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Doulos 宣教团队 Mission Team

2009-10-29T22:52:00.004+08:00

感谢主，在这两个星期我们接待了来自Doulos的宣教团队。他们一团总共有六位成员，分别来自五个不同的国家（俄罗斯, 南韩，菲律宾，瑞士和加拿大）在这两个星期中，我们度过了疲累但非常有意义的服事。我们一起去做社会关怀的工作,一起为着聚会排练等…Thank God that in the past 2 weeks, we received a mission team from Doulos. There were altogether 6 members in the team that came from 5 different counties (Russia, South Korea, Philippines, Switzerland and Canada). In these 2 weeks, we had a very tiring but very meaningful ministry. We went to do community works together, arranging and practicing for services etc.

大家都来自不同的国家，所以大家都有不同的教会背景，不同的思想，不同的文化，但却必须在一起服事和生活。因此，在服事配搭的过程当中，我们都产生了一些的小磨擦。
We are all from different countries and different church backgrounds, we have different mindsets and cultures but we had to serve and work together. Thus there were some unavoidable frictions during the partnership.

但经过了一周的服事和聚会过后，他们才对我说，：“Kelvin 我们发现不是只有你们（同工）而是，这本来就是你们教会的文化，为了主和教会，拼了命去做。这就是你们对神的家和服事的热情。”
But after a week of serving and church services, they told me, “Kelvin, we realized not only you all (church workers) only, but this is the culture of your church, for the sake of God and the church, you all do it with all your might. This is the passion towards God’s house and ministry.”

加上每天早上的文化职任的课程，他们开始更加明白我们如此事奉的目的。最令他们感动的是，当他们问我们的会友，为什么你们可以这样的服事，难道不累吗？而我们的会友回答他们说，因为我们的牧师和传道那么努力的服事，我们也应该这样！哈里路亚。我们真的以这样的会友为豪。
Adding on the classes on Cultural Mandate every morning, they started to understand the purpose of us serving with all our might. What touched them the most was when they asked a church member, how could all of you serve like this, isn’t it tired? The reply they got from the member was, because our pastors have been working so hard, we too, should work like this! Hallelujah. We are truly proud of such church member.

到了最后几天，我们发现他们对整个的服事观念开始有一个新的转变。他们开始接受并和我们有非常好的配搭。因此我们度过了两个非常好和有果效的聚会。
In the last few days, we realized that the whole team had a newly changed mindset aboutserving. They started to accept us and we had a very good partnership. Thus we had 2 very good and fruitful services.

我觉得这一次他们的到来给我对神要在我们教会和这个城市要做的工作有一个新的启发和看见。特别在最后几天的服事，神让我看到了他的工作。我发现原来神要我们教会所做的并不是新鲜的事。因为我在这个宣教团队的身上看到了神要做的工作，是不会受到不同的文化，不同的宗教背景，不同的思想而停顿。在和他们的分享过程当中，我感到非常的兴奋。因为我知道神要我们所做的就是他在全世界的工作，大家，我们正在复兴的洪流当中。我们继续加油吧！遵守神的大戒命，行出大使命，执行文化职任。
I think their coming this time showed me a new revelation about what God wants our church to do in this city. Especially in the serving of the last few days, God showed me His works. I realized what God wants to do is not something new. Because I saw what God wants to do through this mission team will not be stopped or affect by the differences in culture, religion background or mindset. I was very excited while sharing my thoughts with them because I know what God wants to do is what He is doing in the whole word. Church, we are in the flow of revival. Let us continue to press forward! Comply the Great Commission, fulfill the Great Commandments and execute the Cultural Mandate.

笔于：张华晋传道
Written by: Ps. Kelvin Tiong

张汉林雷圣雄演唱布道会 Henry Chong & Raymond Looi Concert

2009-10-29T22:40:00.000+08:00

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Influential Revival Conference with Rev. Dr. Kong Hee / 康希牧师复兴特会-影响力特会

2009-08-30T18:29:00.009+08:00

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康希
(新加坡城市豐收教會　榮譽主任牧師) 
在1989年建立新加坡城市豐收教會，現在會友總人數達兩萬四千人，是目前亞洲第二大的地方教會。康希牧師是新加坡、亞洲各地眾所周知的信心教師，受邀到24個國家活潑及生活化地教導真理，向這個世代傳講不可妥協的先知性信息。在他的心中有一個堅定的異象，就是要訓練出更多的同工與領袖，在亞洲各地建立起剛強的地方教會。直到今天，共有一百萬人參加過他的研習會，並且在亞洲有無數人透過康希每週半小時的「豐收時代」節目，聽過他的演講。在2002年，他领受了接触社会的呼召，并把文化职任的教导传遍全亚洲。他和其妻子，何耀珊，一名国际流行音乐家，共同抚养一名儿子，康义。想知道更多详情求浏览其个人网站 - www.konghee.com
欲知更多详情请在办公时间拨打城市丰收教会办公室电话 - 082-463854

Rev. Dr Kong Hee is the senior pastor and founder of City Harvest Church in Singapore.
In 2002, he received a personal revelation on engaging society fully and has since brought the Cultural Mandate teachings all over Asia and the world.
Known for his style of condor and wit, his messages carry partinence and strong convictions.
Pastor Kong is today highly sought after by churches and corporations around the world to speak in their congregations and conferences.
He is happily married to international pop artist Sun Ho, and they have a son, Dayan.
For more information, you can log on to his personal website at www.konghee.com
Or call us at our City Harvest Church office - 082-463854

21/09/2009 (一 Mon)
聚会一 Session 1: 5pm
聚会二 Session 2: 7:30pm

22/09/2009(二 Tues)
领袖训练 Leadership Training: 10am
聚会三 Session 3: 7pm

Guest Speaker: Ps. Kelvin Loo

2009-08-23T10:14:00.012+08:00

Short Bio:
[Pastor Kevin Loo is the Founder and Senior Pastor of City Harvest Church, Malaysia. His God-given vision to pioneer and build a strong local church has led to the birth of City Harvest Church in Kuala Lumpur in 2001 with just 20 people to begin with. Within a short span of 7 years, the church has since grown to an average attendance of 1500 people. It is Kevin’s heartfelt desire to see Christians reach their fullest potential in God. His inspiring and uncompromising preaching has touched and transformed many lives not just in Malaysia but in many other countries as well. Kevin has 15 years of experience in leadership and ministry. For further information about him at City Harvest Church.]

Back to the night xD
starting out, were the usual cell group grouping...
the usual~ =x
then by 7:15 the service started...

.:Praise And Worship:.

the song sang were as followed; for praise:

Heaven - CityHarvestChurch

Shine Like Stars - TrueWorshippers

Awaken My Soul - CityHarvestChurch

Running After You - PlanetShakers

then for worship:
让我 Rang Wo - CityHarvestChurch
&
I Just Want You - PlanetShakers

Jumpstart to
.:The Preaching:.

- Isaiah 1:19 -
"If You Are Willing And Obedient, You Shall Eat The Good Of The Land"

Willingness & Obedience:

1 King 13 - The Man Of Judah
In this part of the Bible, it tells of a man who was anointed to be a prophet but was disobedient to what God wanted him to do, thus at the end he was eaten by a lion

1 King 17 - Elijah Predicts A Drought
After the Man Of Judah, Elijah was anointed to be a prophet as well, but unlike the Man of Judah, Elijah was willing and obedience to what everything God wanted him to do~
in his life he did 7 major miracles:

-Prophecy of the drought-
-Miracle of meal and oil-
-Resurrection of the widow's son-
-Sacrifice consumed by fire-
-End of the drought-
-Captains & soldiers slain by fire -
-Parting of the Jordan River-

1 King 19:19-21 - Elisha was made Elijah's Disciple

but from there we don't read anymore about Elisha until 2nd kings.
Ps. Kelvin Loo related these to the Kung Fu movies he use to love watching~
where the student have to follow their master for a long period of time before being taught the martial arts~
and said the same goes for Elisha, through out all the things Elijah did, Elisha was mostly likely there as Elijah's servant.. for in last part of
1King 19: 21 "Then He Set Out And Followed Elijah, and became his servant (NRSV)"

the reason for this is because in order for one to be given the privilege to become a disciple you must first becaome strong in your character; if your character and intentions are wrong you would use the privilege given, wrongly. You dont serve to gain, you serve because it's a privilege.

God's Anointing Pass from One Person To Another;
After the death or rather ascension of Elijah,
Elisha was anointed 2 folds of what was given to Elijah~
and like Elijah, Elisha was willing and obedient in the things he did.
all together Elisha did 14 major miracles; all quite similar to what Elijah did.

After Elisha however, the anointing of God was to be passed down,
the chosen one then was Gehazi, Elisha's servant~
and in
2kings 5 - The Healing Of Naaman
shows one of the miracle done by Elisha, he healed Naaman of his leprosy.
Elisha asked Naaman to wash in the river of Jordan 7 times, he did as he was asked and was healed. After Naaman was healed he offered gives to Elisha, but Elisha said to him:
"As The Lord lives, whom I serve I will accept nothing"

however, in 2kings 5: 20 - 26 - Gehazi's Greed
that part of the bible showed how Gehazi's disobediance towards God and his personal greed. And that was the end of the anointing passed down from Elijah.

-Kelvin Loo's Testimony-
~The Privilege To Serve~
might not be 100% accurate~ =X

[I First Started serving God at the age of 17, I never wanted to be a pastor.
Ever since I was little I wanted to be a lawyer.
Because they earn big, have big houses and expensive cars; it was the only dream i had. But God wanted me to be a pastor, and a pastor I became.
When I first went to church, I Did everything. The first Job i was given was to copy the church bulletin, but back in those days we didnt have photocopying machine they used... (i dunno the name, here's a pic)

back then in order to photocopy anything we use this, I was the only person doing the job, its actually quite easy all I had to do was wind the lever, and each wind = one bulletin. It wasnt hard just very boring, the worst part was that my church back in Sabah was a 3000 people church! After photocopying i had to fold all the bulletins as well.

Not long later, I was promoted become the church van driver, I was literately the pastor's driver; I drove the pastor everywhere.
Then I was promoted again to mail delivery; back then most church members didnt use their own address but used the church's P.O. Box. So I had to pick up all the mail, bring them to church & sort them out alphabetically.
After awhile, I was promoted again; The pastor ask me to lead Praise and I did.Then I was promoted again, to be Soundman then to camera man, sometimes I was appointed to work in the bookstore and helpout in the youth ministries, so i really did everything in my church and that is where I learnt how to be a servant of God and it was a privilege to serve him.

In 2001, was the start of City Harvest Church Singapore. When I went there I was asked to serve under Pastor Kong Hee, serving in a church is actually very easy, you only need to do 2 things:
-Listen to God
-Listen to your Pastor
You pray and listen to God,
& if you're confused or don't understand at all, go ask your pastor ;
if he said "Ok", then do it, if he said "Dont do it", then dont do it.
It's simple~
I remember there was one time, where I wanted to leave the church to go elsewhere. Before i did, i went to seek council from Pastor. Kong Hee, I told him I wanted to leave. But He said;
Maybe you shouldnt leave, you were brought up here, you're rooted here.
By then i left the church all heartbroken and sad because before I went to seek his council was already prepared to go. But then I thought it through; There's no point for me to leave. What's the point of doing what I want when God doesnt want me to or when my Pastor think it's not what I should do. If I went and did what I wanted to, I know I'd never be able to face my pastor as I disobeyed him. But for God I was willing to let go of my dream and obeyed what I was asked to do.]

In Conclusion:
"To be Anointed by God one have to be willing and obedient in serving God"

Preached By: Pastor Kelvin Loo from CHC (KL)
Post By:Cybex (Aaron Yeo)
Cell Group: Solomon A

Metamorphosis

2009-06-20T22:24:00.010+08:00

Youth Event
""Metamorphosis""
With SOT (School Of Theology) Mission Team

The whole event started today (june 20th) at 4pm~
right after Children church~ for a start, everyone who entered the 2nd floor were greeted with lots of welcoming smiles, laughter and applause from the mission team~

The Games
(team C point of view)

from there everyone had a short moment to group in their cell group and talk to the new-comers who came~ After that, we were all asked to meet at the center to split into groups for the games~
A total of 4 teams were created and 4 games to be played =D
unlike most of time the church usually stick to their own cell group~
but really today was truly amazing~
everyone played the games with full teamwork and co-operation which are barely noticable most of the time.
I really feel that this event made everyone closer together, I was in team C during the games event and even though Sonia was made leader of the team it was as though everyone pitched in equally instead of leaving everyone to the leader which I really find awesome~ xD
the games were~

Sudoku~
I'm not sure how to explain it throughly but it's the game where you're to find numbers in boxes and they cannot be the same numbers as the numbers from the horizontal or vertical line.

this was the 1st game, game group C played~ we were splitted into 5 groups and were to finish 5 sudoku puzzle and the faster we do it the more points we'd get, 4 were done in a matter of minutes. The last one however was done later but will full support from everyone else who were done. However, we were still the first team to finish the game and the mission team who was incharge of that game introduced themselves and we all introuced ourselves to them as well. =)

2nd game~
i dont know the name of the game, something like a human circle~ hehe~
we were splited into 3 groups for this game 1 for the girls and 2 for the guys, it starts out with everyone standing as a circle and holding out their arms crossed and are to hold the hands of the person in front of them once done everyone is to find their ways to get back to a circlular form of people. After 1min 30+ sec of struggling, ducking and crossing 1st guy group managed to pass~
then the girl's group was up and done quite fast too, at that time we were given our team name "Champion"
and when it was time for the 3rd guys group to finish the game, we were all chanting
Champion! (followed by claps) and continued doing so, cheering for the last group =)
it's really really really seldom to see people cheering each other on like that~

Charades~
But unlike most of the time, you arent allowed to act out what the thing is nor are you allowed to say the words

this was lame, the mission team member told us that the previous 2 groups got full marks for it, however my group didnt~ and we all knew why.
first of, we were splited into 2 groups and we were to put someone out to pick a topic
(animals was the topic picked)
and everyone guessed and scattered due to fear of having to go up to do the charade~
it was funny and fun and rather lame~
but obviously we're a team =D cos everyone scattered to the furthur back together =X
haha but in the end the people faced their fears and stood up and gave their best =D
which is cool~ although some were pushed up by others

Last transfer the rubberband
simple just transfer the rubberband with a toothpick in the mouth from the frount to the end, each rubberband= 1mark

we were splited into 3groups and did our very best, eventually when team D was done they came over to cheer us on~ which is really really rare to see xD
so yeah it was great, in the end my team won~
but it wasnt over,
final task was team shout/chant/whatever

we ended up with
Who are the champion? We are the champion
"stomp stomp clap"~ (we will rock you style)
and a human statue~ heh

team A had breakdancing~

team B had erm... no idea~ all i saw was them tossing someone into the air xD

and team D were chanting
We are the dynamic of Jesus Christ
which was kinda cool~
thus earning them the highest mark and 1st place =)

we were all happy cos we all had fun and seriously, with teamwork nothing is impossible =D
and this is just the viewpoint of one team, I'd say everyone had learn something new today in the games =D

Around 5:30
we had a short break before the service started
we grouped by cell group, ate and talked.

Praise And Worship

and by 6:00
we all gathered and prepared to praise and worship our lord =)
after seeing a vid on this event and countless shouts/screams/claps we began our praise and worship =D
and as always we make sure it was loud! very LOUD! =D
everyone came together to worship God,
they jumped, sang, shouted, clapped.
the song sang during that evening were

The Time Has Come

I Will Bless The Lord

Breakaway

and for worship

Healer

Offering
(personal view)
After Praise and worship,
we all welcomed the mission team with claps and shoutouts~
After that,
One of the SOT Mission Team Member went up on stage to give a small talk,
everyone was like shouting and screaming when he got on stage =D
he talked on how a God will do his job according as we should too,
his examples were God and a farmer
even if god can change the weather and so on for the farmer
he wouldnt as it is a farmer's job to farm
and it is God's job to watch over him,
it is not God's job to farm.
pretty much what he meant was we all have our role to play in life
and we cant expect any special treatment unless we acquire it fairly
when he was done we started ours offering

The Word Of God~
(my personal view, as in it's what i learnt)

after offering~
it was time to begin the preaching =)
in this special event we had Sis.Selena a member from the mission team to lead the preaching
was she charismatic? yes, very~

she had us guessing what job she does, turns out she's both a teacher and a counselor
qualities of a leader? hahaz~
Anyway,
the main point of everything preached is simple:
Change & Patience / Metamorphosis

we started with
Galatians 6:9
So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up.

1st point was to Know what you want and being able to see your dream
because how can you go anywhere if you dont know where to go?

for me, I've heard people preach this many times, that we need to have a dream and know exactly what we want out of life so God can fulfill it.
Moving on.

2nd point was Determination,
because without it how do you plan on achieving your dream?

3rd point was Patience
Sis.Selena started this point with her annoyance with the passport wait at the airport when she and the mission team first arrived and she joked about Singaporeans and so on.
Her point was that everyone is impatient, no one likes to wait.
(Patience:This was preached by pastor zhuang too last year when the mission team came)
but we have to in order to receive God's blessing

4th point was mainly about Pressing forward towards your dream
if you know what you want, have the determination to get it, have the patience to wait for it, without doubt you'd have the strength the press forward and take it~

5th point? Salvation~
if you can do all of the about God will surely bless you abundantly. As God loves us and he does want us to have a dream and live out our destiny. As it is written,

2 Corinthians 1: 8 - 10
⁸We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. ⁹Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. ¹⁰He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us

After that,
Selena then gave a Testimony on something that happened to her recently.
she said it started with a phone call from her father to tell her to go to the hospital immediately.
Apparently her mother was struck down with a case of cancer however her father tell her not to tell her mum that she had cancer. Like any normal human being she was scared but God spoke to her saying how much He loved her and that He would be with her through it all. And from there she found the strength to move on without fear, by the love of the living God =)

the actual testimony was longer, this is a short form xD
moving on to praying for the people who wishes to become Christians and the people who feels insecure in their life~
the presence of the holy spirit was strong during that time, many people went up to be prayed for. I went up too, being prayed for I found peace. Absolute peace that no words can explain, heh. The Love of God is an Amazing Gift =)

we ended with a prayer for Selena's mum whom she said was feeling better bit by bit~
God bless her =D

we then had 2 Indian members from the SOT Mission Team to go on stage to introduce themselves. One is from Singapore (Bro.Jaz? I believe that was the name =X ) and the other India (Bro.Allwin?). They both tried their hardest to talk in mandarin which is well, awesome! xD good job people! =X

we then ended the event with the song
"You Yong De Ren" I guess you can translate it to be "A Useful Person?" haha
that aside...
after we were done, we ended today with a final praise song~

~The Time Has Come~

You gave Your life Your all for me
And called me Yours forever
Caught in the mercy fallout
I found hope found life
Found all I need
You're all I need

The time has come
To stand for all we believe in
So I for one am gonna
Give my praise to You

Today today it's all or nothing
All they way
The praise goes out to You
Yeah all the praise goes out to You
Today today I live for one thing
To give You praise
In everything I do
Yeah all the praise goes out to You

All we are is Yours
And all we're living for
Is all You are
Is all that You are Lord

and that concludes this event service...

But then, everyone started screaming WE WANT MORE =D~
and so Pastor Kelvin approved of what the people want~
hahaz and started praising yet again =D
Shine Like Stars
was the final song sang on that event~

Lesson learned?
mainly, was the games the teamwork and friendliness and sportsmanship of everyone is amazing =D~ and also not to give up on one's dream =)

Post By:Cybex (Aaron Yeo)
Cell Group: Solomon A

Healer

2009-05-17T22:52:00.006+08:00

Hi everybody!!大家好！对不起，这几天真的是太忙了，都在忙着准备我们母亲节聚会的节目。感谢主我们有一场非常棒的演出和聚会。感谢主！！今天在这里要和大家份享一首好歌。它的歌名是Healer!!相信大家都有听过吧！！
Sorry, we have been busy in the past few days due to our Mother's Day special service. Thank God we had a wonderful performance and service. Praise the Lord! I would like to share a nice song with all of you today. Its name is Healer!! I believe you all have heard of it.

这首歌非常的感动我，因此我不断尝试将它翻译成华文。但每次都以失败收场。但，非常奇妙的是，在今天早晨来教会的途中，圣灵就将这首歌放在了我的心中。那我就照着圣灵的感动将它翻译了出来。感谢主！你可以在我们的Power House 里听到这一首歌！Enjoy it！！
This song had touched me so much and so I decided to translate it into mandarin. But I always ended up failing to do it. But, something very amazing happened today. When I was on my way to church for morning prayer, the Holy Spirit put this song into my heart and then I managed to translate this song according to the touch of the Holy Spirit. Thank God! You can listen to this song in our Power House. Enjoy it!

HEALER
Verse:

You hold my every moment
你掌管我看顾我
You calm my raging seas
你平静风和浪
You walk with me through fire
你陪我走过低谷
And heal all my disease
医治我的疾病
Pre-Chorus:

I trust in You
我信靠你
I trust in You
我信靠你
Chorus:

I believe You're my Healer
我相信你医治我
I believe You are all I need
我相信你是我所求
I believe You're my Portion
我相信你是盼望
I believe You're more than enough for me
我相信你超乎我心所求
Jesus You're all I need
耶稣生命的主

Bridge:

Nothing is impossible for You
因你凡事都变成可能
Nothing is impossible
在你凡事都可能
Nothing is impossible for You
因你凡事都变成可能
You hold my world in Your hands
你掌管我的生命

中译词：张华晋

谈谈进化论1 (Evolution Talk 1)

2009-05-07T09:34:00.012+08:00

嗨！我们来谈一谈我们都知道的进化论吧？你认为自己是从猴子演变而来的吗？这以下的分享纯属我个人的立场，与其他人无关。好了，这是我从一些有关网站和书本，加上我个人的意见来和大家来分享进化论。

Hi! Let's discuss about the evolution theory that we all have heard of. Do you think you are evolved from the apes? The following are my point of view and are not related to any other person. They are what I found through the net and books, together with my own opinions and would to share with everyone through this blog.

据说，在久远的远古时代，寂寥四极，落寞八荒，冷冷清清的地球上没有动物也没有植物。湖泊池塘，面平如镜，连一片浮萍都没有；大海汪洋，一望无际，连一根海藻都没有。

It was said that long long time ago, there was nothing in the world and this whole place was void. Neither were there any plant or animal. The surface of the water are plain and reflective like a mirror, there wasn't any duckweed on it; the oceans are borderless but there wasn't any seaweed.

偶然有一天，电闪雷鸣，轰隆隆地在海面上滚动；狂风呼啸，把海水卷起来化作浪头。霎时间，雷电抓住了一个涌得最高的海浪，把它打得粉碎，连水分子都分解开来，和空气中的氮原子合成了氨基酸分子---据说它就是地球上一切生物的本源。

And suddenly on one fine day, there was a roar at the sea, the winds blew fiercely, waves were formed. And right then, a lightning hit the biggest wave, broke the wave into the water particles, and then combined with the active nitrogen atoms to form the molecules of amino acid- there, the so-called starting of the living things on Earth.

氨基酸分子偶然地产生出最低级的生物---海藻；海藻在数不清的“偶然”机会后，变出了低级植物和动物。又不知经过了多少“偶然”机会后，低级动物变成了鱼类，两栖类，爬行类，哺乳类，最后是灵长类的猴子---据说它就是人类最直接的祖先。

By chance, the amino acid molecules formed the elementary living things - the seaweed; and by chance, the seaweeds happened to create the elementary plants and animals into existence. And after countless "chances", the elementary animals became fishes, the amphibians, the reptiles, the mammals and lastly the family of ape which is the primates. The apes were said to be the ancestor of human beings.

以上故事应该是当前进化论最好的版本，它是达尔文原版在当今科学最新成果基础上的优化结果。进化论者把上述变化过程叫做“进化”，并且说，那是一个“物竞天择，适者生存”的过程。

The story above is most likely to be the best version of evolution, it is the optimization of Darwin's theory. The evolutionists defined the above transformation as "evolution", and claimed that it is a process where only the fittest ones survive.

不过，严肃的科学家们认为，这一变化要全部通过随机事件按随机概率去自我实现，排除一切外在智能生命的参与，其成功的可能性几乎是零。有位科学家打了个形象的比喻，说这种可能性，就像在餐桌上放一袋面粉，一盒巧克力，一袋糖和几个鸡蛋；等到许多意外事故相继发生完了以后，你就发现餐桌上摆着一盆可口的巧克力蛋糕。

But the strict scientists think that the evolution can only happen by itself when every matters have an exact chance as well as eliminating the existence of any other intelligent life, the probability of succession is near to zero. A scientist made an analogy of this saying, the probability is like placing a bag of flour, a box of chocolate, a bag of sugar along with a few eggs on a table; and after a few accidental happenings by chance, you would find a piece of delicious chocolate cake on the table.

从理论上讲，不能证明以上事件不可能(所以才说“可能性几乎是零”)。但实际上，按随机概率来计算，你就等到天荒地老，也没法吃到这盆蛋糕的。如果再考虑到目前越来越多人接受的地球周期性毁灭的理论来看，哪怕从理论上讲，那盆巧克力蛋糕也没法作成。因为还没等到那盆蛋糕自己形成，地球已经毁灭了多少次了。

In theory, nobody could prove that the above process is not possible (that is why it is said that "the probability is near to zero"). In fact, according to the machine of probability, even if you wait till the world faded away, you would still be unable to have this piece of cake. If we consider the increasing amount of the people believing in the theory of periodical destruction of the Earth, this piece of chocolate cake could scarcely be made. Because even before the formation of the cake itself, the Earth, by then, would have been destructed for a countless times.

Post by: 张华晋传道
Translated by: Jamie

失败并不可怕 Failure is Not Scary

2009-05-06T16:52:00.005+08:00

在一般情况下，“失败”这两个字是消极的。
In a normal situation, the word "failure" is negative.

有太多的人都害怕失败，把失败看成是不光彩的事情。
我们也经常会因为那些自己称为失败的事情而深深地感到孤独与无奈。
People are afraid of failure and perceives it as something they are ashamed of.
We often feel lonely and helpless because of the failures we think we've made.

失败真得那么可怕吗？
相信在很多人的心中对失败已冠上了“生人勿近”的牌子。
Is failure that scary?
I believe many people branded failure as a matter to be avoided of.

今天想和大家谈一谈失败。你认为失败可怕吗？
Today I would like to talk to everyone about failure. Do you think failure is scary?

根据调查，在这个世上名例人最害怕的事物前三名，害怕失败占第三名。
According to a research about the top 3 things that people fear the most, the fear failure is positioned at the third.

我记得我以前是一个非常害怕失败的一个人。因为在我的求学生涯当中，我重来没有拿过一张的奖状，没有得到过任何人的认同，包括我的父母，我的老师和同学。
I remember I used to be someone who is afraid of failure because I have never gotten any certificate during my schooling years, neither did I get any assurance from anyone, including my parents, teachers and classmates.

我唯一上台拿嘉许的经历就是校长在一千多为的学生面前颁给我“最烂巡察员奖”the worst prefect.但在我之前，他才刚颁发了“最佳巡察员奖”the best prefect给我的朋友。
The only time I got up to the stage was when my principal gave me the title of being "the worst prefect" in front of more than a thousand students. But before this, he just gave my friend a title of being "the best prefect".

我认为我是一个没有任何才干的人。我什么都不会！我什么都不会！我总是认为我是一个拖油瓶，扯人家的后腿，成事不足，败事有余的人。因此我对人交代我的事情，从来没有好好的完成过！
I thought I do not have any talents at all. I couldn't do anything! Nothing at all! I always thought that I could only do what others have started, never get anything done well. Thus the thing that I've done for others were never completed too.

我对我的将来根本没有任何的瞳憬。所以，我总是自我逃避，漫无目的的生活。我非常讨厌人问我将来想怎么样，我想做什么。。等等！！
I couldn't imagine my future. Therefore I tended to run away from myself, leading a purposeless life. I hated it when people ask about my future or what am I going to do in the future etc.

好了！我想在你们当中也和我一样，生命里充满了太多的失败！
Ok! I think some of you might the same with me, having too many failures in life!

好！重点来了，我们是否可以不再失败呢？我们是否可以为成功找到捷径呢？
And here comes the main point, is it possible that we never fail again? Can we find a shortcut to success?

好消息是，我们不可能永远逃避失败，而是要勇敢面对失败，因为要成功并没有任何的捷径。如果你想挤进成功的行例，你必需可以克服每一次的失败，从中学习，并确保下一次不再犯同样的错误。
The good news is, we can't run away from failure forever, but we have to face it with courage because there's no shortcut to success. If you want to squeeze into the que of success, then you have to overcome every failure, learn from it and make sure not to make the same mistake again.

若你对害怕继续抱着近而远之的态度，失败将不断的靠近你。换句话说，你越害怕失败，你就越会失败。所以在这里，我觉得我们有必要重新来认识失败。
If you are still trying to avoid failure, then failure itself will go near to you. In other words, the more you are afraid of failure, the higher the tendency of you to fail.

首先，我们必需先理解“失败”与“暂时挫折”之间的差别。
First, we need to understand the difference between "failure" and "temporarily defeated".

我们要经常问问自己，那些看似“失败”的事是否在实际上只不过是“暂时挫折”而已。
We got to ask ourselves, those things that seem seemingly "failure" are in fact only your "temporary defeat".

失败只是一系列特定行为的结果，它永远都不能决定你是什么样的人，
当且仅当你因为“暂时挫折”而停止了努力，或者不再尝试追求成功时，失败才变得事关重大。
Failure is the result of a combination of actions, it doesn't determine what kind of person you are all the time. Only when you stopped moving forward and continue to strive for success then the failure comes in.

如果你为自己定了目标——每天读1篇英语作文阅读，但一周过去了，他并没有读到7篇，他算是失败了吗？
If you've set a target for yourself of reading a piece of English article everyday, but after a week, you do not read a total of 7 articles, does it mean that you have failed?

没有，实际上发生的事情不过是他做的努力没有及时奏效，他没有达到想要的效果。
No. The fact here is the effort you put in does not bring any effectiveness and you not reach the goal that you set earlier.

如果他再做一次尝试，重新分配时间，做出日程安排，再看看是否达到了目的？
如果还没有的话，再换个方法尝试。
If you are willing to try again, reallocating your time, plan a schedule, and see if you could achieve the target?
If no, then try another solution.

他并没有失败，这些只是暂时的挫折。他不过是通过这些经历学会如何达到自己的目的而已。
这和科学家在实验室中的经历一样，他们从来不会因为一次实验的失败而失去信心，
因为这不过是教会了他们在下次实验中该做什么，不该做什么。
You do not fail, these are only temporary obstacle. You are learning the ways to reach your goal through these experiences.
This is the same with the experiments of the scientist in a laboratory. They do not lose confidence after a one time failure. But they learn what to do and what not to do in their next experience.

实际上，在人生考验的过程中，每个考验人最好成功的办法就是学会欣然接受失败。因为，每一次的失败将使我们与成功的距离越来越近。
In fact, the best way to test a person in life is via the acceptance of failure. Because every time that we failed, we stepped a little closer to success.

当然我们也许还会失败，但新的努力将成为我们整个人生中又一个里程碑。
We might fail again but the new hard work is another whole new process in our life.

当人把失败看作是一个暂时的过程，就会明白自己现在做的任何事情都不是最终的结果。
When we view failure as a transition process, we would understand that whatever we are doing now is not the end result of it.

暂时的挫折决不会在人的意识中成为失败，只要我们把挫折当作是一种教训。
事实上，每一个挫折中都存在一个大教训，
而这种教训是无法通过挫折以外的其他方式获得的。
A temporary defeat would not turn into a failure under consciousness if one decided to take it as a lesson. In fact, there is a lesson in every defeat, and we can only learn it through defeat.

爱迪生在获得“活动电影放映机”专利权后一直在创作“有声活动电影”这条道路上坚持不懈地奋勇前进着。但1914年的一个晚上，影片试验室突然起火，火借风势，还有各种化学药品作为助燃剂，等爱迪生驱车赶到时，这里已是一片火海。
After Thomas Edison got the copyright of kinetoscope, he was then trying to invent an animation. But on an unfortunate night in 1941, his film laboratory caught in a fierce fire. When Edison made it to the laboratory with his car, all of his apparatus are already swallowed by the fire.

爱迪生指挥人们救火时，不时从衣兜里掏出小本子记点什么。大家都觉得有点奇怪，以为这场突如其来的大火燃毁了爱迪生健康的神经——有点不正常。后来才知道，爱迪生正在写着再建胶片车间的方案草图。事实上，大火几小时扑灭后爱迪生的重建计划蓝图已经完成，并立即在第二天上班时付诸实施。
When Edison was instructing the people to put off the fire, he kept taking something that looked like a notebook out from his pocket. People find it strange and thought that this sudden fire had also swallowed Edison's healthy mind and had turned him insane. But later then they found out that Edison was writing his plans and blueprint to rebuild his laboratory. In fact, Edison had got all his plans ready after a few hours of the fire accident and put them into actions right the next day of it.

爱迪生的乐观风趣在这场大火面前表现得更加突出。他一边指挥消防队员灭火，一边对着儿子喊：“喂，小伙子，快去喊你妈来，这么大的焰火千载难逢，以后可没这样的机会看这么大的焰火了。”
Edison had fully shown his positiveness and humour through this fire accident. While directing the firefighters to put the fire off, he told them "Hey, go tell your mothers to come, this huge fire accident are hard to come by, we might not see such a large scale of fire in the future."

谁也没有想到，第二天爱迪生不但开始动工建造新车间，而且又开始他的另一项发明——消防队员所使用的便携式探照灯。因为在灭火过程中，爱迪生看到消防队员在黑暗中举步艰难。
Nobody would ever thought that on the next day of the fire, Edison did not only start rebuilding his laboratory, he also started to invent another invention - a torch light for the firefighters. He realised it was hard for the firefighters to put off the fire in the dark the previous day.

这场火灾使爱迪生损失了花在厂房和机器上的钱，尤其是他建造的一些机器不能被人们购买。他的妻子伤心地说：“多少年的心血，叫一场大火烧了个精光。如今年老力衰，要重修这么座实验室，可不容易啊。”爱迪生反倒安慰她说：“不要紧，别看我已经67岁了，可是我并不老。从明天早晨起，一切都将重新开始，我相信没有一个人会老得不能重新开始工作的。”
This fire had caused Edison to lose the money he spent on factory and apparatus. His wife was sad and said that after many years of efforts, all were gone in a fire. And now that they were young and weak, how were they going to rebuild the laboratory, it was a tough job. But Edison comforted her and said "It's ok. I might be 67 years old but I'm not old. Everything still start afresh from tomorrow morning. I believe nobody would be too old to restart a work."

第二天，爱迪生的实验和研究又开始了，他全然像没有经过这场灾难似的，重整旗鼓，比以往更加勤奋，他又在有声电影的研制道路上奔跑了。一场大火不过是一支小小的插曲而已。
Edison started his new laboratory and experiments the next day like there wasn't any fire accident at all. He was full of strength and work even harder than he had ever been. He continued his works to invent an animation. The fire was just a part of the process.

「失敗的人找藉口，成功的人找方法。」
"A failure thinks of an excuse, but a successful person thinks of a solution!"

请问你还在害怕失败吗？不要担心，我会为你祷告。
Are you still afraid of failure? Don't worry, I will pray for you.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FAILURE

Robert H. Schuller

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure,

It does mean you haven’t succeeded yet.

Failure doesn’t mean you have accomplished nothing,

It does mean you have learned something.

Failure doesn’t mean you have been a fool,

It does mean you had a lot of faith.

Failure doesn’t mean you’ve been disgraced,

It does mean you were willing to try.

Failure doesn’t mean you don’t have it,

It does mean you have to do something in a different way.

Failure doesn’t mean you are inferior,

It does mean you are not perfect.

Failure doesn’t mean you’ve wasted your life,

It does mean you have a reason to start afresh.

Failure doesn’t mean you should give up,

It does mean you must try harder.

Failure doesn’t mean you’ll never make it,

It does mean it will take a little longer.

Failure doesn’t mean God has abandoned you,

It does mean God has a better idea.

　　

　　失败的意义

　　罗伯特·H·舒勒

　　

　　失败并不代表你是个失败者，

　　它只表明你尚未成功。

　　失败并不代表你一无所获，

　　它只表明你吸取了一次教训。

　　失败并不代表你很愚蠢，它只表明你信心百倍。

　　失败并不代表你无脸见人，

　　它只表明你百折不饶。

　　失败并不代表你功夫白费，

　　它只表明你的做事方法尚待改进。

　　失败并不代表你低人一等。

　　它只表明你并非完人。

　　失败并不代表你浪费生命，

　　它只表明你有理由重新开始。

　　失败并不代表你应该放弃，

　　它只表明你要加倍努力。

　　失败并不代表成功永不属于你，

　　它只表明你要付出更多的时间。

　　失败并不代表上帝已经抛弃你，

　　它只表明上帝还有更好的主意。

Post by:Ps.Kelvin
Post by:张华晋传道

活出生命色彩的黃美廉

2009-04-10T16:31:00.000+08:00

黃美廉出生於台南市，當醫生宣布她罹患腦性麻痺，恐怕活不過六歲時，媽媽一直不願意接受這個事實。看著軟綿綿、又不會坐的她，媽媽曾一度想與她一同結束生命，但信仰給了媽媽力量，帶著她到處求醫，尋求偏方，只要有一絲一毫的希望，都不放棄。由於身體弱，抵抗力差，她大病、小病不斷，所以幾乎是從吃奶開始就開始吃藥了。

慢慢地，情況稍微好轉，但她仍無法說話，肢體、臉部表情也不能和一般人一樣控制自如，走起路還略微搖擺。小時後，阿公、阿媽帶她出門，總招來路人指指點點，評頭論足的異樣眼光，家人不但不因此而將她關在家裡，反而能不顧世俗當時的看法，好好照顧她。

有一回，她在阿公、阿媽家門前地上爬著玩，鄰居看見了，就以輕視的口吻說：「你這孫女，以後長大只有在馬戲團給人看的份了。」阿媽不以為忤的摸摸她的頭，類似這樣的是一再重複的發生。

生長再基督化家庭的黃美廉，長大後漸漸感受到，上帝的愛透過阿公、阿媽、家人在生活中點點滴滴的事上表現出來。身為牧師的父親常以聖經的話勉勵她，帶她上主日學，奠下信仰的根基，使她再傷心、失望、軟弱時知道如何仰望主。

上小學時，小朋友常欺負她，甚至拿石頭丟她，她無力反抗，總是以哭來抗議，媽媽只有將緊緊抱在懷中來安慰她。之後，她開始練大膽子，不要怕別人的欺負，也在書包中裝了石頭，嚇阻對方，老師更特別指派男同學保護她，情況才稍微好轉。在學習過程中，除了注音因不能說話較困難外，其他科目她幾乎都能達到滿分，是個相當聰明的孩子。

一九九八年黃美廉從加州州立大學畢業後，考上該校藝術研究所，一九九零年獲得碩士學位，並由該年七月畢業的三千五百位同學中脫穎而出，與其他三位並列「傑出畢業生」，而她更是四位中唯一的黃種人，難能可貴的是她回國後，更於一九九三年獲選「十大傑出青年」。

黃美廉回顧走過的這段痛苦中滿有恩典的成長歷程，她說，她是在上帝庇蔭下活過來的。每當她痛苦向上帝呼救時，主便醫治她，她也曾質疑為什麼上帝給她和一般人不一樣的身體，等年紀稍大後，她看聖經中約伯的故事才明白，這一切發生在她身上的事，都有上帝的美意。

黃美廉〈櫻花綻放〉

未受制於天生的不足，而成為一位專業、傑出的藝術工作者，黃美廉感謝上帝，讓她有機會與能力，從小學畫到今天，她雖然殘障，但因有信仰，使她能面對更好的明天，也更熱愛她的生命與工作。她的生命與畫已經難捨難分了。

黃美廉靠著信仰，只看自己所有的, 不在乎自己所没有的, 走出殘障的陰影，她肯定自己，面對挑戰，用筆彩繪與寫出她充滿神與人愛的人生，更勇敢的迎向光明。

Praise You in this Storm - Casting Crowns

2009-04-10T16:25:00.000+08:00

在风雨中赞美祢

相信到如今, 祢的手保护我
必擦干我眼泪, 为我们争战
再一次, 我说AMEN, 站在风雨中

雷声在响彻, 主我听见祢, 轻声对我说, 我在这
祢赐下怜悯, 我举起手, 赞美敬拜祢, 全能上帝

在风雨中赞美祢, 我举起我双手
无论我到何处, 祢是耶和华
我流的每一滴泪, 祢握在手心
我心虽然战兢, 祢从未离开我
在风雨中赞美祢

我仍然记得, 风雨中的日子
祢听我呼求, 再次兴起我
祢赐给我能力, 使我如鹰上腾
因我遇见祢

我的帮助从何而来
我要向山举目
上帝是我帮助
创造宇宙的主宰

中译词 - 张华晋

SOS in SMK Sungai Tapang in Year 2007

2009-04-05T13:13:00.000+08:00

No Apologies Camp in June 2008

2009-04-04T01:44:00.000+08:00