Children of God
YouthZone
Trueway Presbyterian Church
yz.core@gmail.com
Mission Statement:
We delight in the Lord Jesus
choosing to serve Him as a family
assisting people to find freedom in Christ
building them up to help change the world
Calendar:
Month of January 2010
3 : Trumpet Call - Combined Service
10 : Getting to know each other
17 : Message - Let It Show
24 : Time of Sharing cum B'Day Celerbration
31 : Gospel Sunday
*navigations are the 4 polaroid pictures
9:47 AM
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Hi YZers, came across this article on spending time with God. Do take some time to read...
In his most recent Friday Evening newsletter, Tom Barnard wrote: "Author Fay Angus tells the story of attending a weekend retreat at a Christian conference center in Southern California. At the registration desk, she was given a small, glass container wrapped in decorative paper. She was told to unwrap the package and read the directions taped to the item. When she opened it, she discovered it was a small baby-food jar containing a walnut surrounded and filled to the brim with grains of rice. The directions read as follows:
The walnut in this jar represents the time we spend with God. The rice represents the time we spend doing other things. If you pour the rice into the empty jar first, then try to insert the walnut, it will not fit. The rice takes up too much space. If you put the walnut into the empty jar first, then pour the rice around it, there is sufficient room for everything. Likewise, if we spend time doing other things first, we never will find time to spend with God. If we spend time with God first, there always will be time for everything else.
Jesus was quite clear on the subject of walnuts and jars. He said, "Set your mind on God's kingdom and his justice before everything else, and all the rest will come to you as well" (Matt. 6:33, NEB).
4:31 PM
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Dear YZers,
I am thinking about what Shawn shared with us last Sunday. He spoke on God's holiness and draw our attention to God's majesty and God's purity as conveyed through Isaiah's vision. I am thinking- if we really understand what God's majesty is about, I think we have to relook at how we worship Him. Shawn shared with us about the queen. If we find ourselves in the queen's presence, we will definitely be giving her all our attention when we are in her presence. If we do that with the queen, how much more when it comes to the King of kings and Lord of lords. It is really my prayer that each Sunday when we come to church to worship God, we will come with a passionate desire to give him our fullest attention that is worthy of his majesty....
With regards to God's purity, let us remember that God is set apart from sin. To be holy literally means to be set apart and he has commanded us to be holy, which means that he has commanded us to be set apart from sin and from the world. Shawn has already given us some areas to start thinking about. I thought a good litmus test is this: when we are in the company of those who do not know the Lord,
how comfortable are we? Even if we are good friends with them, there ought to be times when we feel uncomfortable about some of the things they say and do. If we are very comfortable, then we are likely not very different from them. Then our
setting apart is in BIG QUESTION!!!
Chew on it.
PKS