This morning, I reviewed back some of the text I underline last time from the book “How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth” and managed to convert them into this flowchart. Enjoy doing that. 😀
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Last two days, our apartment got broke in by burglars. Yes, even apartment is not safe. My father and I didn’t seem to lost anything but my mom got losses. I would appreciate if you don’t ask further details because we do not want to repeat the story anymore and my mom hope to quickly forget about it.
My purpose of writing this is to advice everyone not to put a lot of money in your home. (I suspect that burglar has some high technology device which can detect cash). I know some might be afraid to put the money into banks, afraid that someone will steal your money in the bank. Here, my advice for you is to open an account which is just meant for saving, whereby you can only deposit money and without any ATM card. Also, you can perhaps give a special instruction to the bank officer that anyone who try to withdraw money from this account, the bank need to call up the owner for verification. I am not sure if this can be done but you can try. Once again, beware of burglars!
Another real case happened which I wrote about it on 24th April 2008 – my friends’ house got broke-in by burglars
Losses include a laptop, camera and some cashes. I guess this incident should give us a red alert of our house. Perhaps one of the most practical things we can do is to get some good locks. Yes, good locks means they are more expensive but eventually they ‘save’ your money more.
Have the best lock in the world but forget to lock it is equally useless. Other thing came to my mind is we should be reminded of our negligence, which means we should make sure all locks are well locked before we leave the house and not to be careless. Otherwise, our carelessness, even once, can be too costly to bear.
If you suspect someone broke-in your house during mid-night and you were inside the room, don’t try to keep silent or rush out to battle with them. If you keep silent, they will continue to steal more and more things or even harm you eventually. If you rush out to battle with them, you might get hurt or killed by them. What I learnt from my father is just make some noise and them leave by themselves. Another wise thing to do is to lock the door immediately and switch on the room light and make a call to police or call your security guard if you stay in apartment or condo.
This incident happened 10 years ago when we first moved in into the apartment which I am still staying right now. A burglar came in by the kitchen. Those days, we didn’t lock the grill at the kitchen, so that burglar managed to climb over to enter through the kitchen grill. My father heard something not right and make some noise to let that burglar leave. When that burglar left, we saw our HIFI set at the kitchen but we lost one thing, a remote control. I think it is our TV’s remote control.
P/S on 31th December 2014 – Now our home got more ‘security system’. In fact, this ‘security system’ has protected our home before. The house door was ‘open’ by the burglars but that time nothing lost because of the security system alarm I believe. Contact me if you wish to know more how we secure our house and what security system we use.
Around two months ago, my team lead invited me to play badminton together during one Saturday. I went and ever since then, I have been playing badminton consistently every Saturday for two-three hours. In these two months, I felt that my badminton has improved especially my smash (the one of the area which I am weakest at in the past). Now, I am able to smash with more power and steepness.
I think it is good to keep it up, for exercise, to help working relationship with colleaguesand a way to reach out to people perhaps. I also feel the joy to ‘coach’ one of them who just learn how to play badminton. It is also enjoying to ‘train’ with others as well. During this ‘training’, it was satisfying to smash powerfully and the other side able to return those smashes and continously. It was also satisfying for vice versa.
The Jewish character of this Gospel is evident in many ways. There are many indications that Matthew expected that his readers would be familiar with Jewish culture.
- Matthew doesn’t translate Aramaic terms such as raca in Matthew 5:22. Mark translates Aramic term, Corban in Mark 7: 11
- Matthew refers to Jewish customs without explanation (i.e. Matthew 15:2. But, Mark explains the same custom at Mark 7:3-4; see also Matthew 23:5).
- Matthew starts his genealogy with Abraham (Matthew 1:1).
- Matthew frequently refers to Jesus as the “Son of David.”
- Matthew uses the more Jewish phrase “Kingdom of Heaven” instead of “Kingdom of God.”
Reference: http://www.enduringword.com/commentaries/4001.htm
Here are some reasons I got after listening from a sermon:
- In the early days of Christianity, many people thought that the Gospel of Matthew was the first written.
- The early Christians rightly saw the Gospel of Matthew as important, because it has some significant portions of Jesus’ teaching that are not included in other gospels, such as a fuller version of the Sermon on the Mount.
- It was the only one of the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) to have an apostolic author – Matthew.
- “Matthew’s Gospel was in fact far more quoted in Christian writings of the second Christian century than any other.”(France)
- The Jewish flavor of the Gospel of Matthew makes for a logical transition between the Old and New Testaments. For these reasons, the early church placed it first in order among the four gospel accounts.
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