Family Appointment with El Shaddai in High Definition (HD)

 

After twelve years and nine months of broadcasting in Standard Definition (480i, 4:3 SDTV) format, The weekly Family Appointment with El Shaddai held at the Outdoor Stage, Amvel City or at the Quirino Grandstand, Rizal Park and Tuesday fellowships at the Cuneta Astrodome or at the Rizal Baseball Stadium or at the El Shaddai International House of Prayer switched to High Definition (1080i, 16:9 HDTV) and Ultra High Definition (3840p 16:9 UHDTV) starting on January 3, 2004.

On January 6, 2007, DBS TV switched to MPEG-4 AVC for its satellite broadcasts.

A scene from the three-in-a-half hour healing message by the Servant-Leader during the Family Appointment with El Shaddai at Quirino Grandstand, Rizal Park, Manila where the millions of prayer partners had their opened umbrellas inverted to catch El Shaddai miracle hankies being dropped from a helicopter.

The Buhay Makulay Productions 4K HDR outside broadcast truck is located at the north wing of the grandstand.

The live TV coverage of the Weekly Family Appointment with El Shaddai is aired over:

• SkyCable Metro Manila Channel 155 (SD) and 251 (HD)
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• SkyCable Balayan, Tanauan and Zamboanga Channel 2
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• Agoncillo Cable TV Agoncillo, Batangas Channel __
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• Alpha Vision Cable Corporation Bustos, Angat and Norzagaray, Bulacan Channel 2
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• Bago City Cable TV Bago City, Negros Occidental Channel 24
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• Balayan Cable Network, Inc. Balayan, Batangas Channel __
• Bambista Cable TV, Inc. Bautista and Bayambang Pangasinan Channel __
• Banahaw Utilities Corporation Lucban, Quezon Channel 3
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EDITORIAL - Gerrymandering in a pandemic

Not even a pandemic, it seems, can stop politicians from carving out fiefdoms at taxpayers’ expense. With the next three generations of Filipinos now buried up to their necks in debt incurred to finance the pandemic response, precious public funds will have to be spent for a plebiscite to subdivide Palawan into not just two but three provinces.

Earlier this month, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases spent time to come up with the health protocols for the conduct of the plebiscite in the first quarter of 2021. The plebiscite is needed to ratify the gerrymandering of Palawan, as provided under Republic Act 11259 that President Duterte signed into law in April last year.

When the law was signed, the joke was that the three provinces would be called Palawan, Palatu and Palatri – a play on one, two and three – but taxpayers aren’t laughing. If ever the plebiscite approves the gerrymandering, public funds will have to be added, in perpetuity, to the annual national expenditure program. A new province will need its own congressional representation, a governor, vice governor and provincial council – with the additional infrastructure and bureaucracy to support the new offices.

Improving public service is supposedly the reason for gerrymandering. Does this mean the current service is not satisfactory? Why is it that when the country is faced with underwhelming service, the answer is to create a new executive department, or a new province or congressional district?

The COVID-19 pandemic has sent the economy into an unprecedented recession. From impoverished families to middle-class professionals to micro, small and medium enterprises, everybody is in dire need of government assistance to get back on one’s feet. Even certain wealthy industrialists are taking a heavy hit in their bottom line, impairing their capacity to provide jobs and contribute to economic growth.

What does the government do? It moves to further bloat the bureaucracy, and prepares to add to the ever-growing list of lawmakers fighting over personal control of people’s money. Don’t we have better and definitely more urgent uses for acutely limited public funds? In this terrible public health crisis, gerrymandering is where our taxes will go.

https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2020/10/31/2053537/editorial-gerrymandering-pandemic

Is Culture Right Or Wrong?

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  1 John 2:15

"What is culture?" asks an article in National Geographic magazine.  Answering the question, the writer says, "Even anthropologists struggle to define the word. Food, dress, tools, dwellings, laws, manners, art, myths--culture can be described as the manifestations of human existence that are transmitted from one generation to the next, a pool of the collective intellect and memory."

I think of culture as the background and frame of a painting, the subject of which is your life and family.  Culture is powerful.  It is a vast network of threads, and colors, ideas, and thoughts which are never static.  Some anthropologists believe that our world is experiencing a "mass extinction" of cultures, a crisis they believe to be as profound as the loss of biological diversities.

Since the end of World War 2 our world has experienced cross-pollination of cultures as the result of the emerging media which has reduced our world to a global village, using the term Marshall McLuhan made popular. Art, music, films, fashions, and languages have blended.  If you question that, notice how the French have fought unsuccessfully to inoculate their language against English expressions and idioms, yet English has succeeded as the lingua franca of science, commerce, diplomacy, and pop culture.  In every language, today, there are hundreds of cross-over expressions which are now accepted in every day use--hence, the blending of cultures into a kind of pastel sameness.

It is this powerful backdrop of culture in which you find yourself often asking, "Is this right or wrong?"  One painting with a background of brilliant white stands out in stark contrast to ninety-nine with dark backgrounds.  That expression "everybody's doing it" may well describe the ninety-nine which make you different, even odd, and certainly unique.

Is culture right or wrong?  It is righteous or sinful?  Or do those terms even apply?  I'm convinced that culture is amoral, neither right nor wrong in itself apart from its relationship to what God has revealed in His Word.  And it is at this point that we have a sure measure by which we evaluate our cultures, and then come down on one side or the other of the issue.

In a sense you are like the actor on the stage, and the lights and backdrop are the culture which changes, and as it does it makes you appear in a different light entirely.

If God has not revealed His will for your personal life, then you should go with the flow of culture in that your sexuality, your business ethics, your personal expression as to what clothing you wear or what body art may adorn your exterior are all reflections of your culture.

If, however, culture is part of that broader context of "the world"--the one which John said we are not to love nor be part of, then how we live as the children of God must, of necessity, contradict the culture in which we live.

From the days of Lot, Abraham's nephew who lived in the ancient city of Sodom, to the present, the person who seeks to please God will constantly wage war with his culture, and feel that he walks out of synch with the vast majority of his contemporaries.

If your back is to God, then the dark shadow of culture won't bother you much, but if you walk towards the light, you must put aspects of our culture strictly behind you and separate yourself from them.  This requires decisions which may be out of vogue, tough ones which make you stand apart from the crowd.

Ours is a changing culture, but presiding over the changes is a changeless God who still speaks to His children saying, "This is the way; walk ye in it."  Think about it.

Resource reading: Genesis 19:1-29

https://www.guidelines.org/devotional/is-culture-right-or-wrong/