vyie: June 2005

Thursday, June 30, 2005

John 13:1-17

The Gospel is attractive indeed, and sometimes i forget how attractive it is...

Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet

1It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love.[a]

2The evening meal was being served, and the devil had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus. 3Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; 4so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. 5After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

6He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"

7Jesus replied, "You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand."

8"No," said Peter, "you shall never wash my feet."

Jesus answered, "Unless I wash you, you have no part with me."

9"Then, Lord," Simon Peter replied, "not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!"

10Jesus answered, "A person who has had a bath needs only to wash his feet; his whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you." 11For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.

12When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. "Do you understand what I have done for you?" he asked them. 13"You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. 15I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. 16I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Luke 18:1-8

now, this is a few of more passages yet to come that i'm going to post for sometime, perhaps a week or so, to remind myself.

The Parable of the Persistent Widow

1Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. 3And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'

4"For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, 5yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!' "

6And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"

Monday, June 27, 2005

decided to delete an entry, as many will misread it.

Matthew 7:2-4
2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?

this week does begin a slightly humble mood for some reasons.
it's good to reflect.

Sunday, June 26, 2005

if Jesus is such a great leader, why r his followers such hypocrites? *

any takers?

* regret that i missed this last of a 6-series of the 'cross-examining christianity' topics by north sydney's bible means business (bmb).

Philippians 2

Imitating Christ's Humility

1If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. 3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death —even death on a cross!
9Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

Shining as Stars

12Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

14Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe 16as you hold out[c] the word of life—in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing. 17But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. 18So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.

Friday, June 24, 2005

milk & metabolism

according to my body reaction, i suspect that milk & metabolism have a reciprocal relationship or causal to be exact, the first toward the second. to rephrase in a more humanly term: today, after a few times beforehand, i'm convinced tat milk makes my tummy acting abnormally thru the frequent necessity to do a very normal human act of sitting over the top of a toilet bowl.

have i drunk slightly stale milk (again?!?), or does breastfeeding really do reducing the likelihood of obesity for babies in their later life?

it's a pattern
and u read them
nothing's uttered
then it's ignored
...

[sick! too much observation]

temptation

self portrait

plainly strange

strangely coloured

life's a web, once u r in, never stop spinning, tho destroyed many times

irressistible chilli

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Infertile? Try stem cell sex

yet another classic case of an effort to 'create' humans, if you may.

Friday, June 10, 2005

shieny at the sydney opera house front

the airport crew

sydney airport

the old looking books

this was taken on a bright sunny day

macquarie st museum

Thursday, June 09, 2005

Jesus died of blood clot: Israeli researcher

don't quite understand what the article is trying to point out. only a matter of fact? if that's the case, what a rare serve of a secular mindset. or perhaps i misunderstood the language? let's not complicate thing, but to scrutinize an issue as such is to first believe of the 'possible' truth, therefore the necessity to disprove.

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

note to self 080605

looking forward to long weekends.

oh, actually, finally finishing the tasks for now, am a happy jolly surfer of the net, after being deprived of it for a couple of months trying to catch up for deadline and move on.
browse the sites relating to national parks, healthy n active site (just out of curiosity, i REPEAT, it's much more to do with overloading brain with too much info that ends up being too tired to act them out than the positive awareness that leads to action, sad!).

figure out some stuffs that i'd like to do over the long weekend:
- de-sanitising my bedroom, get rid of unnecessary stuffs or at least reposition some properly
- manly scenic walkway from the spit bridge to manly
- a little reading plus bible study
- doing some halfly dead serious thinking about life
- perhaps watching a DVD
- catch up with friends (lyd has once spoken of the performance at the sydney opera house, told her to ban beautiful stuffs from my life, but agreeing to go anyway, need a therapy to resist in the future)

looks like too many already, let's see ;)

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Human cloning 'impossible'

Once upon a time, the news re cloning was a big hit as Dolly entered the world, and it still is, after all, they say it's an enormous breakthrough in the world of science for the sake of many. Then it seems to subside, sounds more like making its way through, slowly but surely, and we keep being updated every now and then of how thing has improved yet even crazier. Science has every reason to advance in the name of medical breakthrough to save those who suffer from degradation of their bodies through genetic lameness or accidental misfortunate, a fight back toward the ethical concerns of some. Albeit the pros and cons, curiosity is never fed enough, a few sacrifices are worthed before intelligence can be beaten, and who knows how long the ego will stay. I'm only certain that cloning will continue to find its ground to show off human capability of rebelling against its Creator, perhaps i'm talking non-sense, but it's hard to come to term with so many people in the world, with their own problems, wishing that life could be better, while the reality is that physical body will rot along the way, sooner or later, for every single person, we'll all die, vanish from this world, physically, yet it's not all over, for the life to come, have you got the ticket?

i digress.

or just stare at and ignore.

either/or.

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