I went to church.
I love God
I was being baptised.
I strayed away.
I still love God, but lesser and lesser.
I went back to church.
I strayed away again.
I went back to church again.
I strayed away again.
This is the process that I have faced. Each time going back to church again, my faith is reducing bit by bit. I wish to be like how it has been in past, but it is a great lesson to be learnt.
God will not leave us. He loves us. Hanging on there...
Friday, January 11, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
China?!
Going to China?!
Sincerely, I only ever thought of going Singapore to work. Never been through my mind that I can go to somewhere outside Singapore.
Now there is a chance, and I start to feel insecure (Don't laugh -_-)
Hopefully things will go smoothly... with fingers crossed...
Sincerely, I only ever thought of going Singapore to work. Never been through my mind that I can go to somewhere outside Singapore.
Now there is a chance, and I start to feel insecure (Don't laugh -_-)
Hopefully things will go smoothly... with fingers crossed...
Sunday, January 6, 2008
As Christians, why we need to spread gospel? (For Christians out there)
Attended Rev. Stephen Thong last night. For this very first service in year 2008, he preaches about why as Christians, we need to spread good news to non believers.
Firstly, it is due to this is the will for God. He mentioned about many people actually do not understand what is meant by the will of God, and they keep mentioning about the will of God. Only through the will of God to forgive, we are being forgiven. Only through the will of God to enable us understanding words of bible, thus we can understand. Even all people knelt down when receiving the commands from Emperor in ancient time, and Emperor is someone who would die. What more to say God, the creator of all the living things, who is eternal. Thus, it is a must to spread the gospel.
Secondly, it is the command from Jesus Christ. Before the persecution of Jesus Christ, He kept on preaching about the good news. Morever, He had two commands for us, of which one is internally and another one is externally. Internal command requires us to love one another, while the external command is to approach the people and spread the gospel to them.
Thirdly, there is the inspiration of love from Jesus Christ. We love Jesus Christ, because He loves us deeply first, that He is willing to sacrifice for us on the cross. It is not because we love Him then He starts to love us. Once the Holy Spirit is with us, we will be constrainted to spread the gospel. The difference between 'constraint' and 'compel' is, 'constraint' is the feeling to push us to spread gospel from internally (our own self), while 'compel' is from external source (being forced by others). It is the power of love within us
which constraints us to spread gospel, when we start to love Jesus Christ as our saviour.
Rev. Stephen Thong continued to give two examples of what is meant by a constraint which is from our own self. Take for example, we all have the experience of having stomach ache, it is so aching that we do not care what we are doing at that moment and how other people will think of us, even if we are attending a church service, or having a meeting, all we know is, going to the washroom and solving the stomach ache first. Nobody force us to go washroom, we want to go ourselves. The second example is for the women who want to give birth to babies. No women can bear the suffering and delay time to deliver the babies when the babies want to come out from the womb to see the world.
Fourthly, there is a need to spread the gospel. Paradoxically, human beings do not have to buy the most important thing in life, i.e. oxygen, but spend so much of their money to buy less important thing - food. We have to admit that according to the hierarchy of importance, oxygen is the most important one, following by water and food. However, the most expensive one is food, but the cheapest one is oxygen. In fact, we do not even need cash to buy oxygen. This is also similar with the need of gospel in human beings. We all need gospel desperately, but we choose to 'believe' that we do not need any gospel.
When Christians want to share gospel with non Christians, non Christians usually will close the door. It is because, they 'choose' to believe that they do not need gospel. As for many Chistians, they need the gospel most, and they agree on the truth that they need the gospel most, but they are also most reluctant and scare to commit themselves to spread gospel. Even some of the preachers are also feeling very pressured when having a gospel rally. In conclusion, we need gospel, just we react in the other way round, to console ourselves that we do not need it.
Fifthly, it is because of the feeling of in debt to the gospel. We always need to have the feeling of in debt to the gospel. Take for example, when we feel we are considerate, we are actually not, when we feel we are not considerate, we will try to improve ourselves more and become more considerate, and thus becoming a better person. When we have the feeling of in debt to the gospel, we will wish to preach the gospel more.
I find yesterday night is the night that i really learn a good lesson - why we have to share gospel to others. Hope this will help you too:)
Firstly, it is due to this is the will for God. He mentioned about many people actually do not understand what is meant by the will of God, and they keep mentioning about the will of God. Only through the will of God to forgive, we are being forgiven. Only through the will of God to enable us understanding words of bible, thus we can understand. Even all people knelt down when receiving the commands from Emperor in ancient time, and Emperor is someone who would die. What more to say God, the creator of all the living things, who is eternal. Thus, it is a must to spread the gospel.
Secondly, it is the command from Jesus Christ. Before the persecution of Jesus Christ, He kept on preaching about the good news. Morever, He had two commands for us, of which one is internally and another one is externally. Internal command requires us to love one another, while the external command is to approach the people and spread the gospel to them.
Thirdly, there is the inspiration of love from Jesus Christ. We love Jesus Christ, because He loves us deeply first, that He is willing to sacrifice for us on the cross. It is not because we love Him then He starts to love us. Once the Holy Spirit is with us, we will be constrainted to spread the gospel. The difference between 'constraint' and 'compel' is, 'constraint' is the feeling to push us to spread gospel from internally (our own self), while 'compel' is from external source (being forced by others). It is the power of love within us
which constraints us to spread gospel, when we start to love Jesus Christ as our saviour.
Rev. Stephen Thong continued to give two examples of what is meant by a constraint which is from our own self. Take for example, we all have the experience of having stomach ache, it is so aching that we do not care what we are doing at that moment and how other people will think of us, even if we are attending a church service, or having a meeting, all we know is, going to the washroom and solving the stomach ache first. Nobody force us to go washroom, we want to go ourselves. The second example is for the women who want to give birth to babies. No women can bear the suffering and delay time to deliver the babies when the babies want to come out from the womb to see the world.
Fourthly, there is a need to spread the gospel. Paradoxically, human beings do not have to buy the most important thing in life, i.e. oxygen, but spend so much of their money to buy less important thing - food. We have to admit that according to the hierarchy of importance, oxygen is the most important one, following by water and food. However, the most expensive one is food, but the cheapest one is oxygen. In fact, we do not even need cash to buy oxygen. This is also similar with the need of gospel in human beings. We all need gospel desperately, but we choose to 'believe' that we do not need any gospel.
When Christians want to share gospel with non Christians, non Christians usually will close the door. It is because, they 'choose' to believe that they do not need gospel. As for many Chistians, they need the gospel most, and they agree on the truth that they need the gospel most, but they are also most reluctant and scare to commit themselves to spread gospel. Even some of the preachers are also feeling very pressured when having a gospel rally. In conclusion, we need gospel, just we react in the other way round, to console ourselves that we do not need it.
Fifthly, it is because of the feeling of in debt to the gospel. We always need to have the feeling of in debt to the gospel. Take for example, when we feel we are considerate, we are actually not, when we feel we are not considerate, we will try to improve ourselves more and become more considerate, and thus becoming a better person. When we have the feeling of in debt to the gospel, we will wish to preach the gospel more.
I find yesterday night is the night that i really learn a good lesson - why we have to share gospel to others. Hope this will help you too:)
Friday, January 4, 2008
Joke for the day
There is one guy, proposing to a girl to be his girlfriend.
He writes a letter to her, love letter. Woo hoo...
Inside, there is a sentence, 'I like your face, it looks like red red apple'.
Gosh, red red apple???
Mind you, my blog is not a love letter, my blog is full with red colour, but it is not a face:P
Originally by, Redapple
He writes a letter to her, love letter. Woo hoo...
Inside, there is a sentence, 'I like your face, it looks like red red apple'.
Gosh, red red apple???
Mind you, my blog is not a love letter, my blog is full with red colour, but it is not a face:P
Originally by, Redapple
Company Trip to Taiwan in 2007 (Second Entry)
Taiwan? Yes, it is Taiwan. A place which is full of chinese culture. Can you imagine the below is a hotel?
And, the interior design, is totally cool...
The front 'gate' of the hotel:
The ' Eye' of Taiwan
The tallest building in Taiwan, Taipei 101:
Of cos, going to Taiwan, won't miss the chance to go having 温泉.
Lastly, I wish to introduce the place called 小人国 (Tiny Little Country) where all the statues there are much smaller than exact sizes.
四合院 is a building which is being stayed by people at old time. There is a joke relating to this old type of building.
I have one friend went to Taiwan not long ago and she chose to stay in a hotel, which was of this type of building with her friends. At last, all of them pretty scared at night, as they started to imagine things - ghosts.
For Taiwan ghost movies, they were usually being taken at this type of house, with lanterns hanging around. That particular night, the hotel my friend stayed in also got those lanterns all around the place.
She told me, she used 5 minutes to take her bath:) LOL. Human beings are self tortured species thou. Haha...
And, the interior design, is totally cool...
The front 'gate' of the hotel:
The ' Eye' of Taiwan
The tallest building in Taiwan, Taipei 101:
Of cos, going to Taiwan, won't miss the chance to go having 温泉.
Lastly, I wish to introduce the place called 小人国 (Tiny Little Country) where all the statues there are much smaller than exact sizes.
四合院
四合院 is a building which is being stayed by people at old time. There is a joke relating to this old type of building.
I have one friend went to Taiwan not long ago and she chose to stay in a hotel, which was of this type of building with her friends. At last, all of them pretty scared at night, as they started to imagine things - ghosts.
For Taiwan ghost movies, they were usually being taken at this type of house, with lanterns hanging around. That particular night, the hotel my friend stayed in also got those lanterns all around the place.
She told me, she used 5 minutes to take her bath:) LOL. Human beings are self tortured species thou. Haha...
Company Trip to Taiwan in 2007 (First Entry)
Tempting Food in Taiwan
Yummy yummy... I really love ice mango. While worried that I can't have it anymore when back to Singapore, my colleague has introduced to me that actually Singapore has it also. Luckily...
Taiwan has several night markets which are selling local food. One of them is Si Lin Night Market. Two things that must try at Si Lin Night Market are:
Chicken Steak
As we all can see, even the fruits are also welly carved.
Taiwan is indeed a nice place to visit if a person is food lover:)
It's a pleasure for me to visit Taiwan in October 2007, by following company trip. Basically, I think Taiwan is well known for the delicious food, which in chinese called 小吃.
My colleagues and I had taken a lot of photos for the food there. Here is a page to share with.
The most famous 'ice kacang' in Taiwan which is ice mango as follow:
Yummy yummy... I really love ice mango. While worried that I can't have it anymore when back to Singapore, my colleague has introduced to me that actually Singapore has it also. Luckily...
Besides, of cos, the most popular gu bak mee is also here:
Taiwan has several night markets which are selling local food. One of them is Si Lin Night Market. Two things that must try at Si Lin Night Market are:
Pearl Tea
Chicken Steak
One restaurant that is really an eye opener for me called 五角船板, direct translation to English is Five Angles Wood of a Ship (sounds weird). I must admit this restaurant is the most unique restaurant I ever went. It is being designed by an artistic woman, with the look below:
Ya, in fact, the building behind her, is the external look of the restaurant. It is really a special look which amazed me. Moreover, the interior design of the restaurant is also a special one:
I found out that artistic designer likes women's bodies. Her pictures drawn and statues carved are all focusing on a beautiful shape of women's bodies. Have a closer look on the red statue:
The food inside the restaurant:
As we all can see, even the fruits are also welly carved.
Taiwan is indeed a nice place to visit if a person is food lover:)
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Welcome to my newly launched blog
Happy New Year 2008!
Welcome to my newly launched blog:)
A simple start of this blog represents how I long for a simple start of Year 2008.
Wishing for a red joyful new year ahead, as simple and common like red apples.
Welcome to my newly launched blog:)
A simple start of this blog represents how I long for a simple start of Year 2008.
Wishing for a red joyful new year ahead, as simple and common like red apples.
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