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  August 06, 2010
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Two Korean villages named as UNESCO's World Heritage sites

Andong City's Hahoe Village and Gyeongju City's Yangdong village, which are the two most representative historic clan villages in Korea, were registered on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list on Saturday. The listing of Hahoe and Yangdong is the 10th for Korea on the UNESCO list. The World Heritage Committee (WHC) met to review candidates for inclusion on its World Heritage List ..
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10,000 foreign workers will be additionally brought into Korea

The government held on July 30 the Foreign Manpower Policy Committee meeting and decided to increase the number of foreign workers to be newly brought into Korea this year by 10,000 from the originally planned 24,000 to 34,000, which stands similar to last year’s. This decision came as an extension of support measures for small and mid-sized companies that have been undergoing ..
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Seoul to incubate 1,000 green businesses by 2013

The Korean government will nurture 1,000 enterprises specialized in green industry in the field of the parts and materials sector by 2013. The Small and Medium Business Administration, Korea’s ministry-level agency supporting small and medium sized businesses, announced its plan to assist green businesses at the 8th Green Growth Committee meeting held on Jul. 13, led by..
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African journalists taste a slice of true Korea

In the past, all they knew about Korea was the Korean War. Some of them even confused South Korea with the communist North. However, all these misconceptions were put to rest, thanks to their first-ever trip to Korea organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The five journalists from the leading dailies of Egypt, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria and Tanzania had a chance to get..
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Week of August 6

When God Sighed
by Max Lucado

Two days ago I read a word in the Bible that has since taken up residence in my heart.

To be honest, I didn't quite know what to do with it. It's only one word, and not a very big one at that. When I ran across the word, (which, by the way, is exactly what happened; I was running through the passage and this word came out of nowhere and bounced me like a speed bump) I didn't know what to do with it. I didn't have any hook to hang it on or category to file it under.

It was an enigmatic word in an enigmatic passage. But now, forty-eight hours later, I have found a place for it, a place all its own. My, what a word it is. Don't read it unless you don't mind changing your mind, because this little word might move your spiritual furniture around a bit.

Look at the passage with me.

Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis. There some people brought a man to him who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged him to place his hand on the man.

After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man's ears. Then he spit and touched the man's tongue. He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him,"Ephphatha!" (which means, "Be opened!"). At this, the man's ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly. (Mark 7:31-35)

Quite a passage, isn't it?

Jesus is presented with a man who is deaf and has a speech impediment. Perhaps he stammered. Maybe he spoke with a lisp. Perhaps, because of his deafness, he never learned to articulate words properly.

Jesus, refusing to exploit the situation, took the man aside. He looked him in the face. Knowing it would be useless to talk, he explained what he was about to do through gestures. He spat and touched the man's tongue, telling him that whatever restricted his speech was about to be removed. He touched his ears. They, for the first time, were about to hear.

But before the man said a word or heard a sound, Jesus did something I never would have anticipated.

He sighed.

I might have expected a clap or a song or a prayer. Even a "Hallelujah!" or a brief lesson might have been appropriate. But the Son of God did none of these. Instead, he paused, looked into heaven, and sighed. From the depths of his being came a rush of emotion that said more than words.

Sigh. The word seemed out of place.

I'd never thought of God as one who sighs. I'd thought of God as one who commands. I'd thought of God as one who weeps. I'd thought of God as one who called forth the dead with a command or created the universe with a word ... but a God who sighs?

Perhaps this phrase caught my eye because I do my share of sighing.

I sighed yesterday when I visited a lady whose invalid husband had deteriorated so much he didn't recognize me. He thought I was trying to sell him something.

I sighed when the dirty-faced, scantily dressed, six-year-old girl in the grocery store asked me for some change.

And I sighed today listening to a husband tell how his wife won't forgive him.

No doubt you've done your share of sighing.

If you have teenagers, you've probably sighed. If you've tried to resist temptation, you've probably sighed. If you've had your motives questioned or your best acts of love rejected, you have been forced to take a deep breath and let escape a painful sigh.

I realize there exists a sigh of relief, a sigh of expectancy, and even a sigh of joy. But that isn't the sigh described in Mark 7. The sigh described is a hybrid of frustration and sadness. It lies somewhere between a fit of anger and a burst of tears.

The apostle Paul spoke of this sighing. Twice he said that Christians will sigh as long as we are on earth and long for heaven. The creation sighs as if she were giving birth. Even the Spirit sighs as he interprets our prayers. (Romans 8:22-27)

All these sighs come from the same anxiety; a recognition of pain that was never intended, or of hope deferred.

Man was not created to be separated from his creator; hence he sighs, longing for home. The creation was never intended to be inhabited by evil; hence she sighs, yearning for the Garden. And conversations with God were never intended to depend on a translator; hence the Spirit groans on our behalf, looking to a day when humans will see God face to face.

And when Jesus looked into the eyes of Satan's victim, the only appropriate thing to do was sigh. "It was never intended to be this way," the sigh said. "Your ears weren't made to be deaf, your tongue wasn't made to stumble." The imbalance of it all caused the Master to languish.

So, I found a place for the word. You might think it strange, but I placed it beside the word comfort, for in an indirect way, God's pain is our comfort.

When God Whispers Your NameAnd in the agony of Jesus lies our hope. Had he not sighed, had he not felt the burden for what was not intended, we would be in a pitiful condition. Had he simply chalked it all up to the inevitable or washed his hands of the whole stinking mess, what hope would we have?

But he didn't. That holy sigh assures us that God still groans for his people. He groans for the day when all sighs will cease, when what was intended to be will be.

From God Came Near: Chronicles of the Christ
Copyright (Thomas Nelson, 1999) Max Lucado

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"And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children...."

--Deuteronomy 6:6-7

As you might imagine, over the years many men have expressed to me their concerns about being a good father. They've said things like, "It's too late for me. I didn't have a good dad and I don't know how to be one."

To these men I say, "It's not too late! You can get on track and become a hero to your kids." I absolutely know it's possible because I've seen it happen with my own eyes.

You see, your kids don't need you to be perfect, but they do need you to be present and engaged, to be a godly man who shows them love, and to invest yourself and your time in them.

It's a myth to say that you spend brief but quality time with your kids. That might make you feel better, but it doesn't accomplish in your children's lives what God needs you to accomplish.

Please hear me—this is so important. There is no substitute for "you" in the lives of your children. You can't just delegate spiritual nurture to their mother and call it done.

Show and tell your children that you love them. Live your faith in front of them. Be godly and consistent and you'll be on your way to being your kids' hero!

IT'S A MYTH TO SAY YOU SPEND BRIEF BUT QUALITY TIME WITH YOUR KIDS. 


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