A long time ago there was a landowner.  Having lots of land, he decided to lease it out to people.  Some lease-holders decided to dig in their land, melt what they found, and sell it.  Others decided to build something on top of the land and do some kind of business with that.  Mostly […]

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A little group of lease-holders decided to start a carrot patch to grow only perfectly golden-orange carrots, carrots that would be solely for the landowner, and would be grown strictly according to the manual.
It took lots of work.  Many were the obstacles they had to overcome.  Many who brought their seeds to these lease-holders angrily […]

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 Once, there was a group of lease-holders who wished to grow more carrots.  They searched far and wide, and finally decided to lease some land in a country renowned for its hard-working elephants, loose morals, beautiful beaches, and world-class traffic jams. Ostensibly, they wished to grow perfect carrots for the land owner, but in fact, […]

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Degrees–In view of all this, our schools should have little to say now of “degrees,” and of long courses of study. The work of preparation for the service of God is to be done speedily. Let the work be carried forward in strictly Bible lines. Let every soul remember that the judgments of God are […]

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この間バンコクのダイソーに行って、すごい懐かしかった！　１０分くらいで「日本」に浸され、何も不思議なく商品の説明とかぜんぶ読めて、本当に良かった。普通はね、看板とかぜんぶがタイ語に書いてあるから「当たり前」何が書いてあるか分からない。　それがね、ちょっとだけながら、ストレスの原因でしょう。　特に食料品の場合！　英語も少し使われているので、なんとか生活の上ではあまり問題ないけど、やっぱりぜ～んぶ理解できて、落ち着く。　この店はなんか日本から店を丸ごと飛行機に載せ、バンコクのど真ん中に落としたって感じ。　タイにぜんぜん合わないものも多くて、「大丈夫かな」とちょっと心配するくらいです。　ほんの少しでも日本に帰ったって感じを与えてくれて　－　有難うダイソーさん！
ちなみに、ダイソーはサイアム・ショッピング・センターの真向かい。　一括６０バーツ。　日本の値段の倍くらい。　

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So now two weeks of the Christmas holiday school break is gone….yawn. 
My normal sleeping pattern is to go to bed around 11pm (i know, it should be more around 9:30), sleep until around 3am, then lie awake for 1 - 2 hours thinking about everything this little brain can wrap itself around, then go back […]

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Generally speaking, i have always thot of myself as a “Conservative Seventh-day Adventist”. The main difference i see between the “Liberal Seventh-day Adventists” and the Conservatives, is that the Liberals believe that what you do has nothing to do with salvation. Therefore, there is no need to try to live a godly lifestyle. This […]

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1. Go home (heaven).
2. Print a new health book that is a compilation similar to Counsels on Diet and Foods.
3. Get the Myanmar and Thai 1858GC translations completed and print and help distribute them.
4. See the Romanian, Chinese, and Azeri 1858GC translations completed.
5. Find more translators for Indian languages and Indonesian and Spanish.
6. Get the […]

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1. Make sure you know what the will of God is for you!
2. Travelling can wear you out.
3. Sabah Malaysia, in general, has the most dedicated Seventh-day Adventists anywhere.
4. The false doctrines of “don’t judge” and “unconditional love” are still very much alive in our SDA church.
5. Many people are nice to you until you […]

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2008 starts off with a real name for this blog instead of “blog theme” - ha!
Wishing everyone a closer walk with Jesus this new year.
I think my new year’s resolution will be the same as last year’s - to pray more.  I really, really want to know the will of God, and then have the […]

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