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Positive Life Radio - http://www.plr.org/ Do listen to this, it's real good stuff, uplifting alternative Christian music to widen your exposure to Christian Music, and best of all, it's free. Also, Mark Conner's Blog - markconner.typepad.com I have been reading this for a year, and it has amazing illustrations and he talks about things that are really relevant to the real world, so it's cool. Podcasts & Sermons - http://www.generationchurch.org/podcasts/ Generation Church, a US based church has dynamic youth speakers and their sermons are strongly rooted in the word. Pretty interesting sermon titles too: Eg. Get Up and Glow, Paddle Battle, Running on Fumes (getting God's attention) and Faith That Fights. Good stuff. Must listen to build yourself up :) Love, Janel In the spirit of my hope singapore, im sure there's something that some of us face. that is, inviting the ever so skeptical friend. well, ok maybe its me. but yeah i'd like to share how we all can reach out to this skeptical friend. i was reading a book. its called the philosophy of religion. it talks about 3 things, ethics, aesthetics and religion. the underlying subtopic of this is of course, morals. morals being values that is good, that is worthy to uphold. telling the truth, forgiveness, etc.. aesthetics is the study of art. what does this have to do with morals? beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. where one sees a long haired pale-faced lady who has a pretty high forehead, others see the mona lisa. what i mean is that our judgments are always based on our context, our backgrounds. The germans thought Hitler was great. the americans would've hanged him as a war crimminal. remember this, people judge us based on their context. we judge others based on our context. so you got to understand where they are coming from, before you can see where they're going. morals, religion, ethics. ethics is this moral obligation to yourself. while religion is moral obligation to the transcendence,i.e God. we were made ethical creatures. but we as christians are able to relate our ethical obligations to serving God. and this is the beauty of it all. we have purpose. well ok i know all of you know this already, but this is just a philosophical way of explaining it to your friend. i did have this debate with my friend (who by the way, is a religious skeptic and quite a strong atheist) and i was able to have quite a lovely conversation with her. i did invite her to church but she still has her reservations =( but i'm still praying hard. yup. have fun digesting it and go on out to save 1 more for christ! nil sine labore! hey cellies,long time since i blogged,this blog seems kind of uhm dead,okay wait like really dead!so i'm gonna post up photos(: All thanks to the "sexy" evelyn for this cheap thrill entertainment!(: There is a right way and a wrong way to fight… Listen to me, every single day when we wake up in the morning, its like the bell goes off in the boxing ring and there’s a fight that goes on. For every hour and every moment that you are awake, each and every day there is a fight that happens this morning and it ends at the end of tonight when you go to bed and put your head on the pillow that its determined who won the fight for that day. When you wake up in the morning, you have to make a decision: is today going to be a day of faith? Or is it going to be a day of unbelieve? Is today going to be a day of anger? Or is today going to be a day of love? Is today going to be a day of peace? Or will it be a day of anxiety? Is it going to be a day of purity, or impurity? Is it going to be a day of joy, or a day of depression?You may have got a depressed day today and maybe feel like you got knock out today. Well, listen to me - tonight, stand up on your feet, a righteous man will get knock down 7 times, but he will rise again, and say, “No, I’m not letting you take me out anymore! I choose joy in Jesus name!” Everyday is a fight - and we need to be a fight generation! There’s two kinds of Christians out there - there are those that will complain when situation arises or those that would contend when situation arise! Faith without works is dead! You may not like every different way we do the service or the worship is not long enough or its too long… Shut your mouth, quit being a complainer, be a contender with us ‘cuz there’s a fight going on! And you and I are not the enemy, the devil’s the enemy! If the devil has got us fighting each other, then he’s got us! We need to speak blessing and not cursing! The depth-less people are people that tend to live in the past and sit idle in the present. We get all excited about what happened in that season. I don’t want to be concern with the past, I live right now and I want to see God move right now. It’s the testing that determines if its true or temporary. - by Pastor Elijah Waters on February 7th - Fight Right Hey guys, it's time for us to fight, and fight right. So let's get down to spiritual battle with the devil and start praying for My Hope Singapore :) - What could stand before You
As You chose to embrace
A cross so undeserved You took for me
The weight of sin upon You
When You offered Your life
As You walked the streets of men
With fading strength
How could we live but not see
Your sacrifice
Your glory
You reign, You reign
Over everything Lord, You reign
With power, and justice divine
Over everything Lord, You reign
What was Your last thought
As You drew Your last breath
Where the victory was Yours for us to see
And all will know the truth
As we live by Your grace
Every praise to You alone
See now the King of Glory
Love of God become my calling
Father I surrender all I am to You forever You reign - Hillsong United
(You can get it here) Do learn it, we'll be singing it in cell real soon!
Love. We should really love the people around us and not take them for granted. Love is a big word and we should not take the word so lightly. To some people, it might mean alot because they have never experience it for themselves. To be loved, you must first love. On the other hand, other people just throw the word 'Love' around like as if it is like a roti prata or something. Motivate. That is one word in my dictionary that is in bold and in large fonts. In fact, it is in the largest font that you can ever imagine. Without motivation, some people just feel so weak and lost because even a simple phrase like " I'm with you!" can just spur someone. A question for you. How often do you motivate the people around you?It can be through little actions or words. It can also be messages like" I hope you will have a nice day in school. Be a shining light for Jesus." etc. Messages that put a smile onto one's face is also something that I agree and I totally encourage you to do it. If you have not be encouraging or motivating someone, why not start trying. You will never know until you try it. The results might be even better than you expect. As for me, everytime I encourage someone, I will always feel a sense of satisfaction and I can actually feel as if my heart is smiling. Isn't it assuring for your friend to know that there is at least YOU who will be there supporting him/her through good times or bad? Peace. I pray that the people taking O/A levels will be filled with the peace and love of God. Anyway, though this is not a spiritual post, but I do hope that it gets you thinking/ moving in terms of motivating someone etc. Do bless the people around you. Pray for them. And love those people that you find it really hard to love. If there is anyone of you suffering silently inside, my advice to you is' Look to God'. Just rest assure and cast all your cares upon him. Just feel his arms around you as he embraces you. Remember, whatever you going through is a learning process for you. It might be a painful/long/tiring process, but just hang in there. In this process, without you realising it, but YES, you are being moulded. Moulded more to be the child that God has plan. Have a nice day and God bless! =)
eech. i SHALL do up the skin one day. one glorious day. hahaha. when i have time. does anyone come here? or has it already died? and how come no one responded? see proof its dead! nevermind. right lets make good use of the march hols! lets do something together! like bond! and pray so hard its harder than diamonds! so yes ideas! shoot! Wow, Alyssa, I happen to know that you're you haha. I'm too lazy to change the stuff. And no! Admin isn't the pre-requisite for doing anything and everything on this bloggg. Rah. Haha. Hope you all have learnt smth from the prayer series too! Actively use the prayer guide that was issued to you all like more than a month ago okay? It tells us stuff bout stillness, humility, confession, and stuff about prayer! Ohyes, a little publicity: Go to riverlife.org.sg and go to the prayer hub! And also the hits hub! And you'll know what to do from there :) Let's P.U.S.H. & not give up! :) -cheryltan Hmm how come we're not allowed to have headers for our posts? and seriously i bet no one can guess who this is by my sign off name, haha! maybe except bra but whatever How IS everybody? does anyone even come here anymore? and seriously, lets change the skin i'd volunteer to do it but too bad im not admin so i can't, haha right to spruce things up on this dead blog, lets have a debate since its so fun and it'll better my KI, haha. see, bet you already know who this is. the only person who takes dumb KI in cell. Why does God seem to hide(i.e himself and other stuff) from us sometimes? go ponder and sizzle your brains out! i know half the answers to this, haha! oh and by the way, if you actually wanna do KI? just have dead good english and analytical skills. no need knowledge really, haha. oh and the skills will be taught so basically its not form you, its from someone else. thats why KI is dumb. right i digress, toodles!
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