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“ God, Why?” (Reflection on Job 29-31) Introduction Being forsaken is one of the terrible thing in our life. Nobody in the world wants to be thrust away and rejected, especially by our inner circle relation. And no body can ultimately survive if he is being forsaken by his God. The book of Job tells us about Job's struggles inside when he felt that he was forsaken by people and God. The calamity in his life make him left behind, helpless. He needed God's explanation, God's reason, God's purpose to understand what has happening. But still there was no answer. God was silence; he felt that God has forsaken him. This book help us to understand the fragile nature of human being and how he depend ultimately to God. Without God we can do nothing, without God we are nothing. Job cried out to God his deep feeling, his protests, and the agony that he felt. He poured out his feeling to God in lament. This help us to understand that Our God hear our prayer, our sorrow a

Anti Corruption Progress in Indonesia Asian Studies II: Current Trend in Asia Introduction The flame of the spirit of reformation flared up on 1998. Demonstrations, riots and chaos sprung up in some prominent cities. And the climax on May 1998, Suharto step down from the president of Indonesia office, and ended his powerful authoritarian regime. Indonesian people rejoice and dream of “a New Indonesia” in the spirit of democracy and reformation. And now, 15 years later, Indonesia has transformed from a military and authoritarian centralized government to be a more relative open and democratic nation. The other side of shifting to democracy state, it had brought the country faced complex problems. One of the biggest problems is the corruption emerged to different way, even in more dangerous ways. People in political power, politics mafia, know that they just only have a short period of time in power and position, therefore they engage massive corruption while they were s

Doa Agur :“Permohonan untuk Kemurnian dan Integritas Hidup” Introduction Seorang staff senior di Perkantas pernah berkata, banyak alumni yang justru jatuh ketika berkelimpahan uang. Tampaknya ada satu pembinaan yang diperlukan untuk alumni-alumni kita yaitu bagaimana bagaimana menjaga hidup tetap berintegritas ketika berkelimpahan uang? Ya, tidak sedikit orang Kristen yang ketika mahasiswa menggebu-gebu melayani Tuhan, namun ketika berkelimpahan dengan harta benda, melupakan Tuhan dalam hidup mereka. Tak sedikit pula yang bermasalah dalam hal integritas, khususnya dalam hal keuangan, bahkan yang terlilit hutang atau ketahuan korupsi mengambil uang yang bukan haknya. Kita semua tidak imun terhadap masalah yang satu ini. Kita juga bisa gagal dan jatuh, mengambil keputusan yang salah yang merugikan diri sendiri dan orang lain. Hari ini kita belajar dari doa seorang yang bernama Agur yang meminta 2 hal yang khusus dalam hidupnya kepada Tuhan. Pertama: ia meminta dijauhkan dari k

I. Introduction Hard to understand. In Christianity, we believe in Trinity. But the problem is we can not find the term about Trinity in the bible. Some of the question raised are “Why do you Christians worship three God? What is the meaning of trinity?”, “From what verse or chapter or book in the bible explaining about the doctrine?”. It is difficult for Christians to answer these questions. But as Christians, we have to be prepare to give basic apologetical answers toward the questions of our faith. Doctrinal importance. When we read the gospel of John, we will find the fact that the relation between Father-Son is repetitively mentioned in the whole Gospel of John. There is also a section in this gospel talked about the promise of the Holy Spirit. The first section of this gospel magnificently introduces Jesus as divine. Through this writing I tried to explore about the Holy Trinity especially from the perspective of the Gospel of John. II. Context: The Jews' perspect