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Sex was on Andy's mind recently (andygomez.blogspot.com). What I liked was how he got it off his mind onto his blog so everyone could take a peek into what exactly irks him about sex.

Andy! If you're reading this:
And I must say, AAAAAAnnnnnnnnnndy... that was fab. Told you you have a gifting with words!
And when you pack your words with substance, you'll always have a winner there.

The tooth of the matter is... sex IS a major topic. We see it everywhere on billboards, on MTV, in magazines, online, in the reflection off someone's pupils. (hah. You didn't know that, did you. But it's true and if you wanna know, come ask me how :)

The pain of the matter is sex, while it is here to stay this side of heaven, many dipping their toes into it for the thrill of the whole escapade will find it easy to end up wallowing deeper and deeper, and deeper and deeper... until their pleasure turns to pain and terror when they start clawing and drowning.

Not a pretty mental picture, eh?

Oppps. Emmanuel just popped in and we're off to our cham-si-kosong-ping chat now.

Last thought. I'll be blogging everyday for this whole month. And I'll be trawling the net for choice nuggets.

Why? Because this month is special mahh. Why special?

I'll tell you why soon enough. Heh Heh

Do you believe in heaven and hell?

An excerpt from the book "Why Revival Tarries" by Leonard Ravenhill:

Charlie Peace was a criminal. Laws of God or man curbed him not. Finally the law caught up with him, and he was condemned to death.

On the fatal morning in Armley Jail, Leeds, England, he was taken on the death-walk. Before him went the prison chaplain, routinely and sleepily reading some Bible verses.

The criminal touched the preacher and asked what he was reading. "The Consolations of Religion," was the replay.

Charlie Peace was shocked at the way he professionally read about hell.

Could a man be so unmoved under the very shadow of the scaffold as to lead a fellow-human there and yet, dry-eyed, read of a pit that has no bottom into which this fellow must fall?

Could this preacher believe the words that there is an eternal fire that never consumes its victims, and yet slide over the phrase with a tremor?

Is a man human at all who can say with no tears, "You will be eternally dying and yet never know the relief that death brings"?

All this was too much for Charlie Peace. So he preached.

Listen to his on-the-eve-of-hell sermon.

"Sir" addressing the preacher, "if I believed what you and the church of God say that you believe, even if England were covered with broken glass from coast to coast, I would walk over it, if need be, on hands and knees and think it worth while living, just to save one soul from an eternal hell like that!"

(Ravenhill, Leonard, Why Revival Tarries, Fires of Revival Publishers, Zachary, LA, 1973, p. 19)

Is it possible that a man could be so cruel and so criminal to actually believe in hell and steadfastly refuse to warn fellow human beings?

Recently, a local TV station interviewed a man that rescued a sleeping family from a burning house. He was riding by the house, saw the raging fire and at the danger of his own life, ran inside the flaming house, screamming and yelling for the family to wake up and get out!

The newscaster asked him, "How does it feel to be a hero?" His reply was simply, "I'm no hero; I just did what any decent human being would have done."

Can a man who professes to believe the Bible and refuses to warn people about hell be really believing in the Lord and the Bible?

Or is he the worse criminal and villain on this earth!

If you and I have not been gripped by the conviction of heaven and hell enough, then it's time we pray desperately that we may have a vision of heaven and hell.

May God have mercy on us

Fun & Pain

Look around you. Listen. Watch. Smell the fear.

You see so much pain going around in the midst of all the fun.

Is that possible? you ask.

Yes. Just watch and listen.

We live in a broken world with broken people stumbling along here and there. Holding the broken chipped and jagged edges.

Give them all to Jesus, you say? But that's all we've got, you hear. No. No. No.

What're you gonna do about it all?

What Does It Matter?

The Himalayan glaciers are melting fast.

Hundreds of millions of people in China, India, and Nepal who gets water from glacier-dependent rivers may experience massive flooding before the water level drops eventually leading to water shortage, and related economic and environmental problems.

But this is not all. Scientists use glaciers to monitor climate change because they are especially sensitive to atmospheric fluctuations.

A melting icecream means you'll soon have a puddle on the ground. Unless you do something fast, you're going to have nothing to lick.

Global warming over the past half century is continuing at an alarming rate. And we're looking not only at the Tibetan ranges but all of the northern and southern hemisphere. How's this going to affect you and me in tropical countries?

Last Chance to be Israel's Moral Compass?

Shimon Peres will be sworn into office on July 15 for a seven-year term as Israel's ninth president.

Peres, 83, is replacing the disgraced Moshe Katsav, who faces multiple allegations of sexual assault against female staffers in the president's mansion.

A protege of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, Peres became a politician in his own right in 1959, when he was elected to parliament.

He has since held every major Cabinet post — including minister of defense, finance and foreign affairs — and served three brief stints as prime minister. His key role in the first Israeli-Palestinian peace accord earned him a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 and unprecedented stature abroad as a revered statesman.

Currently vice premier in Israel's 12th prime minister Ehud Olmert's government, he has filled nearly every position in Israeli public life since he became the director general of the Defense Ministry at the age of 25 and spearheaded the development of Israel's nuclear program.

In January 2006, Peres backed Ehud Olmert after Ariel Sharon suffered a stroke. Reuters reported on 13 April that Sharon's condition has slightly improved and according to his son, Omri, was marginally responsive.

Earlier last month, in declaring his candidacy, Peres told supporters this "may be my last chance to serve the country" and pledged to unify the country.

Though the presidency is a mainly ceremonial post, it had once been seen as the nation's moral compass. Israelis hope that Peres, with his international stature, will be able to rehabilitate the position.

At World's End: Getting Lost to Find Someplace that Can't Be Found

Pirates of the Currybean 3 runs for 160 minutes. Long enough to reach Far Far Away Land in Shrek3dom and zap back on Merlin's mumbo jumbo. Ever shuffled between two movies for the price of one? Try it.

For me, catching the inspirational quote by Captain Hector Barbossa when the Black Pearl sailed into no where man has ever gone was worth the nodding offs in between the blasts of canons and catching the wit of Jack Sparrow.

Captain Barbossa said: "Aye, we're good and lost now."
Elizabeth asked: "Lost?"
Captain Barbossa replied: "For certain you have to be lost to find a place that can't be found. Elseways, everyone would know where it was."

When I heard that, I said: WOW! and woke up.

I like quotes. Do you?

Share some of your better quotes with me?

History Repeats Itself

2 May 07

Su Ling blogged about a 13-year-old friend caught smooching in the kitchen. That sounds familiar to anyone else?

By the way, I'm not talking about the blogging. Nope, I'm not talking about the getting caught part. And, nope, I'm not talking about smooching. I'm talking about 13 year old for screaming out loud!

Any savvy teenager out there wants to interpret this snippet from Su Ling's soap opera preview this week?

And while the kissing goes on somewhere else, Shannon mentioned in her blog about the papers reporting firemen extricating the bodies of three teenage Indian girls from a car wreck today with the Indian also teenage driver hospitalized with serious injuries. They were driving home from a birthday bash. She posed a simple question to her readers.

Somewhere between the kissing and the partying and the merry making, the fun stopped.

Sigh.

Are we suppose to learn something from this?

I remember Poh Leong also sighing something about going through some tough time making decisions and feeling dry spiritually or something. Not that I'm picking on Poh Leong. But for those three girls, if they haven't found the Lord, they have bigger problems than feeling emotionally and spiritually strung or choosing what to do with their lives. For them, their journey has come to an end.

Sigh.

Are we suppose to learn something from this?

Guys. Some of us are drifting. And we don't know why?

Hellooooooooo?

Tell me, what are we missing here?