About Maple...

Lolz. If you bothered to read pass the title, I thank you. No, its not a maple update post again. A lot of people asking questions like, "Wah liao...first all religious post then suddenly in between got some maple bowmaster thing" Well...*innocent look*....i just wanted to give this blog a slightly personal flavor..what better way to crap a bit about the game(s) i am playing. :P

Well...this is just to explain the oddity(is that how you spell it?) in my blog. If i find something more interesting, i'll put it up also. :P

Marksman a.k.a Crossbowmaster

squee!!!! another favourite picture i acquired. Its a picture of a Marksman (or Markswoman). Cool eh? Just as cool as the Bowmaster picture i posted earlier. This is the 4th job advancement for the archers who chose to specialize in using crossbows. The name was initially called crossbowmaster but they changed it to marksman maybe because it sounds cooler...? Lolz. But anyway....Archer rulezz!!! Lol.

Maple Update

w00t!!! level 50 hunter at last!!! haha. quarter way to reach level 200. :P don't i look cool??:P i seriously need to change my earings...its not suitable for a guy character...:P going slower now...because of time factor and also i am getting less experience per kill....need to move on to stronger monsters but then they are not economical....i use more money buying potions to kill the monsters than the money the monsters drop. hunting is my main way of making money hence my job title...:pArcher rulez!!! We are the pwnage!! :P ( Lolz!!!)

Sermons in Church

Sorry guys for the late update. Gosh….its a month already…:S Anyway, here is a short one first. Long one coming later. :P


‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' Mark 12:30 (NIV)

I was in church last Sunday morning listening to the sermon. The speaker (names are not important in this case) subtly diverted from his sermon to begin talking passionately about implementing a ‘Youth Academy’ thingy to have a formal structure to coordinate the teaching of biblical stuff among the youths in my church. This was to complement the adult version dubbed as the ‘Lay Training Institute’. He was telling the congregation about the importance of starting this academy thing. In my opinion, it’s a kind of a good concept and all but the qualm I have is the time he chose to speak his memorandum: during the main morning service!!

Worship is to focus on God; it’s a time where all our focus should be on God and not on ourselves or our stuff- and this includes the sermon. For me, the sermon should teach about God and his attributes as well as to teach about the bible and its doctrines. It is not and should not used as a platform for making proposal plans for our earthly plans. If I could use a metaphor: its like a politician presenting his memorandum to the public to gain their favor. Seems harsh but that was what went through my mind back then.

Another thing I noticed is how subtle he did this. He tied it to one of his sermon points and started from there. So, it will cause people to think, “ Wow. This idea sounds great and from what he said seems to be very biblical as well. We must support this!!!”. To me, this a very shrewd and cunning way to gain people’s support. This will set the people’s mindset and they will continue on that path of reason thinking it is definitely the correct path even though they themselves have not thought about it.

Like I said earlier, the concept is good and worth considering but when would be the best time to present the memo? After the service, of course! If the people are really and truly interested, they would stay back and hear what one has to say. As a expounder of the Word of God, stick to the task that has been entrusted: expound the Word of God!!! This is not the only instance that a speaker deviates away from the Word of God. There were many times where speakers tend to deviate away from expounding the Word of God to speaking about plans and the sort. Its kinda sad to see this happening. Remember people: pray for your pastors that they will keep on track and get their priorities right.

This write-up is about the timing at which the plan was proposed. I shall not go into what are my thoughts on this ‘Youth Academy’ thing. It will deviate from the topic at hand and will make this post too wordy. I’ll think more about it before posting. :P