With this understanding in how people are proliferating the Cyber world, I believe we (Christians) should and must stay relevant with these changes around us and to capitalise on the Internet as a powerful tool to reach, impact and influence.
What if the Church is able to engage people effectively in the way these politicians do.
Wouldn’t that be awesome?
We need to take the pulpit out of the four walls of the church and into the world.
"On issues of moral values, with consequences to the wider society, first we should also decide what is right for ourselves.
But secondly, before we are carried away by what other societies do, I think it's wiser for us to observe the impact of radical departures from traditional norms on early movers. These are changes which have very long lead times before the impact works through, before you see whether it's wise, unwise, is this positive? Does it help you to adapt better? Does it lead to a more successful, happier, more harmonious society?
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We were right to uphold the family unit when Western countries went for experimental lifestyles in the 1960s - the hippies, free love, all the rage...
But I'm glad we did that because today, if you look at Western Europe, where marriage as an institution is dead, families have broken down, the majority of children are born out of wedlock and live in families where the father and the mother are not the husband and wife living together, bringing them up. And we've kept the way we are.
I think we have also been right to adapt, to accommodate homosexuals in our society, but not to allow or encourage activists to champion gay rights (as) they do in the West.
So I suggest, Mr Speaker, and I suggest to the Members of the House, we keep this balance, leave Section 377A alone.
I think there is space in Singapore and room for us to live harmoniously and practically all as Singapore citizens together."
Proverbs 19:14
Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Then said Christiana, "What is the meaning of this?" The guide said, "They talk in their sleep. If you strike them, beat them, or whatever else you do to them, they will answer you after this fashion ... 'When I awake I will seek it again.' ...
For this Enchanted Ground is one of the last refuges that the enemy to pilgrims has; wherefore it is, as you see, placed almost at the end of the way, and so it standeth against us with the more advantage. 'For when,' thinks the enemy, 'will these fools be so desirous to sit down, as when they are weary; and when so like to be weary, as when almost at their journey's end?' Therefore it is, I say, that the Enchanted Ground is placed so nigh to the Land Beulah and so near the end of their race. Wherefore let pilgrims look to themselves, lest it happen to them as it has done to these that, as you see, are fallen asleep, and none can wake them."
1"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
5"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
9"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. 11I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command. 15I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 17This is my command: Love each other.
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FPSymbol.cls
Option Explicit
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public property Let Value(V as Variant)
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function F(C as Collection, S as FPSymbol) as FPSymbol
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Luke 10:21
At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.
1:(Surprised, and especially so, since I don't think Paul was really writing a how-to-grow manual to the Corinthians, but rather, using that analogy as a passing mention - almost like it was one of those "everyday" statements with that inherent expectation that putting aside childish ways when you grow up is so expected. Similar to Jesus saying, "WHEN you fast..." since, according to Richard Foster, fasting was done so often by so many cultures that it was an expected cultural, if not religious, norm during Jesus' time.
But I daresay that today's increasingly liberalized cultures have pretty much discarded the idea of delayed gratification, what with the Shrine of the Golden Arches, and also the idea of "mature responsibilities", with the advent of the "Twixters" generation, raised by "helicopter" parents who hover super-protectingly over their proteges - "Spank them? OMG! You child abuser!!!". And it seems from East to West, North to South, from China to the USA (to a little red dot in between) - parenting is getting increasingly protective - till it reaches that point where the kids don't have a chance to practise living or thinking for themselves.)
"Yeu Ann! The Big Transformation has already been done in you. You've changed so much over the years... now what is left is the fine-tuning, the more delicate job. I can assure you that the big block has been done. The tumour has been removed. Now there's the little bits floating around in the bloodstream... that is why you feel that you are struggling more and more, that it gets harder and harder as the years go by. Because the bits become smaller and smaller."
