The Learned

Self control is a thing. Start with fasting. Also, cutting down doesn't work. Only cold turkey works

Bible study is for everyone and for free. That's what Jesus did -- He taught the multitudes on the grassy fields and at the beach. I'll teach you anytime. Message me. I have a doctorate degree in Christian Education and can teach you on Zoom for free. I am not saying I know a ton. What matters is not how much you know about Jesus but how much you know Jesus as a person

Q:  My husband basically bans everything -- even broccoli and bananas! He says it's too sweet for my 20 month old. A: I know he is being picky but he has good reasons whatever they are. It doesn't hurt to be picky but it does hurt him by insisting he is being picky. If I were you, I would just let it go and let him do the feeding. The one most particular is the one most passionate, which means he is the one in charge of feeding from now on. It's his rules but he has to do the work. If it's my rules, the baby eats nothing but avocado and cucumbers the first few months.

I come from a Muslim country. Their agenda is to marry Christians to convert them. Once they get married, they treat them like trash. They are allowed to have many wives. Their idea of peace is to conquer the world. They are usually very different before marriage -- they can be anything you want them to be but they will never be a Christian.  Basically, don't even think about it. It is going against God's Word. You're basically making the devil your father-in-law James 4:4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God

When the Japanese occupied Malaysia, they would kill and torture innocent civilians, turning women and girls into 'comfort women'. Many were brutally raped and murdered casually, publicly and and as leisurely. They would take a pregnant woman and force her to drink soap water, then balance a plank of wood over her belly and play the see-saw on it. Did it make my blood boil just hearing about it? Of course, it did. Could I forget? Of course, not. My grandfather would rant on and on for many years -- how and what they did, what he saw. Horrific first-person stories. They were disgusting. Did listening to those stories create resentment, hate and bitterness in my heart? Yes, they did.  Every grandparent had their fair share of stories, so did every war-torn country affected: Korea, China, Malaysia, even America -- the thought of Pearl Harbour still sends chills up our spine. I remember seeing an elderly Chinese woman who demanded a public apology from a Japanese ambassador for usi...

 1 Kings 19 When a king is gone, does he need to be replaced? Yes. When a priest is gone, does he need to be replaced? Yes. When a prophet is gone, does he need to be replaced? Yes. Elisha was not clergy. He was a farmer, a worker. And he did not work for his own. He worked for his father. He honoured his own father. Sometimes the road to be a prophet is not by going to Bible School. You can be working in the world when you are called. But remain faithful. Even to your own parents until the day you are called to be a prophet under training.