I listened to this message given by Francis Chan, author of the book Crazy Love, and it really encouraged my soul and my prayer life. Take some time to listen and interact with the reflections he shares about prayer and how God demonstrates His love and faithfulness toward us through prayer.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Prayer as a Way of Walking in Love: A Personal Journey
Prayer as a Way of Walking in Love: A Personal Journey
Monday, February 21, 2011
On Discipleship
In truth, genuine followers of Jesus Christ walk in such a way that others cannot help but think that they themselves have been with Jesus. As a student of Christ, am I truly learning what it means to be like Jesus? "The one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked" (1 John 2:5).
Sunday, February 20, 2011
On Infinitesimal Light
A rectangle's length could never move from negative infinity to positive infinity, else it would be two parallel lines. Clearly rectangles have a definite beginning and end. God is no rectangle, though he exists simultaneously along all points of Light in parallel universes: both a physical reality and a metaphysical one. He IS the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; the One Who was, Who is, and Who is to come. In truth, He simply IS. So why do we try to put Him into our own little boxes; or rather explain him away? Father illuminate our hearts and lead us out of the darkness while there is still time.
Welcome Back
Just wanted to say that in my absence from blogging, I never stopped writing my reflections. My hope is to continue to engage the culture from a biblical worldview as magnified through the lens of the Gospel. Pray that I use this site as a tool to do so and that I may productively, lovingly and truthfully interact with those who are searching for the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or the Sweetest Sugar in the Whole Wide World
I praise the Lord for my niece Lauryn and love her very much. Here is a cute video of her singing to her Granny.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Immigration and Arizona
Posted as a response to a Facebook discussion on Arizona's new law giving law enforement agencies in the state "the power to question anyone they suspect might be in the country illegally" (Maiman,B. Populist Examiner. http://www.examiner.com/. posted April 24, 2010. Retrieved from "blogger won't allow cut and paste...boo." Last updated 4/24/2010).
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Racial profiling is never okay constitutionally because we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights... "All men," from the Declaration of Independence, does not simply refer to citizens of the United States of America, but to all people created in the image of God. That said, Arizona's new law does further extend and encourage police action as it regard a certain ethnic group, mainly those of those of Mexican, Latino/a, and Hispanic, non-white heritage and descent.
However, "all men" also includes citizens of the United States of America who are fed up with lax immigration laws and regulations that only perpetuate and encourage corporate greed, mainly the underpaying of "said" ethnic group in many of the jobs that help sustain this nation. If you've seen the documentary Food Inc., you'll know what I'm talking about. Not only do we as a nation face the outsourcing of jobs to other countries whose labor laws are unlike our own; and not only do we face the underpaying of illegal workers here in our own country. We come face to face with a large, clandestine network of systems secretly established to unlawfully "credential" many immigrants who are here illegally. That too is unjust.
In Jeremiah 22: 13, Jehovah declares, Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor." Both illegal immigrants working here in America, outsourced laborers employed by U.S. companies in other countries, and unemployed or underemployed U. S. citizens who could benefit from some if not many of those jobs are hurt by the kinds of unjust labor practices that impact the immigration debate.
In the end, what is the goal of Arizona's new law: love, grace, and compassion or law for law's sake?
And to answer poster's question in the strand as it relates to pressuring the federal government into seriously tackling the immigration conundrum: I could see this valid perspective; to go as far as to pass a law that verges on Jim Crow, in a hope to seriously shine a spotlight on the impact of not seriously tackling the issue of immigration at all. The law will more than likely be get overturned by the courts.
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Racial profiling is never okay constitutionally because we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights... "All men," from the Declaration of Independence, does not simply refer to citizens of the United States of America, but to all people created in the image of God. That said, Arizona's new law does further extend and encourage police action as it regard a certain ethnic group, mainly those of those of Mexican, Latino/a, and Hispanic, non-white heritage and descent.
However, "all men" also includes citizens of the United States of America who are fed up with lax immigration laws and regulations that only perpetuate and encourage corporate greed, mainly the underpaying of "said" ethnic group in many of the jobs that help sustain this nation. If you've seen the documentary Food Inc., you'll know what I'm talking about. Not only do we as a nation face the outsourcing of jobs to other countries whose labor laws are unlike our own; and not only do we face the underpaying of illegal workers here in our own country. We come face to face with a large, clandestine network of systems secretly established to unlawfully "credential" many immigrants who are here illegally. That too is unjust.
In Jeremiah 22: 13, Jehovah declares, Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor." Both illegal immigrants working here in America, outsourced laborers employed by U.S. companies in other countries, and unemployed or underemployed U. S. citizens who could benefit from some if not many of those jobs are hurt by the kinds of unjust labor practices that impact the immigration debate.
In the end, what is the goal of Arizona's new law: love, grace, and compassion or law for law's sake?
And to answer poster's question in the strand as it relates to pressuring the federal government into seriously tackling the immigration conundrum: I could see this valid perspective; to go as far as to pass a law that verges on Jim Crow, in a hope to seriously shine a spotlight on the impact of not seriously tackling the issue of immigration at all. The law will more than likely be get overturned by the courts.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Vox Dei
"Everyone who belongs to the truth, listens to My voice." One way that those who belong to Jesus listen to His voice is by reading, knowing, and heeding the Word of God. Because "the word of the Lord endures forever," "as new born babes," believers are charged to "desire the pure milk of the word, that (they) may grow thereby if indeed (they) have tasted that the Lord is gracious" (I Peter 1: 25; I Peter 2: 2, 3).
And as believers grow "thereby" effectively and productively in the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord, becoming skilled in the "word of righteousness" (Hebrews 5: 13) by which we are saved (James 1: 21), we become rooted and established in the present truth; truth that is eternal, immutable, infallible, inerrant, and yes, powerful... So, "let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom" (Colossians 3: 16). That is if you have tasted His grace. If not, permit your mind, and soul, and heart to savor the immeasurable, wonderful, marvelous grace of our God and Savior. The kitchen is open, and the Lord is cookin'. Bon appetit!
And as believers grow "thereby" effectively and productively in the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord, becoming skilled in the "word of righteousness" (Hebrews 5: 13) by which we are saved (James 1: 21), we become rooted and established in the present truth; truth that is eternal, immutable, infallible, inerrant, and yes, powerful... So, "let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom" (Colossians 3: 16). That is if you have tasted His grace. If not, permit your mind, and soul, and heart to savor the immeasurable, wonderful, marvelous grace of our God and Savior. The kitchen is open, and the Lord is cookin'. Bon appetit!
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