Tuesday, August 29, 2006

The Blood of Jesus

I am thankful of a brother who sent me this note to remind me once again that the blood Jesus, cleanses us from every sin.
 
...the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from every sin. (1 John 1:7b)
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One night in a church service a young woman felt the tug of God at her heart. She responded to God's call and accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savoir.

This young woman had a very rough past, involving alcohol, drugs, and prostitution.

But, the change in her was evident. As time went on she became a faithful member of the church. She eventually became involved in the ministry, teaching young children.

It was not very long until this faithful young woman had caught the eye and heart of the pastor's son.. The relationship grew and they began to make wedding plans.

This is when the problems began.

You see, about one half of the church did not think that a woman with a past such as hers was suitable for a pastor's son. The church began to argue and fight about the matter. So they decided to have a meeting. As the people made their arguments and tensions increased, the meeting was getting completely out of hand.

The young woman became very upset about all the things being brought up about her past. As she began to cry the pastor's son stood to speak. He could not bear the pain it was causing his wife-to-be.

He began to speak and his statement was this: "My fiancée's past is not what is on trial here. What you are questioning is the ability of the blood of Jesus to wash away sin. Today you have put the blood of Jesus on trial. So, does it wash away sin or not?"

The whole church began to weep as they realized that they had been slandering the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Too often, even as Christians, we bring up the past and use it as a weapon against our brothers and sisters. Forgiveness is a very foundational part of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

If the blood of Jesus does not cleanse the other person completely then it cannot cleanse us completely. If that is the case, then we are all in a lot of trouble.

What can wash away my sins? NOTHING but THE BLOOD OF JESUS!


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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Helpful Websites to help parents

These web sites offer an abundance of tips for keeping your kids safe. Hope you find this useful.
 
THE CYBERTIPLINE - www.cybertipline.com
NETSMARTZ - www.netsmartz.org
SAFETEENS.COM - www.safeteens.com
WIRED SAFETY - www.wiredsafety.org
 
The above is taken from : Cohen, Alan, Do you know where your kids are clicking?, PC Magazine - Singaproe (Aug 2006) pg 76 - 83.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Praise the Lord! We are one step nearer to the completion of phase II renovation

In the past few weeks we thank God for allowing us :
  • to repair the orange awning at the front of the school
  • to add new lighting to the Journal Collection at the attic
  • to install 4 new phones
  • to have three volunteers helping in the cleaning and maintenance of the building
  • to install 1 additional air-con to meet the cooling needs of the reference room on the 4th floor
  • to be able to add thumbnail image to a bibliographical record
  • to be able to add pdf file to the bibliographical record
  • to be able to add pdf file to issue at the holdings area for electronic journals
  • to be able to list the course text/s and recommended text/s for each course code in the Course Reserve Collection
Please call the library staff at tel: 6227-6815 for a guided tour.
 

 

Thursday, August 03, 2006

I succeeded in podcasting!

Hi!
It has been a while since I posted on this blog as I was figuring how to load images and do podcasts. I hope to use this tool to share about my workplace and to enhance the training of the laity in BGST.

Here is a podcast of one of BGST's lunchtime talk, "Why study the Old Testament?" by Dr. Philip Satterthwaite.


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We can use this for distance education by creating a private blog. We can use this to send tutorial classes to students who were absent from the class. We can use this to promote the school by putting chapel messages on our website and so forth.

Isn't this exciting?

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Report on the course on Blogs!

The workshop facts are slowly sinking in. The benefit blogging is instant news without waiting for other parties to assist you to publish the news. As a result of the workshop, this blog account was created.
Ivan did not give us much theory and definition about blogs. He said there are lots of info out there.
True enough here are just some links I found helpful :
Incidentally http://computer.howstuffworks.com is a good site to subscribe to.
Do you agree?