| Greetings, Thank you for stopping by my site, I hope that the resources herein would spur you on to further godliness and further understanding of the Sovereign Lord who is Creator of heaven and earth. By way of a brief introduction let me tell you a little more about myself, since that is probably why you arrived at this site. And if you just so happened to stumble in, come in, take a load off and have a seat and let us have a time of fellowship together. My Name is Gil, and yours? (sign guestbook) I am originally from the Pacific Island of the Phillippines. I lived with my grandparents until I was 12 and moved to the United States to live with my Mom and brother. It was a pretty crazy transistion and a very real sense of culture shock hit me. It was hard at first but I assimilated in time. I met some good friends there and we started to get into BMX freestyle and that was the beginning of my journey into xtreme sports. This led into some skateboarding, aggresive inline, mountain biking, and finally the one that won out over them all- surfing. My interest in art was always with me ever since I could remember. There is not a time that I can think of that I did not draw in some form or another...well perhaps before I was born :) I would say that my art work reflected what I was experiencing and believing at points in my life. Through my childhood I drew things that I liked, robots, cars, etc. In my Highschool years they really turned to darker themes, I was changing and going into further darkness in my actions and my sketchbooks reflected it. Death became the running theme in my work. It was a strange fixation on it and a constant fear of it. I could not escape the fact that I was going to die one day and did not know if I was going to heaven or even if there really was a heaven. I was brought up in a church that was only filled with empty tradition and the word of God was hid from me because of it. What then could I do when I was so tormented by death? I went into self deception trying to convince myself that I was never going to die, this was surely a fools errand. There was no way out of this place alive is all I knew. Check mate...death wins. However, God though I did not know it, had another purpose for me. Though I did not know Him He knew me from eternity and called me to repentance and faith in His Son and this is the account of that. I did not know the secret that was kept from ages past that were accompished in Christ The Lord. That He was promised to us by God to deliver us sinners from sin and death an the power of the devil. I was dead in death's dark hollow and I did not know it, but when God made me alive to believe in His Son, death no longer had dominion over me. This happened when He opened my ears to hear His word at Church. My friends Kathy and Kenny invited me to go with them and being curious went. The pastor opened up his sermon with Proverbs 3. I carefully heard the word preached for some reason, though prior to this I never attended to any sermon I heard. The passage spoke about Wisdom having long life and wealth in her hands, and for my who was dealing with the death's inevitability this was welcome news. The pastor rhetorically asked the people, "If I had an old ratty Bible on one side and a bunch of money on the left, which would you choose?" I silently motioned in my heart and perhaps it was noticeable in my appearance, that I would choose the Bible. For if Wisdom is the source of all these things why settle for the blessing when you can have the the Blesser. This was the time when the Lord's word was implanted in my heart. When I got home after two hours of church, which went by seemingly in a heart beat, I quickly brought out the old familiy Bible which was rarely ever opened. I scoured the pages to find the book of Proverbs in the sea of text. Finally, upon arriving at the passage I dove into the reading of it. Now for those of you who are familiar with Proverbs, you know it is not an emotional book, but when I read it I was driven to tears and weeping. My heart was opened to His majesty and my eyes to illumined by His glory. I had no clue what happened to me. The following week I asked the pastor of that church what happened to me, and he led me through the book of romans and prayed a prayer of belief upon The Lord Jesus. This was when I entered into the narrow road by the "yonder wicket gate" as John Bunyan spoke of in Pilgirim's Progress. And from there the road has been perilous, yet abounding with joy in knowing The Living God who loved me from before the world began and sent His only Son to make propitiation for my sins. That by Christ's humiliation and rejection, He might impute to me His perfect righteousness and be lifted up and accepted by Him. God be praised for this Divine exchange! My anthem then from this day to all eternity is, "More love to Thee, more love oh Christ to Thee!" Grace and peace to you dear visitor, In Christ's tender mercies, Gil |
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| VITALS: Male 31 yrs old 5'10" Brown-Black Hair same with eyes :) Theology: Radically Reformed 20pt Calvinist :P ; Theonomist, Reconstructionist, Postmillenialist Hobbies: Surfing, Hi end audio, Hi res audio, movies, drums, guitar, fine cigars and accesories :o) Music: Jazz Classical Rock Metal!!!!!! ------- Bands Artists Composers: Too many to name the Jazz people; Supertones, Audio Adrenaline, Bosstones, Metallica (oldschl) Beethoven, Mozart, Handel ------- Authors: Dr. Greg Bahnsen John Calvin CH Spurgeon JC Ryle -------- |
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