Marbaniang, Domenic

Acceptance – Accepting the relationship Rejection – Rejecting the relationship Barricading - Raising walls thru words & actions that prevent unwanted relationships or relationship types. Channelling - Putting up turners of words & acts that channel relationships into ones as desired, instead of blocking them off. Repelling - Using words or actions against advances. Crushing - Destroying present relationships. Warfare - Entering into a negative relationship with someone with whom there was no relationship earlier. Union - Joining in meaningful relationships.

Download Text: 1 Corinthians 1:10 Speaker: R. Venkata Rao (Paulus) Year: 1979 Place: Meghalaya Language: English with Translation into Khasi www.christiancharity.in

‘The sense of the world must lie outside the world,’ said Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). The human problem is seeking sense of the world within the world or within one’s own self. But can man go beyond himself by himself? Can someone lift himself up by pulling up his bootstraps? The epistemic predicament of man has been just that in several cases: when he started from himself or nature he returned to himself or nature, to the extent that ‘man is the measure of all things’ was reflected in all his cogitations on man, God, and the world. A glance at monism, polytheism, materialism, and pantheism will demonstrate all that man can do to limit ultimate meaning to this-worldly-reality. This has also been true of Christian theology several times. The rational entanglements of scholastic theology in attempts to rationalize revelation, and the empirical obsessions of liberal, process, existential, and charismatic theologies reflect the segregated pursuits of two different epistemic streams ...

The Sun Still Rises   ‘the sun rose upon him … ’ Gen. 32: 31 Itarsi, 10 July 2007 Domenic Marbaniang  Introduction             28: 11 – the sun was set             But God had not abandoned him. The first meeting 28: 13             Jacob’s response: 28: 20 – A very business-minded young utilitarian. 1.                   The Sun arose over his dark history of sin and selfishness. Pride and Lust: 28:20:   The great artist Michelangelo fastened a little lantern to his headpiece so that his shadow wouldn't fall on the marble on which he was working. When self becomes obtrusive, it casts a shadow on all we do. This is true even in prayer. Selfish attempts at Esau’s birthright and blessing. Securing Future Prospects The birthright ...

As eternal as the skies is your love t’wards me My failings disturb me, and I’m down But you lift me up as a father His child Should I ever recount my transgressions to myself My self would abhor me above my transgressions But you love me, despite my failings My heart feels pale at the thought of its weaknesses But then you call my name and it sounds sweet in my ears The highest hills aren’t high enough to scale your majesty Still you bend down to where I am 14 July 2007

Praise and slander are both fruits of magnification; The one focuses on virtue; the other, on vice. The one supplants the other or versa vice. Thus, bias judges by exaggeration What feelings are aroused by sympathy, And striking a note once, then twice, Then times a many, grows voluminous ever, Until revoked, stilled, transformed, removed. Then does feeling spur reason to find more reasons To back what it feels, and gets stronger thereby: This all to prove that man knows a little But speaks much more, And one only sees as much as one feels. 14 July 2007

Love is unpredictable Or at least, falling in love is. Call it blind, but then call it also deaf and senseless; For, the blind will also love if they can hear and sense. Then does love relate falsely, for the senseless can’t relate. But, as instant is love so is hatred. The dearest soon turns the sorest; The hero, the villain…. The flickering, then, can’t be true; For Truth flickers not. The unpredictable is the irrational, And the irrational breeds chaos, Which none’s will can conquer. Therefore, love is stronger than death and unquenchable. Unconquerable for it neither sees nor hears. And so is irrational. But love that’s true abides, tho’ the world passess by. And love that’s true loves truth above everything else; For anything connected to truth is infected by it. ‘For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace.’ Rom. 8: 6 ‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love.’ Gal. 5: 22 ‘The wisdom from above is…open to reason.’ Jas. 3: 17 10 July 2007