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State Senator

Eric D. Coleman

DEPUTY PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

Chair: Judiciary

Vice-Chair: Public Safety & Security

Member: Finance, Revenue & Bonding; Legislative Management;
Program Review & Investigations

Representing Hartford, Bloomfield & Windsor

 

 

 

 

Senator Eric D. Coleman

Deputy President Pro Tempore

Chair: Judiciary

Vice-Chair: Public Safety & Security

Member: Finance, Revenue & Bonding; Legislative Management; Program Review & Investigations

 

State Senator Eric D. Coleman began serving the Second Senatorial District in January, 1995. The district includes portions of Bloomfield, Hartford and Windsor. Prior to his election to the Senate, he served in the State House of Representatives from 1983 to 1994. While a member of the House of Representatives, Senator Coleman served two terms as Assistant Majority Leader. In 1991, he served a term as Majority Whip, and was Deputy Speaker of the House in 1993.

 

Senator Coleman currently serves as Senate Chair of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee and Vice Chair of the Public Safety & Security Committee. He is a sitting member of the Finance, Revenue & Bonding; Legislative Management; and Program Review & Investigations Committees. He also acts as Deputy President Pro Tempore, often presiding over business on the floor of the Senate.

 

Senator Coleman made history in 2001 when he was first appointed to serve as Chair of the Judiciary Committee—the first African-American to hold that position. The George W. Crawford Law Association, an organization of African-American lawyers in Connecticut, and a number of civil rights organizations honored him for his contributions to the legal profession.

 

Senator Coleman has received numerous awards and honors since he was first elected to the Senate in 1994. In 2001 the African-American Affairs Commission named Coleman "Legislator of the Year." The Legislative Education Action Program (L.E.A.P) honored him in 2000 for his work on the law requiring all cities and towns in Connecticut to observe Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

 

Senator Coleman has also been honored by the Connecticut Citizen Action Group for his commitment to social change, the Urban League of Greater Hartford Development Corporation, the Appreciation Award for support of the annual Dr. Carter G. Woodson Scholarship of Tau Iota Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, the Greater Hartford NAACP, the Uptown Troops Color Guard, the United Negro College Fund, the Unsung Hero Award of the Upper Albany Revitalization Zone Organization, the Greater Hartford Labor Council AFL-CIO, the Connecticut Alliance for Basic Human Needs, the Nigerian American Society, the Clarence Daniels Advocacy Award of the Connecticut AIDS Residence Coalition, and the Achievement Award of the Connecticut Chapter of Men and Women for Justice, Inc.

 

Senator Coleman serves on the Board of Directors of Greater Hartford Legal Aid and is a member of the American Bar Association as well as the Hartford County Bar Association. He is a member of Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church and the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, and also served on the Bloomfield Democratic Town Committee from 1984 to 2002.

 

Senator Coleman graduated from the Pomfret School and Columbia College of Columbia University. He received his J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1977 and established his own law practice in Hartford in 1986.

 

Senator Coleman resides in Bloomfield with his wife, Pamela. They have three children: Trevonn, Lamar and Erica, and three grandchildren: Jalen, Isaiah and Elias.

 

TWICE A CHILD

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Communication 

key to engagement

CRÈC SCHOOLS

open choice 

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TRANSPORTATION

14000 per day to 185

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student progress behavior 

RESPECT 

COMMUNICATION - trust

SAFETY

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE  

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STUDENT CENTERED LEARNING

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Not eating enough is almost as bad as not eating a healthy diet. Poor eating habits will cause your body to not develop properly from lack of nutrients. Not eating enough can result in a loss of muscle mass, a lack of energy and poor recovery from exercise.

Loss of Muscle Mass

During a workout or competition, your muscles take a beating and will have small tears from the strain. This will release stress hormones into your body. Finishing your workout now signals your body to start the repair process of fixing the tears in your muscle fibers and make them stronger. This is the reason why your muscles get bigger with exercise.

Not eating enough will cause your body to be under constant (chronic) stress which will result in muscle catabolism (breakdown) even without working out. Your muscles need carbohydrates, protein and fats as part of the recovery process. Not eating enough of these nutrients will mean your body will get them from somewhere else. It will turn to your body's fat stores or your muscles. Fat and muscle loss is a sure sign you are under-eating. Take notice and start to eat more of the right kinds of food.

Not Losing Fat

It may sound like the opposite effect but under-eating can cause a weight gain. There a few things happening in the case. As mentioned above, stress hormones will increase and these hormones promote fat storage. Eating less than your body needs will cause a "starvation" reaction. Your body is expecting to not have enough food in the future so it starts to store everything it can to prepare for it. Your body burns muscle instead of fat in order to store more energy. The longer you go with eating less food, the worse it will get. As you lose muscle mass from your body using it for energy, the slower your metabolism will be.

Not Eating Enough for Muscle Gain

Exercise uses up the energy stores in your body - both blood sugar and glycogen from muscle and your liver. You will need carbohydrates to replenish glycogen levels and protein to rebuild torn muscle fibers. Feeling really sore for several days after a workout is a good indication you are not eating enough. Eating within 30 minutes of your workout is critical to start the repair process and eat again an hour or two later to supply more nutrients. Your post-workout snack needs to be about a 3:1 ratio of carbs to protein. Your muscles continue to break down for 20-30 minute after your workout so getting protein into your muscles will cause protein synthesis to be greater than the breakdown. The quicker you can absorb protein, the better your muscles will develop. Using a whey protein shake or chocolate milk is ideal.

Constantly Hungry

This one is pretty obvious. Being hungry means you need to eat more. Another possible reason is the amount of simple carbohydrates you eat. These are the sugars in pop, candy, etc that are bad calories. They go directly to the blood stream and supply instant energy. Being used up quite quickly means your body will crave more within a couple of hours. Unfortunately, they also cause all sorts of health issues like heart disease and cancer.

The quality nutrients you need to eat are complex carbohydrates (whole grain breads, brown or wild rice, vegetables), lean protein (lean meat, chicken, fish) and unsaturated fats like omega-3 in salmon or tuna, avocados, seeds and nuts, olive oil). Your body will digest these foods much slower so you will get more energy and feel full longer which will help with the cravings during the day.

One really good way to feed your body more efficiently is to eat less food more often. Eat less for your normal three meals a day but add a snack in-between at mid-morning, mid-afternoon and in the evening so you are eating every 2-3 hours. The trick is to eat the same TOTAL calories in a day but eat them more spaced out. This gives your body a continuous supply of nutrients to recover properly from exercise and not feel hungry all the time.

Lack of Energy/Fatigue

Being really tired before even starting your warm up is a clear sign of a poor diet. It is not uncommon for me to ask a group of athletes how many ate breakfast and less than half of the hands go up. Some have a cup of coffee or an energy drink and that is it. That is a really bad idea. Not giving your body the fuel it needs will result in a lack of energy to perform at a high level. Follow the guidelines mentioned above to eat more often. The danger in dong this is over-eating so watch your portion size. Your brain will tell your body to relax for a while so it can digest the food. This leaves you feeling lazy, sleepy and stuffed.

Not eating enough can be caused by different factors but regardless of these reasons, manage your diet properly. Eat 5-6 times a day and if you are really struggling, get advice from someone who knows how to help.

My name is Jacques Delorme and I run a youth nutrition blog at http://visportsnutrition.ca to educate parents, coaches and youth athletes on nutrition, exercise and motivation. Visit my site and feel free to leave comments and questions.

 

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vlok

SOCIETAL HEALING

James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

FORGIVING

Romans 12:14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

THE FORGIVEN

Ezekiel 33:14 . . .when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

"seeking redemption by reaching out to the people he helped to oppress"

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listening

W

DOUBLE YOU

. . . the monitoring of the political contest before the elections if often done not on key issues, but in "who hit whom" manner, that is similar to manner as one keeps scores in a boxing match. 

A daily assemblage of tiny ad hominimum stories about politicians (nanostories) became another typical feature of Freak Show.

The level of sophistication about the psychology of reasoning, decision-making, risk, etc. is much higher than standard critical thinking texts―as one would expect given the author's credentials." – Frank Fair, Prof. of Psychology and Philosophy, Sam Houston State University, and Managing Editor of Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines.

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GROUP-THINK AND 

WHY PERSONAL 

REALITY MATTERS

The idea that persons who look and act morally, quickly revert to immoral behavior as the members of the group is not new. Niebuhr just exposed the hypocrisy of the arguments the ruling group use to justify their favored position and to restrict the opportunities and participation of the other groups that are marginalized.  Lord John Acton's (1834-1902) famous sentence, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." (Letter to Bishop Creighton, April 5, 1887) reflects the same idea. In other words, the phenomenon was recognized long before fascism conducted its large-scale social experiment on German and Italian people. 

Because we cannot fathom the whole of humanity our loyalty will always be to a group. That means that the highest form of altruism will always be to sacrifice for a group. If it is in the interest of a group to coerce another group then the individuals in that first group will feel loyal and altruistic and moral coercing another group. As simple as that. The question here is limits. Absence of limits means horrible things: we can say that fascism is an ideological groupthink taken to the extreme.  But this is slightly off topic.

Reinhold Niebuhr was a moral philosopher, was one of the most significant religious thinkers this country; he is mostly known for his Serenity Prayer. The original prayer he drafted was, "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other." 

He noted that groupthink is applicable both to small groups and nations: 

"Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy. We have noted that self-deception and hypocrisy is an unvarying element in the moral life of all human beings. It is the tribute which morality pays to immorality . . . ." (95, 117, 141, 177f.)

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WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Bishop David Oyedepo is the richest pastor in Nigeria and the world. He is the founder of the Living Faith World Outreach Ministry. Ever since he founded this ministry in 1981, it has grown to become one of Africa's largest congregations. He hosts three services every Sunday in The Faith Tabernacle. This prosperous pastor owns private jets and homes in the US and the UK.

I DON'T HAVE A
PROBLEM WITH IT . . .

"Even when a family is poor, they hate to be called poor. No man in his right mind enjoys being called poor and nobody truly wants to be poor, although people may pretend."

Here is the top 10 richest
preachers in the world as of 2015 -
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clean

"Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God.

nme

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. - Proverbs 18:24

Friendship may not be just sentimental 'sweetness' . . .
Transparency
Vulnerability
Acceptance
Friendship?
Loyalty

I'M SUPPOSED TO BE WRITING ABOUT FRIENDSHIP . . . this is not such a good beginning

The crab is only hard on the outside
The snail is safer in her shell
The skunk makes friends ?
The porcupine . . .

The jellyfish is fairly
transparent but spineless.

PART-TIME?
Proverbs 17:17 A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

JESUS & DISCIPLESHIP
John 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

UNFRIENDING?
Proverbs 22:24 - Make no
friendship with an angry man.

PAUL'S FRIEND
Philippians 2:25 Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier . . .

LOYALTY
Acts 23:16 And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.

HOSPITALITY
2 Kings 8:29 . . . And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

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We have clearly identified the JEZEBEL SPIRIT that bullies and tries to terrify the man of God. This spirit troubled Elijah and drove him into deep depression even to the point of suicide.

1 Kings 19:4 . . . he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

This guy had a pretty good 'resume'. He had just 'brokered a sweet deal' between The Lord and THE AHAB GROUP. The Lord had come out on top (as usual) at a fiery showdown at Carmel. Thanks to the faithfulness and obedience of Elijah.

So nowadays us men know about this JEZEBEL SPIRIT we sometimes see in our mothers our wives and our daughters; but in the interest of full disclosure let us also understand the SAMSON SPIRIT that they sometimes see in us.

Let me just say upfront for the record; I am clueless about HOMOSEXUALITY !!! I just don't understand it. Women are sooooo wonderful !!!!!

Anyhow a good example of the SAMSON SPIRIT is what happened to a great friend of ours named Dave.

What can I say, he just "loved the babes"!!!

. . . she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife. David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives. But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
FROM: 1 Samuel 25.

Just so we understand the extent to which this can become a problem, Dave's son Sullie also ended up under the influence of the SAMPSON SPIRIT.

. . . he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. FROM: 1 Kings 11:3

GIVE THE BOY THE BOOK !!!!
Now, chop chop, pronto ASAP !

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What is this thing between guys and girls? Do we call it Dating? Attraction? Interest?
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PASTOR CARY SCHMIDT
DISCUSSES THIS with Mike Ray . . .
We all know it's there, but no one really knows what to call it, and for some strange reason everyone is afraid to talk about it! So what do you call it? LUST !!!! ???????

It's sad that in the Christian community where we have access to God's truth we operate with so many lies and myths . . .
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babes

What is this thing between guys and girls? Do we call it Dating? Attraction? Interest?
http://bit.ly/1K1Vdsj

PASTOR CARY SCHMIDT
DISCUSSES THIS with Mike Ray . . .
We all know it's there, but no one really knows what to call it, and for some strange reason everyone is afraid to talk about it! So what do you call it? LUST !!!! ???????

It's sad that in the Christian community where we have access to God's truth we operate with so many lies and myths . . .
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CHURCH - building • body • bride

Most churches are organized in such a way that the public face of a church is seen as a business.

When Jesus had dinner at Matthew's house He was asked how He could spend time eating with sinners (Matthew 9:9-13). When Jesus heard this He answered with words that were very telling. He said, "They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
With these words, Jesus described the church. Imperfect people who know they needed a Savior, working together to build relationships, help those in need, and to glorify God by striving to be like Christ and share His love with others.

Too often people describe a church building or organization as the church.

This is because they emphasize the facility or organizational hierarchy as what constitutes a church.

However, since many people have a difficult time putting a label on a church, the term local church is often used to denote the local assembly of believers along with their meeting place and operations.

The word church in the Bible comes from the Greek word ecclesia, which means a called out company or assembly. Wherever it is used in the Bible it refers to people. It can be a mob (Acts 19:30-41), the children of Israel (Acts 7:38), and the body of Christ (Ephesians 1:22; Ephesians 5:25, 32).

MICHAEL WILLIAMS
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. . . it's amazing membership in a church means so much; did John have his membership card?

how about Jesus Christ the head of the church is he a member in good standing in some churches?

I highly doubt it, as a
matter of fact I know it!!

In some churches
he's not even welcome !

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What if the assembling is church ? . . . as opposed to the

1. assembled - MEMBERS
2. assembly - BUILDING

3. assembling - RELATION

Not to be splitting hairs but we should perhaps take a closer look at the scriptures teaching on the church. Personally I am leaning heavily towards relationships as 'church'.

Do you want to begin with a scripture verse that you believe makes the case for any particular meaning.

I would even venture to say that any relationship of assembled persons that has CHRIST AS HEAD . . . should be looked at more carefully . . .

These assemblies that try to begin their deliberations with prayer . . . in Houses of Parliament and houses of congress, for example, these 'assemblies' are finding more and more opposition to prayer !!!!

I WONDER WHY ?
"I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."

• • • • • • •

May we never lose the blessing of The Lord and remove the candlestick . . . we need to pray for the churches !

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CHURCH - building or body?

enough

ABASED - "glory to God"
. . . the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

How am I abased?
Abundance is abounding !

Abased is not having enough.
Philippians 4:12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

HOW DO I EXALT MYSELF ?
1. By not giving credit (glory)
2. By taking the credit (glory)

. . . whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. LUKE 14:11

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PSALM 17:1 Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.

3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

The enemy is around us and in us only God can preserve us !

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Hebrews 7
. . . he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

1 Kings 8:56
Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

Scripture is clear:
Human weakness is real !

Equally clear
is the promise :

Galatians 5:16 . . . Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Why question the humanity of Paul or any bible person ? is it not the purposes of God that we receive ?

Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Ours is a walk of faith !
GET BACK IN THE FIGHT !

THE NEXT ROUND !!!!

FACE THE NEXT ROUND
IT WILL NEVER BE EASY

THE PRINCIPLE APPLIES

you did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded . . . You have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

. . . they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:
For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is . . .

it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

THIS IS THE WORD
OF THE LORD

THE PRAYER:
Guide me,
O Thou great Jehovah,
Pilgrim through
this barren land.

I am weak, but
Thou art mighty;
Hold me with
Thy powerful hand.

Bread of Heaven,
Bread of Heaven,
Feed me till
I want no more;
Feed me till
I want no more.

Open now
the crystal fountain,
Whence the healing
stream doth flow;
Let the fire and
cloudy pillar
Lead me all my
journey through.

Strong Deliverer,
strong Deliverer,
Be Thou still my
Strength and Shield;
Be Thou still my
Strength and Shield.

Amen.

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SERENITY ?

Would you (my uncle) like me (your niece) to take Madeline (my cousin|your daughter) to the DMV tomorrow?
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Why do you think your relationship with your dad (my brother) is not good?

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Our culture is a combination of things we believe and experiences we have.

Who we become is determined by how we resolve the conflict between our beliefs and our experiences.

Our beliefs we have control of . . . Experience, NOT SO MUCH !

I (at age 61) am doing an Ethics course in school now as an elective.

Usually assignments are chosen by the student. By a weird twist of circumstances I was "forced" to do an assignment: a paper on the
SERENITY PRAYER !

I should be happy right?
I'm clueless !!!

Do you know what this prayer is ?

BTW I have no control over what Madeline (my 20+ year old daughter) does !!!

. . . as you may have observed.

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KEY WORDS
1. Ethics
2. Belief
3. Respect
4. Right(s)
5. Endorsement / support
6. Family
7. Agreement

LESSONS
#1. Question
Why does what I "like" matter?

#2. Question
What is a "bad" relationship?

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ASSIGNMENT
Having read and thought about the above situation . . . Write a 7 paragraph essay - using the seven KEY WORDS and answering questions #1 & #2 - expressing
your "feeling(s)".

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Discussion Questions

"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai."  Consider the timing or the context for the giving of God's message, the commandments.  Having been delivered from bondage in Egypt, a tribe of people find themselves in the wilderness of the Sinai desert, yet to establish their community.  The commandments indeed come at a pivotal time.  They provide ethical structure and establish a set of practices that define the spiritual covenant animating the relationship of a people with their divine authority.  Are they sufficient basis for the establishment of a society?

 

In the beginning God created man in His image so says the book of Genesis. God is perfect, the human is perfect. Humans were given options.

 

15And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of

Eden to dress it and to keep it. 16And the LORD God commanded

the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 

17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not

eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

http://biblehub.com/kjv/genesis/2.htm

 

Determining what was good and evil was not a given option for humans at this point. The story of the serpent shows that humans reasoned from a premise that was contrary to the given command or law. So was born the idea of sin or going off course. Human history then became a series of actions based on the reasoned determining of good and evil without reference to God. Before long Genesis chapter six records the following:

 

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and 

That every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

 

God selects Abraham and makes an agreement with him. He believes God and so begins a 'new' relationship of God with humans. Abrahams son and grandson continue 'following the covenant' for several generations until they become enslaved in Egypt. The culture is different, the God of Abraham is not the god of the Egyptians. God selects Moses to establish a written 'code of ethics' that would be sufficient to allow the "children of Israel" to re-establish communities that would preserve the Abrahamic covenant with God.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:07 PM, Breault, Benjamin <BBreault@mcc.commnet.edu> wrote:

Hey, everyone,

Please find attached the discussion questions sign-up sheet for your reference.  When it is your week, simply email me by 3pm on that Friday a couple of questions you think it would be interesting to explore, inspired by the readings that week.

The short reading responses can be emailed as well.  While a lot of the readings are posted on Blackboard, I am not sure entirely how to best facilitate the reading responses or the discussion questions that you'll eventually post through this medium.  Email works for me.  Receiving them by that afternoon will allow me to gauge where everyone is with the reading and offer an opportunity to bend the class in this or that direction, depending on the reactions.

Keep in touch with any questions or concerns.  Thank you to those that have already confirmed their email. 

Regards,

Benjamin Breault

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PO Box 1046

Manchester, CT 06045-1046

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team

Do you need to have
A coach ?
A mentor ?
A sponsor ?

The guy on the sideline at the game who calls the timeout. He knows the player. He supervises training. He formulates winning strategy.
He can pull a player from the game.
In boxing this guy may whisper something in your ear after the bell in between rounds when you took a heavy beating.

The older guy is your mentor.
He's seen a lot. He is wise. He'll give you an instruction that you may not fully understand at the time. But if / when you take his advise you avoid much pain.

The sponsor may be a boss, he signs your paycheck. Or an agent he get you gigs or contracts. This guy sees to it that you have consistent pay days. He could be a politician, or a lawyer he may even be a pastor !!

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