25th September 2009
Sharing with Keith

God knows if we are giving Him our 100%

If God can sacrifice His most Precious for us, can we sacrifice our most precious for Him? Being students, in general or facing upcoming exams, our most precious would be our time.

Don't give God something that will cost you nothing. Give your 100% to Him. Not because He needs it; not because you want to show to others that you're doing your part or as part of going through the motion. Give simply because He wants that heart that's behind that giving.

What's in it for you?
Everything.

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Something that i've learnt in the past years of being a Christian is that you can never outgive God. When you begin to sow your finances, you reap finances; if you sow time for His Kingdom for Him, you will begin to reap time. God will never shortchange you.

May you find joy and purpose in serving God your 100%.

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exams are rapidly approaching in less than 2week's time!
knowing that most of us will be busy studying and stressing over the massive information overload..

here's smth to help bring some laughs! (:


Laughter may be a good medicine, but the medicine is still from Him! (:

[Philippians 4:4]
Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!

Through the good and the bad, rejoice always! (:
all the best with all the studying!

PS: We'll still be continuing with our regular weekly meetings despite exams because we believe that inspite of our personal daily challenges, we should still never neglect meeting up together to encourage one another! (: Hope to see you joining us! (:

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6th September 2009
Sunday Service with Corinna

How God wants our earthly families to be is proportional to how God wants to be in relationship with us.

What a simple yet profound truth.

The foundation of every family lies in 2 key principles
1. Love
Eph 5:1-2, as children, we naturally imitate our parents and their habits, likewise, God wants our relationship with Him to be so natural that we begin to take on His habits and behaviours too!
2. Submission
Eph 5:21. Submission isnt about the giving of gifts etc, it's about making first the priority of others before self. The outflow of love in the family is the submission of each other's needs and values.

A) Role of the wife
Eph 5:22-24
Submission of the wife under her husband isnt about losing your own identity and becoming held in the box and forced to take a back seat in life. Coming under submission is allowing your husband to look after you and take care of you, just like how Christ came to take care, protect and comfort us.

B) Role of the husband
Eph 5:25-27
Embrace the nature of God, a husband should lay down his life for her just as Christ laid His life down for us.
i) To love is to sacrifice
v25: loving selflessly and with tremendous humility
ii) To love is to complete
v28: loving her is completing you; in other words, not loving them is equivalent to neglecting a part of yourself
iii) To love is to put first
v31: the leaving of parent isnt disregarding them, but a shift of priorities. Putting the priorities of your wife and family first before parents due to the need to take on a higher role.

C) Role of the church
The church is the family of God. Every individual family comes together to make up the church family. It is a community that lives and thrives on the same principles as that of an earthly family. God desires every earthly family to be a place of security, affirmation, encouragement, openness and of sharings, and likewise, the same is placed on the church.

All in all, how much you love is how much you're willing to pay the price for. It isnt only in monetary terms, but how much are you willing to give up for?
Friends..
how much do you love God?
Christ was willing to put aside His Life for us..
how much are you willing to put aside for Him?

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A really memorable night of fun and games (:
TRIVIA NIGHT was a success! Putting my general knowledge to the test was indeed very challenging x) which i officially conclude that my general knowledge skills = naught :D

so yeah!!
presenting to you..
THE WINNING TEAMMMMM!!! (:
*drumrollllll*
never belittle the smallest team!
the strongest team too! (:

coming in second place...
we have the DOUBLE LECTURER TEAM! :Dand in third place..
we have the sneaky team at the back. quietly and softly overthrowing the other two x)and well, the other two erm, consolation prizes go to erm..
group C!!
and erm because this iz my team and i'm so proud of them (despite the handicap of having me in it :D) we walked away as winners of the tallest and sturdiest newspaper tower built for the night!!! (:
presenting to you our tower and us :pohoh, and we cannot forget our beloved host! (:
brendan. and erm, haha the erm videographer andrew :p keith's in the photo too!! but argh, sorry for the lousy quality of the photo!! we need to have a photographer with steadier hands than mine! x)last but not least,
we promised food. and we held to our promise.
sumptuous (: 3types of pasta sauces specially and lovingly prepared by keith! and pizzas! oh and fried rice prepared by lucy too!! x) alrighty,
i guess that's all for trivia night folks! (:
thanks for joining us for those who did! and i certainly hope you guys had fun! (: oh and i apologize for the bias-ness of this post. i mean, afterall, i still tink my team rocked socks (:

see you in church! :D

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What are trivia nights?
Trivia nights are informal, fun, competitions where teams battle to see who has the greatest knowledge of matters trivial. General knowledge and trivial interest questions are asked by a trivia host and the winners are the team which, at the end of the night, have correctly answered the most number of questions.

Specially brought to you on campus by CCM,




Bring you and your friends down to join us for a great time of food, fun and games! (:

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