HIS GENERATION

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2010-09-25T22:12:00.001+08:00

I've been having a lot of inspirations recently but I'm way too busy with my studies. School has been giving double and triple the homework so I will have to try to make time or maybe I just need to plan my timetable more properly.

God bless,
Wei Lim

No HG on 10/9/2010

2010-09-07T15:52:00.001+08:00

Taking a break for Raya holidays...

Speedbump...

2010-08-25T21:57:00.001+08:00

HG Blog is having a short haitus because...

- Me, the sole contributor is having SPM trials.
- No one else wants to conrtibute.

Note. It's very discouraging and displeasing for me to manage this blog alone. Hope you all understand.

God bless,
Wei Lim

Let your tears flow like a river as you read this =')

2010-08-24T12:34:00.002+08:00

A TEENAGER'S VIEW OF HEAVEN

17-year-old Brian Moore had only a short time to write something for a class. The subject was what Heaven was like. 'I wowed 'em,' he later told his father, Bruce. 'It's a killer. It's the bomb. It's the best thing I ever wrote..' It also was the last.

Brian Moore died May 27, 1997, the day after Memorial Day. He was driving home from a friend's house when his car went off Bulen-Pierce Road in Pickaway County and struck a utility pole. He emerged from the wreck unharmed but stepped on a downed power line and was electrocuted.

The Moores framed a copy of Brian's essay and hung it among the family portraits in the living room. 'I think God used him to make a point. I think we were meant to find it and make something out of it,' Mrs. Moore said of the essay. She and her husband want to share their son's vision of life after death. 'I'm happy for Brian. I know he's in heaven. I know I'll see him.'

Brian's Essay: The Room...

In that place between wakefulness and dreams, I found myself in the room. There were no distinguishing features except for the one wall covered with small index card files. They were like the ones in libraries that list titles by author or subject in alphabetical order. But these files, which stretched from floor to ceiling and seemingly endless in either direction, had very different headings. As I drew near the wall of files, the first to catch my attention was one that read 'Girls I have liked.' I opened it and began flipping through the cards. I quickly shut it, shocked to realize that I recognized the names written on each one. And then without being told, I knew exactly where I was.

This lifeless room with its small files was a crude catalog system for my life. Here were written the actions of my every moment, big and small, in a detail my memory couldn't match. A sense of wonder and curiosity, coupled with horror, stirred within me as I began randomly opening files and exploring their content. Some brought joy and sweet memories; others a sense of shame and regret so intense that I would look over my shoulder to see if anyone was watching.

A file named 'Friends' was next to one marked 'Friends I have betrayed.' The titles ranged from the mundane to the outright weird 'Books I Have Read,' 'Lies I Have Told,' 'Comfort I have Given,' 'Jokes I Have Laughed at.' Some were almost hilarious in their exactness: 'Things I've yelled at my brothers.' Others I couldn't laugh at: 'Things I Have Done in My Anger', 'Things I Have Muttered Under My Breath at My Parents.' I never ceased to be surprised by the contents.

Often there were many more cards than I expected. Sometimes fewer than I hoped. I was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of the life I had lived. Could it be possible that I had the time in my years to fill each of these thousands or even millions of cards? But each card confirmed this truth. Each was written in my own handwriting. Each signed with my signature.

When I pulled out the file marked 'TV Shows I have watched', I realized the files grew to contain their contents. The cards were packed tightly, and yet after two or three yards, I hadn't found the end of the file. I shut it, shamed, not so much by the quality of shows but more by the vast time I knew that file represented.

When I came to a file marked 'Lustful Thoughts,' I felt a chill run through my body. I pulled the file out only an inch, not willing to test its size and drew out a card. I shuddered at its detailed content.

I felt sick to think that such a moment had been recorded. An almost animal rage broke on me. One thought dominated my mind: No one must ever see these cards! No one must ever see this room! I have to destroy them!' In insane frenzy I yanked the file out. Its size didn't matter now. I had to empty it and burn the cards. But as I took it at one end and began pounding it on the floor, I could not dislodge a single card. I became desperate and pulled out a card, only to find it as strong as steel when I tried to tear it.

Defeated and utterly helpless, I returned the file to its slot. Leaning my forehead against the wall, I let out a long, self-pitying sigh.

And then I saw it.. The title bore 'People I Have Shared the Gospel With.' The handle was brighter than those around it, newer, almost unused. I pulled on its handle and a small box not more than three inches long fell into my hands. I could count the cards it contained on one hand.

And then the tears came. I began to weep. Sobs so deep that they hurt. They started in my stomach and shook through me. I fell on my knees and cried. I cried out of shame, from the overwhelming shame of it all. The rows of file shelves swirled in my tear-filled eyes. No one must ever, ever know of this room. I must lock it up and hide the key. But then as I pushed away the tears, I saw Him.

No, please not Him. Not here. Oh, anyone but Jesus. I watched helplessly as He began to open the files and read the cards. I couldn't bear to watch His response. And in the moments I could bring myself to look at His face, I saw a sorrow deeper than my own.

He seemed to intuitively go to the worst boxes. Why did He have to read every one? Finally He turned and looked at me from across the room. He looked at me with pity in His eyes. But this was a pity that didn't anger me. I dropped my head, covered my face with my hands and began to cry again. He walked over and put His arm around me. He could have said so many things. But He didn't say a word. He just cried with me.

Then He got up and walked back to the wall of files. Starting at one end of the room, He took out a file and, one by one, began to sign His name over mine on each card. 'No!' I shouted rushing to Him. All I could find to say was 'No, no,' as I pulled the card from Him. His name shouldn't be on these cards. But there it was, written in red so rich, so dark, so alive. The name of Jesus covered mine. It was written with His blood. He gently took the card back. He smiled a sad smile and began to sign the cards. I don't think I'll ever understand how He did it so quickly, but the next instant it seemed I heard Him close the last file and walk back to my side.

He placed His hand on my shoulder and said, 'It is finished.' I stood up, and He led me out of the room. There was no lock on its door. There were still cards to be written.

'For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.'-John 3:16.

Failed Purpose

2010-08-07T11:38:00.003+08:00

When God created humans, he had a purpose for us. The only species with the ability to recognize His authority over the world, the only species created in his likeness, the only species with the ability to literally change the world. To change lives.

But if the world ends one day, and the whole global population were to face God, would he be pleased? Yea of course we've accepted his name but what if our every deed cultivates in destruction? Because I believe one's sin will be rebuked when we face the Lord.

If God were to spoke with the American president, I probably imagine something like this.

You believe in my name, you worship me in a church. But your greed drove you to monopolize global economy. Due to your greed in petroleum, you attacked nations in the middle east, wasted precious money that could be used to feed the poor. You've changed the lives of millions. You've killed millions, destroyed their homes, leaving them maimed, their hungry stomachs made even hungrier. You've changed their lives.

Nuclear which I created for good, to create sustainable energy for your country and the whole earth you've used it to change lives. The effects of World War II's atomic bombs are still present. So does Chernobyl. Radiation sickness killed people in their wombs, or worse they were born disabled. Not to mention the thousands killed, forced to leave their homes, way of living you've destroyed. You've changed their lives.

You let men sleep with men the way they're supposed to sleep with women. You made it legal, you made it right for them to sin against me, against themselves. You've made it okay for women to kill their own flesh and blood. You've changed the lives of the babies, the eternal souls in the human being destroyed.

And for all the beasts of the ground, the birds in the sky, every living being on earth you've changed their lives. You've destroyed their homes, you've cut them up while they're still alive. You think you are the only one with feelings. Even the beasts of the land feel too, they felt the pain and malice you've brought against them as clear as you do.

You've changed lives. But not the way I wanted it. I wanted you to change lives for the better. To show the ones out there a piece of my love. Show them that a savior above them is all they need. There is no need for war, greed, famine. Those in distress, those in hunger will be heard if they call upon my name.

But what have you done. You've called yourself a child of mine, my servant. Yet to the people you've waged war on, you turned them away from me because you represent me, your the epitome of the Christian culture.

HG Update - July 30th

2010-08-06T22:42:00.006+08:00

Today a group of Iranian believers came to share their story. It was shocking because they had messed up in life and had no legal method of getting to know Jesus. And I thought my problems were bad. It's good to know that in times of great distress that Jesus can hope. When all hope is gone, The Lord remains. Nevertheless, even with Jesus it is still hard to conquer our addictions and exorcise our demons.

The Iranian brothers explaining the origin of the Iranian flag. According to them, it heavily draws from Muslim art and scripture...

Musa, the first to share told his story about how he suffered from alcoholism due to depression and being jobless. However, he started a new life when Christ came and spoke to him. A family friend(also a believer) helped lead him to Christ. His life changing experience with Jesus inspired and led his parents to Christ before their deaths.

Payam was interested in Christianity since he was a child. The lack of churches or Christian materials didn't hamper but instead deepened his desire to learn more. He finally accepted Christ during a trip to Turkey and is planning to return to Iran to spread the gospel.

Ramin used to be a drug addict since his teens. He had near death concussions and almost went mentally insane due to his consumption of different drugs with the drugs getting deadlier and deadlier ad the years passed. He even came to Malaysia for "higher class drugs". Nevertheless, he was approached by several brave minsters and one of them helped exorcised him from his demons by goading him to call upon the name of Jesus during a chaotic nightmare/demon possesion in which he felt being dragged to hell.

Guess what kids! Jeffery's back!!!

For those who think Ramin looks like German striker Mesut Ozil, you're forgiven. LOL

The world is full of people who need someone who understands

2010-08-06T20:43:00.003+08:00

A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about Nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he Felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the Eyes of a little boy.
Mister,” he said, “I want to buy one of your puppies.”
“Well,” said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat off the back of his neck, “these puppies come from fine parents and cost a good deal of money.”

The boy dropped his head for a moment. Then reaching deep into his pocket, he pulled out a handful of change and held it up to the farmer. “I’ve got thirty-nine cents. Is that enough to take a look?”

“Sure,” said the farmer.

And with that he let out a whistle,”Here,Dolly!” he called.

Out from the doghouse and down the ramp ran Dolly followed by four little balls of fur. The little boy pressed his face against the chain link fence. His eyes danced with delight.

As the dogs made their way to the fence, the little boy noticed something else stirring inside the doghouse. Slowly another little ball appeared; this One noticeably smaller. Down the ramp it slid. Then in a somewhat awkward manner the little pup began hobbling toward the others, doing its best to catch up….

“I want that one,” the little boy said, pointing to the runt.

The farmer knelt down at the boy’s side and said, “Son, you don’t want that puppy. He will never be able to run and play with you like these other dogs would.”
With that the little boy stepped back from the fence, reached down, and began rolling up one leg of his trousers. In doing so he revealed a steel brace running down both sides of his leg attaching itself To a specially made shoe. Looking back up at the farmer, he said, “You see sir, I don’t run too well myself, and he will need Someone who understands.”

The world is full of people who need someone who understands. And that person is Jesus!!

Devil: The Liar

2010-08-01T19:02:00.005+08:00

Dirty politicians will promise many things during campaigning but do nothing once they're in office. I've watched A Christian message just now that Satan's ways of tempting us is similar.

The story is logic and insightful yet not according to scripture.

The story goes...
A politician was ran by a truck. He died and went to the gates of heaven. Jesus looked at him and asked. Do you wanna go to heaven or hell. Unsurprisingly, the politician chose heaven. Jesus then said "We have rules down here, one must spend 24 hours in heaven, 24 hours in hell and then make his decision"(This is not according to scripture, once you are condemned your are shown no mercy). The man pleaded to Jesus but in the end gave in to the rules.

He went to heaven first. It was nothing like what he saw the angels playing their harps and clouds, sunshine everywhere. He was in a worship session in a huge church made of gold, everyone with hands held high or on their knees. Everyone around the church Then it was the preacher's sermon and that preacher was Jesus. His appearance was that as if he was fresh from the cross. His wrists and feet with puncture wounds, blood still pouring. The face of the Lord was scarred with deep wounds and gashes. Jesus wore a blood stained robe. Yet no one but the politician was deterred. Everyone but the politician bowed and kissed his feet.

Jesus blessed them. The politician was slightly disgusted at the sight of Jesus.

Then he went to hell. It wasn't like how he imagined it. The flames, screams. It was a pub. His favorite rock band was playing on stage. Girls with skimpy outfits were dancing all around. He was back in his younger days, all dressed up. All his friends were there. They were boozing, looking sharp. Then the devil walks in. He didn't have horns or a tail. He looked rather normal.

He came in with hot looking prostitutes. In a word, perfect and without a blemish. He said to the politicians and said "I heard God wants to give you a taste of hell?" and asked him what did he think? And the politician gleefully spoke about the food, the music, the booze. Satan said "These girls are yours for the remaining 18 hours, enjoy!". The politician and his friends committed adultery for the next 18 hours, without even feeling bored or tired.

Then he went back to the gates. Jesus, now on the throne without all the scars and punctures on his wrist and feet asked "My child, make your choice". The politician felt rather embarrassed but said "Jesus I never thought I would say this but I prefer hell". Jesus was troubled and pleaded him to reconsider but the politician was firm. Jesus finally let go "Suit yourself". The Lord commanded two angels to take him to hell.

When they descended from heaven, the angelic wings and white glittering robes faded and turned to dust. The angels became demons with skulls cackling and laughing at him.

The politician felt hot and could hear loud crumblings and started to tremble. He tried to sneak away from the demons but they caught him. They sneered at the politician. He pleaded on his knees to talk to Jesus and screamed "The Lord has authority over you, I command you to take me back to him". The demons looked at each other smiled and bellowed "Matthew 10:33 - Whoever disowns Me before men, I will disown him before My Father in heaven." and cackled.

In hell, the heat was unbearable, he tried to free himself from the grip of the two demons but his strength drained quickly. Hell was nothing like the pub, the prostitutes Satan offered him were shackled and were being raped by hordes of demons, the same friends he met at the pub were tortured and crucified upside down. Out of all the torture, the fire was the worst. Lucifer was there smiling cynically. The politician demanded an explanation. Satan now in his true form smiled.

Son, the booze, the hot girls in the pub was my campaign. You voted for me!

God has faith in us

2010-07-28T22:49:00.002+08:00

Remember those moments where you are facing an addictive sin, something you've done your whole life. You thought you could overcome it many many times but fell into temptation anyway. Somehow, however impossibly you've dragged out your demons and exorcised them.

Einstein called it God playing dice and flipping coins with the devil over the soul and righteousness of man. Sadly, the world's smartest man was wrong.

It's because God has faith in us. He knows no matter how hard it is, we will prevail.

Do not think it is us who must have the faith. God's faith in us is easily stronger than our faith in him.

Pastor is at home and well

2010-07-28T22:45:00.001+08:00

Thank God that pastor is now as fit as a fiddle. Thanks for everybody's prayers...

-WeiLim-

Blog cleanups

2010-07-23T23:43:00.001+08:00

Note: All inactive or dead blogs will be removed from the links.

No offense...

- Wei Lim

July 9 & 16 - BGR

2010-07-23T12:45:00.003+08:00

Note: Due to the fact that some people reading this might be in relationships, this is a post that plays relationships according to the view of Christian doctrines. For those who are still interested, YE BE WARNED!

Introduction
- If we consider Jesus as Lord and God, we have surrendered our whole lives to him. Past, present, future. No buts, no maybes.

- Get a relationship only with marriage in your consideration. What's the use of saying I love you if when it comes to marriage you say "I don't know", "I don't think so", "I don't wanna be tied down". Therefore, if we are unsure whether or not we should marry he/she, it's best not to take the next step.

- A man has no right to tell a lady "I love you" unless he's ready to ask "Will you marry me". Relatives are excluded.

- To believe in God is to believe He is the perfect matchmaker. So it's best not to go fishing for love. Let it come to you.

- There's only one rule of a Christian marriage. It is between to Christians, one man and one woman.

- Hollywood romance films are as fiction as Star Wars

Premature relationships
Read the Star newspaper every Wednesday. There's a section where teens regardless of sex, race or religion share painful stories concerning their love life. To me this is the most boring part of the papers because it's all the same stories over and over again. Either,
- Confused if or if not they love that person.
- Break-ups.
This is solid proof that premature relationships are a pain in the butt. there might be exceptions, I don't know. Relationships are strictly for adults.

The cons
Leads to intimacy but necessarily commitment...
- This is call puppy love.
- For those who think love is meant to be fun, lovely and full of joy. You will be disappointed. The feelings, joy and fun are one half. The other half is strict responsibility and hard work. And no relationship can be perfect. Arguments are inevitable. When there's sunshine and rainbows, there's gonna be dark clouds and rain.
- Most if not all girls put their heart and soul into relationship. 100% commitment. It's harder for guys because we tend to let it go once in two years during the World Cup or Euro.
- Commitment is always long term, short term commitments are like pathetic broken promises.
- Waiting till one is ready for big commitments is wise. Don't let a kid play with fire.

Often ends up in the wrong side of physical relationship
- Like how can you not eat a nice piece of burger when you can touch, see and smell it.
- This leads to teenagers ending up in bed yet there are exceptions.

- Isolates couples from other relationships. Example, estranged from friends, families, etc.

Forms a distraction from other responsibilities like studies, hobbies, football and God.

The other way
- Build ourself up in the Lord. How can you take care of a girl if you can't take care of yourself, can't differentiate between right and wrong, watch porn, curse 100 times a day?

- Single years are a gift from God. Marriage is a lot of work. Men cannot expect the ladies to wash the dishes, clean baby poo, breastfeed, wash clothes, cook, clean while he still can go for drinks, watch football.

Tha aside, we have the old faces returned and a few new ones.

David Lin is back. And Sebastian, the new drummer.

Bonnie Chin is back from Russia!

Dangers of the wrong tunes: Part II of a Serious Issue - Why and How?

2010-07-12T17:17:00.003+08:00

It has been widely believed that Lucifer before the fall had been the worship leader in heaven. In fact, his talent might be the one to fuel his pride.

The former worship leader is now using his talents to create in my opinion the scariest anti-Christian weapon of all. Not Satanic music and Black Metal alone but in general, all of Rock N Roll has the devil written all over it.

The reason why music is such an effective tool is that it reaches in deep into us. Sound is the most sensitive stimuli to a human being, more than sight, taste or smell. The memories of sound is also among the hardest to drive out or forget, second only to sight. Even Psychiatrists say that music has more power and influence over the mind that advices or lectures. So it's no wonder music has the uncanny power to make you fall in love, confess your sins, propose to your love ones, pour out and express feelings but also commit suicide, cut yourself and even kill and rape.

Heavy Metal in particular is synonymous with rage, pain and hatred. Some bands have references to paranoia, depression, rejection etc. Others especially Hard Rock bands like Rolling Stones, Guns N Roses, Jimi Hendrix are synonymous with drugs and booze. The deadliest of them all are those extreme metal genres like Speed Metal, Death Metal and of course Black Metal. These are the ones who have references to Devil worshippers, occult and human sacrifices.

If music preaches violence and death, then the people who listen to it are able to reject basic moral values and do the unimaginable. Case in point, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, culprits of the infamous Columbine High School Massacre are avid fans of satanic bands including Marilyn Manson while it was implied that Seung-Hui Cho, the man behind the Virginia Tech Massacre had references of Guns N Roses in his diary.

This shows us that music is capable of affection but also violence.

Music was originally created for worship but it's now becoming something else. As for Christian metal, I am in no position to comment.

Dangers of the wrong tunes - Part I of a Serious Issue

2010-07-12T16:54:00.004+08:00

In the beginning God set the standards. Whatever is sinful, DO NOT TOUCH. Over the years things have changed.

Once it was TOUCH BUT DON'T TASTE.
Then it was TASTE BUT DON'T SWALLOW.

For more info, watch the shocking documentary "THEY SOLD THEIR SOULS FOR ROCK AND ROLL" available on YouTube. It might be the most disturbing thing you've ever seen but it would save your faith.

It was this type of mentality that made me feel it's ok to both be a Christian and to listen to hard rock and metal at the same time. Some pastors and all those abang-abang also said it was OK. They said it's ok to listen to such music as long as you don't get addicted. But no matter how much I keep my relationship with God equilibrium with secular rock music, I've always been addicted.

Not to criticize anyone but Jesus made it clear WE CAN NEVER SERVE TWO MASTERS. We will end up hating one and serving loyally to the other. But after watching the documentary, I've noticed that Heavy Metal is like a a prop to leave the door open for the devil and immediately giving him the dreaded foothold.

My faith has been turbulent yes. I've casted out violent movies but that didn't help much. It was clear to me that the music I listen to affected me the most.

The strange thing was when I swore not to listen to one such band, I'll always find another. And the bands I've listen to have got more and more evil. First there was mainstream bands like Linkin Park but I've later moved to more drug and rebellious music like Guns N Roses. The worse was the occultic bands like AC/DC and Black Sabbath.

During the time which I've listened to AC/DC and Black Sabbath, I recalled I was possessed once AT CHURCH. I've slowly left it, but it never left me.

I struck again, this time me and Jeffery stripped and destroy our Rock/Metal band t-shirts but as the years passed new ones replaced the once I've previously destroyed.

Metal can catch people by surprise. Music manipulated by Satan is the deadliest trap of all. Even those soft and melodic rock love ballads have subliminal meanings. Example, Stairway to Heaven has tabs on occult, sex and drugs while Hotel Calrifornia is about the Satanic Church and human worship.

So if you think it's OK to listen to metal and be a Christian at one time. I don't think so but I'm not in the position to judge. Of course I've known a good number of passionate believers who also listen to even Metallica. But results may vary, in my case it got the better of me. But BETTER BE SAFE THAN SORRY...

They Sold Their Souls For Rock N Roll

2010-07-10T00:24:00.002+08:00

Note, if you are sensitive to violence and scary turths! DO NOT WATCH!

But those who are desperate. Please do, this video made me think twice about the music I listen to.

2 July - Sexuality

2010-07-07T22:33:00.002+08:00

When the word SEX hits your head. We think dirty. The world has changed much but the idea of SEX = SIN has been around for millenniums. Don't believe me? Where did the word SODOMIZE come from. From Sodom, a sinful land described in the early Old Testaments.

Well that's not the way God sees it. He created sex as a means of intimacy, a very special way to express love. But only between one man and one woman who are married to each other. No but's, no if's and no exceptions.

Unfortunately the world doesn't see it that way. Because it feels good, they wanna have fun and end up tarnishing it. What comes of it?

Sure there is fun. But there is also HIV/AIDS, Syphilis and Hepatitis. Unwanted children, abortions, divorce, depression and of course suicide. What a hefty price to pay.

With the introduction of homosexualism, the world has practically turned away. I myself can't understand why men want to be women. Some say it's because the private parts look weird or something. Of course it's not as cool as Avatar, where their hairs have special strands to stimulate and bond each other. But it's actually a gift from God so to speak.

NOTE: The message was long but there's a lot I can't show because it's kinda sensitive and I don't want to go the wrong way.

25 June - Forgiveness Part II

2010-07-07T22:12:00.003+08:00

While forgiving is important, there's a flipside to it. It's a time when we are fragile and emotionally drained with guilt. So what some people will do, mostly men is to take advantage.

In regular cases, they try to embarrass you. Like saying sorryx100 or bowing down and all that but what's more serious is that some men will actually take advantage of girls who ask for forgiveness. By asking them to have sex. Because this is so bad, it's acceptable to just break off and leave sexual misfits like these. Pastor even says "GIVE HIM THE MIDDLE FINGER!". Not sure if it meant it but it does imply how serious it is.

I don't know how women use this on men. Perhaps they ban their boyfriends/husbands from watching FIFA World Cup or Euro. Which is equally bad. LOL!

The bottomline is don't try to prove how sorry you are, even if told too.

And when we ask forgiveness, do it with depth, like you mean it. Just darting up, sating SORRY! and dart off is inappropriate. If possible,repeat the offense in case someone forgets it which is not really necessary because they probably never felt it. But of course, exceptions do happen more often than you think.

Forgiveness: More than Moving On

2010-06-22T21:31:00.004+08:00

More than just moving on, forgiveness is one of the most effective ways to show love. How to keep loving others despite being wronged. Takes a lot of LOVE to do that. And Jesus showed the depth of His love by forgiving us.

God: Always Waiting

2010-06-22T21:28:00.001+08:00

The first in the short message format....

When people have problems, they say God hates him/her or is simply void...

That applies to most humans, true. But not to God.

It's not true that God is never around when we need him. He is always there. The problem is WE are not near GOD when we need him the most.

New Format

2010-06-22T21:26:00.002+08:00

Due to the difficulty to think and write a new article consistently and lack of time. I'm introducing a new format to HG's blog... Just simple quotes and bible passages will do...

Wei Lim

Forgiveness

2010-06-14T00:56:00.000+08:00

Due to the fact that I'm the only one left, I guess the burden is on me to revive the blog. Swt, I NEED VOLUNTEERS because I have more than enough problems already! Anyways, here we go again.

This is a practically a summary of what Pastor has been teaching the past month.

For most of my life, I never believed in forgiveness. Because I knew bad things happen to nice people, why bother. Be nice and eventually people will take advantage of your kindness and spit on you in return. It makes pretty much sense to everyone to remember everything and forgive nothing but one thing for certain is that being a believer of God makes no sense literally. Does it make sense to risk your life to preach to strangers? Does it make sense to die on a cross? The Christian life doesn't make sense because the world is the exact opposite of God.

Well maybe you won't get anything in return for forgiving others but well people GOD COMMANDS IT! like it or not. Jesus gave us unconditional love and we are to do the same for Him. Easier said than done because I personally have stumbled to the point of what I call "temporary backsliding".

The reason for all of this is that The Lord first forgave us. Jesus told the parable of a man who was just freed from a seven figure debt by his master upon pleading. But the man despite being removed from his debt killed a man who owed him a few hundred. Face it, we have hurt God everyday without realizing. It doesn't matter if the same bastards scorn us everyday, we still owe a life debt to God.

However there are circumstances in which the things that happen to us are too much to bear, circumstances in which GOD DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. It does make sense, it's just that we don't understand it. We can't, haven't and will never understand why God lets the good people die. Why good people who fight for justice and freedom die. Think Mahatma Gandhi who wanted to unite India, Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves, John F. Kennedy who refused to invade Vietnam. All three of these men were killed in cold blood. THINK JESUS who died to save the world. No matter what the pain we face, it is clear that it is our duty, all of us, to forgive.

Taking it up to the person we have wronged is also a necessary step. Most people think it is easier just to walk away but in truth, past sins will always haunt us. We can attempt to run away from our past, but our past follows us like a shadow.

Confrontation is possible but it must be in a way in which no one gets offended which means no raising our voices, foul language etc.

Some people deal with offenses by striking back. Like they say the best defense is offense. But when I brought this up, Pastor said....

"How many people can you whack"

Sure, you can whack male friends, siblings but you can't whack most of the people you know. Guys who whack women have serious mental issues. But how many people can we whack. We can't whack the prime minister or president but some cases people succeed like JFK, Gandhi, Lincoln.

Although whacking may enable us to put things behind, it's not worth it. A guy who spends his time whacking people every time he is wrong will rot in jail. A guy who neither whacks nor forgives will have anger in his heart. And anger shortens life span. If laughter can cure cancer, anger actually causes cancer.

According to one psychologist, half of his patients would have no need of his services if they'd simply forgive.

but we must remember, forgive is not forget. Some conflicts are so deep that relationships remain strained forever.

Like it or not guys, forgiveness is the best medicine, second only to laughter perhaps.

When Will Help Come

2010-04-23T00:45:00.002+08:00

Recently I haven't being posting articles because I've been plagued by spiritual troubles. All the guilt and all. My faith came back recently yet something bad happened today. Something that could force me give up the cross and walk away. But I've used this incident to come up with something. Make lemonade out of lemons.

I've experience a very turbulent spiritual life. It was as if the moment I accepted the Christ the world became my enemy. Much like Psalms 31: 10-13

My life is consumed by anguish
And my years by groaning;
my strength fails because of my affliction,
and my bones grow weak.
Because of all my enemies,
I am the utter contempt of my neighbors;
I am a dread to my friends—
Those who see me on the street flee from me.
I am forgotten by them as though I were dead;
I have become like broken pottery.
For I hear the slander of many;
There is terror on every side;
They conspire against me
And plot to take my life.

I've never enjoyed my social life outside of church. I've been mocked, laughed at, bullied, slandered and spat on(literally). These douche bags thought because I am a Christian, I was the one they could jerk off continuously. Like a dog.

Well what happened was an all too common scenario. I've had this feeling that I was ready to proudly say that I've lived a godly life without shame. Ready to carry out the cross. I've shedded most of the old addictive sins that weakened me before. As a matter of fact, I became overconfident that nothing could prevent me from falling.

Well, I was insulted really bad. As a usual response I laughed along. But soon I blacked out and did what I wasn't supposed to do. I've kept my mouth and my life clean for almost a month and now it all ended. All my hard work was laid to waste, blasted to rubbles and debris.

This wasn't the first time it happened. However, this was the one most difficult to bear. So I was very angry thinking that I've wasted my life on false hope.

But folks let us consider the facts. We are made to suffer, just like how the Lord was meant to die. Life on earth is not a holiday. It's actually a battlefield full of pain and suffering to test how worthy we are. To test our allegiance to God. It is always easy to say we love God when things are fine but when things start to go the way we don't want them, we just complain saying it's unfair and God doesn't care about me or we could just backslide and enjoy what little joy is left.

What makes it tougher is that in this specific battlefield, we are not allowed to fight back. If we do, we loose whatever the holy spirit gave us. We whack whoever messes with us, we insult when we are insulted. The Christian life is not about how hard we hit, but instead how much we can take. How to get whacked, hit or insulted yet keep moving forward.

Troubles are just like trials to determine the depth of our devotion. If we give up the cross at the first sight of trouble, it shows how shallow or devotion is. The one who endures the most wins. However, there are margin for errors. Perhaps God wants us to use these failures to learn how to prevent them again. That's why problems come in unexpected times and ways, so we can expect the unexpected.

If we fail, just get up and piece back the puzzle.

9th April 2010 - Formal Dress Week

2010-04-15T23:59:00.003+08:00

After almost a decade of seeing the jeans/t-shirt format, pastor ordered us to switch to formal dressing which is very bizarre for most of us because most of us only wear them at weddings, grand dinners or funerals. But it was a fun sight to bestow. Nevertheless, three of us failed to adhere to the dressing code.

First, Pastor asked us to take a group photo but there was a catch. The boys were to get a chair, set it up and hold it as the girl sit. Many first timers here because none of us did this before.

Although the session had it's subtle share of light hearted moments, it was one of the most tense subjects touched. Discretion. We are thought to carry ourselves properly and to look out for sexual predators who act overly discreet and dump the girl/boy after they had their fill.

There was also the passage "I will not be mastered by anything". Basically means we must avoid being consumed/addicted/ mastered by anything of the world. Common examples include foul language, pornography, dirty jokes, violent movies(which I admit is kinda cool) or it could be anything. Indeed it is addictive and hard to let go but that doesn't make it okay for us to say it out. Be mastered only by God and you will be guaranteed of maximum discretion.

Pastor also chastised most of us by criticizing our foul language, regardless if it is spoken, typed or written. Which what gives people a bad name. How much of a difference can we make if we are no better than the people around us or if we're worse than them. Hard to swallow right, but it's the only way to do it.

Then there was dinner at McDonalds. Feels extra weird to be walking in all dressed up. Oh Gosh.

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26th March!

2010-04-01T14:00:00.004+08:00

Today HG'ians do our Cell group bible discussion! We shared about lesson and things applied in our lives in book of James 1-3! It's much different today that Pastor Koshy was not around.. SO, Aunt Dorcas took over the session!

We learned the lesson that , NEVER try to twist the word of God. At times, when we LOVE to do so much. Suddenly somebody forbid us from doing it because it's written in the Bible.. BUT, we denied it. Trying to fight back, just because we can't let it go, we can't take that fact. So, we still doing it and tried to find a "solution" so, we able to do it.

For example , Nowadays gays is very common. Even though God said He hates the sins of being gay but loves the person, but the gay communities still wanted to fight for their right to get marry and go to court and so on.. See?

So, it's better not to be stubborn and try to learn to let go.. :)

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS (PART 1)

2010-03-26T00:12:00.003+08:00

How is everyone doing lately? Since this blog seems so “dead” I decided to write something which is relevant to all of us. As “big” as the title of this post may seem, the purpose of this post is to educate HG’ians about our rights when it comes to matters regarding the police force. We heard many cases of bogus policeman on the streets and were shocked by the unlawfully circulated video of a China citizen doing naked-squats that was recorded by a male policeman. All in all, when it comes to these issues, how many laymen know their right as enshrined in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and The Federal Constitution (Perlembagaan Persekutuan) and other laws?

In a situation when u are stopped by a plain cloth policeman (polis berpakaian preman), u have every right to ask for his/her identification. If he/she fails to produce any, just walk away for he/she has no right to even stop you what more to ask any personal information from you. If a police authority card is produced, pay attention to its details;

If it’s RED in color- The police officer has been suspended, he has no authority to do any thing to you. Just walk away.

BLUE color- Rank of Inspector and above

YELLOW color- Below the rank of Inspector

WHITE color- Reserve police

If the policeman is in uniform, always take note of the number plate of the car and motorcycle and also take note about his name and i.d number on his uniform. This is for evidentiary purpose should you wanted to contest in court regarding any unlawful arrest or unlawful conduct by the arresting officer.

What must you answer then if you are questioned by the police in event you are stopped? What you do is only give your name, i.c. number and your address. If the police officer further asked questions, all you need to do is politely ask back; “Sir am I arrested/why are you stopping me?”. The reason is this, note this example;

A murder just occur near ESSO Batu Burok and the murderer just fled the scene. Lo and behold, Ps. Koshy jogs frequently near the crime scene everyday. Police arrived at the scene at stopped ps who was innocently near the murder scene.

After asking for i.d whatsoever;

Policeman: “Awak buat ape di sini? Awak tahu ada pembunuhan berlaku 1 jam lepas? Kenapa awak berpeluh-peluh ni?”

Ps. Koshy: “Er tuan saya tak tau la, saya jogging dan lalu tempat ini tadi sebab tu berpeluh”.

In this situation, Ps.Koshy is incriminating himself thus making him a suspect by the “Naïve” way he answered the question. So the best way is to ask whether you are arrested or not. If not then just walk away and have the right to refuse to follow the police man back to the police station or anywhere else if asked. You cannot be arrested if you are a potential witness. Should the police want to take a statement from you, they will make an informal request to you to give a statement in the police station. If the time and date is convenient for you, by all means corporate.

What if you are arrested? What do you then? Firstly, upon being arrested the police had to inform you your grounds of arrest, if not, the arrest will be unlawful this right is enshrined under Article 5(3) of the Federal Constitution. Then ask which police station will you be detained, for it is the police duty to bring you to the nearest police station. E.g. if Chester is arrested in K.T. then he cannot be detained in Besut Police Station.

When you are arrested, the police can only detain you up to 24 hours to assist investigation. The duty of the police is to complete investigation within 24 hours and to release you as soon as possible. If fail to do so, you must be produced before a magistrate should the police wants to extend your remand order. What are your rights then during detention? Under Section 28A of the Criminal Procedure Code, it is stated that before the police may commence any questioning or interrogation, he must inform you that you have the right to inform your guardian and relatives about your whereabouts and has the right for legal representation. i.e. you have the right tot make telephone calls. It’s advisable for a lawyer to be present during police questioning for they will assist you much in escaping criminal liability. If you are questioned without your lawyer present, you have the right tot remain silent as to no to incriminate yourself.

Well that’s all for part one, stay tuned for part 2 on the rights to welfare during your detention, body search, when is it lawful? And what do you do if you are beaten during detention.

Disclaimer: I had endeavored to state the laws based on materials available to me. This article is a mere advice and should not be taken as a legal advice. I will not take liability for any consequences resulting from the gross and negligent reliance on the article written.

Written by:

Witter Yee,

Vice-President,

Asian Law Students Association (Malaysia)

12th March! : The Change.

2010-03-23T05:55:00.004+08:00

Hey guys! Sorry for being inactive in this blog for so long! I had been to YMI and got some workshops to attend and it made me busy! So forgive me! :S

What happened last 12th March was, Pastor Koshy decided to change how His Generation going to be according to the situation. Now you know, His Generation got small number of members that around Kuala Terengganu.

So, Pastor Koshy recreate the cell groups! It just a small cell group which consisted two person in a group and sometimes three or four for special case for school leavers. And of course, it will be in boy-boy and girl-girl group. Reason for that is to allow the ease of sharing to other CG member without worrying and being shy shy. :)

We will read chapters from bible and discuss in the cell group.. And if there is something you might eager to share after got some "hit" from verses in the bible, you can share after the discussion to everybody.. Haha

29 January 2010 - FRIENDSHIP

2010-02-16T16:38:00.003+08:00

A valuable lesson folks. The people we call friends are powerful double edged swords that can either devastate souls or build us up... When I say that, I mean when we think someone as an honest friend and later backstabs and rebukes us and turns into our greatest enemy, that's really hard to swallow. The same can happen is boy/girl relationships. On the other hand, a truthful friend or partner who sticks to us even after knowing our worse gives a truckload of comfort.

But we must never generalize that all sincere friends must be believer. Even those who aren't with God can be righteous in their own way. One prime example... MAHATMA GANDHI... And I've known some good friends who aren't believers as well as Christian "friends" who aren't up to snuff..

Verses of the Day...

Proverbs 25:19
A friend you can't trust in times of trouble is like having a toothache or a sore foot.
If friends are always like that. We are best rid of them. An excellent source of pain and emotional suffering. Unreliable people like this are best described as enemies rather than friends.

Proverbs 12:26
The righteous should choose his friends carefully, For the way of the wicked leads them astray.
This represents the desire of our loyalty from both Jesus and Satan. The Devil tempts us with good feelings and satisfaction of greed but in truth only wants us to suffer in hell with him. Jesus offers love, truth and salvation in return for friendship. The same can be said when friends "befriend" us for money and men steal women in bed for one night and leave them devastated.

Proverbs 16:7
When we please the Lord, even our enemies become our friends
I find this hard to believe but any of the Lord's promises will be fulfilled. So far this hasn't happened before unfortunately but HEY, whatcha gonna do?

Proverbs 27:17
Just as iron sharpens iron, friends sharpen the minds of each other.
True friends will criticize and rebuke us. Just as Jesus rebuked his disciples on several occasions due to lack of faith and disobedience. Among friends, correcting each other makes each other wiser people.

His Generation 22 Jan 2010

2010-02-03T03:33:00.005+08:00

Well, hello again! =)
Ever thought of drugs or cigarette? Haha, this week we had a guest speaker. Let me introduce to you a very special man. You'll surely amazed when i tell you bout this man but I'll talk about it later. His Generation started as usual with worship lead by me. Thanks every musicians and all the back up singers for helping me. Thanks to those who help me doing the Pa system. Thanks pastor for encouraging us(the musicians). As usual, we prayed for the nation of Iran and..Oh yea, I almost forget, we have a new member! Welcome to His Generation Melissa Chee!! (sry if i spelled your name wrongly) =p

Okay, back to the topic. Let me tell you all a story of this man that really touches my heart. His name is Richard or you can call him Pastor Richard. I'm just gonna cut the story short. So basically, before becoming a pastor, he had been taking drugs, living on the streets with other drug addicts, smoking and drinking around. He's a wise man, but ended up in such a mess life. Why is this happening to him? Its because he had been mixing with the wrong friends. He finally gets out from this deadly sin as he accepted the Lord.

After years of struggles. He finally won over his sin. His life was a mess, if he didn't take drugs, he would be a successful man. He messed up his life and yet he still can turn away from his sins, forget bout his past and go on with life. Now that amazed me the most. He never gave up despite of his bad history. He's now a pastor, a very nice and caring pastor. He's helping the drug addicts now, even the homeless and the ones having HIV. His testimony touched my heart, I could only imagine the pain he had suffered. Because he's willing to suffer and not to give up, he's now alive and free from the deadly bondage of drugs.

Here's a little advise for us from Ps. Richard. 1st advise, do not mixed with the wrong friends. Yeap, this is indeed important cause you'll have the feeling of peer pressure. If all your friends smoke, you'll start to smoke in order to join your friends. 2nd, Do not fall for drugs, if anyone offer you drugs or cigarette, just say NO! and run away from them. By the way, just for general knowledge, people that drinks alot, especially alcoholics has the tendency to fall for drugs or cigarettes at a higher rate.

Well, take his advice, keep it and remembering it always. Remember, drugs can only destroy your life. Stay away from it and never touch it. Say NO when someone offers you drugs or cigarettes. Drugs can destroy some parts of your brain, so some of the words that you read cant be pronounce properly. Your life will be depressed when you start abusing drugs. Don't ever fall for this sin. Trust me, you wont regret taking these advises.

So the conclusion is,

Say NO to drug abuse. Your life is precious, think for your future =)

His Generation 15 Jan 2010

2010-01-29T01:47:00.003+08:00

Why i post this map? Cause last week, we're having a session about the nation of Iran. Yeap, Iran is an Islamic country. But we believe that with our prayers, this nation can still be saved. Why are we doing this? Its because the people of Iran is now searching for the truth. They are so open now because they want to find a real God. So pastor asked us as Christians to keep praying for this nation. Being a Christian in Malaysia isn't that difficult compare to Iran.

Well, Christians in Iran will be persecuted. Some will spent their lives in jail. Some will be killed. So we need to pray and ask God to help this nation and to set this nation free. Every week, we'll keep praying for this nation. We'll spent at least 15min of pray. We truly encourage every believers and every members of His Generation to uphold this nation unto the Lord.

Our beloved Rev. Koshy had encourage us to save our money to buy New Testament to sent to this nation. One book costs only RM17. If we keep sending these books to Iran, there'll be more to be saved. Cant you imagine one day, when you go to heaven. Someone suddenly came and tap your shoulder. He say, "Hey, thanks for buying the new testament for me. Because of you, I'm here". Do you want that to happen? Or someone comes to you and say, "Thanks for praying for the nation of Iran!".

Well, keep praying ok? Lets make a difference and invest on the things that can change people's life. Why not suffer awhile just to get a new testament for the people in Iran. Skip 2 Mac Donalds and you can get a new testament. One book can make a big difference in someone's life =)

His Generation updates (8th Jan 10)

2010-01-20T23:33:00.004+08:00

Fuh, its been a long time since I updated this blog. Well, firstly I want to say sorry for those who waiting for the updates. Haha, I will keep this blog update ( this is my promise ) and i wont fail you all again. I've been hanging out with my friends almost everyday and find no time to update. So now's my chance to update =)

Well, for the 8th of Jan 2009 we started having His Generation meetings again. As usual, we have our worship lead by me (Willert). Haha, just wanna say thanks to all the musicians for helping me alot during the time of worship. Thanks June for playing the piano, Wei Lin on the bass, Witton and Kent on the guitar, Ivan on the drums and Michelle for back up singing.

Its good to be back on His Generation after the New Year countdown. Yeah, thank God that we're still in the pink of health. Thank God that everything had gone through well. Life's always good when God's presence is with us.

After the worship, we had our prayer time. We prayed for all the alumni of His Generation. Then we sang the song How Great Thou Art. Its an awesome hymn and the lyrics are so meaningful. I almost cried.

So, after prayer we settled down and ready for the sermon. Well, sermon's always good. Here's what we learn. Topic's about proverbs. A good book from the bible to learn because this gospel helps us to build our character and to change our lives. I'll just give a brief explain on this topic. Its mostly about gossip where people in this world are doing now. In the book of proverbs, it says, When arguing with your neighbor, don't betray another person's secret, Others may accuse you of gossip, and you will never regain your good reputation. Prov 25:9-10. Here it clearly state that gossips can only cause more problems and your reputation will be destroyed which means people will not trust you anymore. So we must keep our friends secret safe and secure.

Here's another verse that is meaningful, Like apples of gold in settings of silver, Is a word spoken in right circumstances. Prov 15:23. This verse is saying that words that is spoken at the right time is truly nice to be listened. Eg. if a person is sad and you give an encouragement, what do you think that sad person would feel? Of course he'll feel better and nice. So stop complaining cause these words can only make some situation worse.

Here's another one. Through patience a ruler can be persuaded. And a gentle tongue can break a bone. Prov 25:15. This verse is just awesome, a gentle tongue can break a bone means that gentle words or words of encouragement can really change a person. So, I encourage you all, fellow His Generation and other Christians to read on the book of Proverbs cause this book can change your life.

A Tribute To Mr.Kent =)

2010-01-20T23:30:00.003+08:00

(Kent is the one wearing white clothes)

Dear Kent, we will always remember and pray for you. Thank you for serving at His Generation and AJPC. We will always love you and pray for you. Have fun at Australia and don't forget to spent time with God. Thanks a lot for playing the guitar, you're awesome dude =)

God wants us to share His love

2010-01-11T09:51:00.003+08:00

Dearest brothers and sisters in Christ,

Bible clearly says that ''Blessed those who are persecuted!". Therefore, we just have to love and bless to those who had done evil or bad to us.

You might be thinking...''What?!?? Bless our enemy and love them...and forgive them??...Are you crazy?NO WAY!!'' But anyhow we as Christians still need to love them and forgive them of what they had done to our churches. Just like Jesus was hung on the cross and said ''Forgive them, Father 'cause they don't know what they are doing..""

Whatever had happened into the churches in our country(Malaysia), all we need to respond back is FORGIVENESS and LOVE.

Bible teaches the importance of FORGIVENESS and LOVE.

Bible does even teaches us that ''If you only love those who love you and do only good to those who are good to you, if we do that, then what good is that? the pagans(non-believers) do that all the time! Then,there is no difference we ourselves from the pagans(non-believers).. See God(Allah) is LOVE. God(Allah) sends rain to the righteous and the unrighteous too.Therefore, we need to repay and overcome evil with LOVE just like how Jesus love us.

Jesus says never pay an eye for an eye BUT he told us to LOVE one another.

I understand of how y'all feel about the churches being attacked and bomb-fired but I truly believe that these kind of persecution and attack is actually a wake up call for all the Christians to pray for Malaysia in unity once again. I deeply believe that persecution sparks up revival when we all pray for our country!

Friends, now is the time for us to wake up from our long slumber and make a difference. Now is the time where we all as Christians, gather as One and start praying for our nation. Now is the time where we start to get serious with God and ready to face persecution. Now is the time where we have to make the stand. To change the history of Malaysia, its the time for us to start praying and not sleeping just like the past.

Lets make a difference in our nation. Lets end this persecution with peace. Lets give every Glory to God and let God decide the future of this Nation. No matter what happen to us, all Glory goes to God.

H@PpY NeW Y3aR!!!!!!!!!

2010-01-03T23:24:00.000+08:00

2009-12-28T16:03:00.002+08:00

See You There!!!

Old and new struggles with the Church

2009-12-23T14:29:00.001+08:00

TODAY A LOT of people are struggling with the Church and this is more complex than first meets the eye.

Statistics show that in the last 50 years there hasn't been a huge drop-off in the number of people who say that they believe in God. Surprisingly too there hasn't been a huge drop-off in the number of people who name a church or a denomination to which they claim to belong. The huge drop-off has come mostly in one area, actual church-going. People still believe in God and their churches even when they don't often go to church. They haven't left their churches; they just aren't going to them. The problem is not so much atheism (the doctrine or belief that there is no God) or even religious affiliation, but participation in the Church.

Why? Why does our culture struggle so much with the Church?

Liberals like to think that it is because the Church has been too slow to change and that it is unhealthily out of step with today's world. Conservatives like to think the opposite, namely, that people have grown disenchanted (freeing from illusion or false belief) with the Church because it has changed too much and been too accommodating to the culture. There is some truth in both views, but analysts suggest that there are other reasons, reasons to do with the general breakdown of family and public life.

It is not just church-life and parish-life that are in trouble today. Declining church attendance is paralleled everywhere: Families and neighbourhoods are dissipating (separate and go in different directions) and breaking down as people guard their privacy and individuality more and more. Civic organisations and clubs are finding it hard to function as they once did and there is simply less of a sense of community everywhere than there once was.

No wonder that our churches are struggling. Churches and parishes are communities that are not based upon private intimacy , that is, they are not made up of people who choose to relate to each other on the basis of being like-minded. Rather churches and parishes are made up of people who are called together despite their differences to meet around Christ and a set of values that moulds them into a community beyond private preference. But that is not easily understood in a culture that believes meaningful community can only be formed on the basis of private choice and a personal need for intimacy. Today we don't just bowl alone, we also do spirituality alone.

People today tend to treat their churches in the same way as they treat their families, namely, they want them to be there for them, for rites of passage, for special occasions, and for the security of knowing they can be turned to if needed, but they don't want them to interfere much in their actual lives and they want to participate in them on their own terms. People no longer feel they need the Church. They admit their need for God and for spirituality, but not their need for the Church. Hence we have the popular notion that says: I want spirituality but not the Church.

Finally, there is too, the notion that the Church as an institution is too flawed, too fraught with compromise, too narrow, too judgemental, and too hypocritical to be credible, to be the institution that mediates salvation. Jesus is pure, but the Church is flawed, goes the logic. Hence, a lot of people choose to relate to the Church very selectively and very sporadically (rare, infrequent, or irregular manner).

Carlo Carretto is a Italian spiritual writer, who loved the Church deeply but was honest enough to admit its faults. Late in his life, he wrote this ode to the Church:

“How much I must criticise you, my Church, and yet how much I love you! You have made me suffer more than anyone and yet I owe more to you than to anyone. I should like to see you destroyed and yet I need your presence. You have given me much scandal and yet you alone have made me understand holiness. Never in this world have I seen anything more compromised, more false, yet never have I touched anything more pure, more generous or more beautiful. Countless times I have felt like slamming the door of my soul in your face---and yet, every night, I have prayed that I might die in your sure arms! No, I cannot be free of you, for I am one with you, even if not completely you. Then too---where would I go? To build another church? But I could not build one without the same defects, for they are my defects. And again, if I were to build another church, it would be my church, not Christ's church. No, I am old enough, I know better."

That's an insight that can help all of us, both those of us who are going to church and those of us who aren't.

By Father Ronald Rolheiser and me for some editing lol :D

Christian Life is a Backbreaker....

2009-12-22T11:49:00.004+08:00

It's easy to question the logic that a loving father who died for us would permit persecution to bestow among his most committed children. This is what scares people away from Christ nowadays. Well folks there is one way and one way only to stop our fears... Preach the gospel and make the world full of believers...

You might doubt and question God's love unto you as I did before. Yet it is now that I've seen the answers in front of my eyes. To the real world it is an outright miracle for Christianity to stand ground today despite being the most prosecuted religion in the world. From the early days even the days of the bible men and women of God have been killed and persecuted for their faith. Jesus Christ was flogged and crucified, Stephen was stoned and Apostle Paul was crucified upside down. And the list goes on...

One time a guest speaker asks us to mean what we sing. We sing of laying our life on the altar, bowing our knees at the cross, giving up our life for Jesus... Which sum up to one conclusion. We sing of laying our lives for Jesus yet we back up when things get a little bit unpleasant. Well brothers and sisters, isn't that call breaking a promise or covenant? Isn't that the sin known as lying. That means being a Christian who fears persecution so badly is a sinful act.

Jesus was also persecuted so badly for us. Aren't we supposed to be "imitators of God" and be persecuted to the bones ourselves.

Jesus also wants to see and uphold the righteous. Persecution is the test to determine who are the real believers who would sacrifice everything they've ever known for Jesus? It's easy to sing praise when everything is fine and dandy. When the going gets tough and the man still finds victory in Jesus, that's a righteous man.

For the early church, the act of martyrdom is an honor. Today, we flee and shriek at the sight of death regardless of the reason. Anyone who expects global salvation to be achieved without any form of martyrdom sacrifices is A FOOL. How can you fry an omelet without breaking the eggs first? How can you get the meat if you don't kill the lamb. Jesus was that lamb and his meat was many. His meat was life, hope and salvation. How can we stand here and have no desire of any part of it?

Like insects heading to the light to engage in mating, we head for Jesus. If bugs can see their friends being gobbled by predators and keep their destination straight just to mate, why can't we shrug off persecution for the sake of global salvation, unity between ourselves and God, to show our gratitude to Jesus, to do what Jesus wants?

HIS GENERATION 1st EVER T's

2009-12-22T01:27:00.004+08:00

Hey guys!

Been here for a while now for holidays...and i was thinking what should i do? Well, why not do a T-Shirt for HG? So yea, why not? So....... I compile the design based on two things...

First, the HIS GENERATION logo/wording created by Abang Teo,

and the 'Foundation of what His Generation is' >>> He intends +the 6S with some cool fonts...

So based on those two, you will have...

Yes, it is simple...but why fancy... It's simple, shows what HG is... and cool :)

I am sending the design for printing tomorrow... but I will only print a few for samples...we will take orders later on or we will print then sell them... but we will see how it goes...

Anyway, please comment on it.... Thanks...

A SPECIAL VISIT...

2009-12-22T00:29:00.004+08:00

21st December, HIS GENERATION paid a visit to the Special Home where special kids are sent there to live and to be cared for... We basically went there for a caroling which we performed for the kids as well as the staff in the house...

The weather was great and the team arrived around 12.30pm... We were welcomed by the staff and got a really good lunch meal over there>>>> Nasi Beriani!!!! Thanks for the LUNCH!!!! After eating, it was Caroling time! It was a nice experience all together and it was to some, it was their first time visiting homes such as this who are kindly enough to take care of this special children...

We really want to thank those who have been involved in taking care of these kids as without them, who else will... It is the staffs at the home that took their effort and time to take care of this kids with love and kindness...

We surely had fun there...We certainly would hope that HIS GENERATION will be more active in visiting homes like these as I think it is our duty to land a hand for those who are in needs...

Until next time...

HIS GENERATION COUNTDOWN SERVICE!!!

2009-12-20T12:50:00.002+08:00

Hey Guys! Good News...I just got the green light from Ps. Koshy!!!!
Everyone is invited!!!! Here are the details...

Venue: AJPC Sanctuary
Time: 9pm-12.30pm
Activities: Fun & Games - Worship - Sharing + Message
BRING ALONG YOUR FRIENDS!!!! Remember everyone is invited!!!!
It's time to reach out people! So bring your non-christian friends along!!!!

If there is any questions about the event's details that you need to know, please post it on the comment box, we will answer them asap :)

Thanks and See You Guys There!!!!!

ps: Worship members, take a look at the annoucement, there I will post the worship team for the service...

HiS G3n3RaTiOn - 18Th DeCeMbEr 2009

2009-12-20T00:11:00.004+08:00

Hey all...

It feels so weird writing on this blog as i haven't been blogging for a long time... But anyway, no harm doing what i used to do for HG right! Anyway before i continue, let us compare the different between the number of blog post in 2009 and 2008...In 08, from March to December the blog crew manage to post updates consistently which led to a total of 118 post... This year 09, from January till this very day, only 65 updates were posted... Does this mean anything? Yes, please again...my same advice to the crew...update more! Its a way to serve him and a way for people like me and the rest of the HG families who are studying away from KT to know what you guys are up to and what has God bless you guys with...So yea ;) i hope to see better :)

Ok back to the topic...Friday! And guess what, its the Friday after ESP...Everyone is excited, so fired up, so filled with the passion for God... This week's service, I myself got the opportunity to serve the lord on the guitar, alongside with Witton, Witter, Sharon and Ee June... And the songs are One Way, Tell the World, Love Came Down and with 2 new songs which most learned in ESPlosion Camp, All for Love and Stronger... Thank you worship team and thank you God for blessing us with your wonders...

After worship, we had sharing time! I will basically compile and summarize what was shared during the session... Most shared about their experience in the camp, about how the were touched by the Lord, about their learning experience and their personal encounter with God... Some shared how God changed their life in the camp, how God blessed them and move them towards the right direction...about how prayer can make such a huge different, about healing that they have experience with the Lord, about their burden being lifted up by love of God, about God telling them that even when they are alone, HE is there to comfort...

Truly i was touched! I was touched by how God had work his wonders and miracles for us... Wei Lim who very very very rarely breath with both of his nostril, had a perfect nose after being prayed during the camp, Chiou Huey confessed her sins that was burdening her for so long and felt the warmth and love of God touching her, Wendy accepted the Lord during the camp and our brother Witton was filled with God's living water! How amazing! For myself, I had gone through a tough year... A year where it was up and down...and mostly downs...a year that i felt dry...but he restored me... These testimonies really are an encouragement to all of us, for us to acknowledge that there is a God who loves us, a God who is so merciful, a God who has accepted us for who we are! That is the God that me and you serve!

We closed with prayer and some worship... and at that time also, God spoke to me... He said "I am here behind you...ready to catch you whenever you fall... ready to hold your hand... ready to hold you close to him!" God's hand is always there, reaching out to you even before you accepted him, the move that everyone need to do...is to grab hold of his hand, his love, his presence, his mercy, his kingdom...

It was a great day! We really had a great time worshipping, sharing and praying! Thank God for the wonderful day! We end our service by cleaning up the sanctuary...

Before ending, here are some important announcement! Next week, there wont be any HIS GENERATION! because its CHRISTMAS!!!! Not that we don't wanna have it during Christmas...is just most of us are out of town...and we also would like to encourage you to spend time with your family! The following week, which is on the 1st of January...YEA! New Year Day!!! There wont be worship and sermons as HIS GENERATION will be out sailing at the Ri-Yaz resort in Pulau Duyung...Thanks to Lucas and Micah's parents, all of us can attend it for FREE!!!! How great is that! Now, for those who are not here last Friday but still interested to go, please RSVP with Sharon asap at 0129466017... Please give her your full name as well as your IC number... Lastly...there might be a NEW YEAR COUNTDOWN this 31st night at AJPC... I am still planning and i need to seek Pastor's permission first (will try to do that first thing tomorrow^^) If everything goes well...I will update the details ASAP...

I think that's all! I wish you all the best and have a great week as well as have a BLESSED CHRISTMAS!!!!! GOD BLESS!!!!

ps: for those who have pictures on last week HG service please kindly upload it or you can send it to me via email...thanks...

The End Times? How soon

2009-11-24T23:52:00.006+08:00

During Noah's time, the world was plagued with evil. Quotes from Genesis Chapter 6.

5 The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.

7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them."

Chances are the moral and spiritual state of today's world are no better than the time of Noah. Maybe worse in my opinion....

- Wars and political turmoil are plaguing most if not all countries.

- No single politician can be deemed "Anti-Rasuah". In my opinion, the last incorruptible politician/leader is none other than Mahatma Gandhi.

- People are making up false gods. Scientology is spreading with the endorsements of Hollywood stars. The amount of people stating their faith as "Jedi Knight" number as much as 500,000 people in UK. Rock and metal fans look to guitarists and singers as Gods.

- Organized crime, Human Trafficking, Drugs and Narcotics, Rape, Murder, Robbery, Homicide, Poaching, Illegal logging.

- Numbers of gays, lesbians and people who undergo sex change are on the rise.

These are only a small part of the problems we face today. There a lot more problems. More than we can count. And a huge percentage are undergoing such disgusting and horrible acts. Some are just plain stupid and moronic. And worst of all, they are always people wanting us to join them. This is the part I hate the most. For once I wish people will leave me alone.

And it was said in the bible. Genesis 6:6 "The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. ". It was then where he made his fateful decision to destroy the earth to vanquish all evil.

Since the state of today's affairs are equivalent to that of Noah's time, we should prepare and build our faith with the little time that we have. Most people are pointing 2012 as a possible date of the fall of mankind and I don't discount this fact. As the days pass new problems arise and will stay for a long time. The end times won't be like the events in the film 2012, and it won;t collide with another planet. Instead 2012 might be the date in which the Beast will rise and gain power.

But how? We are all sinners. What is our advantage? Even Noah had sinned. (Genesis 9:20-27) He got drunk. Yet he was one of the greatest prophets we've ever seen. Don't worry if we sin but don't ignore it. It is best to rehabilitate the areas that we can manage. We are children of God if we feel regret and pain when we sin, because it's like disobeying the parent. If we feel guilty after an evil sin, don't worry... The Lord knows our pain.

The fight against sin is brutal and tough. Most of the time we fall although we've fought hard. It is also possible that we've fallen despite fighting as hard as we can. When the Lord said "for I am grieved that I have made them", it didn't mean he was disappointed upon creating man, he was disappointed of what they've become. He lost faith on all of mankind save for Noah.

The Lord lost faith on man once, he will loose faith on man again. He once destroyed the earth by water, next time it will be by fire.

HG Update: 6 November

2009-11-16T22:05:00.003+08:00

Today Bro Kenneth, who once shared about HIV/AIDS returned to talk about drugs. Drugs aren't actually bad things. Most drugs such as aspirin and cocaine have medicinal purpose. But overusing and addiction to drugs means kicking the bucket.

How we get addicted to drugs we might never know. What we do know is we will get hooked. And once hooked, the chance of returning to your old life is painfully slim. Like fishing. Satan is the fishermen, we are the fish and drugs are the bait. The fish will usually do a "test bite" to see if the food tastes good before gulping down. Just like us. The phrase "One time only mah" or "Won't ketagih one" comes to mind. We will start slow and may end up injecting lethal doses.

We also learned about the new mainstream drug Crystal Meth aka Ya'Ba(Thailand) or Tick(African). I knew Crystal Meth as a Techno/Disco Band but I've never heard of the drug. Although not receiving enough bad rep as it's big brothers cocaine or marijuana, Crystal Meth is virtually irreversible and causes permanent damage to the brain. We were shown a video of a mother strangling her Meth-Addict son to death because he was growing too violent... It's a "fish ear fish world... Kill or be killed" when it comes to such cases.

Crystal Meth can simply be made in a kitchen. Methamphetamine(scientific term for Crystal Meth) is medicinally formed via reduction of ephedrine using red phosphorus and iodine. However, some substances are replaced by detergents and drain cleaners. However, these makeshift drugs are far deadlier.

Crystal Meth is used widely in World War II by the Japanese and German armies. The Japanese who created the drug gave it to Kamikazes to reduce fear and stress. The "Fuhrer" Adolf Hitler utilized it as Panzerschokolade ("tank chocolate") when mixed with chocolate for the same purpose. Hitler himself took the drug by his personal physician Theodor Morell.

Crystal Meth is used today to prolong work energy. This is attractive to poor people such as taxi or truck drivers who need their money. Even some Thai employers offer the drugs to their workers. This is "marketing and business strategy" in it's worse.

We also found out cocaine injection works faster compared to snorting. When there's no more veins left to jab, who know's what they'll do....

Drugs have left their mark on mankind's history.

- After The Prohibition of Alcohol ended in 1933 after Al Capone was jailed, the Italian Mafia, Russian Mafia, Irish Mob, Triads, Yakuza and Colombian crime lords moved to narcotics. Colombian Durg Lord Pablo Escobar became the 7th richest man in his expertise of drug business.

- Many celebrity death's have been caused by drugs. Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Heath Ledger and recently Michael Jackson. Countless other "normal" people died of drug overdose.

I'd like to end this post with an old saying...

Prevention is Better Than Cure

ESPlosion form

2009-10-28T15:48:00.004+08:00

Hi all,

it's not the real logo, i edited it

Here is the form for ESPlosion camp!

FileEden

70553Registration forms.xls

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70553Registration forms.xls

There are two links.. Choose one, if one slow.. try another one!

2009-10-25T18:32:00.003+08:00

ATTENTION!

There will be no HIS Generation! on 30th of October! :D

HIS Generation on Facebook!

2009-10-22T00:07:00.005+08:00

For those who don't know,
His Generation group has been around the land of Facebook!

I had found out that for those who didn't register for Facebook or don't want to be a "book-worm" :P , they can actually view the group chat wall and discussion room! SO, check out our group and forum here!!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38150228757

PS: The link will be added at the side link there [>>>>]

Sharing is Caring

2009-10-18T14:43:00.014+08:00

Hiya~! Welcome back! :D

Last week we had TADA~~! Wei Lim as the worship leader! and Eeee June [:P] and me as the back-up singer! Ah Kent and Ah Lert play the guitar , Ivan and Andy the drummer and bassist! Thanks everyone!

After that, we had some prayers, for our exams and HG alumni! Today Pastor Koshy wasn't around.. so, June take over his job for today!

Sharing time!

Aha, what's so special about this?! Ha ha..
Of course it's special! We hardly have our sharing time together and these was the time we share..

The rules of the sharing are pretty strict! Haha June said each of us must share at least one thing about anything! Yourself or anything you feel like sharing! Hehehe, strict but yet not strict.. :P

Personally I think it's a good idea to do sharing.. All of us had fun fellowship time together! It strengthen our bond to each other, knowing each other more and of course with LORD! We able to see miracles done in our life.

The musician!

Settling down :D

Sharing time!

Ivan :P
Me! XD
Wei Lim! aka Chester
Willert! aka Doink
Daniel! :D
Benson! ;P

After that we have another worship session, Christina the worship leader! Then, cleaning time! :D

Going back and dinner!

~~~~~

Picture of the Week

2009-10-16T01:29:00.001+08:00

The Three Stooges: KT Version

HG Update: Chronicles of the Lazy PART II

2009-10-16T01:10:00.002+08:00

Today we did something unique. It was announcements and the message first, then only worship and praise.

Today we continue to see on what the book of proverbs have to say on the lazy man and the industrious man.

Proverbs 12:27
Lazy people don't even cook the game they catch, but the diligent make use of anything they find.
Those who are diligent will look after their possessions and make the most of them. Unlike the lazy who chucks their things everywhere. Oh man I gotta clean up my room. As well as make the most of what he has, a diligent man is also willing to preserve and prolong the use of his possessions. Examples include wiping your CD's after listening to them, exercise so you don't get health problems, keep your Nike shoes where your dogs can't reach etc.

Proverbs 21:5
The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty. But those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty.
God gives assurance to the diligent that their plans will one day lead to success regardless of the time span. On the other hand, the plans of the lazy will lead to failure. This is because their plans are either of crime or gambling. That's why many people go for the loan sharks and make a mess. That's why almost no Mafia Godfather has died without being shot or not in jail. The Lord is a just and incorruptible judge.

Proverbs 12:24
The hand of the diligent will rule. But the lazy man will be put to force labor.
Look at all the MPKT guys sweeping up. You can tell by the way a man talks, dresses, eats if he's diligent or not. I know many political leaders are corrupted, but they stand out because they're diligent. They have to think a lot on every single issue. Examples include which country to send troops? How much to spend on education or welfare? How much will the next increase of petroleum price be? All these will add up to stress and insomnia.

Proverbs 22:29
Do you see a man diligent and skillful in his dealings? He will stand before kings, he will not stand before obscure men.
If we are to gain headline-busting success and get a Datukship or Tan Sri, we are to work hard, I mean VERY HARD. Our Malaysian pioneers like Datuk Jimmy Choo, Datuk Nicol David among others had to make decisions, sacrifice money and time to make ends meet. As a reward, they meet the Prime Minister and King and stand as the country's finest. The same goes to us students, If we work hard, we can stand before the headmaster and receive a certificate. If we don't, we will end up shaking hands with disciplinary teachers like Cikgu Maslow.

HG Update: Julia Returns

2009-10-16T00:54:00.003+08:00

Today the worship leader was Ee June. Although we were without a drummer, we just do without it. The songs we sang were "Lord Of Lords", "To Know Your Name", "Open The Eyes Of My Heart".

Julia Ma returned after more than a year. Those good old days. During her time away from good-old-Malaysia, she went to train for music in ministry. 3 weeks of intensive training in Perth, Australia and 3 weeks of field work in Jakarta.

It seems that she's experienced something very very different from our quiet town of Kuala Terengganu. There, she has to adapt with different cultures not to mention speak proper English...LOL...

Julia met a few notable faces of the Christian music industry(not Hillsong) as well as hard training. Her team were also required to preach out in the streets. Boy Golly! What a faith. To preach about Jesus risking being laughed at, spat on, having people show you the middle finger and the possibility of people throwing stuff at you. Just because Hillsong United and Planetshakers are from Australia, doesn't mean it is more "Christian". Just like what Pastor says, Malaysia is more safe than the "Christian countries"

Off to Jakarta, she had to visit the needy people in the slums near the train tracks. People living under cardboard roofs without enough to eat, without education, without money and most importantly WITHOUT JESUS. She also prayed to a blind man who accepted The Lord and started praying in tongues. WOW! Now that's the reward of faith.

Jakarta is also quite an open society. There are ocassions where Julia and her team saw a guy playing gospels in a bus and having her music team rap, sing and even SCREAM at churches and cafes alike.

But unfortunately myself, Willert, Choon Khai and Michelle had to leave early for some Annual Dinner so we didn;t have the chance to sit down for some roti canai and chat. We hope to see you soon Julia, next time bring your brothers too...

Proverbs: Chronicles of the Lazy

2009-10-07T22:45:00.002+08:00

Today has in my opinion one of the most insightful topics ever brought up by Pastor Koshy. Also another one of those "hard-to-swallow" topics, it deals with the Lord's displeasure in those who are lazy. I mean, who would've thought laziness is a sin. I've always thought of it as an uneasy habit. That's all.

But the book of Proverbs explores many of God's core commandments. Adultery, commitment, discipline to name a few. I guess laziness takes the cake for being the strangest so far.

The characteristic and aspects of a lazy man and his life are as follows.

Proverbs 6:6-11
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider it's ways and be wise! It has no commander, overseer or ruler. Yet it stores it's provisions in summer and gathers it's food at harvest.

Although an ant can be a pain in the butt with their bites, stings and foul stench. They are the prime example of of diligence. They don't abandon fallen comrades, they don't give up, they'll find new ways to solve their problems. They are also not as fussy as us. Tehy'll eat everything from bugs to sugar, dung to potato chips. They'll even form a raft with their own bodies to cross rivers for new territories.

Proverbs 10:26
As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, So is the lazy man to those who send him.
You'll fins it hard if you ask a couch potato to do a job. You'll end up with an imperfect job or worse, nothing at all. A lazy man is a troublemaker and burdens not benefits. Which is similar to sin.

Proverbs 22:13
The lazy man says "There is a lion outside, I shall be slain the streets"
A lazy man is good for nothing. Yet he has one talent, making excuses. Not necessarily lousy excuses. Some people are really good at it.

Proverbs 24:30-31
I went past the field of the sluggard, past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgement. Thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with reeds and the stone wall was in ruins.
A lazy man lacks judgement and his life is poorly maintained and everything is a big mess. The fruits of his garden are sour if there are any due to lack of watering or fertiliser.

That's all folks...

Recomemded by Rev Koshy =)

2009-10-05T18:59:00.003+08:00

Hihi to all visitors...Here's a website that is recomended by Rev Koshy..
http://www.icr.org/
Pls do visit it and read it!! =)

Blessings of keeping the fear of the Lord

2009-09-28T20:26:00.002+08:00

Hehe...sorry for late update guys. Well, here's the update for last week. Worship was lead by Wei Lim a.k.a Chester. Thanks a lot for worship leading. You did well dude!! Well done *claps*.

Lets just get to the main point. This is the best part which everyone wants to know. Have you ever wonder what will God gIve you if the fear of the Lord is in you? Guess what, God is going to bless you with many things if you have the fear of the Lord in you. God had called us to fear him. Here's what he says in Psalm 33:11, Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Blessings :
-Proverbs 10:27, The fear of the Lord adds length to life; but the years of the wicked are cut short. ( You will have long life if you fear the Lord. If you don't then your life will be cut short!)

-Psalm 128:1-6, 1 Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in his ways. 2 You will eat the fruit of labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours. 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your sons will be like olive shoots around your table. 4 Thus is the man blessed who fears the lord. 5 May the Lord bless you from Zion all the days of your life; may you see the prosperity of Jeruselem, 6 and may you live to see tour children's children. Peace be upon Israel. (God will bless you, your family, your wife, and your children. God will also make you prosper!!)

-Proverbs 14:26, He who fears the Lord has a secure fortress, and for his children it will be a refuge (God will protect not only us, but our family)

-Proverbs 15:16, Better a little with the fear if the Lord than a great wealth with turmoil. (God will give us joy and peace if we fear him that to have money but no peace and joy)

-Proverbs 19:23, The fear of the Lord leads to life: Then one rests content, untouched by trouble. (We will have life when we fear God. There will be no trouble unless if God let you have trouble for other reasons)

-Proverbs 22:4, Humility and the fear of the Lord bring wealth and honor and life. (If we have humility and fears God, we will be bless with wealth, honor and good health)

-Proverbs 23:17-18, 17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord. 18 there is surely a future of hope for you, adn your hope will not be cut off. (Do not be jealous of people who sins. Thus, God will surely provide a perfect future for you)

That's all dude. If there's more then I'll add in..hehe. Go and read the bible and you'll see the changes in your life!! Don't give up guys. Even the best falls down sometimes cause none is perfect in this world except God!! So, start carry the cross and go on with your journey. Remember, the bible is very important that can really build up your faith.

Lesson on Proverbs! 12th September

2009-09-17T21:39:00.011+08:00

Tada~! Here we are again!

Today , the worship was led by Willert consisting team members, June, Kent, Andy, Wei Lim and Jeremiah for his first drumming in HG ( i think so)! XD

Andy!

Right after the worship session, 5 minutes break! Pastor continued in his, Lesson on Proverbs.. last week, it's about Godly wisdom where we use our wisdom to apply in our life! Today, pastor shares about The Fear of the Lord. Hey, what you think about fearing the Lord?

If we have the wisdom of God, then we have the fear of Lord! But of course, first we need to read our bible lah!
So, understanding is to LEARN the bible and practicing what Lord teaches us!

Moreover,
And of course, if the Fear of the Lord is wisdom, what you understand from the wisdom must be practiced. And there shall be, Depart from evil. When you fear the Lord, you read Bible, then when you practicing what is written in Bible, you will depart from evil and sin!

It also stated here that, if we follow his precepts or ways, we will have good understanding.. It's just like Additional Maths, if you know follow way / formula your teacher teaches you, you will get understanding for the subject! Haha.. Wei Lim gonna hate this! XD

A lot of people, they don't fear the Lord, and just do their own things (ignoring God lah).. If we have that kind of perception, God will ignore us too and guess what? When you met problems and prayed to God, God MIGHT ignore you too..

Back to departing from evil, we also need to hate evil! What is the use if you depart from evil but loves evil and promoting it? It's like , Didn't do what is bad but make other people fall into doing wrong things.. Songs for example, a lot song has its own teaching, philosophy from the singer. Some songs give wrong teaching.

You might think "It just a song only what?" But, actually when you listen to it, your sub-conscious brain starts to pick what it contains! It's one kind of indirect hypnosis..

After the session, we had a new activity! Thru-out the sermon, pastor encourages us to read our bible. So, Bible reading it is! XD around 15 to 30 minutes we read the book of Mark first 2 chapter.. Good start for those hardly read Bible anymore!

Ye' gentlemen =D

Ye' gentlewomen =P

Ye' pastor XD

His Generation : 4th September 2009

2009-09-08T17:47:00.004+08:00

Lessons on the book of Proverbs..

Hola dudes. Last friday worship session was lead by Chrsitina. Thanks for the wondeful time of worship. Musicians were June, Kent, Andy, Ivan and Chester. Thanks for playing^^. After the wroship session, we prayed for all His Generation alumni. We also collected offerings. Soon, we prayed for Wei Qin and Jeremaiah who are taking UPSR examination. Pls do pray for them and for the form 5 & 6 students.

Soon, pastor preached on the book of Proverbs. Guess what? This book really open my eyes. Its all about knowledge and the fear of the Lord. In Proverbs 1:2, the word wisdom is the ability to use knowledge to solve problems. It teaches bout having self-controll and discipline. We really need this to understand sayings with deep meaning. In verse 3, (for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life) Prudent here means wisdom to live discipline and successful life. We'll learn what is right and wrong. So we can make a good decision in everything we're doing. It also teaches us to be honest(very important). This is to ensure we dont cheat or lie in any situation. Fair is inculded too. We should be fair to everyone, but how? Think for yourself guys =)

Verse 4, so from these, an ordinary person like me and you all can learn to be smart. When we are smart, we wouldn't mess up our lives. This will help us to endure our hardship in this earth and in the end, we can say this " I have run this race well, I have keep my faith strong, Here I am waiting to see you Father". Young people can gain knowledge and good sense. Eg: "I had decided to do this for the following reasons..." , "he seems like a nice guy but i think he's only trying to impress me". This can help us to make a right choice and prevent us from falling into traps.

Verse 5, For those who are already wise, reading proverbs will make u even wiser. Verse 5-6, Let those with understandings receive guidance by exploring the meaning in these proverbs and parables, the word of the wise and their riddels. Guidence is really important in our walk with God and making decisions. We need to ask God to guide us in every area of our lives to make good decisions. Its really important. So those who need guidance, please pray hard^^.

Verse 7, So how do we start being wise? What are you going to do? Do you want to be a fool? Only fools reject wisdom and good advice. So what are you waiting for? Lets start being wise by Respecting and obeying God. Remember guys, keep his commandments safe.

After the sermon, we have prayed for the fear of the Lord to be in us. Then we sang a worship song and went out for dinner. Thanks guys for the great fellowsip at Mac Donalds^^

Picture of the Week

2009-08-22T18:55:00.004+08:00

Does Wei Lim enjoy school? This raises questions. He does actually but this is a day where the teacher doesn't enter class. Hope you believe me.

The Eight Legged Nightmare

2009-08-22T18:43:00.004+08:00

One extra note. On the 14th, we were cleaning up the church. I was in charge of washing the air conditioner filters. I wash brushing them when Chin San called me to come down stairs. He said something of a big spider.

We searched at the toilet for anything crawling with eight legs. And voila, there it was. A big one with legs spread out as big as my hand. Sadly, I'm the only one around unafraid of insects or arachnids. C'mon who else in Kuala Terengganu keeps a pet scorpion at home. Grow up people, butterflies aren't the only arthropods on planet earth.

I know common house spiders rather flee than bite. And their fangs are too small to puncture human skin, and their poison is not fatal. I calmly pulled it onto my hands and let it loose outside.

So that concludes the story of our guest creeper. The guest with eight legs.

Surveying the scene...

Capture process

Close Up

Freeing the spider...

HG Update 14th August 09

2009-08-22T18:14:00.003+08:00

Today the worship leader was Ee June along with piano. Kent, Andy, David, Christina and myself were on guitars, drums, singing and bass respectively.

Today Pastor continued in his studies series. Again I say this is the one most hard to swallow for me.

He reminded us to have everything you have in front of you in one go. Example, forget your calculator and rush down to grab it. You see a pack of Twisties and you take a bite. As you are about to go upstairs and study, The Simpsons is on air. Then it goes on and on....

Another method is to make your short term memory become long term memory. Why? A short term memory you'll forget it in a time span of at least a week. A long term memory will last for many years. Example, how to break an egg without bursting the yolk or how to play a song on the guitar or piano. For this to happen, all it needs is practice. Nothing else. So long story short, practice is the bread and butter of studies. Won't go anywhere without it. You'll be out of a job without practice.

He also taught us the SQ3R method which is
- Survey
- Read
- Recite
- Review

Survey is a quick dash of the chapter or sub-chapter so that you know what you're in for. Gives you an idea and prepares your brain.

Question is to ask yourself logic questions that has ties to the chapter. Once the brain actively searches for something, it speeds up.

Read the topic to answer your questions. And write down the answers for your questions.

When you're done. Recite what you've read for the past half an hour. Then check back to see if you got it right.

Review is the epilogue of the study process. Do some exercise to close the lid for good.

To close it up, we cleaned the church and most of us went for dinner.

Pictures of the day....

HG Update 7th August 09

2009-08-22T17:52:00.005+08:00

Today, we had something special. The worship team consisted of David, Witton, Kent, Andy and Christina. Kuria stepped in for piano. Gradzie...

Today, both Kuria and David shared about their experiences joining the OM ministry in Laos. This served as an educational lesson on the country of Laos, their people, culture and who can forget, their food. It also gives us an understanding that although we might not be rich, there's always someone who is poorer. And also, this mission trip enhanced David's spiritual walk.

OK, our "wakil" from Kuala Terengganu attended a few days training in Malaysia before leaving the country. They were joined by people of many nationalities. Both Caucasians and Asians.

Now onto the mission, the mission they undertook wasn't a walk in the park. No McDonalds, no TV, no air-conditioned rooms and no roti canai. Laos is a very poor country that is pillaged with poverty. But through the pictures, I can see that Laos is a beautiful country. Lush green canopy forests, towering waterfalls, and those old fashioned temples built without using nails but relying only on hinges.

Our friends went to several villages to preach the gospel, a risky business because the government hates people like them. Aren't they always? Anyway, despite the overwhelming language barrier, our boys did very well I should say. Doing The Lord's entrusted task and that is to "Preach To All Nations".

At the end, David described this mission trip as the thing that saved his faith. He described his faith to have slumped from great heights during his time away from home. David, you did good pal. The Lord will expect great things from you.

Pictures....

Picture of the Week

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SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND! AH BENG JEFFERY!!!

A Good Christian

2009-08-07T22:17:00.002+08:00

What makes a man a good Christian? There are many things that people consider as merits but in fact are useless. The truth is, most "Christians" are like this guy here.

Before I go to what makes you a good Christians, let's take a look at what doesn't make you a good Christian.

These are the things that most Christians call merits in order to enter heaven. Example, Mafia Chief's in Sicily often donate huge sums of money to their churches. They just register as Christians then let the ink dry. Like I said in an earlier post "What's the use of a contract if you violated the terms and conditions".

- It is not how much the Pastor loves you.
- It is not how often you go to church.
- It is not having parents who are Pastors or Priests.
- It is not how often you play or sing at the church.
- It is not how popular you are in the church.
- It is not how much money you gave as offerings.
- It is not the fact that you wear crucifix.

These are somethings that help makes you a righteous man but it does not make you a better Christian. However, these are VERY IMPORTANT THINGS. If they did such terrible sins, well no sin is beyond the point of redemption except for defying Christ at the end of your life.

- It is because you read the bible very often.
- It is not how often you pray.
- It is not how often you listen to Christian or Gospel music.
- It is not the fact that you've never watch porn or masturbated.
- It is not the fact that you have no criminal records.

I tell you why some of those points above does not make you a good Christian. A man can go reading the bible wishing he was reading Harry Potter. A man can go listening to Hillsong ans wishing he was listening to Metallica.

So what makes us a GOOD Christian. It is How much you love Jesus. Someone might say, how do you love Jesus.

- It is how much you are willing to die for him.
- It is how much you are willing to follow His word.
- It is how much you are willing to sacrifice everything to Him(Career, possessions, relationships, habits, etc.).

It is how much you want Him. He once said "Anyone who thirsts for me, I will let his cup overflow."

Updates for 31st July 09

2009-08-05T22:31:00.004+08:00

Well, we had a guest speaker for this week but lets get to the worship team 1st XD.. Worship was lead by June!! Guitarist is me and Jim, Witter on the drums and Andy on the bass. Princess Christina as June's back vocal XD. The songs were Majesty, Lord of Lords(awesome song), Beautiful saviour and Here in my Life. We sang the 1st song Majesty, then we take a short break to listen to our guest speaker that is Joo Ping from China!!

He shared bout his life on China, How God has called him and his wife to share the good news to china. Well, he showed us some pictures from china through power point. Well, he says that the citizens of China is now open minded. They are trying to follow the western culture which is not good. Having sex before marriage, taking drugs, prostitution, etc are happening in China. So we need to pray for this nation and for our guest speaker Joo Ping and his wife Chris teo.

After he had done sharing, we continued worshipping God. After worshipping, we spent some time praying. We prayed for all His Generation alumni. After praying, we continue worshipping God by singing the song Hosanna.

Soon, its Jim's turn to share bout his exprience as an exchange student in The United States of America. Well, the 1st this he said was USA is not a christian country. Its a very open country. People there make fun of christianity by using swear words. At school, 9/10 students take drugs such as weeds, marihuana and much more. Students there also sleeping around with other girls.

Well, our bro Jim managed to get through this strong temptation without falling into it. Wanna know why? Its because of His Generation!! Our basic foundation of the bible is learnt form His Generation. So we really need to get grounded into God's commandment. After that, we clean up the sanctuary and went home safely =)

Update 24th July

2009-07-27T21:12:00.003+08:00

Wow. After months of slow updates, finally a punctual update.

Today the worship team comprised of Jim, Ivan, Christina, Ee June, Jeffery Andy and myself.

Today marked my first day in the job of the church's accountant. A big responsibility eh? The tithes and offerings will be collected and used for mission trips, church repair, maintenance of the musical instruments and ESP camp.

Today, we had two people sharing. First was Teo who came back after eons of patient waits. It was announced that he will do his culinary practicals on the MV Logos Hope in a short time where he will finish sometime in late December. Set sail, MATEY!

Before he leaves us for some time, he gave us some last advice. It's about how deep is our faith. He compares a shallow faith and a true genuine faith. About how most people come and act good only on Fridays and being brutes addicted to porn at other days. It was much like my stone and sponge post earlier. Read that for more info.

Then Pastor came up with unfortunately one of my most dreaded topics which is How to Study. Today, he talks about a cohesive studying environment which lacks distraction. Kids! No listening to music while you're studying. He also mentions the study chair must be comfortable but not too comfortable which means no studying on the sofa or bed.

Then he talked about why we feel sleepy when we study. It could be
- Lack of exercise.
- Eating too much cabohydrate rich foods.
- Lack of sleep.
- Attitude Problem.

So we need to counter them by exercising more, eat more greens, early to bed and early to rise and get our brains right.

On the other hand, we are also advised to do the subject we hate the most first. Honestly speaking, I don't even bother about Add Maths at home. I just rush em up at school and the result is a "kerja komang". Will I change? I don't know, it's hard to adapt myself in an environment with a truckload of homework and revision. I only enjoy ENGLISH and maybe some of the science subjects but that's it.

Then finally we prayed for Teo in preparation for his voyage on MV Logos Hope. So Teo, I bid you "Bon Voyage" and always remember.

"With Christ in the vessel, We can smile at the storm!"

Photos for this week....

Picture Of the Week!

2009-07-25T03:47:00.004+08:00

This is the day before Superman created! XD

17th of July 2009

2009-07-25T02:09:00.006+08:00

I'm really sorry for late update.. I couldn't online.. Well, I'm not going to point to anyone, helpers of this blog. So, lets go on =P

Today, we have Witton as the worship leader!! This is the first time he lead hehe :p nice job! and Christina and me as the back singer. Thank you for June the pianist, Ivan the drummer, Andy the bassist and, also Kent and Willert the guitarist! Oh ya, and also Jeffery for helping in PA system. XD

After the worship, a few minutes break for kitchen and toilet =p and today.. Aunt Dorcas shared about Thou Shall Not Steal (continue) , giving more complex example for stealing that might not look like stealing or when we are working.

Hmm, first one was, when we buying something for company's usage , pen paper etc.. we might tend to increase the "price" of the stationary so, we earn from it. Ha! that's stealing! and also Sometimes, we also can claim for car fuel price. Telling that you went 3km to buy thing but instead, the real truth is you just went for a stone far to buy it and you asking for higher claim. It's stealing indirectly from the company!

For a contractor or businessman, sometimes government give them some project to develop for building and other program. Normally what I heard from what people said, is they give more money than what the project should cost. It's using government's money illegally and also corruptions.

After Aunt Dorcas gave and explain some examples, it's our turn to give examples XD Some give borrowing things and never give back the property or trying to keep it. If we are not trying/ making effort to give back what we had borrowed, that means stealing!

Or, another example, really common one, it's copyright stealing. Nowadays, people see it as if it's nothing wrong with that. Hacking software, music sharing, pirated movie and also photostatting books (without permission from author/creator) are a form of stealing where I used to do it alot. Just a click on computer and you can enjoy your content. BUT, it's still stealing. Satan make it looks un-sinful (hehe new word? XD) and desiring for those who spent time on computer alot.

Aha! we finish this topic quite early as 6 pm , so the rest of time for cleaning and having fun together! XD

Team XD

Witton! =p
Meee XD aw, i looked fat haha

Aunty Dorcas sharing

HG Update - 10th July

2009-07-20T16:36:00.003+08:00

Today Jim returned from the USA with an American flag in tow. But the puzzle wasn't complete because Julia failed to attend due to reasons unknown. It's okay. We had a team from Scripture Union to deliver a message on the history of the Bible.

Yes, the history of the greatest piece of literature ever written in history. Just like the stories of the bible, the history of the bible is also awesome.

Did you know that...

- The bible has been copied over thousands of times using clay tablets, scrolls, papyrus sheets, fabric and animal skin before the idea of printing was bestowed upon mankind.

- That a man copying the bible must read out loud every single word before writing them down. Wah, sipek ma fan.

- Before a man copying the bible writes the word God, he must go mandi and use a special pen before proceeding. Imagine how much Dettol he used.

- Early tablets and scrolls with inscriptions of The Word Of God had been stored in The Ark of Covenant. Luckily they were rescued from the invading Babylonians from Solomon's Table. The ark itself is now missing.

- The bible has been translated into many languages including Greek, Hebrew, Latin and English.

These are just a tiny portion of the amazing facts we've absorbed. We also know that the stories we now have in the bible are filtered through a process called canonization. If every single story has been placed in the bible, it'll be thicker than all 7 Harry Potter books combined.

We also found out the bible has certain glitches. It is human nature to err. C'mon la, even Stephen King, Mario Puzo or Shakespear will make certain changes if the write the same story twice.

Anyway, it was a fun lesson. However, I was question-less for the day, I don't know why? We hope to see you again soon Scripture Union.

His Generation : 3rd July 2009

2009-07-07T22:37:00.007+08:00

Last week, His Generation have our youth fellowship again. =D For this week!! Ee June as worship leader and Witton backing up June! Kent and Witton were the guitarist. Andy as the bassist and Witter da drummer! Thank you for wonderful worship session. XD

After the worship session, we prayed for all His Generation's seniors which had left for further studies. Yea, pls do pray for them. Pray for God's blessing and protection to be with them. Then we prayed for Bro David!! Yea, David's going for a mission trip in Laos and needs prayer. Pls do pray for our brother cause Laos is a dangerous country where chrsitians were persecuted. Pls do pray for Sis Kuria too as she is leaving to Laos to do mission too. Keep them in prayer everyday.

Soon, pastor starts giving announcement. Ps. Koshy will not be in KT this week and The Scripture Union team will be sharing this week on the 10th of July. Sis Julia will be back to share her exprience too. Then our too brothers which are Kean Hui and Witter shared about their exprience in their university. Well, bro Kean Hui shared 1st. He says, to study and gain knowledge is not about reading books. Its about your attitude. Its about your will to study. So lets get our attitude right.

Kean Hui also talks about prayer. Before we study, we need to pray. Before the teacher starts teaching, we need to pray. Ask God to enable you to absorb and understand every knowledge given by our teacher. Prayer is not enough. We need to give full concentration and must not be distracted by other things. Then we had some fun and games hosted by Kean Hui. After he shared, he gave us some words of encouragement and a piece of paper filled with bible verse.

Why must we study?
- Its our responsiblity
-Our parents work hard to give us education
-Its a privillage from God that we can have education
-Other people in the world are not educated especially people in poor country
-For a better future
-To show that we had done our best in examination (Fail or pass, all glory goes to God =D)
-To reduce stress from our parents
-Its an order from our parents (Honour your father and mother, so that you may live long in the
land the Lord your God is giving you)
-To be well diciplined
-To prepare ourself to face the world

After that, its Witter's turn. Well, basiclly he gave a long lecture =D. But it helps a lot!! He talks about his daily study routine during examination in university. He shared his failure in SPM. Even the teachers mocked him. So, how he deal with this? Its through insults from teachers and friends. Yea, he never gave up and he want to show to everyone that he's the best. So, what he does is study everyday. He said that prayer is important too. Because of his perserverense and determination to be the best, He scored with flying colour in his STPM and was awarded the best student in SMKSS.

About gaming. Hmm, all i can say is delete it right now and reinstall after SPM, PMR and STPM. These addictive games will just help you to reduce stress awhile but in the end, you'll have to face your examintion. Guys, these major examinations are taken only once a year. So, give it your best shot by working hard for it. If I can quit Dota, I'm very sure you all can do it too.

Random pics~

Paying Tithes...

2009-07-05T11:33:00.003+08:00

For those who want to pay tithes to His Generation, please give these details to either me or Willert.

Full monthly allowance...
Phone number....
Percentage of allowance given(no lower than 10%)...

Your co-operation is very necessary...

Thank you...

A short message from Caleb!!!

2009-06-27T22:07:00.004+08:00

Yea, Here are some pictures of caleb and his family in Australia!!! Well, Caleb is doing great in Australia with his family. He thanked us all for praying for his family. So, keep on praying for our brother's in christ guys!!

UPDATES!!!

2009-06-15T22:58:00.004+08:00

Wah...I didn't update for 2 weeks, sorry guys. Here's the update for 5th June. Worship was lead by me. Thanks guys for playing the instruments for me..really appreciate it. After worship, we all gather in a circle. Guess what, sermon was shared by CARRIE WONG!! Thanks Carrie for sharing. Really appreciate it.

Carrie shared bout the 9th commandment that is Thou shalt not bear false witness againts thy neighbour(KJV). The meaning of this commandment simply means you shall not lie. Yea, lying is bad. In this world, this sin has spread so fast. I mean, who has not lied before? Even I had lied to my parents, brothers, friends and teachers but not to pastor la...hehe

Anyway, we has to deal with this sin. We'll find troubles if we didn't deal with it. Breaking God's commandment is like bangging your head on a concrete wall!! When we are in the court, as a witness. We should not give fasle statement or creating a fake story. Its wrong in the eyes of God.

Another thing is white and black lies. For your information, there is no such things about white and black lies. Its still the same. So for those who did such sins, pls ask God for forgiveness. After having some time of sharing, the session was ended by a prayer. We ask for forgiveness from God.

Soon, we cleaned the sanctuary. After cleaning, we went home. Everything went well that day. Praise the Lord. Thanks again sister Carrie Wong for sharing ^_^

Stone and Sponge....

2009-06-15T17:41:00.004+08:00

I'm very aware this is the first "message post" in many many months. It took time for me to regain my confidence after my faith was slightly bombarded.... Here goes...

There are two types of Christians in the world today. I group them as the sponge and the stone....

The stones....

Imagine the world of Christianity is water. You have the holy spirit, the bible, the priests and the churches. All Christians are surrounded by these elements just like how the water surrounds the stone YET Christianity fails to penetrate the many people despite being surrounded by it.

A person with a heart of stone can be surrounded by Christ for centuries and ignore Him due to excessive pride. Take the Egyptian Pharaoh for example. The Lord sent many painful plagues which caused the Egyptian empire costly yet his heart remained hard.

By connecting the dots, it can be said that they can only see and feel Christ when it is too late that is when they are sent to hell to be incinerated and destroyed much in the same way the water can only penetrate the heart of the stone only when it is broken apart and destroyed.

An example of a stone Christian might be someone who goes to church every week and maybe plays instruments or sings in the church. Could be leading a cell group. At home or at school, he yells at parents and friends and curses. He or she might use the same drums or guitar he uses at the church to play demonic metal. He only reads his bible at church and leaves it to collect dust at home.

The sponges...
There are very few of these "exceptional" Christians who are "sponges". However it is these very few men and women who enabled Christianity to survive up to this day.

The sponges are people who humble themselves and allow Christ to come in much like how the sponge is hollow and allows water penetrate. They read the bible frequently thus allowing them to absorb the word of God like a sponge. Any impurity is forced and squeezed out. Like how the sponge absorbs water and soap and releases it to clean someone, a good Christian receives the word of God and preaches it out.

Unfortunately with the world changing radically the number of sponges are decreasing. Porn and masturbation is no longer considered as sin. Law and order is replaced by corruption and the Bible once thought to be the TRUTH of all things is now considered a big joke.

It's now time to question yourself what Christian are you. A sponge of stone? It's time to stop acting and wake up.

I confess. I am still partly a stone. Maybe a big part of me remains a stone. You know what I need, I am crying out for help. I never am happy with my current state. The smile and laugh is only skin thick. My current joy makes me remain at a gloomy world. Only with Christ can I fly to somewhere else.

HG Update: 22 May 2009

2009-06-02T13:02:00.003+08:00

The worship leader for this week was Christina. We had a surprise visit from our beloved Clement who went AWOL for at least a year... NAH JK JK... On drums as usual abang Witter, on keyboards is Clement, On guitars is Andy, myself and Willert and last but not least Jason on the bass.

The sermon for this week was brought up by Aunty Dorcas and it concerns the commandment "You Shall Not Steal". We first shed some light on things we think it's okay but is actually stealing such as bringing in stationery from the office or picking up money you see lying on the floor.

Then we came to the focus of the sermon. Paying tithes/offering. As greedy men, we rationalize with this commandment although paying less tithes or not paying tithes is considered stealing from God. Aunty Dorcas suggested the moment we receive ang pow or pocket money, 10% must be given to the Lord. At that moment,I wrestled with the beast in me saying

"Wei Lim, you're just a kid still studying. You're not receiving money officially. Therefore, paying tithes is not necessary. Pay tithes ONLY when you get a job."

For a moment I thought it was a good idea. To be honest, I still think it's a good idea to pay tithes only when you're working. That shows what a greedy brute I am.

Then several arguements came out such as economic meltdown, medical issues, hard times. To answer these arguements, Pastor Koshy stood up and read a verse from the bible, I forgotten which.

"If you love me, you will obey my commands."

That shows us how shallow most christians are. Our love for God is just skin thick. I finally found out I've been fooling everyone with a pathetic mask and ended up playing for the worship team. To God, he sees me as a disgusting hypocrite. I would need your prayers.

I believe there's a lesson here for all of us. Not just within the commandment.

Photos to be added later.

Thanks...

Apology...

2009-06-02T12:53:00.002+08:00

On behalf of the blogger's team consisting of myself, Choon Khai and Willert, we apologize for the lack of updates, picture of the week or posts. We also notice that if the updates are posted, they are usually late.

The blogger team are comming out with several solutions that would help make things go smoother. I sincerely hope this matter will be resolved in a few days time and we hope for your patience and co-operation.

Thank you...

Susan Boyle - Britains Got Talent 2009

2009-05-18T21:16:00.007+08:00

Sorry for late.. =) So, it's the video of Susan Boyle! Nothing I can explain, but just watch it! It's truly an amazing singer, there's lyric too inside

15th May 2009

2009-05-18T20:21:00.004+08:00

Today, Willert led the worship session! Thanks for the back-up singers, June and Christina for backing up with their wonderful voices! XD Thanks for Jeffery, Jason and Kent for skills in guitar =D and not forgetting , Witter the drummer!

Haha, the worship session started at 4.15pm which was a bit late lah , =P After the worship session, there was a prayer request for Rev. Peter Chin who went for surgery at five.

Five minutes break after the prayer, Pastor gave us a booklet of Global Day of Prayer You can go to http://www.globaldayofprayer.com/ for more info. =)

Today , Pastor talked about adultery. Leviticus 18 tells us there're different type of adultery such as incest, gay and lesbian, and sexual relation with animals. We must never have sexual relation with our parents, close relative and anybody who are blood related to us. It's incest.

If we're married, we cannot take our wife's sister as our wife if our wife still alive. One thing about our wife lol, do not have sexual relation when she's in her monthly period. You make yourself unclean. (What unclean means here btw? explanation plox XD)

Pre-marital sex also one of it. It happens around, might not here but other more-urban places.

And also do not have sexual relation with other men's wife, you will be unclean. One weird one, do not sacrifice your children to Molech. I think now, nobody know who's Molech. =) Well, this tells us the Lord is only our God.

We must not have sexual relation with animals, it's not natural. Do not have sexxual relation with same side sex, it's the sin God hated. It's mentioned in Leviticus 18:22, it stressed that God really hate it.

So, don't make yourself unclean with these sins. God will separate those who did this hated sins from His people! =D

David is back!!

Jeff and Kent
Jason
the musician

Weheeee~! XD

Catch us up, next week! Please do come HG! XD

Prayer Needed

2009-05-14T21:27:00.002+08:00

Pastor Peter Chin from Ipoh is in ICU now
Fainted at his house yesterday night
And was said that there's blood in the brain
However, they did an operation on draining out the blood,
The pressure now is lowered and considered stable
Doctor says that he's still now under observation
Might need another drain out if the pressure remains high
Please pray for the pressure to continue lower down and stabilized
Do uphold him in prayers
Many thanks ^^

Click here for more info
Do visit GEPC's blog for follow up..

*updated 16th May 2009 - 01:49*
The operation is very successful..
Please continue to pray for recovery
Cause couldnt really identify whether there are damages or not till he wakes up.. =）

Congrat's Reverend Koshy

2009-05-03T22:41:00.003+08:00

Congratulations Pastor uhhh I mean Reverend Koshy. Maybe we need to get used to calling you Reverend Koshy since we've been calling you Pastor for the last 6 years HAHA...

Anyway, we're blessed to have such a Pastor/Reverend like you. We've confessed our horrible deeds to you but you never shunned or deny us yet you love us just the same. I guess we tend to surprise each other. I guess our beloved HIS GENERATION won't be where we are now if it wasn't for you.

I hope you will continue to stay at KT as you, Auntie Dorcas and little Jerry are already "sebati" with our church.

HG Update: 24th April 2009

2009-04-27T22:21:00.002+08:00

Yo guys!! Sorry for late update..This week, worship was lead by me!! Sang 4 songs that is Blessed be your name, Hosanna, Treasure, and Amazed...Thanks June for back up singing and playing the piano. Thanks Kent, Chester, Jason and Ivan for playing too!! Really appreciate it..

Ok, now the main topic that pastor shared for this week. Well, pastor talks about commiting adultery. In the bible, Exodus 20:14 states that you shall not commit adultery. Adultery is a sin, a very serious sin which affected the whole world. Hmm, the defination for adultary is having a sexual relationship with other women after you're married while for unmarried couples, its called fornication.

We need to deal with this sins in our life. Why? Because this sin is really addictive for both man and women. So we need to always seek for forgiveness and repent from our sins.

The full explaination for Exodus 20:14 is in the book of Leviticus 18:1-29(the whole chapter) . Pls do read ya..

After the sermon, we end our session with a word of prayer which was prayed by pastor. Then we have a short time talking and cleaning the instrument. After 30 min, we leaved the church..Everything went well this week, thank God!!

Announcement!!

2009-04-26T18:49:00.001+08:00

To all HG members, there will be no HG meeting next week that is on the 1st of May because we'll be having an evening church service on that day.

You Will Never Look at KFC The Same way Again!!!

2009-04-15T23:23:00.005+08:00

For a food freak like me, I never thought such a video can leave me so emotionally drained and dazed.

I couldn't even bring myself to watch the whole video. It shows what a jerk I am for eating large portions of food like a pig without saying grace. I even grumble whenever there is no chicken or pork dish. I even refuse to eat certain type of fish.

Although the children in the video were smiling because they could get "ta pau-ed" food, I was left near tears. Now, my mind is totally blank and I'm left speechless. At the end, the father who collects the food stops his child from eating and bowed his head in prayer.

How humble these people are. Even with food that should be eaten by rats, vermin and stray dogs, these people still thanked God. I ate good food everyday and refuse to thank God.

I really don't know what to say although I'm digging my brain. I think God is going to teach us something in this video. Let me know what you learn and feel via Chatbox.

Thank You.

Pic Of The Week

2009-04-13T23:05:00.007+08:00

Attention!!!

Candidates for HG's new drummer!!!

Daniel Tan
-Very innocent boy
-Plays the keyboard
-Brilliant
-Dad's a professional basist and guitarist

Boon Chin San
- 14 years old.
- Has experience with guitar.
- Fun and quirky.
- Two other siblings are also musicians.

Michelle Chee
- Has experience with piano.
- Once hit my head with a book under Pastor Koshy's order.
- Manga fanatic.

Jeremiah "Jerry" Koshy Thomas
- The son of Pastor Koshy.
- Nice to bully.
- Has some informal training on drums.

The winner will get to fill the slot vacated by drummer greats such as Witter Yee, David Lin and Witton Yee and get a once in a lifetime chance to play with the elusive His Generation Band!!!

Announcement!!

2009-04-13T23:04:00.003+08:00

To all HG members, there will be no HG meeting on the 17th of April because we are having lessons on the sound mixer.

HG Update: 3rd April 2009

2009-04-07T22:08:00.002+08:00

Oh man...Sorry guys for the late update...I was so busy with my school works...anyway here's the update for this week. We started around 4.10 and the worship session was lead by June!! Thanks for worship leading June. The songs she led was Glory, My redeemer lives, Dalam kasihMu bapa, Here I am to worship. Thank you Ivan, Jason, Kent and Christina for playing the instrument and back up singing..

After worshipping, we prayed for all the alumni of His Generation...We also prayed for Wayne!!! He accepted christ which was led by Abang Teo...Congrats Wayne!!

Soon, pastor show us the way to pray for healing. The steps are :-
- gently place your hands on his/her head
- Declare that God will heal him/her
- Then rebuke the sickness with a firm voice

After that, pastor gave us a bookmark. It was designed by Jacob from GEPC.. Thanks dude!! By the way, to all members of HG, remember to memorise the 10 commandments =)
Then pastor shared about the 6th commandment that is you shall not kill (Exodus 20:13). We might think that killing a person is like taking a knife or a sharp object and start stabbing a person until he/she is dead but there are many other ways of killing a person such as backstabbing, gossiping, cursing, character assasination, blaming others for your mistake, judging people by his/her looks, isolating people who are ugly or fat and
criticsizing people before they got a chance to prove themselves.

We as christians should not do all these things because it can bring down a person. If we did all these sins, we really need to seek for forgiveness from God and repent from it. Soon, we ended our session at 6.30. Thanks pastor for the sermon..really appreciate it!!

Co-written by Chester Chua.

Tribute to Abang Jeffery!!!

2009-03-23T23:44:00.002+08:00

A tribute to our Abang...

As the days, months and years passed by, old friends leave while new ones came, the new replaces the old. Thats the natural order of things. Now one of our longtime HG members is leaving. Jeffery Wong aka Ah Fei aka Jeff. He has been with us for many years and it's time for our little firebird(because he loves guitar) to leave the nest.

I think I represent all HG members. We are proud to have known you as our friend and brother. SOBZ!!! Jeffery was always cheerful and jokey but of course there are times when he flies off the handle especially during worship practice... All for the good of the team. I guess Jeff is a real team player.

Besides being a pro guitarist and singer, Abang Jeff is also a born leader and many of his virtues help kept HG alive and well till this day. When I first came to know Jeff, I saw him as an insane guitarist and fan of hard rock and metal. Fast forward two years, he victoriously fought off the devil and has became a true servant of God. His habit drastically change except he still plays guitar like a pro and he goes gaga over tic-tacs and McDonalds. Jeff, your life transformation has been an inspiration to us.

But in life on earth, all good things must come to an end. Only in heaven can the things we love last for eternity. We all gonna miss you and we know you will definitely come back sometimes.

OK... I know many people will tell lies to make people feel good and not to hurt our feelings but I tell you this, Jeffery is a born man of God...

Bye Bye Jeff-o

Good luck and may the Lord bless you...

UCSI Easter Evangelistic Session

2009-03-22T22:35:00.006+08:00

It was the 21st of March. A group of Christian students from UCSI picked AJPC to be the venue of their "Easter Evangelistic Celebration". They held the event not just to celebrate the Easter day but hopefully to bring salvation into the lives of the non-believers.

I think I represent all of the HG members to say we are proud to have hosted you guys

UCSI had their own musicians but with back-up musicians from the HG Youths. Jeffery, Ivan, Kent and June helped out in the worship session. I kinda have to admit, the UCSI's worship session differed greatly from what we usually do in HG. the way i describe it is a combination of Mustard Seed where you do the signs and dance moves and a little bit of Youth songs.

The UCSI team also performed a skit about Jesus' recension to earth, his arrest and conviction, his torture, crucifixion and finally his Resurrection.

Next Mr Tee who was once an ex-medical lecturer from Kelantan came to give a talk about the accuracies of the physical changes and torture Jesus went through according to modern medical science. To the speaker, I'm terribly sorry i forgot his name. Care to edit the posts?

He gave a substantial amount of accurate and consistent evidence and key events that were proven to be real if examined along with modern medical science. His talk also brought us deeper into what Jesus really went through during the events from his prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane until his death. He also gave evidence to contradict the case of did The Lord really resurrect. In between the talks, scenes from Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is screened. Not surprisingly, many of us couldn't bear to watch the enitre scene.

The points and evidence include...
- While praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus' sweat was a combination of the usual sweat, urea and salt mixed with blood. This happens when someone is in tremendous pressure. So we got the idea that Jesus was really troubled and tempted not to endure torture and death.

- The flogging of Jesus Christ. The device used was the flagellum which means "whip" in Latin. The device bears many similarities to the thing they use to hit the horse in horse races. However, the flagellum also has ball bearings, shards of bone and spikes. The aim is to create as much bleeding, injury and pain as possible during the flogging process. The result is a slow and agonizingly painful time for the victim. The dermis and subcutaneous tissue is ripped out until at times the ribs, muscle, flesh, spine and other bones are revealed till they are visible to the eye. It is noted that such punishment could very well kill the victim although Jesus survived it do he could finally die.

- The Crucifixion of Christ was also told in parallel with the effects of being nailed to the cross based on medical science. It was obvious that Jesus was severely dehydrated and in agonizing pain due to the flogging earlier on and was the crown of thorns was placed on his scalp. It was also proven by medical science that at the cross that Jesus' arms were probably wrenched and seperated out from their sockets. And with the human body placed in such a position, respiration took a great deal of strength to accomplish and was limited and restricted.

- There has been this long debate between the Jews and the Christian on edvidence that did or did not Jesus ressurected. They're too many points so I couldn't type them all down.

After the talk, we bowed our heads in prayer and went upstairs to eat. Sadly, ladies first. I had to thank God for giving me the oppurtunity to know and test my patience...LOL... I tell you all THE FOOD WAS GREEEAAATTT!!! Thanks guys for the wonderful meal.

After that, some of us chit chat with the UCSI students while some of us had a free jamming time.

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Mr Tee giving his talk.

The performance by the UCSI team with Kent, Jeffery and Ivan helping out.

As you can see the church was full on that day. The most crowded HG I've ever seen in my 4 years with HG.

Till the next time. And to UCSI, we hope to see you all again.

Shalom...

-WeILiM93-

Pictures of the Week

2009-03-22T17:04:00.003+08:00

We HG'ites really love McDonalds do we?

20th March 2009

2009-03-21T00:07:00.007+08:00

Hello hello~ Welcome to His Generation! Please come forward thank you thank you! Sounds familiar? =P Oh yes! We had our weekly meeting today.. I worship led for today's worship session, together with the worship team(June, Jason, Ivan, Jeff and Chester) Thanks for the play! I enjoyed the worship very much =)

Songs for today : -
1. Lord I life Your name on high
2. One way
3. Heart of worship
4. Amazed

Right after the worship session, we prayed for a few people in different place, for those among us who had moved on for further studies, whether its in overseas or out of KT.. Just to let all of you know that we remember you guys and girls in prayer! ^^ Talking about leaving the group, Jeffery, will be leaving us for KL. This is his last session with us before he leaves.. Herm.. What can I say about him? I love to work with him.. He can be kinda perfectionist at times.. Especially on worship, with all the chords, strumming etc.. I believe the younger guitarist learnt a lot from him.. Although sometimes he may sounds very fierce and straight forward, but he's sincere in teaching all of you.. Hahaha.. He had been serving very faithfully for quite some times now.. Whether is it to open the church door, set the PA, lock up the santuary or fetch us makan here and there.. We truly apreciate that Jeff! and we will certainly miss you.. Will keep you in prayer from time to time! Gambateh! ^^

Today we continued on on honoring our parents..

exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

exodus 21:15
Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be put to death.

exodus 21:17
Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.

Sometimes without us realising, we are being rude to parents, or even "bully" them, talk bad and curse our parents! Okay, I admit I did.. I really did.. Some times it might feels like-"Oh! Why cant he thinks further?! Why is my old man so stubborn?!"-kind-of-things.. Then we'll throw tonnes of reasons to cover up our actions.. Think about it, did you honored your parents the way they should be honored? As it had been told for the past 2 weeks, Exodus 20:12 is the only commandment that comes with a promise. I believe the "live long" doesnt only mean physical life, but also means blessings.. We should respect and honor our parents. They are there for a purpose.. Who wiped your butt when you poo poo-ed? Who fed you and educate you? If its not of our parents, do you think you will sit there, in front of a PC/laptop, reading this? Of course its God's grace that we lived! But its also God's grace that our parents are here! Treasure your parents.. They wont be with you for long.. You will never know what's on your way tomorrow.. =)

Bible takes this very seriously.. "Anyone who attacks and curses his father or his mother must be put to death."?! Well.. lives are very important to everyone of us.. no doubt. But here it says "PUT TO DEATH"! Did you see how serious is God when He said this? To what extend do we take this seriously? Honoring my parents.. Very easy larh! Is it true? Hahahaha.. I doubt that if you really think so.. I think its kinda hard, need a lot of patience and self control too.. But this is that the Lord COMMAND us to do.. So, shall we try our best from today onwards? ^^

That's all from me, see you guys, same time, same place next week! Have a great week! ^^

13th Of March =)

2009-03-15T11:37:00.009+08:00

Today, a few musician went for holiday and Willert leaded the worship session , sang How Great Is Our God, Lord I Lift You Name on High and Amazed. After we ended our worship session, Pastor continue to share the topic of Honouring our parents which half of it had been shared last two weeks.

As a son or daughter, we should make our parents proud of us. Having good grades in our exam is one of the thing we can do as a student. Of course, by being a well mannered person also counts. If your family is having a meal, there comes a friend of your parent, and he or she is invited to have dinner together, we should vacate our chair and offer it our parent's friend. Our parents sure will proud of us =D

Criticizing their or their family members (brothers, sisters and grandparent) is rude and hurts their feeling. For their mistakes. And even their brothers and sisters who might have bad background. They are just like us, who make mistakes and hate being criticize.

Don't made them regret for giving birth you. Instead, encourage them. Give them sincere compliments and show appreciation by treating them them dinner or invite them to have dinner together when they're free or by giving them card and gift. You also can compliment your mum for her delicious food and thank her for cooking.(can be done by praying before eating too)

Tell them if you going to be late from school,church or function. If your parents planned to cook your favourite food for you, but you didn't tell them that you won't be back. Guess what? They felt disappointed.

We also can pray for them:

a) For their salvation if they're unsaved.

b) For their walk with God (their belief)

c) For wisdom to become a better parents

d) For their jobs, businesses and finances

e) For their marriage relationship

f) For their health and happiness

Some parents are strict to their children. They know some things are wrong for their children and in order to protect them, they draw a boundary within what they can do.

What you feel if nobody warn you about smoking, having drug or having sex before marriage, and in the end, you stumbled into this wrongdoings?

Your parents tried to save you for being hurt.

The World We Live In Today....

2009-03-15T00:02:00.004+08:00

I found out the fact that when we go to His Generation, we jump with joy, we laugh loudly. And there's so much happiness I can't even describe but being a Christian is not just sunshine, strawberries and rainbows. Yes there is so much joy in Christianity but there is also much pain.

Look at the world around us. Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold and Megadeth are attracting more fans than Missionaries bring people to Jesus. I'm struggling with Metal addiction, I've regretted that introduced one of my friends to Metallica instead of salvation. So if he's in eternal damnation, it's my fault. So if you have yet to listen to metal, don't try it. I've went down a little bit but I'm currently listening to Guns N Roses. Well not heavy metal but it's still dirty music

No one is arresting Metallica or Avenged Sevenfold for evil songs but Missionaries are being imprisoned and killed for spreading good news. In Orissa in India, churches and people are burned to the ground. You might not know this but an Australian missionary was killed along with his sons.

So if you ask me, the morality of the world today is no different than the time of Noah because...

- People hate Christians. In Hillsong videos in YouTube, many people spit on Jesus' face with profanity. I recently found this comment "Jesus preys on the weak" in one of the Hillsong videos. So to them, Jesus is an equavelant of Satan. All around the world, Christians are rejected from society. All the same way how people insult and laugh at Noah.

- People are making Gods out of anything. Yeah, I've seen people calling rockers Slash or Ozzy Osbourne a God. Well Slash can play guitar better than Hillsong I admit but he's a drug addict, alcoholic and a foul mouthed man. How can he be God. In that case, everyone is God.

- The world is poisoniong the children. Those days, kids watch Tom and Jerry, Mickey and Goofy and Looney Tunes. Today kids are watching South Park, Retarded Animal Babies, Robot Chicken and Happy Tree Friends. I've admit, I once loved to watch South Park and Happy Tree Friends. A thing called "pornography" arose during the mid 19th century and with the cyber technologies today is expanding at a monstrous rate and getting both the young and old addicted to it. Even children re smuggled into this buisness. Partially because of porn, Rape and rape murder is a top crime nowadays.

So it's no surprise that Jesus will destroy earth the same way he destroyed it during the time of Noah. Last time, it was by water but this time the world will be destroyed with flames as nations bomb each other.

The Lord knows the world is dying. Pollution is everywhere. Murder, corruption and sin is everywhere. The number of students in America who want to do another Coloumbine or Virginia Tech is growing. The Emo and Gothic culture is expanding. More nations are turning to Nuclear as an energy source.

But let us look what humans have done to our beautiful planet earth. The dinosaurs have never caused any form of pollution during their 135 million year stay on earth. Sharks have never dumped any trash into the oceans for 450 million years. But only after 2 million years since homo sapiens existed, earth is choking to death. How?
- Shark Fin buisness is rivalling drug and weapons trade in the black market. An estimated 150 million sharks are killed for their fins every year. So take my advice, don't eat shark fin soup. I'm sure Jesus would agree. And only 5 people die of shark attacks a year. I don't know why we wanna save the pandas, seals, dolphins, tigers and elephants but only I support shark conservation. And the tiger and leopard skin, turtle shell, Japanese whale meat and other wildlife poaching buisness is expanding day by day.

- Every few seconds, forests the size of soccer fields are demolished for space and paper. To counter this, recycle your newpaper and don't sit for exams because it wastes paper. Imagine how many millions have to get at least 100 sheets paper for exams and the trees that are cut down. Nah you must recycle but do sit for exams.

- The Pacific and Atlantic ocean is a new global dustbin. Garbage scows are dumping rubbish into deep oceans. It won't be long before the Marianas trench gets towered by rubbish. Remember, the ending of Transformers where a dead Megatron is dumped into Laurentian Abyss, that's the same thing they're doing now. Oh yes they dump robots. My cousin living in New York says you won't find fish in their longkang like in Malaysia where you can make a living casting nets in a sewer. He said you'll find rubbish of all sorts. Be careful Jeffery, don't jump ina New York sewer if you see a Gibson Les Paul inside one.

I know Jesus pressures us on missionary work but I'm sure he wants a few to save the environment. Why not we donate a few ringgit to Sea Shepard or WWF. Also boycott shark fin soup. Well, Jesus loves the animals too. If he didn't he wouldn't have created animals in the first place. It's just we are created in his image. Like they make Spider-Man and Darth Vader toys more expensive but animal toys cheap except for like Jurassic Park collector's item.

So be mindful. Yes the bible tells us there is joy in Christ but there is much pain in the world we live in.

Many thanks....

Wei Lim

And please leave comments la... Whenever no one leaves comments I sedih la.

His Generation :Picture of the week

2009-03-11T20:08:00.003+08:00

Dont mess with me...I'm building up more muscles now!!

HG Update: 6 March 2009

2009-03-09T19:01:00.005+08:00

Okay here's the update for the 6th Of March. Sorry it took so long because I was busy. ADMINISTRATORS!!! Give me a break la... Takkan I alone update. Hope you understand, I got exams this week...

Anyway, today was the first time I played rhythm guitar for HG. A very humbling and enjoyable experience. Thanks guys for all your support and encouragement. Witter was the drummer of the day, he came back for a few days.

Today, Pastor initially intended to talk about honouring our parents but too many questions came out so we moved to another topic. First is the problem of being ~~"sinister"~~ something... Forgot that word already. It's "cynicism" =) It means judging people by the negativity of their background... Like you see a schoolboy with shirts untucked we automatically think that he is a gangster, cheats in exams and smokes and many others la... It hurts other people as it is considered as an insult to others.

Then Pastor talked about the end times that are comming. Sure it's significant as the economy is bad and the world's "Tai Kor" which is USA wants to borrow money from other countries. A whole lot of other things were also brought up like the "Anti-Christ's" mark being put on our forehead or our wrist and we are to resist the mayhem that the future is about to bring. The wars, famine and the prosecution that we're gonna face. Don't think that this won't happen, many prophercies are slowly being unraveled as time passes by.

Today we didn't clean up the sanctury but we went to Town City for makan... Haiz, got no other place ah... NVM, it's not KL so there's not many good restaurants around...

Till the next time folks... Cya...

A Cool Thing...

2009-02-27T23:34:00.003+08:00

I know this is not a message but just stare and focus at this picture for at least 30-45 seconds... Then turn away to a white or light coloured wall... Who do you see... Leave it on the comment box...

The Patience Of The Lord

2009-02-27T22:51:00.005+08:00

This is one of the things I've learnt from the sermons from the Baptist Church I attend at the morning...

Jesus is a master of patience because he created it... As we've seen, patience became a very useful asset for the Lord and his patience helped made him THE GREATEST MAN ALIVE...

I will lay down a few examples...

First of is his patience with us... Why? Simple, we've sinned hard against him which is equivalent to spitting on his face. I confess, in times of rage I couldn't control my anger and spoke very rude words to the Lord in my heart... Although scientifically inaudible, it was loud and clear for me and Jesus. Not only that but there are more dreadful sins I committed.. He could have stopped my heart during those moments for disrespect and blasphemy but he was PATIENT... The same thing goes for everyone of us, we sinners are alive not only because of his great love but also his PATIENCE...

Number two, his patience in his plans. His timing is always accurate... Example, Jesus created man when all dinosaurs were gone... What happens IF Jesus didn't have patience? A T-Rex could have easily swallow Adam and Eve and other dinosaurs could have killed off the human race.LOL... Also, he came down to earth during the golden age of The Roman Empire... Why, the Romans invented roads so it was more convenient for travelling and also Roman became a universal language at that time because the Romans control a big part of the world so His word can be easily translated and written down... He's also patient on creating us because I believe he had us, HG, our family, Pastor Koshy in mind before he created the earth and dinosaurs... Imagine if we had HG during the stone age, maybe it'll be fun dressing like Fred Flintstone but there won't be guitars, drums and no place to go makan... We have to go hunt down dinosaurs for dinner...LOL... So his PATIENCE gave us a lot of convenience...

Nombor tiga... He's patient EVEN with his ENEMIES... How? In the Garden of Gethsemane when the Romans came to arrest him, his disciples drew out their swords but Jesus was PATIENT and asked them to lower arms... At that time he could have easily called 1,000,000,000,000 ^230000 angels armed with lightsabers to protect him... He could have eradicate his pain and suffering while on the cross just be shutting down his pain receptors and come down from the cross but he was PATIENT!!!

So remeber my brothers and sisters, everything we enjoy today, all the technology, civilisation, healthy food source, healthy environment(which is dying) yadda yadda yadda that we enjoy today is because of his patience... So to be like him, we must be patient also. I need to be more patient with my sister, always annoy me...LOL... Patience also helps us stay away from trouble...

That's all folks...

His Generation:20th February 2009

2009-02-24T23:30:00.012+08:00

Sorry guys for late update....Hg started as usual last Friday Thanks Christina for worship leading. Thanks Jeffery for setting the Pa system.Well, we started a bout 4 o'clock and ended our meeting at 7 o'clock. We spent some time worshipping the Lord and praising Him. After worship, we spent some time praying for our friends.

Soon, pastor started preaching. He talks about the one of the 10 commandments that is "honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you" Exodus 20:12. This is the only commandment that come with a promise from God that is to have LONG LIFE!! Its really nice to have long life...everyone in this world want to have long life...

So, to have long life...we must obey and honour our parents. Its not easy...There are so many times I disobeyed and dishonoured my parents. Well, we have to ask for forgiveness from God if we break this commandment and try to follow it. By the way, the word Honour in Hebrew is weight or heaviness, but in Greek, it is know as to price, give value, and to reserve. If we combine these words togather, this is what we'll see. Honouring our parents is to give them weight by not taking them lightly and to price and value them..

There are so many ways we can honour our parents such as
1.Talk to them gently
2.Seek their advice
3.Say thank you, please, i'm sorry, ect.
4.invite them to eat and serve them at dinner table
5.Look them in the face when having a conversation
6.Stand up when older people talks to you
7.Be accountable by telling them where are you going, when are you coming home, ect.
8.Seek their permissons in everything that you want to do or to buy

To obey them is by:
1.Do as you are told
2.Do it quickly
3.Do the best you can
4.Do it without complaining

If we can do all these things...I belive that we'll have a long live and blessed by God because its not easy to do all these things. After the sermon, we cleaned the church. Everything went smoothly. Soon, we went to town city to have fellowship togather.

Here are some pics.

An Offer We Can't Refuse

2009-02-18T18:24:00.002+08:00

OK... It's about time I've posted something on the blog. I've been very sinful lately. i concentrated more on my school life than with God, thus I became more prone to sin and felt guilty. But this post helped me overcame my fear and pain. I hope it'll help ease your too...

How often we get a very good bargain... A 50% discount on guitars, a free bottle of milk when you buy cornflakes or getting free toys with McD Happy Meals... And I could not think of the best offer that I ever heard...

The offer was made a long time ago, Jesus sealed that offer with his blood.... And the offer is....

"I will give you an eternal and pure life...I will help clean up your life and make you pure before me... i will protect you with my arms and i will love you forever, I will NEVER abandon you... I will give you joy and peace... All I ask from you is to believe and trust in me"

Now that's an offer we can't refuse... Many people around the world signed the contract with Jesus but after a short time, that contract was suspended and became invalid... And when they face Judgement before the Lord who reluctantly rejects them... They say...

"I signed this contract, SEE!!! Sealed with my signature and your blood... It's a valid contract"

What's the use of a signature when the terms are not being carried out? It's just a piece of rubbish... Only a contract that has being signed and has the terms and conditions carried out is a true contract...

The same thing happens when you get a loan from the bank and buy a car... It's true the agreement is signed but if the terms are not met, the car will be taken away... Same thing when we ask Jesus for eternal life, we go home and do things that is equivalent to spitting at the contract... Then the eternal life promised by Jesus has been taken away...

I know none of us including me are perfect... Many of us have shocked each other with sinful confessions in HG... We have dark secrets kept from everyone but Jesus... Porn, masturbation, playing satanic games, getting involved with the occult... We feel the guilt because we know we are children of God and this is not what we are supposed to behave... The Lord knows our pain, he knows we want to get out of it... Well, the feeling of guilt confirms that you love the Lord, those who don't care about what they do are lost...

So have you been abiding by the terms and conditions of your contract with Jesus lately? Don't panic if you didn't... Just repent and The Lord will forgive you... If yes, well Praise the Lord because you serve him well..

-WeILiM93-

HG update - 13 February 2009

2009-02-16T22:09:00.003+08:00

Okay guys... Sorry this post took so long, I was too preoccupied with other stuff... Not really, I could post this a lot earlier but I still manage my time like I'm still in form 3... Enough, back to the topic...

Today we continued on the 10 Commandments... Today is the fourth commandment which is "Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy". And before I forget, we had a drummer today... Nope, it ain't Witter or David...

It was IVAN!!!! Congrats!!!! It was his first time and he blended in well with the other musicians...

Down to the sermon. It is known that God created the earth, moon, galaxies etc etc in 6 days and rested on the 7th.. The 7th day is the Sabbath day and we are to rest on that day just as the Lord did... At first there was this voice in my heart "HAHA! an excuse to say I cannot study for one whole day, Must follow the bible" But the truth soon came to silence the naughty voice... We must work hard for the other 6 days. Pastor then explained to us about the details such as spending time with the Lord on your Sabbath day which isn't necessarily Friday or Sunday or you can break it to fragments such as Friday afternoon, Saturday morning and Thursday night to make up for being undable to make the Sabbath day a single day... Then we are told about studying hard on the other 6 days and we ventured of into other related subtopics...

So remeber guys, we need to study hard although honestly, I say this will be very very challenging to us especially those who hates studying like me... But honour God and he will honour you...

Listening attentively...

What is Christina doing... Don't ask me

No comments...zzzz... i was either sneezing or laughing out hard... Haiz

Have a pleasant week and God bless...

His Generation:Picture Of The Week

2009-02-12T16:05:00.002+08:00

Pastor Koshy : Ok Lord,I'm ready to serve you at anytime,pumped up and ready to go !!!

Something to share...

2009-02-12T13:28:00.004+08:00

Hey guys...its been almost a month now since i've left malaysia...well what can i say about this new place that i am...When i see and think back about His Generation, i can tell you this...you guys are so much on fire, so much more fortunate, so much more blessed than what i am experiencing now...

You may think that US is a christian based community but it isn't...and even the christian community itself, i can say that, they don't take God seriously...Christianity is like a culture to them...if you don't put all your heart in it, its ok...thats what most people will think...You know, i just wish that i can drag each of you here to let them see, how serious we are into God, how fire up we are to worship him and how God has changed you all...

I'm been attending Assembly of God church...(to Ps.Koshy, sry for not replying on your email...just to let you know that i didn't attend the churches you recommended to me, which i really want to, but all of them are pretty far away from where i live, and i found this church good and has the concept of the DNA in it...) The morning service was powerful and the Ps. of the church really do touch on things that are very relevant to the americans, for example: divorce, swearing and stuff like that...but i'm also attending their Youth Group...and it is something so, sad to see...well i'm happy that they have a huge attendance but but some of them were not fired up...its just being there for the sake of being there...i'm not telling all this negative things to compare that you guys are better and they are not...i'm telling you this, so that you realize how important it is to be close and be serious to God...and also i'm telling you this so that you can pray for the youth group here...this is my request...

The worship...the worship i notice, that God anointing on them was very low...most of them was not playing for him but rather doing it , again, just to do it...So musicians, take this, it is very very very very important...if you don't have the heart to serve in what you are doing, DON"T DO IT...its better not to serve than serving with a heart which is not right and cause the anointing of God to disappear...

Despite all this, you may say, why not change to another church? But God told me something...I had a calling from Him...that i am there to make a difference...to change it...and i believe that i can open their eyes and let them see the true glory of God...to run to the alter and catch the fire, and bring glory to his name in the Youth Group that i am attending...and i am determine, by God's grace introduce and share to them the DNA of a person, ministry etc...All this is possible but it takes time...i mean no Youth Group in the world will let someone new and let him be in charge of everything and let him take control...i need time, and also wisdom and guidance from God...and most importantly your prayers...I hope that you can pray for me to do something in their ministry and also pray for the ministry itself...

So guys, always remember that, God is working in you...God is answering your prayers, if you think God is not doing anything in His Generation, you are so so so so wrong...i think God is doing so much more in His Generation compared to so many other Youth Groups around...Grow in the Lord and make full use of the time and experience in His Generation...what God through Ps.Koshy has taught me, has prepare me for where i am now...without those things that i have learn, there is no way i'm still standing today, writing this message to you...

and yes one more very very very important thing, please please keep this blog alive and updated, i know some of you are very busy, so was i during the time i was the admin, but i tried to find time to update it...this blog isn't just any blog...its a form of service...and you guys know as clearly as me, when you serve, you give your very best...so please do give your very best to God through this blog...don't waste all the effort Jeffery and me had put into it...the whole HG community is depending on you guys (admins and bloggers) so, take it seriously ya...

and all the best, God bless... ;)

6th January 2009

2009-02-11T14:39:00.008+08:00

Today's worship session led by Jeffery and back-up, Christina.Thanks to all musicians for today! After the worship session, 2 minutes break for some water. After that, we spilt into 3 groups, CHWS, SMKSS and College group. We prayed for our schools/college and everybody in the school.As for Jeffery who got no school or college and working, he prayed brothers and sisters who went to US.

Today, pastor shares a powerful message about the 3rd commandment : You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God.

What's about the wrongful use of God's name? Things such as swears, rude words slangs and to work out evil things.

When you swear, don't use "In the name of Jesus, I bla bla bla" it's wrong! But, if you think it's hard to change this habit, try not to swear. Refuses to swear is the best solution. Rude words are also another one. Slangs like "Oh my God/Gawd", "Oh Jesus Christ!", and "For Christ/Pete/God's sake" is other way of insulting God. What you feel if somebody shouted your name when they are angry. For example, they spilled their drinks and scream "Oh Jeffery!!!ChoonKhai!!" . It might sounds funny at first, but after for long time, what it feels? "What the hell/heck" is another spiritual word we shouldn't use. Hell is real and it's not something to play with!

Using God's name to do bad things, just like saying Jesus is your saviour and all the day, you did bad things. Or, planning a crime, and added God's name to cover up your works. How about I did something evil and used your name? It's a cruel thing to do to someone. If it's cruel to human, how about a living God?

There's a study of the attitudes of Christians and non-Christians. Guess what? The studies shows that Christians showed no difference compared with non-Christians. There were cases where Christians are much more worse than non-Christians. We are Christians by name but we didn't show the difference of Christianity. So, what's the point you keep praising God in the church but when you went to outside, all rude words keep flying out from your mouth. Brothers ans sisters, Christian is the religion which is not to show off. Our last HG brother,Ping Keat, when he was asked what makes you accepted Christ? He said, Su Peen and Pang Tsen showed something different in them and their life. He got interested with Su Peen and Pang Tsen's God who shapes their great attitudes and life.

After the sermon, we sang Majesty and have some prayers for those who want to repent from those sins.

30th January 2009

2009-01-30T22:11:00.007+08:00

Well..today..We started around 4.00 to 6.30. Yeah, I worship lead today. Thanks to all the musicians especially Jeffery, June, n Witter for helping me. After worshipping the Lord..we prayed for the alumni (graduates from HG)...Then we spent time praying in tongue loudly for our friends ^_^

Today, pastor shared about the second commandment that is you shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below (Exodus 20:4)..Pastor also talk about (Exodus 20:5) Yous shall not bow down to them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generation to those who love me and keep my commandments.

Well...forming an idol is not exactly forming a statue to worship ...it can be our games, success, money, gf or bf...anything can be our God. Of course playing games, dreaming of success, earning money and having a bf or gf is not wrong...but sometimes, we tend to put these things first than God...and God hates it...In everything we do, we have to put God first. If we dream of money or playing games, ect, everyday, we are actually forming an idol and we're worshipping them.

Many Christians has fallen into these sins because they are unaware. We need to ask for forgiveness from God. The end times are coming, we cant play with sins anymore. We have to be more aware of these sins...

After the sermon...we form many groups...2 person in a group, sharing our sins and seek for forgiveness from God. Then pastor prayed for us then we closed our meeting...everything went smoothly today..thank God

TO ALL VISITORS OF THIS BLOG AND MEMBERS OF HIS GENERATION.WE WANT TO WISH YOU ALL A
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!

an offer we can't refuse

2009-01-17T16:47:00.002+08:00

How often we get a very good bargain... A 50% discount on guitars, a free bottle of milk when you buy cornflakes or getting free toys with McD Happy Meals... And I could not think of the best offer that I ever heard...

The offer was made a long time ago, Jesus sealed that offer with his blood.... And the offer is....

"I will give you an eternal and pure life...I will help clean up your life and make you pure before me... i will protect you with my arms and i will love you forever, I will NEVER abandon you... I will give you joy and peace... All I ask from you is to believe and trust in me"

Now that's an offer we can't refuse... Many people around the world signed the contract with Jesus but after a short time, that contract was suspended and became invalid... And when they face Judgement before the Lord who reluctantly rejects them... They say...

"I signed this contract, SEE!!! Sealed with my signature and your blood... It's a valid contract"

What's the use of a signature when the terms are not being carried out? It's just a piece of rubbish... Only a contract that has being signed and has the terms and conditions carried out is a true contract...

The same thing happens when you get a loan from the bank and buy a car... It's true the agreement is signed but if the terms are not met, the car will be taken away... Same thing when we ask Jesus for eternal life, we go home and do things that is equivalent to spitting at the contract... Then the eternal life promised by Jesus has been taken away...

I know none of us including me are perfect... Many of us have shocked each other with sinful confessions in HG... We have dark secrets kept from everyone but Jesus... Porn, masturbation, playing satanic games, getting involved with the occult... We feel the guilt because we know we are children of God and this is not what we are supposed to behave... The Lord knows our pain, he knows we want to get out of it... Well, the feeling of guilt confirms that you love the Lord, those who don't care about what they do are lost...

So have you been abiding by the terms and conditions of your contract with Jesus?