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CHOICE, WISEChoice - God or MaterialDate: 11/2005.101 2005 - Saipan 28 May 2006 - Pandan Chinese Xi Yang - Luke 4:1-11 ~ Qualities of a Disciple 2 Sept 2006 - YOC Camping - Luke 5:1-11 ~ The Qualities of a Disciple 5 Dec 2006 - DTS PM 202 Senior Sermon - Luke 9:18-27 Senior Chapel 24 April 2007 - Luke 9:18-27 Sept 2007 FWC Retreat: The Kingdom is Here - Kingdom Path Luke 9:18-27 Oct 2007 Germany Leipzig/Weimar - Luke 5:1-11 - Qualities of a disciple Aug 10 2008 - FCBC Mandarin - Luke 9:18-27 - Way of the Cross Aug 24 2008 - MSU Mission Trip - Luke 9:18-27 - Way of the Cross Feb 13 2011 – DCFC Chinese - Luke 9:18-27 – Way of the Cross Mar 13 2011 DCFC English Worship – [The Master & The Disciple] Luke 6:20-49 The Call of the Disciple Sept 3-5 2011 RCCC Retreat [Renewing our first love for Christ] Renewing our vision of the Cross Luke 9:18-27 Nov 16 2014 – QBC Chinese Luke 9:18-27 – Way of the Cross
Source: Poem of William McChesney, Missionary to Congo who martyred in 1964 at the hands of Muslim rebels I want my breakfast served at eight, with hams and eggs upon the plate; A well-broiled steak I'll eat at one, and dine again when the day is done. I want an ultra-modern home, and in each room a telephone, Soft carpets too upon the floors, and pretty drapes to grace the doors. A cozy place of lovely things, like easy chairs with inner springs And then I'll get a small TV - of course, I'm careful what I see. I want my wardrobe too to be, of neatest finest quality; With latest style in suit & vest: Why should not Christians have the best? But then my Master I can hear, in no uncertain voice so clear; "I bid you come and follow Me, the lowly Man of Galilee." If He be God and died for me, No sacrifice too great can be; For me, a mortal man to make, I'll do it all for Jesus' sake. Yes, I will tread the path He trod, no other way to please my God. So henceforth this my choice shall be, My choice for all eternity. CHOICE, WISE Crowd FollowersDate: 9/2007.101 Fresh Ideas: Illustrations, stories & quotations - Jim Burns & Greg McKinnon P75 - Matthew 7:13-14 Look at those Crowd Followers, now aren't they a bunch? Following the crowd from breakfast to lunch. Never asking, "Where are we going?" Just riding the current wherever it's flowing. They say to themselves, "Now this sure is a breeze, Following the crowd is as easy as you please." They never stop to consider where all this will end; They just keep on following all of their friends. "Everyone else must know where we're heading, So why should I do any fretting? I'll just follow the crowd all day and all night. I'm sure everything will turn out all right. "Everyone is laughing and having such fun, Why not following the crows would be really dumb. I really don't care where all this may end; I just want to keep having fun with my friends." But every road must come to an end. The Crowd Followers too have to round the last bend. And when they do they will come face to face With the Creator & the Designer of the whole human race. And He'll not ask what the crowd has to say, For each person will have to speak for themselves that day. And when everything has been said and been done, The crowd again will march forward as one. No one will, that day want to follow their friends, because they know destruction will be their end. But because they spent their life following the crowd. On that final day no turning back will be allowed. Application: If you decide to follow the crowd in life, you need to ask yourself one question: "Do I really want to go where the crowd is heading?" Exodus 23:2; Joshua 24:15; Daniel 1:5, Daniel 1:8-17; Luke 13:24-30; John 21:19
Date: 1/2007.101 Chaplin Bill Bryan - BC101 Biblical Counseling Your past may explain the way you are, but it does not excuse the way you are - Bill Bryan CHOICE, WISE Freedom and ChoiceAI researchers doubt whether they can build similar restlessness or curiosity into a computer. They can program a computer to seek new avenues and investigate new problems, but it does so because of its program. Not because it wants to. Computers don’t ‘want.’ Morton Hunt (author of The Universe Within, concludes. Maybe the biggest difference between AI and human intelligence is just that simple: we care about things we choose to do. Solving a new problem, discovering some new fact, visiting a new place, all make us feel good. That is why we do them. But how do you make a computer feel good? He speculates perhaps that is why computer compositions of music and poetry so far fail to impress. The computer is neither pleased nor displeased by its own creation, unlike every human artist. The challenge facing computer programmers may shed light on the choices God faced in creating human beings. Presumably God could create robots, without the neurological restlessness. Animals seem content living out the singular goal of survival, without the need to reflect on themselves or grasp for more. Yet God created humans as a being in god’s own image. He built in restlessness along with curiosity and desire, in full awareness that could lead the human to choose the wrong path. That freedom, a reflection of God’s image and our greatest advantage as human beings, can turn into a terrible disadvantage. Like Adam and eve we too can overturn the order of creation. “I am not an ordinary man and the laws of morals and f custom where never made for me.” Said Napoleon. At times, who doesn’t think something similar on a smaller scale? |