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How God used the great church destroyer Saul to become the great multiethnic church planter.

The last words of someone are important, especially if that someone is the eternal Son, the second person of the triune God. Before Jesus ascended to heaven so he could function as his people’s great high priest, he commissioned and commanded his twelve Jewish disciples to be his “witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8). These early Jewish believers disobeyed Jesus and his Great Commission by staying in Jerusalem among Jews. They had a bad case of ethnocentrism, believing that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was only for the Jews because God had given them the Law and circumcision as a badge of God’s covenant. They forgot that as Jews they existed to be a light to the Gentiles.

But Jesus would not let them disrupt his mission to reach the Gentiles, fulfilling his promises to Abraham. (See Genesis 12:1–3; Galatians 3:7–9; Romans 15:8; Ephesians 2:1). And, in order to force the homogenous church in Jerusalem to scatter on mission to reach the Gentiles, God allowed persecution to free the early Jewish church from the sin of ethnocentrism.

God used Saul and other enemies of the Church to free it from the sin of not reaching the Gentiles and move it toward becoming multiethnic:

“And Saul approved of his execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. Devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him. But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison” (Acts 8:1–3, ESV).

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В новом интервью с SiriusXM "Trunk Nation" у легендарного гитариста Tony Iommi спросили, доволен ли он тем, как прошёл прощальный тур BLACK SABBATH "The End", на что он ответил:

«Было здорово иметь возможность отправиться в последний тур. Честно говоря, я чувствовал себя неважно [из-за] этого, потому что в основном это был мой выбор, моя вина, потому что турне для меня в некоторой степени было в физическом плане не самой лучшей идеей. Я имею в виду, что приходилось возвращаться в часа утра после концерта — ты отыграл концерт, а потом летишь обратно в отель — это было много возвращений поздними ночами. Я находился в таких же условиях, как когда мне было 20. Несмотря на то, что мы путешествовали [на] лучших [условиях] — у нас был собственный самолет, у нас были потрясающие отели, и нас разместили в Нью-Йорке или Лос-Анджелесе на 10 дней, или где-то ещё, это было вот так. Выходили из отеля, летели на самолёте, давали концерт, возвращались, но к тому времени, как мы заканчивали, возвращались в отель и ложились спать, уже было три-четыре часа. А для меня это было трудно, и мой доктор сказал мне попробовать немного успокоиться. И в то время это казалось правильным.

Особенно после всего, что случилось с Ронни [Джеймсом Дио], мне очень понравился тот период [с HEAVEN & HELL], когда мы были снова с Дио, мы очень сблизились с этой группой, и это была отличная группа. А потом мы решили заново собрать SABBATH с Ozz'ом [Ozzy Osbourne'ом], и это было круто для завершения карьеры. Но я думаю, что если бы Ронни был жив, я бы, наверное, делал что-нибудь с ним сейчас».

Iommi также ответил на вопрос, возможны ли разовые выступления группы:

«Думаю, это было бы неплохо, ну если мы сможем это сделать. Сложность в том, по крайней мере с SABBATH, что это всё серьёзное предприятие, ты не можешь просто взять и отыграть, так как нужны техники, полная линейка оборудования и всё такое. И это должен быть год или полтора тура... Я не против чего-то такого, я просто хотел бы всё сделать иначе». #Black_Sabbath #BlackSabbath #HardRock #Hard_Rock #HeavyMetal #Heavy_Metal

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I have finally obtained the first batch of the printed "Programming Algorithms" books and will shortly be sending them to the 13 people who asked for a hardcopy.

Here is a short video showing the book "in action":

If you also want to get a copy, here's how you do it:

1. Send the money to my PayPal account: $30 if you want normal shipping or $35 if you want a tracking number. (The details on shipping are below).
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3. Once I see the donation, I'll go to the post office and send you the book.
4. Optionaly step: if you want it to be signed, please, indicate it in your letter.

Shipping details: As I said originally, the price of the dead-tree version will be $20+shipping. I'll ship via the Ukrainian national post. You can do the fee calculation online here (book weight is 0.58 kg, size is 23 x 17 x 2 cm): https://calc.ukrposhta.ua/international-calculator. Alas, the interface is only in Ukrainian. According to the examples I've tried, the cost will be approximately $10-15. To make it easier, I've just settled on $10 shipping without a tracking number of $15 if you want a tracking number. Regardless of your country. I don't know how long it will take - probably depends on the location (I'll try to inquire when sending).

The book was already downloaded more than 1170 times (I'm not putting the exact number here as it's constantly growing little by little). I wish I knew how many people have, actually, read it in full or in part. I've also received some error corrections (special thanks goes to Serge Kruk), several small reviews and letters of encouragement. Those were very valuable and I hope to see more :)

Greetings from the far away city of Lima, Peru!
I loved this part: "Only losers don't comment their code, and comments will be used extensively"
Thank you so much for putting this comprehensive collection of highly important data structures, i'm already recommending this to two of my developers, which I hope i'll induce into my Lisp addiction.
--Flavio Egoavil

And here's another one:

Massively impressive book you've written! I've been a Lisp programmer for a long time and truly appreciate the work put in here. Making Lisp accessible for more people in relation to practical algorithms is very hard to do. But you truly made it. You'll definitely end up in the gallery of great and modern Lisp contributions like "Land of Lisp" and "Let Over Lambda". Totally agree with your path to focus on practical algorithmic thinking with Lisp and not messing it up with macros, oop and other advanced concepts.
--Lars Hård

Thanks guys, it's really appreciated!

If you feel the same or you've liked the book in some respect and have found it useful, please, continue to share news about it: that definitely helps attract more readers. And my main goal is to make it as widely read as possible...