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Permasalahan adalah bagaimana kita bisa membawa Damai, jikalau damai itu tidak pernah ada dihati kita? Dan hal ini-lah yang menimbulkan pertanyaan besar, bukankah janji Allah melalui malaikat kepada umat manusia pada malam natal adalah Damai Sejahtera di bumi? Dan jikalau janjinya adalah damai, maka dimanakah damai sejati itu?

Kehilangan Damai sejati mengakibatkan banyak dari umat Kristen mulai meninggalkan ibadahnya, kemudian menjadi jemaat NAPAS (datang hanya pada saat Natal dan Paskah). Hal ini merupakan cerminan dari kerinduan mereka, karena kehilangan damai di hati selama bertahun-tahun, untuk mencari “damai” itu di malam natal! Tetapi seringkali kita gagal, seakan-akan kita salah mengerti akan apa itu damai yang sejati.

Materi ini sekali lagi ingin mengupas kebenaran tentang natal, dan bahaya si iblis dalam memanipulasi kebenaran untuk menghasilkan kedamaian yang palsu. Kedamaian sejati hanyalah melalui Kristus, tetapi tidak berhenti hanya pada keselamatan itu saja, melalui ketaatan dalam keselamatan lah maka kedamaian sejati itu akan bertumbuh didalam hati kita. Selamat melihat presentasi ini. Tuhan memberkati

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Last month, World Food Programme Executive Director Josette Sheeran, expressed her enthusiasm at the WFP Hunger Seminar in London. “You [today’s students] are the generation that will end hunger… In the future we want our grandchildren to ask us what hunger and starvation were.”

With the fact that 20% of the riches who “might” doesn’t really know the feeling of hunger conquered 80% of the earth resources, meanwhile the 80% of the poor and pooerest is fighting for the 20% of the earth resources. Realizing this fact, we need to work hand in hand to overcome the problem. We should be proactively help the poor to get out from their condition.

One of Crossprojectministry.com mission is done by Empowering housewife to create Value added product, building access to market their product, managing profit and distribute nutritious food for their children. We hope this small acts could also give some contribution to the world action for humanity against hunger and malnutrition

Cross Project Ministry join global action against hunger and malnutrition by being part of Bloggers Against Hunger! if you had also a dream to fight against hunger and nutritions, join us and put this widget on your blog, and also submit your blog against hunger and malnutrition! Watch also the video above, we are able to fight them through our words and our actions!

If you are simply interested to involve in the project or to buy one of their products please contact us on mail@crossprojectministry.com.

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Family Gathering! With a new member, welcome akari chan ;p

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Serangan kekerasan terhadap orang Kristen di Indonesia telah memaksa ditutupnya 20 gereja dalam beberapa bulan terakhir, pengujian keseimbangan keagamaan yang rapuh di negara yang mayoritas Islam.

Pemerintah menyangkal insiden adalah tanda intoleransi keagamaan yang sedang tumbuh, namun menyalahkan kondisi geopolitik dan pemilihan daerah.

Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen melaporkan dari Jawa Barat.

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Satu lagi lagu yang nakal, lucu, jenaka dan enak didengar dari The Dance Company! come and see! surely gonna buy their Album

Ku tertegun melihatmu
Cantiknya bukan kepalang
Apakah dia melihatku

Andaikan aku gagah dan rupawan
Dia pasti mencintaiku (jatuh hatinya)

Aku bagaikan arjuna
Gagah rupawan diriku
Dia pasti naksir denganku
Tapi andaikan aku banyak uang
Dia pasti mencintaiku (jatuh hatinya)

Uuuh banyak uang
Gagah rupawan
Hanya sebentar saja
Yang paling penting
Bahwa dirimu
Harus punya cinta

Kau lihatlah diri ini
Gak perlu kaya dan gagah
Hanya bermodalkan cinta
Tapi sampai saatnya telah tiba
Aku nggak ada yang mau (kamu nggak lakuu)

Sekarang sudah saatnya
Kamu semua harus punya
Bukan cuma punya cinta
Tapi percayalah kata kataku
Suatu saat pasti bisa

Walau bermodalkan cinta
Walau bermodalkan muka
Walau bermodalkan uang
Walau bermodalkan cinta

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]]> http://soegianto.net/life/modal-cinta/feed/ 1 http://soegianto.net/article/ketika-atheis-berbicara-tentang-berdakwah/ http://soegianto.net/article/ketika-atheis-berbicara-tentang-berdakwah/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:43:35 +0000 soegianto http://soegianto.net/?p=235 Sebuah artikel tentang seorang pelawak dan pesulap Penn Jillette, dia adalah seseorang yang dikenal orang sebagai “Magic Bullet.” Sebelumnya saya tidak mengenal dia, sampai hari ini saya baca artikel tentang beliau pada sebuah media sosial.

Beliau selama lebih dari satu dekade, dia bekerja sebagai magician enam hari dalam seminggu di Las Vegas dengan sesama pesulap Teller. Kedua anggota Penn & Teller duo adalah pemain berbakat yang juga terjadi untuk menjadi pendukung ateisme-kepercayaan bahwa tidak ada Allah.

A gift of Bible

Penn akan menjadi orang pertama yang mengakui bahwa dia bisa kasar, vulgar, dan berpendirian keras tentang ketidakkepercayaan kepada Tuhan. Tidak mengherankan, Penn telah melakukan sejumlah serangan terhadap Kekristenan. salah satunya yang dipost di YouTube, “The Bible is Bulls—t” (silakan tebak-menebak kata-kata yang dihilangkan), telah mengumpulkan lebih dari 1,4 juta kali dilihat sejak rilis beberapa tahun lalu. Dan, ketika memberikan tanda tangan, Penn biasanya menambahkan komentar “tidak ada Allah” berdekatan dengan tanda tangannya.

Wowww…. seorang Atheis sejati, namun yang mengejutkan adalah sebuah Posting dia pada bulan Desember 2008.

Dalam klip YouTube yang berjudul “A Gift of Alkitab,” Penn telah bertemu dengan seorang “pria besar” yang menunggu di pinggir dalam apa yang disebut “posisi mematung” setelah pertunjukan. Dia berlama-lama, menunggu kesempatan untuk berbicara dengan Penn setelah penggemarnya pergi. Ketika suasana sudah memungkinkan, penonton yang tidak disebutkan namanya ini mendekat. Penn menggambarkan apa yang terjadi selanjutnya:

” penonton itu berkata, “Saya baru saja menonton pertunjukan tadi malam di pameran dan aku melihat pertunjukan dan aku menyukainya.” Dia sangat memuji tentang penggunaan bahasa, dan berkata tentang hal-hal baik. dan dia berkata , “Aku membawa ini untukmu,” dan ia memberiku Injil Gideon edisi saku termasuk Mazmur. Dia berkata “Aku menulis di bagian depan, dan aku ingin kau memiliki ini. Aku agak berda’wah.” Dan dia berkata” Saya seorang pengusaha, aku waras, tidak gila. Dan dia terus menerus menatap tepat di mata sambil berbicara.

Ini benar-benar indah. Aku yakin dia tahu bahwa aku adalah seorang ateis. Tapi ia tidak defensif dan ia menatap tepat di mata. Dan ia benar-benar tulus, tidak dengan cara apa pun sanjungan kosong. Dia benar-benar baik dan waras dan menatap mata dan berbicara kepada saya, dan kemudian memberi saya Alkitab ini.

Penn melanjutkan

Dan aku selalu mengatakan bahwa saya tidak menghormati orang yang tidak berdakwah, aku tidak menghormati itu sama sekali. Jika Anda percaya bahwa ada surga dan neraka dan orang-orang dapat pergi ke neraka atau tidak memperoleh kehidupan kekal atau apa pun, dan kau pikir itu tidak layak mengatakan kepada mereka ini karena itu akan membuatnya canggung dalam bersosial dan orang-orang ateis yang berpikir tidak boleh berdakwah, tinggalkan aku sendiri, simpan agamamu untuk diri sendiri, berapa banyak yang Anda miliki untuk membenci seseorang untuk tidak menyebarkan agama? .

Berapa banyak yang Anda harus membenci seseorang untuk percaya bahwa kehidupan kekal adalah mungkin dan tidak memberitahu mereka itu? Jika saya percaya di luar bayang-bayang keraguan bahwa sebuah truk datang pada Anda-dan Anda tidak percaya itu, bahwa truk itu membawa engkau mati-ada titik tertentu di mana saya akan menjatuhkan and.Dan ini [kehidupan kekal] adalah lebih penting dari itu.

Jeda di sana selama beberapa saat.

Seorang Atheis, yang mengomentari orang yang enggan mengabarkan Injil. Juga Seorang Atheis yang melihat ketulusan orang yang namanya tidak disebut, Apakah Anda melihat sesuatu Penn diulang tiga kali? Dia rupanya tersentuh oleh kenyataan bahwa pengusaha ini “menatap tepat di mata.” Saya hanya bisa menduga bahwa apa Penn melihat ada cinta tanpa syarat dan penerimaan, bukan penilaian atas ateisme.

Meskipun pada akhir video ini, Penn tetap menekankan ke Atheisan beliau, namun berulang kali dia menyebutkan orang ini adalah orang-orang yang sangat-sangat baik … Sayangnya kebaikan tidak menyelamatkan manusia.seperti ada tertulis: “Tidak ada yang benar, seorangpun tidak. Tidak ada seorangpun yang berakal budi, tidak ada seorangpun yang mencari Allah. Semua orang telah menyeleweng, mereka semua tidak berguna, tidak ada yang berbuat baik, seorangpun tidak.
(Rom 3:10-12 ITB)

Dimanakah pilihan kita?

sumber :

http://www.focusonlinecommunities.com/blogs/Finding_Home/2009/09/22/a-conversation-with-an-atheist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdvES4_MJ5Y&feature=related

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Sebuah Video yang membuat airmata mengalir… semoga tidak berhenti disini

View this movie at cultureunplugged.com

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Prologue

But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you

good news of great joy that will be for all the people.”

—L U K E 2 : 1 0

Rakai, Uganda, August 1998

His name was Richard, the same as mine. I sat inside his meager thatch hut, listening to his story, told through the tears of an orphan whose parents had died of AIDS. At thirteen, Richard was trying to raise his two younger brothers by himself in this small shack with no running water, electricity, or even beds to sleep in. There were no adults in their lives—no one to care for them, feed them, love them, or teach them how to become men. There was no one to hug them either, or to tuck them in at night. Other than his siblings, Richard was alone, as no child should be. I try to picture my own children abandoned in this kind of deprivation, fending for themselves without parents to protect them, and I cannot.

I didn’t want to be there. I wasn’t supposed to be there, so far out of my comfort zone—not in that place where orphaned children live by themselves in their agony. There, poverty, disease, and squalor had eyes and faces that stared back, and I had to see and smell and touch the pain of the poor. That particular district, Rakai, is believed to be ground zero for the Ugandan AIDS pandemic.

There, the deadly virus has stalked its victims in the dark for decades. Sweat trickled down my face as I sat awkwardly with Richard and his brothers while a film crew captured every tear—mine and theirs.

I much preferred living in my bubble, the one that, until that moment, had safely contained my life, family, and career. It kept difficult things like this out, insulating me from anything too raw or upsetting. When such things intruded, as they rarely did, a channel could be changed, a newspaper page turned, or a check written to keep the poor at a safe distance. But not in

Rakai. There, “such things” had faces and names—even my name, Richard. Not sixty days earlier I had been CEO of Lenox, America’s finest tableware company, producing and selling luxury goods to those who could afford them. I lived with my wife and five children in a ten-bedroom house on five acres just outside of Philadelphia. I drove a Jaguar to work every day, and my business travel took me to places such as Paris, Tokyo, London, and Florence. I flew first-class and stayed in the best hotels. I was respected in my community, attended a venerable suburban church, and sat on the board of my kids’ Christian school. I was one of the good guys—you might say a “poster child” for the successful Christian life. I had never heard of

Rakai, the place where my bubble would burst. But in just sixty days, God turned my life inside out, and it would never be the same. Quite unexpectedly, eight months earlier, I had been contacted by World Vision, the Christian relief and development organization, during their search for a new president. Why me? It wasn’t something I had sought after. In fact, you might say I had been minding my own business when the phone rang that day. But it was a phone call that had been twenty-four years in the planning.

You see, in 1974, at the age of twenty-three, in my graduate school dormitory, I knelt down beside my bed and dedicated my life to Christ. This was no small decision for me, and it came only after months of reading, studying, conversations with friends, and the important witness of Reneé, the woman who would later become my wife. While at the time I knew very little about the implications of that decision, I knew this: nothing would ever be quite the same again, because I had made a promise to follow Christ—no matter what.

The Man Who Wouldn’t Buy China . . .

Several months after becoming a Christian, I was newly engaged to Reneé. As we were planning our wedding and our life together, she suggested that we go to a department store to register for our china, crystal, and silver. My self-righteous response was an indication of just how my newfound faith was integrating into my life: “As long as there are children starving in the world, we’re not going to own fine china, crystal, and silver.” Perhaps you can see God’s sense of irony in my becoming president of America’s premier fine tableware company a couple of decades later. So when I answered that phone call from World Vision in January 1998, I knew that God was on the other end of the line. It was His voice I heard, not the recruiter’s:

Rich, do you remember that idealistic young man in 1974 who was so passionate about starving children that he would not even fill out a wedding registry? Take a good look at yourself now. Do you see what you’ve become? But, Rich, if you still care about those children, I have a job I want you to do.

In my prayers over the weeks leading up to my appointment as World Vision’s president, I begged God to send someone else to do it, much as Moses had done.

Surely this was a mistake. I was no Mother Teresa. I remember praying that God would send me anywhere else, “but, please, God, not to the poor—not into the pain and alienation of poverty and disease, not there.” I didn’t want to go there.

Yet here I was, the new president of World Vision, sent by knowing staff to get a “baptism by fire” for my new calling, with a film crew to document every moment. Bob Pierce, the founder of World Vision, once prayed, “Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.” But who really wants his heart broken? Is this something to ask of God? Don’t we pray that God will not break our hearts? But as I look at the life of Jesus, I see that He was, as Isaiah described him, “a Man of sorrows . . . acquainted with grief ”(Isaiah 53:3 NKJV). Jesus’ heart was continually moved to compassion as He encountered the lame, the sick, the widow, and the orphan. I try to picture God’s broken heart as He looks today upon the broken world for which He died. Surely Richard’s story breaks His heart.

Two crude piles of stones just outside the door mark the graves of Richard’s parents. It disturbs me that he must walk past them every day. He and his brothers must have watched first their father and then their mother die slow and horrible deaths. I wondered if the boys were the ones who fed them and bathed them in their last days. Whatever the case, Richard, a child himself, is now the head of household.

Child-headed household, words never meant to be strung together. I tried to wrap my mind around this new phrase, one that describes not onlyRichard’s plight but that of tens of thousands, even millions more. I’m told that there are sixty thousand orphans just in Rakai, twelve million orphans due to AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. How can this be true? Awkwardly I asked Richard what he hopes to be when he grows up, a ridiculous question to ask a child who has lost his childhood. “A doctor,” he said, “so I can help people who have the disease.”

“Do you have a Bible?” I asked. He ran to the other room and returned with his treasured book with gold-gilt pages.

“Can you read it?”

“I love to read the book of John, because it says that Jesus loves the children.”

This overwhelmed me, and my tears started to flow.

Forgive me, Lord, forgive me. I didn’t know.

But I did know. I knew about poverty and suffering in the world. I was aware that children die daily from starvation and lack of clean water. I also knew about AIDS and the orphans it leaves behind, but I kept these things outside of my insulating bubble and looked the other way.

Yet this was to be the moment that would ever after define me. Rakai was what God wanted me to see. My sadness that day was replaced by repentance. Despite what the Bible had told me so clearly, I had turned a blind eye to the poor. Now my heart was filled with anger, first at myself, and then toward the world. Why wasn’t Richard’s story being told? The media overflowed with celebrity dramas, stock market updates, and Bill Clinton’s impending impeachment hearings. But where were the headlines and magazine covers about Africa? Twelve million orphans, and no one noticed? But what sickened me most was this question: where was the

Church? Indeed, where were the followers of Jesus Christ in the midst of perhaps the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time? Surely the Church should have been caring for these “orphans and widows in their distress” (James 1:27). Shouldn’t the pulpits across America have flamed with exhortations to rush to the front lines of compassion? Shouldn’t they be flaming today? Shouldn’t churches be reaching out to care for children in such desperate need? How could the great tragedy of these orphans get drowned out by choruses of praise music in hundreds of thousands of churches across our country? Sitting in a hut in Rakai, I remember thinking,

How have we missed it so tragically, when even rock stars and Hollywood actors seem to understand?

Ten years later I know. Something fundamental has been missing inour understanding of the gospel.The word gospel literally means “good news.” Jesus declared that He had come to “preach good news to the poor” (Luke 4:18). But what good news, what gospel, did the Church have for Richard and his brothers in Rakai? What “good news” have God’s people brought to the world’s three billion poor?

What “gospel” have millions of Africa’s AIDS orphans seen?4

What gospel have most of us embraced in the twenty-first century?

The answer is found in the title of this book: a gospel with a hole in it

http://www.theholeinourgospel.com/

2009 by World Vision, Inc. – Published by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

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President, World Vision United States
Richard E. Stearns is president of World Vision, one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the United States. After a quarter-century business career, he joined World Vision in 1998, guiding the Christian relief and development organization to unprecedented growth and calling on the American Church to respond to the global AIDS pandemic.World Vision has more than 1,300 staff in the United States and partners with U.S. corporations, government agencies, foundations, churches and more than a million individual donors to help children and their communities reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty. It is the largest member of the global World Vision Partnership, which last year touched the lives of an estimated 100 million people internationally Since joining World Vision, Stearns has built a strong leadership team focused on bringing corporate best practices to the non-profit sector and inspiring a culture of outcome-focused management at all levels of the organization. Donations have tripled from $358 million in 1998 to over $1 billion in 2008, and overhead has been reduced by almost one-third.		As one of his first initiatives as World Vision’s president, Stearns empowered World Vision’s senior leadership to increase awareness and funding for AIDS programs. This came at a time when the organization’s own research found that donors had little interest in helping to stop the spread of the disease; donors actually were less interested in helping children orphaned by AIDS than other disadvantaged children. Stearns chronicles his journey from corporate CEO to advocate for those affected by poverty and injustice in his book, “The Hole in Our Gospel,” due to be published in March 2009 by Thomas Nelson. The book challenges readers to view the gospel as more than a private transaction between God and us.Follow Rich on his blog.

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