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'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus

’Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, Just to take Him at His Word; Just to rest upon His promise, And to know, “Thus saith the Lord!” Refrain: Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him! How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er; Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus! Oh, for grace to trust Him more! Oh, how sweet to trust in Jesus, Just to trust His cleansing blood; And in simple faith to plunge me ’Neath the...

Feb 20th

A Little Longer - Jenn Johnson

Feb 20th

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When words fail

It’s been a tough week with a lot of stress from school and life, more so than usual. I find it easy to get lost in the downward spiral of hopelessness and trying to struggle my way up and out with my own means. After a while, I got to a place of worrying about not having enough money or food in the near future and I came to a point where I began to put things in perspective. The thought...

Feb 4th

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Smokes and Mirrors

In my class today, the professor was telling us how her daughter wanted a $600 prom dress because her friends said they were getting $600-800 dresses. The professor obviously was not going to drop that much on a prom dress, the most she would give her daughter was $300. That’s still quite a bit of money in my opinion. Anyway, it just made me think how people can feel significantly better...

Jan 25th

“Being myself is enough.”

Dec 30th

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Warning: Nerd Post II

After my first post about overclocking my new computer, I spent some more time testing the system. This time I was interested in seeing the relationship between the increase in CPU frequency and the needed increase of core voltage on the CPU. The new Sandy Bridge Intel processors have made overclocking ridiculously easy. Overclocking is basically increasing the speed of the CPU in performing...

Dec 21st

Patricia King and her Decree book →

A really good video on the power of making decrees that align with scripture. If you are looking for something to do during break, get this book and start decreeing things outloud. It’ll change your life.

Dec 17th

Warning: Nerd Post

This week, I am on winter break and came back to the Bay Area and upgraded my desktop computer. It had been pooping out on me and there were some incredible deals that were just too tempting. Currently, the build is a MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) motherboard, Intel Core i5 2500K processor, Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+, and 8GB of G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 RAM. I don’t normally overclock my computer...

Dec 15th

u-o asked: Why do you tumblr?

Nov 20th

Light has no plan.

Imagine if light needed to have a plan in order to shine. Light is supposed to just shine. I think I’ve been considering the topic of what I want to do with my life more since I’ll be graduating in spring. I realize I have held many paradigms that have limited myself. What does it mean to burn for Jesus? I think growing up in church culture, I have accepted that to be spiritual is to...

Nov 19th

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Truth

I am awesome.

Nov 10th

I am not forgotten

15 “Never! Can a mother forget her nursing child? Can she feel no love for the child she has borne? But even if that were possible, I would not forget you! 16 See, I have written your name on the palms of my hands. -Isaiah 49:15-16a One of the roots of orphan mentality is the fear of being forgotten. It causes one to constantly search for assurance that he is remembered and is...

Nov 8th

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Pondering

What does it mean to be broken? I think it means to be poor in spirit, but to have everything. To be completely satisfied, but yet desperately hungry. To be broken means that I can allow myself to feel and be a person. It is to allow myself to not have everything together or figured out, but trust that Jesus holds it all together.. as a beautiful masterpiece. I begin to discover another paradox;...

Oct 23rd

Me

I feel like I’m in a season where I can’t help but just cry when I think about Jesus, but then I can’t decide whether I really want to laugh instead. I don’t ever want to leave this place. He’s just too good. I feel like I know Him, but then He just reveals more goodness. He can’t stop, so I can’t stop.

Oct 9th

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My declarations.

I am important. I am significant. I don’t have to keep my shit together so that everyone else can keep their shit together. When Jesus made me, He put a part of Himself into me. When I allow myself to be myself, I am allowing the world to experience the unique glory of Jesus that I carry in who I am. I am not alone, I am never alone, and I have never been alone. I am not loved for what I do....

Oct 7th

Aug 18th

Just a thought.

And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. (Ephesians 1:22-23) If God put all things under Jesus Christ’s feet and the church is His body, wouldn’t that mean all things have been put under the church? Anything below Christ’s feet is below Christ’s body.

Jul 11th

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Tijuana highlights [part ii]

When we heard a shriek from the middle of the healing room, I looked at Pauline who had the same thought and I walked over to check out the situation. There was a young boy (I found out later that he was 7 years old) being held in his mother’s arms manifesting demons. Not only was he screaming at the top of his lungs, his eyes rolled up and started flitting rapidly with drool coming out of...

Jun 21st

Tijuana highlights [part i]

There was so much that happened while I was on the missions trip in Tijuana the past week. I’ll try to share bits at a time to keep posts short. I think one of the top highlights of the trip was Saturday night. I was downstairs serving in the healing rooms while the service was going on upstairs in the main sanctuary. I chose healing rooms because I wanted to just serve the needs of people...

Jun 21st

Encounter

Sometimes it’s so easy to forget that meeting Jesus is all there is to it. It’s easy to get into the swing of doing things, but it doesn’t mean a thing if it doesn’t lead to an encounter with Him. It took a whole year for it to hit home so hard. It’s not to invalidate anything, but leading a biosphere felt like flying around up in the air not knowing where we were...

Jun 4th

Warning: might be graphic if you try to visualize.

I had an ironic moment yesterday at simple church. It had been a long week and an eventful weekend of chilling with some cool cats from Oregon. I was just the typical college student getting work done and milking the maximum fun out of every late night and weekend. After a Saturday night of scarfing down carne asada fries, a Thrifty ice cream cone, and mango pudding, I woke up Sunday morning not...

May 24th

sungod 2011

I haven’t written here in a while, and I suddenly felt like writing about something. I think that it’d be nice to share some testimonies from sungod festival this year. Sungod festival is an event once a year at UCSD that showcases a bunch of music artists and encourages excessive party behavior and substance abuse. This was the second year that Origins had a student org booth at...

May 16th

Worship history

I watched the Be Lifted High DVD the other day, and I was just letting my mind wander this morning. I began reflecting on the history behind the songs we sing. There’s a story, a moment, that is captured in the words that we know so well. Do you know the story behind “Amazing Grace,” “Heart of Worship,” “It is Well with My Soul,” and many other songs? I...

Mar 28th

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Ballin'

I feel that I am very rich. Though I am completely broke money-wise for the time being, life is good.. God is so good. Last night, as I was taking the shuttle home, I was reflecting on the school year so far. Spiritual family has been nuts. “Family” is a word that can be thrown around very loosely, sometimes as a cool Christian catchphrase. But when the crap hits the fan, you better be...

Mar 10th

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Random thought

I am worth it.

Feb 27th

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Cool clip of Jake Hamilton redeeming the song...

Jan 31st

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“Truth is not convenient. Truth is not...

Jan 31st

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Mmmm

Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art. Thou my best thought, by day or by night, Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light. Be Thou my Wisdom, Thou my true Word; I ever with Thee, Thou with me, Lord; Thou my great Father, I thy true son; Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one. Be Thou my battle-shield, sword for my fight, Be Thou my dignity, Thou...

Jan 15th

Family

My family is pretty awesome. It’s such a blessing to have a big loving family of aunts, uncles and cousins that get along perfectly fine. The quirky things that we do is just hilarious. Last year, we had nativity scene roles drawn from paper in a hat. It was a riot, I think my mom was a sheep and random relatives had bathrobes on with towels wrapped around their heads, etc. Haha this year,...

Dec 24th

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The Chronicles

Before that Harry Potter and Twilight crap, there was The Chronicles of Narnia. I’ve probably read them two or three times each at least. After many years since picking them up, I’m really enjoying them again. It’s not just Narnia that is captivating, but it’s Aslan. As Lucy puts it when she discovers she and Edmund can’t return to Narnia anymore because they’re...

Dec 22nd

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unTangled

Sometimes you think you know something really well, but then you see it in 3D and it suddenly jumps out at you. I watched Tangled in 3D tonight with some friends and it was an okay movie, but I’ll say it was pretty good because I was treated to a practically free movie. What struck me halfway through the movie was how I could relate to Rapunzel. Yeah, I’m a beautiful princess with...

Dec 22nd

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Birth

Out of barrenness comes great destiny. In the Bible, barren women give birth to world changers of their day. Sarah bore Isaac, Rachel bore Joseph, Manoah’s wife bore Samson, Hannah bore Samuel, Elizabeth bore John the Baptist, etc. Why does God like to do things like this? I believe that in the state of barrenness, there is brokenness, desperation and utter dependency on God. That is when it...

Dec 12th

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Hello there.

I was sucking on a dumdum lollipop today and it got me thinking about many things. When something is rare and unique, the greater its value. For example, in a giant bag of dumdums, there’s only one or two mango flavored dumdums. I remember the day when I found the last mango dumdum and got to eat it while Becca watched sadly. A few days ago, Becca was given two boxes of 120 dumdums, ALL...

Dec 11th

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“With all thy getting, get unction.”

– -Leonard Ravenhill So I’m going to stop writing tumblr posts for a short (or long) while. I’ll still hang around tumblr, but I just won’t be posting on this blog until something happens.. not sure what but yeah.

Aug 13th

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What if..

You know those quotes and sound bites about how great moves of God began with a handful of people? Just a handful of people wholly dedicated and obedient to God birthed a giant revival or something. Well, I wonder.. what if a generation was sold out to Jesus? I don’t think God’s end goal is for just a few people to get radical and start something. History is full of remnants, but the...

Aug 9th

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Watch

Short clip of Keith Green ministering. He died 28 years ago on July 28th at the age of 28. I read his biography earlier this summer and it was convicting and stirring. The thing is, Keith wasn’t perfect, but he was constantly maturing under the wings of spiritual fathers and mothers. He didn’t have it all together, he was just raw and sold out for God. You know, there is so much...

Aug 7th

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A smile and a laugh

I am glad that I was not where I was before, that I am moving forward.. going further in and further up! The past few days, few weeks.. have been good in the sense of a growing revelation of God’s grace, love, and mercy. There’s getting saved, and then there’s growing into what that means. It’s like I once understood salvation and God at one level, but then I woke up one...

Aug 6th

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Another thought.

As people, we want to believe so much that we have some semblance of control. We learn all these theories and laws in school that are supposed to govern the way things work in this world. We just want to believe that there is an absolute reality in everything. But I pose a question. What if God decided to change the laws of nature? Wouldn’t that change our reality and understanding of...

Aug 1st

用這個網站寫一點東西

你好網上的人！好久不見吧？ Haha ok, I shall stop typing in Chinese. It’s already been 5 weeks of Chinese class Monday through Friday from 5:30-9:30pm. That’s 20 hours of Chinese a week. In addition, I’ve been taking an MAE class along with working about 15 hrs a week at the UCSD pool. Despite all that, life’s been alright. Summer is always a weird season spiritually. After an...

Jul 31st

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Truth is a person.

What is truth? We as Christians.. no, we as people like to believe that there is a black and white to everything. It almost feels heretical to say that there is much gray in reality because it sounds so relativist. However, things are relative and not absolute. Why? It is because Truth is relative, it is relative to a Person. Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” ...

Jul 31st

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Phil Wickham - Eden I want to see You face to ...

Jul 13th

Rejection

[00:15] Emmanuel Pun: pauline! [00:15] Emmanuel Pun: buddy pal [00:15] Emmanuel Pun: friend Pauline Tai signed off 00:15 Pauline Tai signed on 00:19 [00:19] Emmanuel Pun: HELLLO [00:19] Emmanuel Pun: HELLOO Pauline Tai signed off 00:20 Pauline Tai signed on 00:20 [00:20] Emmanuel Pun: stop teasing me! Hahaha well it’s to be expected when she’s in Taiwan. Turns out she didn’t get...

Jul 10th

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Willing heart

I think we’ve all experienced times when God has asked tough questions. It’s like when God tells Abraham to sacrifice his only son Isaac to Him. Ever get that feeling where it feels like God is asking “Will you spend the rest of your life in this place doing this?” or “Are you going to give that up?” I do. Often, I can’t answer Him immediately because it...

Jul 7th

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To know Him

Though it seems like I slept through like half of every message given at Onething Fremont this weekend, there was one thing that has been especially impressed on my heart. It is this desire to know Jesus more being stirred in my heart. It’s not that I don’t know Him, but I want to know Him. I want to know what He looks like, what is in His heart, what’s on His mind, what...

Jul 7th

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Uncomprised lifestyle and grace..

This is something that I’ve been wrestling with for quite some time. When I made the commitment to follow Jesus Christ, I gave my life. I feel that this sometimes either gets watered down or emphasized in the wrong areas. I’m still in the process of figuring out what it means to be holy. I’ve been convicted and touched on this theme by Bible passages, messages, and I recently...

Jul 1st

See you later, Felix Hung

In the short time that I’ve known Felix, he’s taught me that without love for God and for people, I am nothing. It was encouraging today to be reminded of his simple, steadfast faith in God and his caring heart for other people. I was reminded of the verse in Hebrews 11. Felix, in his short ~22 years, was a guy of whom the world was not worthy.

Jun 21st

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Nolan Clark - Burning Ones My ultimate source of...

Jun 19th

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Watch

“Lord if it would shake the youth of the nation, I’d give my life. I’d give my life today if it would shake the youth of the nation.”

Jun 14th

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Affirmations

On Friday, we spent time affirming one another at our last biosphere. It was really cool because though we had done a little bit of this lately, but it was like a legit session of encouragement that night. I realized the power and potency in exhorting each other. First of all, it’s nice to hear good things from people that you love and respect. The words from those special people carry...

Jun 7th

After Sam Lee declares his love for Linda Vo on FB

Emmanuel Pun: dudeee
Emmanuel Pun: wth
Emmanuel Pun: sam?
Emmanuel Pun: and linda?
Brian Park: hahaha
Brian Park: are you egging me on
Emmanuel Pun: its fb official man
Brian Park: this is all according to your plan
Emmanuel Pun: oh nono
Emmanuel Pun: its a mutual relationship between sam and linda
Emmanuel Pun: see for urself
Brian Park: somethings fishy here...
Emmanuel Pun: ?
Brian Park: i dont believe
Brian Park: why else would you bring it up so randomly?
Brian Park: unless you were trying to lead me deeper into this lie!
Emmanuel Pun: haha cuz ur comment is hilarious
Brian Park: I DONT BELIEVE IT AND YOU CANT MAKE ME EMMANUEL PUN!
Brian Park: I WILL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS
Brian Park: NOT NOW, BUT LATER
Brian Park: RIGHT NOW, I HAVE TO GRADUATE
Emmanuel Pun: hahahaha
Emmanuel Pun: you're gonna graduatee
Brian Park: haha
Emmanuel Pun: revel in the idea that we may have our very first origins couple on our hands
Brian Park: me n johnny are going to ucsd to study til lik 1
Emmanuel Pun: kk
Brian Park: you guys are sick
Brian Park: if this is illegit
Brian Park: love is not a toy!
Brian Park: dont throw such heavy words around!
Brian Park: sam wouldnt post something that like that
Brian Park: hes too introspective
Emmanuel Pun: love can change a guy
Emmanuel Pun: we all know that
Brian Park: if sam and linda vo are going out for reals, i will go crazy
Emmanuel Pun: hahaha even crazier that graduating?
Brian Park: yes.
Brian Park: even crazier than that.
Emmanuel Pun: i can see sam and linda together
Emmanuel Pun: they're both spurs fans
Emmanuel Pun: and usp majors
Emmanuel Pun: sam is into strong women
Brian Park: THAT DONT MEAN NO THANG
Brian Park: UGH
Brian Park: BYE
Brian Park: EMMANUEL
Brian Park: PUN
Emmanuel Pun: haha
Brian Park: I CAN TELL BY YOUR NAME WHAT A JOKE THIS IS GOING TO TURN OUT TO BE
Emmanuel Pun: kk good luck studying
Brian Park: CAPS LOCK!
Brian Park: BYE!
Emmanuel Pun: bye
Brian Park: AND FOR ALL OF THOSE IN ON IT
Brian Park: SAM, ESPECIALLY, IF YOURE READING THIS
Brian Park: I WILL NOT BE SO EASILY DECEIVED!
Brian Park: the truth is out there
Brian Park: x-files says so.
Brian Park: k bye!

Jun 3rd