Hymn: The God of Abraham Praise
Hymn: Nothing but the Blood of Jesus
Hymn: Be Still, My Soul
Paying Online classes: http://strij.org/
Cain Flying before Jehovah's Curse painting (I think) mentioned, wheels were not yet invented:
End Hymn: My Heavenly Father Watches Over Me
3000+ Acres land, I wish I would have that. For more than just farming. Hunting, wild games, etc. Looks like these would cost about $7-15 millions to buy, I wonder what the tax's like.
Back to the topic, learned a new thing. All bars (castrated boars) grow to be fat, juicy and delicious.
I wonder what this guy's family business used to be. Very likely farm related:
An Example of Modern Paul vs. Barnabas' mission split
On David Tong: Too quick to judge
at around @33:00 of the video below, the question asked was "Is Me time allowed". Filbert asked to clarify the definition of it first, but David immediately concluded (habitually) that it's wrong without even considering the perspective from others and responded "just answer allowed or not first then give definition (I mean, what?!)", even boldly goes as to say "even if it's a "good" me-time, it's still not allowed. Until the lady Abel interjected an example "What about me time for reading the Bible?" then everyone cheered, and perhaps David also tried to hide his defeat in silence, that is, if he did admit defeat.
Of course, this play of language rather than true meaning is not new. I've criticized others on this before, such as Alex. This is serious, because it' the kind of pride that's slipped through by the authoritarian type in a inconspicuous way. Or lack of certain holiness.
All that aside, I still like this Karawaci culture/fellowship because they do care to talk about it. When I first heard that "me time" question, my immediate response was "Me-time for God, Yes"; "Me-time for myself, No".
Why I watch these? Because I need to know after Stephen Tong, how I could trust to work with the next generation of GRII or STEMI. Unlike the others (i.e. some at CCCNY and more), I don't base my trust on status/connection, viz. oh David is Stephen Tong's son, etc.
One good take from David Tong around @42:00: On equality, Calvin said it's better to have tyranny than anarchy.
There's a point David brought up: If someone said, "If you drink alcohol then you're not Christian." Then I, who doesn't drink, would deliberately order a beer and drink in front of him. I think David supports this, but I thought at first that it sounded rebellious. However, to stand for the truth, we do have to act wisely, if acting so confirms the truth I stand for, good, if not, then maybe it's better to reserve such act for the edification of others before God.
If I were the host, instead of being stunned, I would respond: David, just to clarify, this is not to show that he's rejecting Christianity; but to prove that the statement is wrong and heretical.
Pronunciation:
muh–lif-loo-uhs
Definition:
sweet-sounding.
As used in a sentence:
The singer with the mellifluous voice will win the talent contest.
Hymn: For the Beauty of the Earth
Hymn: His Grace Aboundeth More
Hymn: Speak to My Heart: Music score
Presentation: The Lord is My Shepherd, Howard Goodall
Soren Kierkegaard: There's only one Christian in the world, and that is Jesus Christ.
Paul Washer mentioned. That Tong learned about him from Michael Liu. American theology/reformed preachers criticized. Mentioned Paul Washer realized after 13 years of marriage his wife wasn't clear about the Gospel and thus took time to preach to her until her repentance in tears. Tong said they did invite Paul Washer, but he was sick.
v.23 Therefore they are not Christians.
My question after Tong mentioned Peter denied Christ until the cock crowed twice. What are chickens doing in ancient Israel? Cock fight? Food? or just eggs?
On Augustine, Tong mentioned the question asked of Augustine, a preacher who's fallen, would you receive him back as the preacher? Augustine said yes. He sits on Moses' seating, listen to him, but don't follow him. His baptism is still valid. This is from Jesus' lesson.
My take: one would ask, can the demons pretend to be cast out? Tong calls it sandiwara (theatrical) Since Jesus said (Matt 12:26) How can Satan drive out Satan. Ultimately, the question is who is it that is driving out demons? Is it truly Christian? or Satan? Character is the proof. Therefore, Tong: It works regardless of who's using God's name, it's because God's name is great, not the one using God's name.
Hymn: Just As I Am, Without One Plea
My take: alternating male female voicing during singing is not only beautiful, but a wise way against the current transgenderism society.
Hymn: Mulia dan Menang
On Music:
To play like that or high end restaurant pianists, lots of practice and memorizing songs:
On Evangelism:
As I was beginning to think Byrd's email updates from the church is getting spam-like annoying, I learned this time that our prayers for the GFL thru ESL (Gospel as First Language through English as Second Language) has come to fruition. I love the updates. This is what a church's mission is all about. I wish I will one day be able to participate.
On Sports:
It's been a couple of weeks since I joined LA Fitness Club just for the sake of using the pool. I clocked my 25m Freestyle at around 20 seconds. Since by extrapolation the world record would be around 10 secs, I think I have room for improvement. I wonder how I did back in high school, there must be a record somewhere. Anyway, a twice/week swimming routine would cost me roughly $5 per entry for my membership (with Nadia as my plus one). We worked out a way so that Nadia uses her phone's app while I use my phone number for entry, not that she's ever going to use it. I've followed the at least 2 times a week routine until we got snowed in this past Monday. So perhaps I can go today.
On Economics:
Starbucks climbed up, I dump my 10 shares right away making roughly $20s. With their changes in management and the bearish drop earlier, better wait and see. Bought CCL instead, I figure with the vaccinations and Spring coming, people are wanting to go back to cruising. Though I may have to sit on this for a while. So my stocks so far are: 50 in CCL, 5 in MSFT and 2 in ZGNA (given free by Webull). I think I should raise my shares in MSFT as well at some point. DISNEY also has a pattern, perhaps a buy in Aprils, rather than waiting until Octobers. I should also consider moving my mom's account from Robinhood to another platform perhaps Moomoo, after the distrust Robinhood displayed after the GME short squeeze.
On the other hand, with cryptocurrencies, I am also sitting on Ripple's XRP. Putting in $1k, got raised to $2k and it did peaked twice higher for a short time last Sunday. I think I'll stay put, let's see how this SEC lawsuit plays out. Squeezed out about $40 from Stellar Lumens with $1k, placed $1k in OX instead. I have $20s possible growing profit in Ethereum now, I'm just going to wait it out.
Pull from my old notes in smartphone, 2016-12-05
App that can compute average of time used for certain frequent events: Start/End time buttons, etc.
We didn't do all of these, but here's a sketch of my plan pulled from 2018 smartphone notes:
Check out tripping.com/shapiro
Venice:
-Eat skiz(shrimp&octopus mix on streets)
-Murano, Rick Steve, glass work shop
-Burano, Rick Steve, early evening no tourist, waterside dinner.
- avoid crowd, Rick Steve, San Giorgio Majaro church by 5 min Vaporato boat, best view from bell tower.
- academia, Rick Steve, best Venetian art museum
- Cafe Florian, Rick Steve, local impression
-Rezonicco family museum witness fall of Venice due to discovery of America. Rick Steve, party culture (may not visit)
-musika apalazo, Rick Steve
Rome:
-book tix early for colosseum & Vatican museum (try walks of Italy tour)
- get right shoes(shoes in Europe by jocelyn)
- eat 3-5 blocks away from major sites
- aurelian walls
-sunset view of pantheon
-victor emmanuel monument back elevator to roof - rick steves
- reservation for gallery borghese - bernini
- moses in church st peter's in chain, opens an hour before colosseum, not much crowd, free, 5 minutes walk from colosseum
-market of trajan, first shopping mall
Florence:
- the space mall
From my 2018-06-22 notes:
In his Hebrews #52 video lecture (@36:45) Stephen Tong listed these Francis Schaeffer' books:
- The God who is There
- He is There and He is Not Silent
- Escape from Reason
- How Should We then Live
I pull this from a note I put in my phone on 2017-06-25.
Seeing that many book stores are closing down, and I don't want them to, particularly, Barnes & Nobles. B&N incorporated Starbucks in their stores to save their market.
One idea of mine: Get authors to sign contracts in order to display their books in the stores, the idea is that the main revenue of the stores would come from the authors, not readers. Not a great idea, but it's a start, for something more creative.
