tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12761673358643024622024-03-13T12:21:01.729-07:00A Journey at CJCU 長榮大學之旅These are the highlights of the journey at the Chang Jung Christian University (CJCU) that I have begun on September of 2011. As of the end of January, 2013, the journey took a turn and the spirit continues...Stephen Chen 陳中潔http://www.blogger.com/profile/08664147415446017783noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1276167335864302462.post-91567231734069382462014-06-02T16:05:00.002-07:002014-06-02T17:06:19.426-07:00CJCU Revisited - May 26 2014<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">It was a
trip suggested and assisted by a long time friend of mine who thought it’d be
interesting to pay a quick and unannounced visit to the school where I have
spent three semesters learning, growing and teaching. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">A few quick
and surprising hugs from students and advanced students/pastors gave me the
feeling that somehow I was the one who had been long lost and finally found the way home.</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">I remembered most of their names and even a few term papers
that were presented, discussed and cherished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It felt like yesterday and at the same time it felt like from the previous
life, if there is one. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">“Things have been
challenging,” said one of the co-workers solemnly. </span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">- That’s part of the
life.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: maroon;"></span></b></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">“Please pray for us and
pray with us...” said another. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"> </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">- Always.</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">“Remember we used to
say ‘Jesus loves you.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And you turned
around and told us that the question among us should be ‘Do we love Jesus?’" </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">- I do remember<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: maroon;">.</span></b></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><br />
</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">“We will be graduating in about a year
from now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would you like to attend our
graduation ceremony?” </span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">We’d try - as we never stop growing
and learning. </span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">“It seemed to me that
the outreach to the community services would never end,” commented a
pastor/student </span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">- Better reaching out than sitting around and
wait.</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">Many more waved at me with surprises and smiles as they passed by, just like the good old days. It reminded me the words of
the famous Indian poet <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rabindranath
Tagore, </span>“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet
discouraged of man.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">Where else does one find
the hope of the humankind other than the young and the innocent kids?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">I spent some time in the office
of the chaplains; the office and the hall of the Department of Theology; a
quick hand shaking and greetings with the new president; the office of the vice
president; and with a few old friends in the conference room, talking and
mostly listening to their stories. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">As expected, some stories
brought us tears while we gracefully shared.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">We are all in the stories
and are also the story tellers at the same time. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">All the stories share the same title. </span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">It is called LIFE. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">CJCU is changing; Taiwan is changing;
and the world is changing, rapidly as ever.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;">Faith in God, however,
has never changed.</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><i> <b><span style="font-size: large;">9:30 AM – 4:30 PM Monday, May 26
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Stephen Chen 陳中潔http://www.blogger.com/profile/08664147415446017783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1276167335864302462.post-16797085146744187622013-05-10T17:14:00.000-07:002013-05-12T08:01:02.868-07:00Along Came an Angel<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Did Burger King marry Dairy Queen?” asked a five year old
girl.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Yes, they did,” the father answered with sincere smile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He was not teaching her, but learning from
her.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most kids still believe Santa Clause, miracles and angels. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
envy them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">Then I met a few pastors who are still believers of miracles
and angels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a story about their experience of meeting the
answers of the prayers and an angel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In August 8, 2009 a powerful typhoon hit Taiwan and caused the
now infamous “88 Flood” (88<span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">水災</span>.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few local pastors near Chia-yi County by
the Ali Mountain worked with the locals and the aboriginals to save lives and
provided food and shelters during that critical time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that time the daily afternoon summer
thunder storms became a real threat to their effort of securing the paths along
the hills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These Presbyterian pastors
decided to get together and asked God to stop the northwestern thunder storms (<span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">西北雨</span>) from certain periods of
time for certain villages, between 2 PM and 4 PM, and they got their prayers
answered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They secretly told me
afterward, that it was hard to believe… </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: blue;">Jesus said, Let the little ones come to me, and do not
keep them away: for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven. (Matt 19:14)<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then they have new challenges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One church has provided a semi-furnished
building as settlement for aboriginals (<span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">原住民安置所</span>)
who lost their shelters during the flood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Another church out-reach institution also provided the mustard seeds for
them to grow and make some profits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
where is the needed fund?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, they turned to God.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">***</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">All fish were born swimming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">All angels were created flying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But Mr. C that I have known for more than forty years is a
new kind of angel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He walks down to the
earth like most of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He worked his way
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately for many, when he
retired, he becomes a head of a foundation which provides charity funds to many
non-for-profit organizations all over Taiwan and beyond. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then on one occasion, Mr. C met these pastors unexpectedly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They ate simple meals and talked, and he
listened with great interest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Mr. C was
touched with their efforts to give helping hands to the less fortunate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They stated the situations, and he answered
with promises.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">As all angels, Mr. C kept his promises.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">Mr. C once asked me how to pray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Use your heart, not your words. God would
understand you completely,” I said. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And God seemed
to understand him too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">Along came an angel, or angels, flying or walking, unexpected,
but not surprised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>God bless them all.</em></span></div>
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</span>Stephen Chen 陳中潔http://www.blogger.com/profile/08664147415446017783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1276167335864302462.post-45387697806822881852013-03-11T06:54:00.000-07:002013-03-11T06:57:21.029-07:00The Journey Continues...<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After three semesters at CJCU, my wife and I bid goodbye to
the CJCU community as my journey took a big turn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And shortly after, I ran into a sudden
realization (<span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">頓悟</span>) that
every journey simply continues no matter where you are and what you do.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And like the stories in the Bible, they continue till this
day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;">My courses at the CJCU involved with the Bible (the Old Testament
and the New; their interpretations and applications), the formation of the
spirituality and the early Christian missions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;">There was one thing in common. They all dealt with stories:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
stories of the people of Israel and the stories of the gentiles.</span></li>
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stories of love and hatred, of obedience and rebellion, of trust and
mistrust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></li>
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As some friends told me before that they seldom heard me preach the
messages of justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I humbly
agree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not quite understand the point
of justice, Godly or humanly. I just preach what I think I can understand a
little - about love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;">According to the estimate, there are more than 7 billion
people on the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are at least
seven billion stories to be told. <o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The stories of the seven billions brothers and sisters are
to be shared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the stories of the
Bible, they too are our stories. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">God’s love stories – that how the journey continues, always.</span></div>
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</span>Stephen Chen 陳中潔http://www.blogger.com/profile/08664147415446017783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1276167335864302462.post-71637098657624567022013-01-16T07:29:00.001-08:002013-04-01T07:58:06.580-07:00新約導論 - What We Have Covered<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">舊約</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">” </span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">和</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EN-US">“</span></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">新約</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">” </span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">的關鍵</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">/</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">核心區別是什麼?</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">闡釋約翰福音</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">和</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">馬太</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">/</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">馬可</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">/</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">路加福音的差異點</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">闡釋路加福音</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">和</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">馬太</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">/</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">馬可</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">/</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">約翰福音</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> "</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">復活記載<span lang="EN-US">"</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">的差異點</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">I never expected that a pastor-teacher had more Biblical questions than me - </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: purple; font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana;">學分班學生</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Put aside the methodology of the course, I admired the passion of the teacher - </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: purple; font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana;">牧師班學生</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">If there is a second chance, I'd need a bigger head to absorb a course like this - </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: purple; font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana;">大二學生</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">A</span></i></b></div>
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God/gave us a happy year full of wisdom and thoughtful curriculum/with the
expectations of the future;<o:p></o:p></strong></span></em></span></div>
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</em><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><em>We will meet again/we'll miss you.<o:p></o:p></em></span></strong></span><br />
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</em><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><em>Will think of the things you
taught in the class/we love you.<o:p></o:p></em></span></strong></span><br />
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</em><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><em>You are like our grandfather/you
always taught us words of wisdom.<o:p></o:p></em></span></strong></span><br />
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</em><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><em>Let us see the wisdom of God
again.<o:p></o:p></em></span></strong></span><br />
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</em><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><em>If you have the opportunity to
come back,</em></span></strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="color: blue;"><em><span style="color: purple;">you can continue to teach us.</span> </em></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="color: blue;"><em>- <span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">大二學生 L Y T</span></span></span></em></span></span></strong></div>
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Stephen Chen 陳中潔http://www.blogger.com/profile/08664147415446017783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1276167335864302462.post-41382783145386566442013-01-02T17:07:00.000-08:002013-01-11T09:09:04.716-08:00Angels, Unrecognized<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They could easily be passed by the church standards as the
non-believers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they actually are
non-Christians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> T</span>hey don’t talk like one of us, and they don’t act like one of the so
called Christians.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here they are, seven of them, my high school <span style="color: purple;"><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="color: #333333; font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: purple;">(</span><span style="color: purple;"><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="color: #333333; font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: purple;">台</span></span></span>南一中</span></span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: purple;">)</span></span></span></span>
classmates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have met as a group less
than eight times in the last 53 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
when we met, we still called each other the nicknames we used to call when we
were in high school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We shared different
jokes now and then with certain respect unknown to the outsiders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We also shared the memories of our few friends who were gone
prematurely years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we were
together, we laughed till our tears dropped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are, after all, grandpas now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But we still act like the growing young adults facing the world with
those never ending wonders. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we were
together, looking at each others, silently wondering what the heck happened in
the last 50+ years…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;">And most of all, we stand together with good causes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the charity drive for the scholarship of
the needy students of the Dept of Theology at CJCU (<span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: purple;">長榮大學)</span> </span></span>since last summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was not the first charity they have
faced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And just the three of them came
up with more than 20% of the grand total of NT$500,000. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">They would certainly go as angels unrecognized most of the
time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they did. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t look a bit like angels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like most men over 70’s, they just look
old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t even have enough
sideburns, let alone the wings, to show off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Simply put, unlike angels, they don’t fly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Still, their hearts and their deeds are flying high like
angels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">Angels are, more often than one may think, passing by unrecognized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Love, hearts and deeds of the angels are always felt and recognized,
universally.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Like here and now, Tainan, Taiwan, 2013… </span></div>
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</span>Stephen Chen 陳中潔http://www.blogger.com/profile/08664147415446017783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1276167335864302462.post-31818314131815884942012-12-23T17:46:00.000-08:002013-01-01T04:06:12.859-08:00So this is Christmas...<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZXlCUNm9cg"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZXlCUNm9cg</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So this is Christmas</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And what have you done</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another year over</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And a new one just begun</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And so this is Christmas</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I hope you have fun</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The near and the dear one</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The old and the young</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A very merry Christmas</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And a happy New Year</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let's hope it's a good one</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Without any fear</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And so this is Christmas</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For weak and for strong</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For rich and the poor ones</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The world is so wrong</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And so happy Christmas</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For black and for white</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For yellow and red ones</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let's stop all the fight</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A very merry Christmas</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And a happy New Year</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let's hope it's a good one</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Without any fear</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And so this is Christmas</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And what have we done</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another year over</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And a new one just begun</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And so this is Christmas</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I hope you have fun</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The near and the dear one</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The old and the young</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A very merry Christmas</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And a happy New Year</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let's hope it's a good one</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Without any fear</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">War is over over</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you want it</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">War is over</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now...</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">-</span> <span style="color: blue;">John Lennon</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><em>Dear Din Din:</em></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">點點</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: PMingLiU;">, <span lang="ZH-TW">你雖然是一隻貓</span>, <span lang="ZH-TW">卻帶給我很多歡笑和淚水哦</span>! </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: PMingLiU;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span lang="ZH-TW">我雖然不知道你現在在哪裡</span>, <span lang="ZH-TW">過得怎麼樣;</span> <span lang="ZH-TW">但我</span><span lang="ZH-TW">相信</span><span lang="ZH-TW">你一定在天堂過著<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">幸</span>福快樂的日子</span>.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">現在</span><span style="font-family: PMingLiU;">, <span lang="ZH-TW">小點點已經變成大點點囉</span>! <span lang="ZH-TW">點點,</span> <span lang="ZH-TW">你看我幫你想了好多個名<span class="alt-edited"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">字</span></span></span>, <span lang="ZH-TW">有笨點</span>, <span lang="ZH-TW">呆點</span>, <span lang="ZH-TW">可愛的點</span>, <span lang="ZH-TW">大點</span>, <span lang="ZH-TW">小點</span>, <span lang="ZH-TW">大笨點</span>, <span lang="ZH-TW">花花 </span>...</span></strong></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: PMingLiU;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ZH-TW">若我喊一聲點點</span>, <span lang="ZH-TW">你會回答我嗎</span>?
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">時時刻刻陪伴我的點點</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: PMingLiU;">, <span lang="ZH-TW">我真的好想你, 也好愛你啊</span>!<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">點點</span><span style="font-family: PMingLiU;">, <span lang="ZH-TW">我希望你現在是在一個讓你很快樂的國度</span>. <span lang="ZH-TW">我用我對你<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">真誠</span>的感情和愛來告訴你</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">… </span><o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"> <strong>- <em>by Sophie<span style="color: black;"> <span style="color: purple;">(age 11)</span></span></em></strong></span></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">耶穌說、讓小孩子到我這裡來、不要禁止他們.因為在天國的、正是這樣的人。</span>(<span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">馬太</span> 19:14)</span> </span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>I was lucky to meet a family of four.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I call them by their nicknames. The father is SA (Senior Angel,) the mother MA (Mature Angel,) the uncle UA (Uncle Angel) and the daughter LA (Little Angel.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are our old time friends.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>About six months ago my wife and I began a charity drive to offer that all my book sales are turned into the scholarship for the needy students at the Dept. of Theology, CJCU.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many friends sent their money in whether they got a copy of the book or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A check here and a direct deposit there – all are to be used for the scholarship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These acts drove up the total scholarship rather quickly and often earned our tears as well. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>A week ago we updated a total donation of NT$448,993.00 on the website just to show the kind of closing amount.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the books were gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Then I got</span> a call from the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was MA.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Just last Saturday, I received a call from UA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said, “We saw the total amount grew to 451,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now we are making it to reach exactly 500,000.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (That was a statement, not a question.)</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Softly and politely he added, “Donations can never be more than enough, right?”</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>How right the MA and UA and all the anonymous angels are!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">It was the summer of 1976 at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Tainan</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Tung-ning</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype></st1:place> when we last saw him, just a high school kid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: purple;"><strong><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">約翰福音三</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">6</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">:「神愛世人,甚至將他的獨生子賜給他們,叫一切信他的,不致滅亡,反得永生。」</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: purple;"><strong><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">馬可福音十六</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">16</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">:「信而受洗的,必然得救;不信的,必被定罪。」</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: purple;"><strong>「信者得永生」的意思,就是凡相信耶穌是上帝的兒子,祂為了拯救全人類被釘死在十字架上,又相信上帝叫祂從死裡復活的人,就可以得著永生。問題是:</strong></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: purple;"><strong><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">那些出生在耶穌之前的人,終其一生沒聽過耶穌名字的人, </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">那些生於叢林部落的種族,終其一生也沒聽過耶穌的名字. </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">那些出生不久即夭折,或在幼年都沒有機會認識耶穌就死去的人.</span></strong></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: purple;"><strong><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">上面提到這些人,他們沒聽過耶穌的名字或不認識耶穌,當然沒有信耶穌,那他們死後會上天堂嗎?</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></strong></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: purple;"><strong><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">二、上帝是『公義的』上帝,上帝也是『愛的』上帝. </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">約翰福音六:</span><span lang="EN-US">23</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">記載說:「因為罪的工價乃是死;惟有神的恩賜,在我們的主基督耶穌裡,乃是永生。」另外,在希伯來書九:</span><span lang="EN-US">27</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">也記載說:「按著定命,人人都有一死,死後且有審判。」可見上帝是公義的上帝,祂會公平的審判世人。在約翰福音三:</span><span lang="EN-US">16</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">記載「神愛世人,甚至將他的獨生子賜給他們,叫一切信他的,不致滅亡,反得永生。」提摩太前書</span><span lang="EN-US">2:4</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">也記載「他願意萬人得救,明白真道。」可見上帝也是愛的上帝,而且上帝的愛是全面的、普世的,祂愛所有的人,不分膚色、種族,不管在基督教國家、佛教國家或回教國家,也不管認不認識耶穌、認不認識上帝,也不管我們犯了多重的罪。</span></strong></span></span></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: purple;"><strong><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">「信者得永生,不信者入地獄」主要根據的經文之一,記載在馬可福音十六:</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">16</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">「信而受洗的,必然得救;不信的,必被定罪。」要完整地瞭解這節經文,必需連它的前一節一起看,</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">15</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">節說:「他又對他們說:你們往普天下去,傳福音給萬民聽。」,</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">16</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">節才接著說:「信而受洗的,必然得救;不信的,必被定罪。」</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">上帝是公義的上帝,當一個人像上面所質疑的問題,在他們一生當中因為某種原因,連福音都沒機會聽過,怎可就定他的罪?耶穌被釘在十字架上時,甚至為釘他的羅馬兵丁向上帝求情說:「父啊!赦免他們;因為他們所做的,他們不曉得。」(路加福音二十三:</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">34</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">)。</span></strong></span></span></span></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><strong><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">另外有一處經文也常引起不信者的質疑,就是約翰福音十四:</span><span lang="EN-US">6</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">「耶穌說我就是道路、</span></o:p></span></span></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">真理, 生命;若不藉著我,沒有人能到父那裡去。」這節經文常被拿來說成:「信耶穌是得救唯一的路」。世界上有很多人不認識耶穌,當然不是基督徒,但是他們所做的卻比很多基督徒所做的,還要得上帝的讚賞,公義的上帝會把他們和那些為非作歹的人一同摒除在天堂門外嗎?若把上面這節經文理解成耶穌是天堂的主人,每一個人要進入天堂都要經過耶穌的認定,耶穌會有智慧和方法去判斷誰可以入天堂,並不只限於相信祂名的人。聖經確定的告訴我們,真實相信耶穌的人,也就是聽祂的話又照祂的話去行的人,可以進天堂,但這不是進天堂唯一的路。</span></o:p></span></span></o:p></span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="color: purple;"><strong><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">我想上帝不會對那些沒聽過福音的人和聽過卻還不明白的人,就定他們的罪。對那些沒聽過福音的人和聽過卻還不明白的人,上帝的定罪準則,可以參考羅馬書二:</span><span lang="EN-US">13-15</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">「原來在神面前,不是聽律法的為義,乃是行律法的稱義。沒有律法的外邦人若順著本性行律法上的事,他們雖然沒有律法,自己就是自己的律法。這是顯出律法的功用刻在他們心裡,他們是非之心同作見證,並且他們的思念互相較量,或以為是,或以為非。」</span></strong></span></o:p></span></span></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><strong><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">這些律法大致上都涵蓋在上帝藉著摩西頒佈的十誡中了,例如不可殺人、不可偷竊、不可貪不義之財、要孝順父母等誡命。另外,耶穌所交代愛的誡命,記載在約翰福音十三:</span><span lang="EN-US">34</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">「我賜給你們一條新命令,乃是叫你們彼此相愛;我怎樣愛你們,你們也要怎樣相愛。」另外在馬太福音二十二:</span><span lang="EN-US">37</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">~</span><span lang="EN-US">39</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">記載「耶穌對他說:你要盡心、盡性、盡意愛主─你的神。這是誡命中的第一,且是最大的。其次也相倣,就是要愛人如己。這兩條誡命是律法和先知一切道理的總綱。」在加拉太書五:</span><span lang="EN-US">14</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">也說:「因為全律法都包在愛人如己這一句話之內了。」</span></strong></span></div>
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<strong>耶穌為什麼會選在他身邊的十二門徒?</strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <strong>By JC</strong></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">我們想耶穌會選擇一些很有能力、才幹,而且更是在靈性上非常成熟的人。但耶穌卻選擇了一群有著不同的背景、個性,甚至軟弱、平凡再不過的人來做耶穌的使徒。以我們人的角度看一個人,很容易看到對方的過去、和這個人的外在能力。但是耶穌看人,與我們人看人的角度截然不同,耶穌看的是一個人的內心、和一個人將來的潛能。(參考約翰福音︰一</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">35-51</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">)</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">耶穌選擇他們不是因為他們的能力、才幹,甚至是信心,為的是讓我們看到他如何改變、使用我們這些軟弱的器皿。(參考羅馬書:九</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">21-23</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">)</span><span style="font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">
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</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">西門彼得帶著一把刀就拔出來,將大祭司的僕人砍了一刀。(約翰</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">:</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">十八</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">10</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">)</span></span></strong></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">他先找著自己的哥哥西門,對他說,我們遇見彌賽亞了。(約翰</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">:</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">一</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">41</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">)</span><span style="font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">
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</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">安得烈對耶穌說,在這裡有一個孩童帶著五個大麥餅兩條魚。(約翰</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">:</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">六</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">9</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">)</span><span style="font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">
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</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">有幾個希利尼人,他們來見加利利伯賽大的腓力求他說,先生,我們願意見</span></span></strong></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">那裡的人不接待他</span><span style="font-family: 'MS Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">⋯</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">雅各、約翰,看見了,就說,主阿,你要我們吩咐火從</span></span></strong></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">那時,西庇太兒子的母親,同他兩個兒子上前來</span><span style="font-family: 'MS Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">⋯</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">說,願你叫我這兩個兒子</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">在你國裡,一個坐在你右邊,一個坐在你左邊。(馬太</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">:</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">廿</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">20-21</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">)</span><span style="font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">
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</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">耶穌見母親和他所愛的那門徒站在旁邊,就對他母親說,母親,看你的兒子。</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">又對那門徒說,看你的母親。(約翰</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">:</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">十九</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">26-27</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">)</span><span style="font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">
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</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">說,就是二<st1:chmetcnv hasspace="False" negative="False" numbertype="3" sourcevalue="10" tcsc="1" unitname="兩" w:st="on">十兩</st1:chmetcnv>銀子的餅,叫他們各人喫一點也是不彀的。(約翰</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">:</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">六</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">7</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">)</span><span style="font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">
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</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">拿但業對他說,拿撒勒還能出甚麼好的麼</span><span style="font-family: 'MS Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">⋯</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">耶穌看見拿但業來,就指著他說,看哪、這是個真以色列人,他心裡是沒有詭詐的。(約翰一</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">:43-51</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">)</span><span style="font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">
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</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">主阿,我們不知道你往那裡去,怎麼知道那條路呢。(約翰</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">:</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">十四</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1-6</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">)</span><span style="font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">
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</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">多馬卻說,我非看見他手上的釘痕,用指頭探入那釘痕,又用手探入他的肋旁,我總不信。(約翰廿</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">19-29</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">)</span><span style="font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">
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</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">耶穌從那裡往前走,看見一個人名叫馬太,坐在稅關上,就對他說,你跟從</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">在一篇文章中,大部份的作家會把整篇文章的精華與重點放在第一段與最後一段,因此只要看過一篇文章的頭和尾,就可以大概了解整篇文章在說什麼。兩位作者都將“石頭變麵包”的試探擺在第一個,表示兩人都視這個試探為最重要的試探,並且這也可能是當代基督徒最容易忽略和失敗的試探。</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">這個試探是在考驗肉體與靈命之間的決擇。「人活著不是單靠食物,乃是靠神的話」,這段經文不是說“人活著不需要食物”,意思就是人還是要吃要喝,但是神的話是在這之上的,食物重要,但神的話更重要。反觀當時的教會,腓利比書第三章就提到說:「他們的結局就是沉淪;他們的神就是自己的肚腹。他們以自己的羞辱為榮耀,專以地上的事為念。」肉體的慾望總是很容易地就把我們帶離神的旁邊,只要肚子餓了或甚至肉體疲倦了,就容易使我們離開神,現今最常見的例子,就像“禮拜中打瞌睡”、“聽講道時在想等下中午有沒有愛餐”之類的。因此兩位作者把它擺在第一個,為了是要讓大家能夠對此特別警醒。</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">當時的猶太人所認為的彌賽亞,是像大衛王那樣英勇善戰的人,是能夠帶領大家推翻羅馬帝國、重建以色列國的君王,因此馬太特別在很多地方把耶穌塑造成一個君王的形象,像是王族的家譜</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(1:1~16)</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">、呼召使徒們,他們馬上就跟隨耶穌</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(4:18~22, 9:9)</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…,“跪拜魔鬼”這個試探除了是考驗不被世界上的榮華富貴所吸引,同時也談論到“耶穌不向世界的王跪拜”,表明耶穌是戰勝這一切的,是比世俗的王更尊貴、崇高的君王。因此馬太把這個試探放在最後一個。</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">路加福音的寫作對象是外邦人為主,是對猶太宗教不了解的人,所以會用外邦人較能接受的方式來寫作,在一些特殊宗教儀式上也會寫得比較清楚,同時會引用一些比較廣為人知的人事物,讓讀者比較能夠看得懂作者要表達的意思,像是用追溯到亞當</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">神的兒子</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">)</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">的族譜</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(3:23~38)</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">、詳細地說明了痲瘋病潔淨後的規定和陳設餅</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(5:14, 6:4)</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…,而當中也引用了一個絕佳的地標,就是耶路撒冷的聖殿。</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">耶路撒冷是猶太人的宗教集中地,每逢佳節或是要獻祭的時候,他們都會上耶路撒冷、到聖殿去</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(2:22, 41)</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,因此外邦人應該對這個城市不會很陌生,也知道聖殿在猶太人心目中的重要性與神聖性。路加刻意在整本福音書的頭和尾,把場景都設定在耶路撒冷的聖殿:撒迦利亞在聖殿裡燒香</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(1:9)</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">、門徒在耶路撒冷的聖殿敬拜神</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(24:52~53)</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,來表明耶穌的神聖性,“從聖殿跳下去”這個試探的場景正好是聖殿,並且同時考驗耶穌對上帝的順服,因此把這個試探放在最後一個,來顯明耶穌的神聖與順服。</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></strong></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />Stephen Chen 陳中潔http://www.blogger.com/profile/08664147415446017783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1276167335864302462.post-84890271073026418572012-09-21T08:02:00.000-07:002012-10-26T22:46:37.932-07:00上帝的選民<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">是什麼</span></span><span class="alt-edited1"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="color: windowtext; font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">艱鉅的任務</span></span><span class="alt-edited1"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">他們</span></span><span class="alt-edited1"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="color: windowtext; font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">還是</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">得到兩個答案</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">: 1) </span></span></span><span class="alt-edited1"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="color: windowtext; font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">宣講</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">獨一真神耶和華</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">; 2) </span></span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">受苦和死亡</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>From nowhere she came to us with a friendly smile and began a casual conversation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did not know each other first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We soon learned that she was a sophomore at the CJCU. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And she originally was from a town not too far away from my wife’s home town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we arrived at the supermarket, she walked in with us, tried to give us a hand here and there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She did not buy anything when we asked her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She looked like she just wanted to keep us company.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>There she was and there she is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A soon to be a junior at the college and seemed to be unaware of the difference between a priest and a pastor, we have seen her as an angel - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an angel who walks the extra mile for some complete strangers in a super market and a violent stormy evening.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Some of them do not have wings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But all of them have smiles that shine, words that comfort, deeds that embrace love, and hugs that cause graceful tears.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">One does not have to be an angel to meet another angel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet the results of the encounters often make more angels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">You see, like the good news they are carrying, angels are contagious and always with the power of transforming.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Not all of us would become saints, or theologians, or prophets or great preachers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet every one of us could become angels when we catch that contagious love of another angel. </span></div>
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church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were relatively new comers
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">And it all started as
my service stopped shortly before the end of last semester.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I received an email saying how she had
appreciated my sermons while she laughed (with tears at times) and how the
worship services had helped her steadily growing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My wife told me who she might have been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a right-on guess.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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sudden afternoon thunderstorm, she had to quit her job because of illness. We
kept in touch constantly and soon she retreated back to her childhood
home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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and her parents a few times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bus
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was, in that semi-dark tunnel, slowly walking toward us, smiling lightly…I
thought I saw an angel, no, two angels right there in that tunnel where the
motorbikes and cars and buses passing by above us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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angel, smiling, and there was a light shadow kind of angel watching over her, also smiling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still can see now: two angels in a tunnel,
like sisters, like siblings, like one set of the footprints in the sand while
one carries the other…<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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to be alone in the path of life…</span></b></div>Stephen Chen 陳中潔http://www.blogger.com/profile/08664147415446017783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1276167335864302462.post-376440950108609542012-04-20T19:09:00.000-07:002012-05-14T18:31:48.059-07:00"四福音研究" 期中報告 - Selected<span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: purple;">選自</span> <span style="color: purple;">"四福音研究" 期中報告</span>:</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span>…</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">其實我們仔細觀察會發現在教會裡就有許多的小兒子、大兒子,就我自己而言,也是在這小、大兒子的行列中遊盪而不自知。我們常任意行事,為了要展現實力證明自己很行(小兒子心態);我們也把他人的成就視為威脅,有人做得不錯,就在心裡嘀咕,認為自己做的比他好,卻得不到應有的讚賞(大兒子心態)。在小、大兒子的心態作祟下,大家用盡力氣暗地較勁,爭執的焦點已不再是就事論事,而是面子問題;結果整個教會的運作停擺,或是各行其是,誰也不服誰。很多教會裡的死結與糾纏,歸根究底,還是小兒子與大兒子的「靈性」問題...</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">7. ...</span><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: black;">耶穌說人要積攢天上的財寶?</span></span><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: black;">但是<span lang="EN-US">...</span>既然人已經在黃金天堂,還需要</span></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: black;">財寶做甚麼呢? </span></span><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: black;">思考這個問題好幾個星期,身邊幾個人都問遍了<span lang="EN-US">..</span>差不多</span></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">是三種答案;<span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>有人說耶穌說那些話,不是在講真正的財寶。<span lang="EN-US">(</span>那麼,是指甚麼呢<span lang="EN-US">? </span>沒有確切的說法<span lang="EN-US">)</span></strong></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"></span><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: black;"> 有天,問兒子…</span></span><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">兒子說天堂的財寶</span>和地上定義不應該畫上等號。 </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"> 嗯<span lang="EN-US">..</span>有道理。<span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong> 上述應該說得通,但是好像還沒完。<span lang="EN-US"></span></strong></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: black;"> 不被蟲咬也不致銹壞是指永存嗎?</span></span><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: black;">賊挖窟窿來偷是指人心因此敗壞嗎?<span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: black;"> 一味追求財利就像是積攢災禍嗎<span lang="EN-US">?</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 標楷體;"></span></strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"> 所以積攢天上的財寶是指積攢愛嗎<span lang="EN-US">? </span>愛在哪哩,心就在哪 裡嗎? </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: black;"> ...</span></span><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: black;">這是目前的思考進度...</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong><span style="color: black;">8. ...</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><strong><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: 微軟正黑體; font-size: 14pt;">聖經只是提醒我們,不要去搶奪上帝審判的權利。我們成作祂的兒女,可以做的,只是用積極去愛的態度,來回應上帝對我們完全的包容。這便是當主耶穌受釘時,祂以這種精神向上帝祈禱:「父親哪,赦免他們,因為他們不曉得自己在做甚麼。」(路廿三</span><span style="font-family: 微軟正黑體; font-size: 14pt;">34<span lang="ZH-TW">)祂要我們,越在惡勢力縱橫時代,越要去見證祂的疼及憐憫永遠常存。這是主耶穌超越時代的原因,願我們在壓迫及困難的時代,越能活出上帝愛的見證,透過這樣,我們可以堪受稱為祂的兒女...</span></span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong><span style="color: black;">9.</span> <span style="font-family: 標楷體; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><span style="color: black;">服事要追求完美,但不完美並不會讓「真理」受到影響,放輕鬆,事情總是做不完的,但如何讓自己的心安靜聆聽耶穌的聲音,才是主所喜悅的!何時忙碌?何時安靜?這是一個「選擇」,然而我需要為選擇負責任,才會覺得服事中有平安與喜樂!!</span></span></strong></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">Sites of interests:</span> http://www.cjcu.edu.tw/english/ (English)<br />
http://www.cjcu.edu.tw/zh_tw/ (中文)</span></b></i><br />
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<b><span lang="ZH-TW" style="color: black; font-family: PMingLiU;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span><a href="http://missionaries-taiwan.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">http://missionaries-taiwan.blogspot.com/</span></i></span></a></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When I read the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">article entitled </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“<span style="background: white;">Believing</span>”</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> on this blog site,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">some sentences ca</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ught</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> my eyes.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">‘<i>When Jesus says that whoever believes “into” him shall never die</i></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>... </i></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Eternal life is not the result of believing in. It is the experience of believing</i>.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indeed, we have so many imaginations about “eternal life”, but if we did not</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> get</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> “into” </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">H</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">im, how could we say we are disciple</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">s</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> of Jesus? </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;">潘霍華</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> (Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906~1945) </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;">說<b>:「當基督呼召一個人時,祂是來召他為祂死。」</b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If belief did not change our thought, our mind or any <span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251);">ideology, our li</span></span><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-size: 14pt;">ves</span><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-size: 14pt;"> are never renew</span><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-size: 14pt;">ed</span><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-size: 14pt;"> with God’s word</span><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-size: 14pt;">s</span><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-size: 14pt;">The words </span><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-size: 14pt;">just </span><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-size: 14pt;">got </span><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-size: 14pt;">into our brain </span><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-size: 14pt;">and stay as</span><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-size: 14pt;">part of </span><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-size: 14pt;">knowledge, but never </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">sparkle in our life. And </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">logos</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">”</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> never root in our body</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> H</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ow could we</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> then</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> say: we receive Jesus </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">as</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> our Savior? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Right. That is cheating </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ourselves and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">our brain</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">s. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">W</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">e do a lot of services to show </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">that </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">we are Christian</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">s</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, but it’s </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">not helping</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> our eternal life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;"><b>永生,是從跟隨耶穌開始,效法他的一切所行、所言、所想,去在乎祂所關注的一切;當我們願意付上一切的代價而去實行時,這就是福音的實踐。</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;">- </span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;">吳信達</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">關於這篇</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> ”</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The Bible and I</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">” </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">的 Blog,裡面提到:</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">「<i><span style="color: purple;">Faith is not just a course to be completed, but a life time journey. We are here not only</span> <span style="color: purple;">to</span></i><span style="color: purple;"> <i>learn what to think, but how to think</i></span>.」</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">人生就是不斷地在學習,信仰也是如此。像當你小時候看到某章經文感覺沒什麼,但當你經歷了一些風風雨雨後再回過頭看,發現聖經已經有了你想要的答案,而且奇妙的是每個人生階段都會有不同的感受,聖經真的是一本很奇妙的書。我很喜歡讀箴言,因為它裡面的智慧幫助我在對人事物的看法改變上很多,像我讀到現在,很多經文讀了幾遍還是會有新的領受,每次翻開箴言,我的腦袋就好像被開通似的很舒暢,智慧的言語使我身心感到一股甘甜。</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>第一次的小組長時間,我們所要看的文章是關於「恩典」的,雖然在我自己的小組並沒有仔細的去看這個文章,但是從牧師所寄給我之後,我就在想我要寫這篇來回應我最近的體驗</b>。</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: purple;"><i style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">”</span></i><b style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Grace is something you can never get but only be given.</span></i></b><b style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">”</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></i></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">恩典對我來說是付上很大的代價,我們卻只有「接受」這件事是可以做的。除了耶穌基督為我死在十字架上,賜給我永恆的、無價的生命外,祂的愛也透過其他的人給我恩典。在剛看這篇文章的時候,第一個反應就是,我們有時對身邊的事物太過於麻痺,所以也很容易忘記了許多許不清,每天都可以享受到的恩典。我們太習以為常,以至於對一些人的付出也視為應該的事</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">.</span></b><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>..</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">讓我受到恩典的雖然都是親人,但是事實上他們沒有責任要做這件事,特別是他們都是付上很大的代價,而我單單只能接受。就像接受耶穌為我死讓我得生命的恩典,我無力償還,從親人而來的恩典,我也無力償還。不是我無法償還金錢,而是無法償還這背後所包含的一切。讓我最大的學習是,「凡事謝恩」、以及學習如何「接受恩典」。</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">- </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">陳安祺</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: PMingLiU;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">不同於其他宗教大師</span>,</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">在<span class="shorttext">指出到達神的</span>道<span class="shorttext">路</span></span><span class="shorttext">. </span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">耶穌本身</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">就是道路</span>,</b></div>
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</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: PMingLiU;"> </span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="color: purple; font-family: PMingLiU;">喜樂是表達感恩最簡單的形式</span>.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">良心是對生命最具體完美的詮釋</span>.</span><span style="font-family: PMingLiU;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Faith is never identical with piety.</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span></span></span></b><b><span class="shorttext" style="color: purple;"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">信仰</span></span></b><b><span lang="ZH-TW" style="color: purple; font-family: PMingLiU;">與</span></b><b><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;"><span style="color: purple;">虔誠</span></span></span><span class="shorttext" style="color: purple;"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">是不</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="color: purple; font-family: PMingLiU;">相<span class="shorttext">同的</span></span><span class="shorttext" style="color: purple;">.</span></b></div>
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</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: PMingLiU;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">生活中不能</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">顯示</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">出來</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">的恩典</span>, </span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">不能視為恩典</span>.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: PMingLiU;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span class="shorttext" style="color: purple;"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">在耶穌基督的教會</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="color: purple; font-family: PMingLiU;">中</span><span class="shorttext" style="color: purple;">, </span><span class="shorttext" style="color: purple;"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">每個人都應該是神學家</span>.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: PMingLiU;"><br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: PMingLiU;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">當基督徒回首過往</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">, </span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">他所數算的</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">, </span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">是諸罪得赦免的恩典</span><span style="font-family: PMingLiU;">.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together as family they play Mozart.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: PMingLiU;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">當天使們讚美上帝時</span><span style="font-family: PMingLiU;">, <span lang="ZH-TW">他們</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">會選</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">奏巴哈</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">的</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">樂曲</span><span style="font-family: PMingLiU;">; <span lang="ZH-TW">但我相信</span>, <span lang="ZH-TW">當他們</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">自</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">家人在一起時</span><span style="font-family: PMingLiU;">, <span lang="ZH-TW">他們演奏</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">的是</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">莫札特</span><span style="font-family: PMingLiU;">.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- <i style="color: blue;">Karl Barth (1886-1968) Swiss Reformed theologian</i></span></b><br />
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<span class="body1"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">沒有火</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">蠟燭不能燃燒</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">; </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">沒有</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">靈<span class="shorttext">性</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">人不能</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">生息</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.<span class="shorttext"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="shorttext">- </span></span><span class="bodybold1"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b></b>Buddha<b> </b></span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;">563 BC - 483 BC</span></div>
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<span class="body1"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hope is a waking dream </span></span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">懷抱<span class="shorttext"><span style="color: black;">希望是</span>實踐<span style="color: black;">夢</span>想的第一步.</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="body1"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>- </b>Aristotle<b> </b></span></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">384 BC – 322 BC</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;">Miracles happen, not in opposition to nature, but in opposition to what we know of nature. </span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">奇蹟不是反自然的現象</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">倒是我們對大自然現象的無知</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span></span><b>-</b> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Saint Augustine</span> <b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">354 - 430</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Some people are always grumbling that roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. </span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">有些人總是抱怨玫瑰有刺</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">我很感激</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 14pt;">,</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">刺</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">旁邊<span class="shorttext">有玫瑰</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;">Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then find a way. </span><span style="font-family: PMingLiu;"><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-size: 14pt;">首先決定能夠做</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">,<span lang="ZH-TW">且必須做的事物</span>, <span lang="ZH-TW">然後再找方法去做</span>. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: PMingLiu;"><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Abraham Lincoln</span> <span class="st1"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1809 – 1865</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;">The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. </span><span style="font-family: PMingLiu;"><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-size: 14pt;">不讀好書的人</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, <span lang="ZH-TW">就像文盲一樣可惜</span>. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: PMingLiu;"><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></span>- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mark Twain</span> <span class="st1"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1835 -1910</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span><br />
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<span class="body1"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">靈命操練</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">的重要性遠超過</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">身體</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">沒有靈魂的身</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">體<span class="shorttext">僅是一個骨肉空架</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span></span></div>
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<span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">- <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mohandas Gandhi </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">1869 – 1948 </span></div>
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<span class="body1"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">真理立場明確</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">世界歷史的關鍵取決於人的</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">靈</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">性</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">靈</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">性高</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">創造歷史</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">靈</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">性</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">軟弱</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">傷害歷史</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span class="body1"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span class="body1"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">生命<span class="shorttext">之別</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">基於</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">靈</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">性</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">人不能事奉二師</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">你的一生取</span></span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">決於你</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">生命<span class="shorttext">所定的目標.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Thomas Merton <span class="bodybold1"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">1915-1968 </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="body1"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. </span></span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">屬</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">靈</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">有兩件要素</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">: </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">寬恕和善行</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="body1"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">我撒種</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">見</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">它成<span class="shorttext">長開</span>花</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">我<span class="shorttext">與人</span>共享知識和笑容</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">獲得<span class="shorttext">充分的喜悅</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">這些都是我</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">靈命操練</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">的</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 14pt;">經歷</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">“In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility, and be content to be in Him and to do whatever He wills, according to our limitations, judging our acts not in the light of our own illusions, but in the light of His reality which is all around us in the things and people we live with.” </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">from</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">“No Man is an Island”</span></i></b></div>
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<b><span class="st1"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt;">Merton was also known as </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt;">Father Louis; A poet, a monk and a world renown spiritual writer. He had studied at <span class="mw-headline">Cambridge</span><span class="mw-headline"> University in England (1933) and Columbia University in the United States (1935). </span>Merton was a keen proponent of interfaith understanding. He pioneered dialogue with prominent Asian spiritual figures, including <span style="color: black;">Dalai Lama</span>, Japanese writer <span style="color: black;">D. T. Suzuki</span>, and Vietnamese monk <span style="color: black;">Thich Nhat Hanh.</span></span><span style="color: black;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Precious Lord, Take My Hand</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU; font-size: 12pt;"> (<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">親愛</span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">主</span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="shorttext">, </span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="ZH-TW">牽我手</span></span></span></b></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">) - </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Sung by Elvis Presley </span><span class="shorttext" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="ZH-TW">貓王</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">演唱</span></span></span></h2>
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Lead me on, let me stand<br />
I'm tired, I'm weak, I'm lone<br />
Through the storm, through the night<br />
Lead me on to the light<br />
Take my hand, precious Lord, Lead me home<br />
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When my way grows drear<br />
Precious Lord, linger near<br />
When my light is almost gone<br />
Hear my cry, hear my call<br />
Hold my hand, lest I fall<br />
Take my hand precious Lord, Lead me home<br />
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When the darkness appears<br />
And the night draws near<br />
And the day is past and gone<br />
At the river, I stand<br />
Guide my feet, hold my hand<br />
Take my hand precious Lord, Lead me home<br />
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Precious Lord, take my hand<br />
Lead me on, let me stand<br />
I'm tired, I'm weak, I'm lone<br />
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Lead me on to the light<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Music: George N. Allen (1812-1877)</b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana;">Prepositions can be very eloquent. A man is “in” architecture or a woman is “in” teaching, we say, meaning that is what they do weekdays and how they make enough money to enjoy themselves the rest of the time. But if we say they are “into” these things, that is another story. “Into” means something more like total immersion. They live and breathe what they do. They take it home with them nights. They can’t get enough of it. To be “into” books means that just the sight of a signed first edition of Alice in Wonderland sets your heart pounding. To be “in” books means selling them at B. Dalton’s.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana;">Believing in God is an intellectual position. It need have no more effect on your life than believing in Freud’s method of interpreting dreams or the theory that Sir Francis Bacon wrote Romeo and Juliet.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana;">Believing God is something else again. It is less a position than a journey, less a realization than a relationship. It doesn’t leave you cold like believing the world is round. It stirs your blood like believing the world is a miracle. It affects who are and what you do with your life like believing your house is on fire or somebody loves you.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana;">We believe in God when for one reason or another we choose to do so. We believe God when somehow we run into God in a way that by and large leaves us no choice to do otherwise.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana;">When Jesus says that whoever believes “into” him shall never die, he does not mean that to be willing to sign your name to the Nicene Creed guarantees eternal life. Eternal life is not the result of believing in. It is the experience of believing.</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">英語</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">介</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">系</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">詞</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">的貼切</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">使</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">用</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">,</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">可以</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">詞</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">達</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">意</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">盡</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">建築</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">師</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">和教師</span></span><b><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-weight: normal;">乃是</span></b><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">人們選擇</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">(in)</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">的職業</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">. </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">如果</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">他們</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">投</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">(</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">浸</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">)</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">入</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">(into)</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">某種</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">興趣</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">或</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">愛好</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">, </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">那</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">將會</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">是</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">他們日夜<span class="shorttext">擁抱</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">呼吸</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">的心態和生命</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">. </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">猶如愛書的人看見一本</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">難得的</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">珍</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">書</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">, </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">心跳加速</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">, </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">衝擊</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">, </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">快樂</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">無</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">比</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">!</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">新約希臘文</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">所談的信仰</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">, </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">不僅</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">是</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">選擇</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">(in)</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">的相信</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">理念</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">, </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">更是</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">一種</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">生命</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">投</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">入</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">(into) </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">的信仰</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">,</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">信靠</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">. </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">相信</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">上帝</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">也許</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">只</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">是一種</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">知性的理念</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">諸如</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">相信弗洛伊德的釋夢理論</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">, </span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">未必<span class="shorttext">導致</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">生</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">死大事</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">. </span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">信仰</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">, </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">信靠</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">上帝</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">大大不同</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">. </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">這</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">可</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">說</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">是一個旅</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">歷<span class="shorttext">和</span>關係</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">. </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">就像有一天</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">, </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">你</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">發現</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">有人真誠愛你</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">, </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">那</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">將會改變</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">, </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">影響你的一生</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">.</span></span></b><b><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">[</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">相信</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">地球</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">是圓的</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">]</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">是</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">一種</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">理性</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">的</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">思維</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">相信</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">上帝的理念</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">可</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">視</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">為我們的選擇</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">.</span></span></b><b><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;"> </span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">信</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">(</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">仰</span><span lang="EN-US">)</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">靠</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">上帝</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">猶如我們</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">與</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">上帝</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">面對面</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">, </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">別無選擇</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">.</span></span></b><b><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;"> </span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">當耶穌說</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">,</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">信</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">(</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">仰</span><span lang="EN-US">)</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">靠他</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">的</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">人將永遠不死</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">, </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">並不意味著耶穌將給予</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">這</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">人</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">一張</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">永生的證書</span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">. </span></span></b><b><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;"> </span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">永生不是相信的</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"> <span lang="EN-US">”</span></span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">結果</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">”, </span></span><b><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-weight: normal;">乃是</span></b><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">信</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">(</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">仰</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">)</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">靠主</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">的</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">身受</span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體;">與經驗</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial;">- </span><b style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">C S Lewis 1898-1963</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">“Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread.” </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">“Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">- </span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">D T Niles 1908-1970</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">"Dear God,<br />
I am so afraid to open my clenched fists!<br />
Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to?<br />
Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands?<br />
Please help me to gradually open my hands<br />
and to discover that I am not what I own,<br />
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And what you want to give me is love,<br />
unconditional, everlasting love.<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">"How can I be a great man - like you?"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="color: black;">"Then what did you become?" </span></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">It intrigued the disciples that the master who lived so simply would not condemn his wealthy followers.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">"It is rare but not impossible for someone to be rich and holy," he said one day.</span></b><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"> "How?"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">"When money has the effect on his heart that the shadow of that bamboo has on the courtyard,"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;">- <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on"><b>Rabindranath Targore<span style="color: blue;"> (</span></b><span closure_uid_jo9u43="236" td="null"><span style="color: blue;">泰戈爾)</span></span></city><b><span style="color: blue;"> <country-region w:st="on">India -</country-region></span></b></place><b> 1913 Nobel Prize winner for Literature</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><b>It’s not as if I haven’t been warned. Jesus has spoken at least 3 times of his suffering and death – and fully as many times he’s declared that if I intend to come after him I must deny my<i> <span style="color: purple;">self </span></i>and take my cross and follow him.</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><b>Those words. And these: ”The cup that I drink – you will drink.” </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><b>Here’s the real world, and the world’s at war! And my deeds are my words now, and the deeds don’t lie.</b> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Matthew 20:20-23</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">And I will give you rest.<br />
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</div>Stephen Chen 陳中潔http://www.blogger.com/profile/08664147415446017783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1276167335864302462.post-60477909395464897282011-09-25T17:58:00.000-07:002012-01-01T04:39:22.654-08:00Good Mornings<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: purple;"><pre><span style="color: black; font-family: 細明體; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: purple;"><strong>The first wonder will be to see many there whom I did not expect to see. </strong></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: purple;"><strong>The second wonder will be to miss many people who I did expect to see. </strong></span></span>
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: purple;">And the third and the greatest wonder of all will be to find myself there</span>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">John Newton (1725-1807)<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></strong></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
</span></span></pre><pre>______________________________________________________ </pre><pre> </pre><pre><span style="color: black; font-family: 細明體; font-size: large;">『傳統』的基督徒只看到十字架上的耶穌。</span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"></span></pre><pre><span style="color: black; font-family: 細明體; font-size: large;">『時代化』的基督徒只看到復活的耶穌。</span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: 細明體;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>真正的基督徒參與主的受苦,體驗復活的榮耀。</span></span></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: 細明體;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>更進一步說,信徒若不參與今日十字架的苦難,就得不到應許中復活的榮耀。</span></span></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"></span></pre><pre><span style="color: black; font-family: 細明體; font-size: large;">『與神和好』的意義乃在於:<strong><span class="shorttext">參</span>與今日世界的掙扎!</strong></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: 細明體;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span></span></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: 細明體;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-- </span>寂寞神學 陳中潔<span lang="EN-US"> --</span></span></span></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: 細明體;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>(摘自<span lang="EN-US">1976</span>年 <span lang="EN-US">1257</span>期 教會公報)</span></span></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"></span></pre><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"></span>______________________________________________________</div><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">John 14: 1-9 Seeing God "</span></b><b><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">看上帝</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">" <span style="font-size: small;">Oct. 2011</span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: purple;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">In this morning scripture reading, the disciples raised two questions. For Thomas, Jesus answered one of the most known answers in the Bible, “</span></b><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">耶穌說, 我就是道路, 真理,生命. 若不藉著我, 沒有人能到父那裡去.</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Jesus said unto him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me</span></b>.” <b><span style="font-family: Arial;">To Philip Jesus said</span></b>, “<span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">腓力、我與你們同在這樣長久, 你還不認識我麼</span>? <span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU;">人看見了我, 就是看見了父. 你怎麼說, 將父顯給我們看呢</span>?” <b><span style="font-family: Arial;">“Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how said thou then, Show us the Father?”</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Earlier this year, my wife and I took a quick trip to Austria to visit two cities, Salzburg and Vienna. Why not? Austria has been a country known for her richness in music and culture. While wandering on the streets of Salzburg one day, we entered a gift shop to see if there were any handy gifts to bring home. Within a few minutes, my wife whispered to me that she over heard some Taiwanese spoken. I told her that she could have been day dreaming, due to the time zone effect. Who in the world would speak Taiwanese half way around the world where I could not even get a straight answer in English from a information desk. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Just when I said that, I saw an oriental lady stood by a cashier machine. So I went over and ask her, “May I ask where you come from originally?” “Taiwan,” she answered. I looked at my wife with a nod and continued the conversation, “Do you speak Taiwanese?” </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">“Of course!” she answered with a big smile. That was all it took. So we continued our shopping and conversation. Soon we found out that she and her husband were from Kaohsiung city where my national ID card was established decades ago. We also found out that they were both Christians involving in weekly Chinese Bible study class every Monday evening, and they found out that I was a retired minister. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">We ended up having dinner at their home, followed by an informal Bible study and general discussion on the subjects of the spiritual growth, the Church, denominations and so on. By the time they drove us back to Hotel, it was past midnight. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">We were really surprised to receive a phone call the next morning from them. Mr. and Mrs. Lu insisted that they would drive us to the train station for a trip to Vienna since the station was under heavy constructions with detour instructions in German language everywhere. And we were so grateful and touched to have their helping hands, or we would’ve easily gotten lost not knowing the language. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Where there is love, there is God – we found that out there and then. We have emailed back and forth with them the next few weeks and found out too that they had experienced very busy days since we left. They said they had never been so busy during that time of the year, “Must have been nice to show hospitality to strangers, especially one of them is a minister.” </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Four Taiwanese in a city of Salzburg where Mozart was born, together, we saw God.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><i>Do you know what I really saw then? What I really saw was the love marks all over that old home. I saw the love between the couple, their love of the nature and the love of God through their smiles and thanksgiving. After a short prayer, they embraced. I noticed then that I was not the only one with the teary eyes. </i></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Come and see Jesus of Nazareth, where you'll see and experience the love of God. </i></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>* <b>Prayers </b></i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>祈禱 </b></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> <span style="color: #741b47;">Luke 18: 9-14</span></b> Sep 27, 2011</span> </span></i></span></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><i>There is always a tendency that one thinks he or she is an excellent prayer by comparison. So, what are we thinking? Do we really think that God pays more attention to our use of words, grammar, and Biblical/theological understanding level than what we are saying from the bottom of our hearts?</i></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Here is another perspective: One of the last things a Christian should do is to speak of how great his/her achievements are. Even though one did have an outstanding achievement in the past month or the last ten years, it should rather be viewed as a gift from God. One has not earned it. One is given. The congregations won’t pay much attention one way or the other when preachers praise themselves instead of praising God. Besides, the church/temple is a house of the Lord for prayers, not a political platform.</i></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><i>This is exactly the problem of some religious and self-justified people who entered the temple looking down the others and promoting themselves above everybody else. Not so with that tax collector who knew his role and his shortcomings. </i></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><i>“Know thyself,” someone once said.</i></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><i>The religious and self-justified guy got nothing when he exited the temple, because he asked nothing from the Lord. He probably thought he got the whole world in his hands. </i></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><i>The tax collector asked for forgiveness. He got it. </i></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><i>The good news is always meant for the humble, honest and simple minded people.</i> <span style="color: #741b47;">Amen.</span></span></b></div><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">* <b>Hello and Good bye </b> <span style="color: purple;"><b>Matt 12: 43-45</b></span> Sep 20, 2011 </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black;">One goes to an institution with different attitude:</span></span></b></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 30pt; text-indent: -24pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <i> </i></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Closed minded – never willing to open for new ideas or messages or friends or love. After years of ‘education’ one comes out pretty much the same as he went in years ago. Education. What education?</i></span></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><i></i></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 30pt; text-indent: -24pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Empty minded – Takes in whatever comes without much choice. It might end up with enough garbage and nothing constructive really taking place. Degree. What degree? </span></b></i></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><i></i></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 30pt; text-indent: -24pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Open minded – One has to say good-bye to the old, childish stuffs and say hello (make room) for the new, mature, meaningful, creative and loving ideas from the classrooms, chapel, library, coffee/tea time and a few talks under the tree on campus.</span></b></i></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><i></i></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The scripture we read this morning gives us an example of the terrible results when one says good-bye to the bad spirits without receiving something new and better.</i></span></span></span></b><i><br />
</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It is your mind, your spirit and your body that you invested here. </i></span></span></span></b></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><i></i></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It is your life after all. Be careful. Good luck. </i></span></span></span></b><i><br />
</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">And remember: God be with you, always. </span></b></i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div>Stephen Chen 陳中潔http://www.blogger.com/profile/08664147415446017783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1276167335864302462.post-21031072749838003642011-09-25T17:52:00.001-07:002011-11-30T01:39:02.364-08:00The Gospel according to our Missions ... <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;">"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply" </span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;">"God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him" </span></span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed" </span></span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for <country-region w:st="on">China</country-region>" </span></span></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">"God uses men who are weak and feeble </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">enough to lean on him." </span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"> -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">James Hudson Taylor</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"> (</span><b><span lang="ZH" style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">戴德生)</span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;"><em>"<strong>No other missionary in the nineteen centuries since the Apostle Paul</strong></em></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><em> has had a wider vision and has carried out a more systematised plan of evangelising a broad geographical area than Hudson Taylor."</em></span><span style="color: black;"> </span></strong></span></span></span><em><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"></span></em><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><strong>"No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><strong>"Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><strong>"We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first." </strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">—</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Oswald Jeffrey Smith</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"> (1889 - 1986) </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">"Someone asked, will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we — who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not — can be saved." —</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Charles Haddon</span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"> <b>Spurgeon</b> (1834 – 1892)</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;"><em><strong><span style="color: blue;">"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000 people, often up to 10 times each week at different places."</span></span></strong></em></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity." — Mike Stachura</span></b></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">"Love is the root of missions; sacrifice is the fruit of missions" — Roderick Davis</span></b></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">"If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers" — Nina Gunter</span></b></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">"The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet." </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">"The Church must send or the church will end." — Mendell Taylor</span></b></div><br />
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<div style="color: purple;"><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is the contact point of my Christian mission? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">What is the Good News in my mission?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>* <span style="color: black;">Some factors for being a better preacher:</span></i></span></div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i></i></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.4pt; mso-outline-level: 2; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="shorttext" style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="color: black;"> 3 </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">多</span><span lang="EN-US"> - </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">閱讀</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">思考</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體;">視野</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #444444;"> </span> <span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.4pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">"You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving." — Amy Carmichael, missionary to <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">India</place></country-region></span></b></div>Stephen Chen 陳中潔http://www.blogger.com/profile/08664147415446017783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1276167335864302462.post-41182718912517978242011-09-23T07:38:00.000-07:002011-10-09T21:06:12.340-07:00The Bible and I<ul><li><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Process in Learning and Believing</i></span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: 243.0pt; vertical-align: top;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Faith is not just a course to be completed, but a life time journey.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: 243.0pt; vertical-align: top;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">信仰</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">不是一個可修</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">完的課程</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">乃</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">是一個</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">人</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">生命之旅</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">程</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 新細明體;">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"></span></span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: 243.0pt; vertical-align: top;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: 243.0pt; vertical-align: top;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">We are here not only to learn what to think, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">how</i></b> to think.</span></div><strong><span style="color: purple;"><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">我們不僅要學習思考什麼</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">, </span><span class="shorttext"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">更是</span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">要<span class="shorttext">學習<span style="color: black;"><em>如何</em></span><span style="color: purple;">思考</span></span></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">.</span></span></span></strong><br />
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<ul><li><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Asking the questions; avoiding the quick answers...</i></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Here are some questions:</i></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">創</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">世</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">紀</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><strong> <span style="color: purple;">Genesis</span></strong> <strong>4:9 </strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">耶和華對該隱說<span lang="EN-US">, </span>你兄弟亞伯在那裡<span lang="EN-US">? </span>他說<span lang="EN-US">, </span>我不知道<span lang="EN-US">. </span>我豈是看守我兄弟的嗎<span lang="EN-US">?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">詩</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">篇</span><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="color: purple;">Psalms</span> 139:7 </span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: 新細明體; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">我往那裡去躲避你的靈</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">我往那裡逃躲避你的面</span><span lang="EN-US">?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">傳</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">道</span></strong><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strong>書</strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <strong><span style="color: purple;">Ecclesiastes</span></strong></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><strong> 1:3</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">人一切的勞碌</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">就是他在日光之下的勞碌</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">有甚麼益處呢</span><span lang="EN-US">?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">馬</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">太</span><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="color: purple;">Matthew</span> 16:26</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">人若賺得全世界</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">賠上自己的生命</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">有甚麼益處呢</span><span lang="EN-US">? </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">人還能拿甚麼換生命呢</span><span lang="EN-US">?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">馬</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">太</span> <span style="color: purple;">Matthew</span></strong> <span lang="EN-US"><strong>22:17</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">請告訴我們</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">你的意見如何</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">納稅給該撒</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">可以不可以</span><span lang="EN-US">?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">路</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">加 <span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luke</span></span><span lang="EN-US"> 10:25; 29</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">夫子</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">我該作甚麼纔可以承受永生</span><span lang="EN-US">?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">誰是我的鄰舍呢</span><span lang="EN-US">?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">約翰 </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">3:4</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">尼哥底母說</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">人已經老了</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">如何能重生呢</span><span lang="EN-US">? </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">豈能再進母腹生出來麼</span><span lang="EN-US">?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">約</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">翰</span><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial;">John</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span>18:38</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">彼拉多說</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">真理是甚麼呢</span><span lang="EN-US">?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">羅</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">馬</span></strong><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strong>書 <span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial;">Romans</span></strong></span><span lang="EN-US"><strong> 8:31</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">神若幫助我們</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">誰能敵擋我們呢</span><span lang="EN-US">?</span></div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i></i></span>Stephen Chen 陳中潔http://www.blogger.com/profile/08664147415446017783noreply@blogger.com1