Tag: God
Not Like What We Think
by Dreamer on Nov.12, 2009, under Musings

29 Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.
30 God has overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he demands that all people everywhere repent
31 because he has established a day on which he will ‘judge the world with justice’ through a man he has appointed, and he has provided confirmation for all by raising him from the dead.”
-Acts 17: 29- 31 (NAB)
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Magnificent Obsession
by Dreamer on Mar.03, 2009, under Reviews, Truth

Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? – Luke 15:4
Only someone who has a deep love or obsession for that sheep will, don’t you think? Well that was what God did- for us! (continue reading…)
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A Kid’s Question About God
by Dreamer on Feb.25, 2009, under Truth
A conversation with a child at church made me nervous and sweaty. I realized that children’s questions were the most profound and the hardest to answer.
Last Sunday, a member’s son asked me if I was watching “May Bukas Pa,” a local TV series aired on ABS- CBN. He asked me if the premise of the show is true- that “Bro,” the endearing term used by the seven year old protagonist to refer to Jesus, really exists and talks to kind young boys. I said yes, and explained that he won’t only talk to Santino, the miracle working child in the series, but to all other children if they will just pray. Then he quipped, “it was not Jesus who talks to Santino, it was Big Brother!”
I just stood there dumbfounded with my mouth open.
The child’s doubt about Jesus made me realize the adult version of his question: Is there a God?
The world wonders if indeed a supreme being, the uncaused cause of everything there is exists. If he does, how may he be found and where?
It was a basic question that was hard to answer. (continue reading…)
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