Hey everyone,
So sorry to say that CG this week is cancelled because the youth ministry will be having a camp meeting. There also won't be CG on the first sat of December because camp would have ended on friday and Pastor Tim wants CGs to take a break. So the next CG session will be on 11 Dec, led by Wee Theng. Unfortunately, I won't be around because I'll be travelling to USA from 4-17 Dec. I'll see you guys when I get back!
Summary:
27 Nov - CG cancelled
4 Dec - CG cancelled
11 Dec - CG led by Wee Theng
18 Dec - CG led by Germaine
I want to encourage those who have the bought the book "the call to follow Christ" to complete it during the holidays. Don't finish it for the sake of finishing. Really spend the time learning about God and praying over it. We'll be going through the book next year, which is coming incredibly soon.
Germs
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
Details for Camp
Reporting time: 2 PM , 30th November
Packing List:
4 x sets of clothing
1 x dark colored t-shirt for girls and for guys who do not want to reveal their hairy chest
ample underwear
jacket
socks
school/track shoes or sandals (slippers isn’t adviced vigorous games)
slippers
towel
toiletries(soap, toothpaste/brush)
plastic bags for dirty clothes
stationery
sword of the spirit , our bible
medication- inhalers for asthmatics eg.
SCISSORS ( TLS AND ATLS)
TLS and ATLS please bring two big pails each. trust me the bigger the better!
p/s: all handphones would be safe kept on the first day and be given back on the last day of camp.
Packing List:
4 x sets of clothing
1 x dark colored t-shirt for girls and for guys who do not want to reveal their hairy chest
ample underwear
jacket
socks
school/track shoes or sandals (slippers isn’t adviced vigorous games)
slippers
towel
toiletries(soap, toothpaste/brush)
plastic bags for dirty clothes
stationery
sword of the spirit , our bible
medication- inhalers for asthmatics eg.
SCISSORS ( TLS AND ATLS)
TLS and ATLS please bring two big pails each. trust me the bigger the better!
p/s: all handphones would be safe kept on the first day and be given back on the last day of camp.
Badminton tomorrow!
Hi everyone,
We will be meeting for a badminton session tomorrow at Yishun. Meet at Admiralty MRT at 2.15pm, then we'll take bus 969 there. The court booking is from 3pm - 5pm. You're welcomed to ask your friends along if you'd like.
Summary
Date: 23 Nov 2010
Meeting place: Admiralty MRT
Time: 2.15pm
Bring: Sports attire, badminton racket, shuttlecock, bathing stuff (if you intend to bathe)
Hi everyone,
We will be meeting for a badminton session tomorrow at Yishun. Meet at Admiralty MRT at 2.15pm, then we'll take bus 969 there. The court booking is from 3pm - 5pm. You're welcomed to ask your friends along if you'd like.
Summary
Date: 23 Nov 2010
Meeting place: Admiralty MRT
Time: 2.15pm
Bring: Sports attire, badminton racket, shuttlecock, bathing stuff (if you intend to bathe)
Sitting on a Suitcase
http://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/sitting-suitcase/
“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. …I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account” (Phil. 1:21–24).
- Philippians 1:18b–26
A newly married couple found themselves needing to be picked up from their hotel and driven to the airport in order to catch a flight to Bermuda for their honeymoon. After calling a taxi company, they sat on their suitcases in the hotel lobby, watching and waiting for the driver to come. The husband was forced to call the company once more an hour later because somehow their reservation had become lost in the shuffle. Finally, the cab came, and they were able to get to their airplane and their final destination.
What do you suppose we would say if the couple refused to get in the car because they were having such a good time sitting on their suitcases? Would we not think that they were crazy? Yet how often are we like this couple, so attached to our present life that we live as if heaven does not exist? As Jonathan Edwards once said, so many of us live like the distracted traveler who takes up residence in a hotel along the way instead of pressing on to his destination.
The apostle Paul suffered no such attachment to this present life. As today’s passage demonstrates, he was well aware of the blessed hope awaiting him. We can detect a certain tension in his life. He enjoyed the fellowship he had with the Christians in Philippi, and he knew it was necessary for him to remain on earth and continue as their teacher. But what he really wanted was to see Jesus, for he also knew heaven is a far better place (Phil. 1:23–24). He knew that death is not finally a tragedy for the believer, because though we live in Christ, dying and being able to see Him face-to-face is gain (v. 21).
The contrast is between this life and the life to come. This life is good because “to live is Christ,” but heaven is not the “best” place to be. The “best” is yet future even for those in heaven now. Our glorification will not be complete until our physical bodies are resurrected (Rom. 6:5). The contrast in today’s passage is between good and better. Heaven, the place where believers go between death and resurrection, is not God’s final end for us, but it is better than this present life. Setting our hope on heaven will make us less concerned with our comforts and more desirous to help grow the Lord’s kingdom.
Coram Deo
When a believer dies, it is natural for the friends and family of the deceased to feel a profound sense of loss. But the deceased, if a Christian, feels no pain since he is ushered immediately into the presence of the Lord (2 Cor. 5:8). Have you come to the place where you understand that death is a great victory for all those who follow Jesus? If you fear death and are a Christian, remember that to live is Christ, but to die is gain.
http://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/sitting-suitcase/
“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. …I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account” (Phil. 1:21–24).
- Philippians 1:18b–26
A newly married couple found themselves needing to be picked up from their hotel and driven to the airport in order to catch a flight to Bermuda for their honeymoon. After calling a taxi company, they sat on their suitcases in the hotel lobby, watching and waiting for the driver to come. The husband was forced to call the company once more an hour later because somehow their reservation had become lost in the shuffle. Finally, the cab came, and they were able to get to their airplane and their final destination.
What do you suppose we would say if the couple refused to get in the car because they were having such a good time sitting on their suitcases? Would we not think that they were crazy? Yet how often are we like this couple, so attached to our present life that we live as if heaven does not exist? As Jonathan Edwards once said, so many of us live like the distracted traveler who takes up residence in a hotel along the way instead of pressing on to his destination.
The apostle Paul suffered no such attachment to this present life. As today’s passage demonstrates, he was well aware of the blessed hope awaiting him. We can detect a certain tension in his life. He enjoyed the fellowship he had with the Christians in Philippi, and he knew it was necessary for him to remain on earth and continue as their teacher. But what he really wanted was to see Jesus, for he also knew heaven is a far better place (Phil. 1:23–24). He knew that death is not finally a tragedy for the believer, because though we live in Christ, dying and being able to see Him face-to-face is gain (v. 21).
The contrast is between this life and the life to come. This life is good because “to live is Christ,” but heaven is not the “best” place to be. The “best” is yet future even for those in heaven now. Our glorification will not be complete until our physical bodies are resurrected (Rom. 6:5). The contrast in today’s passage is between good and better. Heaven, the place where believers go between death and resurrection, is not God’s final end for us, but it is better than this present life. Setting our hope on heaven will make us less concerned with our comforts and more desirous to help grow the Lord’s kingdom.
Coram Deo
When a believer dies, it is natural for the friends and family of the deceased to feel a profound sense of loss. But the deceased, if a Christian, feels no pain since he is ushered immediately into the presence of the Lord (2 Cor. 5:8). Have you come to the place where you understand that death is a great victory for all those who follow Jesus? If you fear death and are a Christian, remember that to live is Christ, but to die is gain.
Monday, November 15, 2010
What Is the Gospel?
by R.C. Sproul
There is no greater message to be heard than that which we call the Gospel. But as important as that is, it is often given to massive distortions or over simplifications. People think they’re preaching the Gospel to you when they tell you, ‘you can have a purpose to your life’, or that ‘you can have meaning to your life’, or that ‘you can have a personal relationship with Jesus.’ All of those things are true, and they’re all important, but they don’t get to the heart of the Gospel.
The Gospel is called the ‘good news’ because it addresses the most serious problem that you and I have as human beings, and that problem is simply this: God is holy and He is just, and I’m not. And at the end of my life, I’m going to stand before a just and holy God, and I’ll be judged. And I’ll be judged either on the basis of my own righteousness – or lack of it – or the righteousness of another. The good news of the Gospel is that Jesus lived a life of perfect righteousness, of perfect obedience to God, not for His own well being but for His people. He has done for me what I couldn’t possibly do for myself. But not only has He lived that life of perfect obedience, He offered Himself as a perfect sacrifice to satisfy the justice and the righteousness of God.
The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn’t concerned to protect His own integrity. He’s a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just waves a wand of forgiveness over everybody. No. For God to forgive you is a very costly matter. It cost the sacrifice of His own Son. So valuable was that sacrifice that God pronounced it valuable by raising Him from the dead – so that Christ died for us, He was raised for our justification. So the Gospel is something objective. It is the message of who Jesus is and what He did. And it also has a subjective dimension.
How are the benefits of Jesus subjectively appropriated to us? How do I get it? The Bible makes it clear that we are justified not by our works, not by our efforts, not by our deeds, but by faith – and by faith alone. The only way you can receive the benefit of Christ’s life and death is by putting your trust in Him – and in Him alone. You do that, you’re declared just by God, you’re adopted into His family, you’re forgiven of all of your sins, and you have begun your pilgrimage for eternity.
Source: http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles
by R.C. Sproul
There is no greater message to be heard than that which we call the Gospel. But as important as that is, it is often given to massive distortions or over simplifications. People think they’re preaching the Gospel to you when they tell you, ‘you can have a purpose to your life’, or that ‘you can have meaning to your life’, or that ‘you can have a personal relationship with Jesus.’ All of those things are true, and they’re all important, but they don’t get to the heart of the Gospel.
The Gospel is called the ‘good news’ because it addresses the most serious problem that you and I have as human beings, and that problem is simply this: God is holy and He is just, and I’m not. And at the end of my life, I’m going to stand before a just and holy God, and I’ll be judged. And I’ll be judged either on the basis of my own righteousness – or lack of it – or the righteousness of another. The good news of the Gospel is that Jesus lived a life of perfect righteousness, of perfect obedience to God, not for His own well being but for His people. He has done for me what I couldn’t possibly do for myself. But not only has He lived that life of perfect obedience, He offered Himself as a perfect sacrifice to satisfy the justice and the righteousness of God.
The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn’t concerned to protect His own integrity. He’s a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just waves a wand of forgiveness over everybody. No. For God to forgive you is a very costly matter. It cost the sacrifice of His own Son. So valuable was that sacrifice that God pronounced it valuable by raising Him from the dead – so that Christ died for us, He was raised for our justification. So the Gospel is something objective. It is the message of who Jesus is and what He did. And it also has a subjective dimension.
How are the benefits of Jesus subjectively appropriated to us? How do I get it? The Bible makes it clear that we are justified not by our works, not by our efforts, not by our deeds, but by faith – and by faith alone. The only way you can receive the benefit of Christ’s life and death is by putting your trust in Him – and in Him alone. You do that, you’re declared just by God, you’re adopted into His family, you’re forgiven of all of your sins, and you have begun your pilgrimage for eternity.
Source: http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Hi everyone,
It's the holidays now and I'm sure that some of you are quite free. (I know some still have to go to school...) Instead of spending most of your time on the TV or internet, I want to encourage you to spend more time studying God's word.
I've found a great website with very good sermons. I've been listening to it quite a bit and I find the content really good. Those of you who are serious about learning more about God, do go check it out. Link below here!
http://www.ligonier.org/rym/
Love,
Germs
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
CG at my place
Hi everyone,
This Sat's CG will be at my house again. Let's meet at 2.15pm at Admiralty. Please be there on time:) Bring your Bibles and files.
Also, can I ask if anyone would like to volunteer their house for CG next week? We are homeless!
Germs
This Sat's CG will be at my house again. Let's meet at 2.15pm at Admiralty. Please be there on time:) Bring your Bibles and files.
Also, can I ask if anyone would like to volunteer their house for CG next week? We are homeless!
Germs
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