Life Hacks for Polymaths

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Welcome polymaths !

Ever get the feeling that you seem to don't know what to do with your life because there are just so many things that you want to do ? I know, I've been there, so welcome to the club.

My name is Zigfred Diaz and I am a polymath. After more than 6 years of bloging about almost anything under the sun and having sort of a "blogging identity crisis." I've finally embraced who I am and decided to turn my main blog into some sort of guide for people with so much interest. Feel free to poke around.

PRINCIPLES OF STEWARDSHIP

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Among the many roles that I assume, one of the most important is being a Sunday school teacher at the Cebu Bible Baptist Church. I teach Sunday school to the career class together with Atty. Valeriano Loon and Prof. Roland Go. Last Sunday I talked about the Principles of Stewardship as laid down in the Bible. My Main text was Mathew 25:14-27. Jesus was talking here about the parable of the talents. The parable is as follows; the master leaves for a journey and leaves to his servants several talents. In Bible times money was in the form of rings of gold, silver, or brass and was weighted. The Talent represents a large amount of money. The amount of which varies depending on whether it was of silver or gold equivalent and whether it was light or heavy weight. The current value of a talent could be somewhere from 1,000 to 30,000 dollars.(U.S) One servant was given Five talents, the other two and the other one. When the master returned both servants that were given the five talents and … [Read more...]

The Controversial Prayer of Repentance

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I received a forwarded email entitled "Nice Prayer" it claimed that several people were upset by the prayer offered at the Kansas “Senate” by a certain Pastor named Joe Wright senior pastor of the 2,500-member Central Christian Church in Wichita. As always, I don’t swallow all forwarded emails hook, line and sinker. I checked the internet on whether or not the prayer was an urban legend or not. It turned out that the story is true. However there were some revisions to the story as the email was passed from person to person. The prayer was really bold. It confronted people of their sins. That’s why it got a very controversial response from several members of the legislature and other people as well. In order to know why it was such a controversial prayer you might as well read it for yourself. This is the text of the original prayer delivered on January 23, 1996 by Pastor Joe Wright to the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka: Heavenly Father, we come before you today … [Read more...]