Worship Team 6 February 2011

Chairperson: Liong KC

Worship Leader: Shankar R
Vocalists: Siew Pin, Hong Lu, Foong Yee

Pianist: Jocelyn Lee
Keyboardist: Jacinta Lee
Guitarist: Anna Sim
Bass Guitarist: Ken Fhui
Drummer: Darren

Projectionist: Moses Tan
PA: Tommy Q, Manjit Singh

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Dear Worship Leaders,
The members who join the pre-service prayer meeting would like you to highlight any changes to your slot. This is to enable them to pray for the right worship leader at the prayer meeting.
Also, kindly learn to assemble your song list using the PDF Builder.

Dear LCD Operators,
Please ensure you have an assistant. One person will control the BeamIt program, the other will assist in noting the Worship Leader's indication.
It would be advisable to come for practice on Saturday to familiarize yourself with the song choices.

Sunday Sermon 30-Jan-2011 - Pastor David Chan

Speaker: Pastor David Chan
O.A Ministry

http://www.mediafire.com/?tm799md4t7vahdo

The Persecuted Church : Open Doors World Watch List

Our passion is to inspire others with the message of the persecuted church. The World Watch List was designed to help share our passion by presenting the true extent of persecution around the globe.

The World Watch List is compiled from a specially-designed questionnaire of 50 questions covering various aspects of religious freedom. A point value is assigned depending on how each question is answered. The total number of points per country determines its position on the World Watch List of countries that are the worst persecutors of Christians.

Our mission is to use this extensive resource to spread awareness of the degree and severity of persecution around the world.

As you read through the World Watch List, you'll be moved to pray. You might be brought to tears at what you read. To help you pray through for the dire circumstances, we've compiled the World Watch List prayer guide, which is free to download.

Pornography & Sexual Addiction

Pornography and sexual addiction have become major problems in our current culture. While offering the promise of “great sex”, the onslaught of sexual images from television, movies, magazines and particularly the internet has instead destroyed the sex lives of millions of men and women.

For many, the issues of pornography, lust and fantasy have devastated their marriages. Statistics show that 50% of Christian men have a problem with pornography. No church is immune. Men are entrenched in decade’s long negative patterns and this is usually a long term battle to conquer.

Sexual addiction is just that: an addiction – not unlike drug or alcohol addiction. Few addicts can just “stop on their own”.

The Importance of Fathers

by Mark Gungor on January 27th, 2011
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We live in a culture today that minimizes the role of men, discounts the importance of fathers, and generally tends to dismiss the male gender as unnecessary. Stemming from the women’s liberty movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the continuing and pervasive line of thinking says that women don’t really need a man, they can do almost everything that a father does in a family and that men are pretty much obsolete. Sadly, some go as far as employing the science of artificial insemination where a woman doesn’t even need the man for procreation, she only needs his sperm.

So are men really only useful as sperm donors, or is there something that the feminist agenda is missing? Studies have shown that, indeed, their thinking is very flawed and they are missing a great deal. The bottom line of research says that it is the father who overwhelmingly determines the moral and spiritual development of the children. Three separate studies that I have read come to mind: One done by the Swiss government, a second reported by the Baptist Press and finally a third one reported by MSNBC (hardly a Christian biased outlet). A variety of sources—the government, church and the liberal left—yet these investigations show the same results. All three sources support the important influence fathers have on their kids—shocking as that is to those in the “we-don’t-need-men” club!

How Do You Parent Millennials?

Editor's Note:
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How Do You Parent Millennials?
Fifty years ago, everyone knew the script.Young people finished high school and either went to college or got a job. For some, their first job was in the military. With or without college, readily available full-time employment meant that independence was just around the corner. They would find their own apartment and start to save for the day when they married (most married young) and began a family.

Everyone knew their role and played it quite well. If life was not always happy, at least it was stable.

Fifty years ago, this book could not have been written. But things have changed during the past five decades, and the predictable is no more.

Nowhere have these changes been more poignantly felt than by parents of those amazing and puzzling young people we call Generation Y (or the Millennials or the Mosaics), as well as some of the younger Gen-Xers. Among the changes affecting the contour of the family circle are:

1. Adult children may live more than one hundred miles away, often out of state.
2. Or, adult children, increasingly, may be moving back to the nest - sometimes with their own children.
3. Many adult children don't marry until their late twenties or thirties.
4. Some adult children have live-in partners of the opposite sex, sharing their lives and sometimes their checking accounts, but not marrying.
5. Adult children may seem less driven than their parents.

It is easy enough to try to lay blame for the changing, unsettled times solely on uncontrollable factors. Yet many of today's boomer parents have to look no further than their own experiences when they were young. Many young people decided that sex was too beautiful to be kept for marriage, that multiple partners were the wave of the future. The pleasures of recreational drug use and sexual experimentation drew many, and social stigmas waned. Divorce became the norm in some circles.

Today 40 percent of our young adults grew up as children of divorce. The Gen Xers, in particular, were labeled latchkey children, because they had keys to their homes after school, as their parents were away, working. Many of these children were more often shuffled and managed than parented. The Millennial generation were the "baby on board," pampered generation, but their coming of age and seeming delaying of adulthood has also baffled parents.

With all these changes, many parents wonder now how to relate to their adult children. There are roles that parents can and should play in the lives of their adult children, as we plan to show in this book; but to play those roles we need to better understand our grown sons and daughters.

. . . click here to READ MORE.


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The Compromising Church

Revelation 2

¹² “And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write,
‘These things says He who has the sharp two-edged sword: ¹³ “I know your works, and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. And you hold fast to My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days in which Antipas was My faithful martyr, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. ¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality. ¹⁵ Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.^{[a] 16} Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth.
¹⁷ “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.”’ (Revelation 2:12-17, New King James Version)

Footnotes:

1. Revelation 2:15 NU-Text and M-Text read likewise for which thing I hate.

Everything - Lifehouse

Worship Team 30 January 2011

Chairperson: Caleb R.

Worship Leader: Peggy Tan
Vocalists: Shankar, Joycelyn C, Jun Fhui

Pianist: Prisca Sim
Keyboardist: Jonathan Long
Guitarist: Terry C
Bass Guitarist: Weng Ern

Drummer: Anna Sim

Projectionist: Meng Fhui
PA: Hiew FF, Tommy Q

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Dear Worship Leaders,
The members who join the pre-service prayer meeting would like you to highlight any changes to your slot. This is to enable them to pray for the right worship leader at the prayer meeting.
Also, kindly learn to assemble your song list using the PDF Builder.

Dear LCD Operators,
Please ensure you have an assistant. One person will control the BeamIt program, the other will assist in noting the Worship Leader's indication.
It would be advisable to come for practice on Saturday to familiarize yourself with the song choices.

Sunday Sermon 23-Jan-2011 - Rev. Johnny Chan

Speaker: Rev. Johnny Chan
Open Doors Malaysia

http://www.mediafire.com/?ak633gqc2shnay2

It Is Well With My Soul

Horatio G. Spafford was known as a sincere, devout Christian. He was the father of four daughters, an active member of the Presbyterian church, and a loyal friend and supporter of D. L. Moody and other evangelical leaders of his day.

In November 1873, Spafford decided to take his entire family to Europe for a vacation, intending also to assist Moody in his evangelistic work once he arrived there. However, Spafford was unexpectedly detained in Chicago due to urgent business concerns, but decided to send his family aboard the S.S. Ville du Harve as scheduled. Midway through the trans-Atlantic voyage, S.S. Ville du Harve was struck by the English vessel Loch Earn and eventually foundered. Spafford's four daughters—Anna, eleven; Maggie, nine; Bessie, seven; and Tanetta, two—were among the 226 who perished in the aftermath. Mrs. Spafford, one of the few who were spared, sent her husband the heartbreaking telegram: “Saved alone.”

Article : Mom unplugs teens for 6 months from Internet, iPod, TV

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Susan Maushart lived out every parent's fantasy: She unplugged her teenagers.

For six months, she took away the Internet, TV, iPods, cellphones and video games. The eerie glow of screens stopped lighting up the family room. Electronic devices no longer chirped through the night like "evil crickets." And she stopped carrying her iPhone into the bathroom.

The result of what she grandly calls "The Experiment" was more OMG than LOL — and nothing less than an immersion in RL (real life).

As Maushart explains in a book released in the U.S. this week called "The Winter of Our Disconnect" (Penguin, $16.95), she and her kids rediscovered small pleasures — like board games, books, lazy Sundays, old photos, family meals and listening to music together instead of everyone plugging into their own iPods.

Do You Trust Him?

by Max Lucado

I know God knows what’s best.
I know I don’t.
I know he cares.

Such words come easily when the water is calm. But when you’re looking at a wrecked car or a suspicious-looking mole, when war breaks out or thieves break in, do you trust him?

Scripture, from Old Testament to New, from prophets to poets to preachers, renders one unanimous chorus: God directs the affairs of humanity. No leaf falls without God’s knowledge. No dolphin gives birth without his permission. No wave crashes on the shore apart from his calculation. God has never been surprised. Not once.

I am the one who creates the light and makes the darkness. I am the one who sends good times and bad times. I, the Lord, am the one who does these things. (Isa. 45:7)

May I Have Your Attention, Please

Love Language: Quality Time
What are some things that you know your spouse would like for you to do? Make a list. If your list includes: Get a baby-sitter and go out to dinner, just the two of us. Or, Take a walk together and talk as we walk. Or, Sit down and talk about your day before you run off to do other things. Then, your spouse's love language is Quality Time.

What speaks most deeply to him/her is for you to give them your undivided attention. It is not enough to be in the same house. They want to know, "Do you really love me?" "If you love me," they reason, "then you will spend time with me." If you have time for golf, church, and computers but no time for your spouse, they will feel unloved. Learn to speak the language of Quality Time and you will enhance the emotional climate of your marriage.

The Persecuted Church

Revelation 2

⁸ “And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write,
‘These things says the First and the Last, who was dead, and came to life: ⁹ “I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. ¹⁰ Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
¹¹ “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.”’ (Revelation 2:8-11, New King James Version)

Take My Life, and Let It Be

In December of 1874, Frances Havergal visited Worcester, England with a group of friends, consisting of “some unconverted and long prayed for, some converted but not rejoicing Christians.” Much concerned for her friends' spiritual well-being, she had prayed to the Lord that she would be able to lead each of them to a genuine and joyful experience of Christ. By the last day of her five-day visit, the gracious Lord had answered her prayer completely. Unable to contain the inward joy welling up within her, Frances could not sleep that night. Instead, she spent most of the night praising and thanking the Lord while renewing her personal consecration to Him. During that blissful evening in the Lord, she composed the six couplets of the following hymn.

Worship Team 23 Jan 2011

Chairperson: Barnabas P.

Worship Leader: Kai Yew Foong Yee
Vocalist: Siew Pin, Lareina, Meng Fhui

Pianist: Lydia Sim
Keyboardist: Jocelyn Lee
Guitarist: Ken Fhui
Bassist: Darren
Drummer: Jaemy C.

Projectionist: Joseph Yap Moses Tan
PA: Manjit Singh, Tommy Q
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Dear Worship Leaders,
The members who join the pre-service prayer meeting would like you to highlight any changes to your slot. This is to enable them to pray for the right worship leader at the prayer meeting.
Also, kindly learn to assemble your song list using the PDF Builder.

Dear LCD Operators,
Please ensure you have an assistant. One person will control the BeamIt program, the other will assist in noting the Worship Leader's indication.
It would be advisable to come for practice on Saturday to familiarize yourself with the song choices.

Sunday Sermon 16-Jan-2011 - Elder Lim Swee Boon

Speaker: Elder Lim Swee Boon
White Fields Assembly Seremban

http://www.mediafire.com/?yzfq2i9b6612rfj

Fill That Love Tank!

Love is the most important word in the English language.
Psychologists have concluded and most of us agree that the need to feel loved is a primary human emotional need. I like to picture that inside all of us is an emotional love tank. If the tank is full, we fare well. But if the tank is empty, life becomes dark.

So, I'm asking you, "On a scale of 0-10 how full is your love tank?" Better yet, why don't you ask that question to your spouse. If their answer is less than 10, you ask: "What could I do to help fill it?" Then, you do it to the best of your ability. If you do this exercise once a week, your spouse will likely begin to ask you the same question and you will learn how to keep each others' love tank full.

Just As I Am

The story of Charlotte Elliott's protracted struggle against the oppressive power of sin provides a helpful lesson to Christians and non-Christians alike. At an early age, Charlotte began to be aware of her sinful nature and of her impotence to resist sin's enticements. Growing up, Charlotte felt herself increasingly unworthy of God's grace and incapable of facing a perfect and righteous God. She visited many churches and solicited the help of many pastors, all of whom counseled her simply to pray more, to study the Bible more, to perform more noble deeds, and to resolve to do better. However, all the advice she received was unavailing. For seven or eight more years, Charlotte continued struggling in vain against sin, all the while mired in self-condemnation. She experienced at length the despondency of the human condition described in Romans 7:18: “I know that in me…nothing good dwells; for to will [the good] is present with me, but to work out the good is not.”

With Heart Headed Home

by Max Lucado

Search the faces of the Cap Haitian orphanage for Carinette. She’s been adopted.

Her adoptive parents are friends of mine. They brought her pictures, a teddy bear, granola bars, and cookies. Carinette shared the goodies and asked the director to guard her bear, but she keeps the pictures. They remind her of her home-to-be. Within a month, two at the most, she’ll be there. She knows the day is coming. Every opening of the gate jumps her heart. Any day now her father will appear. He promised he’d be back. He came once to claim her. He’ll come again to carry her home.

Till then she lives with a heart headed home.

Shouldn’t we all? Carinette’s situation mirrors ours. Our Father paid us a visit too. Have we not been claimed? Adopted? “So you should not be like cowering, fearful slaves. You should behave instead like God’s very own children, adopted into his family calling him ‘Father, dear Father’ ” (Rom. 8:15).

The Loveless Church

Revelation 2

¹ “To the angel of the church of Ephesus write,

‘These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands: ² “I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars; ³ and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name’s sake and have not become weary. ⁴ Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. ⁵ Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent. ⁶ But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
⁷ “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.”’ (Revelation 2:1-7, New King James Version)

Soul Mates and Selfishness

I’m often asked to give advice to Christian singles. It’s pretty tough for me since I don’t really have experience as a Christian single. I’ve been a married Christian for the last 35 years of my life! Be that as it may, I will attempt to give guidance to those of you who are dating and single. There is one area that I see as being particularly problematic for single people. It is rampant in the secular world and has infiltrated our Christian culture. This is the idea of “soul mates”.

I know this won’t make me very popular with a lot of people, particularly many of the ladies, but the idea of the perfect “soul mate”—that God made one special person just for you—is the stuff of sweetsy, twenty-five-cent romance novels, and has no footing in Christian thought.


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Worship Team 16 January 2011

Chairperson: Siow KW

Worship Leader: Foong Yee Kai Yew
Vocalists: Hong Lu, Colleen, Gigi Lim

Pianist: Jun Fhui,
Keyboardist: Meng Fhui
Bass Guitarist: Anna
Guitarist: Weng Ern
Drummer: Ken Fhui

Projectionist: Moses Tan Joseph Yap
PA: Tommy Q, Hiew FF
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Dear Worship Leaders,
The members who join the pre-service prayer meeting would like you to highlight any changes to your slot. This is to enable them to pray for the right worship leader at the prayer meeting.
Also, kindly learn to assemble your song list using the PDF Builder.

Dear LCD Operators,
Please ensure you have an assistant. One person will control the BeamIt program, the other will assist in noting the Worship Leader's indication.
It would be advisable to come for practice on Saturday to familiarize yourself with the song choices.

Sunday Sermon 9-Jan-2011 - Pastor Dr James Niles

Speaker: Pastor Dr James Niles
The Tabernacle, Kuala Lumpur

http://www.mediafire.com/?kqbrwwwuj4gbt87

All The Way My Savior Leads Me

Fanny Crosby, a gifted and prolific 19th century hymn writer, lost her sight at six weeks of age due to medical mistreatment. Fanny was surely well acquainted with the vulnerability characteristic of the visually impaired. This handicap, rather than discouraging or embittering her, instead caused her to ceaselessly rely on the Lord and to draw all her strength from Him.

The following hymn, composed after she had received an immediate answer to prayer, attests to the spirit of absolute dependence on God exhibited in the life of Fanny Crosby. One day she desperately needed five dollars and had no way to obtain it. As was her custom, Fanny began to pray about this pressing need. A few minutes later, a stranger came to her door with the exact amount. “I have no way of accounting for this,” she later said, “except to believe that God put it into the heart of this good man to bring the money. My first thought was that it is so wonderful the way the Lord leads me, I immediately wrote the poem and Dr. Lowry set it to music.”

The Brand-New You

by Max Lucado

What’s all this talk about a new body? Do we change bodies? Is the new one different than this one? Will I recognize anyone? Will anyone recognize me?

“He will take these dying bodies of ours and change them into glorious bodies like his own” (Phil. 3:21 TLB).

Your body will be changed. You will not receive a different body; you will receive a renewed body. Just as God can make an oak out of a kernel or a tulip out of a bulb, he makes a “new” body out of the old one. A body without corruption. A body without weakness. A body without dishonor. A body identical to the body of Jesus.

Would you like a sneak preview of your new body? We have one by looking at the resurrected body of our Lord. After his resurrection, Jesus spent forty days in the presence of people. The resurrected Christ was not in a disembodied, purely spiritual state. On the contrary, he had a body—a touchable, visible body.

"Homeless Man with the Golden Voice"

from Wikipedia
Ted Williams (born September 22, 1957) was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. According to his mother, his father named him after the all-star baseball player of the same name who was his father's favorite player at the time.[5] He is a father to nine children: seven girls and two boys.[6] Williams served three years in the United States Army, was honorably discharged, and attended school for voice acting.[7] His inspiration to become a radio announcer came from a field trip at age 14, when he found that a radio announcer who he had heard looked nothing like he had imagined. Williams had experience as a radio disc jockey before. He worked some overnight shifts for WVKO (AM) in Columbus when the station played soul music.[8] Williams stated that around 1993, cocaine, crack[9] and alcohol abuse complicated his career and led to his then-current state of homelessness.[10] He says he has been clean and sober since mid-2008.

Jehovah's Names

Exalting the Name of Jesus Christ
³²And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. (John 12:32, King James Version)

1. Jehovah - The Lord - Exodus 6:2-3
2. Jehovah-Adon Kal Ha'arets- Lord of Earth - Josh 3:13
3. Jehovah-Bara - Lord Creator - Isaiah 40:28
4. Jehovah-Chatsahi - Lord my Strength - Psalm 27:1
5. Jehovah-Chereb - Lord the Sword - Deut. 33:29
6. Jehovah-Eli - Lord my God - Psalm 18:2
7. Jehovah-Elyon - Lord Most High - Psalm 38:2
8. Jehovah-Gador Milchamah - Mighty in Battle - Ps 24:8
9. Jehovah-Ganan - Lord Our Defense - Ps 89:18
10. Jehovah-Go'el - Lord My Redeemer - Is. 49:26, 60:16
11. Jehovah-Hamelech - Lord King - Psalm 98:6
12. Jehovah-Hashopet - Lord My Judge - Judges 6:27

Worship Team Roster for 16-Jan to 3-Apr 2010

Get the worship team roster for 16-Jan to 3-Apr here.

Dear Worship Leaders,
The members who join the pre-service prayer meeting would like you to highlight any changes to your slot.
This is to enable them to pray for the right worship leader at the prayer meeting.
Also, kindly learn to assemble your song list using the PDF Builder.

Dear LCD Operators,
Please ensure you have an assistant on Sunday.
One person will control the BeamIt program, the other will assist in noting the Worship Leader's indication.
It would be advisable to come for practice on Saturday to familiarize yourself with the song choices.

9 Jan 2011

Chairman: Liong KC

Worship Leader: Prisca
Vocalist: Jocelyn, Lareina, Gigi Lim

Keyboardist: Lydia Sim, Jonathan Long
Guitarist: Anna Sim, Terry C.
Drummer: Darren

Projectionist: Meng Fhui

PA: Manjit Singh, Hiew FF

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Into the Warm Arms of God

by Max Lucado

What about my loved ones who have died? Where are they now? In the time between our death and Christ’s return, what happens?

Scripture is surprisingly quiet about this phase of our lives. When speaking about the period between the death of the body and the resurrection of the body, the Bible doesn’t shout; it just whispers. But at the confluence of these whispers, a firm voice is heard. This authoritative voice assures us that, at death, the Christian immediately enters into the presence of God and enjoys conscious fellowship with the Father and with those who have gone before.

Isn’t this the promise that Jesus gave the thief on the cross? Earlier the thief had rebuked Jesus. Now he repents and asks for mercy. “Remember me when you come into your kingdom” (Luke 23:42). Likely, the thief is praying that he be remembered in some distant time in the future when the kingdom comes. He didn’t expect an immediate answer. But he received one: “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise” (v. 43). The primary message of this passage is God’s unlimited and surprising grace. But a secondary message is the immediate translation of the saved into the presence of God. The soul of the believer journeys home, while the body of the believer awaits the resurrection.