What a mighty God we serve!
What a merciful God we worship!
and what a glorious God is this!
Certainly, we are too little to have received
such height of kindness,
such infinite grace,
from this great God!
But O, here we are,
praise and worship to Him!
to God alone be glory!
We pray you'll b guided &guarded
all through the new year.
Thanks for being part of my year 2010,
please let's do it again in this new year.
Have a wonderful time.
圣诞节(12月25日)，是耶稣基督诞生的日子。这一天是与世界各地一样已成为马来西亚的一个重要节日。届时，马来西亚的基督徒，与世界各地的基督徒也一样虔诚庆祝佳节。圣诞前夕，各教堂举行夜弥撒，而各购物中心、酒店、老人院与孤儿院等处处可闻圣诞乐曲飞扬。不论是基督徒或非教徒都沉醉在圣诞的气氛中，大家携手同欢，普天共庆。
祝各位：圣诞蒙恩，平安喜乐，新年进步！
音乐之父巴赫 （J.S.Bach）说，他的每一个音符，都是用来歌颂上帝的。当音符用在宗教，二者相遇并发出耀眼的光辉。想一探基督教音乐之精髓，不得不了解圣诗；想一窥音乐于基督教崇拜礼仪中广泛运用的深层意义，也得从圣诗着手，可见圣诗在基督教的生活中占了极重要的地位。
On the eve of All Saints’ Day in 1517, a German Augustinian friar, Martin Luther (1483-1546), nailed on the door of the collegiate Church of Wittenberg in Germany a parchment containing ninety-five these (academic propositions) written in Latin – the usual procedure for advertising an academic debate. Luther’s theses constituted an attack on the Roman Catholic doctrine of indulgences (forgiveness of punishment for sins, usually obtained either through good works or prayers along with the payment of an appropriate sum of money); this was currently being preached near Wittenberg to help raise funds for the rebuilding of Saint Peter’s in Rome.
Luther’s act touched off a controversy that went far beyond academic debate. For the next few yearsthere were arguments among theologians, while Luther received emissaries and directives from the Vatican as waver in his criticisms. On June 15, 1520, Pope Leo X (Giovanni de’ Medici, son of Lorenzo the Magnificent) condemned Luther’s teaching as heretical and, on January 3, 1521, excommunicated him from the Catholic Church. The Protestant Reformation had been born.
Luther’s reformation principles began to apply in churches throughout Germany, and a rapid and widespread outbreak of other reforming movements was touched off by Luther’s example. By 1523, radical reformers far more iconoclastic than Luther began to agitate for a purer Christianity free from any trace of “popery”. These radical reformers are often called Anabaptist (“baptized again”) because of their insistence on adult baptism even if baptism had been performed in infancy. Many of these Anabaptist groups had radical social and political ideas, including pacifism and the refusal to take oaths or participate in civil government, which appealed to the discontent of the lower classes. One outcome was the Peasants’ War in Germany, which was put down with ferocious bloodshed in 1525.
The Reformation was not confined to Germany.
非信徒都一直以来抱着“善有善报，恶有恶报”的观念去行善。请注意，他们行善的动机是为了什么？佛教为了超度，目的仍是回报！身为基督徒你为何要行善？人不是因着行善，就可以上天堂的或不下地狱！而是基督徒有了上帝的爱心，愿意去爱人。这个真爱的付出，不是在理论上的标准答案知道而已，而是你和我内心深知上帝的爱是多么浩大，以至（我们）重生得救的基督徒愿意为主去爱他们愿意爱别人，我们爱上帝是因为上帝先爱我们。
当你真正了解为何基督徒要行善事，你就会在日常生活中行善，无需刻意的举办某个活动来吸引人留意你所作的一切。基督徒行善是要与福音相称啊！当做的时候是传扬主的名而去做，或者在传扬主的名时而去做呀！
