tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-252822612024-03-06T10:55:04.204+08:00Benjie's CollectionAlmost no original work here. :-)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978489768194621252noreply@blogger.comBlogger252125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25282261.post-51931635714743039252012-12-27T10:38:00.000+08:002012-12-27T10:38:14.007+08:00<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Natural death, which results from illness or degenerative processes, is the antithesis of mercy killing. Even when life could be prolonged by medical treatment and is not, the death that may ensue is a death from the underlying illness, not a result of the withdrawal of care. The withholding of medical therapy is reasonable when the treatment is disproportionately burdensome (that is, the therapy - not the disease - is hard on the person) and relatively ineffective ("futile"). In other words, we are not ethically bound to use unwanted, non- beneficial therapies that serve to only prolong a person's dying. In fact, not doing so shows profound respect for the boundaries of natural life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Read more at <a href="http://www.tkc.com/resources/resources-pages/euthanasia.html">A Christian Response to Euthanasia</a></span></span><br />
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Don’t Be a Scrooge This Christmas</h1>
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FROM <a href="http://www.ligonier.org/blog/teacher/rc-sproul/" rel="author" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; border: 0px; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline;">R.C. Sproul</a> <span class="blog-date" style="background-image: url(http://s3.amazonaws.com/ligonier-static-media/images/flourish.png); background-position: 0% 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-variant: small-caps; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 22px; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline;">Dec 19, 2012</span> </div>
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Bah! Humbug!” These two words are instantly associated with Charles Dickens’ immortal fictional anti-hero, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge was the prototype of the Grinch who stole Christmas, the paradigm of all men cynical.</div>
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We all recognize that Ebenezer Scrooge was a mean person - stingy, insensitive, selfish, and unkind. What we often miss in our understanding of his character is that he was preeminently profane. “Bah! Humbug!” was his Victorian use of profanity.</div>
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Not that any modern editor would feel the need to delete Scrooge’s expletives. His language is not the standard currency of cursing. But it was profane in that Scrooge demeaned what was holy. He trampled on the sanctity of Christmas. He despised the sacred. He was cynical toward the sublime.</div>
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Christmas is a holiday, indeed the world’s most joyous holiday. It is called a “holiday” because the day is holy. It is a day when businesses close, when families gather, when churches are filled, and when soldiers put down their guns for a 24-hour truce. It is a day that differs from every other day.</div>
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Read more at <a href="http://www.ligonier.org/blog/dont-be-scrooge-christmas/">Ligonier Ministries</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The name ‘Reformed’ refers to the distinctive historical and theological roots of these Baptists. There is a body of theological beliefs commonly referred to as the ‘Reformed’ faith. Such great biblical truths as sola fide (justification by faith alone), sola gratia (salvation by God’s grace alone), sola scriptura (the Bible alone is the basis for faith and practice), solus Christus (salvation through Christ alone), and soli Deo gloria (the fact that God alone is to receive glory in the salvation of sinners) are all noted hallmarks of the Protestant and Reformed faith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yet, the Reformed faith is perhaps best known for its understanding that God is sovereign in the matter of man’s salvation. This is to say that God has, before the foundation of the world, chosen or <i>elected</i> certain sinners for salvation. He has done so sovereignly and according to His own good pleasure. Additionally, the Reformed faith teaches that, in time, Christ came and accomplished salvation by dying for the sins of those elected by God. Furthermore, the Reformed faith teaches that the Holy Spirit, working in harmony with the decree of the Father and the death of the Son, effectually applies this work of redemption to each of the elect in their personal conversions. As a result of this emphasis on the sovereignty of God in salvation, the Reformed faith also promulgates the ‘doctrines of grace’: doctrinal truths which set forth the total depravity of man, the unconditional nature of God’s election, the limited or particular nature of Christ’s atonement, the irresistibility of the effectual call and the perseverance and preservation of the saints.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Read more at <a href="http://www.rbtr.org/refbaptist.html">Reformed Baptist Theological Review</a></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978489768194621252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25282261.post-6047621119264628062012-06-27T14:21:00.001+08:002012-06-27T14:21:24.927+08:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>Competent Evidence of Identity, Cedulas</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While the Rules require the presentation of competent evidence of identity, it does not mention community tax certificates or cedulas or residence certificates which, prior to the effectivity of the Rules, were the only documents that parties to instruments were required to present to notaries public. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On February 19, 2008, the Supreme Court amended Rule II Sec. 12 (a) of the Rules and enumerated the acceptable competent evidence of identity: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“(a) at least one current identification document issued by an official agency bearing the photograph and signature of the individual, such as but not limited to, passport, driver’s license, Professional Regulation Commission ID, National Bureau of Investigation clearance, police clearance, postal ID, voter’s ID, Barangay certification, Government Service and Insurance System (GSIS) e-card, Social Security System (SSS) card, Philhealth card, senior citizen card, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) ID, OFW ID, seaman’s book, alien certificate of registration/immigrant certificate of registration, government office ID, certification from the National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons (NCWDP), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) certification; x x x” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Read more at <a href="http://ibp-advocate.blogspot.com/2011/03/competent-evidence-of-identity-cedulas.html">The Advocate</a></span><br />
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Losing my Edge</h2>
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When your initial enthusiasm fades, you need a plan if you're going to bring your best to your calling</div>
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<span style="line-height: 13pt;">There have been successes for sure. I cleared some ministry hurdles. Our church has successfully launched a second campus. We've fought for, and achieved, a healthy organizational structure. We've reworked our statement of faith, and re-articulated our core values. In many ways, we have successfully made the transition from an internally focused fortress to an externally focused fragrance.</span></div>
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In the midst of it all, I went from single man to married with two kids. I've gained some respect in our congregation. But now I am tired. And comfortable. I look forward to just kicking back with "Friday Night Lights." And that deadly sin called <em style="z-index: 0;">acedia</em> (sloth, "not caring") lurks around the corner.</div>
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I felt genuine surprise when sloth crept in. Like many energetic young pastors, I figured it would take a lot more to diminish my reservoir of drive. Few have accused me of being talented, but I am driven.</div>
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William Carey, the great missionary to India, once remarked that his only real gift was that he was a plodder, plodding through adversity. That resonated. I wasn't the greatest athlete, but I plodded. Not the smartest student, but I plodded. Not the most eloquent preacher, but I plodded. I got to where I needed to go. And now, sloth threatens even that.</div>
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Read more at <a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2012/spring/losingedge.html">Leadership Journal</a></div>
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When the Unsinkable Sank</h2>
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Leadership lessons from the deck of Titanic</div>
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When the Titanic was launched from the Belfast ship yards, the world was just acclimating to electricity, the radio, and the automobile. The Wright brothers had demonstrated the possibility of fixed-wing flight just nine years before. And now here was one more mind-boggling innovation: a glorious ship that was speedy and<em style="z-index: 0;">unsinkable</em>. What an appropriate name, Titanic (meaning great force or power), for a ship designed to triumph over nature. But as everyone who has seen the movie knows, the unsinkable sank one dark night on its first time out in the ocean.</div>
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One of the more recent and interesting Titanic-themed books is Andrew Wilson's <span class="citation" style="font-style: italic; z-index: 0;">Shadow of the Titanic</span>which focuses less on the ship itself and more on the people who were aboard for that maiden voyage to New York. How did they handle themselves when the abandon-ship order was given? And what happened to them in the years that followed?</div>
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Read more at <a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2012/may-online-only/unsinkablesank.html">Leadership Journal</a></div>
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10 Tips for Counting Cash</h2>
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Walking Like Steve</h2>
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When my friend was diagnosed with a terminal illness, he taught me about dying, and living, well.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 13pt;">While visiting at the hospital I told Steve that I didn't know how to pray for him.</span></div>
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"Just pray I will walk the walk God has for me," he replied. Throughout the days that followed, Steve never asked for healing. He didn't mind <em style="z-index: 0;">us</em> praying for it, but he seemed to believe it wasn't the path God had for him.</div>
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Steve didn't fear death. He feared dying. He was afraid of the difficulties that cancer and its treatment might require. His greatest desire was that he would "walk the walk." He wanted to die well, to leave a strong legacy for his boys. He did, and he left one for me too.</div>
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10 Things to Consider Before You Let Your Children Quit</h1>
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Life is difficult. It’s a given! We’re born, we open our eyes, dad misinterprets our cry, mom puts the diaper on too tight, someone else drops our pacifier - and it begins.</div>
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But this is how life works. Challenge is built into the equation; learning requires patience; problem solving is a key element to fulfillment; obstacles come our way every day. World leader Winston Churchill gave a speech at his old school in the darkest days of WW2; he’d had a miserable time there and was considered a failure. He walked to the podium and surveyed the crowd of awe-struck students. “This is the lesson,” he said. “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small – never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense….”</div>
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The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time</h1>
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Why is it that between 25% and 50% of people report feeling overwhelmed or <a href="http://www.techjournalsouth.com/2011/07/nearly-half-of-employers-say-workers-are-burned-out-on-their-jobs/" style="color: #b20022; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">burned out at work</a>?</div>
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What we've lost, above all, are stopping points, finish lines and boundaries. Technology has blurred them beyond recognition. Wherever we go, our work follows us, on our digital devices, ever insistent and intrusive. It's like an itch we can't resist scratching, even though scratching invariably makes it worse.</div>
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Want to Follow God? Go to Sleep</h2>
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Whether you’re a morning person or a late owl, when you sleep is less important than your amount and quality of sleep. Sleep is so important, in fact, that the Centers for Disease Control is increasingly <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/features/dsSleep/" style="color: #5e0904;">monitoring</a> U. S. sleep behaviors because the effects of sleep-deprivation on public health are so dramatic. Poor sleep patterns are linked to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/02/sleep-health-benefits-_n_817803.html#s234472&title=Lower_Stress" style="color: #5e0904;">stress</a>,<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/02/sleep-health-benefits-_n_817803.html#s234474&title=Steer_Clear_Of" style="color: #5e0904;">depression</a>, <a href="http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/16/cant-sleep-it-may-be-affecting-your-memory/" style="color: #5e0904;">memory loss</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/02/sleep-health-benefits-_n_817803.html#s234471&title=Have_A_Healthy" style="color: #5e0904;">weight gain</a>, lower <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/02/sleep-health-benefits-_n_817803.html#s234470&title=Sharpen_Attention" style="color: #5e0904;">attention</a>, increased <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/02/sleep-health-benefits-_n_817803.html#s234473&title=Avoid_Accidents" style="color: #5e0904;">accidents</a>. Good sleep habits, on the other hand, are associated with <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/02/sleep-health-benefits-_n_817803.html#s234465&title=Live_Longer" style="color: #5e0904;">longer life</a>, <a href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/weight/0215/reasons-youre-not-losing-weight.aspx" style="color: #5e0904;">weight loss</a>, increased <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/02/sleep-health-benefits-_n_817803.html#s234467&title=Spur_Creativity_" style="color: #5e0904;">creativity</a>, athletic <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/02/sleep-health-benefits-_n_817803.html#s234468&title=Be_A_Winner" style="color: #5e0904;">stamina</a>, and <a href="http://www.thefamuanonline.com/lifestyles/lack-of-sleep-insipid-gpa-1.2700880" style="color: #5e0904;">higher grades</a> in school. No wonder Shakespeare called sleep “Nature’s soft nurse.”<br /><br />We know all this, yet as a culture, <a href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41890033/ns/today-today_health/t/so-tired-more-third-adults-dont-sleep-hours/" style="color: #5e0904;">many</a> of us continue to lead sleep-deprived lives. </div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">FROM <a href="http://www.ligonier.org/blog/teacher/rc-sproul-jr/" rel="author" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline;">R.C. Sproul Jr.</a> <span class="blog-date" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://s3.amazonaws.com/ligonier-static-media/images/flourish.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-variant: small-caps; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 22px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline;">Feb 14, 2012</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; text-transform: none;">A godly husband, then is not one who four times a year takes up the aggravating task of trying to be relational, in order to keep his wife from getting grumpy. Instead a godly husband is tasked with the constant call of communicating his love and commitment to his wife. This is not a few days a year, but every day. Too often husbands get frustrated, even offended by this hard reality. “Doesn’t she think I’m a man of my word? I promised ‘Until death do us part’ and I meant it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; text-transform: none;">Such reasoning shows our relational weakness. She doesn’t want to know that she can count on you to grimly see your vow through to the end. She wants to know that you would make it all over again today, and tomorrow, and the day after that. She doesn’t want to know that you </span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;">will</em><span style="font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; text-transform: none;"> stay with her, but that you </span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;">want</em><span style="font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; text-transform: none;"> to stay with her.</span></div>
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Smart is Not a Fruit</h1>
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<span style="color: #3c3c3c; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">We will not begin to get better until we embrace this obvious truth: smart is not one of the fruits of the Spirit. Of course we are to love God with all our minds. But we are to </span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3c3c3c; display: inline; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">love</em><span style="color: #3c3c3c; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;"> God with all our minds, not merely understand Him. When our knowledge cannot traverse the distance from our heads down to our hearts, we are suffering from spiritual emptiness. We will not begin to get better until we come to embrace this obvious truth: we come into the kingdom not as scholars or students, but as children.</span></div>
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Why we're lovely at any size</div>
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I once asked my readers, "What words come to mind when you think of your body?" Some responses were predictably negative: "the blob," "the lump," "wide load." But the positive answers were thrilling. "Plush, functional, bountiful, dynamic," wrote one woman. "A wonderful piece of machinery," offered another. My favorite body image? "It washes up nicely and never shrinks!"</div>
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The best word to describe your body, however, is <em style="z-index: 0;">beautiful</em>. God's Word assures you, "God has made everything beautiful for its own time" (<a class="text" href="http://www.kyria.com/topics/hottopics/selfcare/beautifuldesign.html" style="color: #3d4464; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; z-index: 0;" title="view Scripture passage at NLTStudyBible.com">Ecclesiastes 3:11</a>). "Everything" would include you. Top to toe and hip to hip.</div>
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Never mind the narrow and ever-changing definition of beauty handed down by Hollywood. God's view is broader and lasts forever. You may never look like an ultra-thin model or movie star, but those celebrities, bless their hearts, will never get to look like you!</div>
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Read more at <a href="http://www.kyria.com/topics/hottopics/selfcare/beautifuldesign.html">Kyria</a></div>
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Marley and His Message to Scrooge</h1>
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by R.C. Sproul</div>
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Christmas is a holiday, indeed the world’s most joyous holiday. It is
called a “holiday” because the day is holy. It is a day when
businesses close, when families gather, when churches are filled, and
when soldiers put down their guns for a 24-hour truce. It is a day that
differs from every other day.
Every generation has its abundance of Scrooges. The church is full of
them. We hear endless complaints of commercialism. We are constantly
told to put Christ back into Christmas. We hear that the tradition of
Santa Claus is a sacrilege. We listen to those acquainted with history
murmur that Christmas isn’t biblical. <em>The Church invented Christmas to compete with the ancient Roman festival honoring the bull-god Mithras</em>, the nay-sayers complain. Christmas? <em>A mere capitulation to paganism</em>.<br />
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Read more at <a href="http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/marley-and-his-message-scrooge/">Ligonier Ministries</a><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978489768194621252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25282261.post-69006192788462850482011-12-25T20:25:00.000+08:002011-12-25T20:25:21.689+08:00<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Celebrating a Calvinist Christmas with a Clear Conscience</b></span><br />
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‘Tis the season to be informed–sometimes in gentleness, often with vigor–by a variety of Christians (and others [<a href="" name="1a"></a><a href="http://www.hornes.org/theologia/mark-horne/celebrating-a-calvinist-christmas-with-a-clear-conscience#1b">1</a>])
claiming that it is wrong to celebrate Christmas. I have no desire to
force anyone to celebrate Christmas against their will. Indeed, it would
be insulting to the high holiday to pretend that it needs enforcement.
It offers to Christians an opportunity for praise and thanksgiving for
Christ’s incarnation, good music, family fellowship, the giving and
receiving of gifts, and a great many other blessings. What more could
anyone want? Taste and see that the Lord is good! (This doesn’t
necessarily apply to the fruitcake, but you can participate in the
thanksgiving without that!) If anyone, for reasons of conscience, wishes
to abstain from the festivities, that is his or her right. But I am not
willing to let go unanswered the all-too-common assertion that
celebrating Christmas at home or in Church is somehow sinful and
unreformed.<br />
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Read more at <a href="http://www.hornes.org/theologia/mark-horne/celebrating-a-calvinist-christmas-with-a-clear-conscience">theologia</a><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978489768194621252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25282261.post-91313613295064387452011-12-20T09:50:00.000+08:002011-12-20T09:50:03.915+08:00<h2 id="badminton-doubles">
Badminton Rules: Doubles – what’s in and what’s out?</h2>
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<li>During the main part of a badminton doubles rally, every part of the court is in.</li>
<li>However, the serve must fall into the ‘short and fat’ area
diagonally opposite the server. The side tramlines are in, but the rear
tramlines are out during the serve.</li>
<li>This means that a singles player and a doubles player have similar
amount of court to cover when receiving serve (the service area in
singles is 24.4m<sup>2</sup>, while in doubles it is 24.2m<sup>2</sup>).</li>
<li>The short and wide doubles service area makes it harder to catch an
opponent out with a flick serve, therefore allowing the service receiver
to stand further forward and attack the short serves as aggressively as
possible. Which makes doubles rallies <strong>fast</strong> and <strong>aggressive</strong> right from the first stroke – one reason why <a href="http://www.badmintondoubles.com/" title="Badminton Doubles">badminton doubles</a> is so exciting, whether you’re watching or playing!</li>
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Read more at <a href="http://www.badmintondoubles.com/badminton-rules-2/">Badminton Doubles</a><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978489768194621252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25282261.post-36873668756757434302011-11-16T20:18:00.001+08:002011-11-16T20:20:42.823+08:00<h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">Getting the Gold from the Text</span> </h3>
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How to capitalize on the inexhaustible riches of Scripture in your preaching without sounding like a Bible commentary.</h3>
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John Koessler </i></span></div>
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Foundational to all good exposition is the conviction that where the
Word of God is faithfully taught, the voice of God is authentically
heard. In a generation demanding a "now" word from God, as though that
would be in some way separate from, or even superior to, the living and
enduring Word of Scripture, the expositor believes that everything God
has said he is still saying. The preacher's task is not to try to make
the Bible relevant; it is relevant, precisely because it is the living
Word of the unchanging, present-tense God. Nor is the task to "do
something with the Bible," so as to make it palatable to the
contemporary scene. Rather, the task is to let the Bible do something
with the preacher, so its truth is incarnated in the expositor's life,
as well as words, which become the channel of its powerful message to
the hearers.</div>
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Read more at <a href="http://www.preachingtoday.com/skills/2006/october/60--jackman.html">Preaching Today</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cut and Sharpen</b></span></div>
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<i>One of God's underused gifts is time to sharpen.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Gordon MacDonald</span></div>
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Somehow the Sabbath idea had not come alive to me before. Sabbath was
perceived as a wild Sunday of spell-binding preaching, growing crowds,
and successful programming. I never imagined a Sabbath experience of
majestic worship, joyful quiet (instead of noise), interior
"conversation" and a reordering of the pieces of my life. No wonder I
felt so messy. I knew none of these. </div>
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Read more at <a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2011/fall/cutsharpen.html">Leadership Journal</a></div>
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978489768194621252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25282261.post-39977695731812377202011-11-01T20:21:00.000+08:002011-11-01T20:21:30.460+08:00<h1>
I Wish Those Days Would Come Back Once More</h1>
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from <a href="http://www.ligonier.org/blog/teacher/rc-sproul-jr/">R.C. Sproul Jr.</a>
<span class="blog-date">Oct 29, 2011</span><span class="blog-category"></span></div>
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As I sit with my suffering wife as she battles leukemia I have two great
comforts. First, Jesus has gone before her. There is no suffering we
can experience that He did not experience before us. Second, because He
suffered, those days will indeed come back once more. The specter of
death that haunts us wears a leash. Jesus has conquered the Grim Reaper,
and so his bloody scythe is the very chariot that carries us home. When
we are home we will know sin no more. We will be children again. We
stand innocent, in Christ, before His judgment seat now. But then we
will be innocent in ourselves. Then we will be back in the Garden, to
stay. Those days, for we who are in Christ, are coming again.</div>
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<span class="blog-category">Read more at <a href="http://www.ligonier.org/blog/i-wish-those-days-would-come-back-once-more/">Ligionier Ministries</a></span></div>
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978489768194621252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25282261.post-11323554510351169662011-09-14T15:43:00.001+08:002011-09-14T15:43:47.555+08:00<h1>
A Preacher’s Decalogue</h1>
Sinclair B. Ferguson<br />
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What Ten Commandments, what rule of preaching-life, do I wish someone
had written for me to provide direction, shape, ground rules, that
might have helped me keep going in the right direction and gaining
momentum in ministry along the way?<br />
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Once one begins thinking about this, whatever Ten Commandments one
comes up with, it becomes obvious that this is an inexhaustible theme.
My friend, the Editor, could easily run his journal for a year with a
whole series of “My Ten Commandments for Preaching.” I offer these ten,
not as infallible, but as the fruit of a few minutes of quiet reflection
on a plane journey.<br />
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Read more at <a href="http://thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/article/a_preachers_decalogue">The Gospel Coalition</a><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978489768194621252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25282261.post-14659843771085123702011-09-04T21:12:00.000+08:002011-09-04T21:12:14.944+08:00<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Reformed and Charismatic?</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #999999;">by Michael Horton </span><br />
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We have had enough “apostles,” “prophets,” and “Moses-model” leaders who
build ministries around their own gifts. We need to recover the beauty
of Christ alone upon his throne as the Priest-King of his church,
exercising his ministry by his Spirit through preaching, sacrament, and
discipline in mutually accountable communion with the wider body of
Christ. Reformed theology is not just the “five points” and “sovereign
grace,” but a rich, full, and systematic confession. It’s a human and
therefore fallible attempt to wrestle with the whole counsel of God—in
both doctrine and practice, soteriology and ecclesiology. Until we
rediscover this richness, “Reformed” will mean “whatever my leader or
circle believes.”<br />
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Read more at <a href="http://www.whitehorseinn.org/blog/2011/08/22/reformed-and-charismatic/">Out Of The Horse's Mouth</a><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978489768194621252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25282261.post-52870245008686677052011-08-08T16:20:00.003+08:002011-08-08T16:21:01.789+08:00<h1>
Schism and the Local Church</h1>
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by Michael G. Brown</div>
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Because the church consists of sinful people, the reality is that we
will be faced with the challenge of dealing with schismatic behavior
from time to time. While it is usually an unpleasant experience, we
should not despair. By being vigilant in our confession of faith and
“with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one
another in love” (<a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Eph. 4.2" data-version="ESV" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Eph.%204.2" target="_blank">Eph. 4:2</a>), we can protect the unity that the Spirit has given us.<br />
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Read more at <a href="http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/schism-and-local-church/">Ligonier Ministries</a><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978489768194621252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25282261.post-21093887040232768452011-07-04T13:00:00.000+08:002011-07-04T13:00:51.712+08:00<span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Rest of the Story </span></b></span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">by R.C. Sproul Jr.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Obedience is a rather narrow road. Disobedience, on the other hand, has a great, sweeping plain of options. Because we are like the Pharisees, we find it easy to convert the law of God into sundry sins of omission. We’re much better at not doing what we’re not supposed to do than we are at doing what we’re supposed to do. Thus, we reduce the Sabbath to all the things we’re not allowed to do. We work at fine-tuning the definition of “work” so we can make sure we don’t do it on the Sabbath. In so doing, as is our wont, we miss the point. Were we to divide the Ten Commandments not according to duties toward God and duties toward man, as many do, but instead on the basis of prohibitions and commands, the Sabbath commandment would end up with the commands. It is less about what we are forbidden to do and more about what we are commanded to do.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Read more at <a href="http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/rest-story/">Ligonier Ministries</a> </span></span><br />
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