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.

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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.