Joie de Vivre A Wretched Man’s Quest To Follow Jesus Christ

It completely slipped my mind that I had reached a few milestones this week until I saw some spam comments and had to go into the admin panel to delete them.

And it turns out that I have not just reached one but three milestones in my blogging journey!

The first is that this is now my 203rd post! And, according to a little plug-in called Blog Metrics, I have now written 105,610 words in the previous 202 posts.

The second should have been quite obvious to me — I have now been blogging for a good six months since starting out with little steps in June 2007.

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Arutz Sheva, or Israel National News, on 2 December 2007 published details of the completion of the High Priest’s crown, or tzitz in Hebrew (video presentation). The tzitz is made from pure gold, in accordance with God’s instructions to Moses in Exodus 28:36-37.

And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be. And it shall be upon Aaron’s forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.

– Exodus 28:36-38 (KJV), emphasis added

All that’s needed now is the Third Temple in Israel, and we shall know that we are indeed in the final week of Daniel’s vision when there shall be great tribulation, and when our Lord Jesus Christ shall return in glory and majesty!

Our Lord Jesus Christ tells us during His ministry on earth that a third temple shall indeed be built in Jerusalem and will be part of the unfolding of events as given to us in the Book of Revelation.

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Are you making a list of what you want this Christmas? Are you counting out money and budgeting for the list of presents you think your relatives and friends would like? Are you busy scouring the departmental stores everyday after work and on weekends like a honey bee just to find that perfect gift?

Well, stop.

Because the best gift on Christmas day is already there for the taking, and it’s free.

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Take a trip to Lourdes during the “special offer” period starting this weekend till December 8, 2008, says Pope Benedict XVI.

This piece of news had me both laughing and shaking my head in disbelief (yes, I can do both at the same time!). Yet, on the other hand, it also saddened me to know that there’d be Roman Catholics who will believe this spiel and make the pilgrimage and be filled with false hope!

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Dan King at Bibledude.net tagged me for this rather interesting meme to list seven of my favorite blogs in various categories.

I must first apologize to Dan for being tardy with my response though, as I had initially planned to do this on 31 December like some kind of “Look Back…” program. Then again, I have already chosen a blog for each category, so there’s no point in delaying the post till the “appropriate” time.

As with most memes, let’s first state the rules up front:

1. Link back to Dan at management by God and BibleDude.net as the originator of this meme, and to the person that tagged you with it.
2. Pick one blog for each of the seven categories listed below. It is okay if others have selected the same blog for the same or different reasons. Just pick what your personal favorites are for each of the categories, link to their site, and briefly explain why you selected them.
3. Pick three other bloggers to pass this on to. I can be people that you’ve selected or not, but they are three people that you would like to see which sites they select.

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I’ve been sharing the events of the past couple of weeks and what’s been happening since then with some brethren and sisters who I’d really like to take this opportunity to thank for their concern.

Whenever I recount the events, a good majority of them tell me that they are excited for me because it seems that God has been teaching me something and they do believe that there’s something exciting in store for me after the trial is over.

Yet…

I somehow don’t share the same excitement.

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Yesterday was our cousin James’ wedding, and what a wonderful and joyous occasion it was, as most weddings are.

James is actually my wife’s cousin but on the personal level, he was also a former school mate (though he was in his senior year when both my wife and I enrolled), and an ex-colleague where I worked with him in the same company for more than a year.

It was wonderful to see most of their clan gathered together at such a joyous occasion. More surprisingly, we also caught a few ex-schoolmates at the occasion. We had a blast catching up with everyone — most are now married with their own families and doing well for themselves.

Incidentally, here’s a little side-track just to acquaint you a little more with our lives…

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