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BPGC-Ehpesians Birthdates! QiQi - March 17th Sherwin - June 8th ShaoNing - July 18th WeiSong - August 2nd Huey - August 27th LiuYi - August 28th Xueyun - September 7th BoHan - September 18th WeiXin - October 14th ZiXin - October 30th Christopher - November 28th JiBing - December 21st previous posts Why Bad News Is Good News: Luther On Death And Res... Holiness and Sanctification A Great Debt, Who Can Pay? Good Friday Prayer Does it please God? 11 Ways to Find Your Idols Reflections on Men Xun 09/04/11 Quietness before God Jesus plus nothing equals everything –The Gospel– the past July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 January 2010 February 2010 March 2010 April 2010 July 2010 September 2010 October 2010 November 2010 January 2011 February 2011 March 2011 April 2011 May 2011 June 2011 September 2011 People We (should) Know! :x Daune DeZhang Edna Eunice GeokLan HueyFen JieLing Johnson LiangFa Pengs ShaoNing SuLing Group blogs!
We talk... Our Updates & Thanksgivings! HueyFen - ShaoNing -TG:rain stopped aft for so long!! :) -TG:had time to catch up with secsch/jc friend (will share with the girls next time! -PR:final year project! able to ovecome laziness and procrastination, and rly work hard for the project. part 1 due in 2 weeks time and its graded 25%! Chris - Pengs -PR:Good health throughout CNY!! JiBing - WeiSong - Sherwin - LiuYi -PR:Study for God and let Him lead thru this year. YanYi - XueYun -TG:Thank God for new year. -PR:Everyone to have enough rest. QiQi - WeiXin - ZiXin -
Our Prayers requests JiaYan -Know what to do in future. -Work hard in bible study. -Faithful to work in church. Chris -Will meditate on God's Word daily. -Start to memorise verses. Pengs -Time management, as having holidays now. -Continue to stay close to God. JiBing -Able to know whats God's plan in life. WeiSong - Sherwin - BoHan - LiuYi -Art mock exam coming thurs -Wisdom in coping with all the subject -Take good care of own body XueYun - QiQi -Willingness to step out of comfort zone and get to know abt more ppl. WeiXin -Able to serve God with a willing heart. ZiXin -Discipline in not procrastinating. -Wisdom and strength from God for daily stuffs.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011 ( A Biblical Theology of Food @ 12:13 AM ) This is an interesting article about food. What does the bible teach us about FOOD? More Than FuelFood reminds of our dependence on other people. We are tied into a network of farmers, traders, shopkeepers, cooks, families, traditions of gastronomy. Above all we are dependent on God. We are finite beings who need sustenance to sustain us. We need to ‘refuel’. Except that food is so much more than fuel. Think of all your favourite foods: steak and potatoes, thai green curry, crumble and custard... It didn’t have to be this way.Biscuits would have sufficed to sustain our lives. But God is ridiculously lavish in his creativity and generosity. God’s first act after creating humanity was to present us with a menu: the fruit of all the trees in the garden. Every meal is an opportunity to receive God’s good gifts with thankfulness. Perhaps we need to refresh the practice of saying ‘grace’ before meals as an expression of our dependence and God’s generosity. Food is an opportunity for human creativity and generosity in the image of the Creator. Food-Gone-WrongBut food is also at the heart of our rejection of God. The very first act of rebellion was an act of eating. Ever since, our relationship to food often goes wrong because our relationship to God has gone wrong. We find comfort in food instead of refuge in God. We use food – or avoid food – to make ourselves desirable so others worship us. Our fractioned relationships and greed means many in our world go without food. We over eat. We under eat. Food is integral to our humanity so it’s no surprise to find that our brokenness shows up in our relationship to food.Against this backdrop of food-gone-wrong, God promises a feast. Again and again in the Bible salvation is picture as a feast with God. When God leads the Israelites out of Egypt, the leaders of the people are invited up on Mount Sinai to eat and drink with God (Exodus 24:9-11). The rescue from slavery in Egypt – the defining act of Israelite identity – is itself commemorated in a meal, the meal of Passover. At the high point of Israelite history, in the reign of Solomon, we are told ‘the people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore; they ate, they drank and they were happy’ (1 Kings 4:20). Even when things begin to unravel, God promises another meal on a mountain, ‘a feast of rich food for all people’ (Isaiah 25:6-8). On this occasion death itself will be on the menu for God will swallow it up. This is an eternal feast which no-one need ever leave. Jesus provides a foretaste of this feast when he feeds the 5,000. Here is a feast which need never end. Indeed there’s more food at the end than there was at the beginning. It’s a pointer to the fulfilment of God’s promise: that one day we will feast forever in his presence. There's Something Bigger HereSo the meals of Jesus represent something bigger. They represent God’s coming world. But at same time they give that new reality substance. They’re the real thing in miniature. Food is stuff. It’s not ideas. It’s something you put in your mouth, something you taste, something you eat. And meals are more than food. They’re social occasions. They represent friendship, community, welcome.Our invitation to the feast of God comes at a price: the precious blood of Jesus his Son. We are outsiders, enemies, excluded. But Jesus takes the judgment we deserve. He becomes the ultimate outsider. Pushed out of the world onto the cross. Forsaken by his Father. As a result we become insiders, friends, included. The invitation goes out to all. So it’s not accident that at the heart of what it means to be the church is a meal. Jesus told us to remember him not in a pattern of words, but in a meal. Article from here. Labels: Bible, Food, God, Theology 0 comments |