Month: June 2008

pilgrim’s progress

3 Comments / daily rambliniscings / June 22, 2008

If you have extended time to spend on the internet, this video about Pilgrim’s Progress is quite good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwlf8g0ofFo&feature=related

 A little bit like that for the 1858gc anime would be alright, but i would hope for a little higher quality. If you are interested, i think they will send you a free dvd of what they have done so far, and maybe you can get some ideas for animation from them. The developer’s web site is:
http://www.hopeanimation.com/

conspiracy nuttiness in church

Leave a Comment / daily rambliniscings / June 22, 2008

Finally i got to show the “Luther” movie yesterday at the Bangkok Chinese SDA church.  It was powerful projected up on the wall, and i hope some of the 18 people present got courage to stand tall for the truth. My computer contracted a “USB Toy” virus (winlog0n.exe) and would not play the dvd, so one Brother at church who is active in evangelism let me use his computer.  In a way it was justice, because it was from his computer that i contracted this thing 2 weeks earlier anyway – ha! (btw – removed by avg).

After we were all done, i asked if there were any questions, and no one had any, so asked one Sister to give closing prayer.  After her prayer, the man who lent the computer got up and started saying that the Jesuits were the ones behind the massacres we saw in the movie (even tho the Jesuits weren’t formed until more than 10 years after this event!), that the Democracts are Catholic and Republicans are Protestant (huh?!), and that he knew who killed JFK – yep, the CIA poisoned the assassin to cover up their tracks.  Finally i had enough at that point, and said that things were getting strange, and that it was time to leave.

This conspiracy garbage is really, really deep in our SDA circles.  So sad.  Yes, we know that there are organizations that are out to work against God, but that must in no way be connected with the Three Angels’ Messages.  Let’s keep all this talk out of our mouths, and concentrate on the truth, otherwise the honest seekers of truth will be turned away from the truth when they see it mixed up with garbage.

pastor over malaria :)

Leave a Comment / daily rambliniscings / June 22, 2008

Oh! I am saved and thanks to Lord almighty and you for remembering me in special prayer. I was almost dead and in remote part of Nepal Border where there are no facilities as electricity, internet, health centre etc…. but thanks the new believers taken care for me without any expenses. I thought my life is gone and no contact from rest of the world and even family. But today I am able to walk and feel much better. Well! Its almost a month not able to meet family moreover, not able to enter Darjeeling hill at present due to ———- and indefinite strike – call on and its almost more than a months people are suffering and no transportation etc……..

Wife and child facing lot of problem and isolated plus all the shops, offices, communication, nets etc… is shut down for many days and even electricity. This is a big fight between ——————-. Life is paralyzed moreover continuous rain and landslide in hills and flooded in plain. Let us pray to our dear Lord to solve this problem and even church members are affected too. I did not share all my problem at home because they will be in tense and even no facilities really feel primitive stone age life in some places.

I travel by one of the neighbor vehicle and requested his battery net and therefore, quickly sharing this news. I think I will not able to visit home uncertain till now but anyway will doing His ministry in border of Nepal for few days until things settle. Tomorrow I will spend Sabbath and share good news from Bible to our —— and new believers. Even in Nepal situation is very bad due to unstable political problem and hike in fuel they are planning to call on the strike again. Very sad what is happen in this last days and maybe it is the sign of His soon coming. Well I shall end here and wish you Happy Sabbath Day.

Yours brother in Christ,

myanmar cyclone disaster response sda church june 11

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 17, 2008

Seventh-day Adventist Church

 Disaster Response Committee  

Newsletter      June 11th. 2008 

Our relief team, made up of Pastor Calab Paw. Ministerial Association Secretary, Brother Nelson Hla Pe. Retired worker, Brother Jolly. Union Driver and Gavin Johns. Relief and Resettlement Committee Secretary left Yangon for Bogalay on June 4 and arrived Aung Gone, the nearest village on June 7 at about 3am in the morning. We had about two hours of sleep and then woke-up to go to church. Every Sabbath morning, the members gather at about six A.M to attend morning worship at the church. Later they invited us to attend a thanksgiving and house dedication service in the village. We are told there was another thanksgiving after the church and were invited to attend that service also.  

Though we were requested to give an encouragement talk during these services, actually, we were blessed to attend those gatherings. Just to think that these people, even though they had gone through such difficulties and bad experiences could praise and thank GOD for HIS blessings and celebrate with friends.  

Due to the donation from a local NGO, Myitha Foundation, we were able to distribute some rice, cooking oil, chilies to all the villagers. The Myanmar Bible Society helped us to freely distribute Bibles in the Karen language to the church members, of which they were very grateful to receive. We received one hundred Dignity kits and twenty Child Delivery Kits from the UNFPA which was distributed among the women as needed. The church was able to provide the farmers from Aung Gone with a hand tractor and two barrels of Diesel to plant the new crops and this is a great help for them to survival for the next season. Altogether, we were able to assist 1023 households. 

Our next plan is to get seeds for the farmers and provide them with sufficient safe drinking water and uniforms for the students attending school. The students are still in need of books and stationeries and we are negotiating for these items.  

Our team returned on June 11 and it was a blessed trip for us to witness the faith and graduate of these people as they praised and thanked the LORD for HIS goodness and mercy. Altogether, we were invited to three thanksgiving services. Due to the monsoons, our travel between the villages and to Bogalay was a little scary but GOD was good and gave us HIS traveling mercies.  

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3 prophetic questions

Leave a Comment / christian study / June 16, 2008


Let me ask 3 questions:

1. When was (or will be) Daniel 9:24 completely fulfilled?

2. When was (or will) God’s people receive the seal in their foreheads?

3. How terrible are God’s “woes” in Revelation when we can’t even agree on what they were (if they are history already)!

1,260 / 6 = 2008???

2 Comments / christian study / June 16, 2008

There are many strange prophetic interpretations floating among Seventh-day Adventist circles today. Last Sabbath at the Bangkok Chinese SDA Church, there was a pastor from Australia with a new twist. But can he show us from the Bible how he got the idea to divide 1260 by 6 and then add that to 1798 to arrive at 2008? And does grasping at 1888+120=2008 seem a bit far-fetched to anyone else besides myself? But if he or anyone can show from inspired words that this is truth, then i am happy and willing to follow all truth.  Many times tho, i’ve seen people come up with crazy “timing” prophecies which cause an excitement for a while, but when the time is passed and nothing has happened, the people’s hearts become harder than stones.

There were people promoting the “Jubilee Cycles” among us Seventh-day Adventists in the late 1980s-early 1990s.  What they showed looked pretty good.  It is true that the Jubilee cycle was very important to Jewish society and to their relationship with God.  They calculated that the year 1994 would be the end of the Grand Jubilee of Jubilees if i remember right, and some people got really worked up about it and left the church and sold their stuff and bot land way out in the country etc. etc.  It is very hard, if not impossible, for those people ever to come back to the truth, and they put a big stain on ALL prophecy study.

Satan has led many since just right after the October 22, 1844 disappointment to point to some day or year as something special happening, only to disappoint people, and make them that much more resistant to any kind of prophecy studying.  That’s what i see happening – after the false interpretations fail, it makes it much more difficult to wake people up to study prophecy at all.  I believe that there is a LOT more in Daniel and Revelation that is still future, but it is very difficult to study with anyone, as most of us believe the “safe” way is to just believe what Uriah Smith wrote over 100 years ago.

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global warming mantra

Leave a Comment / daily rambliniscings / June 10, 2008

Good to see at least some people are not caught up with the “global warming” mantra.  I am surprised tho, to see that the earth’s average temperature has been falling since 2002.  With absolutely no scientific support for humans’ actions raising temperatures, how can it be possible that it can be so universally agreed upon?  What is scary, is that little kids are being told this in school just like evolution – both lies to further Satan’s ends.

Here’s the url to see one thinker’s take on this madness:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/congress_fiddled_with_warming.html

myanmar cyclone disaster response sda church june 3

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 4, 2008

Seventh-day Adventist Church
 
Disaster Response Committee

Newsletter
    June 3rd. 2008

Today, make one month for the destruction caused by the Nargis Cyclone in Myanmar. The church members in Ayeyarwaddy and Yangon are still suffering from the affects of this dreadful disaster. Though the saying goes, as “Time will heal” it is still too early to say this for the people of Myanmar. The total death roll has exceeded to about 134,000 and it has left thousands in sorrow, despair, loss and no prospects for the future. Nevertheless, GOD has not left HIS people without hope. HE has used many of his devoted stewards to pray and support the church in responding to the needs of HIS children.

On hearing of the disaster in Myanmar, the Adventist Southeast Asia Projects (ASAP) sent her representative to visit the church in Myanmar and donated towards the needs as seen. With the assistance received a relief response group headed by the Union President, Pastor Muller Kyaw visited Myaungmya and were able to meet with the cyclone victims there. On the way, we were able to meet with two families from the church, living at Zee Pwue Kyung and encourage them. These two families had lost their homes and so were very happy to receive donations in cash towards building their homes again.

Later on as the team arrived at Myaungmya, we met with the flood victims and had a chance to listen to their first hand experiences during the cyclone. We had heard how GOD had miraculously saved them and their families during these difficult times. Even though some had lost their loved ones, it was definite that without the “Protecting Hands” of GOD things would have been much worse for them. During our visit to Myaungmya we were able to provide some funds for food at the refugee camps and towards some farmers to plow their fields and start planting rice for this season.

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