使徒行傳 17: 22-25

聖經 使徒行傳 17: 22-25

保羅站在亞略巴古當中，說：
眾位雅典人哪，我看你們凡事很敬畏鬼神。
我遊行的時候，觀看你們所敬拜的，遇見一座壇，上面寫著未識之神。你們所不認識而敬拜的，我現在告訴你們。

創造宇宙和其中萬物的神，既是天地的主，就不住人手所造的殿，也不用人手服事，好像缺少什麼；自己倒將生命、氣息、萬物，賜給萬人。

 photo by Oddgeir Hvidsten

Some New Understanding about Love/ 姜珏竹

Some New Understanding about Love

進階英文作文 2Ac 姜珏竹

I still remember one day, in our writing class, our teacher asked us to write an essay named “What is Love?” I was confused. Since for a long time, I have not thought about this “love” word. Maybe I think I have already grown-up; I could not just like a children to talk about love in my everyday life. I should do something mature. But I still wrote something about love.

It’s hard to define the exact meaning of love. But from my perspective, I believe that you can feel you are loved by someone and you could love anyone else in this world. That’s the greatest thing in this entire world. Love is you are trusted by others. Trust is easy to say but difficult to do. You could say that you trust everyone, but in your innermost, you barely trust anyone. It is the most beautiful thing that you know there is someone that you could always depend on. That faith could give you the magic power to achieve everything. When you are alone, when you fail, when you are depressed, or when you are in the roughest moment of your life, as long as you believe that you are loved, you are trusted, it’s enough. At least for me, it’s enough. Love is simple and complex.

The Four Loves: Reflections/ 陳虹文

The Four Loves: Reflections 

進階英文作文 2Ac 陳虹文

Introduction

    “God is love (11).” It was the first sentence and the key point in the introduction. First, it divided love into Gift-love and Need-love. Also, it talked about the differences of Gift-love and Need-love. For example, Need-love was more selfish than Gift-love. Then, it talked about God. It compared the demon with God. It seems that everything can’t break away God. 

    And I agree some sentences in the introduction. “We are born helpless (12).” I think it is right because we have to through others’ help to let us learn more, such as how to get along with others, how to try our best to help others, how to love, how to show our concern to someone and so on. 

    Also, “A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing (13)”. People are always greedy. When they get what they want, they will want to get more. It seems that it won’t have the day which people will feel satisfaction. Sometimes people will persist on something that is unnecessary and force other people to do it together. For me, it is a very horrible thing. It will not only damage the feeling between friends or family but also make other people feel antipathy to you.

The Four Loves: Reflections/劉泓垣

The Four Loves: Reflections 

基礎英文作文2Ac 劉泓垣

    The word love consists of four parts in Greek literature, is storge (affection), philia (friendship), eros (sexual or romantic love), and agape (selfless love).By introducing love, C.S. Lewis, the author of The Four Loves, made a definition and an enlightenment by his experiences to give readers a much more comprehensibility about love. In the following paragraphs, I am going to discuss the context and share the experiences I have learned in The Four Loves.

    Actually, there is a question before starting to talk about The Four Loves, and the question is that what do you think about love? Everyone has his or her own answer about it. About my answer, I think that love is to accompany with the particular persons I love and to have the basic living requirements with them. It is just my thought. However, after reading The Four Loves, I get a different feeling about the simple word, love.

The Reflection of The Four Loves/ 林欣瑜

The Reflection of The Four Loves

進階英文作文 2Ac 林欣瑜

What is love? I think love has many different kinds of types and forms. There are love between family, siblings, friends, and lovers. I think everyone has different definition about love. In my opinion, love can make people happy and also can make people painful. Love is like the sun. It is warm and bright. Love is like the thunder. It makes people feel scared and suffocating. Love is inevitable and we all need love in our life.

The Four Loves: Reflections/王詩瑋

The Four Loves: Reflections

進階英文作文2Ac 王詩瑋

What Is Love? Before I read The Four Loves, teacher asked students to write down our own thoughts about Love. I think, Love is multifarious, and love is also hazardous. If people fall in love, he or she may feel happy, upset, angry, helpless and painful. Love is a verb, it means one pays for each other unconditionally. If one loves someone, he will do anything for him and forgive him. But love is also dangerous; if someone wants to ask for the payback, or he doesn’t want to accept the fact that the one he loved doesn’t love him, he may do something horrible. Love is a difficult lesson for human beings to learn how to be a rational lover. And after I receive my paper from teacher, she gave me some ideas; she considered the most dangerous thing in love is you can’t control your heart. Exactly, I agree, and after I read the books, I could understand more about love.

The Four Loves: Reflections/ 盧羿君

The Four Loves: Reflections 

進階英文作文2Ac 盧羿君

     Before I read the masterpiece, The Four Loves, by C.S. Lewis, I began considering what love is. I continuously asked myself what is love. Eventually, I though it is difficult to define the meaning because everyone has a variety of ways to present or express their love. As far as I was concerned, it is important to concern about other people’s feeling and to have to be considerate to the others. Although I wouldn’t prefer to say something sweet to the person, I would help the person in action. For example, when the person is depressed or he faces some obstacles, I will give him my suggestions or listen to what he feels and give him a hug. I though giving someone supports is more significant than saying sweet. For me, when someone is willing to listen or to concern about me, I will feel toughed and I even may burst into tears.

What I Talk about

When I Talk about Love

                  

 --Reaction to The Four Loves by Lewis

進階英文作文2Ac 彭衡

 From Wikipedia, love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection to pleasure. Love has various types, towards other humans, one's self or animals. In a word, love is the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another. In The Four Loves, written by Lewis, I have read several different loves, and I picked these types love and talked some own opinion about love.

Affection

     Affection is the humblest love and the most widely diffused love (53).

The Four Loves: Reflections/ 鄭學為

The Four Loves: Reflections

進階英文作文 2Ac 鄭學為

When I was young, my parents took good care of me. They gave me everything I need. I didn’t need to worry about everything. According to the book named The Four Loves, this kind of love is called The Need-Love. My love to my parents is based on the need to survive. In other words, this love will fade away until I grow up because I totally have the ability to be on my own, and I don’t actually need my parents any more. But does it mean I will abandon my parents? Of course not! My love to my parents will turn out to be something bigger when I grow up and get more mature. I think it’s a kind of paying back my love to my parents. They treat me and raise me up nicely, and they ask nothing in return. As a good child of my parents, I will and I have to show my appreciation and love in return. So, the Need-Love is lasting, and it turns out to be something stronger.

Love/ 張瀟

Love

進階英文作文2Ac 張瀟

  The true essence of being alive is to love and be loved. Love is simple but also complicated at the same time. It’s simple because it consists of only four letters but complicated since it contains nearly all kinds of complex feelings, such as happy, sad, hopeful and despairing. We, including all the creatures on the earth, live for love and die for love too. Love is the reason why everything exists in the world, red or blue. What’s love? It’s too hard to give an exact definition even though you are the cleverest person. In the dictionary, it says “love is the feeling that a person’s happiness is very important to you, and the way you show this feeling in your behavior towards them.” I agree with this viewpoint for some part. However, love is not only a feeling or a way. It may be a certain substance or invisible spirit sometimes. In my opinion, love appears diversely in different people’s lives, so far as to different life phases of a person. Life is a wonderful journey with your loved people and love is the most beautiful scenery of your life.

  In this article, I want to talk about my understanding of love and my real experiences on love. Hope you will like my stories and they will remind you of your past with tears or smile. Now let’s begin with the original question “What’s love”.

Reflections on The Little Prince/ 金陽

Reflections on The Little Prince

基礎英文作文 1Bb 金陽

Although I’ve heard of the book a long time ago, I never really pick it up and read it or even try to understand what the book is about until recently. I’m glad I have the chance to read this amazing piece of work which seems like a children’s bed time story at the first glance of its cover. Maybe I’m started to becoming like the grown-ups, always judging things from its cover with the moral standards.

Before I started to get into this book, I thought it might just be another cheap literature until some of the words really hit me hard. It’s a strange feeling, but all the sudden I felt somewhat ashamed by my ignorance. It’s funny to say but The Little Prince had officially become one of my favorites out of all the books I’ve read.

There is no fancy choice of words or sophisticated plot in this book but simple dialogues. I was impressed by how simple and understandable this book is yet it has the power to get people thinking. I think the reason why I like this book is because I can relate myself to the author and the little prince.

    Sometimes I found myself caught in the middle their conversation and I would stop for a while and examine myself from the inside. I often find the satirical comments given by the little prince in a rather childish tone are sentimental, because it speaks the truth through a naïve mouth.

Xitou, Nantou, Taiwan

Xitou (溪頭)

Photo taken by Wen-Yong LIn

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審判使生命有意義/ 柯志明

審判使生命有意義

柯志明

20140603 大肚山研經室

按著定命，人人都有一死，死後且有審判。（來9:27）

    1.臺灣是個罪惡的島國，充滿假神、偶像、迷信、欺騙、偷盗、搶奪、貪婪、淫亂、姦淫、無情、忘恩、仇恨、毀謗、背叛、出賣、爭鬥、陷害、凶殺，以及對罪的輕忽與健忘。所有臺灣人都有分於這些罪惡，無人可置身事外。哪一個臺灣人能數算這島國的罪惡？姑不論隱藏的，公開顯明的都將細數不完。過去單純樸實的時代，罪惡猶能令人心驚膽顫，心生警惕，但生活複雜繁忙、自由解放而慾樂不息的今日，甚至極殘暴的凶殺案也不過是眾多資訊串中的一條「訊息」，很快就消失不見，被人遺忘。罪人的特質之一就是對罪無感、輕忽與健忘，今日的臺灣人就是如此。

    然而，罪惡不會自動消失，時間不會自然平反冤屈，歷史無法安撫冤魂，死亡也阻隔不了審判；每個罪人都要被追究、審判、清算與報應，執政掌權的如此，平民百姓也是如此。上帝必審判各人。臺灣人當然逃脫不了上帝的審判，一個也逃不掉！這是基督信仰的立場。

    言及上帝的審判不是恐嚇，也不是對現狀無奈的「宗教幻想」，更不是對公義絶望，而是要宣告：這是上帝的世界，人不得無法無天；公義終必如明光照耀，生命終將充滿意義，所有因罪惡而憂傷失望者與受害者都當受鼓勵與安慰。無論這世界如何罪惡、不義、荒謬、悲慘，都無法否定：道德有意義，為義受逼迫有意義，堅持良善有意義，追求真理、仁義、聖潔的生命有意義，因為有上帝的審判。對，因為有上帝的審判，所以生命不但有意義......（繼續閱讀）文章出處連結

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ESP 理學院 Content

Date	Content	Notes
02/18	1.      Introduction 2.      Self-Introduction
02/25	Speaking and Listening: 1.      Ask Ten Questions 2.      Group Discussion 3.      Introduce Your Friends 4.      Article 1: For Love or Money? (Conversation A)	1.      highlight 2.      stuff, declare, sustain, decent 3.      makes ends meet 4.      roll in dough
03/04	1.      Article 2: Lisa’s Job Hunt 2.      Article 3: Mastering the Interview 3.      Group Discussion 4.      Speaking: Summarizing the articles 5.      Conversation Practice 1	1.      Some good advice, Job hunt 2.      concerned, bilingual, openings, recent, resumé, intern, organized, strength, weakness, lead, thoughtful, acquaintance, network, employer, considerate, hunt, skill, industry, impressive, impression, thoroughly, hire, anxious, fit, interview, assistant position, qualification