2 Timothy chapter 3, one of my favorite chapters, one of my favorite texts. I want to read the last four verses. 2 Timothy chapter 3, beginning in verse 14. But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and it's profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. Bless us now, Lord, by Your Spirit, through Your Word, in Jesus' name, Amen. I once read where a Gutenberg Bible, one of the first books ever printed, sold to a Japanese buyer at a Christie's auction house in London for $5.4 million. You might have downloaded your Bible from a free app, or maybe forked over $49.95 for a hard copy. But trust me, your copy of the Bible is every bit as valuable. Speaking of a Gutenberg Bible, two men were seated next to each other on a crowded bus. One fellow was staring out the window while the other man was reading. He was engrossed in the daily newspaper.  Well, the other fellow, he kind of turns, and he mutters, he says, yeah, I used to have one of those Gutenberg Bibles, found it at a garage sale while I was stationed in Germany. Well, the fellow with the paper was shocked. He says, you gotta be kidding, what'd you do with it? The man replied rather nonchalantly. He said, oh, I threw it away. You threw it away?  That Bible was worth millions of dollars. The fellow said, not mine. He said, well, how can you be so sure? The guy replied, well, some fellow named Martin Luther scribbled his name all over the cover of mine. Hey, like this fellow on the bus, a lot of people today don't realize the value of the Bible they possess. The Bible, the one book that reveals the true God. In the Bible, all the lines of history converge and make sense. The Bible maps out the only way to heaven. The Bible even answers the practical daily questions how we live our lives successfully. Read and believe the Bible and it will settle for you, your eternal destiny, as well as garner for you a priceless cache of spiritual treasures both now and forever. The Bible, it's unlike every other book ever written, investigated, and you'll conclude it has but one explanation. The Bible is a book from God to us. Here in chapter three, Paul is concerned with perilous times. They're a coming. Don't think temptation is gonna weaken or opposition is going to lessen. Oh no, expect trials and tribulations. They're only gonna intensify. Living the Christian life is only gonna get harder, not easier. And Paul tells Timothy this is especially so for men. Notice verse one of chapter three. In the last days, perilous times will come for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, the list goes on. Notice in the last days, it's the men who go off the rails. And sadly, that's not only true of the last days, it is also true of our day. For men have lost their way. Where are the godly men today who love and lead their wives and sacrifice for their families and step up in their churches? In 1912, when the ocean liner, the Titanic, sunk, the death toll was 1,450 people. But of those who died, only 103 were women. That's amazing. Compare that though with the wreck of the Costa Concordia in 2012. Only 32 people died in that sinking, but of those who did, the percentage of women was much higher. And why is that? Well, it seems that the women and children first policy that the men observed in 1912 had vanished by 2012. You see, a century ago, men respected women and children. Women weren't considered equal, they were seen as more valuable and worthy of our protection. It was a man's duty to put the safety of women and children ahead of himself. Yet today, this women and children first mentality has been replaced with every man for himself. Sandra Rogers, a passenger on the Concordia, she recounts how she was pushed aside by, as she quotes, big men and male crew members who climbed aboard the lifeboats, leaving her and other ladies on the deck of the ship. As Paul said, for men will be lovers of themselves. Today, men feel the freedom to disrespect women as they would other men. I hope the feminists are happy. They finally have the equal treatment they've wanted. The problem though is that the new equality has only diminished, rather than enhance the status and the welfare of women. And this is an indictment against us men. A real man like Jesus, he lays down his life for others. He sacrifices for his wife and his kids and the weak and defenseless of his church. In contrast, the average guy today, even some Christian guys act like boys, not men. They're selfish. It's all about me, myself and I. They use women for their own gratification. They put off commitment. They fail to hold down a job. They lack discipline and godly initiative. They live an irresponsible lifestyle. They are lovers of themselves. Hey, and you can recognize a boy. The boy is the one who's always opting for shortcuts. A boy wants a wife and a job and kids and a house that earn a lot of work. He might as well believe in Santa Claus. He doesn't exist either. Here's what a boy says. I want money, just not a regular job. I wanna own a business, but without the long hours it requires. I want sex, but just without a commitment to a marriage and to a family. I want a cool church. I just don't wanna have to give anything or do anything. And it is the immaturity of men today that is paralyzing the cause of Christ and ruining the health of our families. Yo, perilous times are here. In contrast, here in chapter three, Paul instructs this young disciple, Timothy, to take a stand, to be a man, to go against the grain. He is to continue in what he's been taught to not forsake the holy scriptures. What he has known from childhood should remain his life's preoccupation. No man ever outgrows their Bible. Even Paul, at the end of his life, on death row in a Roman prison, he instructed Timothy to bring me the parchments. Even Paul, the apostle, needed his Bible. And here at the close of chapter three, Paul tells Timothy, even after he has learned the scripture, after he has been assured of it, he should still continue in it. Never put it down. The Bible is always something for everybody. It's been said the Bible is a river shallow enough for the smallest child to find firm footing and yet so deep the most brilliant theologian can never touch bottom. There's book smart and there's street smart but the Bible makes you God smart. As Paul put it, wise unto salvation. He sums it up in a single word, profitable. Men, the study of the Bible is worthy of your time in toil, your concentration and your exploration. If your goal is to be a man of God in perilous times, fit and fitted for godly living at home and at church and in the world, then the Bible needs to be your cornerstone. Paul makes that clear. Here in verses 16 and 17, he says that the scripture alone is able to thoroughly furnish the man of God with all that he needs to be fruitful and faithful and fearless. David brought it up in the last session. Psalm 119, verse nine, I love that verse. It asks the question, how can a young man cleanse his way? And I love the logic behind that verse. The Psalmist doesn't ask, how can a little child cleanse his way? How can a middle-aged woman or an old man cleanse their way? No, kids and grandmas and old geezers aren't usually known as rebel rousers. So you clean up the way of a grandma. No biggie? How dirty could it have been in the first place? But young men, oh my, adolescent men are cocky and they're reckless and they're stubborn and they're independent and they're hot-headed and they're hormonal and they're impulsive and they're obstinate. I know cause I was one. But here's the point. If you can cleanse a young man's way, you can cleanse anybody. And so how can you cleanse a young man's way? Well the Psalmist answers this by taking heed according to your word. This is why the Bible is so important. God's word alone has the ability to renew a mind and to transform a character and create a new outlook and break the chains of old habits and produce sensitivity and spawn self-discipline and to develop faith. Paul tells us faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. What can tame a young man's lusts and passions and impulses? Oh, there are a thousand shortcuts. Oh, we need to pray over. Let's cast the demon out of him. Let's slay him in the spirit. Let's enroll him in an accountability group. The list goes on and on. But the only hope for that young man, actually any man for that matter to live a pure and godly life is a steady diet of the Bible, the word of God. It is the continual washing of the water of the word that removes the grimeous grime in the dirtiest dirt. Oh, you remember King David's mighty men? They were the special forces of the day. Second Samuel chapter 23 verse 10 describes the exploits of one Eleazar.  The Lord brought about a great victory that day. The face of the enemy, the last ounce of energy. Eleazar tightened his grip on his sword and he kept fighting so much so his hand literally froze to the handle. And this is how we should handle the sword of the spirit, God's word. We need to clutch onto it and use it effectively and never let it go. The Bible will make you a man of God in perilous times. This is why Paul admonishes Timothy, probably for the 99th time, to never neglect the scriptures. And this morning I wanna issue to you that very same challenge. Realize what you have in the book that you hold in your hand. I hope you appreciate the Bible's power and vitality and its uniqueness. It is like no other book written. Imagine suddenly us in this room hearing a loud whistling noise in the air. We rushed outside to see this boulder barreling through the atmosphere at breakneck speed, heading straight toward us. A huge meteorite hits the roof of this building and lands and sinks a crater right into the center of this room. As the smoke clears, we all gather around still gazing at this glowing cosmic rock. When all of a sudden one of us notices a metallic envelope, it's attached to this meteor. Somebody retrieves it and opens it and we find a letter inside that's signed Love God. It's a word from God. We'd be thrilled, wouldn't we? We would study that letter, we would trust in it, we would give it our utmost attention. And yet that is exactly what you possess in your Bible. The Bible is a message from God to us. And if we understand this truth, we will continue in the scriptures. We'll let it teach us and instruct us. We'll let it take us to task and correct us. We will become men of the Word of God. Obviously the Bible didn't come to us on a meteor, or in a metallic envelope, but the fourfold process by which it did arrive is no less supernatural. And this morning, I want us to appreciate that process. Paul lays it out for us here in verse 16. He says, all scripture, that's a word that we'll call canonization. All scripture is given. That giving process includes transmission and translation and it's by inspiration of God. To appreciate your Bible for what it is, a message from God to us, we need to understand how it arrived. Inspiration, canonization, transmission and translation. Let's begin with inspiration. All scripture is given by inspiration of God. Oh, you can go to a Shakespearean play or a Beethoven symphony or even a U2 concert and you'll remark afterwards at that performance. It was inspired in the colloquial tongue. We use the word inspired to describe human creativity and genius. That's not how it's used in reference to the Bible's inspiration. It's meaning is much more profound. The Greek term theonustos is a compound word. Theo means God. Nustos means breathed. Inspiration is the supernatural process by which God breathed and spoke his word into existence. Second Peter chapter one tells us, knowing this, that no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation. For prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. The miracle we call the Bible occurred when holy men were moved by the Holy Spirit. And this is why it's of no private interpretation. Don't say of the Bible, oh, you have your interpretation and I have mine. No, the right interpretation is the intent that God had when he breathed it into being. What did the original authors mean when they put it on the page? Of course, this doesn't imply that the authors of the Bible were given the words in some mechanical fashion. Inspiration is not spiritual robotics or dictation. The Holy Spirit superintended the composition of the Bible using the individual writer's style and vocabulary and even his cultural setting, even retaining traces of his personality. And yet the Holy Spirit oversaw and directed all that was pinned to ensure that it was exactly what God desired and intended. Think of the living word, our Lord Jesus. He was fully God and fully man. Jesus was 100 proof God, but I imagine he had dark hair, maybe a Jewish nose. He looked like his mom. The divine had worked through the human. And this was also true of the written word. The spirit moved so that what we have on the page is 100 proof God, yet it still reflects the style and the vocabulary and the culture of the men who mothered it. When we talk about the inspiration of Scripture, we use four words to help us define what we mean. The first is the word literal. What the Bible says it means. Now certainly there are passages that were written as poetry and meant to be taken figuratively. And when that occurs, it's usually apparent in the text. Yet the Bible speaks plainly about many, many issues and when it does, that's how we should treat it. When the Bible tells us that Jesus is coming again and when God created the earth in six days and when Jonah was swallowed by a fish and that Jesus is the only way to God and that marriage is for a man and for a woman, then that is exactly what it means. It's not to be diluted or reinvented or spiritualized. The Bible's meant to be taken literally. The second word used to describe inspiration is verbal. Verbal inspiration means that every word of the Bible is inspired, not just the thoughts or the intent. In Jeremiah 26, verse two, God told Jeremiah, stand in the court of the Lord's house and speak all the words that I command you today. Do not diminish a word. Every word of the text is strategic. All 774,746 words found in your English Bible are God-breathed. The Jewish rabbis used to say, when Messiah comes, he will not only interpret the passages for us, he'll interpret the very words. He'll even interpret the letters. In fact, he will even interpret the spaces between the letters. The rabbis believe that even the spaces between the letters were God-breathed. This is what Jesus taught us in Matthew 5, verse 18. There he says, to heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle will by no means pass away from the law to all is fulfilled. The jot was the smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet. The tittle was the smallest stroke on the smallest letter and thus Jesus is telling us that the scriptures are inspired down to their very markings. The third word used to describe inspiration is the word plenary or the whole of scripture. It's not just the portions of the Bible that deal with theology or ethics that are inspired, but all the Bible is God-breathed. Even the Bible's historical and scientific statements. You know, some folks today have a Dalmatian theology.  But Paul says all. Leviticus is as inspired as Luke. Job is God-breathed as James. Oh yes, Old Testament Israel was an ancient, agrarian, eastern culture. We live in a modern, urban, western culture. And it might take a little bit more effort for us to see how that laws relating to our neighbor's donkey apply to us today. But it's doable. In fact, Paul told Timothy it's profitable. In Acts chapter 20 on the beach in Meletus, Paul mentioned to the Ephesian elders, what he had seen as his duty, I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God. I believe it takes the whole Bible to make a whole Christian. Paul's job was to preach it all. Too many believers today have what I call a Pandora approach to scripture. Have you listened to music on Pandora? Have you done that? Got that on my phone. You type in an artist or a song that you like and an algorithm creates a playlist of similar sounding music. And as each sound plays, Pandora allows you to either thumbs up or thumbs down that song. And this sort of helps the algorithm further tailor the music to your likes and your dislikes. And this is how some Christians treat the Bible. Some pastors do it too. Oh, they read of God's love and they click like, thumbs up. But then there's the Bible's stance on sexuality. Oops, that's a thumbs down. The parable of the prodigal son. Man, I like that. The slaughter of the Canaanites. Woo, wait, wait a minute, that's a thumbs down. Hope for the hurting, that's a like. Sobriety and holiness. Oh, wait a minute, let's not go there. Thumbs up and thumbs down. And as with a Pandora's playlist, this shapes a person's Christianity rather than deal with the whole council, they gravitate to only what's easy and what's pleasant. And as a result, the church is a mile wide and an inch deep. Believers are anemic and sickly, even Christian men. This is why we need all the scripture, not just part and parcel. The third word, plenary, means the whole of scripture. And then the fourth word used to describe inspiration is inerrancy. The Bible teaches that in the autographs, the original docs, the scripture is free from all error. In John chapter 17, verse 17, Jesus prayed to the Father, your word is truth. In John 10, verse 35, he said the scripture cannot be broken. This means you can lean on this book. It should supply you with confidence, trust in what it says. Nothing is as pathetic as a believer who has lost confidence in the scriptures. He's like a sheared Samson, wrapped in Philistine twine, unable to shake loose. The secret of his strength has eluded him. Don't you become prey for the enemy. It is the inerrant, infallible, unfailing word of God that makes us strong. Inspiration, it's literal, it's verbal, it's plenary, and it's inerrant. And yet inspiration is just the first stop on the Bible's journey from God to us. Next was canonization. The word canon means read. In ancient Israel, reads from the river bank were used as measuring sticks, and thus the canon is the standard. It's the official list of inspired books. When Paul says all scripture, it was by canonization that the church defined all. The Old Testament canon was determined by the Jews. Romans 3 verse 2, Paul tells us that God appointed the Jews as the custodians of the Old Testament. Josephus, a Jewish historian, listed the canonical books recognized by the Jews at the time of Christ, and his list consists of the exact books we have today. This list is important since Jesus accepted the Jewish canon of his own day. In Luke 24 verse 44 he said, all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the Psalms concerning me. These were the three divisions, the law, the prophets, and the Psalms. These were the books that made up the Jewish Bible. Roman Catholics accept 14 additional books called the Apocrypha. We as Protestants reject these books as inspired for two significant reasons. First, and most importantly, Jesus didn't accept them. Jesus never quoted from the Apocrypha, though he quoted or referred to every other Old Testament book. And second, the Babylonian Kalman, which was a Jewish commentary at the time, it stated, Malachi was last written and the spirit departed. The Apocrypha was written after Malachi and thus not accepted by the Jews. Actually the Apocrypha wasn't included in the Catholic Church's Canon of Scripture until 1546 at the Council of Trent. It was added because the church needed a source of support for its practice of praying for the dead. And since they couldn't find it in Scripture, they appealed to a passage in the Apocrypha. The New Testament Canon was also established by Jesus but in advance. Jesus clarified the Canon by limiting those who could write it to the 12 apostles. In Matthew 18, Jesus gave the apostles special authority to bind and to loose.  Binding and loosing were rabbinical terms. They referred to the authority of prohibiting or approving. In Judaism it was the rabbis' role to bind and to loose but in the church Jesus bestowed this authority on his first 12 apostles. And this allowed them to establish the faith in the practice of the early church through binding and loosing. The apostles set out in the writing of the New Testament the terms of the New Covenant and weaned those early Christians away from Judaism. This is why the New Testament Canon was limited to the books that were written by either one of the 12 apostles or at least under the apostle's supervision. And I believe Paul also had this apostolic authority. I believe he was God's 12th apostle. He was the replacement for Judas. Peter says as much when he mentions Paul in 2 Peter chapter three, he says also our brother Paul according to the wisdom given to him has written to you as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things in which are some things hard to understand which those who are untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction as they do also the rest of the scriptures. Peter talks about how Paul had twist people were twaking Paul's teaching and they were twisting and comporting it but in doing so he equates Paul's letters with the rest of scripture. They too were part of the Canon. This is why John the last apostle to die knowing that he was the last person bestowed by Jesus with this special authority to write sacred text, close the final book, the revelation with a serious warning. Revelation 22 verse 18 reads, I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book. If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book. And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the book of life. And with that verse, the last of the apostles sealed the sacred Canon and thus no new books had been added since John. The final two steps that the Bible took to come from God to us are transmission and translation. All scripture is given and it's not a gift that we've taken for granted. Over the centuries, the Bible has been cherished and preserved and now served up all over the world. The apostles wrote the original parchment, but then they were meticulously and they were numerously copied. Today, 5,600 plus copies of the ancient Greek New Testament have survived. When you speak of documents from antiquity, this is an enormous unprecedented number. We have a fragment of John's Gospel from 130 AD.  And there's similarity with today's text corroborates the Bible's reliability. Certainly, the scriptures can be trusted. In addition to the thousands of New Testament manuscripts we possess, we also have over 36,000 New Testament quotations that appear in the writings of the early church fathers. These quotes tell us that the Bible read by Christians today in the 21st century is the same Bible that was read by the church in the second and third centuries. You see this notion we hear so often that the biblical stories were passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation and along the way exaggerated or embellished or corrupted is an absolute farce. It flies in the face of the evidence. Beyond a shout of a doubt, today's Bible faithfully represents what was originally penned by the inspired writers. Not only did God oversee the Bible's inspiration, he attended to its canonization and its transmission. For a time, the evidence for the reliability of the Old Testament was not as compelling as that of the New. For years, the oldest copies we had the Hebrew writings were from the Masoretic text which dated to 900 AD. This meant that 1300 years separated our oldest copies from the original writings. Many skeptics wondered if the accuracy of our Old Testament had been compromised. Then in 1947, a young shepherd boy, he was just out wandering the hills near the Dead Sea. He stumbled across the greatest archaeological find in the 20th century. He threw a rock into a cave. We heard the crack of a jar. He went inside and he found numerous clay jars all containing rare and valuable documents from antiquity. The Dead Sea scrolls contain almost all the Old Testament dating back to 100 BC, knocking a thousand years off the time between the copies we had and the original writings. They took us back a millennium and showed us the reliability of the Old Testament that we've been reading. And we found that it was virtually unchanged. The very few slight variations that we noted were due to spelling or smudges. Hey, you need to know that our Bible today has been faithfully transmitted down through the centuries and it represents what was originally pinned by the prompting of the Holy Spirit. God not only supervised the Bible's inspiration, he has also attended to its transmission. And then the fourth step in which the Bible has come from God to us is translation. Here again, all Scripture is given. The Bible is a gift and that gift is even more special when it comes to us in the language that we can read. Realize, if you were given one of the original manuscripts of the Bible, you wouldn't be able to read it. You'd just take one peek at it and you'd say, well, it looks Greek to me. That's why the Bible had to be translated to be given. Did you know the Bible was the first book ever translated? It's also the world's most translated book. Today, there is a portion of it in at least 2,800 languages. Don't ever take your English Bible for granted. Paul says all Scripture is given and it comes to us as a costly gift. For centuries, the Roman Catholic hierarchy preferred that the Bible remain in Latin and Greek so that only the priests could read it and know God's will. The religious establishment tried to keep the common man ignorant. They feared the undermining of their own authority if Christian men read the Bible for themselves. We now call that time the Dark Angel Ages and I wonder why. But then men, men like John Wycliffe and the 1300s and William Tyndall and the 1500s sacrificed their very lives to bring the Bible to the English speaking world. Tyndall once taunted a stubborn theologian.  That is exactly what happened. Despite fierce resistance, Tyndall smuggled his English translation to the British people. In 1536, he was strangled and his body burned at the stake for his courageous activities. Boy, don't ever take your English Bible for granted. A high price was paid to gift it to you. Tyndall's last words were, Lord, open the King of England's eyes. His prayer was answered three years later when Henry VIII ordered every church in the land to have an English Bible available for its members to read. Several years ago, my son and I, we took a trip to Germany where we visited the Vortberg Castle, the place where Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German, the common language of his period. We entered the room where he set at his desk and where he worked. We even saw the ink spot on the wall that he threw the ink at the devil. It was Martin Luther who said this. Oh, that this one book were in every language, in every land, before the eyes and in the ears and in the hearts of all men. And the work of translating God's gift continues. There are still 180 million people without a Bible. Thank God for the believers who still risked their lives to travel to remote regions to translate God's word. They carry in their chest the flame of Wycliffe and Tyndall and Luther and long for the day when everyone on earth has a Bible in their mother tongue. So what is the Bible? It is a message from God to us and it comes to us supernaturally through inspiration and canonization and transmission and translation. But then what does that Bible do? Paul tells us it's profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. Doctrine is what to believe. Correction is what not to believe. Instruction is how to live. Reproof is how not to live. All of that is found in the Bible. The Bible is profitable that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. The Bible has faith and life covered from all angles. Obviously there are facts not mentioned in the Bible. Nowhere in the Bible does it tell us that water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit or that a sneeze exits your nose at 100 miles per hour. I mean, the Bible may lack facts, but it is not short on truth. All that humans need to know about God and about themselves and about life are in the Bible. The Bible doesn't contain everything there is to know, but it does provide us everything we need to know to live holy and healthy lives. Oh, the Bible refers to itself as a fire, a hammer, a sword. It's a purifying flame. It can crack the hardest heart like a surgeon's scalpel. It belays our motives. I'm sure it breaks God's heart whenever he sees a child of God confused and doubting. Whenever he watches us worry and wonder, fear and fret, all the while, that book that holds the answers sits on our shelf collecting dust, causes God to cry. Hey, when a man of God has the word of God, he has all that he needs to succeed in this fine art of living. I'll never forget sitting on the 18th green at Augusta National one year, watching the Masters. I was talking to a fellow who owned a bar in Missouri. He was telling me how he bartered beer kegs for Masters badges. Well, after we talked for a while, this fellow he asked me, he said, what do you do for a living? Well, I said, I was a pastor. Suddenly got excited. He had lots and lots of questions for me, but I'll never forget his first. He said, man, he said, I had a friend who wanted to be a pastor and he went to one of those places. It's a seminary, I think you call it. He went there for three or four years and I've never figured out why you need that much schooling. All you guys got is one book. I walked away thinking that that Missouri bartender was more insightful than a lot of Christians. When will we realize God has made it so simple? He's compiled the whole course in a single book. Here's how to be a man of God in perilous times. Be mighty in the scriptures. Once there was a lonely elderly lady, she bought a pet parrot to keep her company. She figured she could always chat with her parrot. But after bringing the bird home from the store, she couldn't get the thing to talk. So she went back to the pet store. She complained to the store manager. He told her, he said, well, does the parrot have a mirror in the cage? You know, parrots love mirrors. So she bought a mirror, took it home, put it in the cage. Still no chit chat with the parrot. So she returned to the pet store again. This time the owner asked her, does your parrot have a ladder? You know, parrots love ladders and a happy parrot's a talkative parrot. So she tried a ladder. Still not a peep from the parrot. Finally, she went back a third time. The owner said, well, get him a swing. You know, parrots, they love swings. Set him swinging and he'll talk up a storm. So she bought a swing. Two days later, she returned to the pet store. When the manager asked her about her pet parrot, the woman said, man, he's dead. Well, the owner was shocked. He's, I can't believe it. He said, did your parrot ever say a word before he died? The woman replied, well, yes. Yes, as a matter of fact, he did. In a very soft, faint, weak little whisper, he asked me, don't they sell any food at that pet store? And here's a warning for you. Rather than grow the church God's way by feeding God's people with God's word, Christians today have resorted to mirrors and to ladders and to swings. Folks are invited to look into the mirror. Self-help has replaced scripture. Ladders and rung-by-rung formulas have replaced faith. Swinging music and entertainment have replaced spiritual, scriptural substance. People today are like that parrot. They're told to explore their inner self, climb the rungs of some man-made wisdom, swing on an emotional roller coaster all the while they're dying for lack of food. The Bible. In a given year, Thomas Nelson Publishers will use 15 million tons of paper, two million square inches of gold leaf, 100,000 zippers, and one million square feet of leather in the publishing of its Bibles. Since the invention of the printing press in 1456, over seven billion Bibles have been printed worldwide making the Bible the world's all-time bestseller. The Bible's 66 books have a unified theme. They're packed with fulfilled prophecies. The enduring Word has outlasted all its opposition. There's but one possible explanation for this book. It's of supernatural origin. This book is a message from God to us. And this is why Paul tells Timothy to continue in what he's been taught to never forsake the Scriptures. And this is my prayer for you and me. Guys, let's be men of God in perilous times. Let's be a man of God's Word.


Welcom to yw'r Matriachion Everton 3, Bormath nil Everton 1, y Hwngym chi ddweud y dyna wedyn yn wath y seikwrs Everton ddyn nhw'n y Hwngym. Dei ffest win ar Hwn yn 132 ddys, sy'n dwi lasbyd Bormath y Gwladysun Park, back in May, on that day it was to secure our Premier League status today I was to get our first home win of the season and moved four points clear of the cherries in what was a very command and victory today. Fully deserved three points for Sean Dyche's men and Everton doing the job that we've needed them to do. Bounced back from an awful defeat by Luton Town last week and it's been such a better performance by Everton today, much more intense. Got off the Bormath and did really well. The manager had named the start on the 11th that didn't include Amadou Omnana. That had changed by the time the teams come out. Garn had just gone agai, being injured or taken unwell in the warm-up. Wasn't available, Amadou Omnana had come into the side and was brilliant. I thought him and James Garner in the middle of the field were absolutely fantastic today and Bormath couldn't cope. Everton got off to a good start, a goal early on from James Garner, but Bormath done one of the worst attempts at trying to play out, I think I've seen collectively. That made them vulnerable all the time and Everton were on it and almost got in a couple of times. Just a final ball, but on this occasion we'd go and take the ball off them and James Garner travels forward and just slams the ball, passing it out to give Everton a nearly lead. Something we hadn't done in other home games was take the lead, get that goal when we were on top. Everton continued to press forward. I could have had more goals, but we did get a second goal and it was such a valuable and vital second goal and it was a brilliant second goal as well, Jack Harrison. Ball into the penalty area, Neto comes and punches and clears it and Harrison just stays it back over him from the edge of the box. It was a brilliant finish, lovely touch from Harrison to lift it over the goalkeeper in off the underside of the bar and put Everton in total command. We could have added three and four before half time, we didn't and Bormath did look, they looked all at sea. And that was the only disappointment at half time, you stood there chatting saying this could really and probably should really be three or four on it by now and will that come back to Haunters.  Wins the ball, add the lead, the core is running in on goal and hits one of the worst weakest shots you will see straight at Neto when he should have buried it and put the game off to sight. And then you are nervous because straight from that, Bormath broke down the other end and we eventually scrambled it clear, but you're looking and thinking that was a moment to really kill the game off. But we did get that there goal and it was at the line of the core that got it. A ball crossed in, Jack Harrison probably should have headed it in, it got blocked, it come out in at the line of the core, slammed it home from close range. There was a VAR check for Adam Smith throwing himself to the floor looking for a foul, which was never a foul and the referee just ignored the foul on Jack Harrison in the build up to Everton's goal. So there you go. And Everton missed chance after chance after chance, but it was all about the intensity. In other home games we've had chances and we've missed chances as well, but there hasn't been the intensity that was there today and I think that for me was the difference in this. Obviously scoring a goal changes it. It's been said before, we've got a goal against Fulham, the core has an opportunity after three minutes just to square it for one nil and doesn't. We don't take that. Wolves we missed chances. OK, Arsenal was a victory that they deserved, but Luton, last week, we should have put the game to bed and we didn't and the question mark's then coming. If you keep missing chances, you keep losing games, you're rightly questioned, but today that wasn't the case and they were good value and like I said, they could have had more goals and should have had more goals. I'll do on nine, I hit a post.  Keith Ormore had a good header, which picked for Dunwell to block and won it tip wide, which I think was going wide anyway, but he made sure and it was a thoroughly comfortable home win, one of which we don't see too often a good of some part in recent history and it felt nice to manage it. I think if there was any criticism and I'm not going to be overly critical, I just think Sean Dyke should have made some a bit earlier. I think the players, it was a very warm day, a good of some 24, 25 degrees today and the players did put a lot into it and Bournemouth made five changes and I think Everton was looking really leggy and I think he maybe could have made the substitutions a little bit quicker, if you really want to pick holes in it, it would have kept that freshness up about the game, but we saw the game out, there was even, we saw Chimity getting a little bit of a run on, but an injury time today and he almost got in, actually over hit a pass, took a little bit off of it, he'd have been one on one with the keeper. Beto could have had himself a goal as well if he'd have followed in from Patterson's Cross, he'd have had them tapping and he had time to slam one into the side net as well, all in all, an excellent day's work at Gooderson Park, we've won the game 3-0, comfortable and thoroughly, thoroughly deserved victory for Everton today and a little bit of breathing space. More importantly we're going to an international break on the back of a win, we can all breathe for a couple of weeks, yes we retain with that hellish fixture at Amfield but we've got two weeks to enjoy this victory, we've won a game, we've scored more than once at Gooderson Park under Sean Dight for the first time, we've kept the clean sheet for the first time since May, there's a lot to enjoy this weekend and then because of that you've got two weeks to enjoy it, so there you go, go and enjoy it if you're a Bournemouth fan, I'm sure you'll be looking for home games to pick your points on, there you go, my man of the match, I think James Garner, I thought Dominic Alvaluam was brilliant and I thought Amadou Omnana was brilliant and I think James Garner just because he's got the goal has shaded my man of the match, for me James Harrison I thought as well had a really good game as well, Jack Harrison. But Jack, what's going on? James Garner is my man of the match and flustered because we've won, it's great. Right, see you later, have a good night.


With jury trial victories, many firms will list recent victories or recent successes, but there's a problem you have to be aware of. Some of these aren't quite honest when they're talking to you. What I mean is in the felony system, a case can be scratched at a preliminary hearing. Normally what that means is the prosecutor was not ready to proceed at the time of the preliminary hearing. For example, they didn't have any chemical results yet on a blood test or on a drug test, and they'll simply scratch the charge. Now other attorneys who aren't very scrupulous will put this on their website and say, case dismissed. When in reality it's simply going to be refiled roughly two to nine months later, and this is a standard on a scratch case. We do not put that as a victory on our website. Now what we will do is if a case is scratched, we will immediately contact the prosecutor and try to negotiate with them to not file charges at all or to reduce the charges to a misdemeanor if they do refile charges. We also will check warrant status every month to make sure that they don't issue a warrant for our client's arrest that neither us or the client knew about, and we protect our clients that way. But beware when you're looking at jury trial victories on other people's sites. Make sure that they're legitimate. With ours, if you ever question any of them, we always put the case number, the jurisdiction, and if you ask us we'll pull our internal file and we'll talk to you about the case without violating the privacy of that particular client.


Hey guys it's Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video I'm going to be doing my August wrap up talking about all the books that I read in the month of August. So the first book that I read this month was Confessions of the Sociopath by M.E. Thomas and I'm going to put this down because it ruins the lighting. This book is about a self-diagnosed sociopath. It's a non-fiction book and it's about how she hides in plain sight and all we know is that she identified as female and she's been self-diagnosed herself as a sociopath and later gets an official diagnosis. This book I read 30 pages of it and I could not do it and I started skimming after that. It was horrible. It made me like need to take breaks like to breathe into like process how upset I was getting over it. It was infuriating me and she also compares the sociopathic spectrum to the autistic spectrum which pisses me off and she was just horrible and I hated her. So I gave this book one star and I would not recommend it. The next book that I read this month was The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King, about a nine-year-old girl who gets lost in the woods and it's about her surviving in there and just all the things that happen with her family and how she's coping with everything. She's also in love with this baseball player named Tom Gordon and it's about how baseball kind of intertwines in this plot and it's actually really interesting. I kind of like the references but if you are a baseball fan it's going to make it extra special for you. This one's more simplistic than King's other work. I have a full length video book review of this on my channel so I'll have it linked up on the screen and in the description box for you guys to check out if you want to hear more of my thoughts. Basically at first I gave this book a 3.25 out of five stars and though I really enjoyed reading it and it really was just I was really enthralled in the story. I just it wasn't as complex and in a way it was good but it was kind of different from King and I just really wanted more from this story but from that 3.25 rating I ended up now boosting it to 3.5 because I still think about this book and it just it's remained you know I still think about it. Sometimes I just sit down and I start thinking about this book so it's definitely memorable for me so I boosted up to 3.5 and I would suggest it if you are interested in picking it up. And the next two things that I read here are Fuku Fuku Volume 1 and Volume 2. This manga is just about a kitten and it's just daily life and the owner is an elderly woman and it's just really cute and really fun and if you're looking for something light and fluffy I definitely suggest this and from my knowledge these are the only two published at the moment and I don't think there's gonna be any more at least on Goodreads it's only these two so if you're interested in reading them you only have to read two so I would highly recommend them they're really cute and I gave them both four stars. Here I read The Gunslinger by Stephen King this was a reread for me. I read it about last year around this time as well but I reread it this month with my friend Rachel so I'll have her channel link down below as well. The book is about a man in the desert and he is trying to find the man in black and we don't know why but The Gunslinger and we follow The Gunslinger in the desert and his journey and what's going on with him. I really reread this for the movie as well so I can continue with the series because I didn't remember much about this first book. I did like this better the second time around. It's still not my favorite king novel and I still had some just issues with the plot and it's pacing doing this one a lot better than the first time. Not a ton better but I enjoyed it more and I ended up giving it a 3.5 stars and I'll have my video book review linked up on the screen and down below if you guys want to hear more of my thoughts. And the next book here that I read was On Writing by Stephen King this is Stephen King's memoir about just his life and just advice about writing and it was really good and really informative. I listened to the audiobook of this so he actually narrated it. Book does have some trigger warnings so it has trigger warnings for substance abuse and alcoholism so if you are triggered by those things or affected by those topics just keep it that in mind before picking this book up. This was super informative and just a delight to read. It took me like the first quarter I was like oh okay but like I really got into it later and I think 100% if you're writing a book right now this would help you a ton so you should read this and it was really good. And if you're a king fan you'd also enjoy it so I give this 4 stars and I'd highly recommend it. The next book I have here is You're Doing Just Fine by Charlotte Erickson and this book is a poetry collection. It's a collection of poetry and it includes prose as well. I did do a review on this book as well so I'll have that linked up on the screen. Basically I'll send this by the author in exchange for an honest review and I really really enjoyed it but I will state some trigger warnings now. So this book does have trigger warnings for addiction, depression, suicide, and mentions of self-harm so keep that in mind before picking this book up. For me this was really impactful for me and it just meant a lot and if you're into poetry I'd highly recommend checking this one out. This book a 4.25 out of 5 stars. I Think Beautiful Is Not Yet Ruin by Daniel Young Elman and this book was really good. It's a YA contemporary book with suicide, depression, and sexual assault but it's also we go between past and present and basically this girl or her mother was a famous opera singer so the mom doesn't really believe and like that music is a good career because it like even though she pulled it off for a while it went downhill for her and it like broke her heart. So her daughter wants to go into music and her mom's really against it but she says if you go to this outdoor wilderness survival camp I'll let you go to your music school so that's what she does and it's about her past with her mom and then we also follow her in her survival wilderness camp. This was a pleasant surprise for me. I think it was a great read and if you're looking for a contemporary that's hard-hitting I definitely suggest this one. I found myself absolutely enthralled by the story and this character and everything that was happening. The only issue was um there was a few spoilery issues. I talk about that on Goodreads so if you have read it I'll have my Goodreads review linked down below and the little spoilery section that you could check out but I ended up giving this a this book a solid 4 stars and I'd highly recommend it and yes it was great. You should really read it. So those were the books that I read in the month of August. Let me know what you read down in the comments and if you're new here be sure to hit that subscribe button and click the notification bell to be updated for when I post new videos and all that sort of stuff and I'll see you all very soon with a new video. Bye. Oh I'm gonna break my neck.


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I'm Marcia Joyner and we are Navigating the Journey. As you know, Navigating the Journey is about the pathway through life, the journey that we take from the beginning to the end. And one of our very dear friends who was with us on this journey has passed. And she was named a living treasure of Hawaii, Sister Joan Chatfield. She was a Marino nun for 68 years. And so we decided that we would show you, we would replay some of the time that we spent with Sister Joan. And I am absolutely delighted that we had this time and that we can share it with you. So let's take a look at our living treasure. Just the most beautiful, beautiful person that I know, Sister Joan Chatfield. She is a Marino nun, missionary. Is that correct? What? Marino? Marino sister, that's correct. As well as the cultural, the chair of the cultural and such and such committee of the Interfaith Alliance of Hawaii. Welcome, Sister Joan. This is such a pleasure. Her spirit just fills up the room wherever she goes. It's just, I'll put the scenery on the green. It's just wonderful to have you. And of most people in Hawaii know you. They met you everywhere at all kinds of events, unlike anything or any other nun I have ever known. And I was christened in the Catholic Church in 1938, June 1938. So it's been a lot of nuns a lot of time.  Most of the time that's not what they come away with. So tell me all about you, about your life as a nun. Well, mostly Marino sisters are committed to going beyond where they came from. So even though I'm a member of the New Jersey tribe, I came from New Jersey. I left home at 17 to go to Marino. And then Marino trained me. And I was on a track for medical school and accepted at Georgetown. And a sister in Kanoe, who was teaching high school science and got sick, and Dr. Lipkorn Peng had to do surgery. And they needed a science teacher fast. So I came out here and I always say, I knew so little that you couldn't have even measured it. I mean, it was below the scale of measurement. And but it was a one, I was in Kanoe for three years, then Maui for eight years, then back to Honolulu. And during the 18 years of secondary education where I learned how to teach, I even got to be a very good teacher, not because of any education course I ever took, which I never took. But because of really appreciating what the learning experience is. So in the early days I taught always one class of religion and everything else science. So biology, chemistry, physics, general science, da, da, da, da, da. But then, after Vatican II, there were loads of people who didn't want to go teach religion, but everybody could teach science. So I let them do the science and I went on and then got a degree. My first degree in religion in New Testament, early Christian community studies at University of San Francisco, marvelous experience. And then I came back and worked at Merino High School, finished my secondary education time. And then I went to Berkeley Graduate Theological Union and the University of California, Berkeley to get a degree in sociology of religion. And I make the distinction that the psychologist is a specialist to ask questions of the individual and the sociologist trains to ask questions of society. And then I specialized only in religion. So I'm a practicing Catholic as a marionole sister. But I'm also a sociologist broader than just my Catholicism. And it's helped me to take positions that say, look, my church doesn't want this, so I don't wouldn't do this, but I need to tell you about the whole of society. And probably got some visibility in writing an essay that or having an essay published just before the special session of the vote on gay marriage and gender equity. But the real issue why so Catholics don't want it, that's okay, I can understand that, but let's go beyond. And I think this is an issue that has had the wrong name put on it too much. It's too, the focus is supposed to be on living and making decisions about life. And then it got co-opted by the word suicide and it has nothing to do with suicide. Absolutely nothing. And so I really, when you asked if I would come talk about it, part of it is because I have a whole new theory and we'll get to that after you let me get to my theory. I do have a theory. Well, of course, we will get to that. Okay, I don't know where to go first. I wanna talk to you, one of the things you said about the history of the church and about the religion and we will get to the changes that have happened in the church because I have seen, I'll be 79 next month. And I have seen all kind of changes, but it goes back 2,000 years and the changes. Longer than that, longer than that. I think that's the problem. People particularly see institutional religions as more connected with the cement and mortar that are there buildings and it's not. So that's one thing. The second thing is that changes occur from the good expression of the leadership for the need for the change. They don't do it haphazard, they don't do it willy-nilly. But when they do it, and the best example I have right now is the change that I didn't look up the year, but I think it was 1979, but I'm not dead certain, but how about that, dead certain. This is the change about cremation and it was done by all of the Japanese bishops, every single Japanese bishop signed on to the request that Japan be allowed to cremate because it was a social necessity. Not just because they didn't have enough land, but because everybody else was doing it and it was a distortion of what burial in the ground, the dust though are to dust. This is just getting the dust there faster. That's really what cremation is. But the upshot of it is that the people who did that request also did a good search in history and found documents in the second and third century that showed that there was cremation in certain places. And at that time, one part of it had to do again with space, but the other part had to do with disease. And I'm pretty sure after the bubonic plague there was cremation. I would think so because they didn't have all of the tools we have now to. But the other part is the mystery of knowing that at the end of time you're going to be reconnected and decided, I know as a child, my first challenge was the guy who did the flying tiger's chenalt. And when he died, he wanted his ashes sprinkled from California across Hawaii, across the Pacific to Japan. And I'm thinking, how's God going to put him all together? And my mother would very dutifully say, well, there's nothing that's a problem for God. So I'll take the answer for that. But no, I think it's important to learn how history and religion fuse. And this will happen eventually. It's going to take a while, but it'll happen. Yeah, it'll happen. There are so many of those changes that I have seen growing up in Baltimore as a young kid.  Well, when you grow up in a seafood city, seafood is wonderful every day. So who cares? What kind of sacrifice? There's no sacrifice not to eat meat. Come on. And then what I remember as really small was that meat was rationed during the war. During the war, right? So to get two slices of liver, we had to stand in line at the slaughterhouse. So fish was plentiful. Who cares about meat? Yeah, so those kinds of things. It's the whole connection with spirituality. And I think we're more alert to the fact that spirituality is what should determine one's holiness, and so many people said to me, well, Sister Joan, really talk about that? Yeah. Let's all talk about that. Yes, she will. Really? I'll talk about it. Yes, she will. So how do we arrive at this position when the church has a different position? Okay. The first, well, let's back up, let's back up to the hospice movement. And then we had the wonderful founder of the St. Christopher's in London come here under Dr. Maria Brough when she was the medical director for Eileen Anderson. So it goes, and then we had St. Francis Hospice, where he had Hospice Hawaii Inc. That was it. We didn't have any more at that time. Now we have five more hospices that work well. And hospices per se are able to take care of a patient when they have the determination by the doctor that this is not going to get any better, they're not going to do anything more to intervene. And so basically they're made comfortable. And if you remember, the original story was they had a thing called Dr. Brompton's cocktail. Dr. Brompton was the doctor in London who figured this all out. What he did was he kept people comfortable. And I think the medical profession has been doing that over time and probably long before hospice was invented. It's just that hospice gave it a dignity, hospice gave it a space, and so forth. Now it's very interesting in the very beginning, St. Francis Hospice under Sister Maureen Kellerher was right on the top of the line. She was the daughter of a policeman. I mean, she didn't miss any fun, you know, that was it. And she didn't particularly like the fact that hospice Hawaii Inc. was formed. And so at the time I was on the board of the Honolulu Theater for Youth. I come from a family where I had a mother who was on the stage in New York before I was born. So I love theater and Honolulu Theater for Youth is a great invention in this town. Every single student can get to see one or more plays a year. And they had a play about a young man whose father had died when he was young and he was at an age where he needed a man and his mother hadn't remarried and the whole play singles around the young fellow going out and walking on the beach and meeting this man who tells him, you know, you got to be good, you got to do this, you got to do that. And in the meantime, the mother, you learn that the mother has backed off into depression after the death of the father. So she's kind of hiding in her room and she comes out to make the meals and that and then she goes back in her room. And the boy had never been in her room. So the line, the critical line is that at the end of the play the boy opens the door and sees that the man who has been talking with him, the picture is of his father. So it was a, you know, it was a very powerful thing and it had to do with the whole concept of what happens in death and a young person dealing with it. So I decided that we would sell tickets that were green and yellow. And I never told anybody anything, but the green ones went to a bunch of people I know and the yellow ones went to, and the board members, we sell tickets and so forth. At the end of the last performance, we had made, we had profited about $16,000. So I got my friend in the bank to say, you know those big checks they have? I said, I need two of them. And we got two checks and we made a check for $8,000, $8,000. And we called up the director of hospice, St. Francis, and the director of hospice, Hawaii, both up on the stage and they didn't know what was happening there, each given a check for $8,000.  Sister Maureen, it didn't involve the sisters. It involved the people who were actually working at hospice. And, you know, a lot of that now, Interfaith Alliance, which I'm connected with, just I think it was four years ago, we gave an award to every one of the hospice, units, again, to thank them for what they do in the society. My daughter is a RN with hospice, Island Hospice. Yes, Island Hospice, Wilson, I mean caregivers. I mean, they're marvelous. Aloha. As you know, it's time to take a break. And when we come back, we will see more of Sister Joan. But for one second, let me tell you that her memorial is tomorrow, the 21st of March at Sacred Heart Church, 1701 Wilder Avenue, 9 a.m. is the mass and she and everyone's welcome. And we'll be right, take a break and we'll be right back. Aloha. I'm Wendy Lowe and I'm coming to you every other Tuesday at two o'clock live from Think Tech, Hawaii. And on our show, we talk about taking your health back. And what does that mean? It means mind, body and soul. Anything you can do that makes your body healthier and happier is what we're going to be talking about. Whether it's spiritual health, mental health, fascia health, beautiful smile health, whatever it means. Let's take healthy back. Aloha. Aloha and welcome to At the Crossroads. I'm your host, Keisha King. I'm live at five every Wednesday, where we have entertaining and educational conversations that are real and relevant, both here in Hawaii and across the globe. I'll see you at the Crossroads. Aloha. Aloha. And we're back. It is a delight to show you Sister Joan. I am so sorry that we lost her because she was such a great part of the culture of Hawaii. However, those things happen, especially when you're navigating the journey. So let's go back and see the rest of the story. And we are having a wonderful discussion with Sister Joan. And so we were going from hospice to where we are with medical aid in dying. How do we get from there to here? How do we get from here to there? OK, one of the things is nobody goes into hospice or engages in hospice care unless they have made the decision that the end is coming. Now, sometimes it's going to be in a few days, a few weeks. Sometimes it's months. But that's not the point. The point is that they no longer get medical intervention. They don't get any drugs other than palliative. Now, those are for people who have a vocabulary that supports them to bring them to that point. It seems to me that we have a number of people who, when you say, well, a lot of people say, well, I was born this and I'm not that anymore. But they have a vocabulary from their youth, or they have a vocabulary until they were heard enough to leave. But there are people who have absolutely no religious vocabulary. They just have never been exposed to it. They call them the nuns. And it's N-O-N-E, not N-U-N-S.  I said, excuse me, give me a break. But the real issue is that for those people, they don't have the kind of tradition, internal tradition, which, if you were a Christian, Catholic or Protestant, evangelical, if you were a Jew, reformed orthodox or conservative, if you were a Buddhist, if you were a Hindu, if you were a Zoroastrian, you have that religious companionship, shall I say. You might not be real active, but you know that they're connected with you. Right now, for the nuns, those nuns, N-O-N-E-S, they don't have that. So sometimes I think they're the ones that most need the legislation that would allow them to make this decision. And then this is what. I have a friend who is in Oregon, and of course, have had the rule there longer than most of the states. And they have a study done that only 3% to 6% of the people who have the medication available to them use it. Oh, that means that 97 to 95 people don't use it. And what does that mean? What that means is it's a security, like having something on my table, that if it really got to the point where I couldn't stand that I could do that, but only 3% to 6% actually do. And I think that that's a part of the argument that hasn't really been discussed. And it should be. That should be brought into the fact that that's really what we're talking about.  And last year, just the week before Easter, she got this diagnosis of a terminal illness, cancer, in her spine, and so forth. And it's going to be very painful. She said, you're so cute. She said to me, no, I ask you, how could I be upset when this is the week before Easter? And I know what Jesus went through on the way to the cross. She has the vocabulary of the tradition, and she also has the love of the people who support her. And she's in a supportive community. She doesn't need pills. She's being kept comfortable. So I say, come on, let's talk about the people who don't have that. And that's, in my mind, that's a matter of social justice. It's a matter of necessity. And I mind that sometimes the institutional churches, especially the big ones, and in Hawaii, the Catholics are the biggest that I have the best vote.  And so I just always say, I am a practicing Catholic. Don't get me wrong.  I am a very good Catholic. Thank you kindly. But I am talking for the people who were not good. And look, any kind of religious tradition is a gift for God's sakes. You don't come out of the room and say, I will not be born, unless I can be born in an institutional church. Of course not. It depends on your parents. It depends on your location. It depends on your family. And we need to have more understanding for the people who really are diminished in this area. If you stop and talk to somebody who has no religious tradition, I mean, for me, it's a picnic. I can talk for hours because there's a lot to say. And then they say to me, you really mean, do you believe that? Yes, belief is a gift. It's not something that I earned. It's not something that is something I better use, right? And I think that's the reason why I come on these programs and get into trouble. I do get into trouble. We all know that. But that's worth it if you get the truth out. Well, that is my position, obviously, coming from that same tradition, that if you choose to be a Catholic or Protestant or whatever, that's your choice. And if you choose not to go down this route, again, that's your choice. That's what our program is about respecting people's choices. So if you choose to have the cocktail, as you mentioned, then you should be allowed to make that choice. And I should not stand in the way of you making that choice. And that's what our program is about. And that's really where the more we can help people understand this, I think it's a gift to the whole community, even to the ones that go down and get bussed into to give the objection in the legislature. I mean, thank you kindly. That's not quite it. Well, that should be nice to people. Now, they do bring up some issues that aren't in the bill. They talk about a slippery slope. And they talk about old folks and the handicapped. And that's not slippery slope is there now. It has nothing to do with the legislation. It does. It's there. Because if you want to do harm to somebody, we just saw that yesterday on the news where this kid did away with his mother. If you want to do harm to somebody, you can do it. Our courts are full of people that did harm to somebody. And we should be more careful about how we give ethical training to people along the way. The Unitarian Church and the United Church of Christ have done a beautiful, cooperative program to teach people respect. And it could look like sex education because that is a component of it.  Thank you, Mr. Governor of Alabama. I didn't do anything wrong. Excuse me. Give me a break. There's a whole idea of how people understand what's right and wrong. And they don't learn it automatically. They have to be taught. And unfortunately, people are taught racism and they're taught a lot of nasty stuff. They ought to be taught a lot of good stuff. Yes. Well, sister, will you come back and spend more time with us? Whenever you want. We could just talk forever for the rest of your day. I don't know why people would like that.   That's not nice. I have lots of children, lots of grandchildren, and now a great-grandchild. So if I have a minute, let me tell you that the big vocation problem in the church is with the parents. Oh, I wanted you to be a doctor or a lawyer or an Indian chief. I wanted you to bring these grandchildren. I wanted you to take care of me when I'm old. Give me a break. I mean, that prevents vocations more than anything else. I know. Oh, yes. That's another one. Yes, please come back and spend some more time with us. This is absolutely wonderful. There's so much history about this church. I love this church. You have had history and the courage to stand up to the Catholic Church on any number of issues and remain in the Catholic Church. That's right. Very important. Yeah. Those prepositions are very valuable. So that we look at their stand, and they've been very public about this, yet, and you correct me if I'm wrong, yet my understanding is in the Bible, it says that we have free will that God created us with this really wonderful thing called free will. We get to choose right or wrong. The Bible teaches us what is right. We get to decide because we were given that option. How is it that the church says that we don't have that option, that they make the decision? How do we get there? What happens? Well, you know, there's the story of the umbrella that it only works when it's up, you know, unless you use it as a cane, which is OK. But if you're going to put an umbrella up and you put it over you, whatever it is that you're preventing comes down outside of you. So the umbrella concept of theology is not spoken of usually in those terms because people like very serious theological principles. But the principles of the Judeo-Christian tradition are fundamentally within the umbrella.  So for people to understand why different religious traditions, and that would go from A to Z, from Animus to Zoroastrians, you don't care which one of those along the way. They each have their understanding of what their umbrella does for them. Now, the anguish has come recently, partially because of the way people communicate now and because we can talk so openly, like in a medium like this, and a lot of people hear it. They forget that the legitimacy of the umbrella is for the person underneath it. It can't keep those people dry or cool. So therefore, when the Catholics or evangelicals or anybody else takes a position with a group and then they say, everybody should take this position, hey, wait a minute, no, no, no. You should say, you know, if you're a member of my church, my church is saying this, and if you want to be a member of my church, you have to tangle with that concept in my church. And things do change. People forget that, you know, look at what's happened to celibacy. It's going up, it's going down, it's going up, and maybe it's going to go down with this pope, I don't know. But Peter had a mother-in-law. So come on, you can't get a mother-in-law. Well, you're married to a wife, yes. Therefore, we must have had not only married clergy, but married popes, for God's sake. Well, yeah, Pope Boniface had a family in the Vatican. So, you know, in other words, you think in terms of the internal. So that's, if you get that basic principle straight, and then you take the topic into the legislature, which is for the people, then that's where the rubber hits the road. That's where the gravity is hard, because probably the people who want to object to something really think they're objecting for themselves, but really they're trying to object it for everybody. And I say, you know, take a look at that umbrella again. It's such a simple image. It's such a simple thing. The umbrella has to work where you are in that community. Now, once you're a member of a society, we went through the same thing with the GLBTQ legislation and gender equity. And I was with somebody not too long ago that they had just decided after 26 years of fidelity, they were going to get married. And I said, okay, let's get real about this. Why did you now decide to get married? And he said, well, it's going to save us 32,000 on taxes. Where did the taxes come from? Government, government, yes, you know.  He's right up there in the front view of the church every day, or every week, I don't know about the day. But in other words, he's a member of the community, but he says, no, I'm going to this 32,000 is worth it. So, okay, so with that example, now let me get to the topic at hand. What has happened has been here, we have another entity here. We normally have the churches saying things. We not only have the government struggling with how to do this, but we also have the medical profession, which has had kind of an ownership of death and dying they have. Thank you kindly. And in fact, hospice was the first real breakthrough where people understood that it was perfectly legitimate to have palliative treatment at the time of death. That there was your first step. That was like how you got them closer to the umbrella. So I think we're moving towards this, but I say, and as I've said before, the real issue is what tools do you, the individual, what tools do you have to face the end time? And I'm willing to say that the people who have the tools of their religion, they're not going to use, right, the people that have no tradition or who have been hurt so that they can't stay in the tradition that they were born into or even converted into. I call myself the chaplain of the nuns, not N-U-N-S, but N-O-N-E-S.  When they, you know, I remember that a P-A moment. I have to watch my language on the television.  That's a given. That's a given, okay? Nobody knows what it is that keeps them alive because what gave them their birth is still a mystery when they're getting ready to die, right? You know, those 23 grams.  That's a little bit else. What was that? That was the spirit. Well, yeah, maybe, but what's spirit? Well, we don't know. That's the whole point. So I say the most important part of this concept and this argument, this discussion is to keep it all open.   I hope you're listening. Because that's where we learn. That's where we stretch. That's where we stretch. And so isn't it interesting that in Oregon, where the people are in a program where they and their additional doctors have designated that they're at end of lifetime and they are given the pills that they could take? Okay, that only 6% of the people use the pills.  They're really not too bad they could. But you know, they're just about ready. Oh, God, I can't take this one more day. And then the little grandchild comes in. Oh, granddad, you know, and whatever. We don't know what these circumstances of extension are for the person in conflict. But for some people, having the pills there for them is what I have in my Catholic heritage of God's place. Those are my pills. Okay. We have to take a break and we will be back in just a moment. Aloha. I trust that you enjoyed your visit with Sister Joan. And through the magic of Think Tech, YouTube and iTunes, you can revisit Sister as often as you like. I just love watching this video. Tomorrow, March 21, will be the last time we can really visit with Sister Joan. The memorial service is at Sacred Hearts Church, 1701 Wilder Avenue. The viewing is at 9 a.m. and mass at 10.30. The public is invited and we trust that you will see us again next week and enjoy Sister Joan as often as you like. Aloha.


Hello all my home doggies out there. So I'm recording this little video clip because I really want to tell my face-to-face students to never, ever, ever give up in anatomy. You guys just got an exam back. I figured I'd publish this thing to YouTube because there's probably some of y'all out there who could use a little pep talk as well. We're about halfway through the semester. And no, we're exactly halfway plus one lecture through the semester. And this is the time of the semester that things can get discouraging. And I get that. I totally understand. But what I'm concerned about is that you... There's a couple of things you need to know. First of all, exam two is harder than exam one. Okay? So right there, if you didn't make the kind of improvements that you were hoping to make between exam one and exam two, what I can tell you is that exam two is harder. So if you maintained similar scores, that actually means you're doing better. I know that you guys have really high standards for yourselves and you have really high expectations for your grades. And I wish, oh my gosh, I wish that we could just be about learning and not about grades, but I understand, I get it. I totally understand where we are. Our next exam on the nervous system is different than the bones and muscles. If you found the bones and muscles particularly challenging, then nervous system is not easy. There's nothing about the nervous system that's easy, but it's different. It's a different kind of processing and it's a different kind of content. It has a little bit more functional conversation inside the concept. And so I'm just saying, don't give up. I'm saying don't give up. I'm saying look at the positive. I'm saying if you're still not happy with your grade, if you want to change, I have ideas for things that you can do to study. Group study sessions are really important. Spending time in the lab with the specimens is really important. Talking about the material is really important. Effectively flipping the content is really important. If you flip well, if you watch the video lectures and you go through the lab handout and you identify all those structures and you flip well, then class becomes review. Class becomes this big study session. Lab becomes review. You get to focus just on transferring your knowledge to the specimens, to the cadavers, to the brains and to the models. And that is a more doable task. And I know that time is a good Lord. Do I ever know that time is the limiting factor for all of us? And so then there has to be another part of you that says, okay, really, what more can I do here and what is realistic to expect? The timing is a class that requires just a lot of time. Physio is a class that requires a lot of time. These big science courses combine a whole new pile of vocabulary. It's a language plus this whole conceptual thing about how these processes work. It's not for the weak at heart. And I guess that's the part where, gosh, dang it, I want to give you all hugs right now because I know this time of the semester is hard. This time of the semester is hard for me too. It's the time where you just kind of want to sit down and breathe and like sleep in a little bit. But no, it's five o'clock in the morning and you're up studying and you're taking care of yourself and continuing on with this good battle. Now, these classes are big prerequisites. So if you are concerned about your grade because you know the requirements for the program that you're applying for, the CR nursing program, you got to have a 2.5 GPA in anatomy, physio, and micro combined, which means you get one C. And I'm happy to have that conversation with you about how we're going to, what the best choice is. The CR, we're not at the drop date yet. I think it's the beginning of November that is the last day to drop a class and still get a W. And let's have that conversation as well. Don't disappear on me, going through the course, taking all the exams, taking the quizzes, sticking around to the very end, even if you decide it's better to drop. I'm in, I understand, but don't go away. I'm under pressure on and I know that this is hard and I am confident that you can do it. The skills that you're gaining in this class are valuable beyond just the class. So don't get discouraged. And some of you, you know, here I am doing a pep talk and some of you totally made improvements and totally are looking good at it. Those of you who maintained, if you got worse, that's a bad sign, but those of you who maintained, I'm not giving up on you yet. I'm not concerned yet. We still have the final exam that's going to replace an entire midterm score. And I know that you're learning a ton, so it's not the time to give up. Okay, however boast was I, is that like a five hour long pep talk? Don't you want to do a cheer now that you have chocolate and maybe go home and sleep? Okay, I really love you guys. Okay, bye-bye.


I'm Smea and I'm a first year student and I'm currently on the first year project course which is part of Computer Science. Our project is called One Liner, it's a kind of party game which is used in a party environment. Questions are given to each player and they come up with the most funniest answer and the best answer wins. So it's like a cahoot and cards against humanity mash up together. So at the university we have the opportunity to do a project in our first year and it involves collaborating with people that you've never met before. So they're from all sorts of backgrounds and it's really cool because everyone has different experiences and they bring back to the table. So initially we were challenged to make a web-based application. We were allowed to do anything that we wanted so it was up to us as a group to filter out different options which we thought was best so it helped us be able to design and also helped us to delegate responsibility. We meet up with our group virtually every day because we're really close. We meet with our supervisor every week and how those meetings usually go is that we present the work that we've done and she gives us feedback on how we can improve and she also helps us make sure we're planning correctly and that we're not just slacking behind. Given the responsibility of learning HTML and CSS and also some PHP linked in with MySQL so that we can use the database to be able to interact with the server and so we learnt this all in the first semester so now we are using those techniques to be able to implement our actual project. We had to present to anyone who was at university place on a set date and basically it was called the presentation evening where people all around from university would come and see our project ideas and then they would ask us questions because they'd be like that's a cool poster but what is it about and you had to explain it and I think it definitely improved like communication skills and made you a lot more confident. From the project the most enjoyable and also the most important aspects was probably the group working environment making sure everyone has a role and also making sure that everyone knows what they're doing was really key in design and also is very important now in the implementation stages and also just learning the different tools and the different languages would be really helpful in I guess different modules coming up.


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