Hello, Palau! Welcome to Saints on the Loose

 

 Hello, Palau!  Welcome to the world-wide group of readers from many countries who also visit this blog.  I hope you find some of the posts useful or meaningful. I was unable to find translation for Palauan, Sonsorolese, or Tobian.

The “Translate This Page” gadget directly above the “Total Pageviews” Counter has the capability of translating the English text of this blog directly into numerous other languages.

パラオの皆さん、こんにちは！このブログをご覧いただいている、世界中の様々な国からの読者の皆様へようこそ。記事が少しでもお役に立てたり、意義深いものになれば幸いです。

 「合計ページビュー」カウンターのすぐ上にある「このページを翻訳」ガジェットを使うと、このブログの英語テキストを様々な言語に直接翻訳できます。

Parao no minasan, kon'nichiwa! Kono burogu o goran itadaite iru, sekaijū no samazamana kuni kara no dokusha no minasama e yōkoso. Kiji ga sukoshi demo o yakunitate tari, igibukai mono ni nareba saiwaidesu. `Gōkei pējibyū' kauntā no sugu ue ni aru `kono pēji o hon'yaku' gajetto o tsukau to, kono burogu no eigo tekisuto o samazamana gengo ni chokusetsu hon'yaku dekimasu.

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Japanese Christian Music

This singing group is Joyful Noise.  The song is Shu Wa Subarashii - Jesus is Wonderful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlUULqTnIY

Here are the lyrics:
kansha no kokoro de (thanksgiving from the heart)
Shu Iesu (Christ Jesus) ni utao ~~~ (sing it to Christ Jesus)
sambi no uta koe (praise of voices singing)
Shu Iesu ni sasageyou (give it to Christ Jesus) 
(2x)
chorus
Shu wa subarashii (Christ is so wonderful)
subarashii (wonderful)
Shu Iesu wo tataeyo (Praise Christ Jesus)(2x)
repeat part 1
repeat chorus
repeat part 1
and just repeat repeat repeat 

Found in You (In Japanese)

There Already, Waiting to Explode

Sequoyah (b. Ca 1760 d. 1843) was a Cherokee silversmith who, although he didn’t speak a word of English, noticed that the white men communicated using “talking leaves.”  He thought that this was a wonderful idea and decided in about 1809 to create a way to make “talking leaves” for the Cherokee language.

His first attempt was a logographic writing system (as in Chinese or Japanese).  He quickly realized that there were far too many Cherokee words for this to be practical.

What Sequoyah finally decided to do, rather than copying the English language alphabetic system, was to use symbols for each sound used in the Cherokee language (a syllabic system).  This resulted in 85 characters which represented all the sounds.

The Cherokee nation had no tradition of a written language, and there was some initial resistance, but Sequiyah’s alphabet began to spread rapidly among an excited populace, and, by 1825, it was declared the official written language of the Cherokee nation.  In the span of sixteen years, the Cherokees went from being totally illiterate to almost 100% literate.  I believe that Sequoyah’s alphabet awakened something which was already there among the Cherokee people.  It just needed a spark to make it explode.

The same principle applies to the unevangelized.  Many are aware that something is missing, that there has to be more to life than just living a few years trying to be happy and staying out of trouble … and then dying.  They are like the Cherokee tribe, ready to explode.  They just need to hear, they need a spark.

“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.  Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.  Psalm 19:1-3 

“The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.” Romans 1:18-20