tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32300006885075816132024-03-12T19:42:58.839-07:00In His GripSerious. Funny. Black. Witty. Curious. Confident.Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-17563609892230194112013-09-15T01:41:00.000-07:002013-09-15T01:53:06.854-07:00Absolutely, only....One Thing Remains!!!<i>One Thing Remains</i> is a beautiful song written by Brian Johnson, Christa Black & Jeremy Riddle. It has been described by some as "<a href="http://dbworship.com/2012/05/one-thing-remains/">musically and spiritually powerful</a> . In July 2012, Tony Weir,Program & Music Director a of House FM described it <a href="http://housefmmusic.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/story-behind-song-one-thing-remains.html">"one of the best songs of the year"</a> <br />
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This song has been popularized by Jesus Culture, and quite rightly.<br />
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Yesterday morning, while at work, I just found myself blurting out the words of this song spontaneously. It was on my heart for most of the day. So, today, I decided to Google the story to this song, and found some amazing things. Personally, I find that sometimes the story behind a song tells you something deep about it, gives you a sneak peek into the moment or moments when the sing came out. It gives you an idea of what the writer/singer was going through at the time.<br />
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I came across an interview that Brian Johnson (one of the co-writers) gave. The whole interview can be found <a href="http://www.eden.co.uk/blog/music/people-freak-out-too-much-about-lyrics-p1339">here </a>(. When asked how he came up with the song, one of the things he said was <br />
<i>The chorus: ‘Your love never fails, it never gives up, it never runs out on me’, came to me spontaneously during worship about six years ago. I sat on that chorus, and would put it in different moments but that’s all I had. Then we started collaborating on the song with a couple of different people here then we came up with the bridge and verses.</i><br />
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It is just fantastic, that the chorus came out "unplanned" in a worship service. A God-moment perhaps??<br />
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The lyrics of the songs are also very Biblical,with every line referring to some verse of the Bible. <a href="http://laurensettle.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/songs-scripture-one-thing-remains-love-never-fails-brian-johnson-jeremy-riddle-christa-black/">Lauren </a>does a great job linking the lyrics to the various verses they refer to. <br />
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Michael Anthony Howard writes a brilliant <a href="http://wordsatworship.com/2012/05/22/one-thing-remains-worship-as-being-the-church-and-proclaiming-gods-unfailing-love/">post</a>, entitled "ONE THING REMAINS: WORSHIP AS BEING THE CHURCH AND PROCLAIMING GOD’S UNFAILING LOVE", in which he talks a dependence on God's Love, humility, personal and corporate church worship as a church. <br />
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He concludes his post by saying<i> "It is God’s love that we are expected to live out of–not our abilities, not our knowledge, not our own answers to social issues, not our own strengths, not our gifts, not our own ANYTHING! Why? Because, when all else fails, God’s love is unfailing."</i> <br />
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Well, it just about summarizes it, does it?? Hope you read Michael's <a href="http://wordsatworship.com/2012/05/22/one-thing-remains-worship-as-being-the-church-and-proclaiming-gods-unfailing-love/">thoughts </a>get time to listen this song!!! Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-17863178868112033662011-07-02T16:28:00.000-07:002011-07-02T16:28:59.808-07:00Jokes about David Haye after he shamefully blamed his toe after losing to Vladimir KlitschkoDAVID HAYE lost to Vladmir Klitschko on points after 12rounds in Hamburg. Haye (also known as Hayemaker) had filled columns of newsparer columns with pre-match bravaddo, sometimes shameful about how he was going to knowck out Vladmir. However, following his disgraceful loss, he blamed his toe...saying a toe on his right foot got broken 3weeks before the boxing match, hence he could not land his killer punch! <br />
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Obviously, this generated a lot of jokes from twitter followers and the following are some of them.....<br />
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1) From #hayemaker to #toemaker<br />
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2) David Haye: "Apologies to amm my fans, my toe couldn't land the killer punch."<br />
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3) Hey coach, I couldn't beat him with my mouth or my toe, maybe next time I try to punch him? <br />
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4) My ego is cashing cheques my toe can't cash..."<br />
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5) I am disappoin-toed with the outcome of the fight. #teamhaye<br />
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6) Sky box office have apologised for lack of phone staff earlier for David Haye fight....... all had a broken toe.<br />
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7) #teamhaye never mind chaps, toemorrow is a new day, dont be a heel, sock it toe 'em<br />
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8) That was a #toerrible matchFelixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-84217318327666620852011-01-23T12:27:00.001-08:002011-01-23T12:27:35.215-08:00<img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://c.gigcount.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bHQ9MTI5NTgxMzMyMTUyNCZwdD*xMjk1ODE*NDUzMDc*JnA9MTQ2NDgxJmQ9Jm49YmxvZ2dlciZnPTEmbz1hZWVlNzQ2ZjI1YTc*/MzQ*YTM5ZWM4NjdhYTdjMWM1MCZvZj*w.gif" /><a href="http://s08.flagcounter.com/more/KZH"><img src="http://s08.flagcounter.com/count/KZH/bg=B8FFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=8/maxflags=20/viewers=0/labels=0/" alt="free counters" border="0"></a>Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-10762591607062073002011-01-22T13:03:00.000-08:002011-01-22T13:16:23.910-08:00Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan"I just watched <strong>Black Swan</strong> with a female friend a few hours ago. It is about a young girl <strong>Nina Sayers</strong> (Natalie Portman) who works hard to perfection, in order to fulfil her dream as ballerina. I must say, the movie itself is both rubbish and brilliant! <br /><br />Her mother <strong>Erica </strong>(Barbara Hershey) is a controlling mum, a somehow twisted character. She gave up her dream to care for Nina, and in a sense, while Erica doesn’t want her daughter to screw up; she is living her unfinished dream through Nina. After all she had been taking Nina for dance classes ever since she was a young child. . It is a tragedy that children sometimes have to live the unfulfilled dreams of their parents!! <br /><br />When Nina tries to live her own life, Erica throws a tantrum, and almost wants to destroy the cake she has just made to celebrate her breakthrough. That breakthrough is that Nina has landed the coveted role of Queen Swan, in a musical Swan Lake directed by <strong>Thomas Leroy</strong>(Vincent Cassel). Her journey towards landing this role is a mind boggling cinematic experience that will make you either hate or love the movie.<br />Lily (Mila Kunis), an ambitious dancer is Nina’s rival to the coveted Queen dancer role. She befriends Nina, but seems to have ulterior motives of her own. Lily introduces her to the partying and drugs lifestyle, and they either up having full lesbianism sex, or maybe Nina is just imagining things. This scene is too graphic, and can leave you scarred for life. I had to look away several times. I go with the former. This is for a movie, only rated 15®. Shows the state of our society, and the world our children are growing up in! And the future itself could be even more worrying. Well, are we to be swept along in this dark and turbulent wave, or can we as individuals contribute in some small way in influencing it?! <br /><br />The journey travelled by Nina to being the Swan Queen gives you the dark, horrific themes of the movie. As one person put it “An innocent girl is driven to the depths of hell in her pursuit of the world. It’s maddening, it’s horrifying, and it’s disturbing. Despite this, in a way, the story draws us in. We can relate to the obsession with the world in ways that should scare us.” The pursuit of perfection is one theme you continually come across.<br /><br />The film gives you more than a glimpse into the state of Nina’s mind….and what she has to give up or go through to achieve her dream. While her performance of the white swan if masterful and excellent, Thomas, her music instructor, advises her to let go of herself, and throw away her inhibitions. He even seduces this young fragile innocent girl (probably a virgin) saying “That was me seducing you. It needs to be the other way around” Thomas advises her to get engaged in some sexual experiments! Only then, apparently can she seduce the audience and successfully play the role of the dark and sensual black swan! It is pretty much stepping beyond the boundaries! <br /><br />Nina fights hard not to become like Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder), the now unstable, psychotic dancer and one time top start in the music company she has replaced. You are filled with hope, that maybe she will manage to do just that. It is this transformation of Nina into what Thomas Leroy calls “metamorphosis into her evil twin “that is both depressing, and make you wonder whether the price was worth the sacrifice!! <br /><br />Nina is plagued by nightmares, fantasies, dreams and all of these horrific things. Her mother pleads with her not to go the long awaited performance. They have to <br />almost fight. You almost sense things will wrong. Is there a connection between this ballerina performance, Erica giving her dream and the music instructor Thomas? One thing is certain; Nina Sayers has sacrificed her very soul, her life and has been driven to the very depths of hell, in search of the perfect performance of “Swan Lake”. You ask yourself, when all is said and done, is it all worth it? <br /><br />Yes, the film director Darren Aronofsky is a genius at work, a master craftsman, brilliant at using cinematic and visual artistry to great effect. He also sseems to blur the line between fantasy and reality. Just like his previous movies <em>The Wrestler</em> and <em>Pi</em>, Aronofsky’s theme are almost always the same….dark and visceral. It is only this time he has used the ballerina world to reflect this. While Tchaikovsky’s legendary music has been used, Aronofsky doesn’t do the ballerina performance justice. <br /><br />Sme other reviewer did all the hard work and listed the following..."Heavy to extreme—Portman stripped naked to panties / Portman wears just a towel / two female masturbation scenes (Portman) / male gropes Portman / female gropes Portman / female gropes male dancer / prolonged lesbian sex scene (Portman and Kunis) / vulgar sexual conversations /partially undressed female dancers / etc.”Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-124772227676796522010-06-05T14:17:00.000-07:002010-07-01T07:12:23.200-07:00As Others See UsFound the poem below on a tea towl. Yeah, I know...quite a weird place to find a poem! I thought i would share it. I found it quite interesting. <br /><br />I do not know who wrote it, for the tea towel gave no clues! I didnt bother doing a bit of googling to answer that question, because honoestly, i could not be bothered! Yeah?!!<br /><br />Herein below, is the poem presented verbatim.<br /><br /><strong>As Others See Us</strong><br /><br />There were the Scots<br />Who kept the Sabbath<br />And everything else<br /> they could lay their hands on.<br /><br /><br />Then there were the Welsh<br />Who prayed on their knees<br /> and their neighbours.<br /><br /><br />Thirdly, there were the Irish<br />Who never knew what they wanted<br />But were willing to fight for it<br /> anyway<br /><br />Lastly there were the English<br />Woo considered themsleves<br /> a self-made nation<br />Thus relieving the Almighty<br />of a dreadful responsibility.Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-49737917230209090582010-03-13T08:14:00.000-08:002010-03-13T08:16:33.658-08:00Revolutionay RoadSlept a friend's place last night...it her house warming kinda thing...and it turns out that since she didnt have anything in the frigde..Therefore all the three of us had in the morning was hot cup of tea, and some conversation. Nothing else!<br />Well our conversation drifted from this topic to that topic...and for some weird reason, Arjun talked about his trip back home to India a few months ago when he was promoted from business class to first class because of the many air miles he had accumulated! Obviously he talked about how short the trip was, with all the excellent treatment. You could see he had never had that kind of treatment before. That is not to say I was not a tad jealous. With his baby-ish face, an air hostess easily mistook him for a kid who is travelling without his parents, but he cut her short by saying he works for the oil and gas industry....and then requesting for his drink!<br /><br />He then mentioned that it reminded him about the movie UP IN THE AIR starring George Clooney, as Ryan Bingham, a corporate dude who is hired by cowardly bosses from the round the world to fire employees for them. As such he is always on the plane, travelling round the world, and spending a few days at a time in hotels. More importantly, is Ryan's philosophy, since he lives a life free of any relationships with people and things. He is got no mission in life, except this. To accumulate the a million air miles, as he believes only six people have done this. Of course, as you might have guessed, after achieving this ambition, he realises that his philosophy was after all wrong.<br /><br />This movie reminded me of THE REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, a movie I watched a few months ago on a weekend away with a group of friends. They have similar themes running through them! It also brings back The TITANIC stars, Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet (reunited again after The TITANIC). The movie is based on Richard Yates’ acclaimed 1961 debut novel, going by the same title. It is directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition). Warning is, there are scenes with nudity and sexual nature, <br /><br />This is a movie that you can’t just watch for fun! After watching it, my ex-girlfriend (then my girlfriend) said she didn’t enjoy it because it was a bit depressing, some other friends called it their movie of the year. Others were simply astounded. It is not the classic Hollywood, happily ever after kinda movie. It is simply different. <br /><br />The story revolves around a beautiful couple living in sub-urban America in the 1950s. Don’t fret, because it is story that has huge relevance even to us today. April (Kate) is a beautiful wife, and a stay-at home mother raising two kids, while Frank Wheeler is her handsome an office employee. They exude a calm, confident exterior of an extremely happy married couple; you almost admire their lives, seemingly full of joy and warmth. A prefect couple, an idyllic image of the American Dream we all have come to admire. Everything seems perfect; their neighbours are all full of envy. <br /><br />Is there a creeping frustration within them, an inability to be fulfilled by their relationship and careers? Whether someone feels a sense of regret over past actions, or is facing certain mid-life struggles. The characters in the movie are all faced with these questions...and maybe a more important question. This couple believes they are somehow more special than the people living around them on Revolutionary Road (by now, you know where the movie borrows it title), and they deserve better than this. <br /><br />Was a doomed marriage from the start? What seems to be the real problem here?? It sometimes hard to know whom or what to blame for the film’s events! Is it the sub-urban surroundings? Is it the place where you live that normally kills your dreams? The job you are doing? The people around you? Are they therefore victims of the very system that ensnares them? Or are they victims of their poor decisions? Either way, it is a tragedy, and the movie constantly forces us to ask this hard questions!! <br /><br />Could it be that April’s dreams and passions in life died when she became a stay-at-home mother? Will flying away to Paris, and getting a job there solve the problem? Perhaps, Frank deserves better, can quit his job, do some writing in Paris, as he figures out what he wants to do in life! Could he be better than the job that he currently does? Unfulfilled dreams and passions? How do we explain the temptations of infidelity? How does April escape her emotionally dead life? Flying to Paris and starting all over again seems to be the perfect solution. What is wrong with Frank’s philosophy when he says that "All I know is that I want to feel things, really feel them." <br /><br />Then enters, John Givings, the mentally unstable son of a local real estate agent (Kathy Bates). While watching him, you cant help but think that he may not be crazy after all. Maybe everyone around him is crazy! He seems to see through the veneer of all this. In one of the brilliant quotes from the movie, John says “Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.” Perhaps, it will take an encounter with a “crazy” person to drum sense into all of us. <br /><br />Richard Yates, in talking about the book said in 1972, that “I think I meant it more as an indictment of American life in the 1950s. Because during the Fifties there was a general lust for conformity all over this country, by no means only in the suburbs — a kind of blind, desperate clinging to safety and security at any price” <br />Wait, a minute, WHAT IS THE PROBLEM here? Until we correctly diagnose the problem, we cannot prescribe the right medication. Are the Wheelers’ lives an anomaly, or are they norm? Is life all about a happy marriage, secure dream job, or nice neighbourhood that we aspire for? Is our purpose in life bland, and mundane? Or like April Wheeler says “Look at us. We're just like everyone else. We've bought into the same, ridiculous delusion.”Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-21725088458063647162009-04-24T01:58:00.000-07:002009-04-24T01:59:18.896-07:00The truth is infront of me!In one of those days when I felt particularly patriotic (Yes, I am a good student), I stumbled across Don’s Wanyama’s blog, was laughed hysterically when I read the African proverb on at the top of his page “However much the buttocks are in a hurry, they will always remain behind.”... I thought that was very funny! It made my mind go in a few circles, wondering of the many people who are on a road going nowhere...and thus will always be left behind! <br /><br />But that is fodder for another day! <br /><br />I was impressed by Don’s analysis of the Teddy Cheeye’s debacle and the source of his perceived arrogance. But one thing that took my particularly attention, when at the emd of the article, he asked the question “...can we say the time to shake the status quo has begun? Or was he a mere sacrificial lamb??”<br />And I would like to give my thoughts to this. I believe that it is time to shake the status quo. But not in the way you think. Before we even go there to confront people, and tell them how they need to change. We need to start with ourselves. <br /><br />I think we ourselves need to have the courage to look at ourselves critically and realise that many times we are living comfortably within the same status quo that we are telling others to leave. Charity has got to begin at home.<br /><br />Now you might wax lyrical about how good you are, and tell me that you have not YET stole any millions of funds, or constructed shoddy roads. The question is, how many times have you refused to give a bribe when asked for one? Did you give that the traffic policeman 5,000/= because you were trying to avoid the longer, more painful and very inconvinient route! Well, the bad news is that you contributed to corruption. I know, we are guilty of this many times! The most important thing is admitting ths fault and doing something about it!<br /><br />We have given in so many times to the demands of the society. I am not saying that I am innocent, I have been guilty many times, and I have realised that change has got to start with me. My attitudes! As long as I beleive that nothing can be archieved without corruption, then I am an utter failure and should as well wallow in it. But I should retain that little hope, and have the courage in the face of daversity to say "YES, WE CAN do it the honest way and still succeed"<br /><br />Has there ever been a time when you hired the right candidate, the best candidate even if it means leaving out your relative in the cold. This requires courage....but it is the price for change. How many times have you asked the question “Whom do you know there?” whenever there was a rumour of a bid, job, or an event you wanted! <br /><br />As the bible rightly put it...the truth is not out there, but right here...in front of us!Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-19108904476993492122008-11-10T14:08:00.000-08:002008-11-10T14:19:11.138-08:00Dance school....I am an avid dance fan! These days I have taken to waltz, ballroom and tango. I am doing Argentine tango in one school onFridays and ballroom dance in another. I have done a little bit of salsa, but it was during a very busy period of my life so i didnt learn much.<br /><br />Now I have failed to coerce, cajole or convince a girl to go with as a partner! yeah, Iknw you will all say I am not that smooth! But guess what,I get to dance with the teacher. The last two weeks, I have gotten to dance with thedance-teachers best student. Infact she told me that the dance teacher is her god-mother. The girl herself is training to be a dance teacher, dance is her passion, she actually quit college to pursue dance..blah blah! She has got the moves,looks...almost everything except that she has a Geordie accent! Hopefully I will be ableto work around that! I will find out about her beliefs later.....<br /><br /><br />Well, we have sort of struck a cord, and I talked about whether she is free so that we can get-together for coffee sometime! That was last Thursday, I got her phone number then! I gave it a few days, didnt want to call her the next daylike most guys would do!<br /><br />Thing is, I called her up today..unfortunatey the phone wasnt answered and it went straight to voicemail. I wanted tol eave a message. I actually attempted..after a few minutes of recording my message, listening to it, and re-recording it..i just discovered that my voice and tone made me sound way too nervous! So i deleted the voicemail! I might cal again sometime..and will think about leavinga message!Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-13612813305413861272008-11-08T13:41:00.001-08:002008-11-08T13:44:00.433-08:00I googled myself!I am sure most you guys use Facebook? Chances are that you must have heard of Compare, that Facebook application. The risky assumption I am making here is that you, dear blogger, are very media (or rather internet) savvy. Whether or not you use it is another question, after all we are bombarded with all the applications which actually ever add value to our lives, whether in monetary of entertainment value! The one thing most of these applications do is waste our time. Yet we have only 24 hours a day! <br /><br />Now, the Compare application has a fine way of advertising itself. They say<em>.......“It's a pyramid of how many people trust the people that trust you. And the people that trust them - it goes pretty far. This number also means that if you wanted to send a message or thought to the whole world, these are the people who would accept your message as trustworthy, because they have faith in people who have faith in you. Think of it as your influence and reach.” </em><br /><br />Pyramids of trust? Bollocks. Man, that is one good trick to keep us hooked to it, especially if you have ambitions! Do not ask me what sort of ambitions, because I still need to stay alive in order to do achieve it. So I actually decided to check out how popular (or infamous)I am by doing a rough internet search about myself. I had to look for a benchmark with to compare myself. Who better than Barack Obama, well be cause for starters we have a few things in common. And he is just guy who wouldn’t mind this exercise.<br /><br />So I took Googled Obama, and it yielded 163,000,000 English pages for Obama in 0.23 seconds)” Damn, the guy beat me! Google yielded 4,390 English pages for in 0.18 seconds. Wait, the playing field was not level. I used both my first name and surname. So I decided to search only my surname, and my internet popularity improved by 1073.12%. The Google search yielded 51,500 English pages in 0.18 seconds. Yeah, he still beats me there. <br /><br />But guess what, I at least beat him on time! The search for me was 5 seconds faster. Damn it. Was the CIA screening my search for Obama? They went, right...who is this bloke? What is the IP address of his laptop? Right, what does he want with our President. OK,he can goon...and by the time they answered all these questions, 5 precious seconds had gone by!!Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-89250797369260023612008-10-31T15:30:00.001-07:002008-10-31T15:39:54.875-07:00Ratios:A lesson in maths!It’s amazing what ladies want! That movie “What Women Want “in which Mel Gibson starred in was quite a classic. I mean the title was confusing enough; you would dash to watch because you think it would help you sort out all the mystery. But when you go to the cinema, with a knowing smile on your face, thinking...”maybe, just maybe this time...”, and alas, you get disappointed...like you do when you watch many of the current movies! <br /><br />On a rather random note, I am going for a potential date on Sunday to watch the new James Bond movie, Quantum ofSolace, and am hoping she says she will inform me tomorrow, but somehow I think she will say yes! My my gut feeling is that it is over rated and over hyped..like most things with a British link!<br /> <br />Anyway, whenever you ask the ladies what it is that attracts them to men, they have all sorts of answers. The legs, eyes, the way he walks...well, nowadays...even the size of the wallet if a big deal! Nevertheless, the answers are as diverse as they are weird! Long gone are the days of true love. Broke guys like me are in shit!! <br />But there is one thing that most Ugandan girls all agree on is one thing, that the dude has got to be “tall, dark and handsome” (<chuckles, at how the word handsome shows up again! >) Is it possible for the guy to be tall, dark and un-handsome?? <br /><br />Now, we guys from the North have always had an edge when it comes to the tall, dark and handsome bit!! In this respect, the playing field has always been to our advantage! But there is one thing, one area where we have always fallen short! <br />Now just one thing....now we guys do not need you to tell us that our accent is kinda-not-so-cool!! Well, a little bit off the mark! But this is an area that we have always worked around, with some effort, and probably exposure! I know we the Okellos of the world know that we have got all...almost everything in place!! Pull your chair closer, and let me narrate to you a story!<br /><br />I had a maths teacher in my early days in secondary school. He was a brilliant man, by any standards! Thinking back, I still wonder why he didn’t end up in NASA, or even ended up teaching rich kids in then Mpigi or Mukono if all options had run out! Well, perhaps he was inspired more by love for his nation of his land than by anything else! There are only a few good men remaining!<br /><br />In one class, he was teaching the topic of RATIOS. And he had to use an illustration to drive the point home. He used two guys Ochibo (pronounced as Ochibo, with an “h”) and Ochora an example. This is what he says, or rather this is what I heard “If Osibo and Osora are to sare mangos in the rasio of sree to sree, Osibo will not seat Osora and Osora will not seat Osibo. They will get equal sares” <br /><br />Until, we get our act together and learn how to deal with words that have “ch”or “sh” in their pronunciations we still have a long way to go!Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-55272052965813047352008-09-28T12:31:00.000-07:002008-09-28T13:00:01.691-07:00Famous quotes!!!This is one of the greatest quotes to ever emerge from the annals of criminal court history....right here in our backyard!!! Who said these words?? <br /><br /><strong>“We submit that this whole case is and was a fabrication from beginning to end, calculated to embarrass KB. This sad case was born in the deluded mind of Ms JK, it was nurtured and developed in SH. It was cooked to imperfection in the DIC of the UP. It was presented into full inadequacy by the DepDPP. Now it’s courts time to dismiss it.” </strong>Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-25907903000016771032008-09-19T02:09:00.001-07:002008-09-19T02:11:56.818-07:00No FB!1) I just started workin on Monday. And that was after i had handed in my dissertation on Fri. And that was after flexing for 3 months..well, just more than one month,...with optmisation and simulations! <br /><br />2) Being a gud company that it is, almots all sites are blocked..including Facebook. You try to access any of teh sites, I am starkly warned...ACCESS DENIED! <br />So i guess am not paid to surf FB, chat onlie,or even check mail!! That does not mean i have been paid yet, coz am only five days old)<br /><br />Man, life is tight. So i need a house that has got internet in it. <br />Ok, i better sign out, lest i be found blogging....else I am forever screwed!! Did i just hear the door opening..????Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-46413761122716176292008-09-19T02:09:00.000-07:002008-09-19T02:10:42.663-07:00No FB!1) I just started workin on Monday. And that was after i had handed in my dissertation on Fri. And that was after flexing for 3 months..well, just more than one month,...with optmisation and simulations! <br /><br />2) Being a gud company that it is, almots all sites are blocked..including Facebook. You try to access any of teh sites, I am starkly warned...ACCESS DENIED! <br />So i guess am not paid to surf FB, chat onlie,or even check mail!! That does not mean i have been paid yet, coz am only five days old)<br /><br />Man, life is tight. So i need a house that has got internet in it. <br />Ok, i better sign out, lest i be found blogging....else I am forever screwed!! damn, did i hear the door just open...am outta here!!Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-40186145676505256322008-09-06T20:18:00.000-07:002008-09-06T20:29:30.647-07:00Reader's block...Damn,I realised the previous posts are only 7 parts, i had originally intended it to be 12 parts...u know just because it sounds nice..12parts!<br /><br />But then, hey, some one told me 7 is the perfectnumber! Iam not sure i beleive it, but if it works for me, why not!<br /><br />First of all, I am going to bet my money! No one will actually one full particle....from any of those 7 parts!! Because they are too long!<br /><br />But I wont remove it. It will sort of standthere staring in all y'all faces! A big mountain you cant climb! Reader's block or som' like that!<br /><br />Let me be nice, I have attached her a youtubelink tothe same message! Its froma christian, attacking modern christianity..you know the name it and claim it stuff! The "God wants tomake you healthy, wealthy" stuff. I do not buyinto any of that nonsense! IthinkGod has some other priorities!!<br /><br />But if you dont wanna go through all the reading....since there are more interesting blogs out there to visit! Just go to the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuabITeO4l8&feature=related">Youtube link </a>below and just listen. If you hate Youtube,am not sure who does, thenyou can go <a href="http://http://upp.mypodcast.com/2007/05/Shocking_Youth_Message_by_Paul_Washer_Stuns_5000_Hearers_So_Biblical_He_Was_Never_Invited_Back-15280.html">here</a>.Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-2422279508120335822008-09-06T20:10:00.000-07:002008-09-06T20:15:29.388-07:00Shocking Message-Part 7Let’s get down. What does the Word of God say? How does your life stand in front of that blazing fire which is the holiness of God on that final day? Beloved, precious little girl, beloved, precious young man, on that final day will your confession hold true? Are you saved? And I’m not talking about, “Well, I think I’m saved.” You know, there’s a way that seems right unto a man, but it leads unto death.<br /><br />“Well, I feel in my heart of my hearts that I’m saved.” Well, let me ask you a question. Did you<br />ever read that the heart is deceitfully wicked; who can know it? Shouldn’t you go to the<br />testimony of Scripture?<br /><br />“Well, I know I’m saved because my mom, my dad, my pastor, everybody else told me I was<br />saved.” Well, I’m telling you this. What does the Word of God tell you?<br /><br />We talk so much about being radical Christians. Radical Christians are not people who jump at<br />concerts. Radical Christians are not people who wear Christian tee shirts. Radical Christians are<br />those who bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Radical Christians are those who reverence and<br />honor their parents even when they feel like their parents are wrong. Radical Christians are<br />those who do not––now listen to me. This is going to make you mad, and I’m talking to boys<br />and girls. Radical Christians are those who do not dress sensually in order to show off their<br />bodies. If your clothing is a frame for your face, God is pleased with your clothing. If your<br />clothing is a frame for your body, it’s sensual and God hates what you’re doing. Everybody<br />wants to talk about a prophet, but no one wants to listen to one.<br /><br />I’m talking about Christianity. I have spent my life in jungles. I have spent my life freezing in<br />the Andes Mountains. I have seen people die. A little boy, Andrew Myman [phonetic], the<br />Muslims shot him five times through the stomach and left him on a sidewalk simply because he<br />cried out, “I am so afraid but I cannot deny Jesus Christ. Please don’t kill me, but I will not deny<br />Him.” And he died in a pool of blood. And you talk about being a radical Christian because you<br />wear a tee shirt, because you go to a conference. I’m talking about holiness. I’m talking about<br />Godliness.<br /><br />I wish––you know what a move of God would be in this place? If all of you came under conviction, if I myself came under conviction of the Holy Spirit, we fell down on our faces and<br />wept because we watch the things that God hates, because we wear the things that God hates,<br />because we act like the world, look like the world, smell like the world, because we do the very<br />things, and we know not that we do these things, because we do not know the Word of God.<br />Because, even though we claim as a denomination that the Scripture is the infallible Word of God, basically all we get is illustrations, stories, and quaint little novels. Oh, that God will glow<br />on this place, that we would turn away from our sin, that we would renounce the things that are<br />displeasing to God, and, then, that we would run to Him and we would relish Him and we would<br />love Him.<br /><br />Oh, that God would raise up missionaries. I don’t wish the same things your parents want for<br />you. They want for you security and insurance and nice homes. They want for you cars and<br />respect. I want for you the same thing I want for my son, that one day he takes a banner, the<br />banner of Jesus Christ, and he places it on a hill where no one has ever placed a banner before,<br />and he cries out, “Jesus Christ is Lord,” even if it costs my son his life. Oh, when he’s 18 years<br />old, if he says to me the same thing I said when I was a young man, “I’m going into the<br />mountains. I’m going into the jungle.” And they said, “You can’t go there. You’re insane. It’s<br />a war. You’re gonna die.” I’m going. When that little boy puts on that backpack, I’m going to<br />pray over him and say, “Go! God be with you, and if you die, my son, I’ll see you over there and<br />I’ll honor your death.”<br /><br />Oh, God, let’s pray, let’s pray.<br /><br />Oh, God, I don’t care about reputation. I don’t care what men think. I want You to be honored.<br />I want these young people to be saved. I want those that are saved to stop looking around at a<br />cultural Christianity that You hate and will spew out of Your mouth, and that they will look at<br />the Word of God and say, “I will follow Jesus.”<br /><br />Oh, God, I pray for youth ministers and pastors and I pray that You’d fill them with the spirit of<br />wisdom and love and boldness and discernment. And dear God, whatever the cost, I pray that<br />you will raise up missionaries. I can’t help but look at these kids and think of my own little boy.<br />Oh, God, that You would save Ian and that You would raise him up and send him into the worst<br />part of the battle. Oh, dear God, raise up missionaries here. Raise up missionaries. Raise up<br />preachers and pastors and reachers and evangelists that know the Word of God. Oh, God, work<br />in this place, please work in this place, dear God. Please. Please. Please. Please.<br /><br />Now with every head bowed, is there anyone here tonight that would say, “Brother Paul, I have<br />been living a lie. I claim to be a Christian but I love the world, and I look like it and smell like it<br />and I hate myself for it, and, Brother Paul, I am so tired of this Christianity that I’m living. I’m<br />just sick of it. I’m just sick of it. I want to be saved. I want to be saved.” I just want you to stand up. “Brother Paul, I want to be saved.” Amen. Is there anyone else? Amen. Amen.<br /><br />In a moment, we’re going to have an invitation. Those of you who stood up––I’m going to come<br />down here and I want you to meet with me. I want to talk to you. Now, you may be seated,<br />thank you.<br /><br />Now, I want to talk to those of you who claim to be Christians. Does your life honor Jesus<br />Christ? Are you looking in His Word to find out how you’re supposed to live? I pray with all<br />my heart, the only thing that’s going to save the church in America, there’s only two<br />possibilities. One is a total reformation in our preaching and our study of the Word of God, and<br />the other is fierce, horrifying persecution. That’s the only thing that’s going to save the church<br />in America. Oh, I pray, I pray that you would return to the Word. I pray––listen to me, young<br />person. You need to know. You need to say, “Okay, how am I supposed to live before my<br />parents?” Go into the Word, find out, obey it. “How am I supposed to dress?” Go into the<br />Word, find out, obey it. “How am I supposed to talk?” “What am I supposed to listen to?”<br />Bring every thought, word, and deed into subjection to Jesus Christ.<br /><br />Now, I’m not going to ask you to stand because I am so tired of people coming forward and<br />making those commitments, and those commitments last them two minutes. I’m not here so I<br />can write up in my magazine that a gazillion of you came forward. I want you to go home and I<br />want you to live for Jesus Christ with all your heart. But if you need counseling, you say,<br />“Brother Paul, I want to––I want to live for Jesus Christ. I don’t know how. I don’t know how.”<br />In a minute, we’re going to give an invitation, and I do want you to come forward, not to make a<br />commitment. You want to make a commitment, you make that commitment right where you’re<br />seated. If you need to tell somebody, you go tell your pastor. You go tell your youth minister,<br />and you know what, we’ll know if that commitment lasts. You know how? Because it will last,<br />we’ll know if it’s from God.<br /><br />Let me tell you something. For everyone who’s here right now, I want to tell you something. If<br />you made a decision to follow Jesus Christ, if you made a decision to get saved in these last two<br />days, I want to tell you something. If it was genuine, it will last. If after a few weeks you go<br />right back into the world, live like the world, act like the world, I want you to know something,<br />you didn’t get anything here this weekend. You got emotion, that’s about it. If you really got<br />something from the Lord, I want you to know something, it will last. And even if you try to run<br />away from it, you won’t be able to do it. You won’t be able to do it. Oh, I love you so much. I<br />love you so much.<br /><br />I would ask that we all stand. If you need counseling about a decision that you have made but<br />it’s not clear, I want you to come forward. And I’m going to come right down here. Those of<br />you who stood up––there were many of you over there who say, “I need to know Jesus Christ,” I want to come down here right now and I want to meet with you, and I want to go back over here with you and some other counselors and I want to talk to you. And I want to tell you something, not a five-minute deal, not a ten-minute deal. If you need to talk all night, we will stay. That is the attitude of every counselor in this place. We will stay all night if necessary, all night. God love you. God love you. Let me pray for you.<br /><br />Dear God, please, Lord, there has been so much movement. Last night, Lord, I don’t know how<br />much of it was real, and I know that I saw people last night weeping. I saw people trying to<br />make commitments, and I believe that there was a great deal of what happened last night because of You. I saw this morning a young man preach, Father, give his testimony, and I saw real working of the Holy Spirit. I don’t know how much of all the decisions were real, but there was real things going on. I pray right now, Father, I don’t know how much will be real. Only time<br />and eternity will show us that. But, oh, dear God, please, please, work, in Jesus’ name. Amen.<br /><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><br />To download a high quality MP3 of this message go to:<br />http://upp.mypodcast.com/2007/05/Shocking_Youth_Message_by_Paul_Washer_Stuns_5000_Hearers_<br />So_Biblical_He_Was_Never_Invited_Back-15280.html</strong></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><br />You may download the audio (low quality MP3) or video (good quality WMV) to this sermon here:<br />http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=52906154239<br /><br /></strong></span></em><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em>Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-15427666203186234422008-09-06T20:05:00.000-07:002008-09-06T20:10:24.020-07:00Shocking Message-Part 6You say, “Oh, you’re talking about works.” No, I’m not. I’m talking about evidence of faith, and it goes like this. Your profession of faith is no proof that you’re born again because everybody in this whole country professes faith in Jesus Christ. Barnard tells us that 65 to 70 percent of all Americans are saved, born-again Christians. The most Godless country on the face of the earth. Kill 4,000 babies a day but, bless God, 70 percent of us are born again. How do you know that the faith you have is not false? A style of life that is concerned about doing the will of the Father, that practices the will of the Father, and when you disobey the will of the Father, the Holy Spirit comes and reprimands you either personally through the written Word of God or through a brother or sister in Christ, and God puts you back on the path again. If you’re a genuine Christian, you cannot escape Him.<br /><br />Let me give you an example. If I was your pastor and you were, let’s say, 14 years old and I came back from preaching at one o’clock in the morning and I saw you standing out there in a<br />park or on a corner with a bunch of hoodlums, doing things you shouldn’t be doing and you’re a<br />member of our church, I would tell you, “Get in the car.” I would take you home to your father.<br />I wouldn’t be mad at you. I’d be mad at your father. I would tell him, “Sir, you are a derelict<br />father that you would allow your child to be out in such circumstances.”<br /><br />I want you to know something. God is not a derelict father. If you can play around in sin, if you<br />can love the world and love the things of the world, if you can always be involved in the world<br />and doing things of the world, if your heroes are worldly people, if you want to look like them<br />and act like them, if you practice the same things they practice, oh my dear friend, listen to my<br />voice. There’s a good chance you know not God, and you do not belong to him.<br /><br />Now, we bring this to a close, verse 22: Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not<br />prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name perform many<br />miracles. Then I will declare to them, I never knew you.<br /><br />You say the most important thing on the face of the earth is to know Jesus Christ. That is not<br />true. The most important thing on the face of the earth is that Jesus Christ knows you. I’m not<br />going to get into the White House tomorrow because I walk up to the gate and tell everybody I<br />know George Bush, but they will let me in if George Bush comes out and says, “I know Paul<br />Washer.”<br /><br />You can profess to know Jesus, but my question for you . . . do you know Jesus? Does Jesus know you? And look how he describes the lost man here. He said, Depart from me you who<br />practice lawlessness. In Greek, anomia––a negative particle, a, “not”; word nomos, “law”––“no<br />law.” And this is what it means. Let me give you an accurate translation of this. Depart from<br />me––Listen to me, if I could come out there and hug you while I was telling you this, I would.<br />Listen to me. He says, Depart from me those of you who claim to be my disciples who confessed<br />me as Lord and, yet, you live as though I never gave you a law to obey.<br /><br />I just described a great majority of North American Christianity. If anyone starts talking about<br />law, if anyone starts talking about Biblical principles on what we’re supposed to do and not<br />supposed to do, how we’re to live and not supposed to live, everyone starts screaming,<br />“Legalist.” But Jesus said, Depart from me those of you who live––you called me Lord, but you<br />lived as though I had never given a law.<br /><br />In American Christianity today, pass through the gate. Praise God. Live like the rest of the<br />world and it’s okay. You’re just carnal. Maybe one day you’ll come back. Do you know what<br />happens because of our bad evangelism? We have gazillions of children saved in vacation Bible<br />school, and when they hit 15 years old, they enter into the world and live like demons, a great<br />majority of them. And then when they’re around 30, they come back and rededicate their life.<br />Maybe they just got saved. Because, folks, it’s more than just telling someone you’re saved<br />because you acknowledged that Jesus is Lord. Satan acknowledges that Jesus is Lord. Is your<br />life in a process of change?<br /><br />And then He drops down and He talks about two people––two foundations. Do you know what<br />this passage in contemporary . . . See it’s important to study theology and it’s important to study<br />history. The contemporary interpretation of this passage about the rock and the sand is basically<br />like this. If you’re a Christian, you need to build your life upon the rock because, if you build<br />your life upon the sand, you’ll be an unhappy Christian and your life won’t go right. That is not<br />what Jesus is teaching and history backs me up on it. It was hardly ever interpreted that way.<br />Do you know what the interpretation is? It goes like this.<br /><br />There are two ways. There’s a narrow way and a broad way. Which one are you on? There are<br />two types of trees. There is a good tree that bears good fruit, and it’s going to Heaven. There’s a<br />bad tree and you know it’s bad because it bears bad fruit, and it’s going to hell. It’s going to be<br />cut down and thrown into the fire. There are those who profess Jesus is Lord and they do the<br />will of the Father who is in heaven, and there are those who profess Jesus Christ is Lord and they do not do the will of the Father who is in heaven, and they go to hell––not because of a lack of works, but because of a lack of faith demonstrated by the fact that they had no works.<br /><br />And then he goes on. He says, not two Christians building their house on two different<br />foundations. No. This is a saved man and a lost man. The lost man hears the Word of God<br />preached but he lays no foundation. You cannot see in any way in his life how the Word of God is forming and building and sustaining his life. His life is not––how many people in the Southern Baptist Convention, regardless of all our numbers, regardless of everything we say, if we were to simply take this passage and compare the people to this passage and say––Are you building your marriage on the Word of God? Are you raising your children on the Word of God? Are you doing your finances on the Word of God? Are you living, separating yourself from the things of this world based upon the Word of God? How many would be able to answer positively?<br /><br />No, none of that. “I profess Jesus. He’s my Savior. My Sunday school teacher told me so.” Oh. I know, like Leonard Ravenhill, an acquaintance of mine before he passed on, used to say, “I preach in a lot of Baptist churches once.” I preach in a lot of places like this once. I could have got up here today with a vocabulary that would have astounded you and preached you things that would have lifted you up and floated you around this room. I could have told you stories that would have made you laugh and stories about dogs and grandmas that would have made you cry, but I love you too much for that. I know . . . I know, because the Word of God is true, that there are people who believe themselves to be saved and they are no more saved. They’re not.<br /><br />I know that there are some of you who look around and you think, “Well, I’m saved. I mean,<br />look, I look like everybody else in my youth group.” What makes you think your youth group is<br />saved? “Well, I’m like my parents”; or, “I’m like the adults in my church or the deacon or the<br />pastor.” What does that matter? You won’t be judged by them on the day of His coming. My<br />question for you, beloved, my question for you, little child––I mean, you could be my children,<br />and I pray someday when my little boy grows that there will be a preacher who will stand before<br />him and say, “Enough of this!”Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-53722988092490583922008-09-06T19:59:00.000-07:002008-09-06T20:05:54.331-07:00Shocking Message-Part 5Listen to me. If everyone in this town believes themselves saved, and we know that’s not true by Scripture because the Bible says that few will enter in, how do you know that you’re saved?<br />How do you truly know that you are saved? Because someone told you? Because you prayed a<br />prayer? Because you believed? Well, let me ask you a question. How do you know you believed? Because everybody says they believe. How do you know you’re not like them? Do you know how the Bible teaches you that you know you are saved? Do you know how Baptist theology, up until about 50 years ago, would have told you how you know you have been saved? You know you have been saved because your life is in the process of being changed, and your style of life is one of walking in the paths of God’s truth.<br /><br />And when you step off those paths in disobedience, as we all do, God comes for you and puts you back on the path. One of the greatest evidences that you have truly been born again is that God will not let you talk as your flesh might want to talk. God will not let you dress as the sensual world and the sensual church allows you to dress. God will not allow you to act like the world, smell like the world, speak like the world, listen to the things that the world listens to. God will make a difference in your life.<br /><br />He says here, as we go on, verse 16: You will know them by their fruits. How will you know a false prophet? In the wider application here and all of Scripture, how will you know if someone is a genuine Christian? By their fruit. By their fruit, my dear friend. Look at your life. Look at the way you walk. Look at the way you talk. Look at the passions of your heart. Is Jesus in there somewhere? Or is He just some accessory that you add on to your life? Is He just something that you do on Wednesday or Sunday? Is He something that you give a mental assent to? Is He an accessory or is He the very center of your life? And what is the fruit that you’re bearing? Do you look like the world? Act like the world? Do you have and experience the same joys that the world experiences? Can you love sin and relish it? Can you love rebellion and relish it? Then you know not God. You will know them by their fruit. God has the power to change them.<br /><br />Let’s imagine for a moment Jesus teaching this passage, and you’re sitting out there listening.<br />And He looks at you. He says, “Thistles, thistles. Do you find thistles on fig trees?”<br /><br />And you respond, “Of course not, Jesus. I mean, you’re not an agriculturalist; you’re not a<br />farmer. I mean, you’re a carpenter. But everybody knows, Jesus, you don’t find thorns on fig<br />trees.”<br /><br />“Well, then, let me ask you another question. Do you find figs––good fruit––on thorn trees?”<br /><br />“Why, no, Jesus. That’s absolutely ludicrous. I mean, you’re never gonna find thorns on a fig<br />tree, and you’re not gonna find figs on a thorn tree, Jesus. To say that could be possible––anyone who tells you that, Jesus, you can mark it down . . . they’re either crazy or they’re a liar.”<br />And then Jesus responds to you. “Well then, those who call themselves my disciples and bear<br />bad fruit, would not it be the same to say that they were either lying or out of their mind to make such a statement?”<br /><br />Let me take it a little further. Let’s imagine that I show up late and I run up here on the platform, and all the leaders are angry with me and say, “Brother Paul, don’t you appreciate the fact you’re given an opportunity to speak here and you come late?”<br /><br />And I’d say, “Brothers, you have to forgive me.”<br /><br />“Well, why?”<br /><br />“Well, I was out here on the highway, and I was driving and I had a flat tire and I got out to change the tire, and when I was changing the tire, the lug nut fell off, and I wasn’t paying<br />attention that I was on the highway and I ran out and I grabbed the lug nut, and as soon as I<br />picked it up in the middle of the highway, I stood up and there was a 30-ton logging truck going<br />120 miles an hour about ten yards in front of me, and it ran me over and that’s why I’m late.”<br />Now, there would only be two . . . I know no one studies logic anymore, but there would only be<br />two logical conclusions. One, I’m a liar or, two, I’m a madman. You would say, “Brother Paul,<br />it’s absolutely absurd. It is impossible, Brother Paul, to have an encounter with something as<br />large as a logging truck and not be changed.”<br /><br />And then my question would be to you––What is larger? A logging truck or God? How is it that<br />so many people today profess to have had an encounter with Jesus Christ, and, yet, they are not<br />permanently changed? Let me give you a few things to think about. You know I’m telling you the truth. How many times do you go and rededicate your life over and over and over again? How many times do youth groups go to things like this and get fired up and go back to the<br />church, and it lasts about a week and a half? And yet, “Oh, it was a great move of God.” No, it<br />wasn’t. If it doesn’t last, it wasn’t a great move of God. It was emotion. It was so many things,<br />but it wasn’t a great move of God. Has God worked in your life? Is God working in your life?<br />You will know them by their fruit. You will know them by their fruit.<br /><br />Now, we go on, verse 19: Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into<br />the fire so you will know them by their fruit. Look at this. You need to understand something<br />about Hebrew literature. When you and I want to emphasize something, do you know what we<br />do? We raise our voice. If we’re writing, we put it in bold letters, or we capitalize it. But to a Jew, it’s different. When he wants to emphasize something, he repeats it and he repeats it.<br /><br />That’s why you find Hebrew parallelisms in the Book of Proverbs. The wicked shall not live in the land. The wicked shall be destroyed. He’s saying the same thing, just in a different way to<br />give greater emphasis. That’s what Jesus is doing over and over again here. You will know them<br />by their fruit. You will know them by their fruit. You will know them by the path that they walk<br />in. You will know them by their fruit. You will know them by their fruit. And He says, Anyone<br />who does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. What is He talking about? My dear friend, He is talking about the judgment of Almighty God that will one day fall upon the<br />world, that will one day fall possibly upon you.<br /><br />Oh dear friend, I cannot look into your heart. I am so easily deceived by my own heart, but there is One who is not deceived. There is One who is not deceived, and He is not deceived by a<br />contemporary Christian culture. He knows. You will know them by their fruit.<br /><br />And He goes on and He says this, verse 21: Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter<br />the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my father who is in heaven will enter. Do you know what your profession of faith in Jesus Christ is worth? Absolutely nothing. Yes. Did you read that passage? Study it. Not everyone who comes to me and says, Lord, Lord . . . not everyone who professes, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven. There are many<br />people who are going to profess, “Lord, Lord,” but they are not going to enter into the kingdom<br />of heaven. My dear precious child, are you one of them? “Lord, Lord.”<br /><br />Now, again, let’s go back to Hebrew literature. He said, Lord, Lord. He didn’t say, Lord. What<br />does that mean? This fellow who is making this profession, he is not someone who just all of a<br />sudden decided, “It’s judgment and I better profess Him to be Lord.” This is a person who<br />emphatically declares to other people that Jesus Christ is Lord. He walks around saying, “Lord.”<br />He dances up in front while the musicians are playing, saying, “Lord.” He sings the songs,<br />“Lord.” But Jesus said to him, Depart from me. I never knew you.<br /><br />Do you know, Billy Graham is one of the kindest, lovingest men; yet, Billy Graham has said he<br />believed that a great majority of people who attend Bible-believing churches are lost. He said<br />that he would be happy if even five percent of all the people who made professions of faith in his<br />campaigns are even saved.<br /><br />When I’m in Nigeria . . . I was there last year visiting a mother whose son was in our church and<br />was martyred by the Muslims. In Northern Nigeria, when someone professes faith in Jesus<br />Christ, you pretty much know they can die because of that profession. But in America, oh,<br />consider the cost. Think. Examine your life in light of Scripture. Do you know the Lord? Do you know the Lord? Because not everyone who says to him, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but what does it say here? Look what it says. Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.<br /><br />What is the sign that someone has become a genuine Christian? I wish that we would start<br />teaching this again. What happened to our theology? What happened to our doctrine? What<br />happened to our teaching? It went right out the window. No one wants to study doctrine<br />anymore. They just want to listen to songs and read the back of Christian tee shirts. What<br />happened to truth? Truth tells you this. The evidence––the way that you can have assurance that you are genuinely a born-again Christian––is that you do, as a style of life, the will of the Father.Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-77440836124591247432008-09-06T19:56:00.000-07:002008-09-06T19:59:51.311-07:00Shocking Message-Part 4Book after book is being churned out by theologian and philosopher and sociologist alike. What<br />has happened to the church? We find out that abortion in the church is just as prevalent as<br />outside in the world. We find that divorce is just as prevalent. We find that immorality . . . you<br />know as well as I do, there are youth here right now who are practicing immorality and yet<br />worshiping God in the same breath. You know there are youth here that are doing drugs and yet<br />coming to youth group. You know, watching and doing things that are not appropriate for a<br />Christian, and yet they’re coming to the youth group, believing themselves satisfied, believing<br />themselves saved, and no one is saying anything except this: They’re carnal Christians. They’re<br />really Christians; they’re just carnal. That was a doctrine that started in a Baptist seminary, that<br />is not a Southern Baptist seminary, several decades ago. It is not biblical and it is not historical.<br />My dear friend, there is no such thing as a carnal Christian.<br /><br />You say, “Now, wait a minute, Brother Paul. First Corinthians chapter 3, Are ye not carnal.<br />Paul said that.”<br />No, that’s what Paul said. You need to read the whole book to find out what he meant. You see,one of our problems, youth, listen to me . . . most of our Christianity is based on clichés that we read on the back of Christian tee shirts. Most of our Christianity comes from songwriters and not the Bible. Most of what we believe is dictated to us through our culture and not by the Bible.<br />The Bible never teaches that a person can be a genuine Christian and live in continuous carnality<br />and wickedness and sin all the days of their life. But the Bible teaches that the genuine Christian<br />has been given a new nature. The genuine Christian has a Father who loves them and disciplines<br />them and watches over them and cares for them.<br /><br />My heart is breaking because you know as well as I do, young people, let’s not be hypocrites<br />about it. Let’s not hide it. There are so many. You know them. You might be one of them, or<br />you at least know that they’re in your youth group. They come to youth group. They do all this<br />stuff, but in their heart, they’re as wicked as wicked can be. There is no difference. There is no<br />light. Everything that the world does, they do, and it’s appropriate; it’s okay. My friend, that’s not Christianity. They’re not in danger of losing their reward. They’re in danger of hell. They<br />know not God.<br /><br />What don’t we teach? When was the last time you heard someone say there’s not only a narrow<br />gate into Heaven but a narrow way? Jesus indicates that one of the principal signs of being a<br />genuine Christian is that you walk in the narrow way. Do you know what the sign for being a<br />genuine Christian in America is? You prayed a prayer one time. Isn’t that amazing? What are<br />you asked if you doubt your salvation? Did you pray a prayer one time? What does Scripture<br />teach? Examine yourselves. Test yourselves in the light of Scripture to see if you’re in the path,<br />because a Christian will be different.<br /><br />Now, am I saying that a Christian is without sin? No, because, in First John, we learn that Christians do sin, and if any man does not acknowledge his sin, he knows not God. He’s not walking in the light? So what is the difference? What am I really getting at? What I am getting<br />at is this. If you are genuinely a born-again Christian, a child of God, you will walk in the way<br />of righteousness as a style of life. And if you step off that path of righteousness, the Father will<br />come for you. He will discipline you. He will put you back on that path. But if you profess to have gone through the narrow gate, but yet you live in the broad way, just like all the other people in your high school, just like all the other people who are carnal and wicked, the Bible wants you to know that you should be terribly, terribly afraid because you know not God.<br /><br />I fear men who have spent most of their life telling other men that they are saved. I fear you if<br />you’ve done that. You don’t tell men they are saved; you tell men how to be saved. God tells<br />them they are saved. What we have forgotten to believe is that salvation is a supernatural work<br />of God, and those who have genuinely been converted, regenerated by the power of the Holy<br />Spirit is going to be a new creature. The Bible says, If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. So we find out here in Scripture that there is a narrow gate and a narrow way.<br /><br />We go into verse 15. Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly<br />are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. One of the things you need to realize is<br />this––something a wise man told me a long time ago. He said, “Paul, your best friend is the one<br />who tells you the most truth.” In America, we have become so thin-skinned that no one can rebuke us. No one can tell us we are wrong. And ministers and leaders alike have bought into<br />this lie. We do not want to offend. We want to be seeker friendly. What you need to realize is there is only one seeker and His name is God, and if you want to be friendly to someone in your<br />church, you need to be friendly to God. And you need to be more concerned for the glory of God than you are for the attitudes of men. But another thing you need to realize is the person who loves you the most will tell you the most truth.<br /><br />One of the greatest distinguishing marks of a false prophet is that he will always tell you what<br />you want to hear. He will never rain on your parade. He will get you clapping. He will get you<br />jumping. He will make you dizzy. He will keep you entertained, and he will present a<br />Christianity to you that will make your church look like a Six Flags over Jesus and keep you so<br />entertained you are never addressed with great issues such as these. Is God working in my life?<br />Am I growing in holiness? Have I truly been born again?Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-79073419344925367442008-09-06T19:52:00.000-07:002008-09-06T19:56:56.549-07:00Shocking Message-Part 3And you know, historically––one of the reasons I’m a Southern Baptist is that the Southern<br />Baptists have always been quick––when other denominations have failed to realize this––the<br />Southern Baptists have always been quick to realize that there is one gate; there is one God; there is one mediator between God and man; and His name is Jesus Christ. It’s not multiple choice. Not every road leads to Rome. As a denomination, we have always told people what Jesus told people: <em><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through me. </strong></span></em><br /><br />So, I praise God for that, that the only way any human being on this earth will ever be saved is through Jesus Christ, and that is all. Because you need to realize the Bible says, <em><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God</strong></span></em>, and you have no idea what that means, that we were born radically depraved and God hating, that we would have never sought God, never come to God. We have rebelled against God, broken every law. It’s not just an issue that you have sinned. The issue is you’ve never done anything but sinned. The Bible says in the prophets that even our greatest works are like filthy rags before God. And because of that, you know what we deserve? The wrath of God. The holy hatred of God.<br /><br /><br />You say, “Now, wait a minute. God doesn’t hate anybody. God is love.” No, my friend. You<br />need to understand something. Jesus Christ taught, the prophets taught, the apostles taught this<br />—that apart from the grace of God revealed in Jesus Christ our Lord, the only thing left for you<br />is the wrath, the fierce anger of God because of your rebellion and your sin.<br /><br />When I speak in universities, they’re always quick to point out, “No, God cannot hate because<br />God is love.” And I tell you God must hate because God is love. You see, I love children;<br />therefore, I hate abortion. If I love that which is holy, I must hate that which is unholy. God is a<br />holy God. That’s something that the Americans have forgotten. Many of the things that you<br />love to do, God hates. Did you know that?<br /><br />Pray for revival. You’re going to have a youth meeting; you want God to move, but before you<br />go there you watch programs on television that God absolutely despises. And then you wonder<br />why the Holy Spirit hasn’t fallen on a place and why you have to create false fire and false<br />excitement. Because God’s not in it. God is a holy God and the only way you and I could ever<br />be reconciled to a holy God is through the death of God’s own Son when He hung on that tree.<br /><br />Now listen to me, if you’re saved here tonight, you’re not saved because the Romans and Jews<br />rejected Jesus. You’re not saved because they put a crown of thorns on His head. You’re not<br />saved because they ran a spear through His side, and you’re not saved even because they nailed<br />Him to a cross. Do you know why you’re saved if you are saved? Because when Jesus Christ<br />was hanging on that cross, He bore your sin. The sin of God’s people and all the fierce wrath of<br />God that should fall upon you fell upon His only begotten Son. Someone had to pay that price.<br />Someone had to die. It was God the Father who crushed His only begotten Son. According to<br />Isaiah 53, it says, It pleased Yahweh to crush Him.<br /><br />People say the cross is a sign of how much man is worth. That’s not true. The cross is a sign of<br />how depraved we really are, that it took the death of God’s own Son. The only thing that could<br />save a people like us was the death of God’s own Son under the wrath of His own Father paying<br />the price, rising again from the dead. Powerful to say, this is the Gospel of Jesus.<br /><br />Now what are you called upon to do? You say you go through the narrow gate. How do you do<br />that? Jesus said, The time is fulfilled. The Kingdom of God is at hand. What must you do? In<br />Mark, He tells us . . . repent and believe the Gospel.<br /><br />You say, “Brother Paul, I got saved by praying and asking Jesus Christ into my heart.” And I’m<br />sure you did, but you weren’t saved by a magic formula or some words you repeated after<br />someone else. You were saved because you repented of your sins and you believed, and not only<br />did you do that in the past, you continued to do it even until now, because when Jesus . . . a<br />proper translation of that verse He gave is this: The Kingdom of God is come. The time is<br />fulfilled. Now, spend the rest of your lives repenting of your sins and believing in Me.<br /><br /><br />Conversion is not like a flu shot. “Oh, I did that. I repented. I believed.” The question is my<br />friend––are you continuing to repent of sin? Are you continuing to believe? Because He who<br />began a good work in you will finish it. He will finish it.<br /><br />Now, we as Southern Baptists preach that you’re supposed to go through that one and only gate<br />which is Jesus Christ. But we as Southern Baptists have forgotten something. And I want youth<br />ministers and pastors and everyone to listen to me, parents, we have forgotten a very important<br />teaching in the Gospel. It says that, not only the gate is narrow, it says the path is narrow. What<br />we basically do is lead someone to Christ, lead someone in a prayer and then they spend the rest<br />of their life living just like the world, and if you deny me on this, I can bring the statistics to<br />prove you wrong. Gallup poll, Barnard polls, every kind of poll you can possibly look at, when<br />it questions the morality of the church in America against the morality of those who claim to be<br />lost in America, the polls find no difference. Now that is statistics. It has nothing to do with<br />religious interpretation. Those are statistics.Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-80850875719086440672008-09-06T19:47:00.000-07:002008-09-06T19:52:22.933-07:00Shocking Message-Part 2I want you to know that the greatest heresy in the American evangelical and protestant church is<br />that, if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart, He will definitely come in. You<br />will not find that in any place in Scripture. You will not find that anywhere in Baptist history<br />until about 50 years ago. What you need to know is that salvation is by faith and faith alone in<br />Jesus Christ. And faith alone in Jesus Christ is preceded and followed by repentance . . . a<br />turning away from sin, a hatred for the things that God hates and a love for the things that God<br />loves, a growing in holiness and a desire not to be like Britney Spears, not to be like the world,<br />and not to be like the great majority of American Christians, but to be like Jesus Christ!<br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></em><br /><div align="center"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">[The audience then erupts in applause].</span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><br />I don’t know why you’re clapping. I’m talking about you. I didn’t come here to get amens. I didn’t come here to be applauded. I’m talking about you. </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">People so many times come up to me and say, “Oh, I’d love to follow you into Romania”; “I’d love to follow you into the Ukraine”; “I’d love to preach where you preached and planted churches in Peru in the jungle.”</div><div align="justify"><br />And I tell them, “No, you wouldn’t.”<br /></div><div align="justify">They say, “Yes, I would.”<br /></div><div align="justify">I say, “No, you wouldn’t.”<br /></div><div align="justify">“Why?”<br /></div><div align="justify">“Because you’d be excommunicated from the church down there.”<br /></div><div align="justify">What we need to see . . . I’m not trying to be hard for the sake of being hard. Do you realize how much love it takes to stand before 5,000 people and tell them that American Christianity is almost totally wrong? Do you know what it’s going to cost me to never be asked back again to something like this? To be unpopular? Do you know why you do it? You don’t do it because you get paid well. You don’t do it because men love you. You do it because you love men and because, more than that, you want to honor God.</div><div align="justify"><br />I want to tell you something. We’re going to go into Scripture, and I want you to look at it as it really is. It’s not comparing yourself with others who call themselves Christians. Compare yourself to the Scripture. When someone, a young person, comes to a pastor or a youth minister and says, “I’m not sure whether or not I’m saved,” the youth minister will usually throw out a cliché: “Well, was there ever a time in your life when you prayed and asked Jesus to come into your heart?”</div><br /><br />“Well, yes.”<br /><br />“Were you sincere?”<br /><br />“Well, I don’t know, but I think so.”<br /><br /><div align="justify">“Well, you need to tell Satan to stop bothering you. Did you write it in the back of your book . . . the back of your Bible like the evangelist told you when you got saved, write down the date so that any time you doubted you could point him to the Bible?”</div><div align="justify"><br />What superstition has overcome our denomination? Do you know what the Bible tells Christians to do? Examine yourself. Test yourself in light of Scripture to see if you are in the faith. Test yourself to see if you’re a Christian.</div><div align="justify"><br />Do you realize if I dismissed us right now and told everyone to go knock on every door in this city, do you know what we would find out? Ninety-nine percent of the people, at least, in this city believe themselves to be believers. If you go back to your hometown and knock on every door . . . because I went back to my hometown after I got saved and knocked on every door, and you know what I found out? Everyone in my town is a Christian. Eighty-five percent of them do not go to church, and those who do go to church are not concerned about holiness. They’re not concerned about serving. They’re not concerned about being separate from the world. They’re not concerned about the Gospel being preached among the nations. But, bless God, they’re saved.</div><br />Why are they saved? Because some evangelist who should have spent less time preaching and<br />more time studying his Bible told them they were saved, and he did it so he could brag about<br />how many came forward in his next revival.<br /><br />I love you, and there are men here who love you. And I want to go into Scripture now, now that<br />I’ve shocked you into light. I want you to listen to me. Listen to the Word of God and begin to<br />ask yourself some questions. First of all, <em><span style="font-size:85%;">Enter through the narrow gate for the gate is wide and<br />the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. There is a<br />narrow gate.</span></em>Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-51504347740345602272008-09-06T19:39:00.000-07:002008-09-06T19:47:16.509-07:00Shocking Message-Part 1<div align="center">Paul Washer </div><div align="justify"><br /><br />It’s a tremendous privilege for me to be here this afternoon with you. Before we begin with any further speaking, I would also like to go to the Lord in prayer. I would ask you to pray. There is so much going on here this afternoon, so much that you don’t understand, but I’ll tell you where I’m coming from. I’ll preach as a dying man to dying men and women and youth. I’ll preach as though I will never preach again, and I will tell you things that you will misunderstand. I will tell you things that make you so angry with me, and I’ll tell you things that you will deny. And I will tell you things and you will say I have no right to tell you what I’m telling you. But before you come to any conclusion about what is being said here this afternoon, you ask yourself one question. </div><div align="justify"><br />You see, preaching is a very dangerous thing. It’s dangerous for me because the Bible says that<br />false teachers will undergo greater condemnation. If what I tell you today is not true, I’m in a great deal of trouble and have every right to do this with fear and trembling, because I will stand condemned before God. But if what I tell you today is true, then you’re the one with cause for fear and trembling, because if I correctly interpret this passage of Scripture that I’m going to give you, it is as though God was speaking through a man. Your problem will not be with me; it will be with God and His Word. So, the only question that has to be decided here this afternoon is––Is this man before us a false prophet? Or is he telling us the truth? And if he is telling us the truth, then nothing else matters except conforming our lives to that truth.</div><br /><br />Let’s go to the Lord in prayer.<br /><div align="justify"><br />Father . . .Father, I am so small and so pitiful, Father, in so many ways. You know, Lord, You know, though dear God, should false fire be the only thing ever placed on Your altar, or could fire come down from Heaven amidst all the noise and the clamor and the activities . . . could fire come down from Heaven and these dead bones live, You know me. In Your sovereignty, I pray and I beg before the throne of God that You would be gracious to us, that You would open up hearts and minds. Lord, we can’t wait for them to open theirs; they never will. Open up their hearts and minds and cause them to see biblical truth. Breathe on them. Grant them repentance.<br />Grant them faith. Bring them into Your Kingdom, Lord, for Your own glory, for the sake of Your own great name, do this thing, Lord. As the brother said, let it be so, Lord, so that no man will take credit for it, so that no man will lay his hand to the ark of God and, if he did, that You would strike him down dead, Lord. Oh, God, move among us, please, because we have no other hope. We have no other hope. These children have no other hope except that You move.</div><div align="justify"><br />Amen.</div><br /><br />I’ll be teaching from Matthew chapter 7. If you have your Bibles, follow with me. In Matthew<br />chapter 7, verse 13, Jesus said:<br /><div align="center"><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Enter through the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad<br />that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the<br />gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who<br />find it.<br />Beware of the false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing but<br />inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes<br />are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they? So every<br />good tree bears good fruit, but every bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree<br />cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree<br />that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then,<br />you will know them by their fruits.<br />Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of<br />heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven will enter.<br />Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your<br />name and in your name cast out demons and in your name perform many<br />miracles. Then I will declare to them, I never knew you. Depart from me, you<br />who practice lawlessness. Therefore, everyone who hears these words of<br />mine and acts upon them may be compared to a wise man who builds his<br />house on the rock. And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew<br />and slammed against that house and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded<br />upon the rock.<br />Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be<br />like a foolish man who builds his house on the sand. The rain fell and the<br />floods came and winds blew and slammed against the house and it fell, and<br />great was its fall.</span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><br />I stand here today . . . I’m not troubled in my heart about your self-esteem. I’m not troubled in my heart about whether or not you feel good about yourself, whether or not life is turning out like you want it to turn out, or whether or not your checkbook is balanced. There’s only one thing that gave me a sleepless night. There’s only one thing that troubled me all throughout the morning, and this is this. Within a hundred years, a great majority of people in this building will possibly be in hell. And many who even profess Jesus Christ as Lord will spend an eternity in hell.</div><div align="justify"><br />You say, Pastor, how can you say such a thing? I can say such a thing because I don’t do my Christian work in America. I spend most of my time preaching in South America, in Africa, and Eastern Europe. And I want you to know that, when you take a look at American Christianity, it is based more upon a godless culture than it is upon the Word of God. And so many people are deceived, and so many youth are deceived, and so many adults are deceived into believing that, because they prayed a prayer one time in their life, they’re going to Heaven. And then, when they look around at others who profess to know Christ and see those people also just as worldly as the world, and they compare themselves by themselves, nothing troubles their heart. They think, well, I’m the same as most in my youth group. I watch things I shouldn’t watch on television and laugh about the very things that God hates. I wear clothing that is sensual. I talk like the world. I walk like the world. I love the music of the world. I love so much that’s in the world, but bless God, I am a Christian. Why am I a Christian? I don’t look any different than most of the other people in my church. Why am I a Christian? Because there was a time in my life when I prayed and asked Jesus Christ to come into my heart.</div>Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-21442010985941773422008-09-06T14:02:00.001-07:002008-09-06T14:16:39.938-07:00Every messed family!!This article was inspired by <a href="http://buttercookie.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/troublecom/#comments">Cheri's piece </a>about her cousin; my mind ran back to a couple of years ago!<br /><br />Wait, let me allow Cheri to finish clapping for herself!!<br /><br />The story is about a cousin. Yeah, it is always about cousins. Actually he is an uncle, because he is my mum's cousin. But since he is relatively younger, I prefer to call him cousin...you know, Ugandan style! In Uganda everyone is a cousin. <br /><br />I remember this dude, a buddy of mine back then in secondary school...we were in a boy's school. And then there was this girl's school not too far from her...that girls' school was the place every guy wanted to date a girl from. Actually, it was generally referred to as ZOO...or sometimes Zoo-zone<br /><br />This buddy of mine, Vincent, then we were in Form 1 knew some many girls, all the way from Form 1 to Form 6,and he just used to say they are his cousins! Of course he wasn’t going out with them, a young tiny Form 1 kid, with like over 15 cousins in one school. Unbelievable. But anyhow, he was never bullied at school. Older boys needed him to get through to his 'cousins'!<br /><br />Anyway, back to my own 'cousin' story. You know, after reading a lot of books on globalisation, rise of China, India....global market forces blah blah, I used to religiously tell all my relatives that in a globalised world, competition is always tight, always keep ahead of the pack! <br /><br />One of own cuzo took my advice too seriously...he became a dad at 16.<br /><br />Was beaten at my own game! I have vowed never again to pass certain useful pieces of advice anyhow. I now have to carefully decide how I want to tell what to whomever.<br /><br />PS:By the title, I meant to say every family has a mess somewhere! Perfectionis very elusive.Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-85046072330448926642008-09-06T08:05:00.000-07:002008-09-06T08:23:53.028-07:00Rainy days...I hate England. Not hate, as in hate hate..but i just hate England! You know what i mean? It has the most horrible weather on the face of the earth! <br />Not only is the wather the most horrible, but it also seems to be quite clever. Theweather actually knows the dates! <br /><br />Sit tight, let me explain what i mean!!<br /><br />I was too busy (I still am), working hard, making ends meet as regards my dissertation! Infact too busy to enjoy the summer! Apparently, British summer is the nest time of the year, but I was too busy to notice.....and i will forever rue the missed opportunity! <br /><br />So, i wake up one morning,some days ago, and a few classmates tell me:<br /><br />"..summer is officially over! Y'de was the last day of summer"<br /><br />Iam like "What??!! What d'ya mean?" <br /><br />"Because its already Sep31st, and according to the calendar, that is he official end of summer"<br />So i was like, should i agree with these guys, or not!! I walked out of the computercluster, and everything seemed bright! The sun was up. What were these guyst alkingabout? Thye do not know a thing! Do they think they are weather menor something. For God's sakes, they are all a bunchof Chemical engineers..and all they do is.....<br /><br />Fast forward! Two days later. I wake up in a good mood. Dress up for the summer, t-shirt,sandals and all! Grab my bag, heading for thecomputer cluster! I never even bothered to look through the window of my 7th floor Silver Core apartment! <br /><br />No sooner, did i step out than I amlost began freezing! Temperatures had dropped by over 15 degrees in two days! I coudnt beleive it. <br /><br />As i looked through my window now, it seems to be sunny..so deceptively sunner! But other than a few other things in life,never trust the weather in this city! It rans anytime...paka even a guy likeme is learning how to carry an umbrella with me! Well,the proof is that I have now lost a few..left them wherever i went! <br /><br />Perhaps the most exciting thing thing to ever happen in this city in the last couple of days are the arrival of 1) Berbs..last minute swoop!! 2)The new British record in theform of the baby faced,finger sucking Robinho 3)the money bags ADUG! <br /><br />Unfortunately(or fourtunately),am a true loyalist, my heart lies in the Emirates!! I gotta get back to work..Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-35196092821040308232008-09-04T08:58:00.000-07:002008-09-04T09:00:40.978-07:00During Final year presentations....The following happens at various times between 9:30am and 1pm.The venue is a lecture hall. The names may (or may not) have been changed, but the occasion is MSc Project Presentations. The conversions are mainly hand scribbled, on pieces of paper. <br /> <br />Indian guy A: After finishing his presentations, “I am screwed”!!! Will I pass? <br /><br />African guy: Like I was saying yesterday, you need to convince them about the steps- I think you were not clear on the....<br /><br />Indian guy A: Will I pass? <br /><br />African guy: Yeah<br /><br />Indian guy A: Was I aggressive?<br /><br />Indian guy A: They asked too many questions!!!<br /><br />Indian guy A: The reason why they asked you a lot of questions is because you were <br />not very clear with the multi-period!!<br /><br />African guy: You answered most of them.<br /><br />African guy: That is why I did not provide them with handouts. Go to page...blah blah...!!<br /><br />Indian guy A: Commenting on another guy presenting “He‘s screwed”<br /><br />Indian guy B: Miriam (not real name) likes bananas!<br /><br />Indian guy A: Yeah<br /><br />African guy: So what are you saying? I think everybody likes bananas!! <br /><br />Indian guy B: I don’t!<br /><br />Indian guy B: So do you like Frenchy?<br /><br />African guy: What the hell is that?<br /><br />African guy: We need to get each others dissertation. Because we might need it in industry.<br /><br />Thai guy: Fermentation?<br /><br />African guy: You never know where we will work 5years from now.<br /><br />African guy: She is preparing her presentation.<br /><br />After African guy’s presentation....<br /><br />African guy: I didn’t know JKK would bring up Bhari’s work!<br /><br />African guy: I actually thought about whether I should include it or not.<br /><br />During Indian guy D’s presentation<br /><br />African guy: This dude is taking something from Fang as well.<br /><br />African guy: Just like a typical Indian, “how much money are we saving?” This guy is screwed!!! Wait for the questions.<br /><br />African guy: He always interrupts the lecturer. You need to talk to him. It happened during MWK as well.<br /><br />After Indian guy D’s his presentation<br /><br />African guy: You should not interrupt the lecturer when he asks you. You wait for him to finish<br /><br />African guy to Girl A: Too many slides (23), you will need at least 20 minutes.<br /><br />Indian guy: You need an average of 10 slides<br /><br />African guy:”Skip the first few. Go straight to Project objectives. “He looks through a certain slide, with a few graphs plotted. “Is this your own results?”<br /><br />Girl A: Yes<br /><br />African guy:” You have too many slides, so if they ask you to go to a certain slide, it will take you a very long time to get there.<br /><br />African guy: Explain why the results are like this. Insert----Slide number.<br /><br />Thai guy: Spots the list of names in their order of presentation, then writes besides a certain Ahmad.”Who is he?<br /><br />Indian guy A: Write besides two names.”Distinction!! “”Distinction!!” Then scribbles <br />besides his name...”Fail”<br /><br />Disclaimer: Due to the manner in which they were scribbled on paper, the conversation may or may not be in the original order in which they occurred. The reader has the freedom to decipher anything that doesn’t make sense, but the author is not responsible for the meanings that the reader may decipher from this. <br />PS: As you can see, I had to use the word decipher!! I love English!!Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3230000688507581613.post-11816580286371196912008-09-02T20:16:00.000-07:002008-09-02T20:33:19.579-07:00Those dimes.....Since everyone has been writting stuff, trying to outdo each other in a bid to meet Denis Muhumuza's criteria of a "serious blogger", let me take this opportunity to get my entry in!<br /><br />This i hope will go along way to set teh agenda for the next level fo interekcho discussions! I hope and beleive, that my post, this post, ladies and gentlemen will fie up your imagination, gain your interest into the things that are happening in this your country, Uganda, which was aptly named " The pearl of Africa" by one Winston Churchill".<br /><br />For those who do not know him, he was one of the first Prime Minsiters of Britain... er...I do not know exactly whether he was the first, second or third..but he was somewhere there....up there, maybe just in fame..rather than numerical position!<br />Ok, spare me some slack, i did PCM in high school!<br /><br />uganda was also badly commercialised in the famous CNN advert as "Gifted by nature!! But they did not go as far to elaborate what this dear country is gufted in!<br /><br />Therefore let me tajke this opportunity to elucidate, what they could have meant! I might be wrong. But read this....<br /><br />Where is the <a href="http://www.busiweek.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=352&Itemid=2">Shs11 billion Temangalo land </a>cash going? What about the <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/200808250003.html">Shs31 billion </a>NSSF-Alcon International dime flowing? And did i hear someone mention the whooping out Shs 84 billion..for those who do not know maths, that is 120 billion minus 36billions!!!<br /><br />Conspiracy theorists suggest that, we might see the dimes resurrect in 2011. I hope to be older and wiser then...perhaps maybe to allow my stomach to be played with, but not my head..if am still alive my dear friends!!Felixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05770025334751268458noreply@blogger.com0