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.
Monday, March 29, 2004
Monday, March 15, 2004
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.
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.
Thursday, March 11, 2004
'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!
My own private New Year's Day -
Will or will not my luck be new
My karma is set by Him already!
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
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.
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.
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
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....
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....
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