Satan has two ways to destroy your faith

Satan has two ways to destroy your faith.
1. Pain
2. Pleasure

He can kill you either way, Satan can make you so painful you curse Him or so pleasurable you forget Him.

I think pleasure kills more people in this world way more than pain.

Have you ever heard anybody say I got to know Jesus more deeply in the bright sunny days than I did in any other day? You never heard anybody say that. What you hear everyday of your life almost is when the light went out in my life I found Jesus. When things go hard in my life Jesus showed up.

J. Piper

Did you receive Christ as being useful or being precious?

For some of people Jesus is very useful. Accept Jesus and you will be blessed with career, family, kids, money, everything...as long as I can meet my old desires, I will accept Jesus. I think people who believe they are "Christian" but keep thinking the purpose of Jesus died on the cross so I can make much of me in this world and to be saved from eternal suffering, they are more egoist than people who go to "Gunung Kawi" looking for wealth and prosperity, because they want both. They want to be wealth and making much of them but still being saved from Eternal Suffering too. Oh, how we've been blinded with so called "prosperity gospel", that is not a gospel. Gospel is not about how much money you can earn so you can bless people, nope - the more we are being blessed with money the more we will have to struggle on how to use them fearfully before God, so we make much of Christ not us.

Did you receive Christ as being useful or being precious?

Make money. Get stuff. Be comfortable. Live well. Have fun.

"You and I have an average of about seventy or eighty years on this earth. During this years we are bombarded with the temporary. Make money. Get stuff. Be comfortable. Live well. Have fun. In the middle of all of it, we get blinded to the eternal. But it's there.

You and I stand on the porch of eternity. Both of us will soon stand before God to give an account for our stewardship of the time, the gifts, and ultimately the gospel he has entrusted to us. When that day comes, I am convinced we will not wish we had given more of ourselves to the American dream. We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirements, or been successful in the eyes of the world. Instead we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship..."

David Platt

So you think you can bake: Finalist

Lucinda - Black Forest Cake

Alice - Croquembouche

Fiona - Frangipane Tart

Anton - Sticky Date Pudding with Butterscotch Sauce & Almond Praline

Jasmina - Pumpkin Brandy Mousse Cake with Maple Whipped Cream Topping

Karina - Gateau Opera

Jen - Lemon Curd Layer Cake with Fresh Passionfruit

Vijay - Chocolate Delice with Salted Caramel

Why I still keep soaking in the old lifestyle?‏

When there is no connection between new life and new life-style, as if life is one thing but life-style is totally different thing, I will be asking this question in my heart: If I really had been born again, why I still keep soaking in the old life-style?

Hidup yang Baru

Satu orang pernah bertanya kepada saya, jika saya percaya kepada Kristus apakah saya harus mengubah cara hidup saya, apakah saya masih bisa hidup dengan cara tetapi tetap percaya kepada Kristus. Hmm...pertanyaan yang harus ditanyakan adalah "Apakah kalau kita benar-benar percaya kepada Kristus kita masih dapat hidup dengan cara yang lama" ~ tentu hal ini bertentangan satu sama lain, kecenderungan manusia adalah ingin lepas dari penderitaan abadi dan ingin tetap menikmati dunia serta kegemerlapannya.

Justru ketika kita percaya kepada Kristus akan ada perubahan di dalam cara kita berpikir, cara kita hidup namun bukan untuk kemuliaan kita, tapi semata-mata untuk kemuliaan Tuhan diberitakan di seluruh bangsa.

My Cake entered "So You Think You can Bake" Competition

Sticky Date Pudding with Butterscotch and Almond Praline, soon I'm gonna quit my job and open my own cake shop :)

Mengapa kita menghakimi?

Pertanyaan yang saya tanyakan di dalam diri saya? Mengapa saya gampang sekali untuk menghakimi orang? Setelah saya merenungkannya, kita seringkali masuk ke dalam jerat pembenaran diri sendiri, seolah-olah ada bagian-bagian tertentu di dalam hidup kita yang tidak membutuhkan anugrah Tuhan. Seolah-olah tanpa Tuhan pun kita bisa merubah hal tersebut. Tidak sepenuhnya kita percaya bahwa kita diselamatkan hanya oleh kasih karunia saja. Untuk itulah timbul perbandingan bahwa kita lebih bisa melakukan hal tersebut, kita menjadi lebih superior dibandingkan oleh orang lain, jika memang benar-benar hidup di dalam anugrah maka kita harus percaya bahwa tidak ada satupun di dalam hidup kita ini yang dapat berkenan selain di dalam Kristus.

Orang-orang yang sangat mudah menghakimi (saya juga masih sering), karena di dalam proses 'sanctification', karena kita seringkali masuk dalam jebakan bahwa kita tidak sepenuhnya diselamatkan oleh kasih karunia saja.

Jesus letting the big fish get away‏

Consider Mark 10, another time a
potential follower showed up. Here was a guy who was young,
rich, intelligent, and influential. He was a prime prospect, to say
the least. Not only that, but he was eager and ready to go. He
came running up to Jesus, bowed at his feet, and said, “What must
I do to inherit eternal life?”

If we were in Jesus’ shoes, we probably would be thinking this
is our chance. A simple “Pray this prayer, sign this card, bow your
head, and repeat after me,” and this guy is in. Then think about
what a guy like this with all his influence and prestige can do.We
can get him on the circuit. He can start sharing his testimony,
signing books, raising money for the cause. This one is a nobrainer—
we have to get him in.

Unfortunately, Jesus didn’t have the personal evangelism
books we have today that tell us how to draw the net and close the
sale. Instead Jesus told him one thing: “Go, sell everything you
have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
Then come, follow me.”

What was he thinking? Jesus had committed the classic blunder
of letting the big fish get away. The cost was too high.

Taking Back your faith from the American Dream - David Platt

Sticky Date Pudding

I made this cake, first time ever in my entire life.