be known
click here, and go straight to about the author. just an idea. geek can glorify God too and keep being a geek. tehe.
Read more...Thursday, October 30, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
wots #291008
Read more..."You may not be sure that you want your life to make a difference. Maybe you
don't care very much whether you make a lasting difference for the sake of
something great. You just want people to like you. If people would just like
being around you, you'd be satisfied. Or if you could just have a good job with
a good wife, or husband, and a couple of good kids and a nice car and long
weekends and a few good friends, a fun retirement, and a quick and easy death,
and no hell - if you could have all that (even without God) - you would be
satisfied. That is a tragedy in the making. A wasted life."john piper - don't waste your life, pg. 45
ps. simply profound.
Monday, October 27, 2008
yesterday as i listed out the to-do list, it seems as if i have heaps of stuffs to do.
some i'm eager in carrying on, still others, they feel somewhat burdensome.
and the busier i feel, the easier i procrastinate on things, for that fleeting moments of inappropriate resting, being in front of the computer the biggest time waster this past week.
restraint myself i must..
Thursday, October 23, 2008
the company is still laying people off, the number grows by day.
and the bible is always right, cycle comes, cycle goes.
security is nowhere to be found, a great job, a good saving,
they are nonetheless the things of this world.
and no, they don't last, as a matter of fact, as today's world proves.
apart here the comforting words from Paul,
that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ!
how reassuring, and comforting, and true, and extremely important!
that those whom God loves, are more than conquerors..
Friday, October 17, 2008
two days ago, the lady used to sit beside me in the office got redundant. she only told me on the last minute as i was about to leave the office that day. despite having a few hard time in the past, it's not without a glimpse of sadness. i guess i learnt that whenever there's a difficult person surrounds me, i ought to keep looking up to God, not squarely to the weaknesses of the other party. it's at these times that my godliness is tested. and God's grace is enough, always.
i must admit that i failed at being patient a few times.
Saturday, October 04, 2008
the great exchange
i was reading psalm 85 (i have yet to discovered just how interesting psalm is as a book of poetry full of worship materials). the book that i'm using suggested this passage is obviously about God's dealing with Israel (indeed, the large parts of the OT is about God's dealing with His people Israel). yet since the church is the modern equivalent of Israel as His people, this psalm is applicable to us today. on another side of the coin, as Israel was addressed as a nation, careful reading will also result in the ability to claim the promises in this psalm toward a nation today (one which claims in any way to be cn).
as i read these verses below, my mind suddenly recalled a hymn, how the connection is made is somewhat vague, since the keywords are not exactly to be found in both the passage and the hymn. perhaps the hymn is in part based on this psalm, so i thought. but it's interesting as i stumbled on one particular question asked, it becomes clear to me how the promises made are indeed fulfilled in Christ.
Friday, October 03, 2008
wots?
wots? is an acronym for what other (cn) teachers say?
(sorry, you won't find it having been used elsewhere, i just invented it, five minutes ago!)
i guess one way that wots can serve the posts of this blog is to allow some great resources to be linked through. those that i delight in musing on (pardon the geekiness), and worth passing on. or somehow hoping to go through them in the indefinite future (which in a realist term means that these things will never happen, i repeat, EVER! simply because flexibility is one art of surviving, forget this sentence, will you? God is sovereign, i digress).
so, here they are, in no order of importance, and always non exhaustive.
a series of talks from tim keller.
(answering the defeater beliefs to cn-ity or perhaps the plausibility of cn-ity on take two)
an eye-opener reflection from andrew hong.
(and while you're explaining the gospel, remember to pass on both the message and the affection)
john dickson will be giving a series of 7 talks in CBF north sydney on a spectator's guide to Jesus.
starting wed, 8th oct 2008, i will miss out on a few of these :(
ps. to celebrate the arrival of the brand new acronym, i've also gone with the worldly marketing strategy along the line of buy-one-get-one-free, and so warts! is an acronym for what a rouge teaching and sucks! (read: gospel + -)
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