iPhone 3G Hunt

July 11th, iPhone 3G lunches all over the world, including the US. After about one year of using the original iPhone, I decided that I want to upgrade to the latest model, iPhone has been the most amazing phone I ever used, I use it to take notes at meetings, write email, check facebook replys, schedule events, alarm clock, upload photos, and even as a evangelism tool. Its great to be able to have keyword look up for the whole Bible, it totally defeat those "oh I think Bible says this..." moments. What I like it the most is probabley the web browser, it strike a perfect balance to bring a webpage that is designed to be view on a 15" monitor to be viewed perfectly on a 3.5" phone.

Just happens about 6 days before the new model lunch, as I was getting out of my car, I hear thud.... I look down on the groud, there was my old trusty I phone that traveled me to East Texas, Italy, and all over the place in China. I picked it up, the screen had a spider web crack all over the top edge, amazingly it still works, I can still read the screen below the glass. What a timing. I thought.

So on July 11th, as the new iPhone 3G is been lunched all over the world, I hear reports of people camping out before the Apple store in order to get one, those crazy cult of Apple people. So I decided before work, I'll drop by the ATT store at a shady part of town, it sure can't be that hard to get one at ATT store, they have about 100 store all over the city of Houston. Apple only has about 4 store in Houston.

So I showed up there at 7:49.

And to my suprise.... There was a line.... About 30 people....

ATT is letting 6 people in the store a time, while the rest wait... and wait...

So I waitting about 1 hour, then I got in, 16GB Black iPhone 3G is soldout...

Then they didn't give back my driver license, I realized that when I almost to my office in the Woodlands, had to drive back to get it, then a cop pull me over to give me a ticket for not having a front license plate.... sigh... this is not going good. At lunch I went over to the Woodlands mall, to check out the Apple Store, and here is what I saw...

The line stretched half way across the mall...

So I went back to the office, and after work I went back to the mall, finally line had been reduced to where the end of the line, you can actually see the Apple Store...

I got in line, after two hour of wait, at about 7PM. I finally got to the Apple store, this totally feel like the line at the traffic ticket court house.

Finally, here is the new iPhone 3G.

Its has a much faster internet access, has a GPS that can pick up signal with in seconds, wow! Then it can track where I went on google maps. I really like the black back, it made the phone's color scheme look much more uniform then before.

So far so good, but is it worth 4 hour of my PTO/Vacation time? Not sure yet.

All I Can Say

All I Can Say
-David Crodwer Band

Lord I'm tired
So tired from walking
And Lord I'm so alone
And Lord the dark
Is creeping in
Creeping up
To swallow me
I think I'll stop
Rest here a while

And didn't You see me cry'n?
And didn't You hear me call Your name?
Wasn't it You I gave my heart to?
I wish You'd remember
Where you sat it down

Chorus:
And this is all that I can say right now
And this is all that I can give

Bridge:
I didn't notice You were standing here
I didn't know that
That was You holding me
I didn't notice You were cry'n too
I didn't know that
That was You washing my feet

He is Love!

He is Love!
-David Crowder Band

This is the place I've known
Here in the arms of one who loves
Deeper than anyone
His are the hands I've grown to trust

And this is the place I've known
Here in the arms of one who loves
Farther than I could run
His are the hands I've grown to trust
And I believe...

His are the hands that spread the sky
And His is the love that gives me life
And His are the broken, the needy ones
And He is the love

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Wayne Talbert passed away, he and his wife, came to China in 87 thru work, they opened their home to my family, shared Christ with us, and helped my mom to come to America, and thru them my mom, me and later my father all came to know the Lord. 

It is really hard to for me to loose him, I lost my mom in HS and my father is still a new Christian, he means alot to me. This song above have been reminding me who my real Father is.
-Huan

Give me Jesus!

Give me Jesus

In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise, give me Jesus

Give me Jesus,
Give me Jesus,
You can have all this world,
But give me Jesus

When I am alone
When I am alone
When I am alone, give me Jesus

Give me Jesus,
Give me Jesus,
You can have all this world,
But give me Jesus

When I come to die
When I come to die
When I come to die, give me Jesus

Give me Jesus,
Give me Jesus,
You can have all this world,
You can have all this world,
You can have all this world,
But give me Jesus

Better is 1 DAY in Your Court then 1000s else where!

How lovely is
Your dwelling place
Oh Lord Almighty,
For my soul longs
And even faints
For You
Oh, here my heart
Is satisfied (is satisfied)
Within Your presence
I sing beneath
The shadow of
Your wings

Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere
Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere
(Than thousands elsewhere)

One thing I ask,
And I would seek,
To see Your beauty
To find You in
The place Your glory dwells
(One thing I ask)
One thing I ask
And I would seek,
To see Your beauty
To find You in
The place Your glory dwells

Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere
Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere
(Better is one day)
Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere
Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere

(My heart and flesh cry out)
My heart and flesh cry out
For You, the Living God
Your Spirit's water for my soul
I've tasted, and I've seen
Come once again to me
I will draw near to You
I will draw near to You
To You

Better is one day
Better is one day
Better is one day
Than thousands elsewhere
(2x)
Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere
(4X)
Yeah, than thousands elsewhere (Yeah)
Oh, than thousands elsewhere

Bad Dream?

Dreaming

Dreaming, we all have dreams, dreams of one day have a family, one day have a home, one day go work for so and so company... But for us who are believers in Jesus do we dream about God? Do we dream about where God is taking us, how God want to use us, what kind of man or women God want us to mary to bring Glory to Himself? I don’t dream about God like how I used to.

When I was first saved (2003), God given me a very clear dreams about how I can bring glory to Jesus. I remember my pastor Mark Hagen sharing us about George Whitfield, on how he would share open air about the cross of Jesus, without mic in front of thousands, how he would preach multiple times a day, even on his honey moon, he would still share at least once, on the last days of his life, he was so sick after sharing some one had help him to get on his horse, the day he died he still shared the grace of Jesus on the cross. I remember hearing stories of Charles Wesley, how he and his brothers in Christ would rode horses all across America going from towns to towns to share about the Cross of Jesus.

My Dreams

I remember there was an fire burning me up inside, while I was hearing those stories of weak man in the hands of the Great God, I remember pleading to Jesus, “Please use me like that Jesus! Let me just to be burned up for you Jesus!”

I started to have dreams on how God can use me to share the Good News of Jesus on that Cross, I want to work for an oil company that would send me out around the world, to the places people who have never heard or seen the love of Jesus, so I can share and show them the love of Jesus. I want to be married to a women who is just as sold out as me, who will come along side of me, who is everything that I am not, who’s strength is my weakness, and my strength is her weakness, so together we can reach this world for Christ in the way that we can never able by our selves. We would be together in a foreign nation on a mission, we each would build friendship through the love of Jesus with people we meet, we would invite our friends to our home to love them like Jesus, to share life with them, and to share this great God who died on the Cross for the sin of the whole world and to give life and freedom to who those who are enslave to sin. That together me and my wife would go and make disciple of all nations, and share the abound life Jesus has showed us.

The Great Commission
Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." -Matthew 28:16:20

What Happened

Since those days, its been about 4 years (2007), life continued to unravel, time flow by like snap of finger, I graduated from University, God given me an awesome job with an excellent oil company, I got to travel with work but to East Texas, Louisiana and South Texas. I dated girls and tried to date girls, who I thought had fire burning inside for Jesus, some of the relationships worked but I quickly realized they didn’t have that passion and desire to serve Jesus, and those who really seems to have a passion for Jesus nothing seems to worked out. I was teaching bible study on sunday morning with bunch of well off 13 year old kids from suburban Houston. I started to look at my dreams, did I dream them wrong? Was my dream too ambitious, was my dream too crazy, was my dream unrealistic...

The Venable Story

Recently on a trip to Florida to visit my best friend Richard Venable, and his beautiful wife Hannah. Me and Richard was reminiscent the old days in University of Texas, at that little dorm called Simkins, how we dreamed those crazy dreams. He had dream about Marrying Hannah, at that time Hannah told him “No, I never will have romantic feels about you.”, how Richard dreamed working for an video game company to make video games and impact people who make video games for Jesus with a 2.2 GPA.

How I dreamed to work for an well respected international oil company to be send out all around the world to share Jesus, with a 2.7 GPA. How absurd, how crazy, how ambitious, how unrealistic was our dreams!?!? And now (2007), after two year of rejection Richard and Hannah is married, how despite of his low grades Richard is working for EA the world largest video game company, his name is already in the credits of Madden 2006, 2007, and now he and his wife Hannah is hosting a weekly fellowship time at their home on sunday nights. How absurd, How crazy, How ambitious, How unrealistic is our God!

God’s Dreams Will Not DIE!

After that trip visiting the Venables in Florida, I started to careful examine my dreams once again, I see that yes my company has not send me all around this earth, but they are providing me a generous salary, a generous vacation schedule so I can go to place like China, Cuba, and Italy to share the gospel of Jesus this past two years without the need to raise support, I just pray and God told me to go, I pick up my bags and I went, I see how God used me to bring honor, glory and praise to Jesus, how God used me to change peoples life, to love them with the love Jesus has shown me! I realized God wasn’t slow, He was fulfilling my dreams about Him already.

I realized my dream to have a Godly wife to be my helper in doing God’s work is not absurd, in fact that is the promise God promised to the first man Adam.

The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." - Gen 2:15-18

I can not settle for anything less.

A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all. Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.- Proverb 31: 10-11, 29-30

Even thru nothing have seems to worked out yet, but I can not give up, I can not give up dreaming about God, I can not give up dreaming about serving God together with a Godly women, a wife of nobel character! There is nothing wrong with desiring that type of women, I am suppose to be attracted to that type of women, who will be my helper doing the work God has laid out for me as He promised Adam. I will not give up dreaming dreams about bring honor, glory and praise to my Savior Jesus who died on that Cross for me to give me a new life!

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. Psalm 27:13-14

I will stand for you Jesus!

The Stand
Hillsong United

You stood before creation
Forever within Your hand
You spoke all life into motion
My soul now to stand

You stood before my failure
And carried the cross for my shame
My sin weighed upon Your shoulders
My soul now to stand

So what can I say
And what could I do
But offer this heart O God
Completely to You

So I’ll walk upon salvation
Your Spirit alive in me
This life to declare Your promise
My soul now to stand

So I’ll stand
With arms high and heart abandoned
In awe of the One who gave it all
I’ll stand
My soul Lord to You surrendered
All I am is Yours

How Deep The Father's Love For Us

How deep the Father's love for us,
How vast beyond all measure
That He should give His only Son
To make a wretch His treasure

How great the pain of searing loss,
The Father turns His face away
As wounds which mar the chosen One,
Bring many sons to glory

Behold the Man upon a cross,
My sin upon His shoulders
Ashamed I hear my mocing voice,
Call out among the scoffers

It was my sin that helf Him there
Until it was accomplished
His dying breath has brought me life
I knoww that it is finished

I will not boast in anything
No gifts, no power, no wisdom
But I will boast inJesus Christ
His death and resurrection

Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart
His wounds have paid my ransom
(REPEAT)

Worlds Apart

Havana Cuba, July 2007

Worlds Apart
Band: Jars Of Clay

I am the only one to blame for this
Somehow it all ends up the same
Soaring on the wings of selfish pride
I flew too high and like Icarus I collide
With a world I try so hard to leave behind
To rid myself of all but love
To give and die

To turn away and not become
Another nail to pierce the skin of one who loved
More deeply than the oceans,
More abundant than the tears
Of a world embracing every heartache

Can I be the one to sacrifice?
Oh, grip the spear and watch the blood and the water flow

(To love You)
Take my world apart
(To need You)
I am on my knees
(To love You)
Take my world apart
(To need You)
Broken on my knees

All said and done I stand alone
Amongst remains of a life I should not own
It takes all I am to believe
In the mercy that covers me

Did you really have to die for me?
All I am for all you are
'Cause what I need and what I believe are worlds apart

And I pray
(To love You)
Take my world apart
(To need You)
I am on my knees
(To love You)
Take my world apart
(To need You)
Broken on my knees
On my knees
(Bridge)

I look beyond the empty cross
Forgetting what my life has cost
And wipe away the crimson stains
And dull the nail that still remains
More and more I need you now,
I owe you more each passing hour
Battle between grace and pride
I gave up not so long ago
So steal my heart and take the pain,
And wash my feet and cleanse my pride
Take the selfish, take the weak,
And all the things I cannot hide
Take the beauty, take my tears
My sin-soaked heart - make it yours
Take my world all apart,
Take it now, take it now
And serve the ones that I despise
Speak the words I can't deny
Watch the world I used to love
Fall to dust and blow away
I look beyond the empty cross
Forgetting what my life has cost
And wipe away the crimson stains
And dull the nail that still remains
Steal my heart and take the pain
Take the selfish, take the weak
And all the things I cannot hide
Take the beauty, take my tears
Take my world apart
Take my world apart
And I pray, and I pray, and I pray
Take my world apart
Worlds apart

Make Me OK

Make Me OK
by: One Hundred Hours

When I'm with You, I can't pretend
If this is the valley, then where is the end?
Is there still a chance that I have a prayer?
Something inside me knows You're there

What will You do, what will You say?
How will You make me okay?
I just don't know, I cannot see
Help me trust in Your great love for me

If You're at my door, and You hold the key
Please put back together these pieces of me
For I am so blind, but I want to see
My faith is so tired, but I want to believe

What will You do, what will You say?
How will You make me okay?
I just don't know, I cannot see
Help me trust in Your great love for me

Help me trust in Your great love for me...

Everything Glorious

Everthing Glorious
-David Crowder Band

The day is brighter here with You
The night is lighter than it's hue
Would lead me to believe
Which leads me to believe

(chorus)
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
And I am Yours
What does that make me?

My eyes are small but they have seen
the beauty of enormous things
Which leads me to believe
there's light enough to see that

(chorus)
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
And I am Yours

From glory to glory
You are glorious You are glorious
From glory to glory
You are glorious. You are glorious
Which leads me to believe
why I can believe that


You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
And I am Yours
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
And I am Yours

From glory to glory From glory to glory
You are glorious. You are glorious.
You are glorious. You are glorious.

You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
And I am Yours

Seeking First

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
-Matthew 6:33-34

By: Oswald Chambers

As soon as you begin to live the life of faith in God, fascinating and luxurious prospects will open up before you, and these things are yours by right; but if you are living the life of faith you will exercise your right to waive your rights, and let God choose for you. God sometimes allows you to get into a place of testing where your own welfare would be the right and proper thing to consider if you were not living a life of faith; but if you are, you will joyfully waive your right and leave God to choose for you. This is the discipline by means of which the natural is transformed into the spiritual by obedience to the voice of God.

Whenever right is made the guidance in the life, it will blunt the spiritual insight. The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best. It would seem the wisest thing in the world for Abraham to choose, it was his right, and the people around would consider him a fool for not choosing. Many of us do not go on spiritually because we prefer to choose what is right instead of relying on God to choose for us. We have to learn to walk according to the standard which has its eye on God. Walk before Me. ''

Impact of Christian Life

The shootings in Virginia Tech early in the week, 33 student dead, really made me stop and think. I stopped and start to listen what does God want to speak to me through this horrible event.

The first thing come to my mind is: how can some one do something like that. The gun man was Asian that really grabbed attention, I am Asian, and I went to school here in the US, I started to wonder, how can some one like me do something so terrible. To me it seems like his heart is full of hatred and rage, that completely overwhelmed any bit of humanity in him. How can someone's heart be so full of hatred and anger, it has must been eaten up slowly by something or event until there is nothing good left at all.

As I dig more, I found few words from his letter to NBC that give me chill down my spine.

"You pick out the Weak and the Defenseless and turbo-(expletive deleted) us for your own pleasure and put on faces of devout Christians in front of your parents and strangers," it read. "You drink your vodka, share needles and go on your escapades on Saturday night and go to church on Sunday morning." He added: "You have to search high and low for the Weak and the Defenseless to taunt and terrorize on Monday."

His family are Christians go to church regularly and I am sure he has meet plenty of Christians. What did he see of the Christians, hypocrite, that is what he seems to say. In fact what he seems to say is that he saw no difference between Christians and the people of the world, not only so, but he seems to say that Christians were worse then the people of the world, they were the ones seems to hurt him the most. But mostly importantly is this how it should be?

Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
-Matthew 5:15-16

Is the Cho's words, the word of praise for God because our good lives? No, in fact it is the hypocrisy of the Christians he saw over the years that eaten him up from the inside. So what does bible say about the hypocrites?

23"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
25"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
27"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. 28In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
-Matthew 23:23-27

Oh, I only wish that if those Christian Cho meet were truly living for God, not only with their mouth but with action and deeds, radiating with Christ love, maybe, just maybe this week at Virginia Tech it could have been another week in April before the finals. How we live our life not only have external impact on our life, but also others as well.

The fact of this week is that, 33 people is dead, and there are extra people screaming and burning in hell for the rest of the eternity as we speak.

14What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? 15Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. 16If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? 17In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

"But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds." Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do. You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.
-James 2:14-19

All because

All because
-Tree63

I want to set the story straight. It's time to tell the truth
I never could have come so far. If it were not for You

You covered up my sin. You covered up my silence
You covered up my shame. You made me new again

It's all because of You...

They tell me to abandon You. To make my dreams come true
So what am I supposed to do? I only dream of You

You covered up my sin. You covered up my silence
You covered up my shame. I am new again

How Did I Sleep?

How Did I Sleep?
-by TREE63

With eyes so blind
How did I see a single thing?
I missed the scenery
Change in front of me

And as for these hands
Well they've got a lot to answer for
They built me a house of sand
On someone else's land

Deep down I knew I was lost
But I kept my fingers crossed
As if that would somehow rescue me

How did I sleep?
How did I sleep?
How did I sleep without You?
Without You

Tired all the time
But there is no rest for the wicked
Under the covers I pretended not to cry

And there You were:
Magnified by the tears
Reaching Your hands to me
Waiting patiently

I never dared to dream
Of the morning my eyes have seen
Awake for the first time: rise and shine

How did I ever try?
How did I sleep?

Rise and Shine; awake for the first time

Song of my heart

Thank You for Healing Me
by - Matt Redman

The disease of my soul was spreading,
Eating me up on the inside,
Keeping my heart from your new life.
And i see now where I was headed
For there is no cure that can save us,
Outside of Your mercy Lord Jesus.

Yes, You stepped in with Your power to save,
Let forgiveness reign,
Worked a miracle within.

Thank you for healing me;
I was dying beneath my shame
But You brought me to life again, and I will sing:
Thank you for freeing me
I was dead to the truth of You,
But my healing was in Your wounds, and now I sing:
Thank you for healing me.

Though outwardly I may waste away,
On the inside I´ll be more alive every day.
As I walk through times of pain and grief
There´s a deeper truth inside of me...
You have placed Your life inside of me.

I´m alive, I´m alive.
I´m alive, I´m alive in You.
Thankyou for healing me.


Bible reference: Matthew 3:15, Mark 2:17, Isaiah 53:5, 1 Peter 2:2

Sacrifice

Sacrifice by TREE63

Before your people worshipped you
You said that something had to die
And as they brought their sacrifice you heard their cries

Before your children could come home
You said that something had to die
And as you brought your sacrifice we heard you cry

You know what it's like to give it up
You know how how it feels to let it go
You know what it's like to take it forget it forsake it
To raise your head and cry

It's all for you (Father) It's all for you
I live for you (Father) I die for you

I know that you can hear my voice
Because your servant paid the price
But there is silence in my mouth and I can't cry

So as I come to worship you
I know that something has to die
And as I bring my sacrifice just let it die

You know what it's like against your skin
You know how it feels beneath your hands
You know how it is to carry so rough and heavy
And underneath to cry...

Old Times

Just like Old Times.

Good friends.

We are not part of the clan.

China

Anadarko is keeping China!

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