Repent
It is time for all denominations of Christianity to REPENT. The Kingdom of God is coming and we have fallen off the true path. God is going to be revealing Himself to the entire world. There will be no mistaking it.
Do you know what repent means? It means to turn away. Repent from our sins means to turn from them. STOP DOING IT. Repent is not just saying I'm sorry God and continuing to repeat the same sin. We repent and turn form our sins.
We need to get on our knees and repent. Repent from all our idols. Ask God to remove them by force if necessary. We need to rid our lives of any and all idols. We need to get on our knees and ask God to reveal the idols in our life. Then we must repent of them.
We need to get rid of the idol of WEALTH. Most Christians spend too much time thinking about money. We have a love affair with the accumulation of money. What is my neighbor making? What is my brother making? How do I stack up to other people at work? Do I have enough to retire early? How much do I need to save to retire by 65? What newest model car is the best? What are the latest fashions from Paris? I have to have the best tattoo. The list never ends. We must get on our knees and ask the Father to remove this idol from our lives.
We need to get rid of the idol of POWER. This includes the preachers out there. We are all so worried that someone else will get the upper hand in our relationship, even if that is just the relationship of driving on the same freeway! We must stop the worship of power. Stop the obsession with Hollywood and its stars. Stop the accumulation of Power for the sake of Power! We need to repent and ask God to destroy this idol in our lives. We need to surrender to Christ. He needs to be the only Power we are concerned with. We need to fully surrender our lives to Him.
We need to get rid of the idol of SEX. Ask God to remove this idol from our lives. Get on your knees and pray for God's deliverance right now.
We need to get rid of the idol of CHILDREN. They should not be the most important thing in our lives, Christ should be. They are important, but our children should not be the center of our universe. Repent and ask God to remove this idol from your life.
We need to repent from RELIGION. Yes that is right; we need to repent from religion. Right now religion is the biggest idol that faces Christians today. We feel we must be busy all the time. We need to all get on our knees and ask God to reveal the truth of our religious activity. Is it for Christ or with Christ? If we are acting for Christ, there is a good possibility that we are not acting with Christ. Get on your knees and ask God what activities you should be doing. The answer might surprise you. When I asked God that question He answered "none of the above". I was doing it all on my own for Christ, not with Him.
The number one issue we face today is Idolatry. Ask Christ to fill your life with Him and not your idols. Ask Him to reveal your idols. Ask him for forgiveness and deliverance from the idols in your life. Then make it a habit to daily pray that Christ will reveal the idols in your life.
God Bless you
RBT
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Thursday, October 13, 2005
When we transition (die)
Grandfather and Grandmother's life
Well, we attended my wife's grandfather's memorial last night. This was a very interesting service. He had a massive stroke last week. His brain was dead, so they took him off life support and waited for him to die. No feeding tubes. No meds. No respirator. It took him over 4 days to die, but he had no brain wave activity after the first few hours after the stroke.
Let me tell you about two things that might interest people:
The memorial service
The family decided to just have a small family gathering at one of Grandfather's son's houses. Direct decendants only.
We read a prepared prayer and had 5 minutes of silence. That was it. I believe his was cremated this week.
This was a very short, seemingly appropriate service for the family. As an outsider - I married into the family - I was not sure what to make of it. Grandmother seemed to take this whole thing rather well, but my father-in-law was having problems.
On the way home my wife cried and said she wished she could take her father's pain away.
The conversation with Grandmother
I had a very interesting conversation with Grandmother at the memorial. It seems that she and one of my wife's uncles were in the hospital room for over 5 hours later Sunday night.
She described to me what she and her son were doing. They were witnessing the transition of Grandfather to Heaven. At one point, a duty nurse came in and asked if she could suction him to get rid of the noise. Grandmother replied that the noise was not coming from Grandfather, but from the trumpets sounding a welcome to Grandfather.
She said that she could feel the moment when his sole left his body. She and her son helped by releasing him to continue on his journey. His body was still alive at this time.
This brings up my main point: at what time does the sole/spirit leave the body?
Does it happen shortly before death, like with Grandfather? Or does it happen the instance you take your last breath?
I have read a lot about near death experiences. It seems to me that some of these people might have left their earthly body and then returned.
I guess I will have to spend more time in prayer and ask God to reveal this to me.
Your comments are always encouraged.
Your brother in Christ,
RBT
Well, we attended my wife's grandfather's memorial last night. This was a very interesting service. He had a massive stroke last week. His brain was dead, so they took him off life support and waited for him to die. No feeding tubes. No meds. No respirator. It took him over 4 days to die, but he had no brain wave activity after the first few hours after the stroke.
Let me tell you about two things that might interest people:
The memorial service
The family decided to just have a small family gathering at one of Grandfather's son's houses. Direct decendants only.
We read a prepared prayer and had 5 minutes of silence. That was it. I believe his was cremated this week.
This was a very short, seemingly appropriate service for the family. As an outsider - I married into the family - I was not sure what to make of it. Grandmother seemed to take this whole thing rather well, but my father-in-law was having problems.
On the way home my wife cried and said she wished she could take her father's pain away.
The conversation with Grandmother
I had a very interesting conversation with Grandmother at the memorial. It seems that she and one of my wife's uncles were in the hospital room for over 5 hours later Sunday night.
She described to me what she and her son were doing. They were witnessing the transition of Grandfather to Heaven. At one point, a duty nurse came in and asked if she could suction him to get rid of the noise. Grandmother replied that the noise was not coming from Grandfather, but from the trumpets sounding a welcome to Grandfather.
She said that she could feel the moment when his sole left his body. She and her son helped by releasing him to continue on his journey. His body was still alive at this time.
This brings up my main point: at what time does the sole/spirit leave the body?
Does it happen shortly before death, like with Grandfather? Or does it happen the instance you take your last breath?
I have read a lot about near death experiences. It seems to me that some of these people might have left their earthly body and then returned.
I guess I will have to spend more time in prayer and ask God to reveal this to me.
Your comments are always encouraged.
Your brother in Christ,
RBT
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Eternal Life
What really is Eternal Life?
My wife's grandfather passed away yesterday. Thank you for everyone’s support. IT has been wonderful.
During a nice chat I had with her Grandmother, the subject of eternal life came up. Grandmother says that we are all in eternal life. It is eternal, so it never has a beginning nor an end. We are all in it and will continue in it even after we die.
Is this really the case?
Let's look at some verses from the bible to compare:
Matt 19:16-19
16 Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good[a] Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?” 17 So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good?[b] No one is good but One, that is, God.[c] But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” 18 He said to Him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “ ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ 19 ‘Honor your father and your mother,’[d] and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”[e]
Here it clearly states that to enter into LIFE you must keep His commandments. Does that sound like we are all in Eternal Life right now?
Luke 10:25-28
25 And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?” 27 So he answered and said, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’[a] and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’”[b]28 And He said to him, “You have answered rightly; do this and you will live.”
Again we have someone asking Christ about Eternal Life. He answers that we should do this and you will live.
I think it is clear that we do not possess Eternal Life unless we follow the commandments. If you are not following Christ, you do not possess Eternal Life.
Meditate on that and let me know what you think.
Your brother in Christ,
RBT
My wife's grandfather passed away yesterday. Thank you for everyone’s support. IT has been wonderful.
During a nice chat I had with her Grandmother, the subject of eternal life came up. Grandmother says that we are all in eternal life. It is eternal, so it never has a beginning nor an end. We are all in it and will continue in it even after we die.
Is this really the case?
Let's look at some verses from the bible to compare:
Matt 19:16-19
16 Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good[a] Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?” 17 So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good?[b] No one is good but One, that is, God.[c] But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” 18 He said to Him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “ ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ 19 ‘Honor your father and your mother,’[d] and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”[e]
Here it clearly states that to enter into LIFE you must keep His commandments. Does that sound like we are all in Eternal Life right now?
Luke 10:25-28
25 And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?” 27 So he answered and said, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’[a] and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’”[b]28 And He said to him, “You have answered rightly; do this and you will live.”
Again we have someone asking Christ about Eternal Life. He answers that we should do this and you will live.
I think it is clear that we do not possess Eternal Life unless we follow the commandments. If you are not following Christ, you do not possess Eternal Life.
Meditate on that and let me know what you think.
Your brother in Christ,
RBT
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
USB drive to save your life?
Good morning!
Here is an interesting article about using a USB drive to store all the important items in your life.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/business/01docs.ready.html?pagewanted=print
This brings up an interesting idea:
Can we walk around with a compressed backup of our most important database?
Sometimes we feel that there is one database that our company could not get by without. Even if the backup is a few days old, the company could not survive if it was totally trashed.
This database may contain our Intellectual Property (IP) or our latest development code. IT may be as simple as a contact list of all our clients.
Whatever you feel would really help your company in case of a disaster, zip it up and place it on a USB drive.
Of course you may want to encrypt it;)
God bless,
RBT
p.s. here is a good book from a friend of mine
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1595550208/ref=pd_ts_b_8/103-1381416-8181401?v=glance&s=books&n=53
Here is an interesting article about using a USB drive to store all the important items in your life.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/business/01docs.ready.html?pagewanted=print
This brings up an interesting idea:
Can we walk around with a compressed backup of our most important database?
Sometimes we feel that there is one database that our company could not get by without. Even if the backup is a few days old, the company could not survive if it was totally trashed.
This database may contain our Intellectual Property (IP) or our latest development code. IT may be as simple as a contact list of all our clients.
Whatever you feel would really help your company in case of a disaster, zip it up and place it on a USB drive.
Of course you may want to encrypt it;)
God bless,
RBT
p.s. here is a good book from a friend of mine
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1595550208/ref=pd_ts_b_8/103-1381416-8181401?v=glance&s=books&n=53
Saturday, October 01, 2005
Oracle on Windows
Special thanks to the Oracle-l list for this tip:
There is a trick to pause an import on Oracle 9i on windows.
You go the command window
From the left window corner you choose Edit/Mark, mark an area (like if you would be copying it), and leave marked (white).
The import process will pause until you end the process, ending the copy or pressing the enter key.
This may also be done the old-fashioned way ie. the unix way.
-S suspend execution
-Q resume execution
This may pre-date unix of course, but that is my earliest familiarity with it.
You go the command window
From the left window corner you choose Edit/Mark, mark an area (like if you would be copying it), and leave marked (white).
The import process will pause until you end the process, ending the copy or pressing the enter key.
This may also be done the old-fashioned way ie. the unix way.
This may pre-date unix of course, but that is my earliest familiarity with it.
-RBT
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