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January 23 Finishing Moreland Yep as the title says, I'm finishing Moreland and as usual I quote some of his lovely passages... On the topic of hell, he quotes C.S. Lewis: If a game is played, it must be possible to lose it. If the happiness of a creature lies in self-surrender, no one can make that surrender but himself (though many can help him to make it) and he may refuse. I would pay any price to be able to say truthfully, "All will be saved." But my reason retorts, "Without their will, or with it?" If I say, "Without their will," I at once perceive a contradiction: How can the supreme voluntary act of self-surrender be involuntary? If I say, "With their will," my reason replies, "How if they will not give in?" On the God we worship: Christian Philosophers call God a "Maximally Perfect Being." This sounds pretty heady, but in reality, it is a crucial concept. To see why, think of people who are phenomenally gifted. Now, these folks deserve respect for their attributes, abilities, or whatever. How much respect? They deserve a degree of respect proportionate to their excellence in their area of giftedness, such as intelligence. But these people do not deserve our complete or full respect. Why? Well, if someone more intelligent came on the scene, the new person would deserve more respect. So even if a more intelligent person is not around, we know such a person undoubtedly exists, so we hold back our respect a bit. A Maximally Perfect Being is one who could not possibly be surpassed in wisdom, mercy, love, power, and so on. God is not the greatest being who happens to exist. He is the greatest being who could possibly exist. The implication should be clear: God is worthy of our complete, full deepest, total commitment. Worship is the act of giving admiration, respect, affection, honor, reverence, and adoration to God. And given the nature of God, worship should be unreserved and total. On discipline and the flesh: A Christian spiritual discipline is a bodily practice, repeated over and over again, in dependence on the Holy Spirit and under the direction of Jesus and other wise teachers in His way, to enable us to get good at certain things in life that we cannot learn to do by direct effort. - J.P. Moreland (The GOD question) italics his, font size and bold mine And so I'm coming to the end. i wish i read it fast so i could retain the info of what i read. But I'm a slow reader. Need to read more. -do you desire God?- January 16 built together I've been meaning to update. Really I have, it's just when you're working.. then you come home and you don't wanna do stuff that you shud do. And then you have to sleep early in order to wake up at 2.20am. And yeah... I just came back from bs where we talked about the Proclaimed Kingdom, probably the last session and this verse jumped out at me from Ephesians that talked about the people in the church being BUILT TOGETHER. That totally struck me at the session. But it's been working week two and despite sleeping a little in the aftn (and being awoken by zh calling) I think i'm still beat seeing as I slept all the way to jookoon coming back home. And that was the last train..haiz...had to take cab back.. Oh and of the importance of what the GOSPEL is - that Jesus died for you, was buried but ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD. Great reminder. Anyway, wat's the week been like? 3 out of 5 days i had some pretty heavy days coz an was not ard since she's freelancing. And some days... Anyway i shall keep the details to myself coz yeah. But I guess the good thing is I THINK i'm learning something about financial news and markets. Zh gave me a crash course last fri actually after bs but I think I need much more than that LOL. Hmm let's not talk about work... Sunday we went to pzzhut to celebrate em's bday :D HAPPY BDAY GABRIELLE! I helped take lots of photos and i fell in love with the spaghetti bolognaise haha. Saturday was the BIBLE ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR, which was super worth my time and money. And they kept feeding us like, tea, lunch and tea. Abundant food haha. But seriously, Dr. Scott Carroll gave us lots of lovely good archaeological info and evidence about the history of the bible. We got to touch them scrolls too, only some of them. I think one of his clay tablet things broke though coz i saw it on the display table that no one was supposed to touch.. But that's what's so amazing. He wants to give each person an opportunity to be transported back in time to know that this was real and this was what the culture was like (in this case the clay things were from Abraham's time in Ur), even at the risk of it being spoilt. And I realised that I had 'believed' in stuff that was not actually true regarding how the bible had been written over the years. The best part was he warned us about being biased and be wary of 'evidence' that usually pointed to big famous people of the bible. ok basically i want to hear the thing again. trn came along so he got the audio but we probably will get a vid clip. ok then on monday i bought a booklight. this is so significant because it has been facilitating my reading. Like finally i'm reading more regularly. the light in my room is awful and there's my roomie to think about. who's moving out soon... I wonder who i'll be with. And monday was also the first of 21 days of memorising Roman's 12. Inspired by the message on Sunday (Desiring God With Your Minds: Download Here) I decided to encourage my gals to memorise some scripture. and this is a good one haha. er plus it's the one i've memorised LOL. Ah anyway Lecrae still rocks, lol. Leave with some lyrics from him to end this post: Identity(LeCrae) (Chorus) (D.A. T.R.U.T.H.) (LeCrae) Ask me and I'll give you some of his songs. totally cool man. -warm blue :D :D :D- -remember: He was bruised for our transgressions and crushed for our sins- January 10 lecrae!I'm into Lecrae at the moment. His lyrics are very powerful and with rap there's always that strong way of communication. You just gotta listen to this guy, totally cool. Bawled when i first heard this song on my way to work last week. And every time i hear it i can't help but feel it. Desperate
Woke up this morning too depressed and shamed to leave my bed I'm so desperate Have mercy on me God according to your steady love Wipe away my transgressions and wash me in your blood Create in me a clean heart renew a right spirit Don't hide your face from me God Your Presence keep me near it I'm waiting patient on You Lord i know You hear my cry Restore Your Joy in me, for You alone I live and die It's You I Glorify cause You don't want my sacrifice You want me broken and contrite trusting in the Christ I confess to you my sin and You show me mercy I turn away from it demonstrating that You are worthy Over lust, over pride, over all sin Is my affection for Jesus who died for all them I was lost now I'm found I was toss to the ground My sin weighed on me heavy but I am no longer bound As sure as Christ wear the crown I know that grace will abound And even when I feel lost I know in You I am found -when I don't desire You enough- January 08 TGIF"One week down! And 5 months and 3 weeks more to go!" - JMs
That's from a lovely colleague who sits near me LOL, a senior we found out. YES! It's been five days into PI and the duties are slowly being accumulated. I kind of thing my body clock has changed or it could be the tea that i keep drinking to keep warm in that freezing place. Anyway today the main anchor was not in, and he usually rolls the prompter himself. So today an and i got to roll for the whole 3 hours, splitting up the work. OK it may seem like an easy job but knowing it's live tv and how horrible it would be if you screwed up can make one a lil nervous. But after the thing, ahh piece of cake.
Anyway some Moreland bits below...yes i'm still reading the book. And seminar on Archaeology tmr yay!
Moreland's testimony:
- I knew that if God did not exist, life in general, and my life in particular were without ultimate significance. -I repeatedly return to the conviction that Jesus of Nazareth is simply peerless. He is the wisest, most virtuous, most influential person in history. I can't even imagine what the last two thousand years would have been like without His influence. No one is remotely like Him. The power of His ideas, the quality of His character, the beauty of His personality, and the uniqueness of His life, miracles, crucifixion, and the resurrection are so far ahead of any other person or ideology -the history of God's people is a history of the richest community the world has ever seen. The greatest music, the best literature, the most profound ethics and philosophy, the most influential moral saints and heroes, and the richest treasures on spiritual formation are found among the followers of Jesus - still Christians need to remind themselves regularly that by and large, it was our people who started the universities; nurtured art, music, literature, and philosophy; and sacrificially went to the four corners of the world to establish orphanages, care for the sick, champion human rights, and raise the literacy level. (and on what repenting is)
- to repent means to rethink things, to adjust one's attitude, viewpoint, or approach in light of some new fact. -hob's back- January 04 Day One of PI I woke up really early coz of my flu which made me restless in the night. I've taken like 6 pills and 4 sachets of cold remedies from yest til now and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. Anyway... getting up early gave me good time to read bible, pray for people before leaving for work. I left slightly later than i had hoped coz i was like gonna change my mind on what to wear. Finally i left the house and it was raining...terrible weather. No wonder I'm sick, first it's extremely hot and humid then it's like raining and cold. I managed to reach the building on time and was really glad to see familiar faces. It's cool to work with other school peeps. We waited for a while before finally meeting the hr person who briefed us in the conference room. I got a cool cnbc pass now hahaha. I tried my best to look eager and excited, but the flu was getting to me and I was fatigued. And the place is pretty cold. We met our individual supervisors and got attached to different programs. I'm on the one that requires me to be there at 4am .. er yay? hahahaha. Well I end early la, so that's cool. Today i ended at about noon also and just went home to crash and sleep after lunch. My nose is still like a tap...but yeah whatever, i'm not gonna get an mc on my first week of work. That would be awful. I am kinda looking forward to tmr though haha. Working in the wee hours of the morning...a first for me. Got to sit in the control room and watch the live broadcast of cashflow. Saw how the director, producer and ap worked to get it all on the screen. I think can be quite stressful. Even teleprompting is serious business i think haha. rnl who was working on it, told me a lot of how the stuff works and what all the acronyms meant. Well that's day one...and many more days to go LOL. Oh ya and my title a thought today is: "God's overflowing power can work in me beyond my wildest dreams and imaginations. So may i be rooted in Him and know the greatness of His love." Comes from Eph 3, the famous verse of "Him who can do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us." Now it makes sense right? LOL. Ok i need more sleep! oh ya and before i forget. The Beginning of Desiring God is a powerful sermon which pastor preached on Sunday. Go download the audio and ppt and check it out. -heal me- |
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