The purpose of this blog is to educate entertainingly, entertain purposefully, and to evangelise for the Lord.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Short Video: How a Woman looks at Herself (Barbara Streisand sings "Memory")
This short video shows the true dignity of each woman in her self-image: don't bother about how the world looks at you - your enemies, your well-meaning friends at times, your in-laws and out-laws.
William Tyndale - God's Outlaw
William Tyndale was an Evangelical Christian who translated the Latin Bible (which only the Catholic priests understood) into the English understood by the ordinary people of the England under the heel of King Henry VIII (who was Catholic in heart even though he opposed the Pope of Rome). The King ordered his soldiers to capture Tyndale for the crime of printing Bibles in the language of the ordinary people of the land. Tyndale managed to escape to Europe to live for many years until he was betrayed, taken back to England and burnt at the stake.
Tyndale was called "God's Outlaw" by the Catholic authorities. There is a time and place when you have to "obey God rather than men", like the apostles during the early days of the Acts when the Jewish authorities forbade them from preaching Jesus to the people of Israel. There is the Law and Will of God which is supreme and above the dictates of mortal tyrants and governments who forbide the preaching of the Gospel and the worship of the One and Only true God of all the Earth.
There are times when we are called upon to be "God's Outlaws" because man's laws oppose God's Law and Word. The book of Revelation shows that a day will come when the AntiChrist will outlaw all those who refuse to have the "666" mark of the Beast.
God's Outlaw is a movie / Dvd about William Tyndale - how he translated the Latin Bible into English and paid the price for printing Bibles for the ordinary English people to read.Short Aquarium Shark Video with music
Time out! Relax your minds with a dive into an aquarium of sharks and fish.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Short Song Video: Amazing Grace Story of John Newton
One of the evergreen hymns/songs of all time is "Amazing Grace" penned by the ex-slavetrader John Newton who became a pastor and hymn-writer.
This short video (with Chris Tomlin singing the song) presents the background story of the man who wrote "Amazing Grace".
Short Video (with music): A Woman's True Beauty
Audrey Hepburne's classic beauty as she ages shows how character moulds the inner beauty of a person.
Every Sect Loves to be the ONE & ONLY TRUE CHURCH
In my short journey in life I have met at least 3 churches which claim to have roots going back to the original New Testament Church.
1. The first is the Brethren, among whom I grew up. John N Darby, an Anglican minister, broke away from the Anglicans to found the Brethren. The Brethren started off well, breaking away from the staid and dying traditions of the mainline Anglicans, meeting in simple places called halls or chapels. Their raison d'etre was the New Testament church truths which they called Assembly Testimony (many things were similar to other Christian groups) with distinctives such as silence for women (with their hair covered), communion (which they called Breaking of Bread) every Sunday. But soon the "love for truth" so overpowered the Darbyites that they split from Benjamin Newton's brethren, and soon the virus to divide and split overwhelmed them that they have ended up with numerous Brethren groups, each staking claim to exclusive truth. They have yet to learn that truth must be caught in lives of agape love, and not merely forced down the throats of listeners.
The Brethren have ended up with the Closed Brethren who are quite shut away from what they call the infection of other so-called Christians, living like the Amish apart from the mainstream of Evangelical life. Then there are the Open Brethren who are in touch (selectively so) other Christians.
2. During a trip to Kota Kinabalu, I chanced upon a leader of another church group called "True Jesus Church". They showed the same characteristic of claiming to reach back to the original springs of New Testament Christianity. They were out to proselytise other Christians.
3. Recently I met a medical doctor introduced to me to be a Christian social worker in the town. I met up with him and discovered that his church is the "Church of God". In talking to him I discovered the same tendency of claiming to be the one and only original church with roots reaching back to the New Testament.
A good grasp of Church History and of human fallen nature (the Flesh in Scripture) will save all of us from claiming to be the original copy of the New Testament church. Every denomination you meet will have the same claim to the one and only true church. The Pentecostals will claim that their speaking in tongues (based on 2 or 3 texts of Scripture) mark them out to be the genuine followers of Christ. The Baptists can claim that their emphasis on immersion as the correct method of baptism marks them out to be the successors of the Anabaptists of the early centuries of the New Testament era.
However, the Roman Catholic monolithic church based in the masterly Vatican city is the zenith of the claimants of being the one and only true church. While some soft-headed Evangelicals including normally clear-headed theologians like James Packer, Baptist evangelist Billy Graham and socio-political activist Charles Colson desire to return Protestants to the fold of Rome, they should not close their eyes to the fact that the Roman Catholic church has stuck to the Council of Trent dogma until today, yielding none of their mariolatry, salvation by works, transubstantiation, last rites, and the host of evil man-centered doctrine and practices which are the essence of hellish idolatry.
Andrew Loh
Shocked by After-Life, but Oh! Where?
Sir John Gielgud was gifted with the near-perfect voice for the Theatre, and was one of the greatest actors of all time on stage and in film. The tragedy for him was that he believed that there is no after-life beyond the grave. And so probably he was an atheist or an agnostic. He was said to have homosexual tendencies and was subject of quite a scandal in an England before Post-Modernism invaded society.
He died in the year 2000. He was certainly in shock to find that man's soul continues to exist beyond physical death. What an awakening!
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