btw, i initial-ised my friend's names but you rmb them :b

here's a video :)




have a good week, and pray on :)

A need to PRAY~

Kids!

It's great that God has laid that burden in all our hearts to pray for our friends who have yet to believe!:) I'm sure it pleases God greatly that we're taking up His heart.

Here's a tally of our 'targets'. Own time own target, carry on.

ANDRE: Aloysius
LOIS/SEAN: J, Ml, Mcs
AMANDA: Yue Ting/ Yan Ting
BENJAMIN: Wilson
RICHARD: His best friend whom he doesn't wanna name but we all know.

God's heart is really beating for all of them. We just need to pray His will be done right?
HAha! Let's persevere in prayer.

Cheers~!
Ben!

this Sunday's sermon text, Matthew 2:7-18

Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him."

After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east^[a] went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.

When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him." So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my son."^[b]

When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
"A voice is heard in Ramah,
weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children
and refusing to be comforted,
because they are no more."^[c]

Footnotes:

1. Matthew 2:9 Or seen when it rose
2. Matthew 2:15 Hosea 11:1
3. Matthew 2:18 Jer. 31:15

Reading this (and hearing it being read from biblegateway cos I'm still not sure how to pronounce Ramah :b), it occurred to me what a gamut of emotions we encounter in this passage. Herod is disturbed (ok that's before this passage), then sneaky, the Magi are overjoyed, worshipful, in awe, Joseph and Mary are silent but definitely not without emotion... Herod is furious, and his anger falls on the children, and there is weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more... this is a bit like life... when God walks into our world it is in a situation like this, with the worshipful and the cunning and the insecure and the obedient all together, the divine still divine amidst tragedy.

and so God gave His Son into a world like that, so that we might live through Him.

première poteau

in a way, this would be my 1st blog entry... yoroshiku onegaishimasu!

frankly speaking, I've been fairly anti-blog person, and I've long resisted the urge to create a public blog. finding out first hand about people still feels better and more personable, though i realise such thinking isn't congruent with today's society. oh well

anyway, this fascinated me a bit...

"A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of life must have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage of life's morning." -Carl Jung

regarding the so called second half of life and it's development. discounting Jung' background, it's interesting to think about our purpose and drive in continuing to serve our Lord later in life.

ahh some listless randomness...

breaking ice

heh. thought i'd dust this place off.

not sure if this blog will work, but i shall try to make it look alive by posting seven questions you guys can answer to. One worders or essays, all ok :)

(well, maybeee... one paragraph at least?)




what's the first thing that comes to mind when you see the word "fun"?

what does it take to make a good movie? What's the best movie you've seen recently?

what's the wackiest belief you held as a child?

why is life so complicated?

if you found out you had only two weeks to live, what top three things would you do? why?

share a line from a poem or song that moves you

what's the difference btn being moral and being spiritual?


lalalala.