Objective: Determine the effect of temperature on the solubility of a plant extract
Procedure: (Each partner should perform the following steps.)
1. Obtain an 8 oz. cup and plastic spoon.
2. Pour approximately 6 oz. of hot H2O into the cup.
3. Add 20.2 grams of cocoa cotyledons to the hot H2O.
4. Stir until the cocoa cotyledons have dissolved in the H2O.
5. CAUTION: Hot water!
6. Add puffed sucrose as desired.
7. Enjoy!
Merry Christmas!
------Compliments of Mr. Tamminga's science class.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Emmanuel's Veins
In that day a fountain will be opened for the house [beth] of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity. Zechariah 13:1
Zechariah 12 is God's prophecy of judgment against all those who attack Judah, in preserving the life of the house/lineage of David according to His unfailing covenant, and leads the inhabitants of Judah to prematurely fulfill the words of Ezekiel 36:25-32--
"...Then [after ransoming Israel from exile]
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean;
I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
Moreover,
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and
I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and
you will be careful to observe My ordinances.
You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so
you will be My people, and I will be your God.
Moreover,
I will save you from all your uncleanness; and
I will call for the grain and multiply it, and
I will not put a famine on you.
I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that
you will not receive again the disgrace of famine among the nations.
Then
you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and
you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and your abominations.
I am not doing this for your sake,"
declares the Lord GOD,
"let it be known to you.
Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house [beth] of Israel!"
Ezekiel 36:25-32
The people of Jerusalem repented when God saved them, not the other way around.
It's sometimes sticky to explain to people seeking to be "politically correct" who question why the true and living God is masculine. William explained it quite well when he said that "God is so masculine, everything else is feminine before Him."
This is why (traditionally) men have been initiators in romantic relationships, because (even subconsciously, they know that) God initiates salvation. And where would we be, as a fallen race, if God Almighty waited for us to take the first step?
The ferry into Hades costs only an obol!
But I digress. A friend of mine says that I'm in danger of missing things if I constantly see metaphors to marriage in the pages of scripture. But for the romantic in me, I bring this defense: God ordained marriage, the closest human covenantal relationship, to give us children a tiny glimpse of His love for us. His love is inseparable, relentless, and Almighty. And I will confess, reader, that however strong my affections are for the symbolism found in marriage, I only hope this doesn't throw blinders up toward other truths and insights found in Scripture.
It's also interesting that the verse states that the fountain will be opened for the "house of David." I wrote the word "beth" in parenthesis because that's the Anglicization of the Hebrew word "house," and it carries other nuances which add to its meaning. For instance, it could represent (as I believe it does here) a lineage or a family, rather than an architectural structural. Besides human "houses" having this reference, the phrase "the house of God" gains more of an understanding! Psalm 23 ends verse 6 with
And I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
Does this mean that David's comfort would be to stand in the Temple of Jerusalem for the length of his days? Is he referring to heaven's eternal dwelling with God? Perhaps both of these things! But I'd argue that with the added nuance of "family," David is referring to being restored in this life to the community and love of the fellowship of faithful believers in Israel, c. 1000 B.C.
In light of Christmas, here's another "house" reference, found in the gospel of Christ, according to Luke: (underlining mine)
Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, in order to register along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and was with child.
Luke 2:4-5
Luke spells out the connection between house and lineage for us Gentiles.
But before I get too sidetracked on the amazing topic of the "house" found in the Bible, I'll wrap this post with the purpose I began it--to demonstrate the believer's response to being told the foolishness of the cross and the salvation through suffering, of victorious triumph through "defeat," of Life in death. As Naaman was furious at the counsel of Elisha to bathe in the filth of the Jordan (2 Kings 5), so John the Baptist was confused at the request of Jesus to be baptized in the waters of deliverance, as He crossed the threshold of His life of service. Naaman's story is not so different from our own, valiant men of the twenty-first century, who scorn the idea of needing to be cleansed from unrightness, for our scars are much deeper than the skin. Oh, how I pray that the LORD would make our sins as manifest as they were! Yet, reader, do not mourn, for the law of God is that mirror that reveals our filth and impurities that loosen us from being bound in honor with the grace of God.
Today, if you hear His voice, don't harden your hearts. See the folly of your ways--see the outcome of your sin in the penalty endured by Jesus, beginning at His birth. We celebrate the birth of Jesus as the beginning of His sufferings, all for the sake of the albino sheep that He cleanses with His very blood being that new fountain opened for the sins of His people.
There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins
and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.
The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day;
and there have I, though vile as he, washed all my sins away.
Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood shall never lose its power
'til all the ransomed church of God be saved to sin no more.
E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply,
redeeming love has been my theme and shall be 'til I die.
Then in a nobler, sweeter song, I'll sing Thy power to save
when this poor lisping, stammering tongue lies silent in the grave.
Zechariah 12 is God's prophecy of judgment against all those who attack Judah, in preserving the life of the house/lineage of David according to His unfailing covenant, and leads the inhabitants of Judah to prematurely fulfill the words of Ezekiel 36:25-32--
"...Then [after ransoming Israel from exile]
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean;
I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
Moreover,
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and
I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and
you will be careful to observe My ordinances.
You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so
you will be My people, and I will be your God.
Moreover,
I will save you from all your uncleanness; and
I will call for the grain and multiply it, and
I will not put a famine on you.
I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that
you will not receive again the disgrace of famine among the nations.
Then
you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and
you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and your abominations.
I am not doing this for your sake,"
declares the Lord GOD,
"let it be known to you.
Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house [beth] of Israel!"
Ezekiel 36:25-32
The people of Jerusalem repented when God saved them, not the other way around.
It's sometimes sticky to explain to people seeking to be "politically correct" who question why the true and living God is masculine. William explained it quite well when he said that "God is so masculine, everything else is feminine before Him."
This is why (traditionally) men have been initiators in romantic relationships, because (even subconsciously, they know that) God initiates salvation. And where would we be, as a fallen race, if God Almighty waited for us to take the first step?
The ferry into Hades costs only an obol!
But I digress. A friend of mine says that I'm in danger of missing things if I constantly see metaphors to marriage in the pages of scripture. But for the romantic in me, I bring this defense: God ordained marriage, the closest human covenantal relationship, to give us children a tiny glimpse of His love for us. His love is inseparable, relentless, and Almighty. And I will confess, reader, that however strong my affections are for the symbolism found in marriage, I only hope this doesn't throw blinders up toward other truths and insights found in Scripture.
It's also interesting that the verse states that the fountain will be opened for the "house of David." I wrote the word "beth" in parenthesis because that's the Anglicization of the Hebrew word "house," and it carries other nuances which add to its meaning. For instance, it could represent (as I believe it does here) a lineage or a family, rather than an architectural structural. Besides human "houses" having this reference, the phrase "the house of God" gains more of an understanding! Psalm 23 ends verse 6 with
And I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
Does this mean that David's comfort would be to stand in the Temple of Jerusalem for the length of his days? Is he referring to heaven's eternal dwelling with God? Perhaps both of these things! But I'd argue that with the added nuance of "family," David is referring to being restored in this life to the community and love of the fellowship of faithful believers in Israel, c. 1000 B.C.
In light of Christmas, here's another "house" reference, found in the gospel of Christ, according to Luke: (underlining mine)
Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, in order to register along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and was with child.
Luke 2:4-5
Luke spells out the connection between house and lineage for us Gentiles.
But before I get too sidetracked on the amazing topic of the "house" found in the Bible, I'll wrap this post with the purpose I began it--to demonstrate the believer's response to being told the foolishness of the cross and the salvation through suffering, of victorious triumph through "defeat," of Life in death. As Naaman was furious at the counsel of Elisha to bathe in the filth of the Jordan (2 Kings 5), so John the Baptist was confused at the request of Jesus to be baptized in the waters of deliverance, as He crossed the threshold of His life of service. Naaman's story is not so different from our own, valiant men of the twenty-first century, who scorn the idea of needing to be cleansed from unrightness, for our scars are much deeper than the skin. Oh, how I pray that the LORD would make our sins as manifest as they were! Yet, reader, do not mourn, for the law of God is that mirror that reveals our filth and impurities that loosen us from being bound in honor with the grace of God.
Today, if you hear His voice, don't harden your hearts. See the folly of your ways--see the outcome of your sin in the penalty endured by Jesus, beginning at His birth. We celebrate the birth of Jesus as the beginning of His sufferings, all for the sake of the albino sheep that He cleanses with His very blood being that new fountain opened for the sins of His people.
There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins
and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.
The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day;
and there have I, though vile as he, washed all my sins away.
Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood shall never lose its power
'til all the ransomed church of God be saved to sin no more.
E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply,
redeeming love has been my theme and shall be 'til I die.
Then in a nobler, sweeter song, I'll sing Thy power to save
when this poor lisping, stammering tongue lies silent in the grave.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Dregs
I once told Laura that I'd given up coffee for good, but my nine o'clock classes this quarter have prompted me to jump back into the caffeine cesspool. Well, I guess that's a little harsh. Coffee's not that bad, and neither are teas or sodas. In fact, I enjoy all of them for their tastes, sweetened and/or caffeinated or neither. The only problem I draw from them is that they mostly contain caffeine, which is as addictive a drug as any, legal as it may be. I've seen the effects of caffeine addiction in my father, though he's been able to wean himself down to a necessary one dose a day. That's good and all, but it still pains me to hear him in my memory as being snappy in the pre-caffeine mornings. But such is the requirement of all persons who are expected to work late nights--students, doctors, teachers, counselors, lawyers, radio hosts, computer people...the list goes on, but it mainly focuses on those who either are overburdened or are "on call." Reader, I probably will fall in this category for the rest of my life, if I plan on pursuing the pastoral ministry after my years primarily being a student conclude. I would much crave your prayers for joy and endurance in these late hours. Pastors are both teachers and counselors. Yet do not even pastors feel the pains of their task? Jesus, our great shepherd, felt these pangs in the Garden of Gethsemane--
And He [Jesus] went a little beyond them [James, John, and Peter],
and fell on His face and prayed, saying,
"My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will."
Matthew 26:39
He went away again a second time and prayed, saying,
"My Father, if this cannot pass away unless I drink it, Your will be done."
Matthew 26:42
Jesus was grieved to drink the "Cup of Redemption" (see my previous post for more), which is His "blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins" (Matthew 26:28), and from which He commands all of His disciples to drink from it. Besides thinking of this picture of the Lord's Supper whenever I drink of our coffee's dregs, I believe dregs have retained their meaning today of being "the bitter end" of a task primarily because of this biblical picture. The dregs are the last drops of a drink, whether coffee or tea or wine--and they are usually filled with the very unsettling bitter grains used to brew or distill or ferment. The Bible portrays these grains as being a sign of complete judgment, just as physical dregs indicate a fully drained cup. (Hence, the Grapes of Wrath)
But God is the Judge;
He puts down one and exalts the other.
For a cup is in the hand of the LORD,
and the wine foams;
it is well mixed,
and He pours out of this;
Surely all the wicked of the earth
must drain and drink down its dregs.
Psalm 75:7-8
These dregs remind me of my Savior's grueling mission, to turn our cup of wrath into a cup of joy, that our broken and shriveled hearts would receive a truer blood, a truer wine, a truer Spirit than the blood of Abel, than the wine of this world, than the spirit of our fallen estate that is content to remain in ashes and filth and dust, like the leprous dead that we are. These dregs remind me that my Jesus downed the cup of the new covenant, shedding His blood for our forgiveness, that we no longer need to drink the justice away. This is from where J. K. Rowling drew her Horcrux Cave scene in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, when Dumbledore drinks 12 cups of poison (one for each tribe of Israel, I'd add as a subtext...) in order to reveal the symbol of Voldemort's life, suffering in mortal agony the entire time. Dumbledore drank those cups so that Harry would not have to, counting himself "much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable," and though it may be a stretch and more than a little heretical, Jesus makes that same claim in the garden of the olive-press. He declares me, the chief of sinners, as worthy to die for. If God were only like men, we would send Him to modern "psychology," in the attempts to "straighten" Him out--surely only a fool would die for a worthless, penniless, guilty, hateful, and unlovely sinner.
But God demonstrates His own love for us,
in that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
This is an incredible love. Seriously. Like, who does that? But here's something for you, reader, if you're inclined towards calculus: our love is derived from God's love.
Gah. I'm pretty distractible tonight.
It's Tuesday of finals week, and I should be studying. But my only final tomorrow is Music Theory, which I absolutely adore, and I don't really need to study for this one--it's pretty fundamental. The fundamentals are still pretty much the greatest and most profound parts, I've found. Back to the beginning, as they say.
Back to the beginning of this post.... dregs.
I drink the dregs of my family's coffeepot not to redeem wayward sinners, but to remind myself that coffee is a drug. I am committed to never let any drug rule over me, so I continue to down the bitter dregs. I'm not sure if it honestly wakes me up in the mornings or not--and I'm not sure if I can call it hydration if I drink it black (Black coffee puts hair on your chest, as my grandfather says), since coffee is a diuretic (it makes you pee, killing the hydration factor).
Here are a couple thoughts that I'm both too lazy to organize and too busy to think through:
1. Calvin and I have long disputed what would happen if we were placed on an abandoned ship filled with tomatoes and steaks. I'm sure in the occasion, I would eat some of the detestable things, and Calvin would get some filet mignon to go with his poison apples, but I'd hope he would agree to eat more than his share of tomatoes. Ewww.
1.5. Calvin got his braces off today! Yay!! We can celebrate by opening the bottle of Kofola tomorrow!
2. Isaiah 51.
Therefore,
please hear this, you afflicted,
who are drunk, but not with wine:
Thus says your Lord,
the LORD,
even your God
who contends for His people,
"Behold, I have taken out of your hand
the cup of reeling, the chalice of My anger;
you will never drink it again.
"I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
who have said to your soul,
'Lie down that we may walk over you.'
You have even made your back like the ground
and like the street for those who walk over it."
Isaiah 51:21-23
You know you've been drinking too much coffee when lukewarm water tastes cold.
And He [Jesus] went a little beyond them [James, John, and Peter],
and fell on His face and prayed, saying,
"My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will."
Matthew 26:39
He went away again a second time and prayed, saying,
"My Father, if this cannot pass away unless I drink it, Your will be done."
Matthew 26:42
Jesus was grieved to drink the "Cup of Redemption" (see my previous post for more), which is His "blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins" (Matthew 26:28), and from which He commands all of His disciples to drink from it. Besides thinking of this picture of the Lord's Supper whenever I drink of our coffee's dregs, I believe dregs have retained their meaning today of being "the bitter end" of a task primarily because of this biblical picture. The dregs are the last drops of a drink, whether coffee or tea or wine--and they are usually filled with the very unsettling bitter grains used to brew or distill or ferment. The Bible portrays these grains as being a sign of complete judgment, just as physical dregs indicate a fully drained cup. (Hence, the Grapes of Wrath)
But God is the Judge;
He puts down one and exalts the other.
For a cup is in the hand of the LORD,
and the wine foams;
it is well mixed,
and He pours out of this;
Surely all the wicked of the earth
must drain and drink down its dregs.
Psalm 75:7-8
These dregs remind me of my Savior's grueling mission, to turn our cup of wrath into a cup of joy, that our broken and shriveled hearts would receive a truer blood, a truer wine, a truer Spirit than the blood of Abel, than the wine of this world, than the spirit of our fallen estate that is content to remain in ashes and filth and dust, like the leprous dead that we are. These dregs remind me that my Jesus downed the cup of the new covenant, shedding His blood for our forgiveness, that we no longer need to drink the justice away. This is from where J. K. Rowling drew her Horcrux Cave scene in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, when Dumbledore drinks 12 cups of poison (one for each tribe of Israel, I'd add as a subtext...) in order to reveal the symbol of Voldemort's life, suffering in mortal agony the entire time. Dumbledore drank those cups so that Harry would not have to, counting himself "much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable," and though it may be a stretch and more than a little heretical, Jesus makes that same claim in the garden of the olive-press. He declares me, the chief of sinners, as worthy to die for. If God were only like men, we would send Him to modern "psychology," in the attempts to "straighten" Him out--surely only a fool would die for a worthless, penniless, guilty, hateful, and unlovely sinner.
But God demonstrates His own love for us,
in that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
This is an incredible love. Seriously. Like, who does that? But here's something for you, reader, if you're inclined towards calculus: our love is derived from God's love.
Gah. I'm pretty distractible tonight.
It's Tuesday of finals week, and I should be studying. But my only final tomorrow is Music Theory, which I absolutely adore, and I don't really need to study for this one--it's pretty fundamental. The fundamentals are still pretty much the greatest and most profound parts, I've found. Back to the beginning, as they say.
Back to the beginning of this post.... dregs.
I drink the dregs of my family's coffeepot not to redeem wayward sinners, but to remind myself that coffee is a drug. I am committed to never let any drug rule over me, so I continue to down the bitter dregs. I'm not sure if it honestly wakes me up in the mornings or not--and I'm not sure if I can call it hydration if I drink it black (Black coffee puts hair on your chest, as my grandfather says), since coffee is a diuretic (it makes you pee, killing the hydration factor).
Here are a couple thoughts that I'm both too lazy to organize and too busy to think through:
1. Calvin and I have long disputed what would happen if we were placed on an abandoned ship filled with tomatoes and steaks. I'm sure in the occasion, I would eat some of the detestable things, and Calvin would get some filet mignon to go with his poison apples, but I'd hope he would agree to eat more than his share of tomatoes. Ewww.
1.5. Calvin got his braces off today! Yay!! We can celebrate by opening the bottle of Kofola tomorrow!
2. Isaiah 51.
Therefore,
please hear this, you afflicted,
who are drunk, but not with wine:
Thus says your Lord,
the LORD,
even your God
who contends for His people,
"Behold, I have taken out of your hand
the cup of reeling, the chalice of My anger;
you will never drink it again.
"I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
who have said to your soul,
'Lie down that we may walk over you.'
You have even made your back like the ground
and like the street for those who walk over it."
Isaiah 51:21-23
You know you've been drinking too much coffee when lukewarm water tastes cold.
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