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Berea-minded Brethren

“These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.” ‭‭Acts‬ ‭ 17:11 ‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://www.bible.com/114/act.17.11.nkjv   In spite of the amazing opportunities from today’s advancement in technology and quick access to information, the destiny of man is fast negatively-influenced by evil-concealed opinions of developers of social media, technological innovations, and barrages of online materials. Just like the malfunctioning of a system after the invasion of an aggressive virus, human minds can hardly understand the true meaning of divine purpose for human existence after invasion by worldly contents. Notwithstanding, the Holy Bible remains the precious treasure concealed with the potentials for discovery of promises and purpose for human existence. And only the attitude demonstrated by the Berea brethren can find the right way to true living. Fo...

Inspired Invite

“These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.” ‭‭Acts‬ ‭17:11‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ http://bible.com/114/act.17.11.nkjv Thomas A. Edison's famous quote that "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration" appears to provide a quantitative analysis of the time resource to be invested on both inspiration and perspiration, without necessarily alluding to the qualitative edge of the former over the latter. However, being the human component of the expected inputs, perspiration have succeeded in producing close-minded professionals and the ordinary people in our social world. Opinions are formed or deformed merely based on pre-conceived ideologies. Whereas, openness to divine inspiration can always provide new and better ways of life; and probably an alternative direction for efficient project execution. The attitude of the ...