new house, new home

few days had passed and haven’t written any.  we’ve been busy in the office and alongside with it we’re packing things as we are getting ready moving out of the old apartment to moving in a house inside bf resort in las piñas (still rented though!) how i wish it was already ours!  t’was a two-storey house.  2-bedrooms, with a small garage.  o di ba big time na! unlike with the apartment in verdant, this is much bigger (of course, single-detached) and more comfy to the three of us.  plus the environment is peaceful & quiet. 

we moved in last sunday, 20th of January 2008.  we have so many excess luggages, some we gave to the lipat-bahay gang. but still so many excess. i only want few things, those that are only necessary but mama insisted to bring it (clothes from balikbayan boxes, plastic wares, old cooking wares, etc) so for the sake of no argument, we brought it na lang.  but hindi pa din magagamit so my husband put it all in the closets.  if those things were disposed earlier sana we have so many space pa.  but i like the house better than the apartment.  i don’t clean often there coz in the afternoon when i get home, dami na naman alikabok.  parang walang katapusan.  kasi the apartment is along the avenue going to a subdivision.  a lot of cars, tricycles, trucks are passing by everyday.  but with the new house, i like to clean & clean kasi di na maalikabok, kaya gusto ko pang mas malinis sya. 

Local Cults vs. Bible-based, Spirit-filled, Christ-centered Church

As i browse through the net, i came to read this.  All about local cults. 

Iglesia ni Cristo (I.N.C.) - Felix Y. Manalo.

Jesus Miracle Crusade International Ministries ('Oneness') - Wilde Almeda.

Jesus the Name Above Every Name ('Oneness') - Apollo Quiboloy.

Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ (Fourth Watch) - Arsenio Ferriol.

To God Be the Glory or "Friends Again" ('Oneness') - Louie R. Santos.

 What is a Cult of Christianity?

"A cult of Christianity is a group of people, which claiming to be a Christian, embraces a particular doctrinal system taught by an individual leader, group of leaders, or organization, which (system) denies (either explicitly [definite] or implicitly [absolute]) one or more of the central doctrines of the Christian faith as taught in the sixty-six books of the Bible."

Adapted from the book of Alan W. Gomes, Unmasking the Cults (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1995)

How to Identify a Cult of Christianity

Some:

1. Rejects the Triunity of the Godhead

2. Do Not Believe in Salvation by Grace through Faith in Jesus Christ

3. Do Not Believe in the Finished Work of Christ 

4. Do Not Believe in Jesus' Bodily Resurrection 

5. Have Extra-Biblical Revelation

6. Believe That They Alone Are Saved

7. Do Not Believe in Eternal Punishment (Hell Fire)

8. Major on Minor Doctrines 

9. Believe That Their Founder is the Messenger of God  

10. Gives More Emphasis on Experience than Doctrine 

11. Gives More Emphasis on Direct Revelations and Visions from God 

12. Fix the Dates on the End Times 

13. Oppose Proper Bible Interpretation (Hermeneutics) 

14. Occasionally Entangled in Spiritism or Occultism

15. Mixing Christianity With Other Unbiblical Beliefs

What are the marks of a Bible-based, Spirit-filled, Christ-centered Church?

1. The minister preach from the Bible; the preaching of God's Word in doctrine of Trinity; justification by grace through faith; and atonement of sins; the fullness of deity and humanity of Christ.

2. Jesus Christ is represented in most sermons and He is represented as God incarnate.

3. Christ's ordinance on the Lord's supper and water baptism is administered.

4. The pastor seemed concerned about your spiritual well being and he is natural and non-judgmental in bringing up spiritual matters in his conversations.

5. Administers Biblical Church discipline and ethics.

6. There is an opportunity for the lay people to serve the Church

7. There is a stress on personal evangelism and missions that focus on the salvation of souls.

8. There is a well rounded Biblical education program both for children and adults

childhood friend

thank you so much friendster!  i got to connect with people from my past and even the present whom i never get to see often.  guess who i found?  my long lost childhood friend powie tugade.  we were neighbors back then in BF Resort.  everyday i go to their house to play with him & +perry - his brother.  for some reasons, they moved out of the village, and lost communication.  

last year, his mom tita sol, dropped by my tita's printing shop.  i'm glad she remembered me.  i remembered powie so i thought of looking for him through friendster.  maybe he has one.  and yes, he has a friendster account! and not surprised at all, he was the president of perry's group of companies at age 29.  i'm so proud to have a friend like him.    

guilt feelings

03 To my family

i really want to have a good family.  yung walang away-away.  di ako palaaway, tahimik lang akong type na tao.  kung kaya ko lang talaga na dibdibin lahat ng problema ko at sama ng loob ko gagawin ko.  dati siguro yon kaso i'm already fed up.  di na kasya sa utak ko at sa puso ko mga sakit at sama ng loob ko.  i just cry to God na lang.  Siya ang pinaka-outlet ko eh.  di ba sabi sa Bible, He keeps our tears in bottles? ilang bottles na kaya yung sa kin?

lack of appreciation

A1 - Fixing A Broken Heart

all for now, wala kong masabi.  i feel bad. 

my Christmas

 happy holidays to you!  the night before the eve of Christmas i felt sad.  coz my husband is so busy doing a website and here i am in the sala watching tv alone after i finished preparing for noche buena.  my mom also went out to go to a friend's house.  

same as last year and years before that.  malungkot.   iba naman kasi very special ang day na yun gusto ko sana magkasama-sama kami preparing sa mga lulutuin or kahit man lang nasa tabi ko sila okay na.  i cried my whole heart that night.  my husband was there for comfort.  kahit paano nabawasan ang lungkot ko kasi nasabi ko sa kanya what i feel.  he stopped doing his thing and sinamahan nya ako. thanks for his understanding.  oh, how i love him so much! 

on Christmas eve, nabusog kaming tatlo. lalo na my husband.  grabe! dami nya nakain na pancit tapos nag-fruit salad pa (take note!) so ayun, hindi na makahinga after kumain.  hehehe! with me naman, i like the lechon manok even better so napadami ang kain ko nun syempre. 

sarap talaga mag-Christmas lalo na pag when you're with your family.  hopefully, next year may additional member na sa family namin para mas maging masaya ang Christmas. 

highly recommended asianovelas

I began to like watching asianovelas.  actually, i can't remember the very first asianovela i've watched.  but the following are those i highly recommend:

full house, stairway to heaven, kim sam soon, attic cat, dae jang geum, corner with love

if you got other suggestions, please tell me so i'll watch.

Hurting

it seems like i don't know what to think at all. maraming bagay ang gumugulo sa isip ko ngayon.  God knows everything kasi sa kanya ko lang sinasabi lahat ng nasa isip ko. but I'm still hurting inside. i don't know how to release it. maybe crying would do.  bakit kasi ang dami kong problema.  nahihirapan ako.  

Baby in the making…

 last sunday my husband and i went to valenzuela to visit my in-laws.  there we saw the new addition to the velasquez family, baby girl claire.  she's petite and very cute.  while the first baby born jhaizier, is so chubby now unlike the first time we saw him. (their photos will be uploaded soon).  baby claire was sleeping all the time while baby jhaizier everytime he wakes up he cries (hungry as always). 

supposedly there will be three (3) babies na ipapanganak this year in the family.  unfortunately, due to unknown circumstance (a lot of factors i guess), our baby didn't push through.  we lost him on my third month of pregnancy that was last May 2007. 

nakakabigla at nakakalungkot.  but we have to accept it.  syempre andyan na eh.  nakakapanghinayang talaga pero wala na akong magagawa to get him back.  just have to be extra careful next time.  we really want to have a baby na.  hopefully the Lord will bless us with another 1 or 2 maybe.  we're praying so hard. please pray for us, too.

Endure suffering

"Just as Jesus suffered, was despised, rejected, hated and falsely accused; we can also expect to suffer, be hated, have our message rejected and be falsely accused."

there are so many things in my life that made me ask God why it ever happened to me.  i've known Christ since i was 7yo.  i think i behaved naman well when i was still young.  i studied hard and got excellent grades to please my parents.  never akong sumali sa mga gulo or away ng mga bata kahit nung lumaki na ko. di nga ko nag-boyfriend hanggang mag-college ako.  but still my efforts didn't pay off. 

nagalit ako sa sarili ko.  i had relationships with different guys. di din nagtagal mga relationships na yon.  ang duration:  3 days, 1 week, 1 month, and the longest is 4 years pero di ko na mabilang how many times kami nag-break!  because there's no love.  i was just looking for a companion.  who will stick by me and never leave me. and who will be loyal to me.  pero i was hopeless. i thought i'll never find LOVE.  i became desperate. 

i know and i believe that GOD is love.  He never fails.  He's always been there for me … as in always! but i'm not a hypocrite to say naman that i don't want a MAN.  Of course, i want someone to love me and to love back.

that's why i leave everything to GOD. kasi i don't want to look for that MAN na eh.  so tired na after so many tears i've shed.  after so many painful experiences i've been through. 

but not long enough, the LORD gave me someone who qualifies in some of my requirements.  hindi naman sya perfect pero he is what i want and needed in my life. that man became my husband.

I hate waiting, my time is gold

this morning i went to the chinabank. oh God ang daming tao.  tagal ko din dun ah.  ang nakakainis mas nauna pa ko tapos ung nahuli was served first.  wow!!! ewan ko ba? why some teller are like that.  they just don't care sa kanilang mga clients who were there first. 

hindi lang sa chinabank, same with landbank.  i am there to pay our monthly bir.  bakit kaya ang phil government doesn't prioritize its taxpayers? laging mahaba ang pila.  tagal mag-serve ng teller.  they only put 1 teller for the taxpayments lang kasi eh. tayo na nga nagbabayad, need pa tayo maghintay ng 3 to 5 hours bago tawagin. sabagay, Filipinos are already used to this kind of situations.  reklamo lang ng reklamo. pero hanggang dun na lang.  reklamo naman ulit next time.  haaay… life in the Philippines sucks!  kaya mas asenso pa ang ibang bansa sa tin eh.  we're very slow when it comes to service.    

Worried

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

This past few days i have been worrying about life. I am worried about the business, my husband's job, our finances. But thank God I got to open the Bible and read Matthew 6:19-34.

It says, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labour or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?" For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

How great God is, right?

He is the supplier of everything that we need in this world. We may have more downs & lows in life, but still His grace is sufficient.

Let's just tell the devil, "I REFUSE TO WORRY SATAN! GET OUT OF MY MIND IN THE NAME OF JESUS!!! And he will flee.