2008 in 12 Pics

As 2008 draws to a swift close here are some of this year's highlights, both ministry-wise and on a more personal level.

JANUARY: The Fateful Lunch Meeting of ABSCBN Fellowship - This was the meeting that determined to keep the meetings of the fellowship on a monthly basis. This was also when the Lord gave a clear directive to the ABS-CBN people that their mandate was to be "Josephs, Daniels and Esthers" in their highly influential world of media. As a result, ABSCBN saw revitalized growth, both in numbers and in spiritual depth.

We had more well-known personalities come and take part in the Lord's work - Dolphy Jr., Mel Villena, Donita Rose, the Philippine All Stars, Coney Reyes, Cito Beltran, Kuh Ledesma and Piolo Pascual. This also culminated in the fellowship's yearender in the Doplhy theater (see below)! Amazing what continued obedienc to God's Word can bring about in a year's time! Psalm 115:1! Hallelujah!

FEBRUARY: Reunion with Tristan - After over 6 years of not seeing or hearing from each other I finally got to be reunited with my good friend and dear brother in the Lord, Tanny. I got to visit with him and his lovely wife Lally and their now-grown son, Josiah. Thank You Lord for this blessed time of reconnecting with a dearly loved friend!

MARCH: Rose Graduates! - At last, after almost two decades of being away from her college alma mater, and almost two years of being back there, my beloved wife finally got her diploma in Accounting. What an achievement! Glory to God alone. I'm so proud of you Rose!

APRIL: Jesi Rose in Thailand [and Myanmar!] - This year's theme in the Master's Commission International Network's Annual Conference was "The Replacements". How apropos it was, then, for our eldest child and only daughter Jesi Rose to find herself out in the Asian mission field, doing God's work and participating in the Harvest, in our stead. Seeing this picture of her standing between the borders of two nations, Thailand and my beloved Myanmar, all I could do was breath a simple prayer of gratitude to our Lord, Who has sovereignly called our little girl to His service. Thank You Lord Jesus!

MAY: Summer GimmICS in Baguio - While Jesi was roughing it in the hills of Thailand and Myanmar, the rest of my family and I were >eherm< were called to "rough it out" on the mountains of Baguio. At the behest of a generous churchmate-sponsor, my family and I, along with several other ICS families, were treated to a brief respite in the country's Summer Capital. Short but sweet, our time together was! Once again, thank You Lord for God-moments with our beloved ICS family!

JUNE: Time with MC Baguio - Rose and I got to go back to Baguio, this time at the invitation of the thriving MC Baguio chapter of MCPhilippines. I magine my delighted surprise to find that MCB was now six churches strong! One of the pastors even had a local network TV program where I got to be a featured guest. This was the precursor to my decision to ask my wonderful ICS church family to release me back to the field. They did so, and I am ever so grateful they did.

July - Meeting Mr. Pure Energy! - Thanks to Ree I had the privilege of not only enjoying Gary V's 25h anniversary concert in Music Museum but also of meeting him personally, face to face. Now, please understand that, in all my life as a Pinoy showbiz fan, I have only truly admired two entertainers - Dolphy and Gary V., in that order. So, now, finally meeting and getting to have a chance to talk with "Mr. Pure Energy" himself, well...I was honored and excited as any fan could be. Happily, Gary was, in person, who he appeared to be onstage - warm, friendly, genuinely down to earth. What a blessing to finally meet a uniquely gifted, humble man of God.

AUGUST: Attending Dolphy's 80th Birthday Bash at the Meralco Theater - Thanks to another friend, I also had the great privilege of being at the live telecast of our country's Ace Comedian at the prestigious Meralco Theater. Fresh from meeting Gary V just a few nights before, I was in fanboy heaven as I, together with my wife Rose, our son Chuck, and our good friends, Shirley, Nio and Kei, got to be part of history as our local showbiz community paid tribute to the man who has entertained Pinoys for over 6 decades now. What a wonderful treat from our gracious God!

SEPTEMBER: Jesi turns 18 - Jesi Rose actually chose to go to missions for her advanced 18th birthday celebration. Come September though, the little girl in her decided she wanted to have at least a simple birthday gathering of close friends to mark her significant year of maturity. So, she got one! And in her typical unique style she opted for a "hawker's party" - complete with street food! Fishballs, squid balls, quiquiam, Chinese style fish fried rice and sago for "panulak" were the treats for the night. And her guests? Oh, about 82...crammed into our tiny little home. But what a great, grand night it turned out to be! Thank You Lord Jesus for a wonderfully fun and blessed night for our precious daughter!

OCTOBER: MCP-A: STRONG '08 @ JOHIA - With only three weeks left and absolutely no budget, the Lord proved Himself once again as the God to Whom nothing is impossible. MCP-A had its best (in my opinion) Conference yet as we "came home" to our Mother Church, JOHIA, and had True Love Waits, Dyan Castillejo, Philippine All Stars and Generation Congregation as our special guests! And, to top it all, we had "the youngest member of MCP-A" as our powerful main speaker, no less than "Iron Mom" Mommy Lorie Cruz! Hallelujah! Indeed, our God is STRONG!

NOVEMBER: Visiting with "Iron Mom" Mommy Lorie - You really wouldn't know it, looking at her, but Mommy Lorie was fighting - and winning! - a battle against cancer. Before the month was over, it was determined that her right breast had to be removed. By early December the operation had been done. But visiting with her in her home, and even in St. Luke's after the procedure, one could not help but be in awe at the fact that Mommy Lorie did not appear to be sick at all! Her spirit was strong, her body looked great! She still had that infectious glow and zeal for life. One look at her and you knew that her "Big C" is CHRIST!

DECEMBER: ABS-CBN's Christmas Gathering at the Dolphy Theater - As a direct result of the precedent-setting meeting we had in January, the Lord honored the faith of the ABSCBN community by granting us the blessing of celebrating Christmas in the prestigious Dolphy Theater, formerly known as Studio One. On top of this, we also had Ms. Kuh Ledesma and Piolo Pascual as our featured guests. It was a wonderful, star-studded celebration of the Season of Christ. And a fitting yearender for a ministry that had seen remarkable growth and blessing from the Hand of our Lord!

BONUS! A PROMISE FULFILLED from the Lord right at the start of the year!

As I was looking over the several albums that had been made over the last twelve months, I came across this photo that was taken back in January, as I was rushing to get back to ICS from our fateful meeting in ABSCBN. There I was, stuck in afternoon EDSA traffic when my eye caught this sing along the highway. As soon as I saw it I felt in my spirit that this was a promise from God. So I took my trusty phonecam (now stolen) and clicked away.

Seeing this picture now at the end of the year, I realize that God already had all these blessings in mind as early as then. And He has truly fulfilled His Promise - His PEACE, His order, His reign, His Kingdom - has been His blessing to us throughout this blessed year.

I also realize just how much I have to be thankful for. And the year ain't over yet!
Thank You Lord Jesus!

On Worry

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worship

to the wrong

god.

thanks to claudrod

Rose@43...and lovely as ever :)

There she is.  And there's that smile. 

It's funny.  For 17 years of my life I existed, I lived quite happily without her.  Then I met her. And through her I came to know the Lord. Now, surely, that was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

Right after that, however, I would hasted to add that she would be the next best thing. Person. Relationship. Blessing. Rose.

I've known her now for a quarter century. And I've lived with her now for just a few days past nineteen years. That means I've lived longer now with her than without her.

I never really think about it that much. But when I do..I shudder. I shudder to think, just to think, of life here on earth without her.  Scary, sobering, lonely thought.

For 19 years now, we've lived together, loved and laughed and fought and won and lost together. We've had our kids given to us by a loving Father God. We've seen them grow up.

And we've seen each other grow older. Both age- and girth-wise.

Ruth Graham, wife of God's choice servant Billy Graham,  was once asked by an interviewing journalist, "Did you ever think about  divorcing Billy?"

With a twinkle in her eye that was both naughty and nice she said, "'Divorce?' Never! Murder, many times."

I'm sure She's had that thought about me...many times.

But she's put up with me, and lived and loved and laughed and fought and won and lost with me. And she's still here.  Or at lest she was.  She's, right now, in Angono, Rizal doing what she loves best - bringing and being a blessing to the less privileged people there by holding what is now her third annual birthday Ukay-Ukay.  

That's just her. Never content to hoard her blesings. Always so much happier seeing other people become happy.  Never the center of attraction, ever the conduit of blessings.

That's Rose - blesser, blessing, committed wife, loving mother, loyal friend, fun-loving lady, child of God...at 43.

I love you, Rose.  Happy birthday.

Master's Commission Christmas Party 2008

Dec. 27, 2008 Dedel residence

And I thought we were just gonna be a handful of grateful merrymakers, mostly from Manila. Oh me of little faith. :)

They came - from Pulilan, from Tarlac, Pangasinan and Montalban, from Laguna, from Bicol[!] and, of course, from Pasig Greenpark, home of Faithful Flock Christian Church.

As a bonus/blessing, "Iron Mom" Mommy Lorie came[!] and made it all the way up to our home on the fourth floor, fresh from her recent mastectomy, which saw her right breast totally removed, without even breaking a sweat. Beat that!

We had FOOD[!], we had fellowship, we had fun, we had MUGS!, we had good reports. We even had news of a brand new, 4-week old church birthed by MC Tarlac - Coram Deo Living Church!!!! Hallelujah!

Oh Lord, Thou art Good, Thou art Great!

Indeed, GREATER Things are yet to come in 2009!

Blessed be the Name of the Lord!

GODVERTISING - An article on our "Jesus Alone Saves" sign from Philippine Star =)

A sign of the times 
HOT FUSS SUNDAE By Paolo Lorenzana Updated December 27, 2008 12:00 AM

There’s a lot of irony packed into “the holiday rush.” For all those mornings you struggle to unwrap yourself from your sheets and loosen your leg-lock on your pillow; for the hands-up sluggishness that turns simple work tasks into an ordeal; and for chipping at the crisp, caramel skin of a roasted suckling pig into a must-accomplish objective. And for the abrupt slowdown that comes ‘round this time of year, both economic — due to the downhill route our bank accounts take as funds are funneled into gifts for the carefully chosen few (boss/es, significant other/s, and parents, in that order), who will probably re-gift your gifts — and the grid-locked roads we cross, paying a hefty toll with gas-draining hours we’ll never get back again.

Diss the season, indeed.

You get a unique perspective on existence when you’re slumped in the driver’s seat — another bumper-to-bummer statistic of human folly chasing a cozy Christmas dream bordered by holly. I was on EDSA when this happened, inching behind a car with the plate number WHY***, its driver giving his undivided attention to excavating his nose rather than to moving his vehicle forward.

It’s unavoidable — how December owns you; knocks you into a coma of reflection no matter how much you try to dodge its blows; no matter how much you want to just skip to a new year of more work that’ll earn you enough cash to buy the next thing that probably won’t make you happy. For me, it almost always happens while I’m driving on this godforsaken “express”-way a few days before Christmas.

It takes 11 months of preoccupation and life, er, happening before I get back to this space; my beat-up Corolla bearing the year’s most visible scars (and light dents) on its four corners, from miscalculated turns and reversals (two under the influence, two out of sheer ignorance), with a faint side scratch or two prompting a “How the hell did I get that?”

“And how the hell did I get here?” I ask myself.

Maybe it isn’t so unusual that the succession of billboards that looms above you act almost like flashcards in spurring your memory. If you pass under these sentiment-urging giants a couple of times a day, Dingdong’s magnified dingdong brings to mind the high times of your own penis which, for me this year, seemed to have been kept refrigerated in shrink wrap, while the “I’m convinced my name is Nicole” billboards might incite a remembrance of bimbos past — every girl gone witless I’d encountered, by magazine interview or drunken acquaintance, in 2008.

But while the neon splendor of “JESUS (alone) Saves” has blended in with all the stomach signals towards hydrogenated noodles and calls for cosmetic enhancement, seeing the sign as my car begrudgingly made it through 7 p.m. traffic damnation proved to be illuminating.

A God Way To Go

Literally, the Holy Grail of signs along EDSA, the bright and bold-lettered “JESUS,” followed by the purple-script “Saves,” and the blinking red insertion of “alone” as a reminder, seems to have always marked the avenue’s midpoint for as long as I can remember. It had been quite a while since I’d actually beheld it — let alone since I’d actually pondered the big G.O.D. up there.

Of those times, I can recall that Luke Wilson movie that came out on dibidi a few months ago, where Wilson plays this sad, dying bastard who ends up keeping the faith through the water stain of Turin on his wall. The old lady who’d screamed “Hessuuuus!” on the American Airlines flight I took to visit my cousin in Nicaragua was also cause for my own shock-induced religious observation, which carried on ‘til we’d touched down on the tarmac. ‘Course, if you’re jetting through a thundercloud and your plane suddenly dips 10 feet with an awkward tilt to the right, you wouldn’t think twice about raising your sweaty palms toward the heavens.

In this bitch of a traffic jam, I could only imagine the drive-thru rumination people pay this piece of electric evangelism — maybe with reverence, maybe with scorn reaped from the sign’s possible mockery as cars crawl the brake-hardy stretch. So I resolved to find answers on the sign. After a friendly point of a finger by an online out-of-home media resource page (an obsessive amount of info on billboards), I’d rung up the House of Racor Ads, Inc., owners of the building on which the Godvertising beams from.

Thanks to a secretary named Lolit, who’s seen enough blown-up images of sanitary napkins and powdered milk cans in the 31 years she’s been with the company, this is what I know of “JESUS (alone) Saves”: It was once a billboard advertising Sony, after which it was replaced by a simple, painted sign by Racor’s godhead, a 64-year-old born again Christian by the name of David Dedel. Dedel then decided to enlarge the sign three times its original size and spark things up a bit, choosing a stronger set of colors and flicking the electric switch, “Para makita ng mga tao na malayo ang tinatanaw ang kanilang Savior pagdating sa pag-save ng souls.”

In the six years that the sign has been switched on daily from 6 to 11 p.m., the highway helpless have followed it, mistaking the building it sits upon for a church. Many have also called the company, praising the sign because “We’re running out of time, the Lord is coming.” And for the weary who drive by, Dedel has counseled some, saying ‘Hindi ito church, kundi opisina ‘to — but anytime you want to talk to me, just talk to me.’

Amid all the fleeting consumerist suggestions that appear overhead along EDSA, the “JESUS” sign’s become more a reflection of the truth, the way and the life. Well, my truth, my way and my life, really. If you find spiritual sustenance in the luminescence of the electric tubing, then God bless you and be on your way. But I’d come down this road often enough to be able to glance at the sign and be reminded of who I was on certain occasions in my life. 

A sign can do that to you — stop you in your tracks and remind you of how far you’ve come as well. From being 18 and rolling my eyes at it, thinking I was graced enough to be full of hate, to being 22 and still idiotic, heading home after one too many shooters, my impaired vision rendering the sign a squiggly neon mess. Of course, there was always that northbound drive home — in the wake of a career breakthrough, a date’s afterglow, or the enticing prospect of crawling into bed following a long day — the sign was a light of affirmation in my peripheral vision.  

And there it shone once more, marking the imminent turn of this year to another one signaling plans not yet achieved, the forward motion of the great beyond, and life just going ahead and happening. It’s a notice that amid all the work, bimbos, and endless advertising, I’ve got to rip open that box labeled “Return to Sender” and uncover myself once more.

And hey, maybe this time around, the reminder will stick. One sign of effective signage is that you remember what it brings to mind — even after you’ve passed it.

Yearend wisdom from capncrisp =)

 

KARAOKE

in the wrong hands

 

is EVIL

~  

capncrisp

TODAY'S THE DAY! =)

A BLESSED CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

GOD ...AND ALL THAT JAZZ!

Someone distilled jazz into this one succinct phrase for me when he said, "Jazz is all about hitting the perfect wrong note."

When I heard that, my mind remembered a story I read somewhere about a young, frightened little girl about to play her first recital piece, "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

As she got out on the stage and began playing her simple piece she began to panic and started making a mess of things.  Suddenly, from back stage, a master pianist who happened to be there at the time slid onto her piano bench and whispered to her, "Keep playing."

So she did.  And with every note she hit, the master pianist played along with her, building and entirely complementary melody to her wrong notes and even highlighting them...but now as something beautiful and pleasing to the ear. He built a whole new piece around her stray notes that resulted in a piece so good that, when they were done, all the people in the audience gave a standing ovation, both to the maestro and to the girl who simply kept playing!

I believe the Lord is the same way with us.  In His concerto. we are the perfect wrong notes.  And God, Who is not only the Great Physician, but also the Greatest Musician, builds a whole symphony of glory and Wonder around us - highlighting our frailties with His Grace and enhancing our strengths by His awesome power and might.

And when everything has been said and done, all the Heavens and all of Creation will rise with thunderous applause as God unfolds the Glorious Symphony of His marvelous wisdom, power, love and mercy throughout the Ages!

Do you really think God doesn't make "wrong choices"?  I think He makes them all the time!  He makes choices that are so wrong...they're right!  Think about it - when he needed a giant slayer, He chose a little runt; when He needed a national deliverer, He chose an 80-year old stuttering has been; when He needed to show-off His Glory, He chose a tiny nation of poverty-minded slaves that had no land to call their own.  

And when He needed someone to tell this generation to tell of His great Plan of Salvation and wonderful intention to give Life in all its abundance to all who would simply believe in Him..He chose me...and you: the perfect "wrong note" in His marvelous symphony filled with His lavish grace, mercyl wisdom and love....and all that jazz.  

Three Phrases

From Mark Batterson's Evotional

"I feel like my job as a parent is to teach my kid's three phrases:please, thank you, and I'm sorry. Those three phrases are three keys that will open any door.

"Please" symbolizes a humble approach to life without a sense of entitlement. It is the magic word. Or think of it as the master key. A simple "please" will open doors nothing else can.

"Thank you" symbolizes a grateful heart. When you stop saying "thank you" it stops the flow of blessing. But if you genuinely thank people when they do something for you, it keeps the door open.

And "I'm sorry" symbolizes courage. Why? Because it takes tremendous courage to admit that you were wrong. But if you learn to say "I'm sorry" when you make a mistake it reopens doors that have been closed."

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What other key phrases can you think of?

IT'S ON!!!!! - "WOVEN": MCIN ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2009

It's official - MCIN's 2009 annual conference is themed "Woven", and no longer "Intimacy", as it was earlier announced in this year's conference.

Another change - there will only be two conferences; one in Orlando, Florida and one in Dallas, Texas instead of the original plan to have three (the third one was supposed to be held in California).

Other than these, it's all systems go for our worldwide family of warriors and world-changers!

Personally, I was hoping to attend at least 2 out of three - the ones in CA and TX - just so I could experience what they meant when they said "It's the same conference in different cities!"  

Now, I am praying to be able to attend both the TX and FL conferences. And that will take some doing because:

1) I used to be able to drive from CA to Phoenix, AZ (the former home of MCUSA and MCIN). Going from CA to TX means only one thing - additional airfare.  And, needless to say, a trip all the way out to FL only means more additional airfare.

2) My 10-year old US Visa expires in January '09.  This means I need to secure a new one ASAP.

3) Lest we forget, the matter of flying from here to the US means....more airfare!

Nevertheless, we will continue to believe that He Who has given us wings over the last 11 out of 12 years of MCP-A's existence shall come through for us, yet again!

Everyone - your prayerful support will be most appreciated. Thanks!

So, there you have it - WOVEN!  Hope to be there; hope to see (some, if not all of) you there! Why not, right? 

GREATER Things in 2009!

CAUGHT IN A MANILA TRAFFIC JAM! - Christmas Carol Mash-up =)

(Sung to the tune of WALKING IN A WINTER WONDERLAND)

Christmas rush, are you list'ning

In the lanes, cops are whist'ling

A horrible sight, another long night

Caught in a Manila Traffic Jam.

There's a jam in Ayala

There's a flood in Buendia

A bus cuts me here, a truck hits my rear

Caught in a Manila Traffic Jam.

It will be this way until Tayuman

We'll see jeepneys stopped when they should go

We'll ask, "Nasiraan?" He'll say, "No man..."

"Naghihintay ako ng pasahero!"   

Later on, we'll perspire

As we fix a flat tire.

We're moving so slow, we can't seem to go.

Caught in a Manila Traffic Jam.

The First Step

"The first step in the pursuit of truth...

is not the decision to stop deceiving others.

It is the decision to stop deceiving ourselves."

~ Brenan Manning

The Importance of Being Foolish: How To Think Like Jesus

JESSEROSE@19 - L-O-V-E for R-O-S-E =)

Happy 19th Anniversary, Rose!

I thank the Lord for you.

I  l-o-v-e  you!  

                

                 

The Finest Eloquence

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.4 minutes ago from web

From iheartquotes

TWEETWASTERS - Just how much time have i "wasted" Tweeting? =)

jeckjr has 1,926 total tweets and assuming they spent an average of 30 seconds per tweet they've spent 57,780 Seconds or 963 Minutes or 16.05 Hours or 0.67 Days using Twitter!

You know, Twitter would fail if everyone used it like you. Only 16.05 hours? C'mon!

Tweetwasters rank: #5985

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Guess I haven't "wasted" as much time as I thought!  

For your Tweetwaster ranking, go HERE

YOU CAN!

And with this quote, I now sign off...

"You can join God 

in making what is wrong in this world 

right!”  -Bill Hybels

HOLY DISCONTENT - A blog, a video

As 2008 draws to a close, I shared these thoughts in our church's monthly newsletter, Power Up.  This morning, I couldn't sleep and I thought I'd look for a picture to go with this article. What I ended up finding were a series of videos on what I now realize to have been the seed idea for this blog - a teaching by Bill Hybels on "Holy Discontent", which I first heard when I attended this year's Leadership Summit held at the Christ Commission Fellowship lat October.

I hope this article, and the videos below, will prove to be, in Bill's words, "incendiary" to your faith.

Blessings!

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Early this year someone helpfully shared with me the difference between “maturity” and “growth”. He said that “growth” can simply mean “more of the same” - more mass, more volume, more numbers, perhaps more in terms of height and weight, organically speaking – and nothing else. Whereas “maturity” means “a progressive move from one level of development to another.” This can be seen in a healthy person’s mental and physical development from limited childish ways and reasoning to full adulthood and understanding.

When we look at these two terms in that light and apply it to the Church, I believe the implication is plainly clear. We, as a church, must not simply want to “grow” for growth’s sake.

In practical terms, this can mean an increase in the number of our attendance on a Sunday morning or “more and better” activities as a church. It may even mean an increase in financial resources, the result of increased attendance! But if these things do not find us more deeply in love with our God and more acutely aware of the need to advance His Kingdom and renown to a lost and hurting world, then we may have simply experienced growth of the temporal kind. God forbid.

Rather, we need to seek, both as individuals and as a corporate Body, to move progressively forward, until we attain our full stature and potential as a Body of believers. To do this we need first to move towards a more intimate, personal knowledge of our loving God and King. In our individual and corporate times of worship, let us continue to press in to His Throne Room and, there, behold Him in the beauty of His Holiness and His Glory.

Fresh from that experience, with a radiance on our faces announcing that we have just come from His Presence, let us go forth, ablaze with renewed zeal and a burning Message from His heart. Such a zeal at work in us cannot help but translate information into action. Let us not rest until we have done something that will convert the grace and mercy we have received into something tangible that we can now bestow to other needy souls.

Once we have crossed from theory to practice, our once-shaky head knowledge cannot help but give way to firm conviction that will give boldness to our hearts and legs to our faith and will find us constantly fulfilling our battlecry, “Everybody Towards Missions.”

As the year draws to a close, let us allow the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with a holy discontent for the status quo. Let our spirits be stirred with the faint echoes of the song that passionately declares, “Greater things are yet to come; greater things are still to be done here.” Let us keep aspiring, not for more of the same, but for more of Him in our life and in our witness as a Body.

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BILL HYBELS - WHAT BIRTHS A VISION

                

                                                      MORE VIDEOS HERE

ON MONEY

"...you get to give.

We know what to do with money when we love God and love what God loves.

May the thought of money make you smile for the right reason for the season.  

Merry Christmas!"

Quoted from Satomimercer

A SIMPLE WAY TO ELIMINATE SIN - Reposted from The Reluctant Leader

This is a reposted article written by Rev. Steve Murrel of Victory Christian Fellowship

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As they do with every updated edition, Oxford University Press' Junior Dictionary added and deleted some words.  

Additions included: biodegradable, blog and MP3 

Deletions included: minister, chapel, sin, altar, disciple, devil

Not sure what was driving the process, but i guess if we eliminate sin and the devil, then we might as well do away with ministers, chapels and altars. 

If we delete the word “sin” from the English language, does that make sin disappear? That would be nice. 

What words would you like to eliminate from the dictionary?

For more on this topic see the MinMag news report. 

Meet Rosie 'N' Oz! :)

Meet Rosie and Oz (short for Oswald).  They are our "free gifts"...for ordering bottomless iced tea tonight in Saisaki.  [Nyeh!  Hindi pala kasama sa buffet yung drinks!]  

Nakakatawa.  We were invited to an anniversary dinner by a couple-friend and their family. Nung namalayan naming amin pala yung 2 stuffed toys, ayun! Kami ni Rose ang nagmistulang may anniv!  [e hindi pa naman...]

Anyways...at least may tropa-peeps na si Frosty!  

CHUCK@16 = P'WEDE NA S'YANG MAGKAPEEEEEEHHHH!!!! =)

PWEDE NA S'YANG MAG-KAPEEEEEHHHH!!!!!! =)

CHRISTMAS CAROLS, MC STYLE =) - MCUSA's FRONTLINE Worship Christmas Medley