Your Daily Word

Metro Manila Film Festival 2011 happening this Christmas!

2011-12-22T10:03:00.000-08:00

Metro Manila Film Festival is happening once again this Christmas (Dec. 25, 2011). A time to showcase Filipino talents and artistic creativity in film making.

There are 7 entries in this year's MMFF 2011:

Segunda Mano

Panday 2

My Househusband, Ikaw Na!

Enteng Ng Ina Mo

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Shake Rattle and Roll 13

Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story

Read more about these films and watch trailers at My Movie Blog.

How many are you going to watch?

Coca-Cola Where Will Happiness Strike Next: The OFW Project

2011-12-22T08:21:00.000-08:00

This made me Cry.

Real Stories. Real Emotions.

Amazing!

"Star Ng Pasko"

2011-12-22T08:12:00.000-08:00

It's Christmas time again! I had a hard time choosing the best song to post. I want a song that truly reflects what I feel and what I want to say. There were several but this one for me is the best!

This is the Christmas Station ID of my favorite station, ABS-CBN last year. This was during the height of the popularity of the teleserye "May Bukas Pa" where the Lord Jesus Christ is referred to as "Bro" or Big Brother by the protagonist child actor.

My only wish as you listen to this song is for you to look to Jesus and to give HIM His due recognition and glory for without Him choosing to lay down His life, we'll have no Christmas to celebrate. Siya talaga ang Star Ng Pasko!

STAR NG PASKO

Kung kailan pinakamadilim

Ang mga tala ay mas nagniningning

Gaano man kakapal ang ulap

Sa likod nito ay may liwanag

Ang liwanag na ito

Nasa 'ting lahat

May sinag ang bawat pusong bukas

Sa init ng mga yakap

Maghihilom ang lahat ng sugat

Ang nagsindi nitong ilaw

Walang iba kundi ikaw

Salamat sa liwanag mo

Muling magkakakulay ang pasko

Salamat sa liwanag mo

Muling magkakakulay ang pasko

Tayo ang ilaw sa madilim na daan

Pagkakapit bisig lalong higpitan

Dumaan man sa malakas na alon

Lahat tayo'y makakaahon

Ang liwanag na ito

Nasa 'ting lahat

May sinag ang bawat pusong bukas

Sa init ng mga yakap

Maghihilom ang lahat ng sugat

Ang nagsindi nitong ilaw

Walang iba kundi ikaw

Salamat sa liwanag mo

Muling magkakakulay ang pasko

Salamat sa liwanag mo

Muling magkakakulay ang pasko

Kikislap ang pag-asa

Kahit kanino man

Dahil ikaw Bro, dahil ikaw Bro

Dahil ikaw Bro

Ang star ng pasko

Salamat sa liwanag mo

Muling magkakakulay ang pasko

Salamat sa liwanag mo

Muling magkakakulay ang pasko

Ang nagsindi nitong ilaw

Walang iba kundi ikaw

Salamat sa liwanag mo

Muling magkakakulay ang pasko

Ang nagsindi nitong ilaw

Walang iba kundi ikaw

Salamat sa liwanag mo

Muling magkakakulay ang pasko

Ang nagsindi nitong ilaw

Walang iba kundi ikaw

Salamat sa liwanag mo

Muling magkakakulay ang pasko

Dahil ikaw Bro, dahil ikaw Bro Dahil ikaw Bro Ang star ng pasko!

Your Love Is Extravagant

2011-11-05T22:45:00.000-07:00

Your Love Is Extravagant

Your love is extravagant

Your friendship, it is intimate

I feel like moving to the rhythm of Your grace

Your fragrance is intoxicating in our secret place

Your love is extravagant

Spread wide in the arms of Christ is the love that covers sin

No greater love have I ever known You considered me a friend

Capture my heart again

Spread wide in the arms of Christ is the love that covers sin

No greater love have I ever known; You considered me a friend

Capture my heart again

Your love is extravagant

Your friendship, it is intimate

Love your Neighbor As Yourself: sEriOuslY?

2011-10-24T21:18:00.000-07:00

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF

Last Sunday when I was about to leave for Church, I made sure the know is locked before I closed the door. I don't want to repeat what happened the last time when I was surprise coming home, my door wasn't actually closed.

Unfortunately though it's not the "locked door" I should worry about, believe it or not: I LEFT MY KEY INSIDE MY HOUSE! To make it worst, nobody else has a duplicate except for my Mom who's in Mindanao and my housemate who's in Negros. To make it hopeless, the gate is still locked so I can also not get out. Talk about weird situation?

Let's backtrack a little bit. When I moved to this house around 3 or 4 months ago, I never talked to any of my neighbors, EVER! Except for those two instances my two neighbors (left and right) shouted at me because of garbage and parking lot. Lol! Anyhow maybe I also got used in Ozamiz, my hometown where I don't know any neighbor at all. I mean I REALLY DON'T KNOW ANYBODY. Honestly, I really thought to myself, "Why do I need to talk to them?, This is the city, people don't care what other people do."

Now back to ME stuck and locked up. First thing I tried to force open the door was my Save Up Account Card. It got crumpled. I used my old UnionBank ATM, at least this is thicker. It also got crumpled. *whew*

And then I heard the left neighbor (an elderly woman) shouting (or actually just talking, I don't know). I decided to just go ahead and asked if I can borrow any tool I can use to force open the door. Then came the knife, the other knife, the screw driver, the other screw driver and finally the hammer which finally *destroyed* I mean opened my door. Before the amazing and spectacular opening though, my left neighbor was there the whole time giving me advices what to do. To a point, she suggested i go naked to climb over the gate. Luckily, It didn't happen though (Thank God)

But one thing, I've learned all throughout this 45-min ordeal, the neighbor you thought you don't need, you actually do! Then I remember what Jesus said when he was asked "What is the great commandment?" He replied:

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. You shall love your neighbor as yourself"

It's TRUE, God will always be the priority but what God is saying here is, if we love Him, it's an automatic result that we also love our neighbors. Because as God's Love fill us, the Love will surely overflow: Unstoppable and Uncontrollable.

I may have learned LOVING MY NEIGHBOR in a not so good way but I still thank God for pushing me to that situation in order for me to learn what He's been teaching me.

PGT's El Gamma Penumbra: AMAZING!

2011-10-24T20:21:00.000-07:00

EL GAMMA PENUMBRA

I Will Find My Way, I'll Be There Someday

2011-10-11T20:35:00.000-07:00

GO THE DISTANCE by Michael Bolton Video

GO THE DISTANCE by Michael Bolton Lyrics

I have often dreamed

Of a far off place

Where a great warm welcome

Will be waiting for me

Where the crowds will cheer

When they see my face

And a voice keeps saying

This is where I'm meant to be

I will find my way

I can go the distance

I'll be there some day

If I can be strong

I know every mile

Will be worth my while

And I will go the distance

I'll be right where I belong

Down an unknown road

To embrace my fate

Though that road may wander

It will lead me to you

And a thousand years

Would be worth the wait

It might take a lifetime

But somehow I'll see it through

And I won't look back

I can go the distance

And I'll stay on track

No I won't accept defeat

It's an uphill slope

But I won't lose hope

Till I go the distance

And my journey is complete

But to look beyond the glory is the hardest part

For a hero's strength is measured by his heart

Like a shooting star I will go the distance

I will search the world I will face its harms

I don't care how far

I can go the distance

Till I find my hero's welcome

Waiting in your arms...

I will search the world I will face its harms

Till I find my hero's welcome

Waiting in your arms

Connect The Dots by Steve Jobs

2011-10-06T20:46:00.000-07:00

Connecting the Dots. Love and Loss. Death. - Steve Jobs

Source: Stanford University

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

Have you tried Google Gravity?

2011-09-26T01:24:00.000-07:00

I saw a post in Facebook about Google Gravity one time. I decided to just try it out without expecting anything of course. It can be a lie again. Remember the Oprah thing?

Anyway I tried and it's turned out to be fun!

Here's how:

1) Go to Google,and type 'Google Gravity'.
2) Click on the 1st result that appears i.e. Google Gravity
3) Wait 2 seconds. Something cool will happen!
4) Play with it for a while.
5) Then write any word in the Google search bar and press Enter.
6) Wait and see. Something even cooler will happen.

I took an image on how my google looked like:

Take that First Step

2011-09-14T21:35:00.000-07:00

"You can name it and claim it, but you better do something to get it!

Affirmations without discipline lead to delusion."

- A.R. Bernard

Listen to "Age to Age (His Glory Appears)" by Hillsong

2011-09-14T21:11:00.000-07:00

Age to Age (His Glory Appears) by Hillsong

Age to Age (His Glory Appears) by Hillsong
Verse:
You gave me hope
You made me whole
At the cross
You took my place
You showed me grace
At the cross Where you died for me

Chorus:
And his glory appears
Like the light from the sun
Age to age He shines
Look to the skies
Hear the angels cry
Singing Holy is the Lord

Copyrights belong to: (c) 2009 Hillsong Church, Hillsong Music Australia

Blogs Worth Checking

2011-08-23T07:19:00.000-07:00

Among all the sites I visit everyday, here are the some of the recommended ones.

Go ahead and check them out:

JoshHarris.com

"Spend more time in prayer than speculation. Spend more time interceding than choosing sides. Spend more energy loving others than arguing. Get away from the internet, get into the Scripture, go talk with God. Let's ask that he would use this season in our church to make us all more gentle, loving and broken--not more angry, self-righteous and irate. He is in this and he loves everyone involved.

It's a beautiful day outside. I'm going to go take a prayer walk."

Phil Pringle

A. R. Bernard

Kong Hee

Movies to Watch: Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank

2011-08-09T00:03:00.000-07:00

Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank

Movies to Watch: The Adventures of Pureza, Queen Of The Riles

2011-08-09T00:01:00.000-07:00

The Adventures of Pureza, Queen Of The Riles

God Is Able | Hillsong Live (FULL Version) w/ Lyrics

2011-08-08T23:09:00.000-07:00

God Is Able | Hillsong Live (FULL Version)

God Is Able | Hillsong Live LYRICS

VERSE 1:

God is able
He will never fail
He is almighty God
Greater than all we seek
Greater than all we ask
He has done great things

CHORUS:

Lifted up
Defeated the grave
Raised to life
Our God is able
In His name we overcome
For the Lord
Our God is able

VERSE 2:

God is with us
God is on our side
He will make a way
Far above all we know
Far above all we hope
He has done great things

CHORUS:

Lifted up
Defeated the grave
Raised to life
Our God is able
In His name we overcome
For the Lord
Our God is able

BRIDGE:

God is with us
He will go before
He will never leave us
He will never leave us
God is for us
He has open arms
He will never fail us
He will never fail us

CHORUS:

Lifted up
Defeated the grave
Raised to life
Our God is able
In His name we overcome
For the Lord
Our God is able
For the Lord
Our God is able
For the Lord
Our God is able

Check these links:

http://live.hillsong.com/
http://facebook.com/hillsonglive
http://twitter.com/hillsonglive

And If Our GOD Is For Us...| Chris Tomlin

2011-08-05T01:20:00.000-07:00

And If Our GOD Is For Us...| Chris Tomlin

My Mother, My Perfect Fan!

2011-05-07T03:31:00.000-07:00

Happy Mother's Day Mama!

I Love You.

Here's a song from Backstreet Boys that I'd like to dedicate to you! Thank you for being my perfect fan!

The Perfect Fan | Backstreet Boys VIDEO

The Perfect Fan | Backstreet Boys LYRICS

It takes a lot to know what is love
It's not the big thing but the little things
That can mean enough
A lot of players to get me through
There is never a day that passes by
I don't think of you
You were always there for me
Pushing me and guiding me
Always to succeed

You showed me
When i was young just how to grow
You showed me everything that i should know
You showed me just how to walk without your hands
'Cause mom you always were the perfect fan

God has been so good
With blessing me with the family
Who did all they could
And I've had many years of Grace
And it flatters me when i see a smile on your face
I wanna thank you for what you've done
In hopes I can give back to you
And be the perfect son

You showed me
When i was young just how to grow
You showed me everything that i should know
You showed me just how to walk without your hands
'Cause mom you always were the perfect fan

You showed me how to love
You showed me how to care
And showed me that you would always be there
I wanna thank you for the time
And I'm proud to say you're mine

You showed me
When i was young just how to grow
You showed me everything that i should know
You showed me just how to walk without your hands
'Cause mom you always were the perfect fan

'Cause Mom you always were, Mom you always were
Mom you always were...the perfect fan

I Love You Mom

Pictures after the jump.

Like a Fire | Planetshakers Video, Lyrics

2011-05-07T02:11:00.000-07:00

Here's a WORSHIP Song that speaks what my heart shouts! I'm sure you will be blessed by it as well!

Like a Fire | Planetshakers VIDEO

Like a Fire | Planetshakers LYRICS

Like a fire shut up in my bones
I want the world to know You are God
With a passion burning deep within
I want the world to know that You live

Let Your presence come and saturate
Every part of me, make me new
Let Your Spirit come and move within
Fill me once again ’cause I need more

Jesus I’m desperate for You
Jesus I’m hungry for You
Jesus I’m longing for You
‘Cause Lord You are all I want

Come like a flood and saturate me now
You’re all I want
Come like the wind and sweep throughout this place
You’re all we want

Source: Top Christian Lyrics

Do Not WORRY!

2011-05-05T16:18:00.000-07:00

Don't fret or worry.

Instead of worrying, PRAY.

Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns.

Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness,

everything coming together for good,

will come and settle you down.

It's WONDERFUL what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

Philippians 4:6-7 (The Message)

Osama Bin Laden's Death: Should we rejoice?

2011-05-02T19:14:00.000-07:00

When I heard about the news, I thought to myself well he DESERVES it and started to thank God for the victory.

It was when I was chatting with a friend that made me rethink things.

This friend asked, why would we as Christians rejoice for somebody's death?

And he's right.

Because even if how sinful a man can be, he's still a man God loves unconditionally, a man whom Jesus died for just like you and me.We can all say, well his SINS are greater compared to our petty ones. But the truth of the matter is, it's still sin and God detests it. Small or Big.

So the question is, should we rejoice or should we be sad?

Thank God, I found the answer from my favorite author's blog, Joshua Harris:

Justin Taylor helpfully states that "it's appropriate for Christians to intermingle grieving and gratitude. Grief for a life made in the image of God but so destructive of human life and so dishonoring to God. And gratitude for justice being served as an instrument of God's wrath."

Now that's the right perspective!

Just like what Jesus said "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

Source: http://www.joshharris.com/2011/05/how_should_we_respond_to_osama.php

Do Not QUIT

2011-04-30T03:07:00.000-07:00

Everyday I start the team I'm handling with either an encouraging message, tap on the back, cute emails or even just a shout of Good Morning to wake them up and to have their balls rolling. Here's one poem I googled lately but I'm not sure where I got it from that I really think has somewhat (including me) encouraged my team to just continue no matter.

I just want to say to my team that even if we're facing great challenges lately, I promise to hold on and still believe that later or I'd prefer sooner we'll reach our GOAL together: The NUMBER 1 team in the floor! Go Team! I still believe in you!

Here's the poem:

"When things go wrong as they sometimes will;

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill;

When the funds are low, and the debts are high

And you want to smile, but have to sigh;

When care is pressing you down a bit-

Rest if you must, but do not quit.

Success is failure turned inside out;

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;

And you can never tell how close you are

It may be near when it seems so far;

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit-

It's when things go wrong that you must not quit."

A Deep and Serious Malady of the Soul ( A.W. Tozer)

2011-04-30T02:32:00.000-07:00

“A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals. We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relations with God. We read our chapter, have our short devotions, and rush away, hoping to make up for our deep inward bankruptcy by attending another gospel meeting or listening to another thrilling story told by a religious adventurer lately returned from afar. The tragic results of this spirit are all about us. Shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies, the preponderance of the element of fun in gospel meetings, the glorification of men, trust in religious externalities, quasi-religious fellowships, salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit; these and such as these are the symptoms of an evil disease, a deep and serious malady of the soul.”

- Borrowed words from A.W. Tozer

(Source: http://www.worldofquotes.com/author/A.+W.+Tozer/1/index.html)

Who Am I?

2011-04-28T21:38:00.000-07:00

Who am I?

That the Lord of all the earth,

Would care to know my name,

Would care to feel my hurt.

Who am I?

That the bright and morning star,

Would choose to light the way,

For my ever wandering heart.

Who am I?

That the eyes that see my sin

Would look on me with love

And watch me rise again.

Who am I?

That the voice that calmed the sea,

Would call out through the rain,

And calm the storm in me.

Not because of who I am,

But because of what you've done.

Not because of what I've done,

But because of who you are.

I am a flower quickly fading,

Here today and gone tomorrow,

A wave tossed in the ocean,

A vapor in the wind.

Still you hear me when I'm calling,

Lord, you catch me when I'm falling,

And you've told me who I am.

I am yours.

Happy Birthday Mikes!

2011-04-20T19:07:00.000-07:00

Lame.

Rolling In The Deep by Adele (VIDEO)

2011-04-20T18:03:00.000-07:00

Rolling In The Deep by Adele (VIDEO)