The top-seeded team in the NCAA West Regional is gone.
Jesse Root scored 9 seconds into overtime to give fourth-seeded Yale a 3-2 victory against Minnesota in the first regional semifinal Friday in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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The field for the 2013 NCAA Men’s Ice Hockey Championship is set.
The 16 teams were announced Sunday night, with four teams going to each of the regional sites in Providence, R.I., Grand Rapids, Mich., Manchester, N.H., and Toledo, Ohio for a o… …read more
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The former founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, MI and a popular icon in the emergent church movement, Rob Bell grew his following in part by being a friend of the world. Bell often uses suggestive questions rather than declarations to challenge traditional Christian doctrine and the Bible’s authority.
In typical emergent fashion, Bell often creates more ambiguity instead of clarity, having no genuine commitment to absolute truth. So it’s no surprise to many of us that Bell came out in favor of homosexuality last week:
I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it’s a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. I think the ship has sailed and I think the church needs — I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.
I’d say that’s a bit different from Jesus’ definition of marriage. Of course God loves every one of us, but nowhere in Scripture does He tolerate sin – any sin. He’s holy; He’s God, and we’re not. You might recall in 2011 when MSNBC’s Martin Bashir grilled Bell over his mushy position on Hell and eternal judgment. Even Bashir, a liberal cable TV host, referred to Bell’s teachings as unbiblical and historically unreliable. Bashir confronted Bell and said he was “amending the gospel so that it’s palatable,” and “much easier to swallow.”
It’s easy to see that Bell is giving our culture exactly what it wants: nothing too confrontational, convicting, or absolute. In the Gospels, Jesus described hell as a fiery furnace, outer darkness, a place of destruction, agony, torment, and weeping and gnashing of teeth. Bell, on the other hand claims:
For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life beyond this one… No amount of clever marketing will attract people if we teach that ‘God will punish people for all of eternity.’
Because of sin, judgment must come. The Word of God leaves no doubt about the existence of hell and severity of it. God has provided everything we need to know about hell and how to avoid it through faith in the sacrifice and resurrection of Christ. Bell is an example of the product of Protestant Liberalism that evolved back in the nineteenth century. When the message is watered-down, it can be confusing to the biblically illiterate.
This brings us to Universalism, which teaches that all people will ultimately be saved no matter what they believe here on earth. You can live the way you want: sin, curse God or deny Christ, and still make it into heaven. Some Universalists say their salvation is through the atonement of Jesus Christ while others think everybody will go to heaven eventually regardless of whether or not they have put their faith in Christ.
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This story was originally published in the March 14, 2013 issue of Rapid Growth.
Ten years ago, children were caught digging through the dumpster behind a Grand Rapids elementary school. Troublemakers? No. They were looking for food. They were hungry.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Tomas Jurco scored twice as the Grand Rapids Griffins edged the Hamilton Bulldogs 2-1 on Friday in American Hockey League action.
Jurco opened scoring for Grand Rapids (33-19-4) in the first then had the winner at the 9:… …read more
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 8 (UPI) — The Gilda’s LaughFest event in Grand Rapids, Mich., opened by setting a world record with 1,544 people wearing false mustaches, its leader said.
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Frontier Airlines Provides Travelers with Flexibility Due to Winter Storm
Airline allows passengers to change travel plans and waives change fees for travel to, from or through the Midwest, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Due to the expected impact of a winter storm, Frontier Airlines has enacted guidelines for travel to, from or through Allentown, Bismarck, Cedar Rapids, Chicago (Midway), Cleveland, Dayton, Des Moines, Detroit, Fargo, Grand Rapids, Harrisburg, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Madison, Minneapolis, Sioux Falls, Trenton and Washington D.C. This policy applies to customers scheduled to travel March 5-6, 2013, who purchased tickets on or before March 5, 2013.
Customers may make one itinerary change. Rules and restrictions regarding standard change fees, advance purchase, day or time applications, blackouts, and minimum or maximum stay requirements have been waived. Origin and destination cities must remain the same. Changes must be made by midnight, March 6, 2013. Travel to/from Allentown, Bismarck, Cedar Rapids, Chicago (Midway), Cleveland, Dayton, Des Moines, Detroit, Fargo, Grand Rapids, Harrisburg, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Madison, Minneapolis, Sioux Falls, Trenton and Washington D.C. must be completed by March 14, 2013. If customers would like to reschedule their travel after March 14, 2013, any difference in fares will be collected.
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DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings have put forward Johan Franzen on injured reserve. They also removed goaltender Jonas Gustavsson from IR and assigned him to Grand Rapids of the AHL on a conditioning loan.
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A parolee abducted and raped a Central Michigan University student, set a house on fire where the woman had fled for help and was fatally shot miles away by a sheriff’s deputy, authorities said Thursday.
Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski said the man was identified as Eric Ramsey, 30, of Mount Pleasant.
“We don’t know what possessed him to do that. We may never find out,” Mioduszewski said.
The woman was abducted Wednesday from the campus in Mount Pleasant, about 120 miles northwest of Detroit. The sheriff said Ramsey drove the woman in her own vehicle to a home off campus and bound and raped her there.
He said Ramsey then put her back in the Ford Escape and pledged to kill her, but she escaped the moving vehicle and ran to a home yelling for help.
While the woman was inside the home talking to an emergency dispatcher on the phone, Ramsey “ended up pouring gasoline on the house and then lit on fire,” Mioduszewski said in a statement.
A 14-year-old boy, his 11-year-old sister and 2-year-old brother were alone inside the home in nearby Lincoln Township when the woman banged on the door for help. The teenager, James Persyn III, told Mlive.com that he let the woman in, locked the door and grabbed his hunting knife.
He said he while the woman was using his phone to call 911, he moved her, his siblings and the family dog into the bathroom.
Meanwhile, the sheriff said, “one of the homeowners arrived home … and was able to put the fire out,” using an extinguisher.
Ramsey was spotted early Thursday in Otsego County, where he rammed the first of two state police cars. The sheriff said he subsequently stole a garbage truck and was fatally shot by a deputy in Crawford County, about 70 miles north of the university.
Campus police Chief Bill Yeagley said Ramsey told the woman that he chose her at random outside the Student Activity Center on campus. The chief said the woman saved her own life by fleeing from the car.
“I believe she made all the right choices,” Yeagley said. “She’s the true hero in this.”
Central Michigan University President George Ross said the school would support the Grand Rapids-area woman and her family.
Ramsey had been on parole since last summer after serving the minimum five-year prison sentence for assault with intent to do great bodily harm, according to Corrections Department online records. The maximum sentence was 15 years. Inmates are eligible for a parole review once they serve the minimum punishment.
“The parole board generally doesn’t give a rationale for why or why they don’t parole (an inmate),” said Russ Marlan, a Corrections Department spokesman. “I looked at his behavior in prison. He was pretty good. He had six misconducts over five years. That’s a small amount. He was in minimum security the entire time.”
Ramsey had a job, regularly met with his parole officer and had tested negative for drugs, Marlan said.
His record also included convictions for destruction of police or fire property, resisting police and assault with a dangerous weapon.
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