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Comment on Filipino Slum Kid is One of the CNN Heroes for 2009 by p2bpinoy

p2bpinoy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:11:04 +0000

Very inspiring story…

Last chance to vote for our kababayan Efren Penaflorida as CNN’s Hero of the Year… Read more of his story at http://p2bpinoy.emzii.com/2009/11/pinoy-among-top-10-cnn-heroes-vote-for-efren-penaflorida/

Comment on Kudos To My Beautiful Wife by Marilou Bariso

Marilou Bariso — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:37:54 +0000

Hello Mel and Perry,
This is truly awesome and inspiring story. I stumbled upon this site because i was trying to find some of my old schoolmates from Caloocan High School batch 1975.
I have a strong feeling that your wife Perry is among our schoolmates. I hit two birds in one stone, not only did i find Perry, but also got inspired and felt a renewed energy to search for a new job. Perry may not remember me, but some of her former classmates are looking for her as well: Socorro Uy, Elvisa Yalong, etc.
Good Luck. More Power and God Bless you.

Comment on CNN Hero Efren Continues to Inspire! by Maria Elizabeth Embry

Maria Elizabeth Embry — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:24:42 +0000

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A Bamboo Shelter in a Garbage Dump City
By Gonzalo Raymundo
From: Quezon City , Philippines
Shelter location: Philippines
FINALIST

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every vote counts…. online voting ends october 10.

Thxs,

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let us run with endurance the race that is set before us Hebrews 12:

Thxs,

Maria Elizabeth Embry

Always proud to be a pinay

Let us Pray for the safety of the Storm Victims (Ondoy 9/26) in the Philippines

Comment on Tinikling—Wonderful Filipino Folk Dance by Pearl Sanders

Pearl Sanders — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:13:11 +0000

I am looking for some very good filipino tinikling dancers to perform for an event on August 1, 2009 at the Ritz Carlton. Please respond if a certain dance group is interested. I would like other favorite filipino dances to be incorporated as well. Thanks..

Comment on Tinikling—Wonderful Filipino Folk Dance by Pinoy Music Talents

Pinoy Music Talents — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:29:16 +0000

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Comment on CNN Hero Efren Continues to Inspire! by Topics about Religion » CNN Hero Efren Continues to Inspire!

Topics about Religion » CNN Hero Efren Continues to Inspire! — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:42:55 +0000

[...] Questions and Challenges placed an interesting blog post on CNN Hero Efren Continues to Inspire!Here’s a brief overviewI’ve just finished watching a local Philippine TV show featuring a segment on CNN Hero Efren Peñaflorida and the Dynamic Teen Company.It was truly inspiring! I was specially touched by the story of Cris Valdez, at only 10 years old the youngest volunteer for K4. This ten-year-old regularly saves money from his daily allowance so that he can give away slippers to children who are more needy than him on his birthday! As a volunteer, he also helps in giving baths to the smaller children from the de [...]

Comment on Filipino Slum Kid is One of the CNN Heroes for 2009 by Leah Smith

Leah Smith — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:04:03 +0000

Wow. If he can make it, our economy surely can.
Very inspiring to see people with such great resilience and an undying spirit. His dreams are not confined to himself and family but for the love of his country, the children and all of humankind. Truly a hero of a kind.

Comment on Does Facebook Own Our Content? Perpetually??? by Tommi

Tommi — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:27:31 +0000

I considered joining, but I also don’t feel comfortable with the licensing, so opted to stay out of there.

Comment on American Idols Shout to the Lord by R.Koch

R.Koch — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:45:41 +0000

Just a note for clarification, as a believer in the USA, the US market does not pander to Christians at all, especially American Idol. In fact when past contestants sang Gospel or other Christian songs, the judges were very negative. Thouht you’d like to know.

Comment on Expelled Victims by Matt

Matt — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:02:19 +0000

Rather, I think it’s evident that commenter Matt has not actually seen the documentary Expelled, and is letting biased atheist website do his thinking for him.

Bzzt. Wrong. I have seen it, I caught it on DVD.
It was a truly bad piece of journalism, much like shows here in Australia such as ‘Today Tonight’ and ‘A Current Affair’.
Please don’t make assumptions, [rest of the sentence edited]

A note regarding Matt’s comment on Caroline Crocker..It’s nothing more than an ad hominem attack, taking her words out of context.

How so? Examples of what she was presenting to students surfaced and were clearly false. Any teacher who performed such things, which was directly against the set curriculum, would get shown the door. Do you want special disposition for ID proponents or something, where they don’t have to meet teaching standards?

Evidently, Matt doesn’t know that the amount of funding a prospective tenure applicant has received is not a prerequisite for obtaining tenure.

It’s an indicator of how someone is going in their role.
And that is just one of the many indicators Gonzalez had going against him. No wonder he did not get tenure, the man’s academic record while there was really rather poor.

You will need to do much better than that.

Comment on Expelled Victims by Mike Bradley

Mike Bradley — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:45:15 +0000

It is evident that the critics of Expelled obtain their “evidence” against it from atheist websites. You don’t see their garbage spewed from academic source (except those who are threatened by a design perspective). Rather, I think it’s evident that commenter Matt has not actually seen the documentary Expelled, and is letting biased atheist website do his thinking for him.
A note regarding Matt’s comment on Caroline Crocker..It’s nothing more than an ad hominem attack, taking her words out of context.
Regarding Matt’s comment on Guillermo Gonzalez… Evidently, Matt doesn’t know that the amount of funding a prospective tenure applicant has received is not a prerequisite for obtaining tenure. In other words, bringing it up is simply a straw man. Rather, Matt would do well to read Guillermo Gonzalez’ book “The Privileged Planet” or watch the video.
It is evident, that at least some who are critical of ID and of the documentary Expelled are the ones being personally and intellectually dishonest.

I’m an American, living in the Philippines, an ID supporter. Anyone who wishes to have more information about ID can visit my blog and contact me there.

http://my.opera.com/bantay/blog/

Comment on Help Provide Safe Drinking Water to Thousands in Africa by cheritycall

cheritycall — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:07:44 +0000

Hello, Give something for help the hungry people in Africa and India,
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Comment on Was Jesus Christ a Real Person? by Leo

Leo — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:08:05 +0000

I’m not sure what I believe about religion. But I do know that I learned that Jesus Christ is a real person when I was in grade school. I want to know if anyone has factual historical references to Jesus Christ’s existence?

Comment on Animoto.com—Create Your Videos Online by Animoto Review | Jack Humphrey's software bundle

Animoto Review | Jack Humphrey's software bundle — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:20:06 +0000

[...] Animoto.com—Create Your Videos Online – I received an email from Web Evangelism, where they featured this neat Web app at http://animoto.com. Animoto will create videos for you from your own pics and choice of soundtrack music. You can choose soundtracks from their library or … [...]

Comment on To Understand, Stand Under by melcartera

melcartera — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:33:08 +0000

Hi, Robbery (unique alias, that ).

Welcome to the site.

I’m so sorry that I’ve failed to communicate my ideas with you on this post. I hope to do better in the next one, which—hopefully—will tie the series up.

Thanks for the compliment, despite my failure to communicate. You’re very generous.

Regards!

Mel

Comment on Original Sin by melcartera

melcartera — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:30:54 +0000

Hi, Che. Hi, Tommi.

So sorry for being absent from my own blog for such a long time. I was out of town last week. Perry and I held a seminar in a beautiful city called Baguio (check out these sites also ).

Anyway, you’ve touched on a classic paradox that has been a source of great discussions (and even disagreements and not a few quarrels, sadly ) among Christians. That is the question of God’s sovereignty vs. man’s free will.

I hope to touch a little bit on that in the next post—when I finally get around to posting something .

Thank you so much for your patience, guys—and your comments!

Warmest regards!

Mel

Comment on Dying for Rebels by melcartera

melcartera — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:25:14 +0000

Hi, Tommi.

Not *only* faith is required. It is the kind of faith that results in obedience—the kind of obedience, conversely, which is not possible without this kind of faith.

I haven’t had much time to post, much less to respond to comments, lately. Thank you so much for your patience.

I hope to spell out this faith-obedience thing in the next post—when I finally get around to posting something .

Warmest regards!

Mel

Comment on To Understand, Stand Under by Robbery

Robbery — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:53:43 +0000

Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Robbery.

Comment on Original Sin by Tommi

Tommi — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:19:40 +0000

An omnipotent and omniscient creator certainly kind of conflicts with the concept of free will.

Comment on Dying for Rebels by Tommi

Tommi — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:12:45 +0000

THIS is the difference between Christianity and other religions or philosophies. If you analyze them closely, other religions are ultimately about what human beings can or should do in order to gain the favor of the god or gods in that religion, or to progress from one level to higher levels of existence.

This is only true of some religions. There are many philosophies and some religions (usually of more tribal nature, I think, but I am no expert) where getting to the afterlife is not important or not even considered. Material that says things to the effect of “You can lead a good life by …” or “A good person is/does …” or, in case of religions, where a certain set of rituals and customs is adopted, possibly to calm spirits or to make the life of deceased ancestors more comfortable. In the case of calming, or tricking or beguiling or whatever, spirits it is often done towards more concrete a goal than an afterlife.

Christianity does demand the faith. If only faith is required (this depends on the brand of Christianism in question, I think), there is the situation where a mass murderer and rapist will get to heaven while a person who helps others for all her life, but is, say, a strict atheist, will not get eternal reward. This, I think, erodes part of the very purpose of religion and is counterintuitive.