愛戀 ‧ 情曲 ‧ 神の語

The democratic theocracy line of authority flow chart of church governance.

Sorry, it's my very low-quality version. Can't draw.. haha.. I feel like Rukia trying to explain spiritual things to Ichigo...  =.="
The different colors are irrelevant to the chart, just don't have the same color when I finished this.

Excerpt Taken from Fatherly Talk

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Dearly Beloved

We read of the love of the Father in our introduction into the New Testament within the famous verse of John 3:16, how God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. We also know the great extent of the love of Jesus for us (Romans 5:8). There has never been a problem about the revelation of God's love to us; the problem has always been as to whether we understand and receive the revelation of God's love. Not everyone of us know how to receive and appreciate the great love of the Father.

In the parable of the talents, three servants are given different amount of talents: to the first, five talents, to the second two talents, and to the last servant one talent (Matthew 25:14-30). The first produced another five talents, the second produced another two talents but the last servant had hidden the original talent and not produced any results. The strangeness of the story is also the fact that it would have been naturally easier for the one with one talent to produce as he had only one responsibility and that was to multiply that one while the other two servants had more responsibility and yet succeeded gloriously. The answer is revealed in the one talent servant. Since in this story, the owner represents God and Christ, the perception of the owner by the servant is as follows:

1. He perceived that the master was a hard man reaping where he has not sown and gathering where he had not scattered seed (Matthew 25:24). Such accusations cannot be true for it is against the law of the Bible which states clearly that everyone reaps what they sow (Galatians 6:7). He might not have seen how the master sows or scatters seed but it is a fallacy to think that one can reap what they did not sowed. It would be equivalent to calling the master a thief.

2. The servant also expressed his fear and reacted by hiding the one and only talent he had (Matthew 25:25).

In his judgment and punishment of the owner, the owner reveals the true nature of the one talent servant: he was wicked and he was lazy (Matthew 25:26). Who do we believe, the owner or the one talent servant? Of course the owner, for the other five talent and two talent servants had no such problems with the owner. The real reason why the one talent servant did not multiply the talent was because he was lazy and probably did wicked things which the owner knows about (could be the very reason why the owner tested him with one talent) (Matthew 25:26).

The above parable illustrates how strange perception can be. We perceive other people through our own inner perception and lenses. We sometimes see the reflection of ourselves in others, whether good or bad. The wicked and lazy servant perceived the master to be wicked and lazy. When we judged other people, we are judging ourselves (Matthew 7:1-2). The same measure we use is the same measured back to us. How then can we perceive truth? Only the Spirit of truth can show truth. Only God who has no darkness in Him can perceive all of us for who we are. And only in His Spirit and light can we perceive the true nature of people (1 Corinthians 2:10-14).

For this reason, despite having created the whole world in His great and abundant love, people still mistrust and misperceive God. Some people see God as a cruel master because of the cruelty in their own hearts. Some others perceive God as lacking love because they themselves lack love. We see our own belief system and convictions reflected back at us when we see God through our own eyes. The Bible has the story of the prodigal son and the father that clearly illustrates this misperception of God. The story of the prodigal son is not really just the story of the prodigal son, rather it is the story of the Father of the prodigal son who represents our loving Father in heaven (Luke 15:11-32).

The prodigal son asked (demanded) for his inheritance from the father and received it. He spent all that he had and when he was in want, he ended up working in a pig sty. In great hunger such that even pig's food looked good to him, he reasoned within himself that it was much more better to work as a hireling for his father than to remain where he was (Luke 15:14-17). He even was willing to repent, acknowledged his sin and be disowned remaining just a hired servant. We then have the famous story of the prodigal son's father running to the lost son from afar putting on the best robes on him, plus rings and a pair of sandals on his feet, slaughtered the fatted calf for a celebration. The elder brother upon hearing of the celebration became angry and refused to go the party. His anger was probably directed at the father and the brother. He clearly stated that even though he has served the father faithfully all these years without transgression, his father had never gave him a young goat that he might make merry with his friends. Thus we have the contrast of two sons who had grown up and lived with the same father. One a transgressor and the other a law abiding man. The saddest thing was that both did not know the love of the father.

The prodigal son was like one of those who knew how to claim his rights and knew how to wriggle his way to have his needs met. He claimed his right of inheritance and received it. In famine and having nothing, he knew how to join himself to a swine herdsman. And when he compared how good the life of the servants under his father with the hard life he was living, he decided to become like one of the father's servants. At no time was it ever stated that he returned to the father because he loved the father. He was only interested in himself. That was his life. It typifies many Christians who are only in it for themselves. As long as God provides for them and feed their hunger, they will serve Him. Like the people who would make Jesus king because He could supernaturally feed them (John 6:15). Their motivation for singing Hail King Jesus would have been that which arises from self-interest. The prodigal son did not return to the father for the sake of the father. He cared not that his father was pining for him and longing for him each day. He cared not that his father was in pain and distress wondering where his beloved son was. He cared not for the sense and loss of the father. He never cared when he demanded for his inheritance nor did he cared when he was returning home to work for the father. He only cared for himself. In the midst of all his selfishness, he never ever saw the heart of the father. He never knew the love of the father nor could he empathise with his father's compassion.

The elder brother did not fare better either. He served the father. He obeyed the father. He was law abiding and most likely was very thrifty since he had never had a party with his friends before. He was also self-righteous for he considered himself better than his brother pointing to the harlotry of the younger brother. In all his law abided-ness, in all his self-righteousness, in all his hard work slogging day and night to serve and work under the father, in all his thriftiness and avoid waste, he never knew the love of his father nor understood his father's compassion and love. It was clear that he had no confidence in his father's generosity and love. For he was the opposite from his brother; his younger brother was selfish and dared to ask and demand of the father; he was not confident in his father's love for him and never dared to ask of the father. All his life working under the father and yet he still was not confident in his father's love. His father had made it clear that all the time that he was with the father, everything was his to use and be blessed. It was not the father who stopped him from having a party and enjoying the goat and all that was in the household, it was his own perception of the father that prevented him from enjoying the father's generosity. It is quite apparent that he did not understand the father's love and compassion for he was angry at the love shown to the younger son. He never shared the pain and the loss of the father's heart when his younger brother left home. He never shared in the constant grief and compassion and pining of the father for the younger son. Because he did not shared in the sorrow of love of the father for the younger son, he could not thus understand the joy that the father had when the younger son returned.

Two brothers living in the same house, brought up by the same father, having opposite personalities (one a transgressor and the other a law abiding man) both of them did not know the father's love. How can this be? I believe that the basic reason is that the two sons probably never ever took time to be with the father to understand his heart, to understand his nature, to know him for who he was and is. One son was too involved in satisfying his own desires, the other son was too involved in work and duty to be with the father. One took from him, the other dare not take from him. Both failed miserably in the test of love for the father. Where were the empathic tears that the elder brother could shed for the father, when finally the pining and agonising pain of the loss of a father for his son was healed upon his brother's return? Where were the tears of the younger son, that said that he missed the father and wanted to be with him forever? Nay, they both did not know the father's love.

In a similar way, we who are believers all share the same Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. But do we know the Father? Do we truly know His love? Do we feel His heart beat? Do we know His love for all of His creation? Do we feel His compassion flowing in our veins? Do we truly, truly love Him?

May we know the Father's heart and let our heart beat in tune to His heart beat of unconditional and eternal compassionate love.

In Christ Jesus

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這個世界需要更多的勇者

勇於改變自己缺點的人

大膽的抗議!

做個勇者其實可以很好玩
做個有生命、有靈魂的人!
全世界最快樂、沒有遺憾的人!!
YUI - LIFE
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我喜歡她的吉他和猴媽的「愛愛」很像

我喜歡她帶著吉他旅行的樣子

我喜歡裡面影射太陽之歌的橋段

我凝視著她的臉

突然發覺外貌好虛榮

打扮漂漂亮亮的彩妝下

是一顆隱藏著想要被瞭解、被愛緊緊包圍的心
那就是我當時的感受






沒有喵咪的一天

想說..

m^.^m  米修 米修..





I Remember You
作詞 & 作曲 & 演唱: YUI

風はもう冷たいけれど　懐かしい空のにおいがしたんだ
ホームから海が見える　この場所で君を探している
季節外れのサーフボードに　あの夏はきっと生きてる
タイヨウはずっと覚えていたはずさ
ねぇ、聞こえてる？

涙は見せないって君はそう言って僕達は二人手を振った
さよならは言わない　だから手を振った
夕焼けに消えた　I Remember you

錆びたギター抱えるたび　あの歌が胸の奧をつかむけど
今もまださえない日々　この場所で僕は過ごしてる
だけど思うんだ　"誰かのためにきっと僕らは生きてる"
タイヨウがきっと教えてくれたんだ
ねぇ、聞こえてる？

涙は見せないって君はそう言って僕達は二人手を振った
さよならは言わない　だから手を振った
夕焼けに消えた　I Remember you

あれからの僕はあいかわらずだけど　
ほんの少し自信があるんだ

涙をこらえてる　約束だから
誰よりも強くならなくちゃ
さよならは言わない　だって目を閉じて
すぐに會える　I remember you

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「櫻花盛放之時 一定能與全新的自己邂逅的」







用夢想彈奏吉他的女孩長大了

Good-bye days to Cookie
See you again soon  

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有很多很有趣的東西!
And the mad hatter makes cool hats and personality!
Someday it's gonna be that and only much more 'muchness'

Talking animals! Everything for real!

Excerpt Taken From Fatherly Talk

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Dearly Beloved
The vast majority of Christians today are believers or converts and not disciples. Yet the command of our Lord Jesus Christ was not to make converts but rather to make disciples (Matthew 28:19-20). A convert or believer looks forward to receive from our Lord Jesus Christ but a disciple looks forward to give and truly follow in the footsteps of Christ. Of course, we all do know that no one can live the Christ-life except as Christ lives within us (Galatians 2:20) but the key is that 'Christ DOES live through us." Many who called themselves Christians are not interested in Christ living in them or being like Christ rather all they want is the benefits of Christianity.
When people wanted to follow after Christ saying that he would follow him wherever He goes, Jesus immediately pointed to the cost of following Him (Luke 9:57-62).To one Jesus reminded that He the Son of man had nowhere to lay His head upon, to another Jesus said that He is to let the dead bury the dead and to yet another Jesus said that no one, having put his hand upon the plow looking back, is fit for the kingdom of heaven. Jesus said that to be a disciple one must neither just look at the benefits of following Him, nor be involved in activities of the spiritually dead, nor be looking back and longing after the things of this life or the world. Indeed, those who love the world or the things of the world do not have the love of the Father in their lives (1 John 2:15-16). Indeed, when Jesus spoke of discipleship, He expects that those who chose to follow Him would have love for Him so great that in comparison of their love for Christ to those of their father, mother, wife, children, brother, sister, and their own life, too, it would be equivalent to hate! (Luke 14:26). For those who can't raise their love for Jesus to that level, Jesus considers that they cannot be His disciples.
To Jesus a disciple is one who can bear the cross (Luke 14:27). What is it to bear one's cross? Jesus illustrated it with the cost of discipleship as of a builder who counts the cost and as king who counts the cost. There is a cost of discipleship. The cost of discipleship is the cross - which represents the placing of our whole spirit, soul and body as a sacrifice to God and Jesus. The cross was Jesus giving His life for us; our personal cross is we giving our lives to God and to others. At the heart of discipleship is the love of God. Without the love of God, we cannot be disciples. God so loved the world that He gave His Son (John 3:16). Jesus so loved us that He gave Himself to us (Romans 5:5-8). As disciples we continue in the same flow of God's love and love others the same way Jesus loved (John 13:34-35). A true disciple of Christ is a disciple of God's and Christ's love.
After Jesus was resurrected from the dead, He took time off to minister especially to Peter who had denied Him three times. He took Peter aside and asked him three times whether Peter loved Him . We know that the first two times, He used the word 'agapao' and the last time He used the word 'phileo' while Peter's answers were all in the affirmative using 'phileo.' The real question was not just whether Peter loved the Lord; for Peter himself reacted strongly saying that the Lord knows all things and that he did love the Lord (John 21:17). Peter was grieved that the Lord had asked him three times (John 21:17). To Peter, it seemed as if the Lord doubted his love for Him. Moreover, the Lord did persist in asking Peter of his love for Him three times. Imagine, Jesus asking us three times whether we loved Him; a question like that from Jesus even one time would have been heart-breaking enough. In fact the first question was phrased differently, it was 'Do you love me more than these?' It is possible that Jesus was either comparing Peter's love with all the things around him or even that Jesus was asking Peter whether he loved Him more than everybody else. The Greek word 'touton' translated 'these things' is a masculine or neuter word and can be translated 'these things' or 'these people.' The Bible is very clear that Jesus expects that our love for Him will be more than our love for others (Luke 14:26; Revelation 2:4). It is also possible that Jesus might have asked Peter three times not consecutively but spaced out throughout the entire time He was with the disciples.
Imagine having the Lord Jesus come to ask and asking us whether we love Him once; then again after a few hours, and then later still towards the end of the day. Peter was freaked out. He knows that the Lord knows all things. To be asked the first time by the Lord Jesus Himself would be pretty demoralising if we do not have our lives right with Him. To be asked three times! Wow, that takes the cream off the cake. No wonder Peter was grieved when he was asked the third time (John 21:17). The Lord, of course, knows that Peter loved Him. Why then did the Lord asked Peter whether he loved Him? It was to prepare Peter to love others. When we love God, we will love others; it is the spiritual law (1 John 4:7-11). After Peter had affirmed to Jesus that he loved Him, Jesus told Peter that he had to die for Him. Peter would have to love Jesus so much that he be willing to die for him. He would have to love Jesus so much that he would be willing to die to bring the gospel of love to others. True discipleship is that our love for Jesus and others becomes so great that we are willing to sacrifice our life in love to others (1 John 3:16).
The one commandment that Jesus gave His disciples was to love one another (John 13:34-35). Not only was this His commandment to us but it is the main distinguishing mark that He wants us to be known by the world - by THIS shall all know that you are My disciples! By this commandment of love we shall be known to be His disciples. Discipleship is thus not just working signs and wonders alone. It does include that, of course, but the main thing that Jesus wants us to demonstrate in such a manner that the world can distinguish us is our love. It is not just teaching and preaching, either. It includes that, of course. It is the practice and discipline of love that is the true hall mark of a disciple of our Lord Jesus Christ.
After making His super defining statement of what true discipleship is (in John 13), Jesus went on for two more chapters of the Bible to talk about this commandment of love. In the context of John chapters 13 to 16, the commandments referred would have to include the commandments to love God and to love one another as Jesus had done. We can allude to the fact that Jesus was painting with broad strokes on all the commandments of God but contextually, we need to see that this was a special conversation privately given after Jesus instituted the new commandment of love that establishes His standard of true discipleship. In John 14:16, Jesus said that if we love Him, keep His commandments. This would mean that if we truly love God and Jesus, then we should truly love others as well. John the apostle, himself, understood these words to apply to the commandment to love for he speaks in his epistles of the commandments of God (new and yet old commandments) the essence of which is to love God and to love our neighbours as ourselves (1 John 2:3-10). The key that John the apostle sees as important in Christianity is that we should love our brother for to hate or do anything else is to walk in darkness (1 John 2:9-11).
If the call to discipleship is a call to love, why is it then that there is so much lack of love in many quarters of Christianity?
1. We have either strayed away from the commandment to love, replacing it with other commandments that put other things before love. We have turned the unconditional love of God into a conditional love. All the replacement commandments have a tendency to make the love of God more inaccessible until very few people qualify to be loved by God or hence be able to love others in return. Thousands of years after Moses, the Pharisees have turned the commandments of Moses into heavy burdens that they themselves can't fulfilled but expect others to fulfil (Matthew 23:1-4). They were no longer interested in the commandments of God themselves but were only interested in pleasing men and positions in the religious and secular world (Matthew 23:5-6). In the end they had neglected the weightier matters of the commandments like justice, mercy and faith (Matthew 23:23). Likewise, the modern church has added so many sub-clauses to the laws of righteousness and neglected the most important bulwark that holds the laws of righteousness in place - the love of God (Romans 5).
2. The proponents of the replacement commandments have themselves not experienced God's unconditional love. We can only love in proportion to how much we have been loved (1 John 4:11, 19). Also there is a lack of the true knowledge of God, we know about God but we don't know God. For to know God is to love. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love (1 John 4:8).
3. There is a lack of true discipleship to love in the church. We are discipled in doctrine, in gifts, in works and to do all the various aspects of the work of the ministry. But we neglect the most important discipleship program - teaching people to love, making them disciples of love. It is not easy to love just as it is not easy to do many other things in God's kingdom. Yet, there is almost no training program for Christians to be taught how to love one another.
4. It is costly to love another person. True love costs something. It cost God the Father His Son (John 3:16). It cost Jesus His life (Romans 5:6-8). We are all afraid of paying the price to love others. We know that love would make a demand of our time, our resources and our energy. And for fear of the cost of the sacrifice of love, we choose only to mildly love others according to our convenience; rather than loving others to the hilt.
The question we ask ourselves this week is "Are we disciples of love?" If our answer is anything but the affirmative "Yes" then we have not truly followed even the first and most important covenant commandment Jesus gave us, "Love one another as I have loved you and by this all men shall know that you are My disciples" (John 13:34-35).
If there is a willingness in our heart to love people, God will bring people into our lives to love. We are God's eyes, ears, hands and legs on earth to show His love. We are the members of His body, flesh of His flesh and bone of His bones (Ephesians 5:30). It is only through us that God can love the many individuals on this planet. To love and help the entire world is beyond any one of our capacities but to help those within the circumference of our life and influence is possible. And it is only through our love that the world can see that we are truly disciples of Jesus Christ.
In Christ Jesus
YUI - Feel My Soul

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已經厭倦了哭泣 在沒有答案的地方
就算迷失也好 被絆倒也好 都不能把腳步停下來
你對我的笑容和那為我而哭的眼淚
觸動了我的心 也治癒了那深深的傷口
I feel my soul　Take me your way 那唯一的事情
每個人一定都在一直找尋找著
這絕不是因為偶然 那份愛也絕不虛偽
You're right all right
You're right all right Scare little boy
試過一次又一次 怎樣也沒法前進
但你那溫柔對我細語的聲音 令我一直愛戀著
I feel my soul　Take me your way 絕不會回頭
我現在一定要用自己的雙手去確證
一直置身在單純的痛苦裡 想知道生存下去的意義
You're right all right
You're right all right Scare little boy
那安撫我的溫柔說話 you say it
就算我動不得也好 看不見也好 你都會為我開路
I feel my soul　Take me your way 也許會在艱難之中
但即使如此我一定會繼續走下去
這絕不是因為偶然 那份愛也絕不是虛偽的
You're right all right You're right all right
一直置身在單純的痛苦裡 我想知道生存下去的意義
You're right all right
You're right all right Scare little boy

「曉樂說, 因為妳一直笑, 所以要給kiss.」






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「米修, 米修!」

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「那你就走吧. 反正, 我會再等你回來, 等你回到我的生命裡. 如果我們的人生是大富翁, 不管有幾次機會可以重來, 結果都應該是一樣的. 因為, 你就是我的命運.」

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「其實呢, 不管到哪裡都可以. 因為只要有你的那一站, 就是幸福的.」






「曉樂說, 因為你很愛我, 所以要我對你笑一個.」    

"Do you think he plans it all out, or just makes it up as he goes along?"

I think.. definitely the latter

Offbeat, eccentric

Unconventionally optimistic and happy (mad tone)
I think that's a compliment, hee hee

Very spontaneous that almost tempted me to think that it was planned

It was! Planned spontaneity!!

周星馳的無俚頭吧!!

重要嗎?

微笑吧! 

自然甜!!! 

過去、現在、未來的喜訊
- 羅馬書8:14-26釋經講道 -
可線上收聽或下載
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Part 2: http://www.4shared.com/file/231872678/63867070/Glad_Tidings_for_Past_Present_.html
PowerPoint: http://www.4shared.com/file/231366607/64bdb502/Glad_Tidings_for_the_Past_Pres.html