This Week’s Picks: Last week of class & birthday week


YES– We made it to the end of a semester of classes and another year of life (SUCH a blessing).
So, in honor of this special week, here are my top picks 😉

1] Song of the week: 22, very appropriate

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3] MARIA PAULA ROMO
I had the privilege of meeting this incredible congress woman/lawyer from Ecuador.

She is intelligent and so incredibly sweet. I was completely inspired.

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“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

Mixing error with truth

By: Gabriela Yareliz

People mixing truth with error is in style these days, and it has its roots from bad leadership from centuries before. People basing interpretation of religion and scripture based on feeling, opinion, convenience and tradition. Very few people have a Biblical basis of why it is they believe certain things. And much of Christianity today would be shocked to see many teachings are erroneous and are simply continuations of old church theology used to scare and manipulate people. However, the Bible warns against this, telling us to measure everything against scripture.

If only Christians would study what they claim to follow.

“There will be false dreams and false visions, which have some truth, but lead away from the original faith. The Lord has given men a rule by which to detect them:

“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” (Isaiah 8:20).

If they belittle the law of God, if they pay no heed to His will as revealed in the testimonies of His Spirit, they are deceivers. They are controlled by impulse and impressions, which they believe to be from the Holy Spirit, and consider more reliable than the Inspired Word. They claim that every thought and feeling is an impression of the Spirit; and when they are reasoned out of the scriptures, they declare that they have something more reliable. But while they think that they are led by the Spirit of God, they are in reality following an imagination wrought upon by Satan.” Selected Messages, book 2, pp.98, 99, Ellen G. White

“For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show you great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.” Matthew 24:24

“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” Psalm 119:105

This Week’s Picks: April 21, 2013

Hello dear friends,
Our hearts go out to the victims of the Boston tragedy. We also remember those who were in the accident explosion in Texas. May God give these families and the families who are victims of tragedies around the world comfort and peace.

I hope this week is a celebration of life. A week of peace. A week of courage; that we may keep pressing forward, no matter what. I was so impressed by the runners who completed the marathon and kept running two more miles to donate blood. No matter what the tragedy and our wickedness, we can still see God’s goodness in humanity.

1] Happy Earth Day! -April 22, 2013

“The world in which we live is a gift of love from the Creator God, from ‘Him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the springs of water’ (Revelation 14:7; 11:17, 18).Within this creation He placed humans, set intentionally in relationship with Himself, other persons, and the surrounding world. Therefore, as [Christians], we hold its preservation and nurture to be intimately related to our service to Him.” Adapted from statement on the environment, Seventh-day Adventists Executive Committee at the Annual Council session in Silver Spring, Maryland, October 12, 1992.

2] Video of the week: Without You-David Guetta for the United Nations

Help share the story.

3] True Friendship

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Lovely. Deepika is stunning.