Teaching our Children
“Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates; that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.” (Deuteronomy 11:18-21 WEB)
God wants us (parents) to teach our children. Nowadays there are many ways to outsource education, but we cannot leave our children completely in the hands of the secular education system.
The most important thing to teach our children from infancy is : God’s word. Teaching is not about seating them in front of a desk with a thick Bible and going through chapter by chapter.
Be led by the Holy Spirit, and whenever an appropriate teaching moment arises, use the chance to talk about Jesus and make the faith real and practical in your children’s lives.
For example, if your child fell down and scraped his knee, just comfort him and pray together, declaring that Jesus’ healing power is entering the wound to fix it.
Before each meal, thank Jesus for the food and declare it sanctified in Jesus’ name. Tell your children that the Lord is specially preparing the food to be clean, good, and healthy for them.
Whenever possible, quote portions of Scripture to etch it in your children’s hearts. “Wow look at all these gifts that we received! Praise Jesus—the Lord is truly our Shepherd, and we shall not lack!”
Teach them Gospel truths—what is applicable under the New Covenant of Grace. Definitely don’t make them recite or memorize the Ten Commandments of the Law.
The Gospel has a prospering effect. It has the power to save from every trouble. As a parent, and especially if you are a father, you are also entrusted with the role of leading your children in their spiritual growth.
“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6 WEB)
By the leading of the Holy Spirit, build a strong foundation of faith for your children, and they will greatly benefit from it throughout their lives!
When I wrote the book “Sandcastles Don’t Last Forever” the compiled truths within were designed for the whole family. It is so important that our children know from young that we do our best in life for the Lord’s sake, to worship Him, and that He is the one who will reward us. There is no need to live for the praise of men. This belief alone will save them from many disappointments and heartaches.
There are so many great lessons about eternal rewards in the book. I hope you can get it (either the eBook or a paperback copy) and share the truths with your children in a relatable way, after digesting the revelations yourself: http://bit.ly/sandcastlesdontlastforever
同時也有1部Youtube影片,追蹤數超過5萬的網紅大象體操Elephant Gym,也在其Youtube影片中提到,這樣的2020年,我們寫了一首這樣的歌——〈敬啟者 Dear Humans〉。 給所有活著、並期待或害怕末日來臨的人們。人們鑄下大錯、人們後悔、人們領悟、人們乞求著被世界原諒。但何不從現在開始?好好愛著那些該愛的,好好珍惜地球上的每一個生命、每一方土地。 這封信,給末日來臨時逃離地球的人類們。我...
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Learning from the Destruction of Sodom
“and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked (for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):” (2 Peter 2:6-8 WEB)
The apostle Peter wrote that Abraham’s nephew, Lot, was righteous. By this, we know that he is saved and that he got saved because he had faith in Yahweh.
However, Lot’s end was tragic. He escaped from Sodom with no possessions except for the clothes on his back, his wife, and his two daughters.
On the way out of the city, his wife turned back after being told not to, and was turned into a pillar of salt.
Afterwards, Lot settled in a cave because of fear.
“When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters. The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth. Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.” They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose. It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line. ” They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up. Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.” (Genesis 19:29-36 WEB)
Seeing the scale of destruction, Lot’s two daughters thought that the whole world was destroyed and that there were no other men left, so they proceeded to make Lot drunk with alcohol, and slept with him to bear children. After that traumatic experience, all they could think about was sleeping with a man!
This was a righteous man’s ending because he chose to live a worldly life.
This all began because Lot decided to walk by sight. Abraham and Lot’s flocks had grown so much that they could not live together anymore. When Abraham asked Lot to choose where to separate himself to, Lot chose based on what he saw, without praying to ask for God’s counsel—he was walking by sight.
“Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar. So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.” (Genesis 13:10-11 WEB)
We learn from the Book of Proverbs that there is a way that seems right to a man, but it only leads to death.
“There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.” (Proverbs 14:12 WEB)
From then on, righteous Lot was tormented in his soul (mind, will, and emotions) every day from seeing and hearing the wickedness of the people in Sodom.
Not only him, but his family was exposed to this worldliness daily as well.
We who are born-again will feel this tormented soul state even more so than Lot because we have the Holy Spirit inside us. Our born-again spirit hates what is evil and loves what is good.
This is why if genuine Christians fall into sin, they will hate it and want to be delivered from sinful habits and lifestyles.
Lot’s wife turned back to Sodom because her heart was full of the world. Her treasures were in that city. When she looked back after the angels told her not to, it revealed that she was not really saved (she had no faith in Yahweh).
The wicked ways of Sodom had also rubbed off on Lot’s daughters. They learned to make their father drunk and do something as vile as committing incest with their father.
All these tragedies happened because Lot chose to put himself and his family in a worldly environment, without leaving Sodom before its destruction. He failed as the head of the house.
Worldliness will ruin Christians and cause them to live defeated lives. They stop reading God’s word and praying, and instead use all their time and effort to pursue what the world runs after, only rushing towards their destruction. Unnecessary hurts and suffering are sure to come.
What example are you setting for your family? Are your daily habits leading them closer to God’s ways, or drawing them away from His ways and towards the world instead?
“Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor...For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble; each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is. If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.” (1 Corinthians 3:8, 11-15 WEB)
Are you focusing on earthly things like “gold, silver, costly stones”, or is your heart on the things of God which are heavenly?
When the time comes for you to stand before Jesus’ throne, don’t be like Lot who escaped with nothing but his life. Lot’s works were all burnt up, and he got out of the city with nothing, like he lived his whole live in vain.
When the day comes for your eternal rewards to be measured, I hope that you will be happy with the way you invested your time in this life. When you build your life upon the foundation of Jesus Christ, with the Gospel and its advancement as your chief goal, there is no way you will be shortchanged on ‘awards day’.
What is the point of chasing foolish things in this lifetime only to end up with nothing that lasts forever, as if you are saved through fire with all your works burnt up? Be wise—walk by faith, not by sight. God’s word is true.
Judgment day for Christians is nothing to be afraid of. In fact, it is a day for receiving eternal rewards. How do you maximize your rewards, identify your God-given calling in life, and step into that to enjoy a worthy life? I share a whole book about that in “Sandcastles Don’t Last Forever”.
This was the first book I wrote, and it is full of revelation about our eternal rewards which are hardly taught about in pulpits today (I’ve never heard anyone preaching this): http://bit.ly/sandcastlesdontlastforever
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今天是美國第46任總統 Joe Biden 和 副總統Kamara Harris 宣誓就職典禮,在川普四年執政後,這個國家需要修補傷痛、消泯分歧。
Biden 強調 團結 (unity)、Harris 是第一位亞裔女性從政者打破天花板當上副總統位置,值得慶賀。
而今天就職典禮最令人感動的,我認為非屬 Amanda Gorman,這位年輕的非裔美籍詩人,用她誠懇而堅定的聲音喚醒美國民主社會的良知,也為過去幾週的混亂和未來的不確定性注入了希望。
美國畢竟是世界強國,她的穩定和經濟繁榮和包容和民主實踐是國際社會賴以維持秩序和運作重要指標。
過去的四年充滿不確定性,將來四年或許也是相當不確定,人們如何在不確定(uncertainty)下自處,因為新冠肺炎帶來的社會疏離冷漠,在心靈上如何面對孤單和在務實面上如何重振經濟和國際秩序都是拜登要面對的課題。
這首The Hill We Climb 我聽了好幾次,相當感動,或許在詩裡可以得到一些答案吧。
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“The Hill We Climb”
Amanda Gorman
When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, a sea we must wade. We’ve braved the belly of the beast, we’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn’t always justice. And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it, somehow we do it, somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken but simply unfinished.
We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president only to find herself reciting for one. And, yes, we are far from polished, far from pristine, but that doesn’t mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect, we are striving to forge a union with purpose, to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man.
So we lift our gazes not to what stands between us, but what stands before us. We close the divide because we know to put our future first, we must first put our differences aside. We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another, we seek harm to none and harmony for all.
Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: that even as we grieved, we grew, even as we hurt, we hoped, that even as we tired, we tried, that we’ll forever be tied together victorious, not because we will never again know defeat but because we will never again sow division.
Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree and no one should make them afraid. If we’re to live up to our own time, then victory won’t lie in the blade, but in in all of the bridges we’ve made.
That is the promise to glade, the hill we climb if only we dare it because being American is more than a pride we inherit, it’s the past we step into and how we repair it. We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it. That would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy, and this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can periodically be delayed, but it can never be permanently defeated.
In this truth, in this faith, we trust, for while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us, this is the era of just redemption we feared in its inception we did not feel prepared to be the heirs of such a terrifying hour but within it we found the power to author a new chapter, to offer hope and laughter to ourselves, so while once we asked how can we possibly prevail over catastrophe, now we assert how could catastrophe possibly prevail over us.
We will not march back to what was but move to what shall be, a country that is bruised but whole, benevolent but bold, fierce and free, we will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation, our blunders become their burden. But one thing is certain: if we merge mercy with might and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children’s birthright.
So let us leave behind a country better than the one we were left, with every breath from my bronze, pounded chest, we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one, we will rise from the golden hills of the West, we will rise from the windswept Northeast where our forefathers first realized revolution, we will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the Midwestern states, we will rise from the sunbaked South, we will rebuild, reconcile, and recover in every known nook of our nation in every corner called our country our people diverse and beautiful will emerge battered and beautiful, when the day comes we step out of the shade aflame and unafraid, the new dawn blooms as we free it, for there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.
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這樣的2020年,我們寫了一首這樣的歌——〈敬啟者 Dear Humans〉。
給所有活著、並期待或害怕末日來臨的人們。人們鑄下大錯、人們後悔、人們領悟、人們乞求著被世界原諒。但何不從現在開始?好好愛著那些該愛的,好好珍惜地球上的每一個生命、每一方土地。
這封信,給末日來臨時逃離地球的人類們。我們是當初曾與你們相伴,卻被獨自留下的寵物,是狗、是貓、是烏龜、是一株盆栽。
這次,請換你們聽聽我們說。
In a time like 2020, this is the song we wrote —— “Dear Humans”.
To all the living humans who expect or are afraid of the coming of apocalypse: People made big mistakes. People regretted making them. People admitted the wrongs. Now, people are begging to be forgiven by the world. But why not start making amends right away? Love those who deserve to be loved. Cherish every form of life and every inch of land.
This letter is written to the humans who left the Earth when the apocalypse came. We are the pets that accompanied you in the past, but then you left us here alone. We are dogs, cats, turtles and potted plants.
And now, please listen to what we have to say.
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2020 大象體操跨界計劃|
【莎士比亞的妹妹們的劇團 王嘉明作品《物種大樂團》】
▶︎時間:2020.10.23-10.25
▶︎地點:台北國家戲劇院 National Theater
▶︎購票:https://bit.ly/2YPsC4j
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〈敬啟者 Dear Humans〉
放棄了的 進化了的
The abandoned, the evolved
你是不是仍然相信著當時的選擇
Do you still believe in the choice you made?
後來的 大象早就 學會遺忘
Before long elephants learned to forget
流浪的 北極熊也 在天上飛翔
Nomadic polar bears now soar in the sky
突然 一艘船 從天而降
A vessel dropped from the clouds all at once
狼狽的 沈重步伐
Plodding, trudging
你是否 就是早已離開的人啊
Are you the one who’s already left?
宇宙中 完美的家 你說那是無聊的謊
“The ideal home in the universe” You call this a tedious lie
眼前的 這片海洋 卻恢復原來的模樣
The ocean before our eyes has renewed, revived
為什麼 人類 渴望遠方
Why do humans thirst for the distance
卻 無法守護 腳下土壤
But fail to protect the soil under their stride?
你問我 該怎麼做 才能被原諒
You asked me what to do
To receive forgiveness
曾相信的 曾心愛的
Once believed, once beloved
現在的我仍然相信著當時的選擇
I still believe in the choice I made
我從來 沒有離開也不想要遺忘
I never left, I don’t forget
一輩子 都在這裡等待 著你回來
Waiting for your return with all my life
好想 告訴你 不用害怕
To tell you that don’t be afraid
放下所有的 後悔悲傷
Lay down all the regrets and sorrow
只要你 願意擁抱我們曾受過的傷
As long as you embrace our woes
偶然的 巧合 已開始流轉
Circumstantial, Coincidental, Circulation
那 隨機的 安排也不斷在變換
Random orders, tireless changes
淘汰的 願望 又回來了嗎
Is the eliminated hope rekindled?
曾 緊緊擁抱的 和深深愛過的
Once caressed, once cherished
未來的 還在 遙遠的未來
The future is still in the far-fetched future
而 過去的已經消失在過去了
Yet the past has vanished in the past
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【音樂製作 Music Production】
製作 Producer:大象體操 Elephant Gym
作詞 Lyrics:張凱婷 KT Chang、張凱翔 Tell Chang
作曲 Composer:張凱婷 KT Chang
編曲 Arrangement:大象體操 Elephant Gym
電吉他 Electric Guitar:張凱翔 Tell Chang
鍵盤 Keyboard:張凱翔 Tell Chang
電貝斯 Electric Bass:張凱婷 KT Chang
鼓 Drums:涂嘉欽 Chia-Chin Tu
錄音工程師 Recording Engineer:陳瑩哲 Ying-Che Chen @小白馬音樂工作室 White Pony Music Studio
混音工程師 Mixing Engineer : 邱建鈞 J-Jyun Ciou @玩痛音樂工作室 Playtone Studio
母帶後期處理工程師 Mastering Engineer : 陳陸泰 A-Tai
母帶後期處理錄音室 Mastering Studio : 原艾母帶工程錄音室 Mugwort Mastering
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【MV製作 Music Video Production】
監製 Executive Producer:伊晉褕 Eric Yi
導演 Director:許睿庭 RAY
攝影師 Director of Photography:萬又銘 ONE
攝影助理 Camera Assistants:張岳群 Henry Chang
燈光師 Gaffer:萬又銘 ONE
燈光助理 Best Boys:曾鈺展 Yu Zhan Cent、楊鈺銘 Yu Ming Yang、陳宇颿 Yu Fan Chen
美術指導 Production Designer:潘幸均 PAN
小精靈 Elf:馮會元 Hui Yuan Feng
演員 Cast:艾迪 Addy、吳為 Wei Wu、Ray Han、蹦蹦 Bong Bong
後期製作 Post production:萬事屋影像制作 Onezpro Studio
剪接 Editor:朱威 Wei Chu
調光 Color Grading:周采葳 Cai Wei Zhou
合成 FX Artist:江偉 Will Chiang
器材協力 Equipment Support:乒乓影像器材 Ping Pong Film Studio、仙人掌影業器材 Cactus Studio
歌詞翻譯 Lyrics Translation:覃天愛 Tien-Ai Chin
特別感謝 Special Thanks:眉角映像 MEGA Pictures、TheBayStudio、嚴敏 Mia Min Yen
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