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Hebrews 12:1-2 (NKJV)Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.Picture a stadium in which you are running an endurance race. The stands are full of spectators who have previously
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Ezekiel 28:4-5 (NIV)By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself and amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and because of your wealth your heart has grown proud.What is wrong with this picture? You've been successful beyond your dreams. People admire and respect you. You have arrived. But you know something is not quite right because you are not satisfied, you want even more. But the more never seems to be enough. You put up a front which people interpret as confidence, competence, and calculating. You begin
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Hebrews 11:1 (NKJV)Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Faith in God is not a belief in a fairy tale. It is based on reason and on rational evidence. But it is not like God has written on the sky "I am God, and you are not." So why does God hide behind his creation and behind the logic and reason of our minds? It seems that he is hidden to those who do not believe and that he is obvious and manifest to those who do believe. Belief is an interesting concept
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Hebrews 10:24-25 (NKJV)And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.When a person is saved, it is a matter between him and God. Even though it is an individual response to the calling of God, usually there will be a number of family and friends who will rejoice in the miracle that is the new birth. But it is possible and actually common that an individual
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Ezekiel 22:30 (NKJV)So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.This was the theme verse for the Promise Keepers conference during one season. This is the Lord speaking about not being able to find a single man who would stand up for the Lord and who would build a wall between his people and the influences of the world. This does not mean that there is no contact with the world. There is
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Hebrews 9:21-22 (NIV)In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies. In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.Christianity is a very bloody religion. Many people are repulsed by the horror of it all. But blood plays a central role in the remitting of sins. In the past several days we've seen how the entire Levitical system is an acting out, a shadow of the real thing in Heaven. Jesus is the real thing. He did indeed
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Psalm 106:37-38 (NIV)They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood.Psalm 106 is about national repentance. The nation of Israel looks back over its history and confesses all of its sins. It is hard to imagine how God's people could become involved with this shocking sin. The Canaanites practiced sacrificing infants to the god of Molech, a fertility god, that perhaps they might be granted a good crop that year. The horror of
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Hebrews 8:1-2 (NKJV)Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.I was looking back over my readings for today thinking about what I wanted to comment on. This verse made me take a second look because it claimed to be "the main point." These are the kind of keywords you listen for in class while taking notes to
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Hebrews 7:25 (NKJV)
Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
There is no one so bad that he cannot be saved. He is able to the uttermost. But we have to come to God through Christ. How does Jesus save us? He represents us before God. That is the ultimate in intercessory prayer.
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Hebrews 7:7 (NIV)
And without doubt the lesser person is blessed by the greater.
We say "Bless the Lord oh my soul." The Lord is gracious enough and loving enough to be blessed by our feeble attempts to bless him. But then the Lord blesses us with all that he has. All I can do is sit here in awed wonder. I am least and He is greatest. That still does not seem to adequately describe the vast gulf between Holy God and sinful man.
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Hebrews 6:4-6 (NIV)It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.This verse is controversial and has been used effectively to argue against the security of the believer, the idea that once a person is saved, he cannot lose his
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Hebrews 5:13-14 (NIV)Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.It makes sense that a newly converted Christian would not know much about the deeper truths of the faith. But just as we expect infants to grow and mature, we should expect Christians to do likewise. It is not right for a Christian not to grow. Some of the more difficult concepts of the faith, like dying to self, go against our natural
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Ezekiel 3:18-19 (NIV)When I say to a wicked man, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his evil ways in order to save his life, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you do warn the wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his evil ways, he will die for his sin; but you will have saved yourself.When God saves someone, He gives them eternal life. We teach that it is impossible to
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Ezekiel 1:4-6,10 (NIV)I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north--an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man, but each of them had four faces and four wings.Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a man, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also
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Hebrews 2:3-4 (NIV)How shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.Look, God offers salvation from his wrath against sin. He saves those who will believe in Christ's substitutionary death, trust in Him and surrender themselves to His Lordship. This was all made very clear in the Bible. This message has been confirmed by hundreds of eyewitnesses to Jesus'
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Hebrews 1:1-3 (NIV)In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.Prophets speak for God, but Jesus is the actual Word of God as
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Philemon 10-11 (NIV)I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, who became my son while I was in chains. Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.Philemon 18 (NIV)If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, charge it to me.Onesimus was a slave of Philemon who apparently ran away and probably stole some valuables in the process. Paul met Onesimus and led him to the Lord and is now sending him back to Philemon a changed man.In this short letter, Paul illustrates for us the principle of
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Titus 3:4-5 (NKJV)But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy SpiritHere is a fundamental and succinct review of the good news of salvation. There are a number of profound doctrinal truths in this short passage. God is kind, He loves us. It not because of our works but because of his mercy that He saves us. The way He saves us is by regeneration and renewal. We
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Proverbs 26:17 (NIV)Like one who seizes a dog by the ears is a passer-by who meddles in a quarrel not his own.My dog is just as lovable and sweet as he can be but whenever a particular young niece of mine gets around him, she can't resist pulling, poking and overall annoying my dog. He seems resigned, forlornly looking up at me as if to say "do I have to put up with all this?" A while back, she grabbed his ears and that was just too much for him; he snapped at her. He did not bite her and
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excerpted from Roger Sessions at ObjectWatch via Jason TuckerAn Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architecture that defines how autonomous systems interoperate with particular focus on: Asynchronous communicationsHeterogeneous transport channelsProof of identifyError managementWorkflow coordinationIf two systems are autonomous, then they have no mutual dependencies. This implies that neither system interrupts its own work to wait for some other system to complete its task. This implies asynchronous communications. The first SOA principle is therefore asynchronous communications. If two autonomous systems interoperate, then there must be a communications channel between the two that is independent of the technology used by either system. The
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Psalm 98:1 (NIV)Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.Musicians and song writers are always writing new songs. What is their motivation? Usually they write and sing from their own experience. Here we are told to sing a new song to the Lord. Same reason. He has done marvelous things and that makes us want to sing about it. There is something about worshiping the Lord through song that connects our emotional being with our intellectual being. Not only do we hear and
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2 Timothy 4:3 (NIV)For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.Some preachers are well known because they are gifted as great orators. Their message is hard hitting and biblically sound. My Pastor, Adrian Rogers, is such a preacher. His popularity is not with the world however; it is amongst Christians and primarily within our own denomination. In fact, I know a number of people who are really turned off
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2 Timothy 2:23-25 (NKJV)But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truthHere is the Holy Spirit's analysis of the proverbs we looked at yesterday about answering a fool's folly. Avoid quarreling but don't be silent. I want this picture of the Lord's servant to be a picture of me. I like this person described here: gentle and patient
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Sorting and Paging Recordsets in SQL ServerFawcette.com - Get a Handle on .NET RemotingVisual Studio Magazine - Create Mobile Database AppsGenerating GUIDs on the Pocket PCVisual Studio Magazine - ASP.NET - Boost Performance With CachingFind fonts, Try fonts, Buy fonts : MyFonts.com“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” – Brian W. Kernighan, via KeithThe Amazing RollovererMice JavaScript ressource via Roy OsheroveCreating Tablet PC Applications with VS .NETInformation for Developers about Changes to IE as
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Proverbs 26:4-5 (NIV)Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself.Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.The book of Proverbs is a collection of wise sayings. How wise can it be to contradict yourself though? Which is it, answer the fool or not? These two verses are a classic "proof" that the Bible cannot be inspired, otherwise the author would not have so obviously contradicted himself. However, because this contradiction is so obvious and immediate, it deserves a close inspection. Let's analyze the two
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Psalm 90:2 (NIV)Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.I love the term "from everlasting to everlasting." We are stuck in this little blip of existence called time. God is in eternity. When we think of eternity, we tend to think of just a whole lot of time. This is wrong but it's about all we can come up with to describe eternity because we cannot grasp such a concept. Notice how the sentence uses the present tense to say "You are God." It does not say
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1 Timothy 6:6-8 (NKJV)Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.The feeling of discontent is misery. Here we are presented a different picture of contentment. It does not come from having an abundance of things. Paul says food and clothing is all we really need. Jesus said to his disciples:Luke 12:22,30-31 (NIV)"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. ...
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The Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide via JerZoneWriter Says !Hero, New Gospel Rock Opera, Is Biblical Truth Post-Modernized Eddie DeGarmo, the author of this new play, used to work for me as a maintenance man at an apartment complex in Memphis before he became famous as a Christian rock group star. This play will not be like Jesus Christ Superstar or anything like that. Knowing Eddie, it should be authentic, maybe a little noisy and loud, but the message will be there.
Twelve Reasons why Collegians Lose Their Faith via Aaron ShafovaloffNuance Vocalizer Interactive DemoSombrero GalaxyThe Reality of AntimatterTriangle
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1 Timothy 5:1-2 (NIV)Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.Here Paul is giving fatherly wisdom to the young Timothy who is now the pastor of a church. The pastor must know how to deal with people, how to motivate them and how to confront them. This is not much different than managing people at work. Typically a manager is promoted out of the ranks because of some outstanding performance or loyalty. Coming from the
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Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV)'Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.'I have a curious mind about the world and how things work. I catch myself thinking from time to time that I might get a little bored in Heaven, what with all the harp playing and other musical activities there. I am not very talented when it comes to music. Then I am jolted out such silly worries when I read a verse like that above.How could I ever worry about boredom when I will be able to sit at
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I just learned something about XSLT. It is called an attribute value template. For example, instead of having to use the following construction to create a link:
<a><xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="@url"/>
</xsl:attribute>My Link
</a>
you can simply say
<a href="{@url}">My Link</a>There is a lot of XSLT code I need to go clean up now...
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Jeremiah 31:31-34 (NIV)"The time is coming," declares the Lord, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them," declares the Lord."This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the Lord. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will
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1 Timothy 2:1-4 (NIV)I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone--for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.The Bible exhorts us, as a matter of first priority, that we pray for those in authority. This starts with our president and continues down to the local level. We are to pray even for those with whom we
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Kevin asked about the code I was using to generate the reading plan. Here are some links to the source code and to the xml file of the Bible books and daily readings.
Enjoy!
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Jeremiah 29:11-13 (NIV)For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.What an encouraging verse! The context is that of the Jews returning from their captivity in Babylon, but the application is broad to include any of God's people at any time. God has a plan for you,
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ColAutoResize is an undocumented Private member of Datagrid. This is how to call it via Reflection:
Dim gridType As Type = grid.GetType()
Dim mi as MethodInfo = gridType.GetMethod("ColAutoResize", _
BindingFlags.Instance Or BindingFlags.NonPublic)
mi.Invoke(grid, New Object() {0})
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If
(Control.ModifierKeys And Keys.Control) = Keys.Control Then
DoSomethingElse()
Else
DoSomethingDifferent()
End If
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2 Thessalonians 3:10-13 (NIV)For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat." We hear that some among you are idle. They are not busy; they are busybodies. Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the bread they eat. And as for you, brothers, never tire of doing what is right.The context of this verse comes after tremendous prophecies regarding the end times. Can you see how some people could concern themselves so much with Jesus' return that they
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I use BlogLines, the web-based RSS aggregator. I wanted to be able to use my subscription list on their site to feed my BlogRoll on my site. They make available a javascript based BlogRoll which makes a call to the BlogLines website each time a page is loaded, but I wanted to be able to cache the blogRoll information so that it was only refreshed once per day. The way I did it was to read my OPML xml data from their site using the following url:http://www.bloglines.com/export?username=davcarThen I applied the xslt transformation to produce my blog roll which is only
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