good manners?

 Q - Ano po bang ang working definition ng good manners?

A -Consideration / Respect for others.

Yung nakakaabala, nakakaaistorbo, nakakagulo, nakakalapastangan, etc. sa kapwa ay unethical.

Tito ano po kaya ang ibig sabihin ng girls pag nagcomment sa pic ng boy ng "pogi" "Gwapo" or equivalents?

 Q - Tito ano po kaya ang ibig sabihin ng girls pag nagcomment sa pic ng boy ng "pogi" "Gwapo" or equivalents?

A -Kung kamag-anak: Baka wala lang masabi/ comment lang.

Kung talagang kaibigan, tulad din ng sa kamag-anak.

Kung iba, baka

- nagpapantasya?

- nagpapa-pansin?

- umaasa?

Puede rin namang innocent, pure appreciation lang talaga. (Hmmm….)

-Ed Lapiz

Tulong?

 Q - Masama po ang loob ko sa mga taong matapos kung tulungan ng bonggang-bongga ay nilimot lang ako!

A - Wag ka nang magsama-sama ng loob pamangkin.

God is just.

Yung dapat ay "sukli/bayad" nila sa kabutihan mo na hindi nila ibinigay/ibinibigay sa yo ay and Diyos ang

1. nagbabalik/nagdadagdag sa yo.

2. kumukuha/bumabawas mula sa kanila.

Galatians 6:7 (CEV)

You cannot fool God, so don't make a fool of yourself!

You will harvest what you plant.

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If you plant goodness, you harvest goodness.

If they plant ingratitude, they will harvest its fruit.

-Ed Lapiz

 https://youtube.com/c/MidoubanLapiz

Q - Tito, gay po ako. I feel so bad kasi po loveless ako, walang BF

Q - Tito, gay po ako. I feel so bad kasi po loveless ako, walang BF at walang nagmamahal ng tunay, laging alone kahit napakarami kong talents. At madalas, halos bilhin ko na po ang guy just to keep him.
A -
Pamangkin maraming mga babaeng loveless, walang BF at walang nagmamahal ng tunay, at laging alone kahit napakaraming talents. Mayron pa ngang nagka-husband na ay pinagtaksilan at iniwan pa rin ---gayung babae sila. At napakarami ring babaeng halos bilhin din ang lalaki ng buhay nila: sinusuportahan, pinakakain, ginagastusan. Tapos, pinagtataksilan pa rin sila.
Given your comparatively much more difficult reality, how could you expect to have a better or even just a good love life?

Iniwan po ako ng BF ko

Q - Iniwan po ako ng BF ko. Ngayon, parang gusto kong makipag-date kung kani-kanino para pagselosin sya?
A -
Kung iniwan ka, malamang di ka (na) gusto.
Kung di ka (na) gusto, hindi yun magseselos kahit makipag-date ka sa buong Russian army.
Mapapagod ka lang.
Puedeng lalu pang masaktan.
Kaya manahimik ka na lang muna?
And do what is good for you; not what could/would make your ex jealous.

Q - I'm a fresh seminary/Bible school graduate raring to start a pastoral vocation with a small but rather old church. Please give me some tips on how to best perform my preaching-teaching ministry.

Q - I'm a fresh seminary/Bible school graduate raring to start a pastoral vocation with a small but rather old church. Please give me some tips on how to best perform my preaching-teaching ministry.

A - What we know is little; what what we do not know is immense.
Start with that. Continue in that.
Formal seminary education, like all other educational experiences,
doesn't make you know enough; it actually tells you that you do not and cannot know enough. Unless you went to a brain-washing school that drills into your head that your group knows and understands everything, you should come out of seminary more teachable and humble than when you came in.

Education should not make you proud --- it cannot make you proud; it should make you humble, ever searching, ever teachable.
Because your most inportant realization when you learn is that there is so much you didn't and still do not know.

1. Thus, be tentative.
Do not act like you know it all; do not be dogmatic. Chances are that most of what you now "know" are only "inherited", passed on to you by mentors whose knowledge could also be a hand-me-down relic. This becomes more true if you studied in a seminary run by a congregation whose main mission is to uphold "tradition". Your very education now sets you on a war path against the courses that other congregations take. So, expect "conflict" instead of "harmony".

2. Respect fellow preachers-teachers who, in every sense, could also be like you: products of their own schools, believing they know enough, and believing they, not you, are right.
Maganda kung yung new/young pastors huwag nang manahin at ituloy yung religous wars ng mga naunang generations of Christians. Boring na. In real life naman, no group lives a morally more upright life than others do. Pare-pareho lang na nadadapa at nagkukulang.

3. Keep learning, especially outside of the mold of your small community. There is a vast world or knowledge out there. From the inside, look out. From the outside, look in. Keep expanding your understanding.
On you own, study BIblical Criticism more extensively and more deeply if you like to expand your capacity to understand, interpret and apply Scripture more correctly and meaningfully.
Know more History.

10 MAJOR TEACHINGS AND EVENTS THAT could HAPPEN IN A CHURCH YOU JOIN

10 MAJOR TEACHINGS AND EVENTS THAT could HAPPEN IN A CHURCH YOU JOIN Gaano ito katotoo? Alin sa mga ito ang nararanasan o naranasan nyo, mga kapatid? Konting soul seraching lang pag may time :-) 1. WELCOME! Nangyayari sa first time o sa first few times kang umattend sa isang church. 2. LOVE LOVE LOVE Puro love ang turo sa mga una mong pagdalo sa mga lessons. God loves all. The Church loves all. We all love all! Ang saya-saya! 3. US! US! US! Kasunod na mga turo: Tayo lang ang tama. Tayo lang ang makadiyos. Minsan pa nga: Tayo lang ang ligtas! 4. THEM THEM THEM Papunta nadito ang turo. Iba ang hindi natin members. Mali sila. Mali ang ginagamit nilang Bible. Hindi sila mga ligtas. Hindi sila tunay na anak ng Diyos. (Tayo lang, remember?) 5. JUDGE JUDGE JUDGE Teachings now make you judgemental of outsiders ---and even of fellow insiders. You begin to become critical of others. You become a Church Bully. 5. SEPARATE! Teachings now become more bold. Kasi, kasapi ka na at judgmental ka na: Separate from other so-called believers. Hindi sila totoo. Separate from your unbelieving family and friends. Separate from society. Dito ka lang sa sariling mundo natin. Itakwil ang lahat. 6. PRETEND Forget your true personality. Forget your true face. Magsuot ka ng mask. Be one and uniform with everyone else. Hide your true feelings. Hide your life's realities. You would be punished for being honest or truthful. Hindi nagagalit ang Kristiyano. Ang Kristiyano hindi na nagkakasala, hindi na worldly, wala na dapat earthly desires. Pretend you are holy or you would be condemned. 7. BAWAL! Bawal ang ganitong hairstyle. Bawal magkaron ng GF/BF. Bawal umabsent sa ministry. Bawal magsuot nito at nyan. Bawal ang ganyang tugtog at kanta. Bawal magparty. Bawal ito, iyan,i yun! Basta puro bawal. 8. OBEY! Blind obedience dapat. Basta sumunod ka. Be submissive to authority kahit unreasonable o uninformed ang leader o kahit magdusa ka. (Teka, saan ba talaga galing yung authority nya? Sino ang nagbigay?) 9. DISCIPLINE! Pag lumabag ka sa mga ordinansa, pag nagkasala, lilitisin ka ng isang banal na hukuman ng mga kapwa mo tao, ibubunyag sa lahat ang kasalan mo. Hihingi ka ng tawad sa madla, sa public event. Ipapahiya ka. Tatanggalan ka ng ministry matapos mong maglingkod ng todo. Baka nga itiwalag ka pa. 10. WELCOME! Every week, may welcome na nagaganap sa mga bagong salta. Mga bagong tuturuan. And the whole process repeats all over again. Ang saya saya!

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Masama po ba pumunta sa sementeryo pag araw ng UNDAS pag BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN na?

Q - Masama po ba pumunta sa sementeryo pag araw ng UNDAS pag BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN na?
A -
Eh sa ibang araw, hindi masamang pumunta?
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Jesus says in Acts 1:8 (NIV)
"... be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Walang lugar na morally ay masamang puntahan, especially kung magiging "witness" ka ni Jesus doon, meaning you will share the love and salvation of Jesus.
"The earth is the Lord's and everything in it" kaya puntahan at angkinin natin ang lahat ng lugar in the name of Jesus.
Wala namang masama kung makipag-reunion, makipag-mabutihan at makisalamuha sa mga kamag-anak at mga kaibigan at kababayan / town mates. Basta hindi ka pa-impluwesya sa gawang masama, at mas mabuti kung ikaw pa ang maka-impluwesya sa kanila. Pero paano ka magiging "salt of the earth" kung magkukulong ka lang sa loob ng bote?

Dumaraan po ang buhay ko ngayon sa sobrang dilim na gabi??!!

Q - Dumaraan po ang buhay ko ngayon sa sobrang dilim na gabi??!!
A -
Just survive the dark night.
Ang kasunod ng gabi ay umaga.
Walang forever, lalu na gabi.
Q- Eh di ang kasunod na naman po ng araw ay gabi ulit??
Babalik din?
A -
Siempre naman! Ganun ang buhay: pabalik-balik, paikut-ikot!
ANG MAGANDA, MAKARAMI KA NG CYCLES!
Magpakatibay! Survive! Enjoy life!

Ecclesiastes 1:4-9 (NIV)
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
...
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.