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There’s something fishy about Jonah!
The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, 2“Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.” 3So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days’ walk across. 4Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s walk. And he cried out, “Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
5And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth. 6When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7Then he had a proclamation made in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: No human being or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not feed, nor shall they drink water. 8Human beings and animals shall be covered with sackcloth, and they shall cry mightily to God. All shall turn from their evil ways and from the violence that is in their hands. 9Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.” 10When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it.
When I decided that this week I’d preach on the book of Jonah I immediately started to think of fish stories that I could introduce my reflection with, and the only one I could think of is one I fear I’ve already mentioned.
It concerns a guy going fishing at his favourite spot by the river, but when he gets there he realises that he’s forgotten his bait, but he notices a lovely fat looking tree frog sunning himself on a lily pad, so he decides to stalk the frog and capture it and use it for bait. And he’s just about to grab the frog when he realises that there’s a brown snake alongside him who also has his eyes on the frog, and before he can do anything else, the snake has leapt forward and swallowed the frog whole!
Not thinking about what he was doing, but angry as hell at the snake, the guy leaps forward and grabs the snake around the throat and yanks the frog out of its mouth and drops the frog in his bait box. It’s then that it really strikes him that he has an angry, snapping venomous snake in his hand that he can’t simply pat on the head and let go.
Thinking quickly, he grabs his hip-flask with his free hand (which is full of whiskey), opens it, and pours a goodly amount into the open mouth of the snake. The snake goes limp and the fisherman places it on the ground and walks away to get on with his day’s fishing.
About twenty minutes later he feels a tapping at his shoe. He looks down and sees it’s the snake, with two more frogs!
It’s not really a brilliant joke, but what was less brilliant really was my knee-jerk reaction to the mention of Jonah – thinking that I needed to come up with a fish story. I hear the word ‘Jonah’ I think ‘fish’, which really only reflects my historic failure to really grasp what the book is about!
For the fish in the book of Jonah is only mentioned in three of the forty-seven verses of the book, which is in itself a solid indication of the fact that the fish is a minor character in the drama, and hardly the central theme of the book!
I’m not going to beat myself up about this, as Jonah’s under-water antics are indeed the only part of the prophet’s career that are generally remembered in our culture.
I still remember being introduced to the story of the prophet as a child by means of a picture book that had an image of Jonah and his fishy friend on the front cover – a book that I seem to remember was entitled, “Jonah and the Great Big Fish!”
Moreover, the association of Jonah with his scaly friend has so penetrated Western history that the pair long ago became a part of a distinctively maritime lingua-franca! I have read, at least, that the term used by sailors of the under-water grave, “Davey Jones’ Locker” does in fact go back to the book of Jonah!
Apparently there never was any famous underwater character named ‘Davey Jones’ (the lead singer of The Monkeys included). The name is rather a bastardisation of the Western Indian words, ‘Duffy Jonah’ (meaning ‘prophet Jonah’), which means that ‘Davey Jones’ Locker’ is in fact another reference to the fish!
Even so, as I say, the Book of Jonah is not really a book about fish (nor about whales for that matter [for those who feel a need to point out that if Jonah had been swallowed by a whale, a whale is not actually a fish, technically speaking]).
Let’s just clear the deck (so to speak) of fish and whales – neither of which are really significant themes in the book of Jonah. But if the maritime adventure of Jonah is not the key theme of the book, what is it all about? That is the question!
Personally, I stopped seeing Jonah as a fish story once I gave my life to Christ as a teenager and joined a youth group, for it was there that I learned that the book of Jonah was not really a book about fish but was rather a book about priorities and about obedience, and about the importance of submitting ourselves to the will of God, even when God’s plans for our lives conflict with our own personal agendas.
God had a plan for Jonah’s life. Jonah had other plans. Jonah had to learn that in the end it is God’s will that has to be done rather than your own. The book of Jonah, when seen from this perspective, is a challenge to each of us to submit ourselves to the will of God, lest we find ourselves thrown off a boat, drowning in the water, swallowed by a great fish, and spat out in the direction that submission to the will of God would have originally taken us anyway.
We might refer to this interpretation of the Book of Jonah as the pious interpretation, and there’s obviously a lot of value in this ‘Thy will be done’ application of this book, but in my view now, as an adult now, the pious interpretation of Jonah is as far removed from the central message of the book as is the maritime adventure theme!
In truth, I think it is very hard for us Sydney-siders of the 21st Century to grasp the central message of the Book of Jonah for one very simple reason: we just don’t harbor any real hatred towards the Assyrians!
The Book of Jonah was written a long time ago in a culture far removed from our own, and the issue that upsets Jonah in the book and the issue that would have upset most of the original readers of the book was not simply that God had a plan for Jonah’s life (in some a general sort of way) but that God called Jonah to prophesy in Nineveh, which was the capital of Assyria, and both Jonah and the Book of Jonah’s original readers hated Assyrians!
And the Jews didn’t just hate the Assyrians because they looked different either. They hated the Assyrians because the Assyrians had a history of killing them!
Assyria was once the world’s most fearsome superpower! From the middle of the tenth century B.C. right through to the end of the seventh, the Neo-Assyrian Empire dominated the Middle East, and, during the 8th century reign of Tiglath-Pileaser III most especially, their empire was vast – covering all of what is modern-day Iraq and Syria, and covering enormous chunks of what is today Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, and, of course, it covered all of Israel and Palestine!
And it was an Empire built on violence! That in itself is in no way unique, of course, as indeed all the world’s empires have been built on violence, and yet the stories of the savagery of the Assyrian armies do seem particularly horrible.
Nineveh’s military machine was renowned for being sadistic. If enemies resisted surrender during the siege of their city, once defeated, the whole population would be horribly mutilated and slaughtered. Their houses and towns would be torn down and burned, and the flayed skins of their corpses prominently displayed on stakes as a warning to others who might have been considering resistance.
After their battles, public amusement would be provided for the people of Nineveh via a victory procession wherein enemy survivors were led down the city streets by leashes attached to rings inserted through their lips, with the vanquished nobles wearing the decapitated heads of their princes hanging around their necks. And all of this fun was accompanied by music from bands of minstrels playing merry tunes! Oh, the people of Nineveh knew how to enjoy themselves!
And they enjoyed themselves like this for more than 300 years! It must have seemed as if the arrogant might of Nineveh would never fade and that their power-hungry god, Assur, was unbeatable. The Assyrian war-machine enjoyed so many bloody victories over their enemies in those 300 plus years between the 934 and 609 B.C., but none was remembered in the Bible more clearly and more bitterly than the sacking of Samaria and the destruction of Northern Israel in 721.
The Jews did not hate the Assyrians because they looked funny or ate strange foods or just didn’t make an effort to mix in with the locals. They hated the Assyrians for far more obvious (and surely far more valid) reasons.
They hated them because the Assyrians had destroyed more than half of their country. They hated them because of the countless number of their kinsfolk who had been slaughtered, imprisoned, enslaved and/or humiliated by the Assyrians. And they hated the Assyrians because in 721 B.C. it seemed that their god, Assur, had been victorious over the God of Israel.
That day in 721 B.C. would forever be remembered by the people of Israel, not just as a day of mourning, but as a day of national humiliation. Their people had been butchered, half their country destroyed, and their temples desecrated.
It was all done by the Ninevites, and so Jonah hated the Ninevites as the readers of Jonah hated the Ninevites. And now God asks Jonah to go to Ninevah to preach to the people there, and call on them to repent! And Jonah did not want to go there. Why would he? The only Jews that went to Ninevah were dragged there in chains!
And yet it’s not only because he hates their city and might well fear for his life in such a place, but most of all because he feared that if he went to Ninevah, God might use him to do something good for the people of Ninevah, and in as much as Jonah might have feared that the people of Nineveh might do him some evil, his far greater fear was that he (Jonah) might be for the people of Nineveh the instrument of some good!
National hatred of an enemy race is a terrible thing, but something we are all familiar with.
I remember being told of a Jewish man and a Chinese man who, amongst others, are sitting at a bar, slowly drinking away the night. There were plenty of others perched between these two at the bar but the Jewish guy kept looking over at the Chinese guy with a surly expression on his face and was mumbling curses at him that got increasingly louder with each beer he consumed!
Eventually the Jewish guy gets up and walks over to the Chinese guy and pours his beer over the poor guy’s head! The Chinese guy says, “What’s that for?” The Jewish guy says, “That’s for Pearl Harbour! My uncle was killed at Pearl Harbour!” The Chinese guy says, “I’m Chinese. That was the Japanese, you fool!” The Jewish guy says, “Chinese, Japanese … what’s the difference?” and he returns to his stool.
Two minutes later the Chinese guy walks over to the Jewish guy and pours the contents of his beer over the Jewish guy’s head. “What’s that for?” asks the Jewish guy. The Chinese guy says, “That’s for the Titanic! My grandfather died on the Titanic!” The Jewish guy says, “What’s that got to do with me?” The Chinese guy says, “Steinberg, Goldberg, iceberg … what’s the difference?”
Humour can be an effective way of confronting racial prejudice. So can stories such as we find in the Book of Jonah.
The Book of Jonah is a book that is written with a purpose, and it’s purpose is not to encourage us to submit ourselves to the will of God (as important as that is) any more than it is to chronicle an ancient yarn concerning ‘the one that got away!’ It’s purpose is in fact summed up very succinctly in the final verse of the book of Jonah (chapter 4, verse 11) which I will read to you, but not just yet!
Before I do read it, I want to raise the question with you, very briefly, as to who might have been the original audience that the Book of Jonah was addressed to?
For the book is set in the 8th century B.C., but most Biblical scholars assume that the book wasn’t actually written till a great deal later – most probably in the post-exilic period, late in the 6th century.
If so, it is quite possible that it was published at around the same time that Ezra and Nehemiah were active in trying to rebuild the ancient city of Jerusalem – a city that had been lying in ruins since the Babylonians had destroyed it 50 years earlier.
And if you are familiar with the history of that time you will know that it was a time of great nationalistic fervour.
The Jews were returning to their homeland and they were rebuilding their ancient city and they were rebuilding their temple, and all of a sudden, for the first time in a great many years, it felt good to be a Jew again!
And leaders like Ezra and Nehemiah did a great deal to encourage the patriotic fervour of the returning Jews and to get them excited again about their city, about their religion and about their God.
And in the process of doing that the issue of racial purity became a sticking point for a lot of people, and indeed both those leaders – Ezra and Nehemiah – became very upset over the issue of inter-marriage between Jews and non-Jews.
Ezra indeed accused the men of mixing their ‘holy seed’ with the people of the lands (Ezra 9:2) and he encouraged large numbers of Jewish men to divorce their foreign wives and to send them away, along with the children of their mixed marriages!
And I’m not saying that the Book of Jonah was written specifically as a response to the nationalistic ‘reforms’ of Ezra (though a lot of scholars have suggested exactly that) but I am suggesting that at around the same time all that was happening, a little tract was certainly circulating that told a story of how God had called one of His prophets to minister in the land of the Assyrians, because the God of Israel loved and respected foreigners too – even the people of Nineveh!
In Jonah 4:11 – the final verse of the Book of Jonah – God says to Jonah “And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”
Jonah is a remarkable book. Indeed, perhaps the only thing more remarkable than the book itself is the fact that our Jewish fathers and mothers, when it came time to put together the collection of books that have become known as our ‘Old Testament’ recognised that this book – the Book of Jonah – deserved to be included too, as one of the inspired works of God!
It is a book that strikes at the heart of every manifestation of religious nationalism, as indeed it is a book that confronts religious arrogance in all its forms, for it a book that reminds us that the God of Israel, the God of the faithful and the God of the upright, is also the God of the Assyrian, of the unfaithful and of the not-so-upright too!
And that’s why the Book of Jonah is a book our world needs to hear right now.
As our political leaders and media beaver away at dehumanising Arabs and Iranians and Muslim people in general, to prepare us for further bloodshed.
When being Christian has somehow once again become associated with being white!
And when refugees of all kinds are being treated with suspicion and contempt because of their strange foreign habits and strange foreign gods.
It’s time to once again hear the message of the Book of Jonah.
“And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?” (Jonah 4:11)
‘Fighting Father’ Dave – Parish Priest, Community Worker, Professional boxer, Martial Arts master, Father of three. Dave’s goal is to offer an alternative culture for young people, based on values of courage, integrity, self-discipline and teamwork. Visit http://www.fatherdave.org for more information.
Use Gecko Software And Get Trading Assistance
As the financial crisis holds the world in its grip, many individuals are turning to trading as a means of making the most from small bonuses or extra money. There is no doubt that such new traders could sometimes experience complexity to find their feet and in the cut-and-thrust world of trading, there is no time to actually adjust to the situation.
What is really required is something that may assist you to predict the way that stocks will rise and fall, and assist you to manage your fortunes by looking after the fundamentals of stock trading while ensuring that you don’t miss out on the vital stages. Fortunately for the beginner in stocks and futures, there is a software program known as automated trading that may assist you to assess what you must do with your present futures, Forex or stocks.
The essential futures trading software can help you to ensure that you get an edge when it comes to making a move on the stock market and offers you plenty of advice on how you should move your stocks in order to make the maximum amount of money. The extremely sensible benefit from the automated trading program is that it can allow you to analyze large amounts of data in a very small time. Instead of forcing you to look through pages and pages of information so as to discover what is likely to happen in the future, you may find the information you need with a few clicks of the button.
The Futures trading software program could take a certain amount of data about past trading on the stocks you own and plot it on a chart. This historical data could then be used to work out if your present stock is likely to keep on growing or if it could be at its peak, ready to drop sharply. With some clicks, you can examine an in depth trade history for each stock, assess the danger levels and likelihood of profit and choose whether you can afford to take the risk. If you are working in Forex or Futures trading software that provides this sort of stock data could mean the difference between gaining cash and losing it.
One issue that you must know is that this automated trading program does not need to be programmed by yourself – all the hard computer work has already been made. Not only that, you don’t even want to join a website so as to get the details you want.
Instead, you may download it from http://www.GeckoSoftware.comand then use it on any computer you prefer, no matter whether it is a PC, a MAC or Linux system. Gecko Software, Inc. has been in business for 19 years creating tools for traders, software and platforms for trading Stocks, Robot Trading System, Futures & Foreign Currency. Gecko Software’s flagship product line, Track ‘n Trade, has won Stocks & Commodities Annual Readers Choice Award six times. Gecko Software is also the creators of the line of products known as TradeMiner; tools designed to help traders identify historically accurate cycles and trends from any given market. Visit the website to know more about the software.
Autopilot Your Forex Market Trading
Several traders are drawn to the uncertain world of the foreign exchange market, hoping to make a small investment and get back a larger profit while not having to do any manual work at all. Since there are a lot of individuals curious about Forex, it has become one of the biggest markets in the planet, with citizens of lots of countries becoming involved in the trading of foreign currencies. Though many are tempted into the business, it is rare to easily walk into Forex; instead you have to study and learn, sometimes through bitter experience, and then have another attempt to master the foreign exchange trading market.
The struggle to make a simple benefit from Forex has lead to many traders giving and moving into other areas of the stock market. However, others have persevered and instead of abandoning have progressed from the use of Forex trading software which is meant to take the pressure and strain out of working on the foreign exchange markets.
Perhaps the biggest relief that the top Forex software programs offer is the opportunity to get the program interpret your data and Forex reports for you. The foreign exchange market often requires a great deal of commitment from its players and they may have to analyze cold chunks of computer data that can be terribly difficult for the non-IT minded. This can be where Forex trading software comes in to its own, since it could provide you data and reports on your potential investments before you even put cash into the markets. The software may even continue with the speedy shifts in position which may occur in all stock markets.
Another huge benefit to the best Forex software is that it can help you to develop your investment strategy and outline a possible investment pattern designed to assist you bring more income out of your venture into the world of Forex. Probably the best sorts of Forex trading software uses Autopilot to allow you to arrange an automated system of trading on the market.
It may even help to focus on developments in the information which it is analyzing, and give you with alerts on Forex currencies that you are interested in. All of this permits you to get a head start when you begin investing in foreign currencies and exchanges.
In order to have a software package which suits you, and decide what options you wish to include in your program, visit the website http://www.trackntrade.com, and read the choice of Forex trading software that they need to give. By choosing a package from this innovative company, you may learn how to trade on the Forex market. Track ‘n Trade revolutionized the way people learned how to trade the futures market and now continues to revolutionize the way people trade the futures, forex and stock markets. Someone new to trading can practice until he or she feels confident enough to invest personal capital. Track ‘n Trade also introduced an interactive chart which gave the user the ability to place trades directly on the chart itself thus coining the phrase “The Ultimate Trading Machine for the Visual Investor”. Visit the website to know more.
Know How Trading News Can Make You Rich
There are a number of people on the trading markets attempting to make a lot of cash while not risking everything on the stock exchange. Traders across the globe will usually find that they need more in common with their contemporaries in other parts of the planet than with traders working in different markets sitting right next to them and they also want to talk to those fellow traders and decide their brains. This is often where a Trading magazine could really assist individuals to develop their entry and exit techniques and learn from others who have earlier been in the same situation.
The beginner trader usually finds that reading trading news broadcasts usually offers them a greater insight into how trading should be managed. Such trading magazines provide you ideas about how to spot trading patterns and meet up with stocks which have risen before you put money into them. You may find out more of this information from the internet, in fact, and this can be often how beginners begin learning about stock trading, but once you have started a professional career as a trader, it makes sense to take out a subscription to at least one of the various trading news magazines that are around.
It is sensible to look into trading magazines since they could give you with a professional insight into the workings of the business and the majority of those who write articles have several years expertise in their field. This implies that you’re getting advice from a skilled, allowing you to feel secure in the information which is being expounded to you, and even realise that the anyone writing really understands where you’re coming from and where you are leaving to.
After you examine a trading magazine, you may quickly know that there are a number of different focuses of the paper. They could have different sections on Forex trading, on futures trading, and a lot of wide-ranging descriptions of the stock market and a way to run your purchases. Of course, you may not want to read each article in the magazine, but rather may target upon the topics that interest you and leave the rest. Friends and colleagues could borrow the paper from you to read articles they are curious about, or you can save the magazines along simply in case you shift your attention to a other area of the stock market and want to read the articles you had earlier ignored.
Since you have a good choice of magazines available, it could make sense to choose one which has a strong focus on all features of the stock market.
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Sales Management Skills For Latest Business
The sales team is among the most important factors of any modern business, however far too many companies are utilizing outdated sales strategies to try and make new customers or make a bigger impression on their current clients. These old methods of selling were at their most popular within the eighties, when the competitive culture meant that the client’s were way down the list of priorities when it came to making a sensible sale. As latest businesses has tried to improve the amount of people by their merchandise and services, so it has become clear that a new set of sales management expertise are required for the present client.
The modern customer has different expectations of how they could be handled by the sales team, and if they do not prefer what they’re receiving from one business, they feel perfectly free to move elsewhere. The rise of the internet has lead to clients having a wider variety of decisions than ever before, and this implies that latest companies may no longer depend on the sales techniques of earlier decades. In order to make sure that you get the most out of any sales campaign, it makes a lot sense to attempt and improve the sales management skills of your team before they begin attempting to develop new business.
One method of improving the sales techniques of the team is to introduce them to latest selling skills. These include respecting the client and learning how to present the corporate in the best likely way. The principle of this learning is that the customer is the centre of the sales team, and the seller should be prepared to put the potential customer first throughout any sales negotiation. Such newer skills signify that the seller learns a way to develop a modern and skilled style when it involves opening up new areas of sales, and developing a strategy that permits them to achieve out to new customers and those curious about the company’s products or services.
In order to find out new sales management skills, the sales team should modify their whole world-view, the world view which has put the sale on a pedestal, and rather target on one that is more centered on the client. The seller could learn the way to interact the customer throughout negotiation, and run them by addressing their desires and wants. By presenting the company’s merchandise as the best choice, together with focusing on distinctive selling points, the vendor will be ready to bring the client around to the sale easily and in a positive manner.
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Use Business Courses In Sydney To Improve Your Company
The most of people who start small corporations would not have a business degree and have not been to any type of business school. They start their organization from love of a particular product or service, and this takes them quite faraway, however there is a instant where lack of understanding regarding business could stop them from moving any further. Whereas you may have learned skills which would help you to run your own company, in order to get the most out of your investment, it’s a good plan to think about taking business courses in Sydney. This may offer you the education you may need to advance your career.
Business courses in Sydney could assist you regardless of what stage in your business you have reached, therefore if you choose that the time is correct to expand, you may begin by talking to a business teacher about your aims. They could show you how improving your business skills can assist you to reach the next stage in your business strategy, and start knocking down some of those goals that you have yet to reach.
The business courses in Sydney could range from showing you how to develop your business strategy, learning how to run complex sales or production issues not throwing money down the drain, and even reveal the depth of your business skills. Understanding through education would solely help to bring out the skills which you already have and which are used to stay your business working and can now be examined and honed to assist you take the next steps in your business approach. If you have been struggling in making cash from your company, then business courses in Sydney can help you to assess where you are going wrong, and show you how to improve your strategies so that you begin to get a profit.
There are various companies out there providing online business courses, however it is always a good idea to appear for local tutors, who can assist you on a individual level. If you live in the Sydney area, then looking for business courses in Sydney can get you the top teachers. These courses are being promoted by people who have had their own thriving businesses and perceive what the only owner of a business has to do in order to keep up with modern companies trading methods and strategies.
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How To Locate The Best Fat Transfer Plastic Surgeon?
So you’ve decided you’d like a fat transfer (normally called “fat graft”) procedure.
No matter whether it’s for aesthetic reasons or reconstructive ones, one thing is for sure – you want the best fat transfer plastic surgeon looking after you.
With plastic surgery, the effects are visible immediately after the operation. Because of this, it’s vitally important you seek a doctor who will execute the process with the best level of skill. An expert surgeon could work with you if it comes to planning the procedure, and then perform it precisely as planned, leaving no room for any surprises.
In today’s article, we’ll take a closer look at such an increasingly common procedure.
The Process – Are You Eligible?
The overall plan of a fat graft is simple: take fat from one part of the body and redistribute it to an area that requires it. Through this easy method, it’s easy to fix a large number of issues. Additionally, because of the overall simplicity of the process, healing happens comparatively quickly guaranteeing you’re off the operating table and back living your life in a very short time period.
The best doctors for plastic surgery in Manhattan can perform a fat injection procedure on almost any part of your body. The most common area is the face, but this may be a fantastic procedure on different areas too.
So are you eligible? A fat graft could be a surgical procedure, that means you ought to be in good physical and emotional health before considering it. Furthermore, you must be in a position to manage your expectations regarding the results.
The fat graft will enable you to improve the look of certain elements of your body, but it isn’t a magic pill for an improved life. For this reason, keep in mind that though the surgery would likely give you a huge boost in confidence, what you do with that boost in self-esteem is completely up to you.
The “Mommy Makeover”
A fat transfer plastic surgeon can help correct problems with reconstructive surgery, however he could also help you achieve a selected look with aesthetic surgery.
Currently, one of the most popular types of aesthetic surgery is the “mommy makeover.” Essentially, with this surgery, you can nearly erase the toll childbirth and raising children has taken on your appearance. Additionally to smart liposuction, breast augmentation and tummy tucks, fat transfer body sculpting procedures are usually made to reduce facial aging and give you a new and well rested look. With an expert fat transfer plastic surgeon at the helm, you’ll be well cared for and in love with the finished product!
Locating a Surgeon
Thus, no matter your reasons for surgery, you have to find the surgeon who’s right for you.
How to do it? Well, probably the easiest ways is to examine their credentials. With plastic surgery in Manhattan, there are a huge number of surgeons to choose from, but not all of them have excellent credentials – not all of them have a good reputation.
Seek for public features on the surgeon you’re looking into. For instance, Dr. Diktaban has been featured in Castle Connolly’s “Best Plastic Surgeons in New York,” and the New York Times “SuperDocs of New York,” just to name a few. These awards are evidence of a career of brilliance. What a feeling to be able to relax before your surgery, knowing you’re being cared for by one of New York’s best.
Dr. Theodore Diktaban, a board certified plastic surgeon and certified otolaryngologist, has worked for years pioneering techniques of minimally invasive liposuction. In around 30 years of practice he has done a lot more than 20,000 surgical procedures and brings in an expertise to each patient’s care not accessible in several practices. He carries out low-fat injection body sculpting at his offices in New York City for patients from all across the tri-state region as well and nations all over the world. Get in touch with him at http://www.drdiktaban.com for a private consultation to see if Fat Transfer Procedure is an alternative for you.
Know How Coaching And Mentoring Specialists Help Your Business
Many corporations turn to business analysts in order to have concepts on their current condition, and measures that can be taken to advance their organization. Getting advice from analysts on different ways that you can grow your business could be a significant step forward for any company, but it is unhappy fact that usually the advice is executed without any support and the company finds itself falling back down the rankings. For most firms, this seems proof that business analysts usually are not worth the money and so they cut off a great supply of information, preventing them from knowing how to improve their projects and procedures while raising the profile of the company.
Perhaps one of the most important things that any business analysts group will consider is how to improve process management. Processes require to be finely tuned to get the most from strategies, designing and implementation and they are also necessary to the establishment of appropriate risk management development.
If your processes are only working at a basic level, then your company might be struggling without the managers even realizing it and also the business would definitely not be living up to its full potential. By focusing on how your process improves and impedes your business techniques and objectives, business analysts can provide you important information about how to change your processes in order to amplify these resources.
When you hire an analyst to evaluate your current process management procedure, you may expect them to use a number of analytic methods to fully assess your procedures. They will often begin with a requirement analysis, that appears at the gaps and defective procedures within the company. They could even decide what process methods to change in order to stop such gaps. They could even consider the effectiveness and productiveness of the corporate, analyzing different issues like a lack of effort in teams, the advantages that staff training might give and if the company is meeting its performance targets or not. This would then continue with a design to assist you improve your process management to a point where your company is noticing improved profits and efficiency among its members.
Typically, analysts would suggest few small changes that are not long-term, however by educating you regarding how your process effects the members of your company you can begin to make changes yourself every time your business starts to show decreased productivity.
This implies that instead of offering you with the finished product, business analyst corporations such as http://www.roblyncorp.com would provide you the tools to develop process strategies and make changes as they are needed. This gives you a lot of flexibility and allows you to adapt to the demands of the market. Roblyn helps organizations do what they do better by improving the effectiveness of their people, processes and projects saving time, money, and enabling them to reach peak performance.
The Mystery of Christ
“In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to men in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God’s holy apostles and prophets. This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.
I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of his power. Although I am less than the least of all God’s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Ephesians 3:4-11)
It’s my privilege today to preach on Ephesians chapter 3 – our Epistle reading.
‘Oh great’ somebody says. ‘Finally somebody is preaching on Ephesians 3!’
Well, … somebody might say that. I’ve been here almost 13 years and no one yet, so far as I remember, has ever preached on Ephesians 3 during that time. It’s probably about time someone preached on it. Perhaps someone has been waiting anxiously for this to happen? It’s not likely of course. No one is likely to say ‘Great, Ephesians!’ You’re more likely to ask me to spell the word for you, and this despite the fact that we read from the book only a few minutes ago.
This is always the problem with the Epistle reading I think. And I’ve noticed that those who determine our weekly readings keep trimming the length of the Epistle reading down. And this makes sense to me, for unless you’re a bit of an enthusiast it seems to be pretty hard to keep the Epistle reading in your head for too long.
Oh, we remember the Old Testament reading, which was about David and Bathsheeba. And we can probably remember the gospel reading. But we have trouble remembering the Epistle reading, and perhaps especially this Epistle reading. It seems to be particularly forgettable.
Does anyone remember what it was about?
In Ephesians 3 Paul talks about the ‘mystery of Christ’.
“When you read this” Paul says, “you will perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ”.
This is one of Paul’s last letters. This is a letter written from prison. This is the sort of letter you write to people who you know you are probably never going to see again. It’s the sort of letter where, if you’ve got something important to say, this is the time to say it, because you don’t know how much more time you’ve got left. And for Paul, the important thing he wanted to talk about was the ‘mystery of Christ.’
“You will perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ” Paul says. It is a mysterious truth, he says, “that was not made known to the sons of men in other generations”, but that has been revealed to him and to his Christian contemporaries by the Holy Spirit! And what is this mysterious truth kept secret for so long but finally revealed in Christ?
1.#That Jesus is the Son of God?
2.#That He was crucified, died and was buried, but rose again on the 3rd day?
3.#That Jesus reconciled the world to Himself on the cross?
No. None of the above. The mystery of Christ, now made know, Paul says is … “that the Gentiles are fellow heirs” – that Jews and non-Jews are members of the same body, equally partakers of the promises of God, brothers and sisters in the same church!
This is not the climactic answer we might have expected from Paul. What’s so mysterious about the equality of the races? But listen to him eulogize further:
“Now in Christ Jesus you who were once far off have been brought near in the blood of Christ. For he is our peace.”
Is Paul talking about the mystical ‘peace’ between humanity and God? No, he’s talking about the peace that Christ brings between people of different races.
“For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility … that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and one body through the cross, thereby bringing the hostility to an end.”
And so he continues.
This is the heart of Paul’s theology in Ephesians. Does it surprise you? Didn’t Jesus come into the world to save sinners? The death of Jesus on the cross spells for us forgiveness and the possibility of a new beginning. Isn’t that what it’s all about? Well, according to the book of Ephesians, the climactic work of Christ on the cross is that by his blood he broke down the dividing wall of racial hostility between Jew and Greek!
That may seem to trivialise the significance of the death of Christ for us. Of coursed this may be related to the fact that we don’t live in Israel!
It’s easy for us to preach the equality of all races when we live in a situation that is relatively tolerant of different cultures. Put yourself in Israel and start preaching that all Jews and Palestinians are sisters and brothers. See how popular you are. And don’t just preach it quietly over coffee to your friends. Preach it the way Paul did – setting up churches made up of Jews and Greeks and Palestinians and Arabs – all publicly worshipping together in the middle of the hostility.
If Paul were alive today, I believe I know exactly where he’d be right now on a Sunday morning. He’d be in the middle of the Gaza strip, leading a magnificent service of joint worship between Jewish and Palestinian Christians. He’d be doing it in the open air, with tanks visible in the background, and people looking on through cracks in the wall out of their bombed-out homes. And he’d be preaching ‘Peace to those who are far off and peace to those who are near, for Christ has made one new man out of two and has brought our hostility to an end.’ The message of reconciliation takes on a different feel altogether when you relocate yourself a bit.
Some of us have just returned from a historical tour of the US. One of the places we visited there was the John Brown wax museum in Harpers Ferry. John Brown was a fiery preacher in the mid nineteenth century who preached the equality of blacks and whites, and who tried to start an armed rebellion amongst the slaves, beginning at Harpers Ferry. Whether you agree with Brown’s methods or not, no one could doubt the integrity of his zeal, nor the fact that his convictions grew out of a fundamentally Biblical mandate that through the death of Christ all the races have been made one!
John Brown was hanged in Harpers Ferry. In the years that followed his death many thousands and tens of thousands went off to war because they believed that they had to fight in order to make that proclaimed equality a physical reality by ending slavery.
Preaching genuine equality is dangerous business. It cost Paul his life too.
The details of Paul’s ultimate end have always been a little hazy, but we know that the prison letters were the last letters he wrote, and we believe that he was executed by the government – probably beheaded -not long after writing this letter to the Ephesians.
Why did Paul have so many enemies? How is it that he stirred up so much trouble such that the authorities had to keep stepping in to silence him, and eventually felt the need to silence him altogether? Was it because he went around telling people to be nice to each other and to live good middle-class lives? I don’t think so. It was because he challenged what was at the heart of the religion and culture of his own people – the idea that his people (the Jews) were God’s special people, and that the rest of the world were not.
In my understanding, there are some things that are essential to being Jewish in this world and there are other areas where there is a great degree of flexibility.
As to how you envision God and His relationship with the world, I understand that there’s plenty of room for discussion within the Jewish community. As to your beliefs about the Messiah, again, traditional Judaism, I’m told, takes a fairly liberal attitude in terms of allowing different people to believe different things. You might think Jesus is the Messiah. I might disagree. This in itself would not necessarily mean that we can’t worship happily together in the same synagogue.
But there’s one point of dogma in Jewish understanding where there is really very little room for maneuver. That’s the understanding that the Jews are God’s chosen people. That’s the fundamental basis of the faith. The Jews are God’s chosen people and for that reason they are different, and so much of what we associate with traditional Jewish religious practice was developed to reinforce exactly that point.
As a Jewish parent you would teach this to your children – that we dress differently and eat differently and live differently because we are different. We are God’s special people – chosen at the beginning of history to be the guardians of God’s law and the messengers of God’s truth to the rest of the world. We are a holy people, a separate people, and that’s why we don’t associate with people who are not of our race.
Paul comes along and says ‘Well, that was yesterday. But now that Christ has come, that wall of hostility has been broken down, and these two people have become one!’
Paul started out on the other side of the fence of course. He was brought up as a strict Jew and trained as a Pharisee. And we know that he spent much of his early career trying to wipe out the church for exactly this reason, because he saw the threat that the inclusive attitude of the Christians posed to his own community. But Paul met Jesus on the road to Damascus, and so he came to say that all that good breeding and upbringing that had once made him feel so self-important and unique he ‘counted as crap’ for the sake of knowing Christ and making him known.
In Paul’s understanding, whatever distinctive role the Jewish people had to play in the historic plan of God for the world – whatever role they had as guardians of the law and messengers of the truth – was now over. The time of separateness was finished. Through Christ all people were being reconciled and brought together. The hostility had to come to and end! This was the stand that would ultimately get Paul killed.
They say that Martin Luther King Jr. was a very shy and retiring man who probably would not have upset anybody too much if he’d kept his radical preaching and ideas about equality squarely inside the walls of his own church. The problem was that he started doing those marches, and thrusting the whole thing into everybody’s faces.
Paul, likewise, was a guy who pushed the issue of racial equality into everybody’s faces. He had a public showdown over the issue with the apostle Peter early on (you can read about that in his letter to the Galatians). He organised a worldwide aid fund at the end of his life, designed both to relieve the poverty in Jerusalem and also to bring together the churches of the different cultures. And throughout his ministry Paul deliberately fashioned the churches he was involved in to be living testimonies to the rest of the society of the new reality of racial integration and harmony that Christ made possible.
This brings us back to what I think is the climax of Ephesians chapter 3:
Paul says that it is his mission in life ‘to make all men see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things; that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places.’
Let me unpack that for you a little. Paul’s mission is to make known the mystery, which, as we have seen, was the mysterious coming together of the different peoples of the world through Christ. Paul now goes further and says now that the wonderful consequence of this mysterious coming together is that through the church the manifold wisdom of God is made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places.’
Here is one of the few times that I, as a preacher, am glad that I know a little Greek (the original language in which this letter was written) for I can tell you that the word ‘manifold’ here (the ‘manifold wisdom of God’) can more be literally translated as ‘multicoloured’.
The church proclaims, Paul says, the ‘multicoloured’ wisdom of God around the world – and not only around the world but even beyond the world and into the heavenly realms, so that even the principalities and powers in the heavenly places can see the wondrous mystery of Christ made known! And they see it through the church, not simply because we’re talking about it, but because, as a multicoloured community, we proclaim the wisdom of God just by being who we are!
•#Think about that friends! We proclaim the coming of a new Kingdom:
•#A world where every tear will be wiped away
•#Where lions and lambs lie down side by side
•#Where war is no more because people can genuinely get on with one another
•#Where black and white, rich and poor, male and female, slave and free are all equal.
We proclaim the coming of Christ’s kingdom, but we must admit that there are very few indications in this world that this Kingdom is really on its way.
Someone said to me only the other day “I’ll bet you all I’ve got that this Kingdom of yours ain’t coming”. I said “I’ll take that bet”, but I know full well that as you look around the world you don’t see people coming together everywhere. You see more and more people and nations splitting further apart!
But this is where St Paul says to us, ‘But wait. Look at the church! In the church you see people living in genuine community. In the church you see black and white, slave and free, rich and poor, male and female all living together as one! In the church we see a living sign of the world to come, for in the church the multicoloured wisdom of God is being proclaimed to the very principalities and powers in the heavenly places!’
Of course the church doesn’t always look quite that good. Often the church is just as divided as the rest of the world.
Even here, we have not been immune from the natural phenomenon that ‘birds of a feather tend to flock together’. OK. We don’t have a huge issue with Jewish people not being treated as equals in our midst, and I’m sure that we would state very dogmatically that nobody is consciously excluded from our community. And yet, like any group of human beings, we’ll tend to mix with people we feel natural with. We’ll tend to gravitate towards people who have a similar cultural background to what we do and a similar educational level to what we have, because those are the people who are likely to understand us best and so those are the sort of people we are most likely to enjoy.
What would St Paul say? I think he would simply urge us ‘people, be the church!’ You are the church of God, called to be a sign to the rest of the world of the Kingdom coming, called to be a living example of true community, assigned the privilege of proclaiming to the world, and to the worlds beyond our own, the multicoloured wisdom of God through the very multicoloured beauty of your own congregation!
Let’s not forget! It’s too easy to forget the Epistle reading, to easy to forget what Paul was talking about in Ephesians 3, and to easy to forget who we are supposed to be as the church.
Around the world I think much of the church has forgotten who we are supposed to be, and it is quite possible that we will let this go in one ear and out the other, just as we did with the Epistle reading when it was first read to us today.
Let’s not let that happen. Let’s not forget who we are and who we are called to be. We are the church of God. We are the people who, in our very communal life, make known the mystery of Christ to the rest of the world. We are the people who proclaim to the principalities and powers in the Heavenly places the multicoloured wisdom of God. And we do this just by being the church, and by living together in love as Christ taught us to.
‘Fighting Father’ Dave – Parish Priest, Community Worker, Professional boxer, Martial Arts master, Father of three. Dave’s goal is to offer an alternative culture for young people, based on values of courage, integrity, self-discipline and teamwork. He is available to help work your corner as you fight the good fight. Visit http://www.fatherdave.org for more information.
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