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Thursday, April 27, 2006

Following God is really tough. There are just so much to bear in following Christ, taking up the cross and denyin oneself... I find it really hard. Being a christian, i have to give up so many things! Sacrifice this and that... I feel that i have miss out alot of fun!!

I do think this way though... Its my thought sometimes when i am tired...

Trials and temptations just come my way... I had just been through one, and the other will come at the rate which you dont even know it.

The Lord is good... He renew my strength everytime i pray to Him. The most important thing that i've learnt is that in any circumstances, PRAY!! For prayer is power. And prayer is the only way to get close to Jesus Christ. But there needs to be faith in prayer, or else it will be like throwing your money into te dustbin, WASTED.

God needs us to trust in Him. If we dont trust in God, what is the point of praying? Or even whats the point of being a Christian? QUIT. But thats not the point. We have to be Christian, one who really trust God.

As christians, we have to do things not to satisfy our flesh. I am still fighting with this problem because i most of the time give in to temptation. But after praying, God renew my strengTh! He is good... We christian should have this in our mind, that in everything we do be it in front of others or in secret, let us to do it to GLORIFY GOD. Let our life be a prayer to God, always strive to be Christ-like. To be pure in our heart and mind and soul. For the Pure in heart SHALL SEE GOD.

So let us to always check ourselves... Its hard, i'm learning. Really very hard.

But let us all learn together and GROW together!!! Praise the Lord!!!

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I love my Jovin alot!!! She is one who always tolerate my nonsense, forgive me for my wrongs. She doesnt flare... A cool girl indeed~~ haha!!!

DEAR, LET US GROW TOGETHER IN JESUS CHRIST!!! I love you, JESUS LOVES YOU MORE!!

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God bless all!!

10:43 AM

Monday, April 17, 2006

When living your faith means risking death

(Hartford Courant, The (CT) (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Apr. 13--As Christians in the United States happily prepare for their holiest holiday, elsewhere in the world, in incidents reminiscent of Christianity's earliest days, some Christians are risking their safety and even their lives for their religious faith.

Abdul Rahman, an Afghan Christian, recently faced possible execution for the crime of conversion from Islam.

Tom Fox, a member of the Christian Peacemakers Team in Iraq, was kidnapped and murdered there for trying to live his beliefs.

Miroslav Volf, director of the Center for Faith and Culture at Yale, says the safety and ease of worship that most Christians experience in Western nations isn't universal.

"The fact is that most Christians in the world do not live in America," Volf said. "Christianity is really a Third World religion today."

In places where Christians are a minority, Volf said, "they are powerless and suffer persecution. It's very difficult to be Christian in some Middle Eastern countries, in certain places in Africa, or to be a Christian in China."

Rahman, 41, converted to Christianity more than a decade ago, when he was living in Peshawar, Pakistan, and working for a Christian aid group helping Afghan refugees. He later lived in Germany but returned to his home country after the fall of the Taliban. While he was embroiled in a custody battle with his daughters' grandparents, a relative who knew of his conversion apparently reported him to authorities. A Bible was discovered in Rahman's home, and he was charged with apostasy, a crime under Afghanistan's Sharia law.

As Rahman sat in a maximum-security jail, demonstrators called for his execution. But he said he was a Christian and would always remain one.

Under international pressure, the Afghan Supreme Court ultimately dropped the charges against Rahman, saying he was insane and mentally unfit to stand trial. The Italian government offered him asylum, and Rahman secretly left Afghanistan.

"In Kabul, they would have killed me, I'm sure of it," Rahman said when he arrived in Italy, where officials praised him for his courage.

"There is such a contrast between what people are willing to do," said Volf, who founded the center at Yale to study how faith can affect people's daily lives -- and how it sometimes doesn't.

"Some go to church every Sunday, yet their faith doesn't seem to have much impact on the rest of their lives," Volf said. "Then there are others whose lives embody a fairly aggressive form of Christianity."

The Christian Peacemakers -- an organization sponsored by the Mennonite Church USA, the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and Friends United Meeting -- is dedicated to pacifism and alternatives to war. It places volunteers in places of conflict like Africa, Iraq, Colombia, Haiti and the Palestinian West Bank, as well as along the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Unlike missionaries, the group does not attempt to proselytize or convert. Fox, a 54-year-old Quaker who had been in Iraq for 18 months, was the first Christian Peacemaker to be killed since the organization was founded in 1984, says Claire Evans, delegation coordinator for the group, based in Chicago.

"If soldiers are willing to put their lives on the line for violent peacemaking, we believe we are called as non-violent peacemakers to put our lives on the line for peace," says Evans, who also has spent time in Iraq.

Fox was one of four Christian Peacemakers kidnapped in November and held hostage by a group calling itself the Swords of Righteousness Brigade. He was found murdered in March, but U.S. and British forces rescued the other three -- Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden and 74-year-old Norman Kember of Great Britain.

Some of the Peacemakers' critics are war supporters who view the group's peacemaking efforts as interference, but the Peacemakers don't run from that charge. Part of their motto is "Getting in the way." In Iraq, the group's members live outside the Green Zone and work with Iraqi partners to find detained relatives and otherwise help families affected by the war.

"Tom knew he was risking his life. He was definitely someone who was willing to take that risk," Evans said. "Jesus said, 'Take up your cross, and follow me,' and when you do that, sometimes it leads to crucifixion and death."

The organization has not yet decided when another peacemaker team will be sent to Iraq, she said.

Volf, a Croatian who grew up in Yugoslavia, said he recalls meeting Christian Peacemakers during the war in Bosnia.

Years earlier, he said, he had been beaten and threatened with imprisonment because of his faith."I was very much a pacifist, and [Yugoslavia] had compulsory service; I was interrogated for months and threatened with years in prison."But the call of the Christian faith, properly understood, is to love one's enemies," he said, "to resist evil in such a way that the humanity of the other is redeemed and understanding can be established."

4:17 AM

Friday, April 07, 2006

-=[ TRUST ]=-

Sometimes trust is the thing that everybody need towards anyone. One incident that just happened to me and a few. Was being ask to affirm some people about some issues...
But in the end what we have said have all been wasted... I'm quite frustrated because one thing, my time is wasted... And secondly, why bother asking when you all are gonna do something about it??

Hmmm... Its an irony that things are being spread not by crazy people. Things are being spread through funny ways which i'm quite sad to hear. I cannot say that i'm angry... because it will become of my fault already.

Submiting to authority is very important. Because authority are being put above us by God to guide. But it is not about the authority that is above us. But the Authority WHO is HIGHER than our authority.

It seems like only those who are higher can interpret. Its confusing and it can really stumble someone else. I'm really truly very disappointed that unneccessary problems and questions are arising in our midst. All these are redundant.

Its suppose to be "anonymous". But it seems like others have to tell. hAiZ>~~ Not the same fault anymore.. and it isnt a fault in the first place..

Something that had happened that has just create a hole in my heart. I've lost a family..

11:36 AM

Saturday, April 01, 2006

Why do many Christians give up?

-One reason why many christians give up christ is that they are not told that when they receive Jesus, they have to also bear the sufferings.

-Trials and temptations come their way and they just stumble and fall. It's very hard for them to get up on their feet again is because they cannot accept the fact that they have to suffer being a christian, a true one. They think that being a christian is hard because of sufferings and being prevented from doing things that they used to do. They want to ENOJOY their life in doing things that can fill their heart with happiness everyday, filling the emptiness in their heart.

-But they never think about eternity. They just think about what they are going through now. Its really hard really to live in this world. But without Christ, where do they think they will go? HELL my friend!!

-True Joy can only be found in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. The emptiness in our heart can only be fill by the Love of Jesus. Being a christian can be easy IF WE OBEY HIS COMMAND. Being a Christian is free... BUT ITS NOT CHEAP!!!

-Jesus is the ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN, the ONLY ONE who can give us PEACE and JOY!!!

-So brothers and sisters, don't be discourage. I'm refering to the christians. There are truth which many can't take it. But lay down that pride in all of us and accept the TRUTH.

9:51 AM