August 2011
1 post
New Place →
decided to get out of tumblr and move to wordpress :)
“The thing is that God has every right to be impatient with us. And we’d...”
July 2011
10 posts
Thoughts when on a bus
I get a lot of such stuff. I’m on the bus now and I just love it when things just surface out of nowhere.
Thought of the day:
As Christians, especially serving Christians (I speak for the lifegroup leaders), we simply cannot expect life to go on without challenges, and when challenges come, we overcomes them, and sometimes we fall a little.
Sometimes we get to the “I’m not...
Growing Up
For the longest of times I’d always thought that growing up entailed these few things: making decisions on your own, being accountable to yourself and yourself only, being brave enough to go into things you only dreamed of before, freedom to decide what is best for me, being able to make my mind up etcetc.
After all, this was what we used to dream of when we were kids, no? A life without...
Ruined.
Today i got ruined. i got ruined bad.
The moment Pastor Henry said this sentence,” Holy Spirit is not a faraway Spirit, but a Person,” i got ruined. I got ruined upside down, inside out. And i love it when Holy Spirit does that.
People who’ve read my previous blog posts would know that 2 to 3 weeks back i faced a very tough period in my life and thought of giving up my ministry...
Yesterday as I was reading my Bible I came to these verses.
“As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”
Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”
“We have here...
He is Good.
“God is good all the time, and all the time God is good”
Hands up in the air, I admit that I have looked down on this phrase for the longest of time. I consider myself a deep thinker and for the entire time I have been thinking that the Christian faith is about something deeper, more profound than just “God is good all the time, all the time God is good.” I searched, I...
“Rise, rise,
People of Love rise,
Give yourself away”
– Robbie Seay Band, Rise
Easier
Just now during service, pastor mentioned this.
“Why do people reject a God that loves them so much but accept a god that tells them that they need to do this-this-this, that-that-that before he loves them?”
I thought about it for awhile and I realised that it is so true, for most of us, sometimes we’d hanker after the world’s system of conditional love. I thought for...
Fighter
I’ve never come so close to giving up. The past 1week plus has been such a struggle. I’ve had thoughts on giving up before, to just leave my ministry and just be a “normal member”, but they were never this strong.
I know the consequences, the implications should I make a decision such as this, to leave a lifegroup that I have partnered with God to build and is currently...
Boxing
The Christian life is like that of a boxer’s career. We’re constantly fighting. Fighting our issues, fighting the demons that get to us. One can say we live from fight to fight. Sometimes we get beat down, sometimes we get injured. But as long as we have the desire to be the best we can be for God, we’ll never remain down, we’ll lose, but never be defeated.
That’s...
June 2011
3 posts
On The Edge of Greatness
After talking to many people, Christians especially, I realise that many hope for greatness, but yet are contented to keep it as a distant dream instead of having it become a reality. The reason why many people settle for mediocrity is because they are afraid of greatness.
Man fears what he doesn’t understand. And Man doesn’t understand greatness in it’s fullness because he was...
Today, for just one moment, I saw everything I would’ve been if I didnt have God.
It was a scary sight.
It was as if it wasn’t clear enough to be before.
Now it’s clear as day.
I wasn’t made to live a single day without Him. No one should.
As I was walking home just now I realised something as I was thinking abt Cambodia.
I realised that there are many youths there who want to be translators. Many. But none who want to be pastors. they have access to foreign aid in terms of church building and they want to help the influx. Which is great, except that I realised that because none of them want to be pastors, Cambodia is gonna be a...
May 2011
8 posts
The Z-Force gave of themselves so others could enjoy a freedom that wouldn’t last ten, twenty generations. What about you and I? Would we give of ourselves so that others could enjoy a freedom spanning eternity?
It’s been some time since I posted something here. Today Pastor Chris preached an excellent message, but the thing that got me was what he said at the start, the “the good old days don’t exist anymore”.
This topic has been weighing on me for the past year and today he took the words right out my mouth.
Human beings like to look back and think “those were the...
If God wants me to...
I’m quite busy now but I’d better write this down before I forget.
Talking to someone about her Uni app and stuff, she made this statement,”if God wants me to stay (in Singapore), He will make a way.”
On the surface, it seems plain and simple enough, and it shows “faith in God”. But there is another side to the picture.
What if God doesn’t make a way...
I cannot understand how secular counselling works.
Really.
How do you tell someone that he has a hope and a future when he can’t see it?
How do you tell someone that he is loved when even his family rejects him?
How do you tell someone that he has to look on the bright side when all he knows is despair?
How do you tell someone that he must believe in himself when it is his very self...
I should be sleeping now
Just chatted a little with Peishan and this thought came to mind.
As a Junior College student, the desire in her to do well is strong. But the thing is, her results are far from ideal.
I told her to stop comparing herself with the people around her. After all, even though we’re all in a race, our true opponents are ourselves. And I would know, right? Having scored E-S-U for my prelims, I...
Was watching abit of Troy last night on Star Movies. One of my favourites, really.
And there was this conversation that really got to me.
Achilles was challenged to a fight and a boy was sent to him. His opponent was a giant.
Boy: Are you really going to fight him? I wouldn’t fight him if I were you, he’s really big and scary.
Achilles: That’s why nobody will remember your...
April 2011
14 posts
Hope
Yesterday I attended the Switchfoot concert at the Rock Auditorium. They were amazing and the atmosphere was insane. But what got to me most is how the crowd simply adored them. It’s not the kind of crazy infatuation or stalker-ish kind of adoration, but the kind of adoration that says “hey, you’ve made a difference in my life”. Jon Foreman writes positive songs, and last...
Church of Encouragement Cards.
Was thinking about my encouragement cards last night and I wanted to blog but got lazy.
So, I have this huge container of encouragement cards that I’ve received over the past few years - Mission Trips, Camps, etcetc.
Looking through them I do feel encouraged that people took the effort to write me one. I really do. But the content tells a different story.
I have a love-hate...
As I grow older and enter society as a young adult, I find that I have to constantly unlearn the things that Singaporean society has taught me.
Society says “if you don’t take care of yourself, who will?”
God says “I will provide” (Matt 6:32-33)
Society says “you are worth as much as you can contribute”
God says “you are worth my one and only...
I’m on the bus now, and I love my bus rides because I use the time to think abt God, life, and stuff.
Just suddenly an image of cambodia just flashed through my mind. Not just one but a few. A kid running around naked. Looking into the eyes of a Cambodian. The dusty ground. The slum area outside the Freedom of Sensok Church. Initially I just dismissed that as just a passing thought because...
“In the revolution of ideas, what engages the Christian mind is no longer...”
– Rev Edmund Chan, “Growing Deep in God”
I Did It!!!
I DID IT!! I FINALLY DID IT! I talked to W about his issues and his communication problem. And it was good! Praise God!
This issue’s been weighing on my mind for the past 3 weeks or so, to talk to him or not. And I definitely knew it was God’s will for me to, because everytime I gave a reason not to talk to W about it, God would give me a better reason for me to.
The final straw...
2 years in leadership isn’t a very long time. But it’s long enough to let me know that God doesn’t need to show you the full picture to achieve His good purpose. He doesn’t even need to show you your part and how you fit in.
If He wants to cause some major upheaval in your life, He doesn’t need to tell you why. If He wants to take something away, He doesn’t...
Life and death
Today is the day that my family commemorates the death anniversary of my grandfather. Man I can’t believe he’s been gone for 2 years already… Looking at his picture at the niche really stirs up a lot of memories.
A lot things that I should have or shouldn’t have done came to mind. One thing that always always comes up is how rude I was to have spat on his pillow when I...
Pretty good lifegroup session today! I liked it! Army boys back! So proud of them! 4 out of 5 made it to command school :) As I was sharing, this just came out of my mouth.
“Do you know that you are important to God, and you are also important to Satan?” And I got stunned. How true! We ARE important to both, but for vastly different reasons. We are important to God because He values...
People are updating my computer’s version of Microsoft Office, and so I have some time on to update this space.
Went for lunch with WPS boys at Vivocity just now. Talked about some people and the things they do. And of course, one name that didn’t escape was W’s.
I realised that while we can accept the fact that some people are nice, like W, the fact that they can be a...
First Post!
Finally gotten down to the laborious task of setting up a blog (LOL).
The next hard part is maintaining it. Let’s hope the Blackberry App for tumblr holds up!
