibn Khordadhbeh in his time may have had logical reasons for his statement. I also explain that China probably refers to Eastern Central Asian regions populated by Turkic-speaking peoples, who in their turn had direct trading contacts with Tang and later Liao Dynasty China.
2016. Vol. 111, no 4, p. 229-242
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Discussion in 'General Theology' started by Tree of Life, Oct 19, 2018.
This would imply that those who do not abide in his word were not truly his disciples, even though they may appear to be for a time. To abide in Jesus' word in John's gospel means to continue in the faith.
That sounds like a chicken or the egg proposition.
Do true disciples persevere, or are those who persevere true disciples.
What becomes of those disciples who do not persevere?
Jesus says that those who persevere are truly his disciples. This would mean that those who don't persevere were not truly his disciples.
If we were true disciples all the time, we would have no need to repent of our sins because we would never fall into sin in the first place. We succeed, we fail, and we get back up.
Jesus' sheep follow the sound of His voice and He will never lead them astray. We persevere as we are preserved.
AMEN! Because true disciples have been born again; the old man is dead.
Very recently I felt all of those losses and it was very painful. My experience has been similar to the book of Songs. Often He will remove His Presence but when He returns He shows His delight in His garden, almost surprised that grace has been so orderly in producing fruit fit for Him. Even when I don't feel it but somehow He points to it and I see the work accomplished too. I don't think turning away is ever an option for His disciples. Like His first disciples, whether with Him or not, there's really no where else to go because He's the only One with the words of eternal life.
Was St. Paul perfect? Did he endure?
God didn't give us the new birth to send us back to Satan; He delivered us from the power of Satan.
I don't agree that God ever abandons us.
It's much along the same lines as 1John 2:19 "They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us."
Often He will remove His Presence but when He returns He shows His delight in His garden, almost surprised that grace has been so orderly in producing fruit fit for Him.
Although the Vinedressers' pruning is often a very hard cup to drink, it is oh so rewarding!
Didn't say He ever does abandon. Just said that sometimes I can feel His Presence and other times not so much. Imo that's part of His discipline for those He loves. Drawing away from God is easy on our part, we can break fellowship very easily, but once known that we have done so puts it on us to get right again. My problem was I wanted Him to see things my way and He rectified that by bringing me back to seeing it His way. (edit to add that His way is reality=truth) (and away from the lies I'd been trying to convinced Him of) ( away from from idols to turn to the living God) (that was work on my part too) Just part of my daily journey for the most part.
Note that Calvinism's mistaken doctrine of once-saved-always-saved through assured perseverance unwittingly ends up logically requiring that Christians are robots. For if Christians cannot choose to do evil to the point where they can ultimately lose their salvation, then they no longer have free will. Also, the mistaken doctrine of assured perseverance unwittingly ends up logically requiring that a Christian can have no present assurance that he is truly saved. For if a Christian who does not persevere to the end was never truly saved, then no Christian can presently have the assurance that he is truly saved because no Christian can know if he will persevere to the end. Down the road, he could fail to persevere, and so end up showing that he was all along only a fake Christian, a self-deceived hypocrite.
But under true, Biblical doctrine, every believer in the Gospel of Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:1-4, John 20:31) can know that he is presently saved (1 John 5:13; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4), if, after he became a Christian, he repented from his sins (1 John 3:6), and confessed them to God (1 John 1:9). And he can be sure that as a saved person, he can never be separated from the love of God, so long as he loves God (Romans 8:28-39), which means to obey Him (1 John 5:3, John 14:21-24). And no matter how many tests a Christian fails during his lifetime, sometime subsequent to his initial repentance, even if he fails and commits sin seventy-times-seven times in a single day (Matthew 18:21-22, Luke 17:4), he can be sure that so long as he sincerely repents from every act of sin, and confesses it to God, he will be completely forgiven (1 John 1:9). He will lose his salvation ultimately only if he wrongly employs his free will to do something like committing a sin without repentance (Hebrews 10:26-29; 1 Corinthians 9:27, Luke 12:45-46), or becoming utterly lazy without repentance (Matthew 25:26,30, John 15:2a, Romans 2:6-8), or committing apostasy (Hebrews 6:4-8, John 15:6; 2 Timothy 2:12).
True disciples cannot fall away from Jesus.
Note that they can. For Hebrews 6:4-8 shows that Christians, who have repented and become partakers of God's Holy Spirit, can ultimately lose their salvation because of subsequently wrongly employing their free will to "fall away", to commit apostasy, to stop believing (like in Luke 8:13, 1 Timothy 4:1, and 2 Thessalonians 2:3), just as other Bible verses show the same thing (John 15:6; 2 Timothy 2:12b, Mark 8:35-38, Hebrews 10:38-39, Matthew 24:9-13).
One way that a Christian could be brought to the point where he commits apostasy would be if he finds a particular sin to be very pleasurable, so pleasurable and so fulfilling (in the short term) that he continues in it over time until his heart becomes hardened by the deceitfulness of sin (Hebrews 3:13), to where his love for God grows cold because of the abundance of iniquity (Matthew 24:12), to where he quenches the Spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:19), to where he sears his conscience as with a hot iron (1 Timothy 4:2), to where he begins to listen to the lies of demons and latch onto them, to the point where he departs from the Christian faith (1 Timothy 4:1). In a wrong desire to continue in their lusts without repentance, Christians can reach the point where they are no longer able to endure the sound doctrine of the Bible, and instead seek out and latch onto other teachings which will help to support them in their lusts (2 Timothy 4:3-4).
Another way that a Christian could be brought to the point where he commits apostasy would be if he has a terror of being tortured and killed during a persecution against Christians, so that during such a persecution he renounces his faith in Jesus Christ and the Gospel to avoid being tortured and killed (Mark 8:35-38; 2 Timothy 2:12). Some Christians will fall away in this sense (2 Thessalonians 2:3) during the future Tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24 (Matthew 24:9-13, cf. Matthew 13:21, Luke 8:13), when the future Antichrist will take power over the earth, make war against Biblical Christians (not in hiding), and physically overcome them in every nation (Revelation 13:7-10, Revelation 14:12-13, Revelation 20:4-6, Matthew 24:9-13).
There will be no way to repent from committing apostasy (Hebrews 6:4-8), and worshipping the future Antichrist and his image, and willingly receiving his mark on the forehead or right hand, even if this is done just to keep from getting killed (Revelation 13:15-18). Whoever does these things, even if he had been a Christian before, will end up suffering punishment from God in fire and brimstone forever (Revelation 14:9-12). So Christians must be willing to be killed, even by getting beheaded (Revelation 20:4-6), before they would ever do any of these things (Revelation 14:12-13).
This ties in with the fact that a Christian can ultimately have his name blotted out of the Book of Life, if he does not overcome to the end (Revelation 3:5, Revelation 2:26). An example of Christians ultimately "overcoming" (Greek: nikao, G3528), or "getting the victory" (nikao) (Revelation 15:2), is found later in the book of Revelation, in Revelation 15:2, which refers to those Christians who will be willing to be killed by the future Antichrist instead of worshipping him to save their mortal lives during the future, worldwide persecution against Biblical Christians (Revelation 13:7-10, Revelation 14:12-13, Revelation 20:4-6, Matthew 24:9-13). Christians will be able to spiritually "overcome" the Antichrist and Satan by not loving their lives to the death (Revelation 12:11).
John 8:31 . . . If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed . . .
Note that John 8:31 does not say or require "continue unto the end", for Christians can continue in Jesus Christ's Word for awhile, but then later fall away (Hebrews 6:4-8).
Compare the sower parable (Luke 8:4-15), in which the last three types of people all received God's Word and came into true Christian faith. But the one who came into faith on stony ground believed for awhile, but subsequently committed apostasy (Luke 8:13; cf. 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Thessalonians 2:3), which ultimately results in the loss of salvation (Hebrews 6:4-8, John 15:6; 2 Timothy 2:12b). The one who came into faith on weed-choked ground subsequently neglected to patiently continue in good works, neglected to bear fruit to perfection (Luke 8:14, Colossians 1:10, Revelation 3:1b-2). And the one who came into faith on good ground subsequently brought forth fruit with patience (Luke 8:15), which is required for Christians to obtain ultimate salvation (Romans 2:6-8, Matthew 7:21, James 2:24), and not to ultimately lose their salvation (John 15:2a,6, Matthew 25:26,30).
Matthew 13:23 and Mark 4:8 mean that the thirty, sixty, and hundredfold fruit applies only to that fruit brought forth by the Christians on good ground.
John 10:28-29 means that Christians will never spiritually perish so long as they remain in God's hand, and that no one outside of a Christian can ever take him or her out of God's hand. But John 10:28-29 does not mean that Christians are imprisoned in God's hand, that they cannot wrongly employ their free will to jump out of God's hand themselves, such as by committing apostasy, to the ultimate loss of their salvation (Hebrews 6:4-8, John 15:6; 2 Timothy 2:12). Also, John 10:28-29 is not contradicting that God Himself can in the end cast Christians out of His hand, that they can in the end lose their salvation, if they do not continue in His goodness (Romans 11:20-22), such as by wrongly employing their free will to commit a sin without repentance (Hebrews 10:26-29; 1 Corinthians 9:27, Luke 12:45-46), or by becoming utterly lazy without repentance (Matthew 25:26,30, John 15:2a, Romans 2:6-8).
Also, John 10:28-29 does not mean that a Christian's will is kept in God's hand in the sense that a Christian cannot wrongly employ his will to the ultimate loss of his salvation. For any such "kept" will would be nothing but a destroyed will. It would make Christians like someone who has been lobotomized, strait-jacketed, drugged, and locked up in a cell. Thank God that He does not do that to Christians, but leaves them as free people with free will. And because He does, they themselves have to choose each and every day for the rest of their lives to deny themselves, to take up their crosses themselves, and to continue to follow Jesus Christ (Luke 9:23) to the end. And the Bible gives no assurance that every Christian will choose to do that (Hebrews 10:26-29, Hebrews 6:4-8, John 15:2a).
It is sometimes claimed that 1 John 2:19 requires the Calvinist doctrine of once-saved-always-saved through assured perseverance.
But 1 John 2:19 does not require that apostate Christians were never real Christians, but can mean that apostate Christians were never of the overcomers to the end (Revelation 3:5, Revelation 2:26). Real Christians, who have their names written in the Book of Life, can have their names blotted out if they fail to overcome to the end (Revelation 3:5, Revelation 2:26). People can really believe in Jesus Christ and His Gospel only for awhile, before at some point wrongly employing their free will to depart from the faith, to no longer believe, to commit apostasy (Luke 8:13; 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Thessalonians 2:3), to the ultimate loss of their salvation (Hebrews 6:4-8, John 15:6; 2 Timothy 2:12b).
1 John 2:18-19 can refer to Christians who eventually became Gnostic Christians (cf. 2 John 1:7; 1 John 4:3), and so left the Church because of its continued (and correct) insistence that Christ is in the flesh (Luke 24:39).
Philippians 1:6 and 1 Corinthians 1:8 do mean that God will complete the work which He has begun in Christians. But other passages show that He will do this only if they continue to cooperate with Him, work along with Him (1 Corinthians 3:9; 2 Corinthians 5:9, Colossians 1:29, Philippians 2:12, Philippians 3:12-14), and do not wrongly employ their free will to, for example, become utterly lazy without repentance, to the ultimate loss of their salvation (Matthew 25:26,30, John 15:2a, Romans 2:6-8).
But God still gives us free will.
Initial salvation, being born again (John 3:3,7; 1 Peter 1:23-25; 1 Peter 2:2), is both present salvation and a contract for ultimate salvation, just as the birth of an infant is both present life and a contract for life as an adult. Just as children can know that they are actually alive, so initially saved people (that is, Christians) can know that they are actually saved (1 John 5:13; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4). And just as an infant cannot "give back" his being born, or become unborn, so a born-again person cannot become un-born-again, or "give back" his being born again, his being initially saved. But just as there is no assurance that children will reach adulthood, so there is no assurance that initially saved people will obtain ultimate salvation. For just as there are conditions placed on children, like not running into traffic, and not drinking the Drano under the sink, if they are to reach adulthood, so there are conditions placed on the born-again, the initially saved, if they are to obtain ultimate salvation (Romans 2:6-8, Hebrews 3:6,14; 1 Corinthians 9:27).
Are you thinking of Hebrews 13:5b? If so, note that it applies to Christians only if they remain faithful to Jesus Christ. For "if we deny him, he also will deny us" (2 Timothy 2:12b).
But note that while God makes it possible for Christians to do the right thing (Philippians 2:13, John 15:4-5), He does not take away their free will, turning them into robots, or into macabre flesh puppets, mere marionettes whom He forces to dance across the stage as He pulls on their strings. Instead, He leaves them as His real children with free will. And so they have to choose each and every day to deny themselves, to take up their crosses, and to follow Jesus Christ, to the end (Luke 9:23, Matthew 24:13). And there is no assurance that they will choose to do that (Matthew 25:26,30, Luke 12:45-46, Luke 8:13).
While your posts have been good, you are forgetting the fact that Calvinists and Reformed don't believe in Man's "Free Will" ability to reject God's Grace or fall away. This is their doctrine of Irresistible Grace.
The entire Reformed theology just confounds me, to be honest.
And to those saying "true disciples will never fall away", why the need for John 15:1-10 then?
Their doctrine is right, but only with regard to the initial salvation of elect individuals, not their ultimate salvation.
That is, the elect are those individuals, whether Jews or Gentiles, who were chosen (elected) and predestinated by God before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4-11; 2 Thessalonians 2:13), before they were born (Romans 9:11-24), to become initially saved by faith in Jesus Christ and His Gospel at some point during their lifetime (Acts 13:48b; 2 Timothy 2:10; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4). This initial salvation is possible only because of Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross for our sins (Romans 3:25-26), which was also foreordained by God before the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8; 1 Peter 1:19-20).
Nonelect people can never believe in Jesus Christ and His Gospel and be initially saved, even when they are shown the truth (John 8:42-47, John 10:26, Matthew 13:38-42). For the ability to believe in Jesus and His Gospel comes only to elect individuals (Acts 13:48b) wholly by God's grace as a miraculous gift from God (Ephesians 2:8, John 6:65; 1 Corinthians 3:5b, Romans 12:3b, Hebrews 12:2) as the elect read (or hear) God's Word the Holy Bible (Romans 10:17, Acts 13:48, Acts 26:22-23), just as the ability to repent comes only as a miraculous gift from God (2 Timothy 2:25, Acts 11:18). Satan blinds the minds of non-Christians, so that on their own they cannot repent and acknowledge the truth of God's Word (2 Corinthians 4:4; 2 Timothy 2:25-26).
For example, John 15:2a refers to true Christians, who are truly branches in the vine of Jesus Christ, wrongly employing their free will in such a way that they fail to produce good fruit, so that ultimately they are taken away from Jesus (John 15:2a), cut off from Him for their unrepentant laziness, to the ultimate loss of their salvation (Matthew 25:26,30).
True Christians can also be ultimately cut off from Jesus Christ, cast away, and burned; they can ultimately lose their salvation, for not continuing to abide in Jesus (John 15:6), in the sense of committing apostasy (Hebrews 6:4-8; 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Timothy 2:12b), or unrepentant sin (Hebrews 10:26-29, Luke 12:45-46; 1 Corinthians 9:27).
I think too that most denominations have no idea what rewards are and so deem gaining and losing rewards as referring to salvation.


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