Blessed Steps

This is a rather lengthy post regarding interpretation of the bible and different cultures. Please proceed reading if you are interested; otherwise, stay tuned for the next normal, picturesque post :) Just came back from Perspectives and learnt about church planting. Why? and How? One thing that the preacher talked about which really stayed with me is that "The Bible is an Eastern Book". It is a book wrote based on the Eastern culture but we are trying to interpret it from a Western perspective. In the Eastern world, it is all about spending time with each other to build relationships. That's why most gatherings come with meals and meals can take up to a couple hours to half a day. In the western world, time is money, time is precious, time is everything. Nobody stayed on to fellowship after the church, after church everyone went on separate ways. They got to catch their time for other important stuff. Here is an example of how Jesus was practicing an Eastern cu...

I am very excited about my baptism especially when I found out that two other wonderful friends of mine (fellow Sunday school teachers :D ) have decided to get baptized on the very same day as me! Whoop! Can't express how happy I am. It's just like a spiritual birth, feels like I'm going to have them as my spiritual brother and sister :D We are asked to share our stories of how we came to Christ before getting baptized, and I have been working on my testimony and there's just some refining work to do now. I'm a little disappointed that some of them wouldn't be able to witness my baptism that weekend, but regardless, I've told them that I'll do some video recording and keep them updated in that way. So Yeappie! Excited and I talked to one of the kid's parent and she suggested that I can go ahead and ask the kids if they would like to be baptized too, or just give them the thoughts and allow them to ponder about their own baptism. I thought th...

I just have to admit that my brain is not wired for programming !

I learnt how to crochet for the first time! Thanks to a certain master for his 5 hours of patience! little cute bows for hair accessories. I made the yellow one; While waiting for my first accomplishment,  he made the other 3 (blue, grey, and pink). I gave 3 of them each to my roommates and they simple love it. :D I had my monthly student worker meeting this Friday and it is the student-worker-Appreciation day this time! We get cupcakes with batman rings on them. Since i'm one of those who're graduating this semester, I got my certificate of awesome student worker from my supervisor. We did a simple game: everyone had a piece of blank cardboard paper, we write our own names in the middle and pass it around the table for everyone to write some words of appreciation for us. There's nice words passing around like friendly, fun, responsible, friendly, cool and all... but apparently, when I got my paper back, I get a lot of remarks as being 'Sweet', ...

I have just decided to be baptized in April (or in a few weeks). There is a baptism today in church.  and we started talking about it. I was trying to encouraged a friend to be baptized,  I showed him the verse in Acts 8: 34-38 Philip was telling the Ethiopian eunuch the good news about Jesus. As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said,  "Look ,here is water. Why shouldn't I be baptized?" And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. I wanted to make a point of 'What is stopping him from being baptized?' since he had believed and is sure of his faith in Jesus. As a friend, I can really see him living out his life in Jesus, and that has always been an encouragement to me. As the three of us talked about baptism, I was asked when was I baptized.  I said, when I was a baby.  My dad sprinkled me when I was a baby. 'That is a dedication!...