Category: Footprints
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Who Takes The Credit?
Having knowing Bathsheba his adulterer was pregnant, King David called back Bathsheba’s husband, Uriah, wishing him to stay home with his wife but Uriah refused to return home, so David had him fight and killed on the frontline where the battle was the fiercest and the most dangerous. God was so furious with David’s wicked acts that…
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Christian Charity
My church has various outreach programs, one of which is the hospital visitation. Through regular visits to the patients at hospitals, the friendships with the patients and their families are usually built up so that the good news can be easily preached. Many of the patients and their families we’ve visited are quite amazed at why we have sacrificed our time,…
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Being Near To Me
Over the past couple of days the things from my work were so overwhelming that I felt depressed and lost peace in God. As I kept praying and seeking His will the melody of the hymn “Thy Word” kept ringing in my head when I woke up this morning. While I was worshipping and sing this song before God, His word immediately soothed…
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The Rich Fool
“Too poor to have nothing left except money (窮到只剩下錢)” is a hugely popular phrase among the public. Most people don’t think this phrase apply to themselves because they assume that they are not rich enough to be called “rich fools”. Yet compared to our ancestors or the people in poor countries, most of us can be…
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Enjoying God Himself
A friend of mine in his sixties is an elder in his church and serving Christians and non-Christians at home and abroad for many decades. He is always on the go doing God’s work here and there. He didn’t have much time resting in the Lord until he was diagnosed with cancer recently. In a recent…
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Who Are We Working For?
This afternoon our school held a special meeting on the new pension system for private school teachers. Under the new system each private school teacher or staff will receive an increase of over two million NT dollars to his or her lump-sum retirement pension as well as be entitled to receive the same monthly pension as his or her counterpart in public…
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Redefining “Neighbor”
Most of us more or less have heard about some of Aesop’s fables in which the story teller use animal stories to teach morals and values to the readers. By the same token, in the New Testament, Jesus often spoke in parables so that his audience themselves could draw out the moral or spiritual lessons from…
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God’s Family
As Jesus sent out his disciples on their mission trips, he gave them power and authority to cast out evil spirits, heal the sick and preach the kingdom of God. The moment the disciples returned to Jesus, they reported with joy that even demons submitted to them in his name (Luke 10:17). Yet, Jesus replied to them,…
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The Crown of Life
The Imperial State Crown belongs to the British royal family, usually worn by a new monarch at the end of coronation as he or she leaves the ceremony. The crown needs constant repairs and recasting due to “age, wight, the personal taste of the monarch, or the unavoidable damage that comes with use” (Wikipedia). Very few…
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A Misnomer
A misnomer, according to Wikipedia English, is “a term which suggests an interpretation that is known to be untrue . . . A particular example is transference of a well-known brand name into a generic sense. (Xerox for photo-copy).” A misnomer sometimes can cause great misunderstandings. For instance, this past April I invited my college…
TJ Gong 