The Galactic God Who Invites Us Into His Glorious Plan

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VOLUME 3 | ISSUE 1 | SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

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This week’s R2R distinctive God the Father (Psalm 121:1–2): We believe God is personally involved in and cares about the daily lives of His children.

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hat is the most awe-inspiring sight you have ever seen? Natural wonders like the Grand Canyon or Yosemite National Park may come to mind. Perhaps it’s the vastness of an ocean or staring into the eyes of a newly born son or daughter.

When I asked myself this question, the image that immediately came to mind was Downtown Chicago.

There is something awe-inspiring to exit the elevator on

observation deck of the John Hancock Tower and look down on Downtown Chicago. It is magnificent! With one look you can capture the beauty and simplicity of a thriving metropolis with millions of people. Yet, at the same time, you are looking at an incredibly complex system.

Each building contains all of the necessities to support the lives of those who live and work there. Millions of miles of pipes create a water and sewer system; millions of miles of electrical wire carry electrical power to millions of tiny outlets. While the simplicity is clear to see, the complexity is lost in the very scope of the image. You can’t see the woman struggling with a broken down car or the

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Page 2 Continued from page 1... ambulance rushing a dying man to a hospital. You can’t discern the young couple on their first date with love in their eyes, or the middle-aged couple meeting in separate buildings with their attorneys putting the final touches to the contract that will bring an end their 30-year marriage.

We live our lives in a relatively small space. While life should be simple, it proves to be rather complex. Slowly, if we are not careful, we become self-focused to the point we no longer even see the needs of others around us. It’s like looking at Downtown Chicago from the John Hancock tower, it’s too easy to look past the details of what’s happening in the lives of those around us.

God is watching the details of our life, and He cares about the details. He looks upon a city like Chicago and He sees and hears the woman in her prayer closet praying fervently for her son who has wondered into a dangerous life of drug use and sexual promiscuity, and He has compassion on her. He sees the young high school student mocking the street preacher and He has compassion on that young student and begins to open his ears and his heart to the gospel message being preached.

God is at work all around us, and He is asking us to join Him. That’s an amazing proposition. The God of the Universe, the Creator of all things, is asking you and me to join Him in his redemptive work throughout the world.

Over the next month, as we focus our attention on The Great Commission and what it means to us, begin to ask the Lord, “how can you use me?” The Lord will answer this prayer. The next prayer we need to pray is equally simple, but infinitely more difficult: “Lord, I know how you want to use me, now give me the faith to follow you in obedience as your Spirit leads.”

Let me close this week’s introduction with some words of encouragement from Jon Courson:

The Compass Dear saint, the Lord won’t force us to go any deeper in Him than we choose—but He will take us as deep as we wish.…

Some get their feet wet up to their ankles.

They are standing on the promises, born again, saved.

Others, wanting to go deeper, go up to their knees—that speaks of prayer. “I want to do more than get my feet wet, Lord,” they say. “I want to be part of what You are doing. Use me in prayer.”

And they get involved in intercessory ministry— praying in the Spirit.

Others, wanting to go deeper still, wade in to their waists—signifying reproduction. Not only are they standing on the promises, or up to their knees in intercessory ministry, they are adding to the kingdom by witnessing to their family, friends, and neighbors.

But there comes a point where some are just over their heads, saying, “Lord, I’m going to just let go. Have Your way in my life. I’m giving it to You without reservation. I don’t know where this will take me, but I’m Yours totally. Do what You want to do in and through me for Your glory.”

Maybe right now you’re in the doldrums in your walk. If so, I encourage you to launch out into the deeper waters of faith. Oh, maybe your kayak will get overturned in the rapids a few times and maybe you won’t know exactly where you’ll land. But I guarantee you won’t regret it. I’m so glad that the water of life flows right through heaven because it means that the Lord’s Spirit is on the move even there and that we can continue going deeper and deeper in Him throughout eternity.n

Day 1 ENCOUNTER–God’s Word to put yourself in touch with him.

Isaiah 6:1-8 (ESV) Isaiah’s Vision of the Lord 1 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”

4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost;

for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!”

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”

Isaiah’s Commission from the Lord 8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”

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Day 2 ENQUIRE–the answer to these questions to better understand what the passage means.

Use the questions below to guide your reading and to ensure you are grasping the key lessons and themes of the text.

This is called Inductive Bible Study, in which you ask the questions, Who?, What?, Where?, Why?, When?, How? as you read the text. (Also known as the “5Ws and an H.”)

1. When was Isaiah granted his vision of the Lord? (6:1)

2. How did Isaiah describe the awe-inspiring sights around God’s throne? (6:1-4)

3. How did Isaiah see himself once he had been exposed to God’s glory? (6:5)

4. What provision was made for Isaiah’s guilt in the presence of a holy God? (6:6-7)

5. How did Isaiah respond to God’s call? (6:8)

Summary Notes

Write a one paragraph summary of this week’s text including key areas of interest and significant instruction.

Consult the commentary on the text and the notes following this page for additional help.

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Day 4 EXPLORE–the commentaries to answer the questions.

Isaiah’s Commission

Though this is one of the better-known chapters in the Book of Isaiah, at least three problems in it have caused debate among Bible students.

The first problem concerns the chronological relationship of chapter 6, which records God’s call of Isaiah, to the preceding five chapters on judgment and deliverance. Did Isaiah minister for a period of time before being commissioned, or is this chapter out of order chronologically but in order logically? Some have argued that since the vision occurred “in the year that King Uzziah died” (v. 1) Isaiah must have had some previous ministry (chaps. 1-5) since he is said to have ministered during the reign of Uzziah (1:1). It can be countered, however, that Isaiah saw this vision anytime up to 12 months before the king’s death. In that sense then his vision was “in” Uzziah’s reign.

It is possible, as some suggest, that Isaiah, seeing the sinful condition of the nation (chaps. 1-5), set himself apart from that nation until he saw the vision of God and then realized that he too was part of the sin problem. He also was “a man of unclean lips” (6:5).

On the other hand it is possible that the vision and commissioning of chapter 6 came before he delivered the messages in chapters 1-5 and that he recorded this experience here as a fitting logical climax to the stinging indictment in those chapters. Chapter 6 emphasizes the extreme depravity of the nation, contrasting it with God’s holiness. Here Isaiah also emphasized that the people lacked spiritual insight and would not turn from their sinful condition.

A second problem pertains to whom Isaiah saw.

Isaiah “saw the Lord” (v. 1), whom he called “the Lord Almighty” (v. 3) and “the King, the Lord Almighty” (v.

5). Because the Apostle John wrote that Isaiah “saw Jesus’ glory” (John 12:41), Isaiah may have seen the preincarnate Christ, who because of His deity is the Lord. The prophet did not see the very essence of God for no man can see Him (Ex. 33:18; John 1:18; 1 Tim. 6:16; 1 John 4:12) since He is invisible (1 Tim. 1:17). But there was no problem in Isaiah’s seeing God in a vision or a theophany, much as did Ezekiel (Ezek. 1:3-28), Daniel (Dan. 7:2, 9-10), and others.

A third problem is related to the fact that Isaiah’s vision was in the temple (Isa. 6:1). Was Isaiah there because he was a priest? Jeremiah was the son of a priest (Jer. 1:1) and Ezekiel was a priest (Ezek. 1:3), but the Book of Isaiah says nothing about Isaiah being of priestly lineage. If he were not carrying out priestly duties he may have been

a worshiper there when he saw the heavenly vision. Or perhaps he, like Ezekiel (Ezek. 8:1-4), was not physically in the temple but was transported there in a vision.

Isaiah’s Vision of the Lord (6:1-4) 6:1. Since Isaiah ministered during King Uzziah’s reign (1:1) Isaiah’s vision of God in the year... Uzziah died would have occurred within the 12 calendar months before or after the king’s death in 739 b.c. If the vision occurred before Isaiah began his ministry then obviously the vision was before the king’s death. However, if the vision came sometime after the prophet’s ministry started, then Isaiah could have seen the vision within the calendar year (739 b.c.) either shortly before or shortly after the king died.

This time notation points to a contrast between the human king and the divine King (v. 5), God Himself and to some contrasts between Uzziah and Isaiah. In Uzziah’s long (52-year), prosperous reign (2 Chron. 26:1-15) many people were away from the Lord and involved in sin (2 Kings 15:1-4; Uzziah is also called Azariah). By contrast, God is holy (Isa. 6:3). In pride, Uzziah disobediently entered the temple (insensitive to the sin involved) and was struck with leprosy which made him ceremonially unclean (2 Chron. 26:16-20). Isaiah, however, was sensitive to sin, for he stated that he and his people were spiritually unclean (Isa. 6:5). Though Uzziah was excluded from the temple (2 Chron. 26:21) Isaiah was not.

Three things struck Isaiah about God: He was seated on a throne, He was high and exalted, and the train of His robe filled the temple. In the most holy place of the temple in Jerusalem, God’s glory was evident between the cherubim on the atonement cover over the ark of the covenant. Therefore some Israelites may have erroneously thought that God was fairly small. However, Solomon, in his dedicatory prayer for the new temple, had stated that no temple could contain God and that in fact even the heavens could not contain Him (1 Kings 8:27). Therefore Isaiah did not see God on the ark of the covenant, but on a throne. Almost 150 years later Ezekiel had a similar experience. He envisioned God being borne along on a great chariot throne by living creatures called cherubim (Ezek. 1). To Isaiah, the throne emphasized that the Lord is indeed the true King of Israel.

God’s being “high and exalted” symbolized His position before the nation. The people were wanting God to work on their behalf (Isa. 5:19) but He was doing so, as evidenced by His lofty position among them.

The Lord’s long robe speaks of His royalty and majesty. His being in the temple suggests that though He hates

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The Compass mere religiosity (1:11-15) He still wanted the nation to be involved in the temple worship. The temple and the temple sacrifices pictured the righteous dealings of the sovereign God with His covenant people.

6:2-4. Seraphs, angelic beings who were above the Lord, are referred to in the Scriptures only here. “Seraphs” is from śārap, which means “to burn,” possibly suggesting that they were ardent in their zeal for the Lord. It is also noteworthy that one of the seraphs took a burning coal to Isaiah (v. 6). They had six wings (the four living creatures Ezekiel saw each had four wings, Ezek. 1:5, 11). Covering their faces with two wings indicates their humility before God. Their covering their feet with two other wings may denote service to God, and their flying may speak of their ongoing activity in proclaiming God’s holiness and glory.

In calling to one another the seraphs, whose number is not given, were proclaiming that the Lord Almighty is holy. The threefold repetition of the word holy suggests supreme or complete holiness. This threefold occurrence does not suggest the Trinity, as some have supposed. The Trinity is supported in other ways (e.g., see comments on Isa. 6:8). Repeating a word three times for emphasis is common in the Old Testament (e.g., Jer. 22:29; Ezek.

21:27). The seraphs also proclaimed that His glory fills the earth (cf. Num. 14:21) much as His robe filled the temple. By contrast the people of Judah were unholy (cf.

Isa. 5; 6:5) though they were supposed to be a holy people (Ex. 22:31; Deut. 7:6).

As the seraphs cried out, Isaiah saw the temple shake and then it was filled with smoke (Isa. 6:4). The thresholds (cf. Amos 9:1) were large foundation stones on which the doorposts stood. The shaking (cf. Ex. 19:18) suggested the awesome presence and power of God. The smoke was probably the cloud of glory which Isaiah’s ancestors had seen in the wilderness (Ex. 13:21; 16:10) and which the priests in Solomon’s day had viewed in the dedicated temple (1 Kings 8:10-13).

Isaiah’s response to the vision (6:5). This vision of God’s majesty, holiness, and glory made Isaiah realize that he was a sinner. When Ezekiel saw God’s glory he too responded with humility. (Cf. the responses of Job, Job 42:5-6; Peter, Luke 5:8; and the Apostle John, Rev. 1:17.)

Isaiah had pronounced woes (threats of judgment) on the nation (Isa. 5:8-23), but now by saying Woe to me! (cf.

24:16) he realized he was subject to judgment. This was because he was unclean. When seen next to the purity of God’s holiness, the impurity of human sin is all the more evident. The prophet’s unclean lips probably symbolized his attitudes and actions as well as his words, for a person’s words reflect his thinking and relate to his actions.

Interestingly Isaiah identified with his people who also were sinful (a people of unclean lips).

Isaiah’s cleansing and message (6:6-13). Realizing his impurity, Isaiah was cleansed by God, through the in-

Page 5 termediary work of one of the seraphs. It is fitting that a seraph (perhaps meaning a “burning one”) touched Isaiah’s lips with a hot coal... from the altar, either the altar of burnt offering, on which a fire was always burning (Lev. 6:12), or the altar of incense where incense was burned each morning and evening (Ex. 30:1, 7-8). This symbolic action signified the removal of the prophet’s guilt and his sin. Of course this is what the entire nation needed. The Judahites needed to respond as Isaiah did, acknowledging their need of cleansing from sin. But unlike the prophet, most members of the nation refused to admit they had a spiritual need. Though they, through the priests, burned sacrifices at the temple, their lives needed the purifying action of God’s “fire” of cleansing.

The rest of this chapter deals with the message Isaiah was to preach to Judah. Significantly he was not called to service till he had been cleansed. After hearing the seraph’s words (vv. 3, 7) he then heard the Lord’s voice.

God asked, Whom shall I send? And who will go for Us? The word “Us” in reference to God hints at the Trinity (cf. “Us” in Gen. 1:26; 11:7). This doctrine, though not explicit in the Old Testament, is implicit for God is the same God in both Testaments.

The question “Who will go?” does not mean God did not know or that He only hoped someone would respond.

He asked the question to give Isaiah, now cleansed, an opportunity for service. The prophet knew that the entire nation needed the same kind of awareness of God and cleansing of sin he had received. So he responded that he would willingly serve the Lord (Here am I). [John Walvoord and Roy Zuck, ed., The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty, (Colorado Springs, CO: Cook Communications, 1985), 1043.] n

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Daily Bible Reading Plan SUNDAY

MONDAY

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TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

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THURSDAY

FRIDAY

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SATURDAY

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Isaiah 51:1-53:12

Isaiah 54:1-57:13

Isaiah 57:14-59:21

Isaiah 60:1-62:5

Isaiah 62:6-65:25

Isaiah 66:1-24

Jeremiah 1:1-2:30

Ephesians 5:1-33

Ephesians 6:1-24

Philippians 1:1-26

Philip. 1:27-2:18

Philip. 2:19-30

Philippians 3:1-21

Philippians 4:1-23

Psalm 69:19-36

Psalm 70:1-5

Psalm 71:1-24

Psalm 72:1-20

Psalm 73:1-28

Psalm 74:1-23

Psalm 75:1-10

Proverbs 24:7

Proverbs 24:8

Proverbs 24:9-10

Proverbs 24:11-12

Proverbs 24:13-14

Proverbs 24:15-16

Proverbs 24:17-20

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CONNECTING THE FAMILY

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“We Cannot Understand Holiness”

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I suppose the hardest thing about God to comprehend intellectually is His infinitude. But you can talk about the infinitude of God and not feel yourself a worm. But when you talk about the holiness of God, you have not only the problem of an intellectual grasp, but also a sense of personal vileness, which is almost too much to bear.

The reason for this is that we are fallen beings—spiritually, morally, mentally and physically. We are fallen in all the ways that man can fall. Each one of us is born into a tainted world, and we learn impurity from our cradles. We nurse it in with our mother’s milk, we breathe it in the very air. Our education deepens it and our experience confirms it—evil impurities everywhere. Everything is dirty; even our whitest white is dingy gray.

Our noblest heroes are soiled heros, all of them. So we learn to excuse and to overlook and not to expect too much. We don’t expect all truth from our teachers, and we don’t expect faithfulness from our politicians. We quickly forgive them when they lie to us and vote for them again.

We don’t expect honesty from our merchants. We don’t expect complete trustworthiness from anybody. And we manage to get along in the world only by passing laws to protect ourselves not only from the criminal element but from the best people there are who might in the moment of temptation take advantage of us.

This kind of world gets into our pores, into our nerves, until we have lost the ability to conceive of the holy. Still, I will endeavor to discuss the holiness of God, the Holy One. We cannot comprehend it, and we certainly cannot define it.

Holiness means purity, but “purity” doesn’t describe it well enough. Purity merely means that it is unmixed, with nothing else in it. But that isn’t enough. We talk of moral excellency, but that isn’t adequate. To be morally excellent is to exceed someone else in moral character. But when we say that God is morally excellent, who is it that He exceeds? The angels, the seraphim? Surely He does—but that still isn’t enough. We mean rectitude; we mean honor; we mean truth and righteousness; we mean all of these—uncreated and eternal.

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And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”

Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” – Isaiah 6:8

R2R Life Distinctive

God the Father (Psalm 121:1–2): We believe God is personally involved in and cares about the daily lives of His children.

God is not now any holier than He ever was. For He, being unchanging and unchangeable, can never become holier than He is. And He never was holier than He is, and He’ll never be any holier than now. His moral excellence implies self-existence, for He did not get His holiness from anyone nor from anywhere. He did not go off into some vast, infinitely distant realm and there absorb His holiness; He is Himself the Holiness. He is the All-Holy, the Holy One; He is holiness itself, beyond the power of thought to grasp or of word to express, beyond the power of all praise.

Language cannot express the holy, so God resorts to association and suggestion. He cannot say it outright because He would have to use words for which we know no meaning. He would have to translate it down into our unholiness. If He were to tell us how white He is, we would understand it in terms of only dingy gray.

God cannot tell us by language, so He uses association and suggestion and shows how holiness affects the unholy. He shows Moses at the burning bush before the holy, fiery Presence, kneeling down to take his shoes from his feet, hiding his face, for he was afraid to look upon God. n –A.W. Tozer

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Becoming Ready to Reproduce Disciples of Jesus 10 R2R Core Beliefs

The Bible (2 Timothy 3:16–17): We believe the Bible is the inspired, infallible Word of God, and the final authority in all matters of faith and conduct.

God the Father (Psalm 121:1–2): We believe God is personally involved in and cares about the daily lives of His children.

Jesus Christ (John 1:12): We believe in Jesus Christ, His deity, virgin birth, sinless life, vicarious death, burial and bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father and His personal future return in power and glory. We are significant only because of our position as children of God. The Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 13:14): We believe the God of the Bible is the only true God and is eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Humanity (John 3:16): We believe all people are born separated from God by sin, but God in his love sent his Son Jesus Christ as their savior.

Eternity (John 14:1–4): We believe there is a heaven and a hell and that Jesus Christ is returning to judge the earth and to establish his kingdom. We believe in the resurrection of the dead: the believer to life everlasting and the unbeliever to the resurrection of judgment.

The Church (1 Corinthians 12:12-13; Ephesians 4:15-16): We believe in the church as the body of Christ, which is composed of all believers who have accepted Christ as Savior. We believe the church is God’s primary way to accomplish His purposes on earth today.

Stewardship (1 Timothy 6:17-19): We believe that everything we have, including our very life, belongs to God. Salvation by Grace (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 3:23-25; 8:38-39): We believe a person has a right relationship with God only by His grace, through faith in Jesus Christ. This makes believers eternally secure in Jesus Christ.

Compassion (Psalm 82:3-4): We believe

God calls all Christians to show compassion to those in need.

10 R2R Core Practices

Worship (Psalm 95:1-7): I worship God for who He is and what He has done for me.

Bible Study (Hebrews 4:12): I study the Bible diligently to know God, to become like Christ, and to discern His will for my life.

Service (Colossians 3:17): I give away my time to fulfill God’s purposes.

Witness (Matthew 28:18-20): I live to tell the story of Jesus and to make disciples of Him even to the ends of the earth, knowing he is with me always.

Biblical Community (Acts 2:44-47): I fellowship with other believers in a small group to accomplish God’s purposes in my life, others’ lives, and in the world.

Prayer (Psalm 66:16-20): I pray to God to know Him, to lay my request before Him and to find direction for my daily life.

Spiritual Gifts (Romans 12:4-6): I know and use my spiritual gifts to accomplish God’s purposes.

Authenticity (John 13:33-34): I know and understand biblical truths and transfer these truths into everyday life. Who I am on the inside and outside is a pure reflection of Christ and His Word.

Simplicity (Matthew 6:33): I seek to live a simple life focused on God and his priorities for my life.

Possessions (Luke 16:11–12): I seek to maintain an eternal perspective on money and possessions, realizing God has give me all that I have, and that he expects me to manage it wisely for His glory.

10 R2R Core Virtues

Gentleness (Philippians 4:5): I am thoughtful, considerate and calm in dealing with others.

Faithfulness (Proverbs 3:3-4): I have established a good name with God and

with others based on my long-term loyalty to those relationships.

Hope (Hebrews 6:19-20): I can cope with the hardships of life and with death because of the hope I have in Jesus Christ.

Joy (John 15:11): I have inner contentment and purpose in spite of my circumstances.

Love (1 John 4:10-12): I sacrificially and unconditionally love and forgive others.

Peace (Philippians 4:6-7): I am free from anxiety because things are right between God, myself and others.

Self-Control (Titus 2:11-13): I have the power, through Christ, to control myself.

Humility (Philippians 2:3-4): I choose to esteem others above myself.

Patience (Proverbs 14:29): I take a long time to overheat and endure patiently under the unavoidable pressures of life.

Kindness/Goodness (1 Thessalonians 5:15): I choose to do the right things in my relationships with others.

About The Compass The Compass is produced throughout the school year to help you connect with the Word of God on a daily basis and to study and meditate on the specific biblical text that will be the focus of the upcoming weekend services.

The Compass also helps tie-in the principles of discipleship found in 10 Core Beliefs (doctrine) 10 Core Practices (disciplines), and 10 Core Virtues (spiritual fruit). Together, we call these R2R Distinctives, or becoming a Ready to Reproduce Disciple of Jesus Christ.

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These study notes are produced to coordinate with the weekly sermon series at First Family Church, Ankeny, IA. More resources are available at www.ffclife.com. This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.