KuyaJunlie👦

Thoughts. Reflections. World View. Journey. Passion. Love. Joy. Pain. Struggles.

[KuyaJunlie👦 @junlielozada]

I'm sharing more or less 500 books in pdf. DM for link.

[HIGHLIFE lives ON @GyapKay]

ONE GOLD BED.

The $8000 gold-plated bed bought by Krobo Edusei’s wife was a controversy that shook Nkrumah’s government hard.
He(Edusei) had to threaten his wife with divorce before she eventually acceded to return it.
Read on..

[KuyaJunlie👦 @junlielozada]

Why does "Ate Sarah" want to be the mayor?
A question from my 5 year old son na ang hirap sagutin! 🤣🤣🤣

#Pasig #mayorvico #ayudapamore

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

Jesus changed the world.

Consider for a moment how impressive this is.

Did he lead an army? Rule a government? Write a series of books? Invent technology?

He preached some amazing things but that’s not enough to change the world the way he did.

He rose from the dead.

[🌷 LIZZIE🌷 @farmingandJesus]

Widows of Christian martyrs in Islamic countries speak out

Somehow I don’t think American Christians have any idea…

[KuyaJunlie👦 @junlielozada]

Iligtas Nyo po ang aming bayan!

[NewsWatch Plus PH @newswatchplusph]

[Trigger warning: Sensitive topic]

WATCH: “Wala ka sa mood, paano ako?”

In a hearing on sexual harassment, Senator Robin Padilla asked what husbands can do if their wives are not in the mood for sex | @eimorpsantos

[KuyaJunlie👦 @junlielozada]

Relate haha

[Tim Briggs @timbriggshere]

Church planters by year 3. https://t.co/KnpqbODj30

[Voice of the Martyrs @VOM_USA]

Pastor Anooshavan Avedian is serving a 10-year prison sentence at Iran’s notorious Evin Prison. The Iranian government is among the most oppressive in the world. Pray for Pastor Avedian and others like him who are imprisoned in Iran for their faith.

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

Watching porn destroys your prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain responsible for willpower, development, rationality....being an adult.

Porn turns you into a man child.

[supernegatrona AKA pink 5 @supernegatrona]

Firefly is GMA Pictures' love letter to the power of great story telling. It's a proof that we as a race, are natural story tellers.

In case you haven't figured it out yet, This is a freakin' film that deserves a — 5/5 ⭐ rating.

[hbcharlesjr @hbcharlesjr]

Bring back the hymns!

[The Human Condition @drstacy2024]

A shot a day keeps the doctor away 🍁

[KuyaJunlie👦 @junlielozada]

Sa panahon na baon ang bayan sa kahirapan, #WagKangKuCorrupt! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/S42zMP3fOA via @ChangePilipinas

[J.C. Ryle @JCRyle]

8 Profitable Ways to Read the Bible by J.C. Ryle

1. Begin reading your Bible this very day. The way to do a thing is to do it; and the way to read the Bible is actually to read it! It is not merely meaning, or wishing, or resolving, or intending, or thinking about it , which will advance you one step. You must positively read. There is no royal road in this matter, any more than in the matter of prayer. If you cannot read yourself, you must persuade somebody else to read it to you. But one way or another, through eyes or ears, the words of Scripture must actually pass before your mind.

2. Read the Bible with an earnest desire to understand it. Do not think for a moment, that the great object is to turn over a certain quantity of printed paper, and that it matters nothing whether you understand it or not. Some ignorant people seem to imagine, that all is done if they advance so many chapters every day, though they may not have a notion what they are all about, and only know that they have pushed on their bookmark ahead so many pages. This is turning Bible reading into a mere ritual form. Settle it down in your mind as a general principle, that a Bible not understood is a Bible that does no good! Say to yourself often as you read, “What is this all about?” Dig for the meaning like a man digging for gold.

3. Read the Bible with child-like faith and humility. Open your heart as you open God’s book, and say, “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening!” Resolve to believe implicitly whatever you find there, however much it may run counter to your own desires and prejudices. Resolve to receive heartily every statement of truth, whether you like it or not. Beware of that miserable habit into which some readers of the Bible fall, they receive some doctrines because they like them; and they reject others because they are condemning to themselves, or to some relation, or friend. At this rate, the Bible is useless! Are we to be judges of what ought to be in God’s Word? Do we know better than God? Settle it down in your mind that you will receive all and believe all, and that what you cannot understand, you will take on trust. Remember, when you pray that you are speaking to God, and God hears you. But, remember, when you read Scripture that God is speaking to you, and you are not to “dictate,” but to listen!

4. Read the Bible in a spirit of obedience and self-application. Sit down to the study of it with a daily determination that you will live by its rules, rest on its statements, and act on its commands. Consider, as you travel through every chapter, “How does this affect my thinking and daily conduct? What does this teach me?” It is poor work to read the Bible from mere curiosity, and for speculative purposes in order to fill your head and store your mind with mere opinions; while you do not allow the book to influence your heart and life. That Bible is read best which is practiced most!

5. Read the Bible daily. Make it a part of every day’s business to read and meditate on some portion of God’s Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies. Yesterday’s food will not feed the laborer today; and today’s food will not feed the laborer tomorrow. Do as the Israelites did in the wilderness. Gather your manna fresh every morning. Choose your own seasons and hours. Do not scramble over and hurry your reading. Give your Bible the best, and not the worst part of your time! But whatever plan you pursue, let it be a rule of your life to visit the throne of grace and God’s Word every day.

6. Read all of the Bible and read it in an orderly way. I fear there are many parts of the Word which some people never read at all. This is to say at the least, a very presumptuous habit. “All Scripture is profitable.” [2 Timothy 3:16]. To this habit may be traced that lack of well-proportioned views of truth, which is so common in this day. Some people’s Bible-reading is a system of perpetual ‘dipping and picking’. They do not seem to have an idea of regularly going through the whole book.

7. Read the Bible fairly and honestly. Determine to take everything in its plain, obvious meaning and regard all forced interpretations with great suspicion. As a general rule, whatever a verse of the Bible seems to mean it does mean! Cecil’s rule is a very valuable one, “The right way of interpreting Scripture is to take it as we find it, without any attempt to force it into any particular theological system.”

8. Read the Bible with Christ continually in view. The grand primary object of all Scripture, is to testify of Jesus! Old Testament ceremonies are shadows of Christ. Old Testament judges are types of Christ. Old Testament prophecies are full of Christ’s sufferings, and of Christ’s glory yet to come. The first coming and the second; the Lord’s humiliation and His glorious kingdom; His cross and the crown shine forth everywhere in the Bible. Keep fast hold on this clue, if you would read the Bible aright!

[KuyaJunlie👦 @junlielozada]

@SamuelGaurano At bakit yung maiingay para Israel/Palestine tahimik sa mga injustices na ngyayari sa PILIPINAS? Haha!

[bella @isabelmerana]

Went to mass earlier today. After asking for forgiveness and guidance for my family and friends, i ended my prayer with this.

That He continues to bless the Phils and don’t let Marcos, Duterte and their minions continue to wreak havoc and misery to the filipino people.

[KuyaJunlie👦 @junlielozada]

@joyagustin Lagi syang naattend sa MCCA fellowship at parang nag ppreach lagi pag pinagsalita. Nakakalungkot!

[Greg Stier @gregstier]

Church history is littered with bad marriages.

John Wesley—founder of the Methodist movement and one of the three key preachers in the First Great Awakening (along with George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards)—had a notoriously bad marriage that was full of fights and fits. He and his wife, Molly, relentlessly insulted each other, and their arguments went from private to public.

John thought Molly was a rebellious woman who should quietly wait for and on him. Molly was tired of being home alone while he was gone for months at a time on preaching trips. Once, in 1758, when John was preparing to go on another preaching tour, his parting words to her were: “I hope I shall see your wicked face no more.”

Not quite pillow talk, Mr. Wesley.

John and Molly separated again and again, until she finally left once and for all. He wrote in his journal, “Finally, she left for good. I did not forsake her, I did not dismiss her, I will not recall her.”

This is sad indeed. A man who is considered by many to be the organizing force behind the First Great Awakening could not organize his life in such away as to prioritize his wife and could not bring a great awakening to his dead marriage.

Wesley pathetically tried to excuse his long absences and cold demeanor behind a ministry mantra: “for the sake of the cause.”

According to Robert Southey, in his book The Life of John Wesley, Wesley compared his own ministry impact with the impact of his wife’s life with these cut-to-the-heart words, “…of what importance is your character to mankind? If you were buried just now, or if you had never lived, what loss would it be to the cause of God.”

Ouch.

Tragically, Wesley is not the only man of God to have a marriage ruled by the Devil. And this is not true just of church history—it’s true all across the world in many churches today.

It was true in my marriage early on.

For the first several years of my marriage, I was busy preaching at my church on Sunday and leading Dare 2 Share the rest of the week. When I wasn’t on the road or in the office, I came home to collapse on the couch and watch television. I, like Wesley, subconsciously excused my lameness in loving my wife and leading my marriage on busyness with “the greater cause” of Christ.

Then one night, it all blew up in my face when our argument spilled over into public, literally during a Bible study. I’ll spare you the gory details, but I ended up in the fetal position in the middle of the Bible study circle, crying unconsolably for 30 minutes. Why? Because I knew she was right and I was wrong.

I was a jerk! I hadn’t been paying attention to her and her needs. I had been pulling a Wesley, “for the sake of the cause.” I wanted my wife Debbie to just suck it up so I could go on the road and save lost souls.

It was my soul that needed to be saved, not from the flames of Hell, but from the ice-coldness of a marriage on life-support.

That moment marked a turnaround point—not an immediate, full 180, but more like a Wall Street graph headed in the right direction. Yes, there have been—and continue to be—ups and downs. But my wife is the love of my life, and we’ve now been co-laboring side-by-side for, as of yesterday, 33 years!

Now we’re together “for the sake of the cause.”

Busyness from saving souls and leading ministries is not a good excuse for a bad marriage. Instead, our marriages should be a shining example of the Gospel, full of forgiveness, reconciliation and on-going transformation because of the example of Christ on the cross and power that comes through His Spirit.

[KuyaJunlie👦 @junlielozada]

@joyagustin Haha sorry na

[Greg Stier @gregstier]

When I was a pastor I gave the Gospel at the end of every sermon as well as an opportunity for people to respond. I did this every week for the 10 years I was a pastor of a local church.

Why? Honestly I shuttered at the thought of an unbeliever coming into our church and leaving with no opportunity to hear and believe the Gospel. In the words of the Prophet Ezekiel (Ezekiel 3:18) and the Apostle Paul (Acts 20:26) I wanted to be “innocent of the blood of all men”, having done my part in saving the lost souls in front of me.

By the way there were only 2 weeks in the time I was pastor where nobody responded to the Gospel. Why? Because once everyone realized that I was going to give the Gospel every week they brought out their unreached friends to hear. Every week was “Friendship Sunday.”

Although I preached expository sermons through books of the Bible, every week was like an evangelistic festival at the end of the sermon.

Our people not only invited their friends, neighbors, co-workers and family members to our church, many would take their unreached or just reached friends out to lunch afterward and ask “What did you think of the sermon and especially what the pastor said at the end?”

This led to strong evangelistic participation by the church and solved much of our follow up problem. I called it “The Reverse Altar Call.”

When I left Grace Church, 10 years after planting it with my buddy Rick Long, we had over 60% new conversion growth.

Rick has carried that tradition on and now the church numbers in the thousands, packed with new disciples.

Pastors, I challenge you to give the Gospel in every sermon you preach. Give people an opportunity to respond. Don’t allow one unbeliever to leave your church without knowing the clear way of salvation through Jesus Christ and his death in their behalf.

“For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” 1 Corinthians 2:2

P.S. Down the road I may do a podcast or two on how to give an effective invitation.

[KuyaJunlie👦 @junlielozada]

And justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; Therefore perverse judgment proceeds.
Habakkuk 1:2-4 NKJV

[KuyaJunlie👦 @junlielozada]

O Lord, how long shall I cry, And You will not hear? Even cry out to You, “Violence!” And You will not save. Why do You show me iniquity, And cause me to see trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; There is strife, and contention arises.Therefore the law is powerless,