Category: Footprints
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Temptation, Temptation, Temptation!
What kind of trial can you endure? How long can you endure trials? How do you endure trials? Some people display anxiety and distress while they are going through adversity. Other people complain about why bad things are happening to them? How can we endure affliction and prevail? Jesus had endured temptation by the Devil before he started his ministry. In…
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Pity and Fear
Aristotle in his Poetics gives the definition of what “tragedy” is; he says, “Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and possessing magnitude . . . and effecting through pity and fear.” Despite the guidelines set up for dealing with tragedy, they can be applied to other literary genres in general.…
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Being Faithful
I heard about a story of two primary kids. One lived in a demanding family where his parents required him to be superb in his studies. In any of his school subjects he would be punished for every point he missed if he didn’t received a score of 100 points. The other child lived an…
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Covenant Love
This week as I continued to talk about the rhetorical type “caparison and contrast” in my writing class, my students and I read two articles, “Playing House” and “Mr. and Mrs. K”. The former essay differentiates “cohabiting couples” and “married couples”; the latter distinguishes between “courtship” and “commitment”. Both essays maintain a successful marriage derives…
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Interceding Like Samuel
The former president’s corruption case has been the target of intense media attention in our society for the past several months. Dubbed “Son of Taiwan”, former president Chen has always been an influential as well as a controversial figure in Taiwan’s political area since he came to power as the city mayor and president . Now…
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Life Vision
The word “vision” has become a buzzword in most large corporations. Based on the vision each company delineates its own mission statement and executing strategy. So the vision statement is the basic and primary guideline a company should and must follow and make sure its operation is in line with it. Being a Christian we also have a vision…
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Jealousy Kills
The other day my elder daughter said that one of her classmates tried to find out errors even a Chinese character stroke from another classmate’s exam paper as the student got a score of 100 points on that social studies exam. “The student who attempted to pick out errors did it out of jealousy, not out of caution, because…
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He Is My Need
I need Jesus, my need I now confess; No friend like Him in times of deep distress; I need Jesus, the need I gladly own; Tho’ some may bear their load alone, Yet I need Jesus. Chorus I need Jesus, I need Jesus, I need Jesus ev’ry day; Need Him in the sunshine hour, need…
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When Christians Become Un-Christlike
“We are lucky not to live in a Christian country,” said my pastor as he spoke of Christian history in Middle Ages this week’s Sunday service. I was surprised by what he said at first and then I realized persecution sometimes did come from God’s people. Let’s take Jesus as an example. He was betrayed by…
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Obedient Teens
One of my colleagues shared with me the other day her daughter’s class where somestudents were playing pokers, some joking around each other, and some shouting back to the teacher while the teacher gave the lecture in the front of the room. I feel sorry for some teachers who couldn’t handle the disorder and confrontation of senior…
TJ Gong 