Two Ways of Street
Topic: Living Life

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:13-14 KJV)

 

Even though this passage of Scripture is related to Heaven and Hell, I want to talk about there are only two ways to live a life before entering to eternality. One way leads to God and another way leads to the lake of fire. Former President Barak Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and Joel Osteen believe that there are many ways to Heaven. However, according to the Bible, there is only one way to Heaven. Jesus said in John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." Hebrews 1:1-2, "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds…"

 

Why does the road to Heaven is so narrow? Does God want everybody to go to His place? Even though God wants everybody enter to His place, He wants us to make decision which way we should live for. Broad way, there are lots of way to live for. But sometimes, it's confusing, because there is no focal point. God wants us to have freedom to live in this planet Earth, but He wants us to focus on our destination.

 

Psalms 1 addresses that there are only two ways to live in this Earth. Even the world have many religions, there are only two ways for us to live a life. We can live godly or ungodly way and there is no third choice. In the beginning, there was not any type of religion until Satan entered into Garden of Eden to trick the first woman of all creatures, which God had ever made (Genesis 3). Throughout the generations, we see that God's people worshipped pagan gods. Even today, we have many world religions as well as Christian denominations. It is sad that our Christian root has divided into many belief systems. This is why we have many Bible versions. We cannot agree to each other on what God's words said in the Holy Bible. We let Catholic pope dominated the belief system with the Words of God. As a result, some beliefs contains with mixture of paganism in Christian churches, such as Christian holidays (Easter, Halloween, and Christmas). If you'd like to find more information on holidays, you can go to MGJC Web Ministry (www.mgjcweb.org) for more details.

 

So why does lovely God want us to walk through narrow road to reach the prize?

 

• We can focus only one goal at a time. If we'd do too much, we'd be miserable because the lack of organization .
• Broad road leads to confusion and dissatisfaction of our lives.
• God wants us to focus in Him, so He can walk with us through difficulties.

 

Many of you have faced difficulties since the pandemic hits throughout the world. Many of you are stuck in home because of Covid. I know you are tired of  being stuck in home, got lay-off from your job, or working your job at home. I know I am. But we must not give our hope down and let the devil beats us up. Instead, it is the time for us to turn our focal point to Jesus.

 

God planned to send His Son, Jesus Christ, to us to pay our sins, so we can have free access and have personal relationship with Him. Would you like to have personal relationship with God? If you’d like to know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, I’d like to encourage you to do two simple things. First, confess your sins and invite Jesus Christ to your life. Paul said in Romans 10:9-11, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” There is no sinner prayer formula. Instead, you just talk to God at where you are now. Secondly, I’d like to encourage you to find a good solid biblical teaching church and Christian friends. They can help you to build strong relationship with God. If you’d need further assistance, you can email me at mgjcinfo@mgjcweb.org or visit my ministries website at www.mgjcweb.org for further resources.

Three Cycles of Life (Part 1)
Topic: Living Life

"The life of this remarkable man, who lived for 120 years, is divided into three periods of forty years…" (All the Messianic Prophecies of the Bible by Herbert Lockyer, p.223)

 

What are they?

 

Lockyer continues:

 

"Forty years training in the arts of Egypt, and learning to be SOMEBODY.

 

"Forty years training in God's school of the desert, and learning to be NOBODY.

 

"Forty years as Leader and Law-Giver of Israel, and learning that God is EVERYBODY."

 

Of course, Herbert Lockyer is talking about the life of Moses and is comparing to the life of Jesus. Remember, in Exodus, after the death of Joseph, Egyptians was under controlled by the new king, who did not know about Joseph and his people of Israel. The Bible doesn't tell how this new Pharaoh got the spotlight. Because he was very strict, Moses' mother hid her boy from the sight of this new king for three months (Exodus 2:2). Unfortunately, she cannot kept hiding her child longer. To save the child, she had to give her boy away into the river. Or else, Egyptian has to kill the child. This also happened when Jesus was born by Mary. As we read in Matthew 2, we see that King Herod tried to find the Child to kill Him by murdering every children who were under two-year of age. Why two and under?

 

We need to understand that it took for wise men traveled from Egypt to Bethlehem by walking or riding the camel. They had no fancy cars or some kinds of motor transportation, except camels. By the time when these wise men made to Bethlehem, Jesus was little bit older--1 or 2 years. Don't trust the Christmas cards that show the three wise men were at the barn with Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. We even don't know that there were 3 wise men, because the Bible never mentioned this.

 

Exodus 2:3-4 says, "And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him." How do you feel if this is your situation? You would be disturbed and interrupted. Because she had no choice to keep her child, she had to let him go; otherwise, Egyptian will find and kill him. It's sad situation, but God has a great plan for him. Verse 5 says, "And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it." Even though she didn't attend to give her son to Pharaoh's daughter, God has a plan for him. Throughout the first forty years of Moses, he was living like Egyptian. He didn't know where he arrived from originally until God revealed to him.

 

Do you know where you originally from? Of course, we all were from mothers' womb. But Jeremiah 1:4-5 says, "…the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." If you don't know who formed you, I like to invite you to know Person, who formed you. If you don't have your personal relationship with Jesus, I like to encourage you to know Him today. This is not from TD Jake, John Hagee, or any other preacher. Being a Christian doesn't mean that you'd need to be religious. It's about establishing your relationship with Creator.

 

I don't know what are you going through or what your condition is. But you have purpose to live in this world today. Live your life by witnessing for God to other people around you. Even if you have disability in all your life, God can use you to share His love and message of hope to others.  God said in Jeremiah 1:5, "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." The Bible is also filled with people who lived with disabilities in both Old and New Testaments. Even if we can't see the result, it doesn't mean that God didn't do good job to heal our sickness. Almost 2000 years ago, God brought His Son, Jesus, to demonstrate His love for us by paying our sins by dying on the Cross. His people didn't pay attention to Him while He was on the earth. But Jesus didn't reject His people. This is how much God loves us. But we have job to do.

 

Jesus said in John 15:16, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you." We need to bear fruits (literally, it means from our actions). If you bare child of God, you have been calling to be a royal priesthood (I Peter 2:9) or be a witness to your community and other parts of world (Acts 1:8).

 

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Facing the Giant
Topic: Living Life

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. (Ephesians 6:10 KJV)

 

How many of us have giants in our lives? Giants can be anything that would try to block us to reaching the goals. We all have problems in our lives. There is no one who doesn’t have some kinds of life issues. Our life problems can be either big or small. Even Jesus faced the giant while He was living in this earth. Yet, He was able to conquer the problems in His life.

 

I understand that some people may think living a life is the ticket to the Heaven. Even though there is a truth to this; yet, it’s still further away from the truth. There is no guarantee that just living a life will have the ticket to Heaven. Just committed to the religious ritual and tradition don’t make us to have the key to Heaven. We need to establish our personal relationship with Jesus Christ, while we are living in this world, and to do His will. It’s very sad some people think that if they’d do many good deeds would make them to enter the kingdom of God.

 

I love what Jeremiah 1:5 says, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” This verse is talking about God’s relationship with us. Before we were born, God wanted us to be somebody that would represent Him. We all have called by God to be His representatives. I don’t care if you were born from the disability or not. Yet, we have choice who we want to serve—Satan or God. There is no third choice. If you’d think that Virgin Mother Mary can help you, think again. Even she received a favor from God, it didn’t mean that she became a mother of God eternally.

 

We can conquer our problems with the help from God. He is your and my shepherd (Psalms 23:1) who supplies all our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19). We can count on Him if we’d do our parts.

 

God planned to send His Son, Jesus Christ, to us to pay our sins, so we can have free access to God and develop personal relationship with Him. Would you like to have personal relationship with God? If you’d like to know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, I’d like to encourage you to do two simple things. First, confess your sins and invite Jesus Christ to your life. Paul said in Romans 10:9-11, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” There is no sinner prayer formula. Instead, you just talk to God at where you are now. Secondly, I’d like to encourage you to find a good solid biblical teaching church and Christian friends. They can help you to build strong relationship with God. If you’d need further assistance, you can email me at mgjcwebminstries@mgjcweb.org or visit my ministries website at www.mgjcweb.org for further resources.

Where was Your Beginning?
Topic: Living Life

Where was Your Beginning?

 

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. (Jeremiah 1:5 KJV)

 

I’d like to bring up with the beginning of our lives. We all have beginning points to our life journey. In Genesis 1, we read how this world began and how we were formed. Unfortunately, there are some scientists believe that we were formed from apes (evolution theory). Or they believe that the universal began by big explosion or Big Bang Theory.

 

We all have beginnings. Even though we came from our mothers’ wombs, God formed us before the mothers would conceive their children. Before we were born, God has planned for our future. We might not hear from the pulpit about God’s plans for our future, because it’s all about our own wills. Hebrews 11:40 says, “God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.”

 

Because we all have sinned against God (Romans 3:23), we have forgotten our first love with God. Nowadays, we see many unborn children are dying every minute because we have run away from God and decided what we want to do. Since we let open the door for the other religion systems would enter into our homeland, we began to spend more time with the other gods. Even though we don’t have any wooden image of idols, we worship our material possessions. It is sad that we let the parents do the abortion process to murder their own babies. We do not have the right to kill any unborn child in any circumstance. President or judge doesn’t have the right to endorse this unlawful procedure. But we continue to see and hear that our politicians would keep endorsing the unlawful legislations, such as LGBT Rights, homosexual marriage, abortion, taking the prayer away from the public arena, replace the Christianity with the other religions, and more. Most televangelists don’t preach the gospel from the Bible anymore, because it’s all about me, myself, and I. What I can do to receive the blessing (money) from God?

 

Where is your first love with God? God can bless you, but according to His will. In Isaiah 58:8-9 says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” We need to establish our relationship with Him. Do you want new beginning? Are you exhausted of being someone that you don’t want to be?

 

Do you want transform your life to spend eternality with Jesus Christ? God planned to send His Son, Jesus Christ, to us to pay our sins, so we can have free access to God and develop personal relationship with Him. Would you like to have personal relationship with God? If you’d like to know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, I’d like to encourage you to do two simple things. First, confess your sins and invite Jesus Christ to your life. Paul said in Romans 10:9-11, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” There is no sinner prayer formula. Instead, you just talk to God at where you are now. Secondly, I’d like to encourage you to find a good solid biblical teaching church and Christian friends. They can help you to build strong relationship with God.

What is the Purpose of Life?
Topic: Living Life

With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. (Psalm 91:16 KJV)

 

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. (Psalm 90:9-10 KJV)

 

Have you wondered what the purpose of your life here is on earth? Most of us may know that God created us to enjoy our lives here on earth. But the ultimate reason why God created us is that He’d like to have relationship with each of us. It is sad that the most people may don’t think about God.

 

Currently, we are living in this world to satisfy ourselves rather than God. For example, some Christian leaders would like to try to climb the ladder of leadership positions through receiving approval from the people rather than God (and then people). I don’t think there is any higher church leadership position than the fivefold ministry that God gave each of us (Ephesians 4:11). Being apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher don’t mean one leadership position higher than the other four, but he/she may have more responsibilities to take care of his/her flocks. Even non-bible college persons can minister to the others about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and heal the sick.

 

Living a life doesn’t mean that we have the right to murder someone, especially unborn children, to please ourselves. I know some of you may disagree on this. Of all US Presidents, Barak Obama is the worse president to lead the nation. This doesn’t mean former presidents were not worst leaders. Since he took the office in 2009, President Obama decided to vote/sign to legalize abortion, LGBT rights, remove Christian symbols from the university auditorium, and refused to participate the National Day of Prayer. Just named few. God wants everybody, even unborn children, to have life before He'd take us to eternal home. If the mother would decide to abort her unborn child, she'd be considered as a murder and deserve to face her death bed through Capitol punishment. That was then. But now, the people legalized for the women to go through abortion to try to satisfy their lives. It is sad that our current president favored the abortion process. Anybody cannot judge the unborn child to have life or not, not even President and Supreme Court, except God. Only God has the right for the unborn child to have life on earth or Heaven.

 

The purpose of living a life is living a life for God rather than for someone else.

Turn Our Hearts to God
Topic: Living Life

And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. (Luke 1:14-16 KJV)

Jesus didn’t come to the earth to just save us from the darkness, but to have relationship with us. In Luke 1:14 says that many shall rejoice at His birth. Of course, this verse has to do with John the Baptist. He was the forerunner for Jesus Christ. His job description was to prepare a way for Jesus would come to save His people, including us.

Many Christian churches have slowly departed from the faith today. We often translate that having a revival meeting is for sinners to repent. Even though this is a part of it, revival means to restoration or reenergize. We, as the body of Christ, need to refresh our spirits with God, so we can do the work of God. We can reach to the lost souls and bring them to Jesus Christ.

Verse 15 says that John will be filled with the Holy Spirit. I know that some churches don’t believe in Trinity—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit has the ability to bring us to remember what God told us. He was in Genesis 1. John 14:26 says, “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John the Baptist was the last prophet before Jesus would take over his job. Many of the people of Israel shall turn to God, because the revival was breaking out to restore the children of God.

When was the last time your church had a revival? If your church’s revival meeting would be for saving the lost souls, it will not be your church to reestablish your relationship with Jesus Christ.

Flesh vs. Spirit
Topic: Living Life

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. (Ezekiel 36:26-27 KJV)

Today, I’d like to share with you on what God has been showing me lately. I believe that we are the last generation of the Book of Acts and Book of Revelation that will be fulfilled in our lifetimes.

The Book of Acts has never been finished because it’s ongoing process, even to this day. As we see in our society, the churches have been growing since the time of Jesus. However, there are many warfare going on within churches. And we are beginning to see some pastors expose to the world. Even though TBN and CBN are the most popular Christian Networks in America, some churches have been reported to the news media on their business tax deductions, such as Kenneth Copland and Joyce Meyer. Pastor Joel Osteen exposed his true identity of his ministry through CNN King Larry Live in June 2005. According to his interview, Pastor Joel Osteen doesn’t believe the doctrine of sin, divine judgment, hell, and false teachings. In fact, he believes that there are many ways to Heaven, just as Dr. Billy Graham told on nationwide while he was on Larry King Lives.

We need to be right with God. We cannot be double minded to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Our current president is beginning to expose to the world as he’s heading to the development of the New World Order Plan. If the U.S. and the rest of the world would sign the microchip treaty by 2017, it would be ready for the Antichrist would come to the scene. But, those who are truly born-again Christian, we would be gone to be with our Heavenly Father before the appearance of Antichrist.

Are you ready for Jesus’ return? If not, I’d like to encourage you to accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior today.

A Better Day Ahead
Topic: Living Life

The Way of Following Jesus
Topic: Living Life
And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. (Mark 1:34 KJV)

Who do you like to follow to live a life? This is the easy question, but maybe the hardest to answer. Most of us in childhood, we can have dream of anything we want. Children may want to be themselves as pop stars, doctors, mommies, and daddies. But as they’d grow older, they begin to narrow their dreams. Paul said in I Corinthians 13:11, “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”



But there is the one of important question to answer yourselves: Whom do you like to follow for the rest of eternality? We may not hear this question from the televangelists or pulpits. But this is the most important question for us to answer ourselves. Are we going to follow Jesus Christ as our Lord and King or reject Him and loose our eternal life insurance? We must understand when we are on the judgment seat, God is not going to ask us about how much of money we made or how many people we led to Him, but what did we do with the gift of salvation that He gave us.

It is sad that we do not hear the message on SALVATION as often. Today, we may hear the sermons on Christian living value, financial success, end time, but no salvation message. We need the salvation message more than ever. So we can share the Gospel message to the other people. That’s all Gospel about.

We must deny ourselves to Jesus Christ. This means that we must live as Jesus lived and follow His words. Do we know why the world hated Christians in early Church era, but love them more today? We are not radical for Jesus enough than as in the early church era. Today, the world loves Christians so much because many church leaders bring messages on what they want to hear. This is why some preachers are popular today, such as TD Jakes, Joyce Meyer, Pat Robertson, Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, and Benny Hinn.

We cannot please both God and the world. We must pick which side we are on. Jesus said that in order to follow Him by denying ourselves and follow Him. Even though this is not a popular message today, we just cannot tell God to save us without denying ourselves first.

Two Ways to Live a Life (Part II)
Topic: Living Life

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. (Matthew 24:7-8 KJV)

I believe we are in the last generation before Jesus’ return on the earth to establish His kingdom. As we see in today’s news, our nation is beginning to taste another depression era due to economic crisis on the prices of gas and food. CNN reported that we are getting ready to reach $6/gallon on gas. In political area, many state leaders are arguing about to legalize the homosexual rights. In addition, we are getting ready to vote our 44^th president between McCain (R) and Obama (D); and many people have created problems between of these two candidates.

What have we gone wrong? Why many of us have a hard time to live in our country? As we see today, we cannot live comfortably with our people. Instead, we’d need to create some issues out of it. We have forgotten the right standard to live a life for eternal purpose. Nowadays, many churches are separated from the unity and created some denominational churches. Again, to have denominational churches mean to create other religious groups within the Christianity, such as Mormonism, Baptist, Pentecostal, Evangelical, and United Methodist.

 

To live for God, we don’t need denominationalism in our vocabulary. Instead, we need a house where we can come together, in unity, to worship God through His Son, Jesus Christ.

Two Ways to Live a Life (Part I)
Topic: Living Life

How to be Wise Man
Topic: Living Life

The Book of Proverbs was written by a foolish man who turned against God and learned hard way to live for Him. We know this man as King Solomon. King Solomon began his life by following God’s advice. We understand that God choose Solomon to build His temple rather than his father, David. In I Kings 3, Solomon didn’t ask God for the worldly power, but he asked for wisdom. As a result, God gave him more than what he asked for.

 

“And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment; Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.” (I King 3:11-13.)

 

The word fear in Proverbs 1:7 means reverend or respect. To be wise men, we need to learn how to respect one another. Even though Jesus is considered as our Savior and Friend, we also need to respect Him as our Lord and King. Jesus has the authority to judge us or save us when we stand up at the Judgment.

Even though King Solomon sinned against God, he came to realization of his sins and reunited with Him. That is wise decision King Solomon had done for his God and his people.

Behind the Scene
Topic: Living Life

Sing Unto the Lord
Topic: Living Life

Which Fruit are You Representing?
Topic: Living Life

Who Are You in Christ?
Topic: Living Life

Responding to Challenges
Topic: Living Life
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. (Job 2:9 KJV) What if your partner would give a suggestion to release all your stresses, would you do it? What if your partner suggestion to curse God to release all your problems, would you do it? Living an earthly life is not easy and sometime we decide to blame someone for our own problems. I’ve been guilty of doing this when the problem would occur in my life. As Job’s wife, I’d want to blame God for my problem. It’s not easy for us when the problems would come reality. Look at Job. When Satan attacked his properties and people, Job struggled to resolve all of his issues. When his wife tried to help him, she suggested him to curse God and die. That was negative responding to assist her husband’s problem. Job’s respond to his wife suggestion was, "But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips." (Job 2:10.) Even when all his friends’ were not help him, Job didn’t angry to God. Jesus did the same thing, when He was tempted by Satan in the wilderness for forty days (Matthew 4:1-11). What will your respond be when the tragedy would hit you? In 1 Peter 5:7 tells us, "Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you." God can help us to go through our problems if we let them go. In fact, Paul says, "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:6-7.) We need to learn how to be patient to solve our own problems by trusting God. We have the power to go through the life challenges. That is prayer—communication between God and us. Read the Acts to see how Peter set free from the prison when he prayed to God. Read the life of Daniel, when he was in the lion den and set free through the power of prayer. We all face obstacles in daily basis. However, we cannot solve our problems without God’s resources. We cannot blame God for our problems unless we’d seek His face to face our obstacles.

Test of Wilderness I
Topic: Living Life

War Between God and Satan
Topic: Living Life

Who Am I to be In the Battlefield?
Topic: Living Life