Lazarus and the Rich Man

I remember the story of the Rich man and Lazarus in the book of Luke chapter 16 verses 19-31 in the bible, sometime we been persecuted in many ways. 

Lazarus was a poor and covered with sore in his body he has no house or shelter, he use to be brought to the door of the house of a rich man, some dog also come, hoping to get a bit of food that fell in the rich man table. 

One day Lazarus died and go to the place of father Abraham, in heaven, the rich man also died and he go to the place called hell, a very hot place, he look up and saw Abraham with Lazarus he called out, father Abraham take pity on me send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in some water and touch my tongue because I'm in great pain in this fire, but Abraham said, in your lifetime you have everything, while Lazarus got all the bad things, now he is enjoying here, you‘re in great pain and there is a deep pit between us so no one can cross over from here to you. the rich man said can you send Lazarus to my fathers house i have 5 brothers to warn them so they will not fall in this place of pain, but Abraham said their‘s Moises and the Prophet books and the rich man said but if someone back from the dead they might believe and turn from their sin. Abraham said if they didn't believe in Moises and the Prophet how come they believe in the dead. 

In today views,  Lazarus represent to the believers and the rich man represent to the unbelievers and persecutor. take courage brethren when we are persecuted in many ways we know God is our refuge, we suffer today but tomorrow we will be happy. like me, i'm not persecuted about my faith, but persecuted about the things i did not do, there is people who always looking fault in you, even you did not do the thing, they are pressing it to you. always looking your fault not your good manners. 

This story of Lazarus and the rich man inspired me to be strong, to hope that someday i will get my reward, to put my trust in God, it is not only to believe but Faith.

emman

I'm Emman, Emmanuel for long he-he! means "God is with us", i was born on the month of December maybe this month is the reason why my Parents gave this name to me, a christian name for Christmas season. In social media i use the name "emmanfb" F from my middle name and the letter B for my surname. I'm trying hard blogger, ho-ho! Or self proclaimed blogger this is what make me busy right now even when I'm in my work my mind keep thinking of what i will blog, its started when i acquire my new android cellphone it so easy to write a blog just write in note application then send it to your email then copy paste to Blogger site presto its a blog. For me i do it just for pastime. Just blogging. Its truly pastime, if you making a blog you didn't mind the time, it passed without knowing what is the time is. I have no training on blogging, I just read the Rules and the meaning of Blogging. I'm not fond in English, just for fun. My blog is about my life, my experience and other topic or issued in our society. When i was in high school i wrote a story in one Pocket book Publishing Company  but i fail to submit it because i didn't finish it, that the time when i shift to read Bible. Now I use to blog maybe for serious purposes, i just take extra care because now there is a cyber-crime law and I don't want to hurt anybody, I want to maintain the "even when online we/I'm Christian"  i have blog in wordpress, tumblr. Googles and blog sites. just use emmanfb.(blog site).com

Christmas.

A Traditional Christmas day is coming, a believer rushed to shop for the things for Christmas, that's why when Christmas day is coming the traffic get worst, more coming out, more car filling in the parking. its also a time for other to take advantage, increase the price of their product, also a time for lawless element, they thought that people have a lot of money in this season. 

Department store and Supermarket filled with people, everyone want to celebrate the Christmas, even the bible believing christian who did not believe that Jesus is born on Dec 25 also celebrate Christmas, some says  its a tradition, That reason is a escape goat just to join in the season, well that's there decision. 

The poor and rich alike are gearing up in the shopping place, people around the world celebrating Christmas for a tradition they say its just only once a year why don't we give it all, emotions filled, loving caring, bonuses and 13th months pay. other people was making a loan just to please the Christmas season, maybe because they have many god daughter and god son, a loving god parents, huh! those who is really have no money they leave the house to hide, a tradition too. for others Christmas time was really hard because it cause lots of money to celebrated, gift, food, new dress, new things, if you follow the trend you really need more money to please people around you, especially your family, then after Christmas here come, you gonna pay your loan, you have to budget your money, but its okay at least you please the people around you on Christmas day, its just once a year. 

By the way, where's the Christmas comes from, others believe that its a day that Jesus Christ was born on Dec 25, two thousand years ago but lately one of highest person in one religion claim that they miscalculate the date of when Jesus was born, no impact for there followers sound like, so what, we will still believe what we believed. 

Other says that it come from pagan celebration those who believe in idol, there's lot more explanation where this Christmas comes from or begin, a true believer didn't join in that celebration as the bible say, well, whatever it is, it is a celebration for a decade, its up to you if you want to believe or not in Christmas, we are all for Christ literally, i believe in Christ, not in tradition. you can give love, care, gift, everyday if you want.

The Faith of a Child

The Faith of a Child

LIFE

LIFE, what is life? 
Life is the existence, the state of being alive and leaving from birth to death according to Dictionary but as for me, "Life is God" if not in God you have no life, God is the giver of life, every living thing on earth, their life is from God. 

Although God give us Parents, our life is from God, God is our Father, as the bible say from the womb of our mother God already give us life. Our body, our soul and our spirit was from God. 

According to the Old Testament of the bible, God make a man from the dust, and become a living soul. When we baptized the Spirit from God come to us. So we must valued our life its a gift from God. 

In Christian views, we are just a passer in this World, our true home is in God holy city, what is your life in this earth was reflected in our life in the future. good or bad. But God is gracious he offer a Good life through his Son Jesus Christ.

"I am now giving you the choice between Life and Death, between God‘s blessings and God‘s curse and I call heaven and earth, to witness the choice you make, choose Life."  Det.30:19TEV

Bullying: How can we prevent it, how can we protect our kids?

In dictionary Bullying is an act of intimidating a weaker person to do something especially such repeated coercion. It also an aggressive behaviour that is intentional it can be done by any person even your family by words, or by our action,, sometime our action affect to others, bullying is not just for a kids in school who bullied by classmate. Bullying also means is persistent act intended to make life unpleasant for another person. If you act become unpleasant to another that's bullying,

Bullying consist of abuse or repeated act.  Emotional, Verbal, by hurting someone with insult, and Physical, by hitting or betting.  It happened in kindergarten to high school, also to the person of child who is new or transferee in the school. Include those who have a disability or children who are not adept at making friends and have little social support. Obesity is also a significant risk factor for being a victim of bullies.

I‘m too, is a victim of bullying when I was in Grade School and it give a big impact in myself, until now it’s so fresh in my mind. But after that it make me strong, I've learned to stand alone, I’ve  learned not to depend to other, even today I experience bullying but I learned to respond.

What is the effect of bullying?

Negativity, perform poorly academically, depression, personal life disorder, and many other risk factor that sometimes can lead to suicide, but let’s  not allow this to happen.

Bullying is a common part of childhood. But parents can help kids cope with it and lessen its lasting impact. How can we teach our child to fight it?

• Teach them not to speak to a stranger
• Tell to your child what is bullying is, hitting or pushing another child is wrong and other form of bullying that can hurt other child.
• Tell them that there are a people who bullied others, in this way they will aware of it.
• Tell her what to do in case she experiences or witnesses bullying,to alert a teacher right away if he sees bullying behaviour.
• Teach your child how to handle resolves situation that arise in his life when he encounter bullies.
• Teach your child to have a high self esteem, self confidence and self worth.
• Teach them to be strong against bullying, to face it and stand, tell them their right not to be bullied.
• Teach our child to respond but not to fight fist for fist to bullying. Someone bullied other because they saw the person was weak, but if they saw the person is strong they will not bully it.
• Know about their friends and the details about their interactions with classmates and peers, in this way you can identify easily who bullying them.
• Establish good communication with your child so that they will knows that you are someone they can go to when they has a problem.

For the kids or person who might be a victim of bullying.

• Avoid them in school and other social situations. If they go the same way you do, try a different way, its good than to confront them.
• Don’t show the bullies that you feel hurt if they do something that makes you uncomfortable; or hurt you, just walk off, they gain satisfaction from making others feel hurt.
• Report them to the authority, your teacher or to your parents, talk to someone like your friend, don’t worry about revenge that the bully may take if you report them, they will hurt you anyway and appeasing them doesn't solve your problem.

Bullying can happen to anyone, to the kids and to the adults, it can happen anytime, anywhere.

http://childparenting.about.com/od/schoollearning/a/prevent_stop_bullying.htm

http://en.wikipedia/wiki/bullying

GREAT experience

Taken from New Era University in the Celebration of INC LIFE, last Oct. 31 - Nov. 4. 2012

I joined in the Celebration for 4 days, visited the Exhibit showing how the Church of Christ started and Grown. How amazing the Church of Christ and member has proliferate around the World Propagating the Gospel of God. Until the last day of celebration I was there, its a great experience to meet the brother and sister in Christ that comes from the Province and from other part of the Philippines. In the 3rd days of event I cannot imagine how full of brethren comes at INC life, the registration has stopped, the computer cannot accommodate already the registration of all brethren, seems like all the brethren around the Philippines comes to participate in the event. Until in the evening of Nov. 4, last day of the event, the brethren still coming want to visit the exhibit for the last hours of the celebration. It was a great experience for me, I'm new member of the Church but I feel already how the member followed the Executive Minister, the love for each other as a brother and sister in Christ and how to be unite in one accord. 

"Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity" (PS. 133:1) 

I'm  proud to be a member of the Iglesia Ni Cristo, Church of Christ, a blessed Church.

IglesiaNICristo

To our Beloved Executive Minister Bro. Eduardo V. Manalo of Iglesia Ni Cristo, Church of Christ "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" God be with you and to your Family always.#INCLife

What is Baptism. (My Baptism, Revised)

Baptism  is a Christian rite of admission and adoption, almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally and also a particular church tradition
 

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Baptism means, immersion, a total submerging of the body in the water.

In my own views and experience, Baptism is to clean us from sin we have done and to have a new life, the old has gone, the sin left under the water and the new cleaned body comes out,(Spiritually cleaned Body) Its done by a authorize minister of the Church. 

Spiritually, it is not the water that will clean us from sin but the Holy Spirit of God after we confessed our sin to God, He will forgive our Sin. Confession, Immersion and Forgiveness. When our  Minister announced that we are scheduled for Baptism, we are so happy after bible study at last we're going to be baptize. We buy things that we are going to use in baptism like white t-shirt, white short and white slipper, even though our money is limited we prioritized those things. Our baptism is about 9 o‘clock in the morning, a worship start at 7 o‘clock so we have to go there at early as the morning, it about 14klm away from our home and we have to catch up our service going there at the central temple of Iglesia ni Cristo.  

A night before baptism we're so excited we can't sleep nor eat, we just slept for 2 hours, at 3 o‘clock in the morning we prepared our-self for baptism, really excited. When We‘re in the Central Temple of Iglesia ni Cristo, I can‘t explained my feeling, I cried, I said this is it father, I‘m almost there going to my new life, my body was trembling, feeling like a cold water flowing on my whole body. After Baptism, I feel fresh, I feel I have a new life,

 A new life in True God and True Church in Iglesia ni Cristo, (Church of Christ). 

We're Truly Bless and Called (My story)

Its a Blessing to be called in the Iglesia ni Cristo, (Church of Christ). I was born in Bicol Region a place of Beautiful Mayon Volcano but I raised in Bulacan Province since I was 5 years old. 

I‘m in the Catholic family who are believed in the teaching of Catholicism, we are a Faithful Catholic Believer. I‘d always wearing a necklace with a pendant cross to show that I'm faithful in Catholic. we have 3 idols at home, one is seating in the throne, one is standing and one on the cross they are all same person called as Jesus. 

In the church the Priest taught that Lord Jesus is God and I grew up believing on this teaching. but that belief was changed, not my belief that Christ is God but in the Idol. 

When I become a Born Again Christian, I have read in the bible that Idol is prohibited by God. In born again christian they did not believe in Idol but also believe that Jesus is God. One day my friend, now my wife, invite me in Iglesia ni Cristo Church. first we have an argument but later on she convinced me. 

As we go on Bible study and examination I‘v realized that this church is different, the doctrine was clear purely from the bible and did not believed in Idol, most important teaching is, the true state of being of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

After bible study/doctrine, I convinced that this is the True Church who believed in One God and In Jesus as Lord and only mediator to God and Man. We baptized at Central Temple of Iglesia ni Cristo Central. I‘m so happy and bless with the other member of the church, they treated each other as a brother and sister, you will feel the connection of each of one like a true brethren. 

We're truly bless, I pray that the Almighty father will continue to give me strength until the day that the Lord Jesus Christ come. I pray also that my family and friends may also be call in the Church of Christ so we together will serve our Almighty God and to our Lord Jesus Christ.

MY Dream.

When I was a young boy in a Rice Field area of Bigaa Bulacan, about year 1977, me and my friend are playing in the Rice Field , we lied down a dried rice straws and talk about what we want to be someday. 

My Dream is to become a soldier someday to help my country, I want to get those who do wrong against my country, but later after my High School I changed my mind, instead, I want to become a Policeman someday, it come to my mind the time I apply to become a soldier, the Officer-in-Charge of the Army did not accept my application, he told me to pursue my study instead of going to combat. 

I entered in a Police School but my dream did not come true, after trying everything to become a Policeman. I stopped dreaming of it, maybe I'm not destined to become a Policeman. God open my mind in His Words and I realized that I'm not really meant to be in a Police Force, I know my self why, but God knows most, He has a plan for me, as the Bible says that "even before you born, GOD already set His plan for you" we plan to become victorious but God the one who fulfill it. 

I become more aware of God touch, I'm not in the Man's service but in God service, I feel he has really a plan for me, I feel it but I can't explained, only the God the Father who knows. Sometime, we are diligent to do something, we are almost at our task but all of the sudden it fail, we forgot that there is God who hold everything, including our plan were the last approval was from Him. 

Even I did not got my dream, I'm happy with my Job right now, also in the line of helping others and the for Security of my Country although it limited but its okay. For now my Dreams is to draw more deeper in my Faith in God, don't know how but God the Father Almighty will lead me.

LOVE OF GOD

God is Good for his so love the World He sent His Son to save us from punishment from God for our sin, he made Jesus Christ to be a mediator between God and Man, because of our sin we can't come to God on our owned. so Jesus come for us, He made us cleaned in God because of His blood that shed when He died in the cross for us. God's love is Great, He is merciful and kind.