Tweet, Run, Go!... A Legacy Run

With the age of technology and cloud computing coming in, we tend to just spend the day sitting down and face our computer screens the whole day.  Believe me, i do this all the time.  I almost forgot that God gave me legs too.  Legs to walk, run, and use for His purpose.  So for this time, I invite all of you reading and following this blog to join the CFC West C Legacy Run on November 28 at the Quezon City Memorial Cirlcle here in Manila, Philippines.  This is something worth doing.  Not only you will be using your legs to run for God, you'll also be and need to spend this time with your family.  Because from what I have known from the organizers, this run is a family run!  Together with your family, you'll run for God.  How magical and wonderful.

And this run is worth tweeting too! :) Tweet, Run, Go!

On Cloud Tech: Faith Work Salvation Arithmetic

Ahh the mystery of God's salvation to all of us.  As humans, we always count our works plus our faith in order to be saved.. But God has His own weird, cannot be grasp idea of how it works..

Now Cloud Tech for God happened to have stumbled on a video that could somehow illustrate this kind of Arithmetic.. Check this out...

Now, you just do the math.

Social Media: The New & Virtual Areopagus

With its more than 400 million subscribers, facebook can now be considered one of the largest countries on earth.  With Twitter getting more than 10 million updates per minute, the site has been a consistent target of entertainers, media, and even hackers.  News travels fast and quick.  The news comes to you.

For the Social Media Evangelizers, it has become the New Areopagus.  Where these online missionaries comes to speak about the Unknown God.  There are many skeptics out there.  There are also many people who actually not known or have not been introduced to God.  There people who need to know who this unknown God is.  And they are present in the virtual world.

Where and what is Areopagus?

Back to our History.

The Areopagus or Areios Pagos (Greek: Άρειος Πάγος) is the 'Rock of Ares', north-west of the Acropolis, which in classical times functioned as the high Court of Appeal for criminal and civil cases in Athens. (Wikipedia.org)

And this is the place where Paul, the Apostle delivered his speech about the Unknown God.  (Acts 17)

Acts 17

22Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.

 24"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'

 29"Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man's design and skill. 30In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead."

 32When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, "We want to hear you again on this subject." 33At that, Paul left the Council. 34A few men became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.

And if you'll read the whole passage, not all of the people believed in him instantly.  Some sneered and went away.  Just like on social media, others may laugh at your post, will not believe in you.  But then, there are people who will believe.  There are people who experience God through you.

Take a look at this video on how Fr. Robert Barron considered YouTube as the Virtual Areopagus

As online missionaries, let us not be afraid to post and blog about our God.  Others may sneer and instantly close their browsers, but there are many others who will get to know the God of wonders through you.

Post, Speak, Blog about God.. And you'll reach a lot of people who hunger for Him.

God is on "Cloud Computing"

Sharing His computing technique on human minds has been one of God's improvements on the world of technology.  Just like when we say that "we are all under the same clouds (or sky for that matter)," the world of computers and internet has been affected by this what we called "Cloud Computing."

Let us first define what this term means.  According to Wikipedia, "Cloud Computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand, like the electricity grid."

So, basically, the cloud is the internet and cloud computing is using the internet for all your computer and application needs without having the need to download or install anything (e.g. google docs,  facebook, twitter, etc).  And you can access all your files and documents anywhere where there is an internet connection.

Watch this video for the basics of cloud computing.

Isn't it amazing that we are using the internet now because of the applications and resources that allows us to make work easier and accessible.  And that knowledge of Cloud computing has been used by God even before this term has been invented.  For example, all of us has different knowledge and skills, we can compare that to web-based applications.  Now using ourselves as a resource to each other, humans created companies or communities to work together and generate cool and useful products.  Making the work easier.

So this cloud computing was a knowledge to God-given for technology to excel and prosper in our time and in our world.  By using now web-based internet resources, we could access our documents, photos, videos online.  Saving up space in your own computers.  Also, generating big savings from businesses who are now not investing on big server space.  It offers a lot of flexibility. 

And what more can we offer back to this knowledge?  Use it for evangelization.. Because of cloud computing, there is a world full of resources out there on the web.  Just by facing your computer and using these resources, you can actually become an online missionary. 

Come on, just like how God is using Cloud Computing through us, we shall use cloud computing through the internet for Him.