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the purpose driven life day 23 how we grow... spiritual growth is not automatic. it takes an intentional commitment. you must WANT to, DECIDE to, MAKE AN EFFORT to grow, and persist in growing. Christlikeness is the result of making Christ-like choices and depending on His Spirit to help you. change the way you think...behind everything you do is a thought. every behavious is motivated by a belief, every action is prompted by an attitude. the way you think determines the way you act. thinking about others is a mark of maturity. Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. the core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, like Jesus did, instead of ourselves. the end :) aniwae, everybody, i am a tp design student. because of my stupid mistake, i'm not in mass comm. but, nevermind. they'll call me only if anyone gives up their place. and i'm first on the list. but, whatever. it's ok.

hah! mark! you got that verse from somewhere didn't you. aside from the bible, i mean. haha. it's a really nice verse rite? isaiah 43 : 1-4 and read isaiah 43:18-19 too!

soldier, shoulder, shouger, solger, shoger, soder, shouder* -xue the purpose driven life day 19 basically, cultivate community! the end. heh. day 20 restoring broken relationships.... the main points on how to do so... 1. talk to God first! 2. take the initiative 3. sympathize with their feelings 4. confess your part of the comflict (humility) 5. attack the problem, not the person 6. emphasize reconciliation, not resolution day 21 protecting your church... 1. focus on what you have in common 2. be realistic in your expectations (ideal does not equal real) 3. encourage. not criticize 4. refuse to listen to gossip 5. support your leaders :) day 22 (did this one last night. bam! wham! smack! exactly what i needed to know) we were created to become like Christ! most of the time, the Holy Spirit's power is released in your life in quiet, unassuming ways that we are not ware of or can't feel...eg

my mom's given the best advice so far. not that any other advice will be of any use coz i just sent np mcm an email to say that i've accepted the course. and i'm calling again tmr to confirm. my mom said smtg like.. that... it's quite clear where i should go. and there will be distractions and all that (she means design) but...yep. don't get distracted la. ahhhh. i gotta be prepared to work very hard. ok. that's not anything bad. coz you have to work hard at whatever you do anyway. the not -so-nice thing is that, i hear in year one that we study uh...philosophy? ok. actually, philosophy is ok to read and think about and..i dunno. but...if i have to write my ideas down and all that ah...die. when i write down chim stuff, i always get lost halfway...i lose focus. argh... wow. this is my future. oh yah. i DID dream last night. i dreamt that another friend of mine was scared that he would chose the wrong thing and not go where God wanted him to g

and so, this morning. i received a call from the mass comm. dept at ngee ann poly. and guess what? they've decided to accept me. and since i submitted my blah blah everything for design and was so looking forward to it already, i declined the offer. and then my dad scolded me coz i didn't ask my parents about it first. and because i was so rash. true. and so now, i don't know what i want to do, where i want to go. more importantly, i don't know what God wants me to do, where God wants me to do. i'm so scared that if i chose one, it's the wrong one...not where God wants me to go. so how now brown cow? i have until monday to decide. oh. and, monday MORNing. i am super like...i don't know what to do. ahhh! ok. yes, i know. pray. but..ah. maybe God will give me a dream, like he did for kayhuat. and i will dream of whether i'm supposed to go to design, or mass comm. i cry out, and God hears my voice. but i don't hear His!

my God is big so strong, so mighty there's nothing my God cannot do everybody's learning sign! ok. not everybody...but quite a few pple. whee! i was teaching rik sign like, half the way home in eugene's car. the first thing chinmei asked me when i got home was... "did eugene speed?" and she wants to scold him coz he did. heh. my God is big so strong, so mighty there's nothing my God cannot do

i've got a practical exam for sound tmr. oh man..... pray for me!!!! and pray for kathleen too!!! glory to God in the highest beautiful Jesus. my heart belongs to thee...

asked on whether i believe in love at first sight...or whether i think love is smtg that has to develop... it's typed out like that coz it was on msn and so i just took away my nic so it's easier to read. "but...i think....it's most prob more like...love is smtg that grows...develops i don't think there's smtg such as love at first sight. maybe there is. i don't know. but...very few? it most prob is just attraction at first sight then they get to know each other better through mutual friendship...or dating...then love develops out of that as they get to know each other better and appreciate a person ok. i think... that you can't really love a person unless you know that person if you don't know a person....yet you say that you love that person...it most prob is superficial love. i don't know but then again... ok. i was gonna say that blah blah blah....and so, you can love a person if you don't know a person b

so sad. this show...this retarded daughter. ah. ok. well. it's so sad. it pains the parents so much to see the kid hurt. like...ouch. your hear will ache man. like, really. ouch. ouch. ouch! and then i thought about how much it hurts God when we get upset. or when we do something to hurt him. i've thought about it before. as in, putting myself in my parents, mainly my mom's, 'shoes'. like, they just want the best for us, want to do this and that so that they can help us but then sometimes we don't see it in that way and we think that they are not giving us enough freedom or they just...i dunno. we just think negatively. and it must hurt our parents a lot a lot a lot when we shout at them.stuff like that :( ouch. so pain. but they can't/don't want to say anything sometimes. sigh. i thank God that i'm blessed with good parents you know. my mom - God-fearing, wise...gives us so much good advice that may seem like she seems like n

"Do you feel you have a gift which is not included in the Wagner-Modified Houts Questionaire? Fret not! In the WMC YM Care and Concern Ministry, we can expound on all the hidden talents that you have, and use them for the disinterest of the people in YM! Join Today! We aim to promote networking amongst the people in YM, and show our Care and Concern to each other with our mouths. Official opening ceremony of this Ministry is the 11th and 12th of June, with Gary as the Chairperson, and Dickson as the Co-Chairperson. Come, and we will show you what can be done, and even more so what can be undone, in this exciting new Ministry!" -zhou hao i'm in it! anybody want to join? oh man...hahaha... jogging just now! carol,(ok. she didn't run. coz she ran in the morning already), dickson, gary, galilean(lion king), ernest, eric, mark d, zhou, patty and me. i went to patty's house before that :) we tried to study sound stuff but we failed...haha...feels good to hav

the purpose driven life day 18 experiencing life together (fellowship) fellowship = unselfish loving, honest sharing, practical serving, sacrificial giving, sympathetic comforting etc. the end. yeps. that's basically it. :) band prac today was good. was fun too! lalaLA

the purpose driven life day 17 a place to belong "God's family is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of truth." - 1 tim 3:15b we discover our role in life through relationships with others. why you need a church family : - a church identifies you as a genuine believer [ok. i think this is not completely true. coz some pple come to church for other reasons like...their parents/friends come and blah blah] - it moves you out of self-centered isolation : church is the classrm where you learn how to get along....where you learn how to love others like how Jesus loves you - it helps you develop spiritual muscle : isolation breeds deceitfulness; it is easy to fool ourselves into thinking we are mature if there is no one to challenge us. also, we grow faster and stronger by learning from each other and being accountable to each other. - the body of Christ needs you...God wasnt you to help build His church - you will share in Chris

when i gave an "ugly face" my mom would tell me to stop it or my face may get stuck in that way forever. i used to half believe her. haha. went to sentosa today with siew and my relatives. it was pretty ok. not enough sun. hardly any sun. haha. the musical fountain show at night....the emcee was pretty...uh. not funny. quite dumb la. the story line too. but the effects were really good. really really good. not so much the images of the characters, but more of how they played with the lines and...uh. yah. stuff like that. haha. i kept quiet throughout the whole show. i dunno. sometimes i just like to look at nice things and keep quiet. haha. no, i'm no making sense. i like to look at things with the sky as the backdrop. it's really nice. especially trees, against the sky. very pretty. then at night, you just see the siloutte of the tree or whatever. i like it :) it's nice to just lie down at night where there's an open sky above you. and then you ju

the purpose driven life day 15 formed for God's family... because God is love, he treasures relationships. his very nature is relational, and he identifies himself in 3 terms : Father, Son, Holy spirit benefits of being in God's family : - we're his heirs...everything that is his, we get too! - phil 4:19 " my God will meet all your needs, according to his glorious riched in Christ Jesus" - etc :) identifying with God's family...baptism - baptism is so impt because it symbolizes God's second purpose for your life : participating in the fellowship of God's eternal family - your baptism declares your faith, shares Christ's burial and resurrection, symbolizes your death to your old life, and announces your new life in Christ. it is life's gretest priveledge! whenever you feel unimportant, unloved or insecure, remember to whom you belong! the end church today. easter sunday :) Jesus rose! toby the tut

Bardees rock! :)

ok. i didn't really mean to post that. but well, whatever. :) my dad, is my dad. :) and i do love him. it's just blah blah blah and blah blah blah. well, everyone blah blah blah you see. anyway, some things are just things that you don't dwell on, you know?i get over stuff quite quickly :) not that it was very much. ah. whatever. yeps. so yea, :) i deleted the last post. ah "another pok", which pok are you? uh. i don't know how the word "pok" got there actually. i was typing it all in a rush. heh. bollywood rocks! haha. not really la. but somtimes, yes, it does rock. the purpose driven life day 14 when God seems distant.... God is real, no matter how you feel. the deepest level of worship is praising God in spite of pain, thanking God during a trail, trusting him when tempted, surrendering while suffering, loving him when he seems distant. "i will never leave you nor forsake you." - deut 31:8 you feel dry, you pr

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just came back from basic sign lang course. am in andrea's group with yiling :) was quite fun...i need to practice :)) you're the want that i want you're the one that i need you're the one i love coz jesus you're everything played for acsb's chapel on mon and tues and it was fuun! good that they had a good sound system...tho the room acoustics were not good. but, whatever. i couldn't hear the un-nice sound. hanxuan, the acsb drummer played with us. he's goood man. since the first chapel was at 8am, and the next was at 1pm, on tues, eugene wanted to go to cold storage or smtg and i refused. i couldn't move. i just...stoned outside the chapel. so we decided to go to barker rd mc's office to sit outside. then iris saw us there and opened a room for us. joshua slept like....2 hours?!? and i slept for 45 mins. woke up with the feeling of pins and needles in my hand coz i was lying on it. eugene couldn't sleep at all. the pur

"the wonderful cross" [michael w. smith] When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died My richest gain I count but loss And pour contempt on all my pride See from His head His hands His feet Sorrow and love flow mingled down Did e'er such love and sorrow meet Or thorns compose so rich a crown Oh the wonderful cross Oh the wonderful cross Bids me come and die and find That I may truly live Oh the wonderful cross Oh the wonderful cross All who gather here By grace draw near And bless your name Were the whole relem of nature mine That were and off'ring far too small Love so amazing so divine Demands my soul my life my all Oh the wonderful cross Oh the wonderful cross Bids me come and die and find That I may truly live Oh the wonderful cross Oh the wonderful cross All who gather here By grace draw near And bless your name It's a Wednesday night and you are at a church prayer me

why do people sleep walk? can anyone answer this question? haha

nice andrea fetched patty and i home from sound class today :) you know the passion of the Christ movie? i heard that they didn't show the soldier's face becuase that person in the show who was doing it was actually mel gibson. coz like, you know, actually, if not for our sins, Jesus wouldn't have to die for us. kinda thing. so mel gibson...yea. ok.(the soldier who hammered the nail into Jesus' hands. i mean) Ephesians 6:7 "serve the Lord wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men." that's the ushering team's theme verse. mark! if you read this...bring the ushering shirt design on sunday can? thank you! ok. i should go sleep soon. i've been having eyes that grow tired real easily. this happens after i like, spend to much time reading non-stop. then...yeps tmr : mom's shop. then go to ymca to help move stuff to yWca. then band prac! whoopee! whee! hahahaha. i've been waiting for this. hahahaha.

i can't stand it when i can't stand things. meaning like, when i get all impatient and all that. :( i am going to pass my test. and not only am i going to pass it, i'm going to pass it with flying colours! and i shall come out all the more stronger! whee! haha. (",) the purpose driven life day 12 developing your friendship with God "draw close to God, and God will draw close to you." - james 4:8 you are as close to God as you choose to be like any friendship, you must work to develop your friendship with God. it takes desire, time and energy learn to care about what God cares about 1. i must choose to be honest with God - eg. jon and abraham and david - what may appear as audacity, God views as authenticity - until we are mature enough to understand that God uses EVERYTHING for good in our lives, we habour resentment towards God over our unanswered prayer, appearance, background, past hurts and other things we would