Sunday, Naho and I went to the Shinshu University Hospital and saw little Josiah born to Seth and Hannah. A beautiful baby!
"Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth." Psalm 127:4
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
A beautiful baby!
Sunday, Naho and I went to the Shinshu University Hospital and saw little Josiah born to Seth and Hannah. A beautiful baby! 
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Ah! My dear friends! I am concerned for the poor but more for you.
“I
fear that there are some Christians among you to whom Christ can not say “come
thou blessed… inherit the kingdom”. Your haughty dwellings rise in the midst of thousands who
have scarce a fire to warm themselves at, and have but little clothing to keep
out the biting frost; and yet you never darkened their door. You heave a sigh,
perhaps, at a distance; but you do not visit them. Ah! My dear friends! I am concerned for the poor but more for you. I know
not what Christ will say to you in that great day…I fear that there are
many hearing me who may now know well that they are not Christians because they
do not love to give. To give largely and liberally, not grudgingly, desires a
new heart. An old heart would rather part with its lifeblood than with its
money. Oh my friends! Enjoy your money; make the most of it; give none away;
enjoy it now, for I can tell you, you will be beggars throughout eternity”
"Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do." The Apostle Paul, Galatians 2:10
Friday, September 7, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
"Our first charity must be to ourselves"
“The spirit of God is a spirit of peace, and also
in the case of grave sin, it makes us feel tranquil sorrow, humble, confident,
and this is due precisely to His mercy. The spirit of the demon, on the
contrary, excites, exasperates, and makes us in our sorrow feel something like
anger against ourselves, whereas our first charity must be to ourselves, and so
if certain thoughts agitate you, this agitation never comes from God, who gives
tranquility, being the Spirit of Peace. Such agitation comes from the
devil." Padre Pio
"If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.... But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world." 1 Jn 1:8-2:2
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Korean Gospel
Ongijain means potter in Korean. "But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand." Isaiah 64:8
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
"This is the end...for me the beginning of life!"
“Through
the half-open door in one room of the huts I saw Pastor (Dietrich) Bonhoeffer (pict),… kneeling
on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most deeply moved by the way this
lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer. At the
place of execution, he again said a short prayer and then climbed the steps to
the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued after a few seconds. In the
almost fifty years that I worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man
died so entirely submissive to the will of God.” Doctor H. Fischer-Hullstrung, doctor serving at his execution
A few days before Boheoffer's execution, in a small worship service with other prisoners, he
read Isaiah 53:5, “With His stripes we are healed.” Then read I Peter 1:3, ‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a
living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead."
"This is the end...for me the beginning of life!" Boehoeffer, at his execution
Monday, September 3, 2012
McDonalds
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