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Wake of the tsunami

2005-01-17T17:50:00.000+08:00

The world today is still trying to help the tsunami victims. The aftermath of the tsunami was a place of bodies and rubble. Lifeforms in the area are scarce, most poisoned by the chemical spills. The best solution we can do now is to send money to the Red Cross. My school organized a bazaar and a concert to contribute to the tsunami victims.

4F was in charge of a dunking machine and two drinking stall. When the dunking machine arrived, the malays regretted to look over the stall, since the machine was quite ugly. I am the overall-in-charge for the two drinks stall. When we set up the drinking stalls, one in the canteen and the other near the dunking machine, we thought that the one in the canteen will not do more business than the one near the machine. The result was opposite. Also, thank Lord, no one got frostbite(most of the time our hands are carrying ice and cold drinks). However, the truimpt card still goes to the dunking machine. We have most of the "popular" teachers, in all ways, to get dunked. Dunking means hitting a ball at a target, when hit the "dunkee" falls into the tub of water. Obviously our discipline master "won" the most popular, most paid(someone paid fifty dollars) most appearance and most dunks. Second most dunked is Mr Sim, three out of five throws hitting the target.

The bazaar consist a lot of ideas from the past youth day bazaar. I feel that the people should give to the tsunami because they wanted to give, not from the acts from the performers. However, events can encourage and emphaise the need of giving to the tsunami vistims. I thanked Jesus for bringing me through the whole bazaar. I will continue praying for the tsunami victims(mostly not to hallucinate, or else some hoax articles will appear on the Strait times, ruining my reading).

Cross-Bearer

2005-01-13T21:57:00.000+08:00

Over these few weeks, I had been resting from quite a lot of things, including reaching out. As I relaxed more, I found out that I had to do more work. Then, my cell group leader called some of my cell group members and me for a meeting. I realised that I cannot slack any longer. I started to get my cross back up. Satan saw this and started bringing me down. The overwhelming workload of homeworks and assignments, the loss of items, the fatigue of stress and many more, much more that I had experienced, however all I did was to hang on to Christ. I think that thats the only thing I could do. All I had left is Christ. I had made the decision to give up everything for Christ, so, I am going to excute it. The cost is everything. For me, its worth it.

Ambassador of Christ

2004-12-23T16:30:00.000+08:00

What I learnt in my Bible study is that by reaching out, I can be an ambassador of Christ.

As Christmas is drawing near, the need of spreading the Ultimate Cure is more obvious. Jesus says that "whoever does My will I shall call him My brother or Sister." I wanted to be called as one. These few days I have been busying myself by reaching out, helping out my church and such. Today I have the afternoon to spare. As I reflected what I have done, I realised that as the days goes by, I grew more depressed as I am unsure of the result and the attacks of satan. I wondered to myself: Is doing the Will of God that hard, or is it truely impossible since I am imperfect? I suddenly remembered what pastor Ulf Ekman had said: Walking with God will no cost you someting, it will cost you everything. Also I remembered the book of Acts. Saul was one of the greatest church percercutor, however he met God and became one of the greatest apostle. I concluded that if I wanted to continue walking with Him, I have to sacrifice my confort zone. Now, I will just continue doing His will since I have no other choices to choose. I rather become used than geing trapped and dying without using what I truely have for something. I will be proud being a ambassador of Christ.

Christmas

2004-12-20T21:31:00.000+08:00

Finally, its Christmas! This Christmas I am going to do something for a change! That is, ushering in the service! Haha however it will be quite fun: serving and praising and worshipping at the same time. Speaking of which my new year resolutions are not up. Hehe! Its time to partyyyy~

Antinomianism

2004-12-10T15:39:00.000+08:00

Continuing from the last post, the oxford dictionary defines an antinomian as "a belief that Christians are released by grace from obeying moral laws."

What are the types of antinomians? There are three types. Gnostic spiritualism. It means that some pastors or people have special revelations from God and they claim that only they know. The revelations does not have any support from the Bible. The Word of God is our Christian foundation. Any revelations that does not have the Word to support is not a revelation from God, as it is written:"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my Word will never pass away." Second type is libertinism. It is not liberty. It is lebertin, or rather liberty with no restraints. If there is no restraints, the people will easily go astry. God gave us restraints, that is the Ten Commandments, to prevent us from being bound by satan again so that we can become holy (which means set apart for God; holy dosent means good, kind, gentle or nice, those are the fruits of our Christian walk). Situation ethics is the third type. It means doing what appears loving even if it means breaking God's law. We Christians believe in a God that can make all things possible. He is a God that loves people so much so that He gave His only son Jesus to us. Thats why we do not approve mercy killings. We believe that God can do a miracle that heals all types of wounds.

Continuing with antinomianism, it started during the book of Acts. It was started by Nicholas(not me) of Antioch, one of the seven deacons. The followers was called Nicolaitians. They taught that Christians are free of the flesh and sin which is not true. The flesh is our temples, built for the Lord. If we do not keep it clean, will it presentable to God? Surely not. Jesus condemmed the doctrine of the Nicolaitians in the book of Revelations. The word "antinomian" was coined by Martin Luther, who used the word to describe his student's(Johannes Agricola) teaching of rejecting all moral law(Ten Commandments) of God. Cheap grace is usually described with antinomianism, coined by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He believes the teaching of cheap grace was the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.

When you talk about laws, you could be refering to the: Pentateuch(Torah), the whole Old Testament, or the law of Moses. The law of Moses can be divided into three sets: Moral law(Ten Commandments), civil law and ceremonial law. The ceremonial law is totally fufiled in Christ, so that we do not have to sacrifice any animals in subsitute to our sins. The civil law is more relevant to Israel than to us. However, the Ten Commandments are not abolished by Jesus or by God, so we must still obey the Ten Commandments.

A covenant of God is an agreement between two parties, and a promise made binding by an oath. The gospel can be foundin the Abrahamiac covenant and Jesus' new covenant, which are both everlasting covenants. But the one thousand and five hundard years in between those two periods was a time of the Mosaic covenant. Because God took no oath, it was only a temporary covenant. The law was "added" during that period because of the continous rebellion of the children of Israel.

So, why churches are tolerating antinomian congregations?
Firstly, ignorance. Churches tend to overlook these congregations because they are large. However this is not acceptable to God. He warns us in Hosea4:6 "My people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me: because you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children."
Secondly, the appearance of success. Most antinomian congregations are larg and wealthy, so most churches tend not to stand up against them.
Thirdly, fear of confrontation. Again God warns us in Eze3:20-21 "Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand. Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man that the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning, also you will have delivered you soul."
Forthly, fear of causing division to the body of Christ. God mention in His Word that He despises antinomians. so what division confronting antinomains can do; for they are already cut off from the body of Christ.
Lastly, compromise. This in Christ, is totally not acceptable. It is not the laws or grace that saves us from our sins, it is the Truth of Christ that set us free from the bondage of this world! Whatever we do for the Lord, we must not compromise, for the Lord He despises that.

So churches, fight against antinomianism. We love God, thats why we have His mindset. The Truth will not be compromised, for the Truth shall set us free. Amen.

Antinomianism. A thing churches should avoid.

2004-12-02T09:37:00.000+08:00

I have attended my church's two weeks of seminar on following the Narrow Way to heaven. If churches veer to the right, they will become legalistic. They will add laws to the Ten Commandments. There are three types of legalism: Divorcing the letter of the law from the spirit of the law, that is, to obey the law without the right internal obedience and/or with the wrong motive. The second type, which is the most dangerous, is addind legislation to the law of God and treating the addition as if it were divine law. Churches not allowing thier members to listen to music, dying their hair, eat certain foods other than the ones offered to idols etc. are like the pharisees and Jesus despise them. The last one which is the most common is relying on performance to merit favor before God. That is the basis of almost all religons, so called "salvation through works". However, we Christians are saved by grace through faith, not by any works, but by through Christ Jesus, whom had pinned all our sins to the cross of calvary two thousand years ago. Legalism is the universal tendency of mankind, as it is our nature to want to control over everything. Obedience is not work, as misunderstood by many churches. Conservatism is not legalism. Just because another person is more conservative than you means that he is legalistic and vice versa. However, Jesus says that legalism is not the major problem in the end-times. It will be antinomianism, a fatal belief that because a Christian is under the grace of God, he or she can freely partake in sin because the law of God no longer applies in his or her life, specifically the Ten Commandments. The next post I shall talk about it.

Holidays(3)

2004-11-30T20:10:00.000+08:00

Gone back to Hougang to work for today. The last time I went there I made eight dollars, thus I think that today is going to be the same again. However, this time I had an stomachache. I rely on God to deliver me through the five and a half hours of work. Even though me stomachache was made well at around nine in the morning, I felt really tired. I just pushed on and continued to serve the customers. There is a lady who helped us to sell the clothes too. I think that that was God's planning to relief my pain and tiredness. I praise God for that. Thus, with God, everyting went well today. Praise God!

A website I had noticed.

2004-11-29T19:58:00.000+08:00

Just browsing through blogger to see some nice templates... Saw a guy's website dedicated to write about God and His wonderful love. http://divineblueprints.blogspot.com. God bless him!

Holidays(2)

2004-11-26T20:04:00.000+08:00

Well guess I only can use the internet not that often, so I just like to sum up what I have been doing. Pretty depressing for me though.

Today I went to Holland drive to work. I was not in the mood in the first place to work, however I had to do it or else I do not have any cash. The little time I had to find a nicer job was gone to a waste. I think that God wants me to do this so that I could become stronger. A job that pays less than your friends, it builds up jealousy and hatred. I believe that I can trust in God to deliver me through all these temptations and hardship, for He is a God of all possible. I realised that people are quite funny sometimes, for example the lady boss whom my mother rented the place from. She surprisingly help us out in the last few minutes of the time we rented. She explain that she is bored of her daily job and wanted to join us in this selling business. I do not know whether my father will accept, but thats another case. Above all, I think that I have to depend on God on what I am doing now and later, because He is the only one avalible to give me the strength, power and wisdom to run this race.

Holidays

2004-11-23T13:01:00.000+08:00

Right now in the midst of holidays. I am preety bored out. Nothing much to do. I guess that I need more holiday homework. Crap. Even if I had I would not do it... Anyway, the game website is up. http://-etereal-.blogspot.com.

Back.

2004-11-12T20:30:00.000+08:00

This blog is not dead. It is just that I do not have time to update it. It will be up when I have the time.

Physics notes!!!

2004-10-05T16:18:00.000+08:00

Okay guys... Since I got free time I guess I could post this...

Physics:
S.I.Units:
1.Length (metre)
2.Mass (kg)
3.Time (sec)
4.Speed (m/s)
5.Velocity (m/s)
6.Acceleration (m/s2)
7.Temperature (kelvin)
8.Refractive Index (none)
9.Wavelength (m)
10.Frequency (Hz)
11.Period (sec)
12. Amplitude (metre)

Formulas:
1. Period of pendulum T= Time for 20 oscillations/20
2. V=D/T
3. Acceleration= V-U/T or gradient
4.Distance= Area under graph
5. Average Speed= U+T/2 or Td/Tt
6.n= Sine i/Sine r
7.n= Speed of light in air/speed of light in medium
8.V=frequency X wavelength
9.T=1/frequency
10.Temperature= (length Unknown - length 0/length 100 - length 0)X 100degrees

Okay done!

Haha...

2004-10-05T16:16:00.000+08:00

Wah... Cant post that much liao.... Exams coming... Today sick some more... got Mild Craziness. haha... Weeee!!!!!!!

1st exam paper over

2004-10-02T13:08:00.000+08:00

Okay so yesterday I have done my English paper. The paper was fairly hard and I took quite a lot of time doing my composition but praise Lord I finished paper1 on time. Paper2 most of the time was spent on the summary, thus I guess that my results for my English can pass.

WhatPulse is now back online so I can continuing plusing. Praise Lord.

And finally, good luck guys.

Countdown to exams: 3 Days!

2004-09-27T19:32:00.000+08:00

Haha, exams are really closing in. Time to get up from games and recreation activities guys. Its time to revise what we have learnt this year. God bless us all!

Just noticed...

2004-09-26T18:27:00.000+08:00

Well, I have some free time off, so I thought," Well, why dont I visit other blogs?" When I visited other blogs, I found out that alot of female blogs have a lot of quiz results. Comments on males having a lot of quiz results? Post it at the shoutbox to the left.

Sunday

2004-09-26T17:49:00.000+08:00

Was it just me, or all people around me have stop posting in thier blogs? My exams are coming too. Now I am using proper English to improve my English for the English exam. I read the Bible more often now to improve my English and also to be grounded in the Word. I will not post that often now, so study hard people. May God bless you! And to Christians, just because of exams does not mean that you have a reason to stop walking with the Lord. Remember, when you seek the Lord first, all things shall be added to you.

Exams approaching

2004-09-23T15:59:00.000+08:00

Hahaz... Exam lai liao... Better study smart!!!
Deuteronomy28:13
"The Lord shall make you the head and not the tail.
If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God
that I gave you this day and carefully follow them,
you will always be at the top,
never at the bottom."

"Lord I give You my heart,
I give You my soul."

Exam timetable for dunman secondary 3F

2004-09-22T20:52:00.000+08:00

Okies here it is..
Who is taking what will be represented by numbers
1=>Nicholas, 2=>Lik Choon, 3=>Kai Lun
4=> Yi Rong, 5=>Yong Sheng

Date Time Subject Who
1.10.04 0800-0945 EL(1) 12345
1045-1225 EL(2) 12345
8.10.04 0800-1000 CL(1) 12345
1100-1230 CL(2) 12345
11.10.04 0800-0930 Geog** 12345
1030-1230 'A'Maths(1) 124
12.10.04 0800-0930 Social Studies**2345
1030-1130 POA 35
13.10.04 0800-1000 'E'Maths(1) 12345
14.10.04 0800-0915 Physics(2)* 12345
15.10.04 0800-1000 'A'Maths(2) 124
0800-1000 POA(2) 35
1100-1215 Chemistry(3)* 12345
18.10.04 0800-1030 'E'Maths(2) 12345
1130-1330 D&T 12
19.10.04 0800-0900 Science(1)* 12345
1145-1415 Art 345
--------------------END---------------------

*For science got 3 papers
**Combined Humanities is seperated

2004-09-22T17:41:00.000+08:00

The dog is so cute^^

ahhhh... sian!!!

2004-09-22T16:08:00.000+08:00

Diaoz very sian.. Studystudystudy... no new nice games somemore... sian...

Heyo!

2004-09-21T20:35:00.000+08:00

Hello everyone. Dont feeling like posting anything because nothing to post.. Anyway... So I updated Xi Wen's blog, and it looked nicer than mine!!! Dang now have to update my own one... Haha...

New admin in Kai Lun's blog

2004-09-21T19:04:00.000+08:00

Okay.. Me new Admin... hahaha. Now! Thier bloggies will be changed!!! *pokes thier blog* *poke* *poke* What the...?

Just another for fun

2004-09-20T22:20:00.000+08:00

heh... Admin in Xi Wen's blog... Quite honoured... anyway gotta config and host the piccys^^... Heh...

2004-09-19T21:38:00.000+08:00

For fun^^

Weeezzzz

2004-09-19T20:51:00.000+08:00

Tralalala.... Today feeling very very very bored... Really feeling like running around in underpants... But still God will leave me if I do that... So anyway, today I do Traffic Marshal. Also very sian... I taken the 3rd slot... lots of human, little cars... -.-. well for the rest of the day I think ill just do my revision and some yada yada... Weeeee!!!!!!

Sianzzz (What title can I think of???)

2004-09-18T21:27:00.000+08:00

Wah. This week very the sian. The whole week revise through the test. I almost
slept the whole week through. Mr Lew gave me 12 questions and I completed them within a day. Wah very sian.....

Common Test results out!!!

2004-09-13T16:46:00.000+08:00

Praise Lord!!! Finally I passed my combine hunamities!!! Ahaha anyway my chinese although fail but my completing sentences got full marks!!!! Also my eMaths got A yay. My English and A maths could have done better... Sob just pass... And my CHEMESTRY!!!! Gotta improve on it...

tired but happy

2004-09-05T20:20:00.000+08:00

Todae first day severing Usher Ministry. Bad start at first when I knocked onto the top of the bus. When I got to where I am supposed to report, an IC told me to arrange the bulletins. My team done all the bulletins faster than expected so we got 25minutes break. After the break, I was told to go level 3 of the church (carpark) to guide newcomers. 1 hour standing in the carpark is very tiring. However after that I could go down to the auditorium. Praise the Lord. I enjoyed the sermon, then I picked up the leftover bulletins. I proceed to B2 to do decompiling. That is, to seperate the bulletin's content. I did Traffic Marshal for a while because there is no traffic. When everything is over its 1745hours. I really enjoyed Ushering.

Blah

2004-09-03T20:40:00.000+08:00

zzzzz.... finally... holidays... zzzz.... *snores* Haiz more folio to do... mini project... zzzz.... SIAN...

Test fever#2

2004-08-31T14:35:00.000+08:00

Wah ***! Today very cham leh... Chinese with combine science... still got aces day... Anyway I managed to do 90% of my combine science paper! Praise the Lord! And I managed to complete 80% of my chinese paper! Praise the Lord again^^! Also tomorrow Teacher's Day!! Wahoo! Can relax one day liaoz! Ahahaha anyway gotta go church liaoz^^ ciazozzz

Test fever!

2004-08-30T20:32:00.000+08:00

Hahaz test quite hard... esp. humanities!!! Anyway, test for humanities over liao, so have to now struggle for chinese. And combine science... Have to pray to God more often liao XP. Anywayz tmr ACE'S day!!! Wahoo! Theme: She Bangs! Nah just joking.. but hey dancing crap can also be quite fun right?? hehe... Okiez gotta go pray and study^^!

the 1st post

2004-08-24T20:20:00.000+08:00

Okay.
Seems that everything is in order.
Okiez elo guyz! Welcome to my blog! Heh 1st time creating la so can dun complain...
Anyway very sad next week got common test..haiz have to study and pray more...
Todae quite unlucky coz Mrs. Fong gave me dentention for misinterpreting her words... Kao say that those
who done their physics workbook can dont stay back... but todae morning i found out that she wanted to
check my workbook one more time yesterday... haiz... anyway all the subjects are getting tougher.. Gotta
go study^^!