Special session

Dr Lim Kar Yong will continue with his teaching on "How to read the Bible".

Please remember to bring the outline notes given to you during the church camp.

Date: 7 June 2009

Time: After the Worship service.

No church service

Please be informed that there will not be a service next Sunday (3rd May) as most of us will be away at Harvest Haven from 1st-3rd May for our annual Family Retreat.

Cat & Dog Theology - final session

Please take note that the final part of the video series on "Cat & Dog Theology" will be shown on Sunday, April 12th.

Cat & Dog Theology

The next three sessions on "Cat & Dog Theology" will be shown on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sunday of March immediately after the worship service.

Special video sessions

A series of videos on "Cat n Dog Theology" will be shown on every 2nd and 3rd Sunday of January and February 2009 after the Worship Service.




Here's a little info on the video:

Cat 'n Dog Theology is a high-impact experience that examines the heart of Christians in the 21st century and the typical modern message about Christianity being presented in today's churches. Through humor and scripture the presentation pricks our spirit and tickles our funny-bone resulting in an overwhelming sense of "joyful conviction".

Using an illustration of "cats and dogs" and how each relates to its master, Cat n Dog Theology challenges Christians to see how we tend, like a cat, to use our Master mainly for getting what we want. The illustration points out the difference between "us living for God" and "God living for us". The average Christian while saying he lives his life for God is actually living his life to get from birth to death in the safest, softest, easiest and most comfortable fashion possible -- and often just uses God to keep him safe, soft, easy and comfortable - and to keep the difficulties, trials, tragedies and adversities away. Cat n Dog Theology will help the people of your church switch from "Me-ology" to "Theology". Cat n Dog Theology focuses on the Glory of God as the primary motivation and purpose of our lives. It challenges the church to recognize that MISSIONS is one of the best ways to radiate God's greatest glory! Cat n Dog Theology takes missions off the back-burner and moves it to the front so your church will want to incorporate missions into everything it does. Your church will never do missions the same way again!

Source: http://www.catndogtheology.com/

We encourage everyone who is not involved in the Sunday School or Youth Fellowship to join us for these video sessions. The first video will be shown on January 11th.

Worship Rota for 2009

To all worship leaders, musicians and persons in charge of the PA system:

You can find the Worship Rota for Jan-June 2009 here or click on the link to the right.

Thank you.

There's A Fountain

William Cowper was born in Great Berkhampstead in Hertfordshire in November 1731.
His mother died when he was only six years old and this tragedy left a life-long scar of grief. When he was ten he was sent to boarding school and there his suffering was added to by the cruelty of the older boys.

However, he survived and at eighteen began to study law. Although he passed all the bar examinations he never achieved much success in his profession. In nine years of law practice, so-called, Cowper never once felt worthy to serve people nor could he manage to attract business for himself.

Next, a clerkship in the House of Lords was arranged for him, but still he felt unfit for the task and was in such misery that he made several attempts to take his own life. The failure of these suicide efforts, compounded by two unhappy love affairs, increased his feelings of self contempt; so that as he walked the streets he felt that all eyes were fixed upon him in scorn.

Because of his suicidal tendencies Cowper was confined, for a brief period, in St. Albans Asylum and, remarkably, it was during this time that his famous hymn was written.

A visiting relative sought to ease the sick man's depression by telling him of Jesus' power to save. Cowper burst into tears saying, 'It is the first time that I have seen a ray of hope.' When the friend had gone the poet opened his Bible at random and, in the providence of God, his eyes fell on those words in Romans Ch. 3 v 25: 'Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood.'

This scriptural account of Christ's redeeming work touched Cowper's heart, causing him to later testify thus:

'There shone upon me the full beams of the sufficiency of the atonement that Christ has made; my pardon in His blood; the fulness and completeness of my justification and, in a moment, I believed and received the gospel.'

So thrilled was he by his new-found hope that he described it in verse, basing it on the words of Zechariah Ch. 13 v 1: In that day there shall be a fountain opened up for sin and uncleanness.'

There is a fountain filled with blood,
Drawn from Immanuel's veins;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood
Loose all their guilty stain.

It was William Cowper's great hope that other troubled souls would be helped by his hymns.

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