Kampanye Untuk Sinode Godang HKBP

Hanya turut serta membantu kampanye Sinode Godang HKBP yang akan diadakan tanggal 1-7 September 2008 yad.

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Not all

Not all people who like to quote Bible verse is a person who's a true Christian (although they might be "religious" - doing religious activities, wearing religious attributes, etc). So don't ever judge a person by his/her words.

Shawsank Redemption is a movie that gives a very good example about my statement above. It's just too fabulous to be written here, so I suggest you to watch it by yourself :)

Life is short

Today is a very dark and gloomy day for our campus, because we lost two of our dear fellow workers Ramlan Marpaung (Photocopy Staff) and Berton Situmeang (Security) who died in a  accident in their way to Balige on Tuesday, July 01, 2008.

Ramlan was a very warm and helpful person. He used to greet me with his smile using his funny Batak language's accent. "Horas lae, tibu ma ho ro" and "Naeng mangan do lae?" were two greetings that he used to say to me when we met. He was also ready to give his help anytime when I need him for my work, especially in PMB.

Berton Situmeang was also a friendly security. When I went home from office late at night, I used to saw him walking doing his duty monitoring our campus, and he used to greet me there.

As a Christian, I believe that they're now with LORD in heaven. May God blessed and give strengths to their family.

This moment reminds me that life is very short, and I must make the most it. I'll try to never waste my time in useless activities.

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. - Philippians 1:21

Seize the Day

This post is just an excerpt from my daily devotion taken from Our Daily Bread on Saturday, May 17, 2008. This has motivated me, and I hope that this will also motivates those who read it.

• Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.


• You do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.


• Seize the opportunities that God gives you today.

Be blessed!

In the state of questioning

To many questions about what happened recently bogging my mind.

And now I stand in the crossroads.

Stop believing and walk it my own.

Or, keep believing?

Golden Rule

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

No matter who you are, what's your position, how old are you, from which race you are, as long as you're Christian, this rule applies.

Don't expect something you didn't do to others!

Valentine

A very deep meaning of Valentine, from the perspective of Christian:

For God so loVed the world,
That He gAve
His onLy
BegottEn
SoN
That whoever
Believes In Him
Should Not perish,
But have Everlasting life.

Taken from here.

Mestakung in Action

I believe that many of you have already heard about a concept named Mestakung. The idea was originated from an Indonesian Physician, Yohanes Surya. He said that, if a 'thing' (could be a person, sand, etc) is put in its critical point, then the 'thing' will get a support from its surroundings (universe?) so that it could reach its ideal point. For example, is someone is being chased by a dog, then he will be able to run faster than he used to be.

Most of people thought that the concept was some kind of a New Age movement that focus more to ourselves than to God.

Well, I think it could be true and false depending on how we implement it. But, on my point of view, the idea of Mestakung  is not entirely bad. The key here is "putting ourselves in a critical condition". In that kind of condition, we'll do our very best to escape from that condition (universe is giving supports?). But of course, we must not rely only on ourselves. After setting our condition in a critical state, do our best to overcome it, and always depend on God.

I've seen many example of people demonstrating this concept without knowing bout the concept. Take my friend for instance, he wanted to take an English test. If he always delay the registration, he knew that he'll never take the test. So he just registered to the test center (putting himself in a critical condition), since he fully aware that the test fee is not cheap, he do his best in the test (and thus come the supports), but still he rely on God (without Him we're nothing).

That's all I can share about Mestakung, if you need to know more about this concept, you can order the book from here.

PS: I'm not affiliated with either Yohanes Surya or Gramedia.

More sermon download links

I've uploaded two more files containing recorded sermon preached at HKBP Balige on Januar 13 and 20, 2008.  You can download it from links below:

• HKBP Balige’s sermon on January 13, 2008


• HKBP Balige’s sermon on January 20, 2008

I hope that those files can be a blessing to all the reader (and hearer, and doers :D).

Sunday Service Today

I went to HKBP Balige for Sunday Service today. I didn't remember when was the first time I attended this church, because in the early times I came to Laguboti, I used to go to GBI Gasaribu for Sunday Service. But now, I always go to HKBP Balige.

What make me always come to HKBP Balige are:

• Because it is HKBP, the church where I was baptized. It doesn't matter for me to go to another church actually, but I just feel comfortable to go to HKBP.


• It still uses Batak language as the primary language, so I can learn it too (but my learning curve is so leveled out).


• HKBP Balige is located in a city (but don't image it like Depok or any other big Cities!) where almost all facilities are available there (ATM machine, Chinese Food Restaurant, etc).


• Songs in Buku Ende are great songs, most of them are adapted from Germany Worship songs.

Sermon today is taken from Mark 16:15-16, it's chosen because today is the commemoration of Marturia year. Marturia is a year of Zending for HKBP (MIIW).

Started from the first week I went to HKBP Balige in this year, I recorded every sermon I heard and I'll uploaded in my blog. For this time, I upload only this day's sermon which you can download it from link below.

Download link:

• HKBP Balige's sermon on January 27, 2008