*yacketyyacketyyacketyyacketyyackyack*

i wanted to see if the kjv bible had a verse saying something along the lines of people just picking and choosing what they want to hear(ie not reading the entire bible to get the story).

but the best i could come up with was one of the verses below.

(and any verses which state that all of God's Words are truth and important, like Luke 4:4 and Psalm 12:6-7)

i'm not going to elaborate on the last verse i put up; i've said reasons why syria is of utmost importance rather than jerusalem during the beginning of the church, etc.

wanna shocker? look up "alexandria" in the bible and see if you find anything positive regarding that city.

and we all know christianity's attitude towards rome in the bible.

my "little" project of photocopying, cutting and pasting bible verses i like into the little diary i have's going along just fine; looks like in no time i'll be able to actually carry this thing around and start memorizing when i have nothing to do. of course, when i add more verses, i'll have to let it aerate during the night, so that the glue doesn't stick the pages together.

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hah, i think i belong in absk... (and not b/c i'm not korean)

but i'd rather do my stuff in msm.

it all has to do w/the body of christ IMO.

(my genetics lab partner who goes to absk was curious why i would go to msm; i even told her, outside of the whole korean thing, the way my personality is, i don't really fit in)

and i've said it b4.

"picking a church shouldn't be all about what they can give me; it should also be what i can give them."

and if a church lacks in a certain area... well... shouldn't what you do next be obvious?

if you're in a church which tends to concentrate on other stuff a LOT more... it makes you feel like a drop of red dye in an expansive ocean blue.

but in the immediate context, i can help influence the members in my cg, and really, that's good enough for me.

besides, if God wanted me to change a fellowship upside-down, he would've shown me the things he showed me in junior year, well, in freshman year of college.

seems to me how little priorities usa sports players place upon actually representing their country and winning it

back then, anybody in any pro sport would've signed up if given the chance. when the us dream team in bball was formed, every superstar signed up to play.

now, the attitude's not so out there.

and it's sad. really.

i'm of course, referring to the us baseball team. it's still a good team, and i admittedly don't know a lot about baseball in general. but i still get the sense that this team, like the us basketball team 2 years back, had a lot of people not choose to play.

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Ezekiel 12:2

Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they [are] a rebellious
house.

1st Corinthians 1:27-28

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
{1:28} And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea,] and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are

Acts 11:26

And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

*antioch is a city in syria, not israel*

this is funny:

"The Bobcats sell the first two seats on their bench, but referee Bill Kennedy apparently thought one of the men sitting in them was an assistant coach: He called him for a technical foul for criticizing the officiating. The foul was rescinded when Kennedy realized the remarks came from fan Skipper Beck, a part-owner of the Bobcats."

i think i finally figured out how i'm going to use my moleskine(r) pocket diary

seeing how i was really relucant to actually write in it:

photocopy my favorite bible verses from my pocket kjv bible, then cut and paste them into the diary, so i can carry them with me whenever i want.

sometimes i wonder if my thoughts and beliefs make me one man standing against the rest of the world

and i wonder; how can i be sure what i believe is the absolute truth? seems almost nobody around me believes what i believe. they're open-minded enough to listen to me, but they wouldn't stake their lives on what i believe.

then i think; if what i believe is true, the evidence WILL be out there. and not as a drop of dye in an ocean, but rather salt in the dead sea. evidence from one man's mouth will back up the words that escape from another.