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6\/20\/2026 Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Men's Breakfast at GCC. R led the group on Contentment. I have Granola Meeting minutes. Glad at Pastor Chris' warning about being passive <\/strong>in contentment (too content to get better job, too content to fix washing machine), reminds me of the Drowning Man parable. Phil also questioned if we should practice contentment rather than just a mental recognition, so I had to double down on this concept, first time speaking for me after not speaking in these meetings for a while. Not sure why Frank got it side way - he quoted Peter \"where else would we go\", as if I was only saying \"we can only rely on God\", but I am sure I was clear, as Phil got my point completely and immediately connected from Frank, \"Yes, active<\/strong>! Like Joni, bringing joy to others\". I also had to deal with Matt claiming (falsely, I believe) that Stephen Tong said \"do not go preach the Gospel in a whore house\". As Matt had issue with his former church elder persuading the congregant go give water to people during pride month, to which I added - that's a great thing if you include the Gospel in that ministry. Matt wouldn't have it, basically for him, we shouldn't even do anything near these \"wicked\" people. I later thought, Matt reminds me of the Pharisees who had issue with Jesus eating with sinners<\/strong>. I don't see how else I can give him benefit of the doubt, because the only benefit of the doubt, would be that Matt was confused with participating in sin, almost like what the Pharisees thought, but for Matt, in the context of rewarding the Juneteen parade (wasn't mentioned) by giving them free water. And if so, that would mean Matt really was bad with evangelism, i.e. not Gospel centered. Yet, he certainly is kind with helping people, very initiative. So, he seems to be the moralist from the fundamentalist movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I need to reflect two things<\/strong> from this: Firstly, be eloquent, certainty with words and vocabularies. Next, how to respond charitably but sternly someone who was dumb beyond my expectation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6\/14\/2026 Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pastor Dave Lee's sermon was a fun one. If you want to preach on Numbers, you definitely don't want to miss out Num 12 - Miriam and Aaron vs. Moses. Nadia enjoyed the sermon, she said that it really helped when I read the Bible reading a day ahead to her. I was reading it with dramatic tone. I was more fascinated (in a God-fearing manner) with verse 8 (not so with Moses...with him I speak mouth to mouth<\/strong>...), which wasn't quite expounded as it wasn't the focus of the theme of the sermon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I joked about verse 3 also with Nadia before, and too bad Pastor Dave did not bring it to light either. That Moses (possibly) wrote of himself - Moses was more meek than all people who were on the face of the earth<\/strong>. I'll leave these to my own Bible Study entry on Numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second time met Logan and his wife. Thus far, he's my favorite person I like to meet at Crossroads church. That's because, the first encounter, I learned that he's into durians and picked up some Malaysian slang. The first \"Malaysian\" I've met. Even though he's white and technically from Jersey\/NZ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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