February 2012
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Are you in your masks?
In every beauty contest, the contestants usually put make-up on before they come out to the stage. Why? They do this to conceal their physical flaws. They always make it a point that the judges or the audience won’t be able to recognize their physical flaws.
The good thing is, a person’s physical stature is not how someone will be defined. We can conceal it whenever and however we want...
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Because Work is a Gift from God (Part 1)
Most of us dread Mondays. Right?
Why?
Because Mondays= we have to work/ to go to school again. Let’s admit it. There will always be days when we just want to sleep and do nothing all day. We don’t want to leave the comfort of our bed and we just want to laze around, watching movies or surfing the internet.
So with this premise, is work a curse or a blessing?
This is the first part...
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My Rabbi, Jesus Christ
A teacher’s main role is to direct and lead people to the right path. For us, we treat them as our 2nd parents and sometimes, even our best friends. There isn’t a teacher who will teach you something that will harm you.
The best teacher I’ve ever had was Jesus Christ.
As I ventured through John 3:1-21, I have learned 3 lessons He taught to Nicodemus, a Pharisee.
1. A man cannot enter the...
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Fill your Heart with God's Love
Imagine entering into a relationship without God. When you break up with your partner; you’ll be left broken and with a huge void in your heart. You would always be afraid to love once more, fearing that the same thing might happen again. You would always wonder if someone will love you as much as that other person had loved you before.
It isn’t called a break-up if it doesn’t...
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Those written words are what a writer’s heart says
Actions speak louder than words. But words are more powerful. They can give you the greatest impact. They act like a sword. Words can be very sharp; they can go deep within you.
Actions are the products of what we think and feel. But words are our way of communicating with others. Connecting this with our faith to God, if we really have faith in him and if we really love Him, we should act what...
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Of Marriage and God
Today was the last installment of our Friday Night Youth: Love, Sex, Dating and God, and the pastor talked about marriage, especially unconditional love.
Just a recap: Remember that the quality of love you give determines what kind of person you are. And, you shouldn’t enter a relationship without God by your side.
So here it goes. Let me just share to you what I have learned from the last...
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No Ordinary People
There are no ordinary people. –C.S. Lewis
Could it really be possible that we possess a hidden greatness?
Sometimes we feel ordinary at best.
The feeling that we are nothing but a piece of crap in this world.
The feeling that we will never be able to show something EXTRAORDINARY.
Just a little turn to the 1st pages of the Bible, you’ll be sent to the book of Genesis. Well, it was clearly stated...
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Season of Reflection
As we are all aware of, today is Ash Wednesday, and consequently, it’s also the start of the Lenten season.
I don’t know what you believe in or how your religion does it, but I suggest that we all have a moment of reflection before we sleep tonight. Reflect on the real meaning of the season. The real meaning of Christ’s death for us, and what this actually means for our lives.
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The only acceptable ‘third party’ in any relationship is GOD.
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The truth behind the TRUTH
Truth hurts.
It’s really hard to face the truth. It is usually the one that wakes our hearts up, the one that pinches us so hard. It’s our alarm to reality.
Because of the pain the truth brings us, we habitually hide from it. We can’t face the truth strong enough. But have you not thought that the truth is actually necessary for our growth as a person?
See, spiritual growth can’t be attained...
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Everybody Jump Around in the House of God!
I got the title above from one of Planet Shaker’s songs: Jump Around. You should listen to their songs, by the way! They are very good :D
Anyway, I have just realized it but it’s very wonderful to sing and dance for the Lord, no?
It’s very overwhelming to be inside a hall packed with people/ youth who all sing and dance together for the Lord. Young or old, girl or boy, you...
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The Beauty of the Gospel
We live in a very sinful world, run by the standards of the society where we can see multicultural people.
Conformity, Pressures, Discriminations, Persecutions.
These are some of the millions of people you will encounter everyday. Sometimes we are unconsciously caught in their flow, and we are seemingly getting away from someone, from God.
In this society-controlled world, how can you share the...
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Dating and God
How would you know if it’s already the right time to love?
How would you tell if s/he is already God’s best for you?
The answer?
It’s obvious.
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Chasing Excellence
Are you a certified top student?
Excellence is the state or quality of excelling or being exceptionally good; extreme merit; superiority
We are all capable of excelling, but how can we achieve excellence?
1. To excel means to be superior in quality.
In every area of our lives, we should give time and effort. Meaning, we should give quality in everything we do. The good should be better and the...
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What Keeps you from Loving God?
This Valentine’s, ask yourself:
What keeps YOU from loving God wholeheartedly?
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You seem to be too busy at work or at...
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What is LOVE?
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Because it’s the month of February and Valentine’s is just around the corner, let’s all meditate about LOVE.
Throbbing hearts, special someone, different kind of feeling, Valentine’s Day.
These are the words we usually connect to the thought of Love. Whenever we try to define what love is, it usually just boil down to what we commonly feel or...
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Clothes ON. Pants UP. Hands OFF. Honor GOD.
Okay, I know that the title sounds a little too ambiguous and straight-to-the-point, but I just want to share to everyone what I have learned from a pastor in Victory Church.
I’m not knowledgeable in this matter, nor experienced. I’m just relating to you what our pastor told us. Nevertheless, I’m with him in this matter and your thoughts are greatly appreciated. :) And sorry if...
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The Youth of Today
Yesterday, for the first time, I attended a youth service in Victory Church. It’s called Friday Night Youth. Every Friday, youth from everywhere gather there. They sing Christian songs, dance to God’s music, bond with each other, and a pastor talks about different inspiring messages every week. For this month, since it’s the LOVE month, the topic is about LOVE, SEX, DATING and...
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Do not Conform!
Do you sometimes feel like you’re being pressured by the people around you?
Conformity is defined as an action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.; Correspondence in form, nature, or character; Agreement, congruity, or accordance.
In this generation, we are unconsciously controlled by the world. The wrong becomes the right, the bad becomes the good. Most of...
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Love Thy Parents
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Have you ever thought of rebelling against your parents because they are too strict and they don’t give what you demanded?
Maybe, most of us do. I do. Sometimes I think that my parents are overruling me so much and never really cared about me. Sometimes, I think that my parents only value what they want and not what I want. Sometimes, I think they don’t love me...
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On Persecutions and How YOU can Handle Them
I hate it when people deliberately belittle my religious beliefs and opinions.
Trust me, I get this a lot. I study in a well-known freethinking and modernist university here in the Philippines. Everyday, I come across a hodgepodge of atheists/ nonbelievers, agnostics, people of other religious denominations, crazy scientists who only believe in their quantum theories, nonpracticing Christians,...
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How are your decisions made?
One of the lessons in our church that really gave an impact to me.
Are the decisions in our lives really powerful?
Aside from Jesus Christ being God’s gift to us, another gift has also been given to us. And it is the power of making decisions.
God made us superior over other creations. What we differ with animals is that He gave us the power and privilege of having our own choice and He respects...
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Inspiring Story 2 (Read please)
REPOSTED:
Me: God, can I ask You a question?
God: Sure.
Me: Promise me You won’t get mad.
God: I promise.
Me: Why did You let so much stuff happen to me today?
God: What do you mean?
Me: Well, I woke up late!
God: Yes?
Me: My car took forever to start!
God: Okay.
Me: At lunch, they made my sandwich wrong & I had to wait for them to give me another.
God: Huummm.
Me: On the...
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That Green-Eyed Monster
I’m sure all of us have felt ENVIOUS of someone at some point.
Maybe she is blessed with a height of a model’s and you’re just barely 5 feet.
Or maybe he drives a new Volvo, while you only drive a hand-me-down from your father.
You think you’re not as smart as him/ her, and you only have average grades.
Or your best friend is always the one on the spotlight while you...
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We are the Salt and Light of the world!
Wonder why we named our devotional blog “Salt and Light”?
Have you ever tasted a chicken cooked without any flavouring like salt? If so, then you have tasted the best tasteless food among all tasteless foods. And after eating, you feel dissatisfied right?
Wheever we eat, we always want the best food with the best flavours regardless of its physical appearance. We always want to fulfill our...
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Inspiring Story (Read please)
REPOSTED, PARAPHRASED AND TRANSLATED FROM A THREAD IN FACEBOOK:
“I just wanna share my experience awhile ago. This happened inside a jeepney (a kind of public vehicle in the Philippines) . I sat beside the driver so that I could play my PSP (Patapon 3) easily. Minutes passed, the jeepney was already half full, and I noticed that the driver had been rubbing his tummy for some time now (the...
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Don’t worry, Be happy!
Matthew 6:25, 33
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothes?
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Does worrying give us any optimistic view in life?
To worry means to feel uneasy or troubled. We...
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Where's the Blame?
I was reading the book of Genesis a while ago, particularly Chapter 3 of Genesis. It was when God found out that Adam and Eve had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which He has forbidden them to. When God asked them why they ate the fruit from it, even though He told them not to, Adam blamed Eve for his wrongdoing and Eve in turn, blamed the snake who tempted her.
We all know...