DISQUS

dude i love it

hellz yeah

Maybe not related, Axl rose has to be the best person that has survied doing what he does as a job, and all this bad negative press about him nobody knows him enough to dis-axl rose,Theres only one person that knows axl and thats axl himself.

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"..in the FUCKING world. go ahead, TEAR UP your malaysian passport, you’ll just CONDEMN yourself....."

what did i say? chill man!

1. agree with jeff above. i was never particularly 'proud' of malaysia back home. once here, seems to get all 'defensive' abt malaysia. .weird..

2. yes, i agree with the comment regarding the luggage lock. in fact, due to the hassle i did not bother to lock my luggage for the last 3 times i travelled in and out of USA - may not be a good idea though. do update yourself to the latest requirement.

3. SELAMAT DATANG !

Warning: This post is rather long. Really long, actually.


Hello again.



I think my definition of submission would be something like “coming under to support,” which I think I’m getting from a sermon I heard in which a pastor was talking about the famous (or perhaps infamous) passage from Ephesians 5:21-33. The pastor said that in the Greek, the meaning of submit was something like “coming under to support,” and he also mentioned that, in the Greek, there is no verb ‘submit’ in v. 22, so that the literal translation would be something like “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ, and for an example, look at wives and husbands.” He also said that in a previous series he went through the Greek in more detail, but I haven’t gone back to find that message yet. But, I digress.



I completely agree that “while God’s essence is greater than us, he shares his authority with us.” I think it’s somewhat scary how much authority He does give us, although it’s also an awesome privilege.



I think I get a lot, if not all, of my concept of “surrender” from steps 1, 2, and 3 of the 12 steps of recovery. My will isn’t very good at running my life, so I have to surrender my will for God’s will, because He actually knows how to run my life. I understand that God wants to make us into “little Christs” as Dallas Willard says in one of his talks in ‘Knowledge of Christ in Today’s World’ (which I highly recommend to anyone, and I think they are sold on amazon). Willard says in one of those talks that the process by which we become little Christs is by “the transformation of the will, or as I call it in the book, the renovation of the heart.” So that is where my concept of “surrender” is coming from.



Biblically, I would say that my concept of “surrender” would be found in these three quotes:



John 4:31-34 “Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something." But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about." Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?" "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.”



John 5:19-20 "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these.”



Luke 22: 39-42 “Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. On reaching the place, he said to them, "Pray that you will not fall into temptation." He withdrew about a stone's throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed, "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done."



I think that those three passages illustrate my concept of “surrender,” in which Jesus is trying to do the Father’s will. I don’t think I’m taking the quotes out of context, or reading into the quotes what I want them to say. It is possible that I’m misinterpreting them, though—my wife would know, since she introduced me to hermeneutics.



I totally agree that God wants us to love and delight in Him, and that He wants strong wills for good. I have a tough time loving God and delighting in Him for who He is, rather than all the cool stuff He can do for me. But I’m working on that—and likely will be for the rest of my life. I’m not sure that my concept of “surrender” would lead to an inert will, because I would be using my will to figure out what God wants me to do, think, etc. Perhaps that makes me sort of like a robot, though—although I think God would still want me to ask for His input on decisions instead of just ignoring Him.



I suppose, though, that my concept of “surrender” also ties into my concept of “dependence” on God. I think that when I start to use my will apart from God, then I start to lose my dependence on Him, even if I’m doing good, non-sinful things. So, perhaps through my concept of “surrender” I stay dependent on God.

Warning: I have not read 'The Shack,' though I eventually will.


My wife reads your blog and shares various posts with me. Because one of our friends has read 'The Shack' and highly recommends it, my wife showed me your review.



I have a question about this passage from your post (I apologize if the quoting style is incorrect):



'Later Young has Jesus explain what mutual submission really looks like "That's the beauty you see in my relationship with Abba and Sarayu. We are indeed submitted to one another and have always been so and always will be. Papa is as much submitted to me as I to him, or Sarayu to me, or Papa to her. Submission is not about authority and it is not about obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect. In fact, we are submitted to you in the same way."'



I think I understand what Young means when he has Jesus explain mutual submission. What I don't understand is what Young means when he has Jesus say, "we are submitted to you [humans] in the same way." Do you think Young means that humans and God are equal in authority, or something completely different?



I could be reading my own view (and current issues with God I'm working on) into that quote, which is something like this: God has authority over humans, even though humans are his friends--and humans should submit (or, perhaps a better word is surrender) to His authority or will because He knows what is better for us than we do.



I know I have several(if not many) messed up ideas about God--and I'm working on trying to figure out the lies I'm believing about God and getting the truth to travel from my head to my heart. From your review, it appears that 'The Shack' will help me in getting at the truth about God.

Ohhh, no wait a minute... Unlike with Firefox 2.x, when I increase the font size on most websites, the column widths increase too and a page's layout expands well beyond my browser width... rather than the old way where text would enlarge within a fixed column width.

Is there any way to go back to the old method?

This is why I hate upgrading Firefox. My life is complete once again. Thank you.

Do we even need a 'special biometric camera'? Cant it be only software dependant?

Great Liveblog Good job of capturing the feel of the event.  BTW, what Foo Fighters song was it?

Emory University's greatest contribution to society

that's beer imitating life

I think it's historically appropriate that you tried to master India, but just ended up with a bunch of bitter English.

I agree with mike, theonly dissapointment I felt when the 'iphone' was introduced (aside from not investing in apple stock) was with their chosen name. the whole 'i' thing has been way overdone, not just by apple, or the tech industry, but on a global scale. I think everybody is sick of it. Apple should not go to the trouble of pursuing this case with cisco, I feel they were on the right track changing the name 'iTV' to 'apple logo tv'. I think it would have been a cool thing to do the same thing with the iphone and replace the 'i' with an apple logo. It's sorta like prince! "the phone formally known as iPhone" haha, could work?

i meant the the antarmahal link in the archives of desivideos is not working.

Hey I have uploaded Antarmahal on wwww.youtube.com It is in 19 parts. The links are

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=bree...

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=bree...

This is the full movie with subtitles in english.

The antarmahal link in the archives is not working. I will try and upload it on www.dailymotion.com

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:) I've met those old ladies, that old man a ton of times, but those kids are far and few....yet ,I remember em far more!

GOD

brilliant. vintage IS ..

its amazin how many women have gone thru this, been repulsed by it..and yet..it still goes on..

men need to respect women. it took a woman to make a man, after all. And for those with any doubts Im a full fledged testosterone driven alpha male!

*sigh* good ol kerala...me home state... say wats the mallu connection with ze smithy??? gorgeous paintin btw...

I SO badly wanted a dragon tatoo...but apparently my skin is too dark for the colors to show properly :( oh well... I think your just the lady to carry the dragon around :)