After 2 factor implementation, all works but the Outlook client on Windows. Just keeps giving error: "there is a problem with your account"
Solution is regedit:
Office 2016 ( Should be enabled by default but can enable just in case via )
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Identity\EnableADAL. REG_DWORD. 1
Turn of WAM[HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Identity\DisableADALatopWAMOverride] – REG_DWORD “1”
Pronunciation:
prof-li-geyt
Definition:
Wildly extravagant or wasteful.
As used in a sentence:
Since she is a profligate spender, she buys tons of items she never uses.
I'm interested. It would be a satisfying revisit of my childhood memory. But there are much to be done. Because of 4 seasons, this video definitely helps giving insight into making chicken coop. I have also downloaded this video just in case I loose it, because it's just that good. I could build my own chicken coop! I think my dad build the one for our chickens long ago.
The main goal is of course, the eggs. I don't think I'll do much butchering, not that I shouldn't. The rest is just fun watching and chasing chickens. Especially watching chickens coming in and out of the coop.
Their 12 hens (plus one rooster I guess), 8 eggs per day on average. So it's 2/3 of eggs per hen per day. For our need, 4 eggs a day is good enough, so that's about 6 hens.
So, other than a coop that can deal with snow storm, I also need to check with my local law...perhaps first by visiting the City or the Police station next to it.
Then if permitted for backyard chicken farming, then I'll have to consider if our backyard is ideal. Of course, the bigger the space for chickens to roam free the better.
Note this is about fellow Christians judgment amongst themselves in the Church. Why? Because Christians already know right from wrong.
Plank (梁) is horizontal, unlike the vertical one （柱）. Thus plank is long and heavy.
One's like & dislike of another already reflect how one deals with them. If like, hard to see problem, if dislike, hard to see the good in the other.
We love to find faults in others. Shhh he stole money, etc. But those who love doing this, are hypocrites. verse 5.
Often times we don't see our own faults and God forgives; so likewise, we must be forgiving to others.
Andrew Sang a pastor in HK, died 30+ years ago, said, before you go judge someone, first pray for him, love and care for him first. e.g. "I have prayed 20+ months for you...now I tell you..." So they would be touched. "please pluck out the thorn in my eye"
So judge with not just truth but with love. Many lack love. I would add: Fake love.
Tong's dentist waited for 8 months with slow injection, until his senior doctor returns to pull out his back tooth, about 3 days ago. Otherwise, it's dangerous due to the big tooth size, also Tong's diabetes (slow healing in bleeding). Thus, the lesson is be patient in love for others.
On Job, to comfort people is not to be talkative. Why all doubled but not children of Job in the end? Because animals were lost. But his first 10 children weren't lost but in heaven.
Interesting he didn't mention David Tong vs. his old Indonesian driver. Probably the wisdom of not doing this in Indonesian.
Chinese Sermon:
吹毛求疵。
How is it a reference to our eyes? They are the most sensitive parts. When we first meet a person, we also look first at the eyes. No normal people look at shoes first, etc.
If so sensitive, how is one not realizing the dust/thorn in his eyes? Either he really has no sense (which is rather unlikely) or you judge it wrong.
Job was the one sad, but he prayed for his friends instead. The friends who were good at first for traveling great distance to comfort Job in silence, until the started to make judgment. Many women love to advise and think others listen.
We judge others so easily but we have sins that even ourselves are hard to get rid off.
Visual aid presented. A dot on a paper. All audience observed the dot, but not the white area of the paper. Selective Perception in Telecommunication (传播学). We see the small bad, but not the much goodness in others.
David Tong's accident is mentioned again. Kids broken here and there. Stephen Tong's driver who has not much degree, drove them so many years, no accident. David Tong with high education, careless. So, we must be humble.
Though this is not part of my daily OT/NT reading plan. It is the book that the Redeemer's Men's group is on now. And I do find much great new interests and motivation to study in this, empowered with Stephen Tong's material.
General Outlines:
Chapter 1: Jonah's disagreement with God at the greatest.
Chapter 2: Darkness in the fish caused Jonah to long for God's presence.
Chapter 3: With the same boldness as usual without the fear of death by Nineveh punks, he completed God's mission, though not with care.
Chapter 4: God educates Jonah the justification of His love.
Summary Notes:
Per Tong: Jonah's anger with God is liken to (but not sure) that of those who are close to the object of their anger. Thus, would Jonah be that close to God as to have such anger?
1:5 I note that unlike the notes presented in the Redeemer's Men's fellowship, I think that Jonah was never not afraid to die. Not in the storm, not in the fish, and definitely not in his ministry in Nineveh. Thus it explains how he could deeply be asleep. Thus, I don't see any punishment from God, not in the storm, not in the fish, against Jonah, but mere calling, based on his unique relationship with God.
This is my own notes on the study of Acts. This will eventually have heavy maps pertaining to all the missionary journeys taken in this book.
Resources for maps:
https://bethanygu.edu/news/missionary-journey/
General Outlines:
Summary Notes:
I believe the best debate in the world is the Book of Job. Therefore, those who dislike debates in general, are ignorant fools. They think they are the peacemaker, they are worse than the post-modernists.
I already have an entry devoted to John Calvin's commentary on this. So this entry shall be my own OT study, my own notes on the book of Job.
Quoting Tim Keller in one of his FB posts:
Never describe the view of an opponent in a way he or she will not own. Rather describe their view so they say, "I couldn't have put it better myself." Only then should you proceed to refute the view. If instead, you caricature your opponent-- you persuade no one.
This shows very clearly in Job, who retains all words of his friends.
I believe to study this comprehensively, I must master God's answer (if not also Elihu's), starting from chapter 38 first, then only, look back from the beginning of Job to understand their reasoning and folly, human wisdom vs. God's wisdom.
A good place to read quick summary: https://www.litcharts.com/lit/book-of-job/summary
General Outline:
Chapter 1: The fear of God in Job and his indirect victory against Satan's first test.
Chapter 2: Satan disregarded his defeat and forced God to change the rule of their game.
Chapter 3: Job cursed his birth
First round debate
Chapter 4-5: First friend's response. Eliphaz the Temanite
Chapter 6-7: Job challenges his friend on judging Job for lack of righteousness
Chapter 8: Second friend's response. Bildad the Shuhite: If you did well, there's no suffering
Chapter 9-10: Job contests that suffering is beyond logic. Seeks perfection earnestly
Chapter 11: Third friend's response. Zophar the Naamathite
Chapter 12-14: Job rebukes Zophar's content in just not sinning, blind faith and flattery to God
Second round debate
Chapter 15: Eliphaz's second response.
Stephen Tong gave some rarity on Job's commentary that is probably not seen anywhere else:
The dilemma of Job is where is man?
God's challenge to Job in the last chapters was not to overwhelm Job of the details of the unanswerable, but to question Job why Job did not question those challenges of God as he should before.
Update 9/29/2025 Monday Stephen Tong once mentioned that the Job problem is not knowing how great God was. In his Creationism lecture series that I took, Tong directed God's questions to Job to a more fundamental problem, that God was judging Job according to the original state of Adam, which is to be perfect in all knowledge in limit set by God in the created world. So that Job knows, that he has lost all that perfection due to original sin. I looked for years and finally found it (googling "animation video God and Job and time machine atheist" and recognized the video "God's God" animation looks awfully familiar) this video after a prayer, which is an atheist's answers to God's question challenges to Job. An interesting twist, contrary to the poster's intent, this video was meant to illustrate that these questions are answerable (though not all correctly answered in the video) by Job, which proves the point of Tong, I'm saving this video:
Fast listened to the last part of the Reformed Forum (Rob & Bob's discussion) podcast: The Fruit of the Spirit: Self-Control. It was mentioned that "comparing" is wrong. I disagree. It's good to compare, if the desire is to better oneself and not by means to covet another's. The discussion supported improvement, but an improvement without comparing is still lacking. The problem I think, in this modern Christendom is the fear of shame and the twisted interpretation of it thereof. There is no shame in learning from guilt. There is no shame in defeat, in losing after comparison, if the end goal is to praise God. They fail to see how to praise God from comparing.
I have revisited the subject of stock market...is it investment or gambling. Oh but people would love to argue on this. One is simply the excuse of another.
They both involve the guessing game of risk taking. I'll make this distinction:
Investment: When money is put out for care of the organization. For example, if I work at Microsoft and I bought Microsoft shares, I have a care of the company where I work. If I bought shares of those whose interests align with mine more than just profit. When there is loss, you feel the loss of the organization and its workers; when there is gain, you feel connected to them as well.
Gambling: When money is put out for care only of the profit. For example, I bought shares of companies I don't care of, only that I heard they are going to be big and thus rip great profit. I don't need to know how Microsoft works, it does not interest me. I don't want to know anything about the life at Microsoft, just how much it is making, like a farmer who cares not for the cow but the milk.
Thus, I would say, many fail here. But then many are not Christians, so that's that. I recall many Chinese who came to U.S. talked about stocks in church. I cannot tell if they were investing or gambling, but I would be impressed if they were investing. Bottom line, Investors and Gamblers are categorized as 商. Yes, gamblers are part of 商.Thus, rather low level they are in the scale of honorable occupations according to the traditional Chinese standard which is also quite biblical per Stephen Tong: 士，农，工，商，兵。And I would arrange it in this order within 商 (from better to worse)：Investors, gamblers, tax/interest collectors. Yes, those who make money using money are the lowest kind (not far from the concept of Psalm 15:5). What of 兵 then? Those are not the likes of the American soldiers who sacrifice their own lives for the betterment of their nation, which are different than traditional Chinese soldiers. That's liken to today's dictators and their puppets. Then what of the difference between (士，农，工) and 商? Then it's a matter of prioritization, where one's treasure lies, there his/her money will be. The golden rule is, how close is this to do with the walk with God.
Many have used Jesus' Genesis account in Matthew 19 as proof text. Here I would go further:
The 5th Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother.
God did not say, honor they parents, nor honor they father and father, nor honor thy mother and mother.
This will be the thorough study. Notes here are mainly of my own.
General Outline:
Chapter 1: Enslavement
Chapter 2: Moses from Egypt to Midian
Chapter 3-4: From Burning bush back to Egypt
Chapter 5: Meeting Pharaoh
Chapter 6: God's comfort
Chapter 7: Plague 1: Water turned to blood (nature)
Chapter 8: Plagues 2, 3, 4: Frogs, gnats/lice, flies (animals)
Chapter 9: Plagues 5, 6, 7: Egyptian animal deaths, boils, hail (economy, human physical injuries)
Chapter 10: Plagues 8, 9: Locusts, darkness (ceasing livelihood, no sight which was taken for granted)
Chapter 11-12: Plague 10 & the Passover & Exodus.
Chapter 13: Sanctify firstborns, Unleavened Bread (reminder from C12), Pillars of Cloud and Fire vs. Pharaoh.
Chapter 14: Red Sea crossing
Chapter 15: Song, First wilderness complaint: Bitter water made sweet (from wilderness Shur -> Marah)
Chapter 16: 2nd wilderness complaint: Manna (Elim to wilderness Sin, before Sinai)
Chapter 17: 3rd wilderness complaint: Water from Rock (at waterless Rephidim), defeats Amalek by Moses holding up his hand.
Chapter 18: Jethro's mending of Moses' marriage and advice on government.
Chapter 19: The people meet God - volcanic presence (wilderness Sinai)
Chapter 20: 10 Commandments, this is before the tablets of stones. The Lord spoke to all.
Chapter 21: Laws about slaves, lives and properties (i.e. ox)
Chapter 22: Legality against theft and abuse of trust.
Chapter 23: Idolatry vs. Christ
Chapter 24: Invitation for Moses' special group to meet God
Chapter 25-31: Building of Ark and Tabernacle, priestly garments and ritual
Chapter 32:
Summary notes:
4:24, Moses probably either debated with YHWH, possibly in anthropomorphic figure (thus the second person of the Trinity) regarding the sacrament of circumcision. Calvin thought Moses was succumbing to the Midianites attitude against the ritual. I wonder if it could also have anything to do with the Egyptian Moses killed.
4:25, Zipporah's anger regarding circumcision is usually seen as uncalled for or impious. And possibly the reason of her return to Midian with her 2 children (older: Gershom, younger: Eliezer - who wasn't mentioned until C18)
C7: It's likely that the Israelites received their waters from sources other than the Nile, such as wells. The Egyptians had to dig for water (v.24)
19:15 is interesting. "Do not go near a woman"
19:16-19 Five elements involved: Thunders, lightnings, thick cloud, loud trumpet, smoke+fire (causes trembling).
19:23 Likely due to indolence for perhaps it was a great mount to get down and up again, Moses may felt very well so close to God that He forgot his fear of God.
20:5 Idolatry = hate God, opposite of loving God in this case. A parent's could witness up to 3rd & 4th generations in his lifetime the punishment of such sin. Number in family counts as blessing in this case.
v.11, Warren Wiersbe appears to be in agreement with Stephen Tong, here's an excerpt from his Expository Outlines:
This is not repeated anywhere in the NT for the church to obey today. Keeping the Sabbath is mentioned in Mat_12:1-50, Mar_2:1-28, Luk_6:1-49, and Joh_5:1-47; but these all refer to the people of Israel and not to the church. Col_2:1-23 and Rom. 14-15 teach that believers should not judge one another with reference to holy days or Sabbaths. To say that a person is lost or unspiritual for not keeping the Sabbath is to go beyond the bounds of Scripture.
v.8 & v.12 are the two commandments that do not begin with Thou Shalt Not...
v.21 God can be in Darkness as well. To test the fear of God before us.
v.24-25 Altars can be of earth or stone, but must not be made by tools. No work, only grace.
v.26 No stairs? Probably a slide towards the altar. Thus the walking approach matters.
