lifesong
Everyone needs compassion
Love that's never failing
Let mercy fall on me
Everyone needs forgiveness
The kindness of a Saviour
The hope of nations
Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything I believe in
Now I surrender
Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing, for the glory
Of the risen King
Jesus, Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing for the glory
Of the risen king
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
-8:03 pm
SHOUT YOUR FAME!2 July 4pmTrinity Christian CentreI'm really getting excited about Shout Your Fame! It's going be an awesome event with a difference, with personal testimonies accompanying every song. Wow I think God's definitely going to touch some lives through the songs and testimonies. IGNYTEans, have
YOU invited your friends? Yes we've got to keep this covered in prayer as sunday draws near.
If you're reading this and are free this sunday, do come for this! It's more than just a singing competition, and it's so not like Singapore Idol so don't worry. For RJCians, common tests would be over and monday's a holiday so do join us for this event. Wally, Elspeth, Jordan and Annalyn will be there too! I promise you it'll be worth your time. Message me or tag if you're interested!
visit the fabulously cool website
www.trinity.net/ignyte/syf for more info!
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Monday, June 26, 2006
-4:17 pm
2 down, 3 to go!
Chinese
EconsGeography
Literature
Mathematics
Papers were ok today. Chinese was... extremely cold. I mean, we were all freezing in the hall because of the artic air-condition temperature. Rayner was shivering until his teeth were chattering and Daniel Ong was behind me grunting and sighing throughout the whole duration of the paper. My fingers were so numb I could hardly write. But the paper itself was thankfully alright; at least I could come up with a story that made sense for compo. Econs DRQ was ok I guess, except for the last question worth 10 marks, which I did in the last 10 minutes and my answer was the same length as my 4 mark question's. Oh dear. Essay was a give away- on the problem of scarcity. Managed to write a whole page on the premise, establishing why the problem of scarcity cannot be solved. But I kinda approached the rest from the not-so-correct perspective. Oh well. At least it's over and I'm quite sure I should pass Econs, considering that I only started taking it in term 2.
All I have left to do today is to revise geog and make mind maps. Hm. I'm sleepy so I'll go take a nap first.
But first,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BRIAN CHAN!!!
To Brian:Wishing you a special 18th as you celebrate the 18 years you have been on this earth, and rejoice in how far you've walked with God. Continue to trust in Him for guidance and direction as you walk in obedience to His will for your life. Thanks for being such a blessing to me, and to many others I'm sure, especially your youths. Enjoyed serving with you in Z1 and I'll definitely miss you after your transition but I'll still catch you around. Praying that as you step into this new season that God has for you, you will grow from strength to strength and soar to greater heights as you serve Him in Z2 and your school. Don't doubt your calling for He who has called you is faithful; He will empower you to do things you'll never imagine. Continue to walk the journey ahead with God in faith, hope and with passion as you grow to love Him more.Once again, Happy Happy Birthday!
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Sunday, June 25, 2006
-3:15 pm
I must say I thoroughly enjoyed my holidays. But I now realise (a little too late) that maybe I enjoyed it a
bit too much. I spent the whole of the first two weeks playing, going out, watching movies, having fun, with the exception of one full day of studying at the library with nah. This kind of continued into the third week although I planned to supposedly start seriously studying for CTs then, but because of class sleepover and stuff, I was still stuck in play mode.
Now, I'm spending the last week of holidays (and the last day too) cramming- ok maybe more like studying? cramming sounds too harsh; I don't study
that hard- for CTs. Despite this sudden rush of pressure to cover everything before I have to sit for the papers, I must admit that I completely enjoyed my holidays, which is a rare occurence I must say, what with CTs right after the break.
I was studying at serene macs on thursday with nah and I saw a lanky, familiar figure in a brown sweater and jeans saunter past. I immediately ran outside and said, "Hi Mr. Chia!" It was so so nice seeing him again and I really do miss his amusing bio lessons. He's one of the teachers I really miss from RG. Found out that it is his weekly ritual to go to serene centre for his comics buffet every thursday. And he really looked as though he was enjoying his holidays.
He thinks that we're literally mad for mugging so hard at macs during the holidays. I kinda agree actually. But it's difficult to not get stressed over exams when everyone else is mugging their head off. Every time I went to a macdonalds outlet during the holidays, I found at least one RJC student studying there. SCARY STUFF. But anyways, Mr. Chia seems to think that it's ok to relax and have fun when you feel like it, instead of suppressing the urge to lime in front of the TV and hitting the books. I agree with him. I really do think that holidays aren't proper holidays at all in Singapore with holiday homework and tests immediately when the school term starts.
Anyways it was great seeing him again. After a not very productive 7 hours at macs (nah and I talked too much), we headed for nah's for dinner (we watched Oprah while eating and discovered the "secrets to losing weight and looking younger by 10 years"), then left for the revival meeting at church. When we went down through some condo to get to church, we realised that THE GATE WAS LOCKED. Just like nah's mum warned us when she dropped us off. !!! So I tried to be clever and climbed over the brick wall into the drain area while hannah held my bag. But I totally humiliated myself when who should come walking down the passage way but Christopher (one of my youths) and his mum! Oh man, I was caught standing on top of the brick wall looking quite stunned to see them, and desperately and futilely wishing that the ground would swallow me up. Gah. I knew how completely silly and stupid I looked, especially when chris' mum reminded me how dangerous it was, and the risk of the security guards mistaking me for a trespasser. So I climbed back down. And halfway down the long long flight of stairs at the otherside of the condo (we thought of attempting to climb the other brick wall because it was lower), we realised that we could have gone directly down the drain way from the top of the condo.
Me: Eh nah, isn't there like some drain way we can get down through? Like the time we did to go for jam?
Nah: Oh YA! Why didn't I think of that earlier?
Me: *smacks forehead*
So we climbed all the way up the stairs again and started down the damp and mossy longkang path. And that, was one experience that made me feel really really stupid.
Ok my time's running out. God has done so many AMAZING things that I want to talk about so I shall blog more about the second half of this week and the revival meetings another time- probably after CTs. *scurries back to the books*
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Sunday, June 11, 2006
-1:49 pm
This is a real article I received in my email inbox, which appeared in October 10, 1969, in "Evening World", a newspaper in Spencer, Indiana. A rather enlightening read if you'll take the time...------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has been called a 'myth' in the bible is true? Mr Harold Hill, president of Curtis Engine Company, Baltimore, Md, and a consultant in the space program related the following developement:-
"I think that one of the most amazing things that God has for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Md, where they would checking the position of the sun, moon and planets out in space, where they would be 100 and 1000 yrs from now. We have to know this so we don't send a satellite up and have it bump into something later on in its orbits. We have to lay out the orbit in terms of the life of the satellite, and where the planets will be, so that the whole thing will not bog down. They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries, and it came to a halt. The computer stopped and it put up a red signal, which meant that there was something wrong, either in the info fed into it, or with the results as compared with the standards. They called the service department to check it out, and they said -"It's perfect." The IBM head of operations said -"What's wrong?" "Well, we have found there is a day missing in space in the elasped time."
They scratched their heads and pulled their hair. There was no answer.
One religious fellow on the team said -"You know, one time when I was in Sunday School and they talked about the sun standing still." They did not believe him, but they didn't have any other answer, so they said -"SHOW US!" He got a bible, and went back to Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculously statement, for anyone who has common sense.
They found the Lord saying to Joshua -"Fear them not. I have delievered them into thy hand. There shall not be a man of them stand before thee." Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy, and if darkness fell, they would overpower him. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the Sun STAND STILL. That's right. "The sun stood still and the moon stayed... and hasted not to go down, about a whole day."*
The sapce men said -"There is the missing day." Well they checked the computers and found it was close, but not close enough. The elasped time that was missing in Joshua's time was 23 hrs and 20 min -- not a whole day. They read the bible and there it said -"about a whole day." These little words in the Bible are important.
BUT they were still in trouble, because if you cannot account for 40 min you'll be in trouble 10,000 yrs from now. 40 min HAD TO BE FOUND, beacause it multiplies many times over in orbits. Well, this religious fellow also remembered somewhere in the bible where it said the sun went backwards. The space men told him he was out of his mind.
But they got the Bible and read these words in 2 Kings 20. Hezekiah, on his deathbed, was visited by the prophet Isaiah, who told him that he was not going to die. Hezekiah did not believe him and asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah asked -"Do you want the sun to go ahead 10 degrees?" Hezekiah said -"It is nothing for the sun to go ahead 10 degrees, but let the shadow turn backward 10 degrees."** Isaiah spoke to the Lord, and the Lord brought the shadow 10 degrees backward. 10 degrees is exactly 40 min. So 23 hrs and20 min in Joshua, plus 40 min in 2 Kings, make the missing 24 hrs that space travellers now had to log in the log-book as the missing day in the universe."
* Joshua 10:13
** 2 Kings 20:10
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-1:44 pm
Thanks to Charis for forwarding this to me. The midweek comic relief was very much welcomed. (:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There was a church that had problems with outsiders
parking in its parking lots, so they put up a sign:
CHURCH CAR PARK - FOR MEMBERS ONLY
Trespassers will be baptized!"
CHURCH SIGN BOARDS:
"No God - No Peace"
"Know God - Know Peace."
"Free Trip to heaven."
"Details Inside!"
"Try our Sundays."
"They're better than Dairy Queen's".
"Searching for a new look?"
"Have your faith lifted here!"
"People are like tea bags" --
"you have to put them in hot water before you know how
strong they
are."
"Fight truth decay"
"study the Bible daily."
"How will you spend eternity"
"Smoking or Nonsmoking?"
"Dusty Bibles lead to Dirty Lives"
"It is unlikely there'll be a reduction in the wages
of sin."
"Do not wait for the hearse to take you to church."
"If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows
U-turns."
"If you don't like the way you were born, try being
born again."
"Looking at the way some people live, they ought to
obtain eternal fire insurance soon."
"This is a ch_ _ ch."
"What is missing? - (U R)"
"In the dark?"
"Follow the Son."
"Running low on faith?"
"Step in for a fill-up."
"If you can't sleep, don't count sheep."
"Talk to the Shepherd."
"Come work for the Lord."
"The work is hard, the hours are long and the pay is
low. But the retirement benefits are out of this
world."
An ad for one Church has a picture of two hands
holding stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments
are inscribed and a headline that reads,
"For fast, fast, fast relief, take two tablets."
When the restaurant next to another Church put out a
big sign with red letters that said, "Open Sundays,"
the church reciprocated with its own message: "We are
open on Sundays, too."
AND THE WINNER IS...
- ON THE PASTOR'S PARKING SPOT -
"PASTOR'S SPOT"
"YOU PARK, YOU PREACH"
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