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http://sheppsnsk.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sad-man.jpg Today I was driving home from a date that I had with my fiancee with the tears in my eyes.  It's been not even four months that we are officially dating from a time when she said yes.  The tears that filled my eyes were not the tear of happiness or satisfaction that I am dating this beautiful gorgeous godly loving girl.  But a tears of guild and shame for the conclusions that I came when I was still single. I was remembering my single life, the moments when I was in my deepest pain, thinking that there would be little chance for me to love someone and be loved by someone.  I am twenty six now, and most of my friends are married.  I've gain new friends (to my advantage) but their are five to six year younger by me, but still friends—I was able to develop a good and solid biblical relationship with them.  But still, I was different then they.  What I mean is that I was older, and that puts m...

O L ORD , you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O L ORD , you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's wom...

I finally finished the book that we are reading ("Knowing God" by J.I. Packer) with Ira.  This has been an amazing journey, a little over a month of reading, but it's worth it.  I guess it's harder to read a book with someone because you are dealing with two schedules instead of one.  But still the conversations between us are unforgettable and enjoyable. Why I suggest this should be the book that others should read as they start the relationship.  Most of the time when there is someone dating, they take the dating books that talking about marriage, and which is good.  But don't pay that much attention on their faith, what they believe about God.  It's one thing that a guy would be telling a girl what he believes, and with that, uses the bible to prove his point.  But it's totally different when a professor, pastor, and a good influential respected Christian speak about the truth that are just too essentia...

A Timelapse Journey with Nature: 2009-2011 from Henry Jun Wah Lee on Vimeo .

Tedd Tripp writes a counseling book (Shepherding a Child’s Heart) on how to disciple your child in the biblical view.  This book is directed to parents in order to help them identify their own goals and methods that should be put to practice.  Interesting to note here, the methods that he exposes are so practical and intertwined and so easily be used, but they don’t work because they are not based on the biblical truth.   In the book he explains how the heart of a child needs to be taught, educated when spanking a child for a good reason with a right motivation.  He explains the balance in how and where to spank and at what circumstance, which is biblical teaching.  Spanking a child for a wrong reason with a wrong motivation does not develops a child heart in the right way.  Our culture denies this way of practice but it is something that God instructs a parent to do as they discipline their children.   In the book T...

Pray without ceasing for clear views of your subject, for help in composition, in committing to memory, and in delivery. Pray without ceasing for the people you are to address. Remember you are to speak to souls who must either be impressed or hardened by the sermon you deliver. Write for Christ and of Christ. Remember that the Holy Spirit not merely can alone show to the heart the things that are Christ’s, but that He must be recognised as doing so by us. Keep the Spirit’s peculiar office and work continually in view. Remember that what you write must have eternal consequences. Write as one who must give an account to Christ for so doing. Write for a people who must give an account to Christ for the manner in which they hear. Never write for the sake of magnifying yourself. Remember the flock of Christ must not be fed with ingenuities, but with the bread of life. Write from the heart with simplicity, plainness (so that a little child may comprehend), and godly sincerity. Pr...

Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the  Lord , saying, “I will sing to the  Lord , for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. The  Lord  is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him. The  Lord  is a man of war; the  Lord  is his name. “Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea. The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone. Your right hand, O  Lord , glorious in power, your right hand, O  Lord , shatters the enemy. In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble. At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea. The enemy said, ‘I will...

http://www.divorceanewstart.com/images/child-custody-law-after-or-before-divorce_1.jpg Since most of the people know that I am dating this beautiful girl; however, at the time when I approaching her with a date question, I understood that this is not just a dating question but a marriage question.  So, since then, marriage and family is something that I have been thinking about.  Lately I read an article “The Divorce Generation” by Susan Gregory Thomas on the divorce and how her divorce is different then her parents.  Miss Thomas in the article explains how divorce has an negative affect on children, writing her own experience (when her parents decided to separate), and the children that were around her.  She describes how children's life are shaped negatively when parents make a wrong decision, decision in getting divorce.  Couple of my thoughts on this article: The Article When the couple is talking about divorce, the subject of their conversation is “them...

" God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts. The L ORD  of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah Come, behold the works of the L ORD , how he has brought desolations on the earth. He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the chariots with fire. “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” The L ORD  of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah...