My Doodling:
Hey! Got lobang for pro/budding or hobbist photographers like myself. I know a friend who just set up a stock images web album. Its a platform not only to store your photos, but to sell them as well. Find out more at the site- BLACKBOX ALBUM!
Below is a very encouraging article that was featured in TODAY two weeks ago:
His (South Korea’s President-elect Lee Myung Bak) bold proclaimation reaffirms the relevance of Christianity in operating in our global marketplace!
“You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.”
Matthew 5:14-16
I say that our jobs are not provided merely to earn a living.
Our God-given vocations are meant to be an extension of Jesus and His Church in the marketplace to reach out- influence and win people over with His love and truth- in a lost, cold and dark world!
Then the Lord said to Moses,
“Look, I have specifically chosen Bezalel son of Uri, grandson of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. I have filled him with the Spirit of God, giving him great wisdom, ability, and expertise in all kinds of crafts.
He is a master craftsman, expert in working with gold, silver, and bronze. He is skilled in engraving and mounting gemstones and in carving wood. He is a master at every craft!
Exodus 31:1-5 (NLT)
Read some of these remarkable stats on Google compiled by Jeff Jarvis:
Picture taken with Mr Adrin Loi, Executive Chairman of Ya Kun International at Year-end networking session organised by SP Consulting International.
My Doodling:
Yeah!!! Finished watching the whole of HEROES season 1!!! Now for season 2!!! Thank God for the internet! Ha ha…
Besides Peter Petrelli potraying a Keanu Reaves-NEO lookalike, this is an awesome TV series not to be missed!!! The good-triumphs-over- evil format never fails to inspire in this sick and dark world we live in.
Dec 19th 2007 | WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
The business of marketing the Bible and the Koran says a lot about the state of modern Christianity and Islam
CHRISTIANS and Muslims have one striking thing in common: they are both “people of the book”. And they both have an obligation to spread the Word—to get those Holy Books into the hands and hearts of as many people as they can. (The Jews, the third people of the book, do not feel quite the same obligation.)
Spreading the Word is hard. The Bible is almost 800,000 words long and littered with tedious passages about begetting. The Koran is a mere four-fifths of the length of the New Testament; but some Westerners find it an even more difficult read. Edward Gibbon complained about its “endless incoherent rhapsody of fable and precept”. Thomas Carlyle said that it was “as toilsome reading as I ever undertook; a wearisome, confused jumble, crude, incondite”.
Yet over 100m copies of the Bible are sold or given away every year. Annual Bible sales in America are worth between $425m and $650m; Gideon’s International gives away a Bible every second. The Bible is available all or in part in 2,426 languages, covering 95% of the world’s population.
Read the full article here>>>
Over the weekend church service, the Lord ‘whispered’ to me during the corporate worship time.
“Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD ? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.”
1 Samuel 15:22
Beginning 2008 on the right note
With the start of 2008 slowly taking pace, many of us have charted plans and projections for the new year. And I’m sure plenty of us (including me) have also jotted down goals that we believe would be for His Kingdom and glory.
However, I was gently reminded that at times, in the course of our pursuit of these goals, the underlying motives might not be as pure as we thought it to be.
The heart is deceitful above all else. (c.f. Jeremiah 17:9)
Obedience to God all the way
This is a personal reminder that obedience to God is the primary priority for me as His child.
And this takes precedence over everything including things/goals that are even labelled as “For Him” or beyond my logical understanding.
Cos if it is truly “For Him” that I seek, then shouldn’t I be fully trusting and obeying His ways and not mine?
Ultimately, the end of goal for us all is to follow Jesus’ example (c.f. John 5:19) of walking right and close with our God; to obey what He sets us off to be or to do according to His purpose and will, even to the point of death.
Thank You Lord for this reminder! =)
If you want to see what you’ve never seen, you have to do what you have never done.
Because if you do what you always do, you’ll continue to see what you always see and you’ll never see what you have never seen.
Ed Silvoso
Here’s a Christmas and New Year Message from Pastor PN Srithawong, President of Hope of God International (HGI) to members of Hope Church taken from the HGI eNewsletter.
“Let’s move on to reach out to more souls, more lives and fulfill the Great Commission and do the mission together: domestically and internationally.”
Pastor PN
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