New Term for most of those Evangelicals of today

I just came up with a term for the so called Evangelicals who infuse some of charismatic theology/psychology into their foundations. Singing those charismatic music. They couldn't tell the difference between praising Christ and singing a prom song to Jesus. Between a concert of men and the glory hall of God.

I call these: 半生熟靈恩派.

Sigh...sigh...sigh...

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Reflecting on the past GENG annual magazine of CCCNY

The interesting part is making it a dialogue.

文言文的目的是讓那些腦子膚淺的讀了不發不該發的脾氣。

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The Left and Right Wing, especially in politics

Its history originated from the French Revolution, where the noblemen sat to the president's right and commoners sat to the left in parliament.

Left Wing leaning towards: changes, reforming, for the people, democratic, liberal, communism, etc.

Right Wing leaning towards: traditional, conservatives, republicans, aristocratic, legalistic, etc.

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Politically Correct

To say things without offending anyone.

i.e. "I don't care about being politically correct or incorrect, I will say the truth. "

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My Vista Machine: BSOD possibly related to audio driver updates

Since I installed the audio driver that came with the motherboard online, I've had problems using the windows explorer. It becomes very slow and then the Blue Screen of Death "Kernal Inpage Data Error".

So I rolled back drivers for audio and video cards. I rolled back video because while updating the audio, I took the liberty to update video as well, being not sure of whether my video driver was automated by vista or manually installed by me long time ago.

Seems to be fine now. Backing up all my important files.

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Water Batteries

On reading about water batteries like the Japanese's Nopopo, I stumbled upon one of my favorite MIT physics professor, Walter Lewin's demonstration on the Kelvin Water Dropper.

Kelvin's contraption is intriguing indeed. Using gravity on a simple and smart circuitry to turn miniscule charge differences between two separate conductors into a kind of battery.

As for the Nopopo 'toy', it works on a different principle, which is similar to normal AA batteries. It can use liquid as simple as water instead of some other chemical as electrolyte and can be filled by user with water at anytime. Designed to be environment friendly, but many consider its low power a con.

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The Babel Tradition

I would equate the curse of God upone the Tower of Babel, confounding the tongues of men, to the fire burning of great libraries and books in history.

Whenever men's ego reigns, God's reaction is to scoff at them. For what is man, if he reckons not God.

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Thanksgiving Rally At CCCNY

I'm surprised, I must say, that when minister Alex called for willing believers, according to his responses (since I was bowing down my head), that there were quite a few who raised their hands.

His sermon as always, had be a bit too deep and long for the general public. Someone once pointed out to me that he moved too much as well (very tiresome excercising our eyeballs like that).

All's well that ends well, I supposed. Praise be to the Lord.

I would say with all those work (flyers distribution, mail invites, etc...), roughly 150-200 showed up. Food was enough with some leftovers.

At the dinner,  I shared the gospel with one, Becky, whom Nadia's flyer went. From Becky, I learned of a Malaysian singer called 梁靜茹, or Fish Leong.

I'm still not fond of pop songs, but I should at least know some names...of the new generation...instead of Jackie Chan, Andy Lau,...who else? I'm stuck at this point.

 

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Puritan Hard Drive

I've been coming across this advertisement from time to time browsing. Claiming people like Beeke and Paul Washer recommended it.

The Puritan Hard Drive (now $350, was once $800 and even under $300), by Still Waters Revival Books (SWRB), is said to have tons of great books and audio files. The special remark is the search tool. Which can search the whole library (160 GB on a portable hard drive) including pdf files (unless the language is old orthography). Instead of search, it is actually using a master index database and is said to display the highlighted passage of the keywords from the particular page of the particular book. This would definitely be a plus.

I've looked through the names of authors included. Very impressive, very promising. From Stephen Marshall to the most famous ones.

I can easily disregard some complaints,  but the price is still a little bit steep for me. Perhaps I could work out a deal with them or wait for some future opportunity.

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Churches to Visit

Since I've been getting flyers on the streets, and I am not able to attend these interesting churches at leisure, I shall use this entry to list all the churches that I will visit whenever I can.

The Church of Grace to Fujianese
133-135 Allen St., New York, NY 10002
主任牧師: 陳召清 212-254-3886
Sunday morning - English or Mandarin - 9am
Sunday evening - Fuzhounese,Mandarin - 11am
Wednesday - Worship service - 11am
Monday - Fuzhounese worship service - 1pm

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