Got a Dream but no Cash? Internet can help.

Perhaps this is a lucky day for some - 090909! One can experience this once in a life time. So if you have a dream but no cash, what do you do? Yeah! go to the internet perhaps you get lucky. A website Kickstarter.com can help you. You pitch your idea on this site and interested people donate to your cause. Sound easy? Well, according to the news some people have got money to fund their ventures on this website. Read the full news here :
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/features/36934-got-a-dream-but-no-cash-the-internet-can-help

Old Age

On Sunday afternoon, my wife and I visited an old aunt(my father's elder sister) at her daughter's house where she is staying. A few months ago she fell ill and was admitted to Norma ICU a few times. However, she recovered well enough to stay home. Doctors could not do anything esle for her and asked her children to send her home. She is already 80 plus years. I kind of pity her because she could not do anything by herself, and hired nurses have to take care of her. It is rather sad to see her in that state. Nevertheless, my wife and I felt that we just wanted to be there for her. It took a while for her to recognise us and after that she called me. It was a touching moments for us when I holded her hand and I saw she cried because she asked for tissue to wipe her tears. We really could not do anything for her but be there to say we care. Sometimes it is better not to say so much, but be with someone who is in need. Be there to show we care, that is better than alot of words.

Here is Helen Steiner Rice's poem:

Growing Older is Part of God's Plan

You can't hold back the dawn
or stop the tides from flowing
or keep a rose from withering
or still a wind that's blowing
And time cannot be halted
in its swift and candles flight
For age is sure to follow youth
like day comes after night
For He who set our span of years
and watches from above
Replaces youth and beauty
with peace and truth and love
And then our souls are privileged
to see a hidden treasure
That in youth escapes our eyes
in our pursuit of pleasure
So passing years are but blessings
that open up the way
To the everlasting beauty
of God's eternal day.

Helen Steiner Rice Poem

On Sundat 6 th Sept 2009, Brother Chiew led worship in Church. He prayed fervently for our Church. He also shared a meaningful poem by Helen Steiner Rice. I have always been inspired by her poems. Several years ago I bought a her books of poem and have been fascinated by her inspirational Christian poem. For those who missed the poem which he showed on the overhead please read below:

Bend In The Road

Helen Steiner Rice

When we feel we have nothing left to give
And we are sure that the song has ended,
When our day seems over and the shadows fall
And the darkness of night has descended,
Where can we go to find the strength
To valiantly keep on trying?
Where can we find the hand that will dry
The tears that the heart is crying?
There's but one place to go and that is to God,
And dropping all pretence and pride,
We can pour out our problems without restraint
And gain strength with Him at our side.
And together we stand at life's cross roads
And view what we think is the end,
But God has a much bigger vision,
And He tells us it's only a bend.

For the road goes on and is smoother,
And the pause in the song is a rest,
And the part that's unsung and unfinished
Is the sweetest and richest and best.
So rest and relax and grow stronger
Let go and let God share your load.
Your work is not finished or ended
You've just come to a bend in the road.

Focus o the Family

On Sunday 6th Sept 2009 Brother Alfred and Brother Alwin attended a meeting hosted by Pastor Matthew Ling at his house to discussed about matters relating to Focus on the Family, Kuching(FOF). The meeting was also attended by several other local Church Pastors. He wanted to find out whether FOF is contributing to the Churches here. He advised that he is assessing whether there is a need to keep a full time staff for FOF here in Kuching. One Pastor shared that he finds FOF important in helping the Churches with family issues. He also related how the youth in his Church in Miri benefitted from FOF courses like "NO Aplogies". All agreed that FOF is doing a good job and it is required in Kuching.
Pastor Matthew, Brother Alfred and another follow pastor will be conducting "Smart Start" program at Kingwood Inn in October.

5 year old sings Above All

She appeared on America Got Talent.

Money, Sex and Power

This is a timely article about three subjects that many struggle over. On one hand some Christians say money, sex and power are bad, some say good. However, in the final analysis in indulgencing in all three are we focusing on God or on our human needs? God created all these things for our convenient, but on our part we are to honour Him and not make these as idols. If we know the Bible well,and live according to Jesus's teaching we will be able to decide for ourselves. Rightly said, we do not need many physical things to live. God provides. Read on:

Money, Sex and Power

Tuesday, Sep. 1, 2009 Posted: 1:13:29PM HKT

There are basically two groups in the Church: on one hand, there are those that say that money, sex and power are evil. On the other, there are those that say that they are good.

The problem is that there is a serious lack of biblical examination of them in many churches today. No, money, sex and power are not evil. Yes, they are good things. But is that it?

Neither a poverty nor prosperity theology is biblical, simply because God does not think that the material world and the things in it are of any ultimate importance.

The Bible does not say that God created money, sex and power as the crowning glory of His creation; it is humankind alone that can take that place of dignity.

If money, sex and power were indeed evil, why did He create them or at least approve of their use? Could God not have created a world without money, sex and power? For one thing, it would be a very disorganised world, certainly not what the God of order would want.

The evil lies not in the worldly things per se. It lies in the way they are perceived and the use to which they are put.

The Bible is clear that from page one that all things come from God, including the money, sex and power that each person enjoys to some extent.

It is equally clear that God created and entrusted them to Man out of His love to help them live in the physical world just as a loving couple prepares the baby’s room and food for the child to come into the world.

Without money, or for that matter without physical food, it would be impossible to live. Sex is an important part of being human, a reproductive race. Without power, there would be confusion and disorder.

While money, sex and power can satisfy Man’s physical needs and order the world so that they can continue to be satisfied, they are not quite capable of satisfying their wants, or their spiritual needs.

Beneath the thin, deceptive and self-deceptive veneer of confidence, every individual in the world is an insecure and nervous wreck constantly on the look out for the approval and admiration of others.

Perhaps this is what is meant by original sin, or better yet original dependence. Man is not an island. They were not created to be self-confident, practical atheists.

Without the reality of God’s grace – emphasis intended – in people’s lives, they will forever be restless, even if they be called ‘Revs’ or ‘Drs’ or ‘Professors’ or ‘Apostles’ or ‘Prophets’ or ‘Canons’ or even ‘Right Revs’ or ‘Most Revs’ or ‘His Beatitudes’ or ‘His Holinesses’.

If they are businessmen, they will be greedy for money and success. If they are pastors, they will be greedy for membership and influence. As Paul would put it, Jew or Gentile, there is no difference; all need Christ, and not a Christ contained within a ‘sinner’s prayer’, as a discerning presiding bishop put it recently, but a Christ in all His glory and power of love.

Physical things can never satisfy Man’s wants. Jimmy Carter said it well that in every person there is a God-shaped vacuum that only Jesus Christ can fill. Famous sociologist Emile Durkheim talked about how Man that is not restricted in their physical wants will go crazy and die.

Man does not need many physical things to live, yes, even in Singapore. But they need all of God’s grace.

They need to live daily in the awareness that they are in the presence of a Creator and Shepherd who loves and values them unconditionally and leads them along paths of righteousness.

Source:Christianpost,Singapore

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