Heres something that i have read recently

I thought this was a really well written post from http://fcov.blogspot.com/, so much that I will post it here:

Satan's Meeting
Satan called a worldwide convention of demons.
In his opening address he said, "We can't keep Christians from going to church."
"We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth."
"We can't even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their saviour."
"Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken."
"So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish dinners, BUT steal their time, so they don't have time to develop a relationship with Jesus Christ.."
"This is what I want you to do," said the devil: "Distract them from gaining hold of their Saviour and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!"
"How shall we do this?" his demons shouted.
"Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds," he answered.
"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow."
"Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles."
"Keep them from spending time with their children."
"As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work!" "Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice"Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive." To keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music constantly."
"This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ."
"Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers."
"Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day."
"Invade their driving moments with billboards."
"Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services and false hopes.."
"Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their husbands will believe that outward beauty is what's important, and they'll become dissatisfied with their wives. "
"Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night."
"Give them headaches too! "
"If they don't give their husbands the love they need, they will begin to look elsewhere."
"That will fragment their families quickly!"
"Give them Santa Claus to distract them from teaching their children the real meaning of Christmas."
"Give them an Easter bunny so they won't talk about his resurrection and power over sin and death."
"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive."
"Have them return from their recreation exhausted."
"Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God's creation. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies instead."
"Keep them busy, busy, busy!" "And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences."
"Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Jesus." "Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause." "It will work!" "It will work!"
It was quite a plan! The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busier and more rushed, going here and there. Having little time for their God or their families. Having no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives. I guess the question is, has the devil been successful in his schemes?

Does "BUSY" mean: B-eing U-nder S-atan's Y-oke?

These are my thoughts for today...

Well… yesterday was the end of a long, but wonderful weekend. You see, at our school we had a youth conference, a revival retreat if you will. The theme was missions, specially “hard to ignore”. What is hard to ignore in the world today? You might ask.. Well, one of the things is poverty or destitution. There is so much food that the world provides, it is a wonder why people starve at all. And the answer is the way that people distribute food is flawed, more than a billion people are lacking basic necessities, while the ones that are wealthy, develop health problems due to the amount of nutrition that is in western food these days. It is true that a lot of these poverty people are unable to find a job especially people who are in third world nations, but here in Canada, with the state-of-the-art tech, its health care and welfare system you would think that we would be able to eliminate beggars, but that’s not the case. Therefore, I have determined that most beggars here beg not because they lack money but because they lack hope. Hope for a better future, hope that can change their lives.

What is hope?
One of Webster’s definitions of hope is “to expect with confidence” As Christians, we have hope because we know that Jesus is gonna come back, and that God will triumph over the Enemy. Non-Christians don’t know where to put their hope in, so they put it on material things like computers, cars or work/school or relationships bf/gf/wife/husband, friends whatever. And because the world is not perfect, people get frustrated when the hope that they place on these earthy things break. Hope is important and to know where to put hope is imperative.

What do you think?

umm.....for the class????

Last class we were discussing movies & the fine arts and how you could use them as a tool for sharing the Good News. I remember our prof us that if we have any poetry, we should put them on the blog. After looking at the poems that I have on poetry.com, it occurred to me that I did not have poems that were written to God or about Xianity in general, nor were they about culture. So I have decided not to post my poems here, but if you goto poetry.com and search for Wilbert Yee, you will find them there.


BUT after lots of searching though the archives I found one so here it is:
Fly with Me
Day by day
Like a sight that I will remember,
You amaze me
Though the world
Will fade away
I know that
Your love will stay
Soar with me
As I rise to you
And I will never
Fully understand You
But I know that
You are my God, my Friend, my Saviour
And I know that
Whatever the problem is
You are in control

lets make a movie!!

As requested by our prof,, we have to post our ideas for a movie based on the theme of “to be in the world, but not of the world” so here is a rough and incomplete plot outline of my movie entitled Alan Li

Alan Li is about a young atheist billionaire and his encounters with non-Christians and Christians, both conservative and liberal. Everyday Alan struggles with the question that all people at one point or another think about and is “what is the meaning of life? Why am I here?” Alan interacts with fellow seekers trying to find answers. Along the way, he encounters Xians, some who avoid the culture influences while others embrace it openly to the point where they have no distinction between other religious or atheist people. Since Alan cannot fully answer his own questions, he drowns out the curiosity by making money, attaining fame, and chasing women.
Alan has a bitter history, he is emotionally hurt partially because of his strict upbringing by foster parents (his own were killed in a car accident when he was 3). The main reason why he is bitter is the lost of his beloved fiancée, who was killed on September 11 2001. All his friends tried and failed to comfort him and to this day he has not fully recovered from that lost. Many of his Christian acquaintances also tried to comfort him, but instead of making him feel better, they indirectly made him bitterer towards God for losing her. He has a younger sister who is a Xian and attending a local Bible College. Eventually, this brings Alan to the college, and he finds himself interacting more with theologians, Biblical scholars, pastors, missionaries and Christian workers. He sees Xians who are dedicated to the work of God, and he also see those who do almost nothing except partying and playing video games. He still hasn’t found what he is looking for, someone to comfort him, someone to love him.

To be continued….

I am not someone who likes “Hollywood endings” (sudden happy endings), for this story it would mean that Alan becomes a Xian. I don’t think it would do Mr. Li justice if he suddenly became a Xian, rather I think an appropriate climax to this story would be that he kills himself out of despair and the end would be everyone trying to figure out just what happened.

The other part of this assignment was to think of who would play the part of Alan. Frankly I don’t know many Asians that would be suitable for this kind of character who is dark and bitter and isn’t a martial artist, so I looked at all the current celebrities and decided that maybe Russell Crowe, Adrian Brody or Christian Bale (Russ and Adrian would research the part very thoroughly and Christian would have the right emotions quite easily ) Next, Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep (STRICT foster parents, the mother would be a reminiscence of the mom from the Manchurian Candidate) , Natalie Portman, Keira Knightly(sweet gf here, happy with life, happy with Alan) and finally the sister could be Lindsay Lohan, Mandy Moore or Hilary Duff. (We’re going for the bratty spoiled baby sister here) Young Alan(there is flashback) could be played by Hayden Christensen or some young 14-18 year old kid.

Feel free to comment, suggestion or ask questions

A collection of random thoughts

ok,, i'll start off with a question,,, did anyone watch the oscars last night? and if so did any of you expected Crash to win best pic instead of Brokeback??

so,, here i am thinking about the media, mostly the impact that Hollywood has affected society, not just USA, but other countries including Canada. Do u think that the movie industry follows what the social and culture norms are? or do you think that it is the driving force behind our culture? To me, its a little of both actually, the media has a powerful influence that reminds people of what the society is like and what society ought to be like. What do you guys think???

Should Xians put being in the arts, being in the media as a piority because to a certian degree, media does influence people, should we try then to speak up on Xianity? How you might ask? Write to the local newspaper...put up more blogs like this...and the list goes on. Would that be benificial or not to the society? What do you guys think???