One Minute Of Fame

I deeply apologize for not constantly updating my blog post. My brain is shutting down with ideas and I am having a writer's block (weird?).

Anyhow, do you want to win a free iPad? If you're in UBC or SFU, then you could go to Campus For Christ's booth and do One Minute Of Fame! Basically, you will be filmed for one minute, and you only have that minute to finish your sentences consisting of these fives topics:

Love is...
God is...
I wish I could be...
After 4 years, I will...
I am...

In order to win a free iPad, you have to get a lot of "LIKE" on YOUTUBE, NOT facebook. Therefore, be creative and keep sharing your videos with others!!!!

Here is the one I did and "LIKE" it =) :

Day 26 – What kind of person attracts you

Interesting question. This entry reminds me of the post that I did earlier in my "30 Days challenge".

In terms attraction, I am assuming what kind of girl attracts me? or what kind of guy attracts me (awkward!)?

This is going to be an interesting entry because I believe a lot of girls would come and read this post. At this moment, sitting here typing this entry, I am getting kind of nervous trying to nail down the characteristic or kind of woman that attracts me. *SIGH* I guess I took this 30 Days challenge, and I can't back off from this post. Hopefully, this is not my doomsday device that would push all the female away from me. Anyhow, here I go.

DISCLAIMER: Overall, it is the inner beauty.

- Loves Jesus, loves Scripture, loves others and loves to serve.
- Teach me Scripture.
- Knows how to cook.
- Has a heart for children.
- Younger than me.
- Long hair.
- Contentment.

Honestly, I would love to be with a woman who has the character of Ruth (I love the story of Ruth...I would love to marry her, but Boaz took her), who pursues to be a noble woman given in Proverbs 31:10-31, who has the same passion as I have, and who would go wherever I go (even to Hong Kong in the future and do ministry together). The list I have given is just a list...but if a girl is willing to come with me, then I don't mind.

Day 25 – Someone who fascinates you and why?

There are a lot of people in my circle of friends who fascinates me. However, I am asked to only choose one. I didn't have much thought and I immediately thought of Someone. His name is Jesus.

His life is very peculiar. Most of us know the story of Jesus, right? Speaking of Jesus, I had a spiritual conversation at SFU yesterday with someone who's not a student. I was talking to him about what he thinks about God and Jesus. He told me he  had some idea of who Jesus is. He shared with me that Jesus is like a "moral teacher". I agree. He was a teacher, but He was more than a teacher.

Jesus came down to earth, and born of a virgin woman named Mary. He was very bright and had great wisdom when He's young. He was a carpenter. He was in the wilderness for 40 days being tempted by Satan. He had great teachings. He was quite controversial and lived a counter-cultural life, but He didn't sin. Crowds wanted to find opportunity to arrest Him and kill Him.

Jesus IS God, who came down into human history. He walked on earth and lived a life like us. He still sympathizes with us. He healed the sick. He healed the blind and deaf. He went to the cross and atone for our sins so that we would find forgiveness of sin in Him and be reconciled to the Father. He was buried and was raised to life. Now, He ascended into heaven. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Him.

Jesus is my Savior and Lord. It is by GRACE that I have been saved through faith. This is grace: Jesus did everything for me in which I cannot do and do not deserve. This is CRAZY! This why Jesus fascinates me! God would still love me even though I am a worthless sinner and ill-deserving of His grace and love.

His love is unconditional and powerful that it compels me to LOVE. This is love: He laid down His life for His friends...and died and shed His blood on the cross for my sins.  He suffered the wrath of God on my place. He is the whole reason why I am here today. Everything spoken in the Bible points to Jesus.

We are all sinners. We all deserve to go to hell. We all don't deserve grace and love. However, God still offers eternal life in Jesus. God still offers grace and love to us. God the Father still offered His Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Jesus substituted Himself on our place. Wow...I don't know what to say anymore.

Does Jesus resonate truth to you? Does Jesus fascinate you? Do you see that you are in desperate need of a Savior? You can also know Jesus as your Savior and Lord. You can also have this relationship with Him and get to know the living God. Without Him, then you have nothing worth living for because everything will fade and everything will become vain. You and I will die, and eternity is LONG time - depends on which two directions you are going: Road to Destruction or Road to Life.

John 1:1-5 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."

I remember posting this video in this entry, but my prayer is that the character of Jesus will continue to shine and illuminate the darkness of this world because He is God and He is the purpose of why I live:

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Day 24 – Your favorite movie and what it’s about.

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It has nearly been a month since I posted my last entry about the "30 days challenge". Yes, I know, it has been way more than 30 days, and I failed. In any case, I still want to finish the challenge and experience a little bit of an accomplishment.

Recently, I was watching the movie called Ip Man. Main character/Protagonist is Ip Man played by Donnie Yen. Ip Man is a historical character in the early 1900s who was a martial artists that practiced a type of martial art called "Wing Chun". This movie sets up around 1930s. However, since I do not want to spoil the movie, I will briefly explain what it is all about. If you studied history, then you should know that Japan invaded China around that period (I think before or around Second World War?). Ip Man was a rich man who became a nobody when Japan conquered the place where he lived in: Fu Shan (don't know how to pronounce it). However, he never quit his gifted talent and continued to work hard both in labor and in Wing Chun to provide and protect his family and friends.

I really recommend this movie if you are into the martial arts genre. I watched a lot of martial arts movies, such as Jackie Chan and a bit of Jet Li, but I think this movie is better than all the Jackie Chan's movie I watched. Another note, Ip Man was Bruce Lee's master!!!

Check out this scene where Donnie Yen (or Ip Man) easily beat up 10 Karate black-belts:

Winter Conference 10/11 – Your Love Never Fails (PT.2)

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This is the 2nd part of my sharing for Winter Conference. Last blog, I talked about the highlights that I took out, Initiative Evangelism (during our free time and night time), and also my visions in how God wants me to impact the world. For this entry, I will basically finish up the rest of my experience at Winter Conference.

Our speaker for this conference is Tom Cullen. He's a pastor at a Chinese church in Scarborough. I thoroughly enjoyed all the main session. He covered a lot of important depth of the Bible in the Old Testament and how we can play part of God's story. He encouraged us to always read the Bible in CONTEXT. He used few examples of how the verses or passages are taken out of context, such as 1 Corinthians 13.

Pastor Tom went through:

The survey of Genesis: The story of God in creation;
The survey of Deuteronomy: The story of God's grace;
The survey of Ruth: The story of God in redemption;
The survey of Jonah: The story of God in mission.

Pastor Tom knew his stuff and I thank God that He called him to speak at conference, blessing us with the word of God, encouraging us and challenging us. For those who went on conference, indeed you may be fed with good knowledge of the Old Testament, but I encourage you (and myself) to use it and go out and share this message with our friends because "knowledge puffs up, but love builds up."

The workshop this year is pretty good this year. I went to three seminars: How to Love difficult people, Why is the Old Testament awesome, and Make the most of your time. I won't go into a lot details on the workshops because there would be lots to cover.

Personally, I do struggle with loving difficult people, especially my family. Sometimes I am selfish towards them and not care about them. Because they are non-believers, they talk about stuff that it's hard for me to participate. God is using me to love them and I want to show that love to them so that they would see Christ in me.
Old Testament is awesome! PERIOD. Interestingly enough, I am taking Willing School of the Bible, and the course is covering all of the Old Testament. So far, the course is awesome! God is good.
I need to find my notes for the last workshop (Make the most of your time). This is what I took out: find a purpose and manage your time to meet that purpose.

During the day of evangelism, C4C did an outreach in a totally new way. We used facebook, msn, phone, and other technical innovation to help advance the message of the gospel through the use of the media and the internet. Long story short from my experience (check the photo on the top), it started out with prayer and empowerment of the Holy Spirit to guide me to talk to whoever is online. Also, I specifically prayed for my friend to be online so I may have another spiritual conversation with him. And praise God! My prayer was answered. He and I had a long spiritual conversation about Grace vs. Religion. I explained everything he needed to know about the difference, and he understood the difference. Ultimately, I want to show love and I want to love him as much as possible to help him discover who Jesus is and what His goal was on earth. Therefore, I shared the gospel with him for my fourth time. However, in the end, he would say that he does not believe in the existence of God, and I didn't know what to respond to him. Although I thank God because he is very open to both arguments between theist and atheist because there is no concrete evidence...yet he leans on the other side more.

If you are reading this, and you do not believe God exist, then may I submit to you to consider the life you are living in. This world we are living in will all die and fade away. Actually, we will die some day. If I am DEAD WRONG that God exist (or if God does not exist), then no hard feelings for me because I do not have anything to lose (think logically =D ). However, if you are wrong, then you are making a BAD gamble for your eternal destiny. I do love you because I do not want you to make that gamble. For those who are in Christ, we have the full confidence that Jesus is alive and has all the authority of ruling over all the heavens and the earth, and that those who receive Him as Saviour and Lord shall inherit eternal life; therefore, we do not need to make that kind of gamble. If you are not a Christian, then what is your craving in life? Do those cravings fulfill all the satisfaction in your own life? What if Jesus is the one who can fulfill those cravings?

Jesus was talking to a Samaritan woman who was getting water at the well, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (Context of this passage is found in John 4)

If you want to know more about Jesus, then you have to know the basics of why I believe, which is ultimately the Gospel that is explained in this link.

I shall end my Winter Conference experience here. I want to end this post with a quote by my friend, Kevin Thomas, that truly applies to the desires that I have.

"So what do I want to do? I know what I don't want to happen. In my final moments before I take the road that exits this life, I don't want to look back and just see a diligent student who did well in school, got a high GPA and academic accomplishments to boot. I don't want my life to become about a great professional who always put the project first. I don't want to just see an hard-working engineer who wrote great code and built impressive systems; no one will remember either of them. I won't want to see my possessions, certificates or accolades that only accumulate ever thicker layers of dust; none of them will give me any comfort at that time. An impressive resume will become meaningless, for no one will ever use it to make a hiring decision ever again. Any money (or lack of it) that I accumulate will have an exchange rate of zero on the other side of this life.

I want to pour my life out to the very last drop for that which will bring life to people's hearts. I want to tell them about the Living One, the Christ without whom there is no Land of The Living. Loving people has become very important to me. I want to love those around me with all the risks that come with it, even if I get hurt in the process; the hurt won't matter anymore on the other side of this life. What good is it being a stingy miser with my words, affection and actions? Who am I saving all my capacity for love, anyway? Am I planning to hoard it carefully and spend it all on those whom I meet when I cross over into the Land of The Living? That's so stupid!

I have come to the conclusion that as great as it is that we are able to develop innovative technology, building better systems of any kind will not ultimately change the condition of the human heart, out of which all things flow. Neither will the approach of taking power out of the hands of the few and putting it into the hands of the people; it is pointless if the heart doesn't recognize the One who possesses and bestows all power, understand what true power is, and how to wield it. Without bringing people to the knowledge of the Living One, the Giver of Life, I have come to the belief that every other accomplishment in my life is ultimately meaningless.

I want to shine the light of the Living One in the Land of the Dying, so that those who are dead will see His light and come along with me on my journey with Him to the Land of the Living. If I die in the process, I'll get there all the faster. "

May God bless you as we journey this life together by His grace and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.

1 Thessalonians 3:11-13 "Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you, and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints."

Winter Conference 10/11 - Your Love Never Fails (PT.1)

This will be my first entry of 2011, and I am very excited to share my Winter Conference experience with everybody who reads this blog. Winter Conference is an annual conference hosted by Campus For Christ. This conference trains students to help the lost students discover Jesus through seminar, the day of Evangelism, fellowship with brothers and sisters, and the speaker in the main session. This would be my 4th Winter Conference that I had attended. Personally, I would consider this to be the best Winter Conference experience I had ever since my 1st Winter Conference.

My friends asked me, "What so great about this year?"

Here are three highlights or points that I took away from this Conference.

1.) When people see me, I want them to be reminded of Christ.
2.) Make imprints on campus, the nations, and the world that would count for eternity.
3.) Dream Big.

1.) When people see me, I want them to be reminded of Christ.

1 John 3:16-18 "This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth."

This passage really struck me when I ponder throughout Conference. What have I been doing with myself through the years? What kind of impression am I leaving when people see me? "How can the love of God be in him?" This sentence convicted me. Have I been loving?

2.) Make imprints on campus, the nations, and the world that would count for eternity.

We have limited amount of time on campus. Some students may stay 4-7 years in University. However, the time on campus can be very valuable. Let me ask you a question: "Before you graduate, what significant imprints do you want to leave on campus that could count for eternity?" As I was in Calgary, I was very encouraged with the men who wanted to go out for evangelism during our free time and night time. This is a totally new experience for me at WC. It started out with 5 men. Later on, more brothers and sisters came along with us. We went to a small Asian mall to evangelize. Me, Alan, and Wayland walked up to a group of high school students. We talked to them, but it felt kind of awkward for them. Three of them have Christian or Catholic background, and one is not religious. We asked them questions based on what their beliefs, and we shared the gospel with them. We prayed for them hoping that they understood what we talked about (they nodded their heads). We walked away and turned our back, and we noticed we got fingered by one of them. It is where their heart is at. I do pray that the seeds that we've planted, it not land anywhere but good soil although it is God who does the work in them.

Alan and I approached a shop owner who sold anime models and toy figures. His name was also Tommy. Interestingly enough, I told him that Tommy means "seeker of the truth". This created an interesting transition to a spiritual conversation. He was familiar with God and Jesus because he went to a Catholic elementary school. There was a bit of a language barrier, but by God's grace and empowerment of the Holy Spirit, I did my best to explain and articulate the gospel message to him. As Alan and I shared with him, I believed God was working in his heart. He shared about his grandmother's sickness. We both understand him situation. In love, I shared God's love to him: He died for his and our sins. That those who receive Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. Was he willing to receive Him? I do not know because salvation comes from God. Alan and I prayed for him and his grandmother. After praying, he had tears in his eyes. I didn't want to leave the store empty-handed, so I bought One Piece action figure.

Alan and I got very closed together in just one day of evangelism. It seemed like our bondage as brothers grew stronger as we went out for sharing. When I went evangelism in the past with someone, we didn't become as close like this one. Alan is just a 1st year student and he has a strong passion for God. He shared with me a bit of his past sins, and so did I. He and I went out a lot for evangelism and stayed together most of the time. Of course, we had more significant moments to share, but I believe the 1st two are some of the good moments we shared because it was our 1st time-sharing together. I hope to see him at UBC and go out and proclaim the name of Jesus.

We only had 4 days in Calgary. While I was in Calgary in a VERY limited amount of time, why not go out for evangelism and bless the city of the message of grace? Same thing with our campus, the nation, and the world. Our time is limited. Wherever God is calling us to go, we are all called to fulfill the Great Commission. Whether if it's at our workplace or our campus or wherever you are...go out and make disciples =) Take that faith step and let God do the rest.

3.) Dream Big

During conference, I was reminded to live a life with a purpose. I do have a dream, not the american dream...but a dream that gives glory to God. I signed up for East Asia Project, and I am praying to see what God will do this summer within my own life. Furthermore, if God wills, then I would love to go back to Hong Kong and minister to the culture there. It's been around 4 months ever since I felt God called me back to Hong Kong. It's be desire to go back and minister to the Chinese culture, and leading them to Jesus culture. Personally, I feel that Chinese people have two main issues: Pride and Gossip. Whatever God wants me to do there, then I will gladly serve Him over there.

Overall, this WC was a blessing. With many things to share and many things I learned, I want to take it back to Vancouver and put it into practice. I do have lots to share, but I will stop this entry here because it has gotten too long. If you have read this, then I hope that you're encouraged as well. =)