In Mark 8:33, Jesus rebuked Peter with the weight that was unmatched with any other occasions.
One would greatly admire Peter's desire to maintain his zeal for the Lord, despite multiple failures.
This is the true heart of a follower, lest his heart be not genuine.
Not genuine...is that only what the verse is disproving? Or is it teaching us the wisdom in the time and place and person to rebuke? This I do not know. So I will categorize it as Questions as well.
I found an earlier source of similar quote:
"Religion is man searching for God; Christianity is God seeking man, manifesting Himself to him, drawing Himself unto him." - by David Martin Lloyd Jones, pg 380, The Puritans: Their Origins and Their Successors.
Despite my involvement with STEMI Rally in 2010, I've often wonder who is the translator for Dr. Tong in America...David Chu?
Some websites display/convert chinese characters into hexadecimal 2-digit encoding. Obviously, the Chinese character still uses more than 2 bytes.
This is a good converter.
To have them read the English Bible would be great:
Patrick Stewart
James Earl Jones (though he has done the New Testament and I've heard quite a lot of bad review - boring - in particular)
John Hurt
Jim Dale
There have been many dreams, and I have yet to find the moment to remember them or write them down.
It would appear that the earlier I sleep (such as before midnight), the better I remember my dream.
This time, it was about Ellen. She suddenly asked as we're leaving, possibly the church, that we prayed for something (I do not remember what - church? the youth?), there were about 3-5 of us. I do not remember who were the others.
The prayer location looked pretty much like the dining hall back in my home in Penang, first floor. Time seems to be in the evening. I think the church hall looked somewhat like that of The Rock Church (charismatic?) near Queens Center Mall.
I reluctantly but speedily agreed to pray. As I woke, I thought about it. Should have refused. Should have said no. 凡不出於信心的都是罪, for whatsoever is not of faith is sin (Romans 14:23b). Doesn't mean everyone should join the prayer just because one suggested a prayer meeting. One should only join if one intends to fully associate oneself with them in such ministry. Though all christians are brethren, it doesn't mean that one should associate with the other in all theology.
Then I did think about let's say she got someone close to me to pray at the same time, say...Nadia...what should I do then? Since it is a matter of principle, then I supposed it is not to be defeated by human relationship. But what do I say? It would seem that I shall let Nadia decide herself. I do not know...
All this does warn me to have a more active prayer life. Forgive me, my Lord.
It is a norm, to see the little ones being adored and even spoilt in the church, by the women, by the elderly.
Yet, many times, I believe that the words of our Lord "Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein" (Luke 18:17) do not apply to that norm.
Yes, because of this norm, I've seen that ladies are usually preferred to teaching the younglings in the church. But it should not be so.
For I will make it a verse to meditate upon, the other saying of the Lord: But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him (or her) that a millstone were hanged about his (or her) neck, and that he (or she) were drowned in the depth of the sea. (Matthew 18:6)
A true love for the children of the Lord is one that makes the love of God a priority. So, to love the children more than...say...studying the Bible, taking theological classes, pray, medidate upon the laws of God, preaching the Gospel, godliness, holiness, righteousness and being the salt and light of the world, is a love corrupted indeed. For as such corruption is witnessed by the child, an offense to the babe is committed.
In NYC subway 1 train. The part that got my attention is when the train conductor said "Don't get me involved"...
This good citizen, Brian Thompson, whoever he is, acted rightly, bravely, both taping and confronting the conductor:
"You have to call the police, I have him on videotape. What are you, scared?"
Thanks to Experts-Exchange, this is a good solution from jasonzx:
regedit:
navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WZCSVC
right-click->permissions->select SYSTEM->Advanced->Select System->edit
Deny:Set Value, Create Subkey, create link, delete, write DAC, Write Owner
navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\EAPOL
right-click->permissions->select SYSTEM->Advanced->Select System->edit
Deny:Set Value, Create Subkey, create link, delete, write DAC, Write Owner
To undo, select Deny policy->edit->clear all
Now, this long search is over. No genius students will get on my nerves. They can try, but after all those settings they shall attempt, the computers will not heed their command. Hahahaha!
Listening to Yuan Zhi Ming's testimony, I noticed the danger of today's Christianity on both sides.
While the West makes Christianity their heritage - "I am Christian because my parents are Christians, because my people, my kind are Christians";
The Chinese, mostly under some famous influence such as 遠志明, 倪柝聲, etc. say Christianity is the conversion from a proud person to a humble person: To admit one is a sinner because all are sinners. Confession without repentance. So, in many cases, their past rebellious attitude may still remain justified - it is merely suppressed with..."humility". Someone has put it rightly "they destroy rationality with rationalism". In a way, their pride has doubled equivacably. Which is why I wasn't surprised when I later heard 遠志明 (after his conversion to Christianity) said "我是學哲學出生，辯論起來神學本身就是沒有根據的。。。它怎麼能符合哲學中的邏輯呢？它不符合。但是它符合我們心靈的邏輯。。。"
In such matter, it is interesting. So what happens to Yuan? He can accept the term "theology", but not in the usual sense. His 'theology' is anything but philosophical. Why? Because philosphy is one of his masters in his heart. In order to want this 'humble' other religion, he made an extra throne, instead of having to replace his original master - human rationalism.
Consequently, Mr. Yuan has to live with two masters. I will not consider him as cult at this point. However, I would say his masters are 1. his proud philosophical achievement, 2. The psychological ideology he obtained via the shadow of Christianity.
Therefore it is also no wonder, a lot of his theology is irrational. Such as the fake claim of some Chinese characters' Biblical origin and his attempt to marry Lao Zhi with Christianity. Though I have yet to discover this, I'm sure there are many non-christian chinese scholars being offended by his shallow achievement in philosophy and psychology.
Then why is he so famous? Simple, humility is still a hot show in China, not to mention Christianity, despite some twisted corruption to it, still has the front row seats.
