Category: Footprints
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On Understanding
One of my younger daughter’s classmates recently passed an exam for gifted education held by another elementary school. Each year many students from the surrounding areas of the school take the exams in order to attend “gifted education classes”. To successfully enter gifted education classes, it is common here in Taiwan that many parents have sent their children…
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Key To Being Outstanding
To survive the current economic depression, college or university students are often advised as early as possibly to develop their second technical or professional skills by means of which they may gain the upper hand in this keenly competitive market. Even many parents start worrying that their children may lose competitiveness when they grow up, so they begin…
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True Success
To attract parents to sent their children to their daycare centers, some kindergartens put on aids to promote their curricula saying, “Don’t let your children fall behind or fail at the starting line. Our learning programs will equip your kids to be successful in the future.” This is only one of the advertising slogans used by…
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More Mercy, More Love
“I committed a lot (of crimes) – kidnap, robbery, killing people … many things, intimidation. And I was sentenced to a total of 38 years in prison,” said Pastor Lu as he took an interview with a local media (reported from BBC News Service) about his life-changing experience. Pastor Lu used to be a gangster,…
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Excuse, Excuse, Excuse!
This morning as I arrived in eight o’clock class, no student showed up on time and they came in one by one until the recess time. Asked why they were late for class, each one of them spoke out daringly, “I got stuck in a traffic jam.” “My house was almost flooded because of early morning heavy rain.”…
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A Voice
John the Baptist was the first person to usher Jesus into the Jewish world and call him the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29). The Jews asked John if he was the Messiah they had expected to deliver Israel. He said no in reply and called himself a voice shouting…
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The Name of Woman
On the way back to Taipei the other day my wife asked if I had changed my mind to be under the leadership of a female pastor. In fact, I didn’t remember why she brought up this controversial issue in Christian world. The role of women has undergone a drastic change over the half century since…
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Being With Jesus Eternally
During the Dragon Boat Festival holidays I was back to my hometown where most of my relatives live. My uncle and aunt are still working on the farm. They know nothing about political manipulation, economic slowdown, or educational reform. They are illiterate. They go to the field as the sun rises and return home as…
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Demonstrating Love
In the book The Language of Love author Gray Samlley presents five ways of language (five languages) to express love to your mate, which are having high-quality time together, using encouraging words, showing acts of service, giving gifts, and using physical touch. To maintain a strong and intimate relationship with your spouse, demonstrating love and…
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Simply One Thing
As my family got together last night having a family devotion, I asked my daughters if they were concerned or worried about some things. My younger responded, “I am worried about writing my dairy. I don’t know what to write.” Her elementary school teacher asks her class to keep a dairy every day in preparation…
TJ Gong 