Plug and Pray

.....off the chlog....into a blog.....

Feel bored with your own religion?
Got stuck with your faith?
Need soul rejuvenation?
or………
want to convert your love one, wife, hubby, priest, neighbour, teacher, dog, etc?

Try this almighty-gadget Plug and Pray.
It even has this powerful Switch Edition for those who live in conflict areas.



Satisfaction guaranteed!

Shakespeare in Bible

...off the chlog for a while....

I'm chlogless today because I skipped Church, but I want to add this newsworthy stuff here.

I just heard recently the story about Shakespeare's name in Bible KJV, but I think it's already known by many already.

Is it a pure coincidence? Or
Was it just made up for Shakespeare's 46th birthday celebration? :P

I wonder who was the first to find and write about it?
This person must be an avid-painstaking-persevering Psalm reader.
To make things short, here what I collect from the net:

• William Shakespeare is believed to have been born on 23rd April 1564.
• A memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, records that he died on 23rd April 1616.
• Shakespeare's plays were first performed in 1588,when Shakespeare was 23.
• The First Folio of Shakespeare's works was published in 1623.
• Now 23 + 23 = 46
• The King James Bible was first published in 1611, when Shakespeare was 46.
• "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE" is an anagram of "HERE WAS I, LIKE A PSALM

Now this is how the things work.....
• Open and turn to PSALM 46 of a King James Autorished Version Bible
• Write down the 46th word from the beginning - Shake
• Write down the 46th word from the end - spear
(ok.....so the person forgot the last 'e' in Shakespeare but it sounds alike)

That ignited my curiosity to search further read about KJV.

Our Relationship

was on 9 May 2004

A lot of times we said we believed in God, yet our actions show otherwise.
Do we believe in His resurrection? Or we're no different than Thomas?
Thomas had rather unique character, he's sometimes 'lost'-- somewhere.
Thomas had been with him for long time but still he demanded proof.
Yet Jesus loved Thomas still and gave him peace that enlightened him.
That made Thomas learn important lesson.

Some people are willing to change like Thomas, but some were just reluctant, like Judas Iskariot who betrayed Him.

Like Jesus who brought peace to the world, so do we, must bring peace to other.
In fact, that's also the meaning of the Cross: to maintain a vertical relation i.e. with God and also horizontal relation, i.e. with others.

4 Steps to get your Celestial Body

was on 2 May 2004

Death is no longer the final stop. The dead will arise with his/ her celestial body by doing these following steps (when he/ she was still alive, of course):

1. Be like Christ, not Adam.
In Christ there is Life.
Not just 'a life' but 'the life', because the word 'life' has many synonyms in Bible, and in this sermon the preacher explained 2 of them. The previous one is Bios and the latter is Zoe. I couldn't see the difference of the two had I just read Bible in Bahasa Indonesia or in plain English, because each of them only uses one word for Bios and Zoe. With e-Sword I become fully understood because I also installed English Bible 'KJV+' that includes Greek and Hebrew dictionary.

Bios is our (literally) the present state of existence; by implication the means of livelihood: - good, life, living.
While Zoe is life as the opposite of death, Zoe is the divine life of Christ, the life that conquered death.
In order to get Zoe, one must start to exercise Christ's way.

2. Be decided, walk in the Spirit!
I learnt that God created us with 'free will' because human is not a robot. In one way it seems to benefit us, but in other way it complicates our lives. The snake-Eve-Adam conspiracy caused all human sinful, that made us inherit illwill. We are vulnerable to sin, but we have our weapon, Jesus!
So walk in the Spirit, and you'll gain the victory.

3. Oopss.....!! I kinda missed this part, just got this in my note:
When a believer died, he will have supernatural body.

4. Be a spiritual man not a natural man.
In this so alluring world, do be steadfast so that we will get the secret.


FAQ:
Q: How are the dead raised up? With what body do they come
A: Don't be stupid!

East, Easter, Eastest

H A P P Y E A S T E R...
for easterner...westerner..southerner....northerner.....etc

If on Good Friday many people at Church became Man in Black, means wore black, this Easter we were united in colours to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

What's on for Easter at the church today?
A boring fragmented play of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection with some snips from the movie of The Passion of the Christ.
Honestly, I think they better leave that play out at all if it's only badly presented like that. Talking about that film, I heard its pirated copies are here now, I just hope NO Church or Christian buys this pirated vcd or dvd.

The sermon itself was taken from John 20:19-20
With Jesus, death is nothing; He offered us everlasting life.
With His resurrection I shall not fear death anymore (I just fear I'm not yet qualified when the time comes…)

Back to The Passion of the Christ thing.......
I really hope we'll be able to see it here in Indonesia. It's already shown in Qatar, and beginning March 31, according to the UEA's GulfNews, it'll be shown to the public in United Arab Emirates (so that means it's on now).

Good Friday

I don't know if anyone else has this experience, but I do, that the sun hides itself behind the clouds every Good Friday at certain times

Every Good Friday we recall how the so powerful Jesus who can do just anything chose to mortify Himself to save the world.
Why...oh...why...??

Because Jesus never did these 5 things:

He never pushed His wish to His Father
He never saved Himself, He saves the whole world instead
He never defended Himself .
He never ran away from duties.
He never failed to love the sinners.

Marriage Miracle

Amongst many miracles that Jesus made, the Cana wedding was His first.
It is His way to make people to keep remembering the importance and the influence of marriage and family in their lives. Don’t we agree, first of anything is always hard to forget?

God's concern about marriage:
As part of His creation activity, God completed Adam with Eve and made an approval about marriage.
Jesus debut in this world was thru the wedding of Mary and Joseph.

Query on Proverbs 5

Oh! I would never heard about Alibi Agency (it seems the site is dead already?) if not because of this morning sermon. How innovative it is, an affair aid facility that serves globally and provides false alibi for anyone who wants to have a free-of-worry secret rendezvous with their secret partner.
It's perhaps much easier to create innovation for something destructive.
Anyway, no matter how successful the Alibi Agency covers one's affair; at the end an affair will only cause loss to the ones who commit it. They will gradually lose peace in themselves.
This reminds me to a novel that I am currently reading called Follow Your Heart by Susanna Tamaro. A moving book (actually I am not reading its novel, but its periodical in newspaper. I plan to buy the book too though).

Meanwhile…back to the sermon….
The preacher cited Proverbs 5:3-11 for this morning sermon and they did portray dangerous liaison and its consequences well.
Too bad the preacher didn't explain why these verses only mention 'strange woman' and not to include 'strange man', the womaniser? :(
I don't believe that Bible is preferential; I know there must be explanation about it.

Anyone can help? :D
Not an anti-Bible assertion of course, I don't want to walk away from it just because I don't know one or more things. I've seen so many good things already in the Bible.

'What Day is it' Haiku

off the chlog

My own private New Year's Day -
Will or will not my luck be new
My karma is set by Him already!

Counterattack Recipe

Nahum 2:1
An attacker advances against you, Nineveh .
Guard the fortress,
watch the road,
brace yourselves,
marshal all your strength!

Who's the attacker?

Ephesian 6:12
We are not fighting against people of flesh and blood. But we are fighting against rulers and powers whom we cannot see. We are fighting against those who control the darkness of this world,and against bad spirits who have power in the air.

The Counterattack Recipe:

Guard the fortress
The fortress is your own body and mind entirely. Some ways to guard yourself is by:
- quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry , be wise with your tongue

- keep safe the entrance of your fortress, i.e. your eyes. Eye is a vulnerable access, be cautious of what you see because bad things that you see can make bad influence to yourself, use your eyes responsibly for they might make yourself get tempted by what the perceive

- perform good deeds so that His name is glorified and so people can see that we are letters from Christ

Watch the road
Learn the situation and create strategy based on that situation, be clever and kind at the same time
Brace yourselves
Make yourself steady and keep optimistic, remember our God is God who always be with us - ImmanuelMarshal all your strength
Be united with all Christian regardless denominations, be one body be Oecumenical.
When we walk in His way, we are already the winners.

The thing called Faith

Faith No More.....

Q: What is Faith?
A: Faith is not about having a hope or more and sitting silently believing that thing/s will happen soon or later. Faith is something that we should act actively by living in God's way.

Still have the mountain in-situ?
Still have your wish unanswered?

Check if your faith is agreeable to His Will; remember it is He who knows what best for us. We must first be harmonical with Him

To-do-List:
1. Have a vision, an immediate and a long one.
2. Set steps to get the target
3. Have courage to pay the price

Zz..zzz........I was one third asleep, could not really get what the preacher said at that moment. That was all less and no more, so I did a deliberate dig on the net and found this Goal Setting study is somewhat similar but more thorough and outlined.

Alleluia....

Our Price

Was on 11 January 2004

Q: How much is the price of a Christian?
A: 1 Peter 1:18-19
Q: How to appreciate it?
A: Romans 12:2