Monday, October 14

SUNDAY

STORM
Jesus, born to rule:
Matthew 2:1-12

-Jesus didn't come as prince, but as King. thus was Herod afraid, though Jesus was but a newborn babe.
-when we become believers, Jesus doesn't become Lord of your life later, but NOW.
not after your career is done, not after your schooling, not after you are out of your parents house, not after marriage, but NOW.
-kingship belongs to Jesus immediately
-what we have to offer is more than gold, incense, and myrrh: our LIVES as living sacrifices.

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5:00pm remnant evening service
Companionship: the relationship between David and Jonathan
David- means beloved
Jonathan- means gift of God
companionship- originated from "to share bread"
Jonathan makes a covenant with David- unconditional commitment
-yeah, it's costly. it's not easy. and it's hard, because we want other ppl to be committed to us, without us going the length for them.
friend- origin from indo-european: freedom.- a friend is one who has set us free to be who we are
in our christian lives, we need such friends to be our companions, our freedom-givers to be who we are.
Augustine said: "our soul is God-shaped. we will be forever empty and void until God comes in our lives to fill us."

[two things that cracked me up: 1) pastor called Saul's daughter "miguel" instead of "michal." 2) on describing Jonathan's love for David: "your love is better than the love of women." silence in the congregation, not sure how to understand that. then, the pastor cackles: "heehee" (in a very 4th grade-ish manner). hahaha.

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DINNER: at patsy's
arcadia friends had come to visit NY: lisa and joyce!! we had a mini-arcadia reunion, since susan and i were here, plus tina, ("just tina") who had lived in arcadia for a while. good time talking. what is especially amazing is that these people are so cool, and somehow i had managed to go to elementary school, junior high school, and high school without ever really talking to them and getting to know them. SO weird. what happened? i mean, i know i was a dork back then. (was, mind you) but STILL. for so long... i feel like i missed out on great opportunites to know wonderful people.

well, i tried to make up for it. :) i sat next to joyce and had a really good time talking to her. so surprised to hear her dreams and plans. some very similar to my own. actually, it's a little frightening that so many aspects of our plans are the same. weird, weird, weird.

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balled for 2.75 hrs from 10pm-12:45am. played as loosely as i ever have. had a good time just doing my thing. at some point, i felt it. the groove. the feeling that everything was going in. that i could shoot from anywhere. so i did. many times. probably ball-hogged, too. actually, no probably about it. i just kept shooting. 4 shots way beyond the 3 point line. i'm sure my percentage at the end of the night was more iverson than kobe, but it was fun. i was running my mouth in fun at some guys in particular. hahaha. i had to hit some long jumpers cause tall guys kept guarding me. darn all tall men. even if i bust my moves successfully, they can recover cause they are so long. if i was 3 inches taller, i don't think these guys would be able to guard me at all. muahaha...

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after ball, showered and watched part of "the ring" at jimmy's place, where i fell asleep. it's supposed to be a horror movie, but it wasn't very scary, and i was tired...poopy

woke up at around noon, where my body was swollen and screaming at me for putting it through such an ordeal. i'm hurting. i need a masseuse.




yakob at 5:41 PM

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