Monthly Archives: January 2011

Could someone like Esau be hopeful-William

By what holy oracle must I abide, to guide someone like Esau, who is unrepentant but seeks all means of shameless ways to make right his wrongs. Appeasing others in whatever ways he may be able to, following the path … Continue reading

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crontab for my server

For edit: crontab -e For view: crontab -l # minute hour(24) dayOfMonth Month dayOfWeek(0-6, 0=Sunday) command To schedule my server to chmod 644 the access log,  0 10 * * 0 chmod 644 /var/log/apache2/access.log Task will perform every Sunday at … Continue reading

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Still need more members in the choir?

If I hear another of such, I'm just going to inquire: How many people do you say is enough? And other choices I have: "The choir still opens for application" "Your wish doesn't demand our approval"

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Practical Benefit of the Doctrine of Predestination

In Family: How parents treat their children. By birth, the child is naturally seen as special to the parents that bore the child. It is a specialty no other children of other parents will receive from these parents. Therefore the … Continue reading

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Successful Christian

One who is successful in society, could hardly be a successful Christian. Contrary to many, I would say the rarity of such occurrence is scare enough to count. I would start with just Joseph, for now. Why the rarity? I … Continue reading

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Fooling Reformed Church of the West

It is rather easy. Just make mention terms like "John Calvin", "St. Augustine", "traditional music", etc. and the western orthodox christians immediately make goats if not wolves, sheep. This is how shallow it is. I wonder what are they doing … Continue reading

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Online Bully

There's been much issue of the internet blog bullying in recent past, particularly in the form of attack against homosexuals. The way I see it, it is not an additional sin, with the advance of technology. But just in different … Continue reading

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Topical Preaching vs. Expository Preaching

I have just added to my English-Chinese Terminology in Christianity the phrase: Expository Preaching. Contrasting Topical preaching, Expository (釋 經式講道) preaching makes the topics follow the scripture; while topical (專/主題式講道) makes scriptures follow preferred topics. Like John MacArthur, I generally … Continue reading

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Dennis Prager

Perhaps when I think about American non-christians who support the conservative christian views, I think of Dennis Prager, a jew who once pushed a muslim politician to use a Christian Bible.

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Fear not for the Lord

It is not only out of joy, out of love but out of fear as well, to do God's bidding. Jeremiah 1:17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be … Continue reading

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